Episode 322: Empress and Fairy(Third Party Perspective)

-Gachari

 The door to the reception room of the Hunters’ Guild in a certain city in Germany opens.

“To call me so early, have you already got the information, Rei?”

 The one who comes in is Agnes, the Guild Master of this Guild.

“I got the information, or rather, I rescued her. Here she is.”

“What!?”

 When Rei points to another sofa while sitting on the sofa, Agnes is startled and turns her gaze to the person covered by the blanket in front of Rei’s gaze.

“No way …”

 Agnes immediately rushes to the blanket, removes the blanket that makes it difficult to see, and presses her palms together towards the girl’s face.

“… She’s really haggard, but there’s no doubt that she’s the Saint. To think that you would rescue her rather than finding her whereabouts in just a few days … How the hell did you do that?”

“I have a fairly excellent support magician among my comrades. I got a buff to cut down on my travel time, and the rest was up to me … You know what I mean?”

 In response to Agnes’ question, Rei cannot reveal the power of Luck or Fuhito’s abilities.

 Eliminating travel time as much as possible with the support magician’s magic, after that, use your psychic abilities to listen and identify the location, she tells without saying everything that the rescue is successful.

“I envy you. Even so, you … right, that’s right. I always found that you were the kind of person to solve the problem in no time. It’s been that way for a long time.”

“What do you mean?”

 Seeing Rei’s calm demeanor, Agnes looks into the distance and begins to speak.

 She seems to have misunderstood the unspoken part of Rei’s intention, and the conversation starts to go in a different direction. Rei can’t understand what Agnes is talking about, so she tilts her head.

“Hey, do you remember when there was a robbery in high school?”

“Yeah, that reminds me, there was such a thing.”

 Agnes begins to talk about when they were high school students. The expression on her face is extremely nostalgic and smiling.

 Rei nods at Agnes’ words, as if she remembers.

“Right. Back then, you quickly found the culprit and solved it. I was young back then, and I was determined to solve it myself, but you solved it so easily, and as such I took my anger out on you.”

“Come to think of it, I had collisions with you every so often since then.”

“That’s right. Now that I think about it, it was my jealousy. Rei seemed to be annoyed.”

“Because I didn’t understand the reason why you were angry. If you keep getting involved without understanding the reason why, it will be annoying.”

 Rei shrugs her shoulders in amazement at Agnes’ laughter as she remembers.

“I guess. Then, a low-rank dungeon Stampede happened during a school trip in the second year of high school. You and I were already explorers, and our ranks were fairly high, so at that time we cooperated with each other to let the other students escape.”

“Come to think of it, you didn’t rush at me after that.”

 Hearing Agnes’ words, Rei remembers that time and tilts her head questioningly.

 Until then, she had rushed at her at every opportunity, but it was strange that she didn’t rush at her at that time.

“Well, it was to the degree of wanting to show off my ability. Besides, I thought I could entrust my back to you in the battle at that time. You didn’t let the enemy close behind me.”

“It’s the same for me. You were the only one who could fight me on an equal footing. At that time, I thought that if I entrusted my back to you, I would be able to look forward and fight with peace of mind.”

 To Agnes muttering nostalgically, Rei looks into the distance and reminisces on those days.

“Hahahaha!”

“Fufufufu!”

 They exchange glances and laugh together.

 They can’t help but feel happy when they learn that they both thought so at the time.

“Right. And after that fight, I stopped rushing at you.”

“In exchange, you became somehow clingy.”

 To Agnes who answers with a smile, Rei shrugs her shoulders with a smile full of joy even though she is astonished.

“Your speech and conduct showed you disliked my actions, but your facial expressions and gestures showed you didn’t truly dislike it after all.”

“Back then, I was really alone, and I didn’t have anyone to trust. That’s why I didn’t really dislike people like you who weren’t two-faced.”

 To Agnes who continues with a grin, Rei confesses as if she surrenders.

“You’re such a tsundere.”

“That’s not true!!”

 When Agnes says so teasingly, Rei puffs out her cheeks and gives her a childish response as if she has returned to her high school days.

“Speaking of which, do you know?”

“Nn? What is it?”

 When Agnes begins to speak as if she remembers something, Rei asks back with a Tsun attitude.

“At that time, you and I were called Empress and Fairy, you know?”

“Eh!? What is that? I didn’t know at all.”

 To Agnes who talks happily, Rei replies in surprise.

“At that time, you didn’t seem to be interested in rumors or anything like that. At that time, you were called the Ice Fairy because of your cold demeanor and baby face. On the other hand, as a foreigner, with speech and behavior like a man and subduing the students, a woman like an Emperor who ruled the school. That’s why I was the Empress.”

“What’s with that, that’s simply their impression, isn’t it.”

“It’s human nature to create idols on their own.”

 When Rei answers Agnes’ reply in a bad mood, this time Agnes smiles wryly and shrugs her shoulders.

“Haa … Besides that, is it okay if we don’t take that child to the hospital?”

“Wha ~ at. I got in touch, so they’ll be able to pick her up soon. There’s no danger to her life, right?”

 The two get excited about old tales, but Rei thinks it would be bad to leave Noelle as she is, so she asks.

 Agnes answers with the assumption that if it was Rei, she would have gone that far.

“Yeah. I think she’s just sleeping from extreme exhaustion right now.”

“Then, it should be fine.”

 Agnes grins at Rei’s answer.

“Yes, yes, I should follow your lead.”

“You understand, don’t you.”

 When sympathized with, Rei makes a shocked expression, and Agnes smiles even more.(TN:Dunno about this one …)

 Afterwards, after reporting on her recent situation and chatting, Rei, who tries to hide what she was doing as much as possible from the ordinary people, successfully deceives them by telling them in a way that does not attract much interest, and leaves the Hunters’ Guild.

 As a result of the conversation between the two, it is past noon.