Chapter : 69
Chrono â Japan Magic Explorer Academy Arc
Chrono â Magical Girl Guild Card
Name: Chrono Kishi
Skill Level / Achievements / Experience: 0 (Rookie)
Highest Floor Reached: 16
Money Remaining: 298,000 yen
Guild Rank: 114,514th
After eating next door to the guild, taking a bath, and then heading to the park to do my daily sword-swing practice, I was going through my usual routine.
âHey! Heâs here again.â
âHeâs a NEET.â
âHeâs here every day â must be homeless!â
âWho practices sword swings every single day? Everyone uses magic!â
âSo lame!â
â⌠â
As usual, the students were hurling insults at me, but since I was focused, I didnât hear a thing.
âHeyâŚâ
âHey, I said hey!!â
Tap tap tap tap tapâŚ
Suddenly, someone grabbed the hand I was swinging my sword with.
Huh?
âFinally! Youâre the person who was on the 16th floor yesterday, right? I ran away⌠but were you okay?â
Among the group of students stood a small girl.
Noâwait. Come to think of it⌠this girl isâ
I had only caught a glimpse of her yesterday, so I didnât notice at first, but we actually knew each other.
âAh. You were the one alone yesterday, rightâŚâ
I responded as if it were our first meeting. After all, Iâm Chrono right nowânot the Black Knight.
âYeah. For certain reasons, Iâm solo right nowâŚâ
âI seeâŚâ
âWhy do you practice sword swings every day?â
âItâs training!â
âWhy donât you do it in your yard or at a training facility?â
âI donât have a house. And no training facility either!â
âEh? Really!? Why?â
âIf you donât have it, you donât have it!â
âI-I see⌠By the way, were you okay with that mimic yesterday?â
âYeah.â
âThe other guyâthe one with the mohawkâthe beginner support guy, right? Did he defeat it?â
âHe helped, but I was the one who took down the mimic.â
âReally?! Is he still supporting you regularly?â
âNo. That supportâs over for now. Next time, maybe if he feels like it. So Iâm solo too.â
âI see⌠Are you going again today?â
âYeah.â
âCan I come with you?â
â⌠â
âIs that no goodâŚ? Oh! If you donât have a place to stay, I can prepare one for you. You can train there too.â
âIn that case, sure!â
âYes! Then after academy ends todayâ3 PM at the guild!â
âGot it.â
âSee you.â
The park really was inconvenient, so I appreciated the offer.
When the time came and I went to the guild, I confirmed itâshe was the magical girl from the Heroâs Party who had basically run off with the Black Knightâs black cloak.
I had only glimpsed her in the dungeon, and this morning she had been in her school uniform, so I hadnât been sure. But now I knew.
Back when I was the Black Knight, I saved her from an attacker (a demon), and her clothes got burned, so I lent her my cloak.
She never gave it back.
âLooking forward to today,â said the magical girl.
âY-YeahâŚâ
âWeâll split the magic stones fifty-fifty. Since you cleared the 16th floor yesterday, shall we start from the 17th?â
âYeah.â
This girl has connections to both the Black Knight and Chrono, I thought.
Magical Girl â Guild Card
Skill Level / Achievements / Experience:
Former Rank 1
Former member of the Heroâs Party
Currently solo
Advanced long-range fire magic user
Current record holder for highest floor reached
Highest Floor Reached: 34
Guild Rank: 1000th
She quit the Heroâs Party?! I had no ideaâŚ
Well, they were having a loversâ quarrel, after all. I even got dragged into it.
Apparently, the Heroâs Party is currently on hiatus. Their guild ranking dropped from 1st place to somewhere between 1st and 10th.
So she left that positionâthe same one once held by the delinquent party I slaughtered when I first came to the guild as the Black KnightâŚ
The current number one party is apparently an American explorer team.
As for me, I wasnât interested in rankings. I promised to polish my swordsmanship and, together with this blood-stained beloved blade entrusted to me by my friend, to see many different worlds.
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