Succubus-san's Life in a Another World Chapter 37

This time it's in the Guild Master's point of view.

Although I'm fed up with the mountain of doc.u.ments right in front of me, thinking that it's part of my job, I endure it and going through one after the other.

「There were requests for the permission to use the training grounds this week, huh. The ones using it now is "Grim March" and "Inverno Fyneh", is it. Though five years ago, both of them were just some random rookies, they've grown up to be fine veteran adventurers, huh.」

Right, these two parties are currently the most famous adventurer parties in the town of Motsi. I can still remember when they came to this town, almost at the same time, five years ago. Both of them started from E Rank.

The people of "Grim March" were, summing it up in one word, naïve. Blindly pursuing their ideals and overestimating their own strengths, they were heroic people that would move forward and never stop. Yet at the same time, many of their actions were pretty much suicidal. They couldn't do it in public, but the veterans that time had large bets on when they would die.

In contrast with "Grim March", the people of "Inverno Fyneh" have gave up on everything in the world. They have the same face as those people praised by the ma.s.ses, and were called 「prodigies」 and 「geniuses」, only to have ended up coming across the『 real deal』 at the Academy. In that Academy, there exists the 『genuine ones』 that no common geniuses nor prodigies can reach. It's a summit that neither just talent nor just effort alone can achieve. And as these people came in contact with them, they who have never known failure end up with their heart torn and broken to pieces.

"Grim" who lost themselves in their own dreams and "Fyneh" who was destroyed by their own dreams; well, naturally the two didn't get along, so again and again they keep on b.u.mping heads with each other. Ignoring the small conflicts inside the Guild, even coincidentally meeting up with each other in the Dungeon gets the both of them starting up fights. In those days, they were a great cause of headaches.

And exactly at that time, multiple towns and village, including Motsi, had an endemic of a vicious disease, ending up with me having lost any time to spend on them. Everything got too d.a.m.n annoying, so I decided to just locked them up in the Training Area for five days and have them go at each other at their hearts content. Five days being the time I got the materials for the medicine, going to the neighboring villages and coming back home.

The disease was commonly known as the 『Children's Disease』, which is mainly caught by children of about ages 3-8 years old. It was a weird disease that only children suffered from, having three main symptoms: rashes all over the body, high fever and paralysis of the limbs. Naturally, if you leave the child as is, with their physical strength they'll die from the atrocious disease in a blink of an eye.

However, that disease already had medicine developed especially to cure it. Since special materials are needed for it, it's not something one can readily make. Still, I was an active A Rank Adventurer before sitting down as a Guild Master, so collecting them was a piece of cake.

「Come to think of it, those two from the "Little Fairies" also joined in today's Mock Battle, huh.」

"Little Fairies". It's a party I named without their permission, but it's a name that really suits the two of them, don't you think?

One of them is Urania. One of the children infected with the 『Children's Disease』 five years ago, a Dog-ear kin child that I wasn't able to save. There were approximately a thousand children infected with the 『Children's Disease』, but thanks to the quick action, we were able to keep the casualty to an incredibly small about of four.

Although this was all due to the special cure; however the cure had a lethal side effect to it. It was something that the Humans, Elves, Dwarves and such had no problem with. However, to a portion of Beastkin including the Dog-ear kin, it left a fatal after-effect.

Beastkin is the generic term for a variety of races. It includes the Dog-ear kin and Cat ear-kin, the Fang Wolf kin and the Moon Bear kin and various other races. Explaining it simply, the former are『a race that can draw out the strength of a beast when needed』and the latter are『a race that hold strength equal to that of a beast at all times』. At a quick glance, the former are those guys that look like they grew out animal ears and tail and the latter are those guys that look like animals walking on two legs.

And ones that were affected by that lethal side effect were the former. They possess a certain skill called【Beast Transformation】. It's a skill that displays the b.e.s.t.i.a.l nature engraved in their instincts, their trump card and their ace in the deck. However, the children that used the cure ended up unable to use the skill【Beast Transformation】ever again.

I don't understand the specific details, but it seems like【Beast Transformation】uses the organ that stores the Magic Power inside the body and the when the drug is used, that organ's movement ends up being obstructed or otherwise stopped. Although I may have had no other chose to save Urania's life, I'm still the one that destroyed her future.

