Genius Misha Thought Deeply

I brought the retriever close to the Brennen Tiger’s corpse.

But—

Unfortunately, there was no reaction.

I had thought that was probably how it would be.

…It really was frustrating after all….

“Ahahaha! Too bad, boy?”

When the woman brought her retriever close, the Brennen Tiger easily turned into a magic stone.

The woman looked at the magic stone that had rolled onto the ground and clicked her tongue loudly.

“Haaah, another magic stone? The. Worst! I’ll give it to you. Bye.”

The woman walked away briskly—

“Wait.”

I called out to her back.

“…Not stealing someone else’s prey is adventurer manners, right!”

My words had become a little rough, but it could not be helped. She had snatched away what we had desperately built up from the side.

When the woman turned around, she gave a mocking smile and said this.

“Hah! Manners? Isn’t it your fault for dawdling? You’re in my way, though?”

Then she continued like this.

“Also, I’m not an adventurer. Could you stop forcing your manners on me?”

…She was not an adventurer?

Then what was she?

She certainly was unusual for an adventurer. She looked to be in her twenties, but she was too young to have power above A-class. She was not normal.

“Sorry, but all the Brennen Tigers here have already been reserved by us. It would be wise for you to hurry home and sleep.”

The woman waved her hand lightly.

“Bye, weak adventurers. By the time Largorin is taken care of, our reservation will be over too. After that, take your time and hunt as slowly as you like.”

After saying that bluntly, the woman seemed to lose interest in us and disappeared into the depths of the dungeon.

After a little while—

“Daaaamn iiiiiit!”

The one who opened her mouth was Misha. Clack, clack, clack, clack, she was striking the ground with her staff.

“What do you mean, reserved! I’ve never heard of that!”

Then Misha glared sharply at me.

“Ios! We’re absolutely going to hunt at least one!”

“Y-yes!”

She was really scary.

We returned to the Adventurers’ Guild and reported what had happened today.

Stealing prey was a major breach of manners. It was something to report.

After listening to our story, the female guild officer said this in a fed-up tone.

“Ah, the beautiful dual-blade user…”

“You know her?”

The officer nodded at my question.

“…For some time now, she has been stealing Brennen Tigers left and right, so adventurers have filed complaints several times…”

Saying that, the officer let out a grand sigh.

“The beautiful dual-blade user and—the handsome greatsword user.”

“A handsome man? It was only the beautiful woman, though?”

“It seems they enter the dungeon in shifts. Today must have been the beautiful woman’s turn.”

In shifts, huh… It certainly was efficient.

The places where monsters appeared were filled with miasma. When one hunted, one became polluted by miasma, so a period to let it leave the body was necessary.

In other words, consecutive days of hunting were impossible in the high-level zones where the miasma was dense.

The reason the woman was moving on a different day from the man was to avoid that restriction.

If that handsome man was as strong as the beautiful woman, he could probably hunt Brennen Tigers lightly by himself. In that case, there was no need to hunt together, and if they moved on separate days, they could hunt twice the amount.

“You two had bad luck.”

“Huh?”

“The man only steals silently, but the woman spews abuse nonstop. The adventurers who come to complain about the woman are all furious with faces like demons. Just like you two.”

The officer giggled.

I hurriedly touched my own face. …Well, it was true that I was irritated. Also, Misha certainly had a face like a demon.

That Misha opened her mouth.

“Excuse me! Can’t you do something about them!?”

“Hmm… It’s difficult…”

The officer tilted her head and continued like this.

“Those two are not adventurers.”

…Come to think of it, that woman had said something like that too….

If they were not adventurers, the Adventurers’ Guild had no measures it could take. That made sense.

Even so, Misha pressed on.

“What do you mean, they’re not adventurers! Is that really true? She was insanely strong!”

“Yes, and young too—”

Before long, the officer muttered.

“They’re probably from the ‘Company’…”

“The Company?”

At Misha’s voice, the officer snapped back to herself.

“…It’s nothing. If you don’t know, forget it.”

Saying that, she smiled as if to gloss it over.

“Muu.”

To Misha, who seemed unconvinced, the officer said this.

“I’m saying this for your own good, so don’t get involved with those two. They’re not normal people, so it’s dangerous.”

It seemed even the guild had no measures.

We left the guild.

We headed to the inn in silence. It had truly been a long time since I walked through town in this kind of mood.

“They seem dangerous, so should we give up this time?”

“Hmmmmmmmmmm…”

Misha was walking silently while groaning. Her eyes were staring blankly at the ground.

Once she started thinking about something, everything else became careless. That was Misha’s flaw.

“Misha, this way.”

“Uuuh…”

I grabbed the hem of Misha’s robe as she tried to go straight without turning and guided her. Misha walked through town while muttering to herself, doing whatever I led her to do.

“Misha, this way.”

“Uuuuuuuuuh…”

We reached the inn.

“Look, we’re at the room.”

I tossed Misha into her private room. Misha had been in complete care mode until the very end.

“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh… Hmm…”

While saying that, Misha disappeared into the back of her room.

…Phew….

For some reason, I was tired today. I would take it easy a little.

I moved to the shower room attached to the room.

Through an advanced combination of civil engineering and magic, the water supply and sewerage were fully equipped. I could take a shower like this, and I could also drink water from the faucet.

It was convenient.

I took off my clothes and took a shower. It had been subtly hot inside the dungeon… The sweat washed away and felt good.

I dried my body in the dressing room. Just as I was about to put on my underwear—

Thudthudthudthudthudthud!

Rude footsteps made a tremendous sound from the other side of the door.

Bang!

Someone pushed the door open with tremendous force.

It was Misha with her round, natural curls.

“Ios! I did it! I found it! A way to outwit that woman! We’ll teach her a—!”

Naked me and Misha’s eyes met.

With naked me.

Misha, who had suddenly closed her mouth, quietly lowered her gaze.

“Nooooooooooooooooooooo!”

“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

….

According to Misha, whose face turned bright red afterward, she apparently had not seen it clearly.