Magic? Muscle Is Much More Important Than Such A Thing! Chapter 18

"Wait, Yuri-san! There's no end of them!"

"Isn't that a good thing?! You should enjoy it more!"

Slightly away from Mossenmorges, we are currently fighting against crowds of magical beasts.

At first there were only two kinds of magical beasts crowding and attacking us, but when the third ones came, the battle turned into chaos.

Within such crowds, Firia is burning one of the magical beast with fire magic.

"Stop being so petty and use some more powerful magic, would you?"

I ask so while punching one magical beast near me.

At first there were around fifty demonic beasts, and now there are only around thirty left. However, we still can't let our guard down.

"My magical energy isn't fully recovered yet, so I can't just casually shoot such powerful magic consecutively. Shooting such powerful magic may also leave some openings, after all."

Even while grumbling so, Firia shoots down another one with wind magic.

"I see, let me clean them all up then!"

I shoot pistol punch. Several demonic beasts on straight line are blown up.

"Rather than my magic, that attack is more magic like, isn't it?"

"Muscle magic is a full-fledged magic. As long as you train your muscle, anyone will be able to use it! You can also use it with a kick, you know?!"

And so I throw a kick upward.

My kick which surpa.s.s the speed of sound creates a shockwave, and another several demonic beasts loss their live in the process.

"Eh, isn't that more powerful than your punch?"

"Power-wise, pistol kick is indeed more powerful than pistol punch, but it's harder to aim, and it also leaves more openings. By no means bragging, but I can only use it against weak opponents."

I answer so to the seemingly shocked Firia.

Hearing my words, Firia mumbles "Pistol Kick….". Perhaps she's surprised at how cool its name is.

Should I fully master pistol kick, perhaps I'd be able to reach an even higher realm of power.

It's just, as far as I'm concerned, I prefer to fight with my fists, though.

I mustn't fuss over the means to become stronger, I must only focus on becoming stronger. I fully understand that.

However, there are times where the things that are seemingly trivial or unusual to other are actually the right ways to become stronger.

It may be hard, but if possible, I honestly want to get stronger solely by relying on my fists.

Exhausted after subjugating the demonic beasts, we decide to take it easy and continue onward the next town slowly.

"I must say, the demonic beasts here are considerably stronger than the ones at the previous town, aren't they?"

"You're right. By the way, what cla.s.s were those demonic beasts from before?"

"I think they were around C cla.s.s."

"So those were C cla.s.s, huh. They weren't necessarily weak, but compared to Brokkina, seems like there's quite the difference between B and C cla.s.s."

"Seems like so. Even for adventurers, seems like that's also quite a huge wall, after all."

While chatting like that, we eventually arrived at Mossenmorges.

"Wow, what a huge town."

"Indeed, just look at that colosseum, will the martial tournament be held there, I wonder? Now I'm getting excited."

"Including the colosseum, the whole town is built out of stone. It's my first time seeing houses made of stone."

When I try looking around, the whole town is indeed built solely out of stone.

In this world, building houses using earth magic is commonplace, but seems like that isn't the case here. Or rather, a town like Asta which most houses were built of wood was the most peculiar of all.

However, even while discussing about that, my eyes just won't get away from the colosseum.

Even among those stone buildings, the largest one is still the colosseum.

Mossenmorgess is also called "Town of Martial Arts", and it seems like martial art tournament is held every year at the colosseum.

Seems like the tournament will last for two weeks, and that's also one of my reasons coming here.

There were several other dangerous sounding towns, but they were either too far away, or there was too little information about them which made those options weren't too viable.

After that, we first head to the guild.

Today is already quite late so we don't take any quest, but we can still look for some interesting-looking quests for tomorrow's work.

The moment we come inside the guild, numerous gazes are focused on us. Well, without a doubt it's because of Firia's beauty, though. However, my muscles aren't less charming, you know? Someone please understand that.

To show them off, I intentionally enlarge my muscles.

"Oi, those two…. they seem pretty strong."

"Huh? Leaving that illogically pretty woman, there's no way that muscle daruma is strong, isn't it? Just look at that, even the clothes are torn apart, you know?"

"From what I can see, perhaps that guy has no magical energy. Or even if he has, it's only at a very meager amount. Most likely he proudly comes here from a faraway place, but at that level I doubt he'd last long here. The cute girl next to him is the exact opposite, though."

"I wish I can make a party with her."

Oh, although few, there seems to be people who can see my strength.

