Huge Holy 57

57 - As expected, there are too many things to do

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A few days later.
When I checked with the receptionist, it seemed that my bad premonition was right after all.
I propose a somewhat unreasonable demand to her.
Without being perplexed, she said, “If it’s Josiah-san, then... just in case, let me check with the chief, okay?” and then leave for a little bit.

Perhaps because she felt comfortable, the Kijin royalty ojou-sama――her name was [Kicho]――energetically showed up at the guild today as well, without getting tired of it.
Her large kijin attendant――Yoshina has also become a completely familiar face.
As if sensing something, Kicho grumbles “Mumu!” and asks me with a stern expression on her face.

“What, Onmyoji. Are you going somewhere today?”

“Yes. Also, please call me an adventurer or a magician, not an onmyoji. Because I’m not in the service of royalty or nobility.”

“U―mu? I don't understand what you mean!”

Yoshina panicked and followed up.

“Ojou. On our island, sorcerers who serve Nonaga-sama are given preferential treatment​ and are called Onmyoji, so everyone in this place is just a sorcerer.”

“What? is this guy not serving anyone! Then, I will recommend him to serve father!!”

“No, this guy is from this country, so it's impossible, isn't it...”

While the conversation goes on like that, the receptionist returns.
Since I pointed it out to her, she started keeping records, she looks through the record book and fills in something.

“As expected, it is impossible to do everything, so could you please investigate the two E-rank dungeons with the oldest investigation dates and the two nearby D-rank dungeons? The remaining two D-rank dungeons will be done at a later date.”

“I understand. The members are me, Midia, Port, Wendy, and Leimbacher-sama, please register the five of us.”

Right.
The commoner adventurers have become friends with the kijins, but in exchange, they only visited C-rank dungeons with them.
They stopped going to the remaining E-rank and D-rank dungeons for investigations.

If their rounds with them become good leveling, there would be no problem.
There’s no way they’d leave most of the fighting to the kijins, right?
...I can only hope they don't do that.

First of all, I did a light investigation to collect materials that seemed to have some value.
Wendy seems to be satisfied with the safe collection of monster corpses that has been perfectly cleansed of toxins which can also be used in research on monster cuisine.
Port also grumbled, “Dealing with a low rank dungeon makes you idle and can't calm down, right?”

Midia looked bored.
That’s how it would be. Her level should be over 1000, a former A rank... No, she’s a strong person equivalent to an S rank by normal standards.
A kindergarten-level E-rank dungeon investigation, for example, would probably feel as simple as an abandoned amusement park.

Randy on the other hand...

"Oh~! I did it, I did it! It's a water-type dungeon after all, so it's easy to gather water magic essence, this is so easy.”

Somehow, he was using water magic.
To be precise, it's a pseudo-magic that looks like magic.
He’s just using [Wand Flower] to gather water magic essences and create something like [Walter], a water-element starter magic.
It probably used not only the principle behind wind-element magic, but also the characteristics of [Nanatrois].

Randy's wand... [Nanatrois] trees have the property of growing by absorbing various magical essences.
In fact, the [Wand Flower] that activates the water pseudo-magic is colored blue.
I can comprehend what Randy does.
His aim is probably to manipulate all elements.

“Old man! I'm looking for light-element-like items. There aren't many light magic stones, you know.”

“...If it's my [Clean Water], I can easily prepare it.”

“Nn~. Can I use that? Well, I’ll just try it out.”

The investigation of the four dungeons ended without any incident.
After having lunch, I tried to attempt the final adjustment of the familiar for real this time.
However, after the party disbanded.
Kicho, who seemed to be waiting for me at the reception when I was trying to find some random restaurant, called out to me.

“So you're back at last, Onmyoji! Actually, we're going to have a banquet on the riverbank at noon! You must come too!”

“No, I can't do that. Because I'm too much of an outsider.”

I ended up answering immediately without thinking.
Thinking about the future, this is no time to carefreely enjoy the banquet.
Along with a sulking Kicho, Yoshina comes complaining.

“Ojou has gone to the trouble of waiting for you to come back! What's with that attitude!!”

“Because senpai also has his own business.”

Midia calmly objected, but since there was no point in making a messy situation worse, I replied, “If you’d like me to stay, I don't mind staying if it's just for a little bit.”
It's a good thing that Kicho is back in a good mood.
I heard that it was a banquet, so I tried asking, “Is it a banquet with the elite people who went to the C-rank dungeons?” to which Yoshina responded, “That’s right.”

I was anxious, so I thought I'd have a little look at the situation...

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