Heroine Survival Vol 3 SS 2

Viro’s “Stomachache” Diary

Month ○○ Week △△──

One day a message from Castro who was working in the black ops suddenly arrived through the adventurer guild.

I hadn’t met him since the incident with Aria but, I heard that even  that guy had a change of heart since then and had mellowed greatly but,  ……what kind of business does the black ops had with me?

I and my party were undertaking several requests from the black ops.  This was a classified information but, the leader of the black ops his  excellency the prime minister had a matter that he would want our  party……the Rainbow Sword to undertake soon. It seemed that the prime  minister personally contacted our party and wanted us to start preparing  for an expedition.

But even he wanted that……. Our party still hadn’t recruited any sorcerer.

I myself were doing request from the black ops right now by myself. I  was making preparation in order to subdue Grave but, perhaps there was  new information about it.

……Geh!? I reflexively groaned seeing the content of Castro’s letter.

I myself had heard since some time about the rumor of a crazy fellow  who massacred a branch of the assassin guild and also annihilated a  branch of the thief guild.

Furthermore the rumor mentioned that the culprit was still a kid. I  didn’t believe the rumor because if there was anyone who would do  something absurd like that then it would only be someone like Aria but,  it seemed that Ash Crowned Princess was really Aria. ……Seriously?

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Month ○○ Week △□──

Well, I had thought that the disciple of this great me couldn’t  possibly die but, as expected she was still alive. A following report  from the black ops mentioned that apparently it was Grave who attacked  Aria. My guts went cold when I heard that but, if that Aria was actually  the so called “Ash Crowned Princess”, I could somehow understand how  that girl was still alive and also got into hostility with assassin  guild.

That was fine and all but, after that Sera sent an additional request  to me. It seemed that I had to contact that “Ash Crowned Princess” no  matter what.

What am I going to do if it’s actually a different person and not  Aria? For now I got to pick up granny Samantha who I was able to  contact. I’ll also search for Aria on the way there if I have time I  guess.

If Aria had gotten that strong, I might be able to use her for  Grave’s subjugation. I planned to hold back Grave while granny would  defeat him with her sorcery but, the success rate would go up even more  if we got a nimble fighter to guard granny wouldn’t it?

Normally using someone young for this kind of mission would require  some caution because they might freeze from fear in real battle but,  well, there would be no problem if it was her. ……In fact, she had  actually defeated a rank 3 thief when she was seven years old.

Even if that so called Ash Crowned Princess actually wasn’t Aria, she  might be growing to be rank 3 soon. But, even if I found her, how am I  going to persuade that stray cat to accept the request?

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Month ○△ Week □○──

Was I someone this unlucky……?

When I arrived at the northern part, I was thinking to request some  equipments to Galbas because our party would go into expedition after so  long, but then I got informed that a group of orc appeared and I got  summoned by the guild because I’m rank 4.

……Furthermore the orc group also got an orc general leading them.  Could I manage somehow with a gathering of adventurers of rank 3 and  below? I won’t be able to face that kind of enemy without dragging the  whole Rainbow Sword to face them you know?

I’m looking for a sorcerer because granny Samantha had gone senile  and retired from the adventuring business. Well, that granny’s mind had  been really out there since a long time ago, so I don’t know whether she  had really gone senile or that was just how she was but……. If it was  for a short period mission like this time with me always watching her  than we would manage it somehow, but if we had to face a group of orc, I  would get busy with various things like scouting and the like, so I  wouldn’t be able to constantly be at the granny’s side.

My other teammates……no good. The members of Rainbow Sword were  fundamentally individualist. Without a man of common sense like me at  her side, the granny would do as she please and run off somewhere. That  was the only future I could imagine waiting in that case.

There would be no problem if only I could find a sorcerer to recruit  but, there was no way a freelance sorcerer of rank 4 or higher could be  found that easily, dammit.

The others said that it would be fine if it’s someone who could at  least use rank 3 light sorcery, but a rank 3 wouldn’t be able to keep up  with us in battle…….

……That scamp Aria, she if I remembered it right she was able to use light sorcery wasn’t she?

