Only the Party Members Returned, Not the Hero - Only the Party Members Returned, Not the Hero chapter 10

10. A wizard who does not know how to handle mana (1)

10.

The next day.

Tania returned to the warrior’s mansion holding a permit signed by Elise Ergenuke.

“Then you don’t have to go to the royal family, so you just have to go to the Hemp Tower and Errantera Lake once.”

The saintess EL pondered where she should go.

“Before that, I have something to say to Ellen.”

Tania said that while looking at me who was drinking water, and I nodded to show that I would listen as I put my glass of water down on the table.

“There will be a total of three full moons, which are the medium for summoning the moonlight Caulcasus this time.”

“Can three moons rise?”

“According to what I investigated later, there were not really three moons. There is only one moon, but a lunar eclipse occurred and scattered light focused on both sides, so it looked like three. Still, from the point of view of the viewer, it was enough to say that there were three moons. Of course, the problem….”

Elish begins to explain in detail again.

Elish was like that.

She tends to talk a lot when she talks about something she knows.

At the school of warriors, she would sit in the back seat watching only her own comics.

Of course, she was a student/professor as a disciple of the Magic Tower Lord, so fortunately that didn’t happen to her.

“… Three Moonlight Caulcasus will be summoned.”

Tania waited for Elish to finish talking, then she began to explain her memories to me as best she could.

When the lunar eclipse begins, three moonlight colcassuses will be summoned, two fake ones will be summoned first, and one real one will be summoned last, she said.

Of course, the Ergenuke Knights and the Royal Knights, who don’t know what is real and what is fake, will each deal with the fakes, and the expedition team must defeat the real one that appears later.

“… You can get the greatest reward only when you make the greatest contribution, so we must defeat Caulcasus directly, even if we are a little overbearing.”

“What if the Legion of Magic Priests or the Knights of Erantel intervene?”

I implicitly asked about the existence of other forces.

Tania doesn’t know that they’re not only aiming for the leather of Caulcasus, but also the essence of the moon.

The approach of other forces had to be excluded as much as possible.

It was better not to have a huge group that could even sway public opinion if they wanted to snatch the reward from the hands of the commoner warrior.

The Expedition is a pitiful small business owner….

“If I, as a saint, refrain from participating, the Knights of Erantel will not move. However, the Magic Priest Corps has no choice but to ask for your understanding when they go to get permission.”

“I don’t know if that Archmage will listen to me.”

“I’ll try to tell you as much as I can, so don’t worry too much. It will be all right.”

“Try to think positively. Still, we only need to solve the magic priest corps.”

Yeah, what the f*ck.

There’s nothing I can’t do.

Moreover, the Master of the Great Magic Tower, the Archmage, and the teacher of Elish….

That nobleman with a lot of names has been on the side of looking at me kindly unlike other powerful people since before.

I did ask Elish, who was ruthless before the return, why he was like that.

Ha, isn’t it from ax disease? Why would Master look good on you? Please, flirting is fine, but if you’re going to throw it, throw it to someone who’s in your class. If you look too much, it’s disrespectful.

No, you’re talking like a beggar, why am I not in the right grade again? Yes? He’s the chosen hero of that goddess, what else will his rank drop here?

The attitude of trying to compete with the background, not the heart, is the exclusive property of unpopular men. Really, that’s rude. Have you ever dated a girl?

I didn’t say anything because he wasn’t there, so Elish laughed.

It’s old, but it’s pissing me off.

“… ….”

“Why, why do you look like that? No matter what is on your face… ?”

I lightly curled my fingers as if I was about to hit a chestnut.

Elish turned her head in contemplation.

“… Well, I don’t see anything long. You can leave tomorrow to get permission.”

I got up from my seat with that ending.

***

So the next day.

It was the beginning of the first schedule to receive a permit for the expedition of the brave.

Originally, I had to stop at three places: Ergenuke’s Castle, Hemp Tower, and Erantera’s Lake, but now, thanks to the Ergenuke’s Castle being omitted, I was able to considerably reduce the line of movement.

It was easy to find a place to stay between the hemp tower and Erantera’s lake.

It started well.

“Where are you going?”

Tania, standing next to me, asked.

I slowly look at the faces of Tania, EL, and Elish.