As expected, seems like the people here are considerably better than the ones at the previous town. Not bad.

Pretending not to hear their words, I head to the quest board.

"…hmm?"

After looking through the board, I tilt my head in wonder.

"Say, don't you think it's strange?"

"Indeed it is."

With her arms folded, Firia also inclines her head while mumbling "mumuu”.

"What's up, you two over there?"

Somehow a huge guy calls out to us.

Well, even when I say huge, it's only compared to the other adventurers here. Almost all adventurers here all are just like the typical frail twig-looking type, after all.

"Umm… we just couldn't seem to find any D rank request…."

Firia answers so to his inquiry.

That's right, on the quest board, there's no D rank request.

There are indeed E rank requests, but that'd serve no meaning for us coming here in the first place

Hearing her answer, the man shows a very pitiful expression.

"You two, unfortunately there's no D rank request here. This town is very dangerous after all, so every request at the very least is of C rank."

Oioi, for real? Does that mean that even after coming this far, in the end we still have to take E rank request?

Somehow Firia shots a glare at me.

Her glare is as if saying 'It's because you just arbitrarily decided to come here without any proper inspection, after all….'

"It's because you just arbitrarily decided to come here without any proper inspection, after all…."

She literally says it.

Coming here was indeed my arbitrary decision, though. At this rate my credibility will fall rock bottom. Is there's really no way, I wonder?

…well, for now let's try asking this guy first.

"Oi you, is there no backdoor or something? I want to jump straight to C rank from E rank."

When I ask so, the man's face turns red.

"Oi, is that the way of asking someone a question?"

Somehow he looks kind of p.i.s.sed.

Honorific is so bothersome I don't want to bother with it. However, perhaps that one was indeed too rude.

I have to reflect on it.

"For us this is our last chance. So, please, is there really no way for us?"

When I feel despondent, Firia asks the man as such.

Leaning her body forward, she links her hands in front of her face and shots him upturning eyes. So sly. As expected so Firia, very sly.

Looking at such Firia, the man's face becomes red. However, this time it isn't because of anger.

It's because there's a very beautiful girl pleading in such sly pose right before his eyes. As expected everyone will falter in front of it. Even I myself am a bit faltering here.

Even while fl.u.s.tered, the man still properly tell her a way to become C rank.

If we can last until the final tournament of the upcoming martial arts tournament, we'll be acknowledged to have C rank prowess, and seems like even the guild will allow us to take C rank request by then.

"Thank you very much!"

Floating such flower-like smile, Firia thanks the man.

"Wh, what about having some meals together sometimes?"

"I'm sorry. I'm scared to be alone with someone like you, so… thank you for your invitation. Yuri-san, let's go."

Declining his invitation, Firia grabs my hand and leaves the guild.

What the h.e.l.l with that 'I'm scared to be alone with someone like you'. What a scary girl.

This girl is simply evil. Girls who're self-conscious that they're cute are all wicked.

"I did that to get that information for you, you know? Also, I'm indeed scared to be alone with a man, after all."

Soon after leaving the guild, with her cheeks puffed, Firia turns toward me and says so.

This girl, she peeked at my mind again.

"You, even when you say that, aren't you always alone with me in the inn?"

"That's… Yuri-san, you're umm… special… after all."

Firia answers so in mumble.

I doubt I can hear that without my trained ears. Well, even when I do hear it, it isn't like I understand what she means, though.

"Special? Special in what why?"

"…Huh! It's because rather than a man, you're more of a muscle, Yuri-san!"

What's with that 'Huh!'?

Is she intending to intimidate me or something? Such weak intimidation has no effect on me, though.

"What did you say?! … You can unexpectedly say some good things too, don't you?! That's right, before I'm a man, I'm a muscle!"

I curl my arm, release my muscle, and show Firia my splendid biceps. Look at those exquisite muscles!

"Ah, also, if you want to intimidate someone you have to be more overpowering. Let me show you an example, something like this. UOOOO!"

"…Yuri-san, you sure are an irredeemable big dummy, aren't you? Also, you're too noisy so please shut up."

Even though I've expressly pointed out where she was lacking, what's with this treatment. I just can't understand her.

When I become quiet as she asked, Firia leaks out laugh 'fufufu'.

"You sure are a strange person, Yuri-san."

"Am I? As far as I'm concerned, you're way stranger, though."

Putting her index finger on her cheek, Firia inclines her head and says "Is that so?"

Well, all in all, thanks goodness that she seems not mad any longer.