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Month ○△ Week □□──

Lady luck was smiling at me a little. No, the situation hadn’t  improved at all presently, and I also didn’t know when the army of the  count who acted as caregiver for this area would come, and I still had  no idea at all of how to deal with the orcs but, the adventurer guild’s  pretty receptionist lady who I had been acquainted with since some time  ago, Mary finally got swayed by me.

This was a super big deal. Well, we would only go for dinner, what’s  more she picked the priciest restaurant to go to but, this was a  dramatic improvement compared to before. It was worth it for me to visit  Galbas once every half a year. ……Just why was I so weak against strong  willed woman I wonder?

Guess I’ll just show my face at Galbas’s place tomorrow. It was  tiresome being told to hold back the orcs with just rank 3 adventurers  until the army came but, my motivation was at different level that there  was a good thing happening to me no matter how slight it was yeah.

All the women I met before this were completely messed up in various  ways, like that one who only aimed at my money and splurged like there  was no tomorrow, or a woman who was friendly with me from the start but  it turned out that she was only trying to invite me into an evil  religion, or a woman who I laid my hands on turned out to be actually a  mafia’s mistress, but Mary was different from all those women!

Hahaha, I’m a winner in life too with this. Let’s take a bath!

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Month ○△ Week △○──

Are you kidding me? That scamp Aria, she massacred more than fifty  orcs that included high ranked orcs and also a damn orc general.

What’s the deal with that!? Certainly her appearance had grown to  look like early teen, and her combat strength had gone up like crazy  but, you’re still ten years old right!?

Ha? You secretly poisoned them? You were hiding in the orc’s base for  a month? What is your nerve made of!? Your average joe would die in  three days if he tried something like that!

Aa……this is why she got no problem with making the assassin guild and  the thief guild her enemy at the same time. This might sound strange to  say but, those guys were really unlucky. The scariest person was one  who would come to kill you in earnest when a fight broke for real. It  didn’t matter what their actual experience or skill was.

After all even the thief guild was sent into chaos from the onsite  reports that said things like that girl will come to slaughter everyone,  no question asked if we try something with her, or how she can’t be  beaten even though she’s still a kid, or how she don’t have any weak  point to be taken advantage of, instead she will make use of our own  weakness. Because of that they decided to adopt non-interference policy  with her for the time being.

What Aria was doing was extremely reckless and absurd, but it still  resulted in them getting goddamned scared of Aria’s retribution and  became unable to try taking revenge. Even so the fellows who were  fixated with honor would still try something, so this scamp Aria had  completely returned to be the prickly stray cat just like when I first  met her.

Only someone like me who could deal with problems on my own could  interact normally with this girl. If she joined our party or Sera’s  place then it would serve as deterrence against those diehard fellows  but…….

But well……this was lucky for me I guess? In the end I don’t need to  face the orcs anymore, so for now let’s keep that thing a secret while  dragging her into Grave’s subjugation.

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Month △□ Week ○○──

I went to pick up granny Samantha. But that damn granny suddenly said  that she won’t go because she’s busy playing with her  great-great-grandchild!

I got no other choice, so I asked granny’s grandson (he was older  than me) to persuade her. Seriously, please help me……granny is absurdly  strong, so I won’t be able to defeat Grave without her!

Eh……when are we going to eat? You just eat lunch together with your great-great-grandchild!

I won’t last like this unless I quickly meet up with that Aria. That  girl looked cold hearted, but she was unexpectedly caring and wouldn’t  be bothered with doing troublesome work, so I wished that she was here  in this kind of time. Even so, I’m still not gonna eat the food that she  made no matter what.

It seemed that Aria was visiting the place of her “master” in order  to heal her tattered body. Then, perhaps I should contact Sera now while  I can……wait, that girl’s master is me isn’t it?

Well, doesn’t matter. Even Aria understood that I was the one who trained her. ……She understood right?

Well, I’ll report to Sera about Aria at the next town……no, it will be  a waste with that kind of combat strength. It feels like she can become  even stronger. I’ll watch the situation for a bit more.

Say granny, actually I got a disciple who seemed useful……wait, eh? Granny, where are you!?

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Month □○ Week ○□──

Granny Samantha vanished from the inn again. When I tried asking the  inn’s owner, she handed me the bill from granny’s food and drink.

