As soon as grampa stopped telling his story, he hugged us on his arm.
"I know that you guys are feeling complicated right now, but I want to tell you the truth upon reaching adulthood. I am your grampa through and through, blood-related or not. You two are my, and granny's beloved grandchildren nothing will change."
I am still processing what grampa told us since it struck us just like that but grampa is right, grampa is our grampa nothing change even knowing that we are not blood related at all.
We hugged back grampa before continuing our adulthood celebration.
The next day.
Today we are not going to train, you guys are now adult and it's for you two to hunt a monsters.
"Yay, we are now finally going out to hunt."
"Hey, Lu-chan want to bet who can kill most monster? The loser will obey the winner is that good for you?"
"You said it, don't cry after you lose."
"Fufuffu, can't wait to see you cry again. fufufu"
This girl is so irritating as the year goes by, even her teasing is getting annoying, but today I will give you your own medicine.
"The two of you, getting confident is good but don't overdo it or you'll get careless and will harm yourselves. Anyway, I know your level is that past of that a goblin can handle, your level is about advance or late stage of level one, so I have a good quest for the two of you." Grampa said sternly.
"Quest? is that a commission from the guild? our own first guild quest. Yay I feel like a genuine adventurer." Eu-chan said excitedly.
"I feel like I evolve from being a pheasant to a noble just by getting a commission from the guild."
"Lu-kun it's good to daydream but you have to wake up and face the reality, you are still a pheasant even if you get a commission from guild"
"It's just an expression why do you have to butt on everything I have to say."
"Because Lu-kun always says weird thing every time. It's funn- hilarious that I don't know whether to laugh or cry."
"Argghh one of this I will get you."
"I root for you Lu-kun, hang in there." Eu-chan cheer me up like she genuinely pity me.
"Arghhh"
Grampa look at us smiling before muttering "As always.."
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Hey, Lu-chan are we there yet?
Not yet, grampa told us that it will take at least 3 days before we get to that curse cave right? it's not even half-day and you are already complaining.
"But I always thought that we just have to kill monsters then submit the quest and collect our reward, grampa didn't even told us in his story how long he had to go from one place to another just to kill monsters, he always told us "Here there's a monster, kill it, oh no we got into trouble, unexpected things happen, yeah we got save, we kill the monster, then we collect reward." it was so awesome that I forgot to know the traveling time. and now my feet hurts. Lu-kun carry me."
"Arghh.. Fine, let's just hurry we have to find a place to set a camp before sunset"
I took of my backpack and crouch to carry Eu-chan on my back then I hung my backpack on my front to easily move.
"Wow, Lu-kun is so strong." Eu-chan said while she poke my cheek, she always did this as a start of teasing me.
"Yeah, yeah I am strong not a feeble like you." Hm my win for today.
"Yeah, Lu-kun is strong"
"Yeah I'm strong"
"Lu-kun is handsome"
"Yeah I'm handsome"
"Unlike me I'm feeble."
"Yeah you are feeble good that you know
"So from now on I have to depend on Lu-kun, because Lu-kun is dependable."
"Yeah I'm dependable."
"Yeah so Lu-kun will have to carry me from now on."
"Yeah I have to- wait. what?"
"Lu-kun will have to carry me from now on."
"And why is that?"
"Because Lu-kun is dependable right?"
"I am?"
"Yeah, and a dependable man will hae to carry a feeble girl."
"Why does it sound so logical and so wrong at the same time?"
"Don't mind it Lu-kun come one Lu-kun we have to look for a place to set up camp."
Still thinking hard what went wrong I got to carry this girl at my my back for the whole day.
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"So, how do we take turns for the night watch?"
"We should take four hours per turn, Lu-kun will have to watch first and after four hours it will be my turn."
"Four hours? that's damn long."
"But we have to, unlike us, grampa have his 『Earth Wall』 so he doesn't need to guard their camp. He'll just make a wall around and sleep for the whole night."
"Arghh now I kind of want grampa's magic."
"Totes, he said it himself, everyone thought the useless skill that can't kill a monster was the very usefull itself inside the dungeon."
