The Knight Wants To Be in a Relationship

5. Even Bugs

15 Years of life. After living around that time, she finds out that even straw sandals have a partner.

I bend my knees slightly and look down at the ladybugs mating on the rocks.

Even bugs that crawl on the floor have partners to mate with.

But I don’t have one.

‘Why am I… ….’

What if I become stronger, I don’t have a girlfriend. There is no one to warm my cold side. I’ll be alone even when I’m old enough to have gray hair.

While others sit in rocking chairs and read fairy tales to their grandchildren, I walk the streets alone with a cane and end my life…….

Wheeing—!

“…… I came to work, yes.”

I look inside the cave where I heard the sound of the wind. Inside a dark cave where not a single ray of light leaks out. Let’s illuminate the inside with a magic tool that replaces a torch, and the inhabitants of the cave who saw the light reacted hypersensitively.

─Keeeik-!

Looking at the Scorpion Spider, the monster that appeared in front of you, you drew your sword casually. It was a powerful monster that could easily skewer any adventurer with a spider body and a scorpion tail…… Can bell

And if you can cut it, there’s nothing to be afraid of.

“Life is miserable. Right?”

The slash flies and cuts the Scorpion Spider’s carapace. Even monsters with strong vitality cannot survive if their bodies are cut in two.

However, there must have been enough time to scream. The Scorpion Spider let out an intense scream as it died.

─

A scream so loud that you can feel the resentment of a dying monster. As the sound reverberates, the walls of the cave begin to vibrate like mad.

Soon after, dozens or hundreds of Scorpion Spiders hiding inside appeared.

“Ah…… You gave birth.”

Spiders lay hundreds to thousands of eggs at a time. The same goes for that monster whose body is a spider. Despite their large size, they give birth to dozens of young.

The dozens of Scorpion Spiders that were born that way breed again and shed their young…….

A dangerous monster that will quickly grow and eat people if left alone.

However, my concern was not their level of danger.

“Even bugs have partners to mate with… ….”

I don’t have one.

Then am I a human worse than a bug?

Maybe.

─Karakarak.

Do I have the right to kill them, even though I’m not even as good as a bug?

I lost myself in thought as I gripped my sword.

* * *

Adventurers Guild.

Thousands of adventurers come and go to the guild every day to receive missions or report completed missions. That’s why there weren’t many adventurers whose faces were remembered by the guild staff.

I don’t even remember names except for first-class adventurers who have achieved a rank of senior or higher, or prospects who have the potential to become such.

However, if the employees become one of those few people who remember their faces, the treatment they receive from the guild will be incomparably higher than before.

“—Ah, Evan-sama!”

“…… Rebecca.”

“Have you been there? Did you complete your mission?”

Seeing Rebecca’s smile, the receptionist at the guild, Evan silently dropped the tail of the Scorpion Spider he had been carrying in his backpack.

Rebecca’s face began to harden as she saw the tail saliva piling up on the reception desk, but Evan didn’t notice it and brushed off her backpack. She put all of her tail stingers on top, then she waved her hand lightly and said hello.

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“I’ll wash up, so please settle the bill.”

“Yeah…… All right.”

“Enough then.”

Rebecca was slightly startled when she saw Evan’s back as she finished her words and left her guild. He brought dozens of tail stingers. Each one was a material containing intense poison.

With two or three of these tail tips, it would easily exceed her salary, so being here meant her salary for several years.

‘I’m envious, is that a talent?’

She’s just about to become an adventurer She’s incredibly skilled. If she believed that she could achieve such things simply through hard work, she was so pure that she had to suspect that her brain had been bleached.

Evan had a talent chosen by the sky, and she blossomed into it wonderfully. And that’s what everyone envyed her for.

‘If I had that kind of talent, I wouldn’t take on this kind of mission.’

Whether it was a side effect of receiving a gift to be blessed with, or an eccentricity that geniuses are common, Evan undertook only low-cost missions that others did not.

The same goes for this mission. Scorpion Spider. A monster with the body of a spider and the tail of a scorpion. Thanks to its strong chitan shell and poisonous tail stinger, it is a monster that even advanced adventurers cannot easily defeat. The only material that can be gathered from such a subject is the tail tip.

‘Of course, this is expensive enough in my senses… ….’

However, if you think about it from the point of view of a commoner like her, it is different from her adventurer’s point of view. If she was an advanced adventurer, she could have made more money more easily and simply.

I didn’t have to risk my life to do something dangerous and worthless.

What no one wants to do, but someone has to do it. Evan Karlsturter chose only those kinds of things to do himself. Thanks to that, the evaluation of him within the guild was going up day by day.

“Why do you look so bad?”

