20 Gaining Another Party Member (1)
"Eh!? Just like that and you're already leaving!?" Roger rebuked at her actions.
"Eh? What else did you want me to do? We just finished our mission so shouldn't we go back and turn it in?" Plutia replied with a puzzled face.
Plutia then turned to look at the group and also found them looking at her weirdly.
"What?" She asked them with a hint of impatience.
"Er-um aren't you going to explain to us how you exerted your strength without collapsing this time?" Nicole who snapped out of a daze replied first.
When Plutia heard this she turned to look at the other members only to be met with them nodding their heads in agreement.
She then turned around to look at Roger who also nodded for some reason.
"Why are you nodding? You weren't even at the scene when I collapsed last time." Plutia asked him.
"Eh? Ah, I was nodding for you to explain your strength. I thought you were only 10 and worked as a guild receptionist because you were poor..." Roger said while he scratched the back of his head and looked downward to avoid her gaze.
"Hah~" Plutia sighed as she explained to them.
"First of all. When I collapsed against the adventurers, that was because I had to overexert myself to control my strength as to not kill them. When going against monsters like these, I don't need to use my mental energy to control my strength." Plutia said while facing the group.
"Do you understand?" She asked them.
The group nodded their head in agreement as they found it logical. However, the group was also puzzled when it came to Roger's question that he had asked her.
"Second for my power... I had year's of actual combat ever since I was at the age of one because of my parents. They were also adventurers, so I learned from watching them. My memory was unusually great and I could learn fast so I was able to help them at a young age." Plutia said as her voice got quieter every time she mentioned about her parents.
The group at the scene couldn't bear with Plutia's sad face when she mentioned her parents. They averted their gaze from her as they clenched their fists as they thought of the pain Plutia had gone through from a young age.
"S-sorry for asking about that..." Roger said to Plutia in a sad tone as he realized that maybe he had struck a part that should never have been struck.
"It's fine. I was the one that mentioned my parents anyway. You only needed to know that I trained for years ever since I was at a young age. You also only needed to know about my great memory and ability to learn fast." She replied to Roger as she lifted her face up to show him that she was over it already.
[Author: GOD DAMMIT IF ONLY I HAD GREAT MEMORY AND THE ABILITY TO LEARN FAST. IM LITERALLY FAILING INTEGRATED ALGEBRA/Geometry AND BIOLOGY HONORS. Eh I'm passing English 1 somehow even though I failed it twice back in my eight grade year.]
"If you say so..." Roger said as he sliced a few horns of the goblins for proof of the subjugation.
"Alright then lets go everybody. We already collected the amount of horns we needed for the mission. It will get pretty dark soon so we should find an inn to stay at otherwise it wouldn't be fun if we had a nice cozy house would it now?" Mrs. Hummel said as she started to walk towards the entrance of the cave.
"""EH!?! We can't sleep at Peter's mansion!?""" The group yelled out in unison excluding Plutia and Roger who said something else.
""Eh? Why that reaction? Sleeping at an inn isn't that much worst you know?"" They said as they were already used to living in inn's due to them being adventurers.
"B-but! When I was sleeping over at Peter's house it was more comfortable then at the inn's!" Robert complained.
"Right!" Sally added as she and Peter both nodded their heads in agreement.
"Since when was being an adventurer going to make stuff comfortable for you? Being an adventurer causes you to risk your life you know?" Mrs. Hummel immediately shot down their reasons with logical reasons.
"B-but! I've been living at a nobles house for so long! I don't think I can get used to being in an inn's!" Nicole complained this time.
"R-right. I don't think I can either. I've heard multiple bad things happen there like when people get drunk... I can't bring myself to let Nicole stay there!" Brian added.
"Stop complaining! Peter, Robert, and Sally lived at inn's but you still see them here living correct?" Mrs. Hummel immediately shot down his reason.
"B-but! They said they wanted to sleep at Peter's!" He retorted.
"So what? That doesn't mean the inn will cause you to die now will it?" She said as she turned toward's the direction of Peter, Robert, and sally for confirmation.
They immediately nodded when they saw her frightening gaze. However, at this moment a voice came in and interrupted their argument.
"Er... what's the difference between an inn and a noble's house? As long as we're able to sleep on a bed isn't that good?" Laura asked.
"""That's because you aren't used to it!""" The students replied in unison at her statement.
"I'm a princess you know! I would be used to it!" Laura immediately snapped back.
"""S-sorry!""" They replied once again in unison as they were afraid of her rage.
Plutia and Roger silently crept their way toward's the outside of the cave to get some fresh air.
"Fwah~ Fwesh air at lwast~" Plutia said with a bit of lisp.
Roger just looked at Plutia with a smile on his face as he cleaned his blade while looking toward's the inside of the cave.
The both of them were doing their own thing while waiting for the group to exit the cave which didn't happen until half an hour.
"Sorry for making you two wait so long!" Mrs. Hummel said with an apologetic tone while she was dragging an unconscious Robert and Brian.
"These darn brats really didn't want to live in an inn so we'll have to force them." She said happily.
All the students behind her were cowering and shaking in fear as they looked at the teacher as if she had became a demonic being.
'Just what happened in there?' Roger and Plutia both thought.
"Anyway lets go back to town! Noble houses are now banned! Being an adventurer, if you cannot get used to unpleasant stuff but yearn for comfortable you won't live and make it out there unless you're ridiculously strong!" She said while happily dragging the two unconscious boys toward's the direction of the town.
'She's not human.' Everyone thought at once excluding Plutia.
'What have I gotten myself into?' Plutia thought.
The group then followed Mrs. Hummel back to town.
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Plutia: I swear to god someone was jealous of my absurdly good memory and ability to learn fast. I think they also wanted to kill me in the future or something.
???: DAMN RIGHT I DO!
Plutia : HOLY $@%^ WHAT WAS THAT!
???: YOU, BUT NOT YOU AT THE SAME TIME!
Plutia: W-what do you mean! Show yourself!
???: Im the one that created you!
Plutia: Created me? You aren't my mother!
???: Not in that way! I mean created you in this world!
Plutia: Wouldn't that still be my mother and father?
???: AGHH I MEAN IM THE AUTHOR OF THIS STORY!
Plutia: Story? What do you mean story!
Author: YOU KNOW WHAT! You can forget about it!
