The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick up Trash - Volume 9 - Chapter 411

Chapter 411:

What’s a Faax?

THERE WERE TWO BEDS side by side with a man in each: the guild master and the sub-vice-captain. The spells had already been broken, and their magic cores were healed as well.

“I think I gave them a little too much.”

“Yeah—I assumed they were stronger than that.”

Melisa and Eche poked the men’s faces as they talked. Eche’s hand held a piece of paper with something written on it. Did they think these men were lab rats?

“I’m so sorry, Captain, but I think I overdosed them. They probably won’t wake up until tomorrow,” Eche apologized, sounding a bit angry with herself.

The captain smiled. “Too bad. Let’s just let them rest for today. After all, there’s going to be a lot of running around tomorrow.”

At the captain’s signal, Zinal’s and Nalgath’s parties got ready to leave. I looked out the window to see it was already dark outside.

“Ivy, let’s head back to the plaza,” my father said.

I nodded and stood up. When I took my slime bag off my shoulder, my creatures jumped into my arms one by one and I lowered each into the bag in turn.

“You’re a pro at that,” Zinal said.

“Well, I do it every day.”

Zinal petted Ciel’s head as it jumped into my arms. Then he gave it a hard stare. “That’s an adandara, all right… I just can’t believe it.”

I didn’t blame him. Ciel looked exactly like a slime, though its skin still had adandara markings. After we were all ready to go, we said goodbye to everyone.

“Good night. We’ll see you tomorrow.”

“Thanks for all your help today,” the captain answered. “Please, don’t rush back here tomorrow—you must be tired. We’ll take care of explaining everything to the guild master and sub-vice-captain, too. Oh, and when you get back, we’ll have everyone sign a contract! Bring your pens.”

A tired grin spread across my face. We really had gathered quite a contract collection in Hataka.

“All right, see you tomorrow.”

My father and I left the captain’s house and headed back to the plaza. As we began to walk, a sigh escaped my chest. I really was much more tired than I’d thought.

“That was way too much stuff happening for just one day,” my father said.

“Yeah, but at least we’re moving in the right direction now.”

There were still plenty of challenges ahead, but at least we knew a little more about our summoning circle.

“There was so much I wanted to ask about but didn’t have a chance to…”

My father’s hand rested gently on my head. “Same here. Listening to the captain gave me all sorts of ideas—I couldn’t ask even half the questions that came to mind.”

It’s not like my father to feel overwhelmed… Well, there are just way too many things to think about when it comes to summoning circles. If we have time tomorrow, we should ask to hear more.

We returned to the plaza and got back in our tent.

“Ahhh, home sweet home.”

I took my creatures out of their bag and lined up potions for their dinner. Flame eagerly got to work devouring the potions as usual, but Sol and Sora wouldn’t eat.

“What’s wrong, Sora, Sol? Not hungry?”

“Pu! Pu, puuu.”

“Pefu!”

Why don’t they want any? Did all that spell-breaking and core-healing tire them out?

“Are you too tired to eat?”

I got no reaction from Sora or Sol, meaning I was wrong.

“Are you not hungry?”

“Pu! Pu, puuu.”

“Pefu!”

They’re not hungry? They did eat some potions at the captain’s house earlier today, but they haven’t had anything since then—oh, unless…

“Was the spell-breaking and core-healing your way of having dinner?”

“Pu! Pu, puuu.”

“Pefu!”

So it did feed them. I put their potions and magic items back in the bag.

“Okay, then let’s just go to bed.”

“Pu! Pu, puuu.”

“Pefu!”

Mrrrow.

“Te! Ryu, ryuuu.”

I looked over at Flame to see it had already finished eating. The little slime sure had become a fast eater lately.

“Whoa, are they already done eating?” My dad, back at the tent after briefly looking around outside, gave us all a curious look.

“Yes, Sol and Sora got full from all the spell-breaking and core-healing they did today.”

“Wow…so that was their dinner, eh? Maybe that’s why they were acting so happy?”

