689 687 What is an Adventurer? (1/2)

”He said he would be an adventurer... With that degree of strength, and you're a child, can you be?

”Hey, you can be! Plus, everyone's a beginner at first!

Caitley listens to Sibula whine and says it back. Apparently, he felt ridiculed that there was no way you could be an adventurer.

However, I don't think Sibula's whining sounds ridiculous. I guess he simply spoke the question of whether there are no limits on strength or age.

”Does the guild admit it?

”? Naturally. Adventurers are free. Naturally free to be or to stop.”

Some guild masters, like Aretha's Klimt, don't let their kids regularize as much as possible and try to work out as apprentices though.

I miss Donald Rondo's test. But that would be a pretty special example.

”Heh? But the kid there, for example. Would it help if that daughter became an adventurer? It's enough to collect herbs at best, to protect people, to destroy warcraft, right?

”Mmmm...”

Caitley groans. But it's a complete fact, so I guess I can't say it back. I didn't shelter Caitley like that, but it was Fran who said it back.

”What's wrong with that?

”'Cause it doesn't help people like that, adventurer, do we?

Without malice at all, Sibula utters a harrowing word. And Fran goes back even further.

”? I don't know what that means. Adventurers are not necessary or not. Whether the person does the adventurer. Others don't matter.”

”Is that all you got? You have that strength, and you think nothing of it when you see a weak adventurer? Do you ever think I'm in the way?

”Nothing. People are people. Useless adventurer, did you just say you needed it?

”Oh, I told you,”

”I don't know what that means. Adventurers don't do anything to help people.”

”Huh? Then what's the job?

”Adventure. So Adventurer”

Fran seemed a little frustrated with his conversation with Sibula, but apparently he doesn't care what Sibula says.

The way Sibula put it, adventurers help people! If it's useless, we don't need it! That's what I feel like saying.

Sibula herself won't be aware of it, but she speaks of the adventurer with her gaze quite from above. Can I unconsciously say I'm looking down at the adventurer?

I hear Fran doesn't care about that. For a lot of people, adventurers are the bottom line jobs of the rough guys, but for Fran, it's an admirable profession.

”Adventure is my job... Do you need a profession like that?

”So, as I said earlier. It doesn't matter if it helps you or not. Adventurers are free. Just do what you want.”

Finally, you call me! After all, he seems to be subtly frustrated with Sibula. Little by little, the thorns began to mix with the saying.

”So, to protect the people, you're not fighting?

”It's freedom, too. Adventurers who want to fight for people, fight. Otherwise I won't fight.”

”Even with all that power?

”Mm-hmm. I might take it for a job. But it's not about helping people.”

However, while I say this in Fran's case, if anyone was in crisis in front of me, I would be in for some help.

However, I guess that's what Fran's ideal adventurer statue looks like when it comes to pre-construction. Workers, individualistic, allowed to judge by good and evil, not by right and evil. It's such a free and untied race.

Fran hates being bound or ordered headless from above because of his birth as a Black Cat or the period he spent as a slave. Freedom is, in a sense, the most important and unacceptable part of Fran.

And Fran's statue of the adventurer is a manifestation of that freedom.