From The Strongest Job Of Dragon Knight, To The Beginner Job Carrier, Somehow, The Heroes Are Depending On Me Volume 1 Chapter 17

Translator: "Pink Tea" Editor: "Ryunakama"

Around the time when a few days have pa.s.sed since I started training at the transportation guild Sagittarius.

「I don't have anything to teach to Axel-san as a beginner!」

　Is what I was told by Marion when I went to Sagittarius on that day.

「Eh, isn't this too fast?」

　Marion shook her head when I involuntarily blurted out such words.

「Because Axel-san, you already can reach almost any place in the city and have learned most of the work. How many requests do you think you completed in the last few days?」

　Being told that, I try to remember the work I did in the last few days. I remember that trying to learn this vast city and its routes I've been doing a lot of requests that were suggested as good or appropriate, but I don't remember the exact number.

「…I guess I delivered about thirty packages?」

「The number of requests completed by Axel-san is sixty-two. Around half of them had a high degree of difficulty and about half you completed simultaneously with other requests. 」

「Huh? I've done so much?」

　That's more than I thought, or more precisely it's twice as many.

　Since I've been doing several requests at the same time, maybe my estimations have gone awry.

「But, have I done that much? Berzelia, do you remember?」

　She was with me most times, so I thought she might remember, but she shook her head with a powerless smile.

「No, I was too busy training to keep up with Master. I had no composure to count requests.」

「Yes, you have been delivering at a really outrageous speed, Axel-san. An ordinary beginner would struggle to finish one or two jobs per day, but you have been doing more than ten. Naturally, I would run out of things to teach you.」

「Aah, so that's how it is…」

　Although I was just trying to learn the trade faster. I didn't really think it would end so early.

「Actually I wanted you to work without rus.h.i.+ng and learn the townscape and movements of people along the way… But it seems that you already know all that.」

「Yes, I properly memorized that in the last few days. Now, the town seems even more interesting than before I started this job.」

「That's great… Though it seems that for you there was no real need to memorize the streets. I didn't think you'd become such an airborne transporter.」

　Marion says looking at the window, in the direction of the sky.

「Airborne… Well, I certainly do jump over the roofs a lot.」

「Yes, in the last few days you became famous in the transportation industry and merchant guilds as『Flying Carrier』.」

「Are you serious?」

　I simply chose the fastest method of movement and was making deliveries by hopping around.

　I didn't think I would receive such a nickname.

「Well, you are working fast, punctual, and the kids really like the way you are flying through the city, of course, you would get famous.」

「Is the last one really relevant? Well, anyway, I think that jumping on the roofs is certainly faster, why is everyone else not doing it?」

　Being engrossed in work for the past few days I noticed, this town has a lot of people and the differences in elevation are intense.

　There are places where the path is blocked by large structures such as inner walls or guild towers, so going around using only horizontal movement is very difficult.

　So I moved around faster by using the heights, but it really bothered me why other transporters won't do so. That's why I brought that up but—

「Normally, people won't do it because it's dangerous. Humans can't fly.」

　Marion said astonished.

「Eh, but, aren't you《Imperial『Courier』》?　 Don't you have skills that quite literally allow you to fly?」

「Indeed. I do have the skill for gliding through the air. But I don't casually move through the roofs. It's not like my technique with moving through the air is that great. And most importantly,——Falling from the great height has consequences.」

「Consequences…?　Even if you fall from a high place in this city, it would be from ten meters at most. It would hurt if you land badly, but is it that much of a problem?」

　Air battles of dragon knights or other combat-oriented jobs happen at a height of several hundred meters or even more.

　Heights in the city don't look that scary to me.

　I spoke with those thoughts, but Marion smiled sweetly and put her hand on my shoulder.

「Listen well, Axel-san. Even with a high-tier transportation job, falling from a height will cause a serious injury… A few times I saw you falling in front of the store and then going on your own business as if nothing happened, but it's in fact very strange.」

「Aah, Master is used to falling, he is also good at taking a proper posture, so a scratch is the worst that can happen if he falls.」

　Just as Berzelia says, I'm used to falling due to my experience from the days as a dragon knight.

　So even if I break my posture in the air I rarely fall to the ground headfirst.

　Through as experiments have shown, even if I land headfirst it will only hurt a bit.

「I see. Yeah, it's great that my body is st.u.r.dy. As it seems the transportation bag is also resistant to impact, so contents end up essentially unharmed.」

「Somehow, even forgetting about your transportation job, you have a physique unfitting for a beginner, no, for a human… 」

　After giving me a look filled with bewilderment, Marion slowly exhaled like she was trying to refocus. And—

「Putting that aside for now, what is important at the moment is that you graduate from beginner. ——Congratulations, Axel-san.」

　She gives me applause.

「…!!」

　And Kohaku who was at the office desk, without saying a word also started energetically clapping, congratulating me.

「Well, you graduated from a beginner in no time, Master! Even though you became Carrier not so long ago, amazing!」

「I don't think it changes the fact that I'm a rookie that just got a new job.」

　Besides, I have heard the word graduation not so long ago, so I get the feeling that I'm graduating quite a lot lately, but anyway—

「Though it gives a nice feeling of progressing towards becoming a full-fledged Carrier.」

　Though I've got a new job, I also got a new workplace and new comrades, which I really appreciate.

　When I said that, Marion gave a delightfully complacent smile.

「Fufu, though I think that you are almost full-fledged already. Anyway, I think tomorrow, after you do some work, there are technicalities that I should tell you about. And today, I have prepared some graduation gifts, so after some light work, let's go out to the city's bars.」

「Yes, I contacted them so they would prepare a lot of dishes.」

「Oh, thank you, Marion, Kohaku-san!」

　And with the addition of becoming a bit famous as『Flying Carrier』. It seems that I successfully graduated from being a beginner《Carrier》.