The Strongest Onmyoji and the Shikigami With AI are Unparalleled in Another World ~ A Second Life Properly Enjoyed Using Artificial Intelligence ~ - Chapter 60

We left the guild and headed towards the southern district.

As we walked, we passed by a man with animal ears, clearly an adventurer.

After passing him, I turned around and stared at the man’s back.

“He even has a tail…”

“I’m fluffier and more elegant, though.”

Don’t try to compete with him.

“That’s a beastfolk. He’s the B-rank guy I mentioned before. Looks strong, doesn’t he?”

As AI-chan and I watched the beastfolk walk away, Natalia informed us.

“The guy you mentioned before… He did look pretty strong.”

While his magical power wasn’t high, he had the aura of a seasoned warrior.

Well, he’s a B-rank, so he must be strong.

Quite different from Cyrus.

“I’ve never seen one before. So that’s a beastfolk… Lily, are there no elves around?”

“No, there aren’t. Elves prefer to stay in the forest, so you rarely see them in town. I’ve met maybe two in the city, but I visit my hometown and travel a lot.”

Is it really that rare?

“You seem to fit in well, though.”

“People often say I’m not very elf-like. They expect elves to be more intellectual or have an unapproachable aura…”

Sorry, but Lily doesn’t have either of those qualities.

“You’re so friendly.”

“Yuma’s a good guy. Can you just say you’re disappointed?”

“No, I don’t know elves.”

On the contrary, in my mind, Lily embodies what I imagine an elf to be.

I might be surprised when I meet other elves.

“Oh, you’re the reincarnated one, right? I see… So you’re from a world without elves.”

No beastmen or demons there.

Well, something similar was eating inari sushi on the porch of my house.

“There were only humans. Lily, what’s your adventurer rank?”

“I’m C-rank!”

Lily proudly declared.

“I see. Alice is B-rank and the rest are C-rank… By the way, our party rank is also C, huh… I’d like to raise our party rank to B.”

“We’ll have to steadily work on raising the party rank. Just think of it as the average of the party members’ ranks.”

The average, huh…

“If one more person besides me becomes B-rank, then we’ll be a B-rank party.”

“….The quickest way is to attract a certain promiscuous woman who seems bored. That way, when you become B-rank, there will be three B-rank members in the party.”

I see.

She was also B-rank, huh.

“Koma-chan, I think she’ll refuse if I invite her, but when that happens, look lonely.”

As I said that, Koma-chan nodded.

“I’m not sure if Annie-san will join, but she doesn’t work much, you know? She makes money by making medicine, so she doesn’t do anything too dangerous.”

Natalia informed us.

“I’m not saying we have to go out together every time. It’s more like, ‘Let’s go together when we have time, like for the next ruins exploration.’ It’s just lending a name.”

Well, since she’s alone anyway, it doesn’t really matter.

“In that case, she might agree.”

Alright, let’s try negotiating.

Well, in any case, it’ll be after my rank goes up.

According to Pamela’s talk, it seemed like she might raise it for me, but it seems like there’s some trouble, so it might take time.

We continued through the streets of the southern district and passed through the gate.

Then, as we walked smoothly, we reached the edge of the forest.

There, many adventurer parties were gathered outside the forest, engaged in discussions.

There must have been well over fifty of them.

“Wow! Was it like this yesterday too?”

Lily, who was visiting for the first time, was surprised to see the adventurers around the forest.

“No, yesterday wasn’t as crowded because it was only from noon. Instead, there were around the lake…”

Still, it’s quite a crowd.

This must be because Clive and other clan members are giving up and going to the capital.

“What should we do?”

Natalia asked.

“Well, since we’re not here to earn, Lily, today is for your training, so feel free to move around as you like. What do you want to do?”

“I guess I want to enter the forest and regain my intuition… After that, I’ll shoot some monsters or animals that seem easy to hunt.”

“I’ll leave it to you.”

“Yeah. Alright, let’s go.”

With Lily at the lead, we entered the forest and walked along the path.

It became clear as soon as we entered the forest today, too; I couldn’t sense any magical power from monsters.

This isn’t good…

Monster hunting is out of the question.

Will adventurers from the western and southern districts clash soon?

Or maybe there will be a leak…

I kept going, wondering what I should do, and after a while, Lily at the front stopped.

“What’s wrong?”

“Hmm… I can’t sense any presence at all… Am I getting dull?”

“No, it was the same yesterday, but there are too many adventurers here, so I think there are no monsters. I’m also using magic detection, but there are zero monsters.”

“Magic detection… Don’t mention the range because it hurts.”

She’s such a delicate girl…

“Lily, what about animals?”

Natalia, the perceptive one, asked Lily.

“Just a moment, please. There are too many people, so I can’t tell.”

Lily said that and smoothly climbed up a nearby tree.

“The kids in this world are amazing… I couldn’t climb like that even when I was a child.”

“Elves are good at climbing trees. They said they live up in the trees, right?”

AI-chan informed me.

Didn’t she say she wasn’t good at climbing trees?

“Aren’t other elves even more amazing?”

With some training, she could make a living in a circus.

“Lily, what do you think?”

Natalia called out to Lily, who was perched on a branch above.

“I think there are few animals too! Hmm, should we shoot some birds for dinner?”

Birds?

“Birds?”

“Yeah! There’s a bird I’ve never seen before, but since it’s flying, I’ll shoot it!”

With that, Lily aimed her bow at a black bird flying overhead.

“Hey! What are you doing to Crow-chan!?”

AI-chan shouted and hit the tree.

Then, Crow-chan hurriedly flew away and disappeared.

“Huh? No good?”

“Crow-chan flew away crying, didn’t he! Come down here!”

Certainly, I can hear him crying far away…

Poor guy…