Geh. Just what did she eat that made the bill bloated like this? Ha?  Seafood? We’re in the middle of mountain you know? You gave her products  that were frozen using sorcery!? ……This inn is actually that high  class? Tsk, well, fine. Send the bill to the black ops.

No, this isn’t the time for this, I gotta look for the granny.  When I  tried asking a group who looked like merchants if they know something, I  got told that these days, 『a monster who rampaged through the highway  and sprayed sand everywhere』 would appear when night came, so I gotta be  careful if I’m bringing someone with me.

Haa. Hee. Hoo. So there is something like that around here……. Fuck.  Don’t screw with me granny. There should be a limit to how senile you  can be! Are you seriously senile!? You aren’t doing this intentionally  right!? Then the granny had returned when I realized while I was getting  enraged on my own like that.

Granny, where did you run off to!

Ha? There was a suspicious presence?

There isn’t anyone more suspicious than you granny around here!

Haa!? You’re hungry!? Shit, waitress! Give us a sausage platter and a strong drink!

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Month □○ Week △○──

The granny vanished again when I realized……. I couldn’t find her  around the inn, so I started searching outside the town……ha? Why is the  granny fighting Aria!?

What’s more it’s a real fight where they both aimed to kill in one  attack at the other’s vital spot! Stop stop, you two are dragging some  strange fellows there into your spat! So these guys are assassins huh!  These guys really got no luck at all, getting dragged into the fight of  these two of all people……shouldn’t the assassin guild start seriously  considering of calling an exorcist?

But more importantly, with this we finally got complete members. ……I  can leave granny to Aria with this. Haaaa~~~~I’m tired. ……I don’t wanna  work.

Also Aria. This granny isn’t a monster but an actual human. More or less!

But, despite everything, these two were unexpectedly well matched  with each other weren’t they? This scamp is handling the granny even  better than her own great-grandchild.

As I thought she could be used. As expected from the disciple of this great me.

When I tried visiting the adventurer guild just now, there was a message from the black ops about that mission. It was decided.

I couldn’t read it fully with how much code it had, but it seemed  some royalty would go into dungeon. Looks like our job is going to be  acting as their vanguard but, there was additional request from Sera to  quickly find Aria.

Is her objective to make Aria the princess’s bodyguard? No, that’s  not all. Maybe I should also start making plan to bring her in into our  party for real.

For now, let’s get a move on. With this lineup even travelling at night won’t be a problem.

……Ha? You’re hungry? Granny, you just ate at the inn! Aria too, where did you take out that meat from!?

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Month □○ Week ○□──

That scamp Aria, just how did she manage to tame the Coeurl……. I know  there are some people in this world who can use animal but, that thing  grew up real quick right after it got born yeah? What’s more you two  were plainly trying to kill each other just now right?

Eh……you two came to understanding after beating up each other? You did a damn manly thing again…….

What’s more this scamp, she’s rank 4 now! Do you know how long it  took me to become rank 4? There isn’t that many rank 4 people out here  you know?

I still think that I’m not gonna lose when it came to close-quarter  but, if sorcery is also used, then perhaps she would be able to fight in  equal footing even against someone like Sera?

At first I was thinking to take custody of Aria in Rainbow Sword as  an apprentice scout who could use light sorcery, but if she was a rank 4  dark and light sorcerer who was also a scout who could even fight  evenly against Grave, it would be better to recruit her not as an  apprentice but as a formal member.

I was sure that Sera was looking for Aria partly because of her  feeling, but she must also be wishing to raise Aria as her successor  seeing that Aria was close with the princess and could be entrusted with  the duty of protecting her. In fact, if it was Aria then she should be  able to immediately replace Sera after staying for five years in the  black ops.

But, too bad! Aria wasn’t Sera’s disciple but mine!

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I too looked young thanks to mana, but I was an expert as adventurer  instead of merely being middle ranked. Unlike the long lived demi human  race, not many human could work as adventure until they were fifty years  old. Even I was confident that I would be able to keep fighting as  first rate adventurer for ten more years if I worked hard, but I too  wanted to marry already!

I felt bad for Sera but I’ll have Aria become my successor!

Now that’s decided, I’m going to put in serious effort to sweet talk Mary!

I’m going to marry after this job is finished!

I’ll say this before anyone can make any funny retort, I’m not gonna die no matter what okay-!

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