“Lucy… ….”

“Why, being in charge of that person is so burdensome? Shall I change it?”

When her co-worker offered to change Evan’s job, Rebecca shook her head. Her troubles she had were not of that kind.

“…… It just seems like he’s using Evan-sama for something.”

“You seem to be using it, what is it?”

“To be entrusted with a mission that no one else does. It’s a little bit like a gourd.”

“Wasn’t he doing it because he liked it?”

“Still.”

“Ah, you don’t even say anything? It’s not what we did, it’s what you said you would do. Are there any problems?”

Her co-worker said that and kept urging her to change her position. Rebecca, who let her words go in one ear, put on a worried expression as she remembered Evan.

I was very worried that he might fall into danger as he only takes on dangerous missions at such a young age.

It was as if I had a younger brother. It was actually similar.

‘Is there anything I can do for you?’

Unfortunately, there was nothing Rebecca could do. Just being considerate as much as possible so that Evan doesn’t feel uncomfortable. That was all.

Rebecca’s feelings for Evan were so small compared to what he was doing.

***

Fortnight has passed. Most of the troublesome missions that were piled up in the guild were mostly resolved, probably because they had been making requests every day. All problems that needed to be addressed immediately disappeared.

At the same time, you were promoted to a low-level adventurer. It means that the beginner’s ticket was removed. Rebecca is preparing to be promoted to the highest level adventurer right away, and she is undergoing the promotion process at the guild headquarters in the capital of the kingdom, so she told her to wait a little bit.

It’s not that she doesn’t want me to know that the mission has been completed. Especially since she had a great liking for the guild leader here.

‘Because there aren’t many people as broad-minded as the guild leader.’

Thanks to that, I enjoyed my first vacation since coming up to the city. It’s not because you want to rest, it’s because you have nothing to do.

Since this was the first time I’ve ever had anything like this, I didn’t know what to do. I became an adventurer and made a lot of money, but I was still a country boy who knew nothing.

“…… I don’t know.”

What would other people do at a time like this? If you don’t know something, you can go to someone who knows. Thinking so, I put on my clothes and headed to the adventurer’s guild.

It was because I remembered Rebecca’s words to come to me if you need anything, even if it’s not a mission.

I went straight to the guild and found Rebecca with a tired expression from work.

“Miss Rebecca!”

“Oh, Evan? I know today is a holiday…… Is there something wrong?”

“No, I don’t know what to do on my day off. I want to ask you something…….”

The tired Rebecca immediately put on a smiley face. While admiring that appearance, saying that it was a professional look, a muffled sound came from the guild entrance.

As if a nobleman had visited, she turned her head slightly and saw a woman walking into the guild with her long, straight hair tied in a half ponytail. When she closed her eyes and saw the way she held her cane, she was blind.

However, her blindness did not diminish her beauty. Rather, she gave off a more mystical atmosphere. She made her way to the reception desk without incident, clenching her cane.

“—Excuse me. Is this the Adventurer’s Guild?”

“Yes, yes. Welcome. What happened to the Adventurer’s Guild…….”

“I want to entrust you with a request. I need an escort to guide me to the northern city—”

Naturally, she was about to lean on her reception desk, but she put her hand on her body and stepped back from her in surprise. I asked in her worried voice as I held her to make sure she didn’t fall.

“Are you okay?”

“…… What, how long have you been there?”

“I was talking here first.”

“First of all, you said you were here?”

She glared at me in disbelief. I shrugged her shoulders and looked at Rebecca, with her face fixed in my direction as if I could see her in front of me.

Rebecca also began to shake her head, as if not understanding her meaning.

As silence enveloped the guild, only the blind woman let out a silent voice.

* * *

Seolhyang, who visited the guild, was in great shock after hearing Evan’s words.

‘I had no idea it existed…… Was it standing there from the beginning?’

Until she touched Evan’s body, she felt no sign that Evan was standing there. The same was true with the extra senses she developed instead of losing her eyesight.

‘Nonsense. Did I feel wrong…… ?’

Swallowing a gulp, Seolhyang carefully asked without letting go of tension.

“What is your name?”

“This is Evan.”

“Evan. What level of adventurer is Evan? He must be high grade, right? Whether it’s top notch…….”

“It’s a lower class.”

“…… Low class?”

Seolhyang was startled in disbelief, then she regained her calm expression. I couldn’t believe that he was a low class, but if he was a low class—.

“Then I guess I can hire Mr. Evan with the money I have. Mr Evan. Could you be my escort?”

“Sleep, Evan-nim is still-.”

“I will.”

Evan immediately accepted Seolhyang’s mission.

Since ancient times, a request from a beauty must not be refused.

No matter what it is.