Aha, so the unconscious men were like a feast to them. I wonder if they were especially tasty?

“Sora, Sol, Flame, did those men taste good?”

“Pu! Pu, puuu.”

“Pefu!”

“Te! Ryu, ryuuu.”

So they did taste good.

“Ivy, that’s not the best choice of words… Ha ha ha!”

“Huh? Um… Ohh! Right. Yeah, it sounded like I was saying they ate the guild master and sub-vice-captain.”

I mean, it looked exactly like they were eating them, though… My father’s laughter dragged a smile out of me, and then I just couldn’t stop giggling. I must be really tired.

“Okay, let’s get to bed.” Finally free from his laughing fit, my father rolled out his bed and lay down.

“Right. Let’s try to get this problem solved as fast as we can, okay?”

As I lay in bed, I thought back to my father’s conversation with the captain. I understood that we would eventually need to run away to keep my creatures safe, but I also knew I would have regrets if we left with unfinished business, so I wanted to do everything we could to help Hataka before we had to leave.

“Of course. I don’t feel right leaving things half-finished, either. But, Ivy, your monsters’ safety comes first. Don’t let anyone make you think otherwise.”

“I know, thanks. I’ll make sure to keep you safe, too, Dad.”

“Ha ha! Thanks. G’night.”

“Good night.”

The guild master should be back on his feet tomorrow…Maybe we’ll learn something new from him. Right, I never asked what happened to his assistant…

I can’t sleep… Maybe I’m too excited with everything that’s been going on? But if I don’t sleep, I’ll be so sluggish tomorrow.

Huh?

From the brightness in the room, I could tell it was morning. The last thing I remembered was worrying that I wouldn’t be able to fall asleep, but I must have been exhausted because my memory cut off abruptly right there. I sat up in bed and looked around the room. My creatures hopped over to me and jiggled when they saw I was awake.

“Good morning. Do you know where Dad is?”

When I got up to get dressed, I found a piece of paper. I picked it up and read in my father’s handwriting: “The captain says I got a faax from my mentor, so I went to get it. I was worried about leaving you behind alone, so I left Arly in front of the tent to stand guard. I’ll be back right away.”

A faax from his mentor, huh… Huh? A faax? What’s with the extra A? According to Past Me’s memory, it’s spelled “fax,” but it says “faax” on this paper.

“I try not to obsess over it too much, but I really do wonder sometimes…”

Some of the things I remembered from my past life had slightly different names in this world. Whenever new things replaced the old, I knew no amount of thinking would clear things up, so I just ignored it. But now there was yet another curiosity in my brain: Why did problems seem to pop up wherever I went? That sort of thing didn’t usually happen to most people. I felt almost like somebody was controlling me.

“Argh…”

“Puuu?”

I looked up at the sound of Sora’s voice to see everybody gazing at me with worry.

“I’m okay, thanks. Just overthinking a few things.”

If somebody was controlling me, that somebody couldn’t be human. Was it a god? But wasn’t I forsaken by God?

“Okay, that’s definitely not worth thinking about.”

Come on, Ivy, moping isn’t your style! Okay, if somebody’s controlling me, let them! Bring it on! You think I’ll let them win?! Kiss my ass… Wait, that’s not quite what I was going for.

“Teryuuu!”

“Hee hee hee! Seriously, guys, I’m okay. Let’s do more good work today, all right?”

“Te! Ryu, ryuuu!”

When Dad gets back, I’ll have to ask him what his mentor said in the fax. Oh, right! I should start thinking of faxes as faaxes from now on. If somebody sees me spelling them differently, they’ll think it’s strange. Okay, there.

Then I’ll also need to ask how the guild master and sub-vice-captain are doing, and ask the captain what our schedule for today is. There’s just so much stuff to do—but first, I’m hungry. We managed to eat dinner on time last night, but it wasn’t much. Uh-oh…now I’m so hungry I’m starting to feel sick.

“Ivy, you awake? I bought us some breakfast. Think you can have some?”

“Yes! Let’s eat!”

Oh, Dad, what perfect timing!