The morning of the next day.
This day, Shien headed directly to the adventurer’s guild after exiting the inn.
Since they just finished a quest and got back yesterday, Vivian’s party had the rest of the day off. Today though, they’ll be assembling again.
“I wonder what kind of quest we’ll be taking this time?”
As Shien was thinking about that, he reached the adventurer’s guild and entered the main hall on the first floor.
Only, the atmosphere in the adventurer’s guide today was rather different from what it normally was like.
Basically, not only were there a lot more people in the guild, they were also all discussing a single topic.
That topic was yesterday’s anomaly.
Obviously, the adventurers all seem to be paying attention to this matter.
Shien even heard conversations like the following.
“You said that the wilderness southeast of the town was nearly split in half?”
“Yeah. Even a mountain seemed to have gotten split.”
“No way, right?”
“That’s just too terrifying.”
“Why would something like that suddenly happen?”
“Who knows? I just know that it’s definitely not some kind of natural phenomenon. That’s because the investigators from the guild and the knights of the town all detected remnants of a huge amount of magic power.”
“That is to say, that a person did this?”
“Based on the currently most likely explanation, the general agreement is that the cause of that scene is likely an attack from a [Magic Sword].”
“[Magic Sword]?”
“What kind of joke is this?”
“Just what kind of [Magic Sword] could end up doing something like that?”
“I don’t believe it either, but that is the most convincing explanation right now. Only [Magic Sword] has the ability to split the wilderness and a mountain to create such a result.”
“I really can’t believe it.”
“Here’s hoping that this theory’s wrong.”
“Yeah.”
Such conversations made Shien involuntarily feel that.
“As expected, no matter what world it is, they won’t lack in smart people.”
Those people already basically figured out the truth behind that anomaly. It’s just that they still don’t quite dare to believe it and they can’t think of anyone who could release such a powerful [Magic Sword], that’s all.
“Here’s hoping they don’t end up following the trail to me.”
Otherwise, there would definitely be a ton of troublesome stuff.
Shien climbed the stairs to the second floor with such thoughts and arrived at the room designated as Vivian’s party’s gathering place.
However, just as Shien entered the room, he was caught by the members of the party.
“Well then, mister Shien, shouldn’t you be giving me an explanation?”
Vivian stood in front of Shien and welcomed him with a smile.
Seeing Vivian like that, Shien was stunned and gave a confused look toward behind her.
There, Diere was holding and sipping from a drink, Lumia was nervously looking at him while huddled in a corner, and even Melika was holding her staff and watching Shien with an expression like she wanted to say something.
“W-What?”
Shien nervously asked everyone.
No one responded to Shien.
No. It should be instead said that no one dared to respond to him.
Lumia instantly lowered her head and Melika hurriedly shifted her gaze and pretended that she didn’t hear anything as if they were terrified that Vivian might shift her attention on them.
Only Diere gave Shien a glance before speaking up.
“What you’ve done yesterday has already become known.”
The moment that statement came out, Shien’s heart leaped in his chest.
Could it be that the matter with the [Magic Sword] had really been discovered?
Just as Shien was thinking such a thing, Diere followed up the explanation as if seeing through his thoughts.
“This morning, the knight brigade came to the guide to get Vivian and confirmed the matter with you subjugating the suspicious person yesterday.”
Diere’s words made Shien let out a sigh of relief.
“So that’s what they were talking about huh?”
He really though that the matter with the [Magic Sword] got exposed.