It was about one year ago when I saw her again. It was just a coincidence that the in Guild in the town where we held a Joint Guild Master Meeting I witnessed her being treated unjustly, not ranking her properly for being a『Diseased』. She didn't seem to remember me, but still, I made some preparations here and there, got the town's Guild Master to lose his post and summoned Urania to this town.

Still, it seems like she didn't give up. She desperately studied, frantically trained, and basically just worked really hard. Having her own body's growth hindered a compensation may have been unintentional to her, but anyways, her efforts are really praiseworthy. Without favoring her, her ability is sufficiently befitting of D Rank and if she wasn't『Diseased』, then she would've had probably climbed up to at least C Rank in no time.

The other one, Lily, is a masterful Mage "Grim" suddenly brought along ten days ago. I've seen her use Magic a few times, but she's pretty much a d.a.m.n monster.  At the very least, there isn't anyone better than her in this Guild. Still, her personality, no, well, her appearance too seems to be just of a regular brat. Though she has d.a.m.n insane technique, she doesn't really show off about it, and only uses it like its natural. From how she speaks, you can clearly see that she didn't have a decent life. In what world would a fifteen year old girl talk like a man.

*Knock**Knock**Knock*

「Hm? Come in.」

「Excuse me.」

When I unintentionally stopped working and fell in deep thought, knocks echo from the door. After I gave her my permission, Petra enters with a new batch of doc.u.ments.

「Reporting. The members of "Gale" have been just attached with a price. The report for the amount came in earlier, but what should we do about it?」

「Hmm, then let's just pay them immediately. It's better to get the money as soon as possible, don't you think?」

Speak of the devil, huh. "Gale" is that party "Gale Viper" that caused too much trouble that we revoked their Guild Cards. The members of "Gale" then went and attacked "Little", but they had the tables turned on them. And were politely handed to the Guild with no physical defects. It's pretty rare for crime slaves to be perfectly healthy, so I expected them to sell for quite the amount, but I didn't expect them to get sold this fast.

「Understood. Then on to the next report.」

「Hm? Is there more?」

「It's about the highway to the Empire. Eighteen frozen goblin statues have been confirmed. The number matches with the Proof of Subjugation.」

It seems like the other report is also Lily related. What even kind of Magic can freeze eighteen goblins in an instant? Anyways, with this I'm done gathering the evidence, so I can finally give the members of "Grim" the additional reward. After that, I can also submit a recommendation for Lily. If possible, I'd like to have one for Urania too but, she lacks just a bit more achievements.

「And one more thing.」

「There's still more?」

「Yes, it's about the goblins but, it seems like they were trying to run away from something.」

「Haa?」

「According to the investigator, it seems like the Mana levels were abnormally high. Since the highway pa.s.ses through the Sacred Mountain's base, the Mana in the vicinity should have been flowing to the Sacred Mountain but…」

「Hmm… It seem like there's going to be a bit of trouble, huh.」

This is convenient. Since all the actors are here, let's have our expert veterans and hopeful rookies work on this one.

Author ‘s Note:「I didn't want Lily to hear about the『Diseased』yet, so I got the guild master to explain for us. 」

Translator’s Notes:

Inverno Fyneh = I-n-ve-ru-no Fii-ne (per syllable)

Maybe there’s some wordsmith here that can make it look better?

Also Diseased was originally literally Yamai/Sickness/Illness Ake/dawn/beginning/after the end of something. So After the Sickness or Dawn of the Disease. So I went with Diseased since they’ve gone through the disease and as a wordplay for deceased, since, well, their future as Beastkin and Mages are dead. Get it?

Oh, and type 1 Beastkin (Ears and tails only) are actually Magic/Magecraft oriented rather that the usual power-type. Sure, they are a bit more stronger (or maybe even just equal) that normal humans and have amazing senses, but the type 2 Beastkin are the really power-type ones. As said earlier, the type 1 Beastkin (it wasn’t said that it was this type though) are really talented in Magic and became the 12 Sages (which, seeing the lion sage, may be based on the zodiac and the races of the magically talented beastkin maybe based on it too).

Translator’s Excuses Ramblings:

Heya! Guess who hasn’t bee posting since Christmas? The only idiot here, me! (No excuses this time!)

Really, thank you everyone for your patience, I’ve still got 5 chapters on queue so I’ll try having another one up this week (since I actually promised to at least do weekly and still failed to do so).

Anyways, for now see ya later and have a nice day and night!