"Arghh let's just eat and start taking turns."
The two of us eat our dinner, before start taking turns for the night watch.
"I'll go sleep now Lu-kun, have fun." After saying that Eu-chan went inside the tent to sleep.
"Arghhh" I am now here looking around to see anything weird, but I can only hear cicada's and crickets sound and it was si rhytmically that I feel like sleeping.
I stand up a swing my sword in order to get my drowsiness away, at the time like this I wish I have friends that I can chat with, with more people, even if we have to take 5 hours of watching we can just talk about ourselves.
After 3 hours I become tired of just swinging my sword, I still have a bit of time before it's Eu-chan's turn to watch, so I sat down near the fireplace to endure the cold night and draw some weird shit on the ground, I then took out the pendant that our mother gave us.
Both of us have pendant with the same ingraving but the color of the stone in Eu-chan's pendant is much lighter than mine. Inside the pendant I can see the dragon, I thought that it is a bird because of the wing and I had never seen something like this before, the dragon here have two legs and 2 claws, it is standing position with its wing spreading like it was about to fly off.
"What are you looking so intently?"
I stared at it so intently that I forgot time then I suddenly felt Eu-chan poking my face, I swear I was scared shitless because I didn't even notice that she woke up.
"OMG you scared me to death, can't you just make a sound to let me know that you are awake, I wouldn't be surprise I really died because of you."
"That'll never happen, Lu-kun is strong."
"'T-That at least you know."
"Anyway it's your turn to sleep now, have a good sleep Lu-chan."
"O-oh, yeah..."
She said that with a wide smile and she usually did that when she is up to something.
I went to tent and as soon as I laid down the mattress I fell asleep.
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I woke up and the sun already comes out, I suddenly remember that I left Eu-chan guarding for the rest of the night and I felt guilt, I was about to get up when I felt someone tugging body, I looked down saw Eu-chan sleeping soundly.
She must have been so tire waiting that she fell asleep.
"Eu-chan, the sun is already come out, lets continue heading out to that curse cave."
I tugged her, but she was happily sleeping while hugging me so I left her since she must have been so tired. She woke up few minutes later.
"Oh its already morning, good morning Lu-kun"
"Good morning Eu-chan, I'm sorry that I left you guarding the whole night so I will make up with you."
"Really then you have to carry me until we get back home okay."
"Okay Eu-chan."
"Yay, you said it and there's no taking back, let's go out now."
Me and Eu-chan left the tent and what surprise me is that a tall wall of Ice surounding our camp.
"What's with this Eu-chan, did there any monster attack last night?"
"Hm? No, I just get so sleepy again last night after taking my turn to watch so I suddenly got the idea to use my 『Ice Wall』 to barricade the camp just like grampa, then I saw you sleeping soundly so I joined you."
".... So that's mean you didn't guard the whole night?"
"Yep"
".... Arghhhh!"
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Its been four days since we set out to the journey and we arrive at our destination, with Eu-chan's magic we can just sleep the whole night without minding the danger of sleeping outside in the open. I am so thankful and annoyed because of it I have now to carry Eu-chan through out the whole journey on her whim.
"This should be the cave right?"
"Yeah" I answered and took out the commission for subjugation of Spider Nest. This cursed cave is the spider's nest that's been terrorizing the nearby village. The rank for this mission is D-class and it's for a team of adventurer consist of level 2. Grampa said that it was a popular mission that anyone knows because this mission is a difficult one at the same time the lowest reward one.
The payment compare to the difficulty is so big that no one bothered to take it.
"Are you ready Eu-chan?"
"Mn, let's go."
The two of us went inside the cave.
The cave is a bit bigger and full of webs. grampa told us that when dealing the nest of spider we have to use wood to clear the web and only use our sword to kill the spider.
At the entrance, we didn't see it clearly but after walking inside the cave for a while, the cave have luminous stone on the wall that give us light. We are fotunate that the cave is being lightend by luminous stone or else we have to fight with one hand carrying torch and other is sword.
We have been walking for a while and the cave is so deeper than we thought, the strange thing is that we have not yet encounter any spider monster.