"Me? I am great mage, of course."
Riana answered with a smile after let out a fawn.
"Great mage? Which one?" Rert asked, didn't seems to be convinced.
With his mother vast collection of fairy tales and legend of heroes, Rert had a good amount of knowledge about Great mages existed in humanity.
But he don't know a great mage like Riana.
Of course he aware that he's not knew every single Great mage. So, he just unconviced, demanding Riana to gave more information.
"You wanna know?" Riana asked.
"Yes," Rert firmly nodded.
His curiousity almost killing his sleep time.
Every night he would remember about how mysterious Riana was. That's makes him questioning, questioning, and questioning, without any answer come!
He ended up being tired himself and forced to be slept, forgetting about his previous question, do the quests at day time, and questioning again at night.
He tired already.
He wanted an answer.
And the identity of the unknown girl that following them!
"You know about Hero Theo, isn't it?" Riana suddenly asked.
And Rert nodded at that. Of course he knew, that's his 'passion', after all.
Riana dropped a shocking truth at the next moment.
"I am the Hero Theo's party member. Riana, The Sage of Holycurse."
Fawn~.
If only she did not fawning right after said that, she would looked a bit majestic, a bit.
"The Sage of Holycurse!?"
Rert knew about her.
Of course he still doubting the truth of Riana's self-proclamation.
The Sage of Holycurse.
Wielding the powerful and strange curses, she reduced the enemy's physical strength, decrease their mana capacity, steal their vision, steal their sanity, erase their ability to move... And a lot more eerie but powerful curses.
She even can use her curses to somehow strengthen her comrades strength.
If the Priestress Elonnaura was Hero Theo's party Healer and main Buffer, then The Sage of Holycurse, who's name never mentioned on any book, was their main Damage dealer.
Her curse once even succeed in annihilating a 1 million army of orcs.
The most unforgettable was how she used her curse to makes a God forgot about their identity, reduced them to a mere baby minded divine being.
And she siad she was the same person as the Sage of Holycurse?
"It's unbelievable..."
"Well... Maybe so."
Rert muttered his doubt, but Riana just continue fawning leasurely.
Rert frowned, felt that the girl named Riana only became more and more mysterious than before after he get an answer from her.
"She was existed a hundred years ago, you know? It is impossible to life that long for a human... Right?" Rert asked, don't sure himself.
This time, Riana not answered him.
She only gave him a smile, before gets up and continued to gather herbs elsewhere.
Rert stood there, continue to ponder.
Until.
The unknown girl raised her voice.
"Ah, b-by the way, my name is Yio. I am also a newly assigned Adventurer. N-nice to know you."
She nodded her head timidly for a gesture of politeness.
She then quickly followed Riana.
Yio? What a weird name...
Still in confused state, Rert's impression to her was that.
***
Adventurer's life was not that easy.
After heard the speech of Dionnardo and experienced it himself, Rert realized that.
He can't even take the extermination quest yet.
Since his Adventurer card was still in white blank color.
He should completing more and more Daily Quest like Herb gathering or signed as a one day laborer at the Construction site and etc, to get the needed Contiribution points to become a Copper Adventurer and got the right to do the extermination quest.
But since this way was his choice, his dream, he shouldn't waver by this extent of obstacles.
His father already expected him to be bothered by the Adventurer guild's System, so he not forget to wrote that in the thin note book he gave Rert.
So, even if he a bit frustrated and dissatisfied, Rert endured it.
For his dream!
To be Hero!
... Not to eat foods and drinks like his comrades.
"Puah! This feelings, I am liked it! Drink after hardships, hahaha!"
Several drop of Ale fell to side of table in front of Rert.
The origin of these drop, no need to mention, it was of course from the girl sitting cross the table, Riana!
"Hahaha! You should try it as well, Yio~!"
Because of the increasing rewards they received after legally could do the quest, Riana had more money.
Because she had more money, she could buy more cup of Ale.
Because she could buy more cup of Ale, she could drink more.
Because she could...
Well, in short, she was, after drinking about 30 cup of Ale, finally got drunk.
She still maintained a fair amount of sanity, though. Not ran a rampage like a typical drunkard after getting drunk.
With red face, she even started to pushed a cup of Ale towards Yio.
The blue short haired girl can only shaked her head as rejection.
"S-sorry, but... Papa always said that drink is bad habit and prohibited me from doing so. Besides..."
Yio glanced around for a while, before muttered in quiet voice.
"... I'll catch a cold if drinking alcohol."
""...""
Rert and Riana can't say a word for a while after heard that.
"Catch a cold?"
After a while, Rert asked, looked very bewildered.
His bewilderment only makes Yio to further shrunk.
"Th-that's what Papa said..."
You can even see a faint tears threatening to welled at this point.
She looked so embarrassed.
But, what's more shocking was.
"I see. That's make a lot sense, then."
That Riana nodded to her words in solemn expression!