Chapter 99

“...There are a lot of people in Lacolina who are quick to pick fights. But if you want to spar, I’ll take you on.”

I drew my sword from its sheath.

“E-Elymas-san, shouldn’t you avoid pushing back too hard against the House of Howlrod...?”

“It’d be a shame to miss out on a Skill Book. The head of the house isn’t involved, and they know they have no legitimate grounds, which is why they’re resorting to this.”

They were maintaining the pretense that they were simply reprimanding an adventurer who didn’t know their place.

Crossing swords with them on the grounds they themselves had given wasn’t rude.

In this world, it wasn’t unusual for nobles to have their subordinates fight wandering adventurers for their own amusement.

Besides... the House of Howlrod was a powerful, shrewd noble family that had built the adventurer city of Lacolina—and was never free of dark rumors.

Snow, the firstborn of the family, might be involved in that incident with the Wailing Trapezohedron.

I was grateful for the chance to gauge the abilities of Isabella, her right-hand woman...