The order didn’t really matter. It was either the hemp tower or the lake of Erantera, but it didn’t mean much to go first.

I thought so.

“… ….”

“… Um, um.”

“Hey, Elish.”

“Ugh, huh?! Are you referring to yourself… ?”

“Then, who else is Elish here besides you? Why are you avoiding my eyes?”

“Why, why are you talking nonsense again….”

Elish Charlotte, the beloved disciple of the old archmage and the wizard.

I was fine until yesterday.

All of a sudden from this morning Ah! He made a noise and drew attention from the table.

After that, every time our eyes met, like a dog that did something wrong, the way he looked at the floor diagonally to the left, quietly avoiding my gaze as he slowly passed by….

Let’s start with the hemp tower, he said.

It seemed to be talking to me.

“Shall we start with the hemp tower?”

“Oh no! It doesn’t have to be that way, right? ? The hemp tower is far away, and that…. It’s hot too….”

Hesitantly.

Even her face was flushed red with embarrassment. Elish twisted the ends of her dark gray hair close to gray and met her eyes with me, then she avoided and then stayed there.

“… Wizard, did you do something wrong?”

How can I endure being asked if I have done anything wrong when I am acting like that?

She didn’t even need to hear an answer.

“Oh no? I’m wrong… Uh, don’t you? Didn’t you do something wrong?”

Don’t look at me.

Don’t look at other girls.

Looking at Elish’s busy black eyes, I sighed.

Exchanging glances with the two women looking at me in sympathy.

“… Let’s start with the Hemp Tower.”

“… Yes.”

“Why?! I’m fine, I didn’t do anything wrong! I don’t consider it wrong at all!”

“Yes, I did something. Right?”

“Ellen, I… Hear me out….”

We decided to leave Elish’s cries behind and start with the Hemp Tower.

She was procrastinating, thinking that Elish should also prepare her heart, but after I looked at her a few times, she became discouraged and began to prepare the schedule.

It is a schedule to go through the temporary accommodation and head to the hemp tower.

The wagon carrying Elish and I headed for the hemp tower as promised, and the other two women rested in the inn to plan a strategy for the subjugation of Caulcasus.

Dol-dol-dol.

A small vibration can be felt on the floor along with the sound of the wagon wheels turning.

As she headed towards the hemp tower, Elish seemed to notice me little by little, but now she had a slightly brazen expression on her face and she was pretending nothing was wrong.

“Wizard.”

“Yes, you can call me Elish.”

“Yes, Elish. Let’s be honest. You have something to hide from me.”

“You’ve been asking since before. I’ve never done anything wrong No matter how many times you ask, no matter how many times you ask, I will answer that.”

“It’s strange, the expression just before is sure….”

“I can tell the truth if I turn the wagon?”

I looked at the wizard with an expressionless expression, subtly reflecting his reluctance to go to the hemp tower.

“… That’s it. Rather, what to protect in the hemp tower…. Any tips? There must be something from the future.”

“No.”

“Yes?”

“There is really no. If the future hadn’t changed already, the hemp tower wouldn’t have been very hostile to the hero from the beginning to the end.”

That’s right.

Wizard Elish’s teacher, the old archmage, was bored with living a little, so it felt like he was building a hemp tower and training wizards.

People say that if he converts that magical energy into power, he would not be short of building a new kingdom, but he was able to be absorbed by the kingdom without much resistance because he did not do such a thing because he was a nuisance.

Even in the kingdom, he thought of the hemp tower as a kind of historical site, so he gave it maximum convenience.

“We don’t have to worry about anything about the permits we need now. That much I can be sure of.”

Elish was also giving a definite answer like that.

So, if it wasn’t for the expedition, I still don’t know why Elish didn’t want to go to the hemp tower, but I decided to just pass it on, thinking that maybe it was Elish’s simple reasoning.

“But at night, you’d better be a little careful. I will always be by your side….”

“Hey.”

“Ugh, huh?”

“Did you really have an accident? What did you do I’m going crazy, come here.”

“Now, wait, no, that is not an accident, but a foreseen future….”

“I’m going to turn, really, won’t you stay still?”

“Coachman, coachman… !”

Stop, stop, I have to get out, up.

Rabbing.