CHAPTER 15

I still have my Keyward Stone and harmonica. I lost one Adventurer, but there are three potential Adventurers that can become my party members. It is fine by me if they don’t want to, but at least I’ve saved their lives. Now then, I should probably introduce myself.

“Hi,” I say, “I’m Suzanna Suria. I’m a Sorcerer. If it’s fine by everyone, can we get to know each other?”

The red head reply, “Were you killed in the airport too?”

“Airport?”

“We were mindin’ our business when a schmuck just came and slashin’ everyone.”

“Everyone?”

“Some of us. I’m not sure.”

“May I know your name?”

“Saltius Ray Robinson. Call me Salty Ray.”

Okay. That’s one name. Let’s see another one. Let’s try the Wizard which... is summoning an extra mouth on his face. He’s trying to smile and frown at the same time, but both mouth can only make one expression. I respect him experimenting on himself but I still need something to call him.

“How about you? What’s your name?”

Both of his mouth speak at the same time, “Me? Timothy Aquinas.”

Timothy laughs. He must be amused by his own voice. I would like to ask him more about the airport incident, but I think that I should let him explore his new self for now.

“How about you?” I ask the only woman in this team besides me.

“Wanda Wolstad. Do you know where my sword is? I received it when I first arrived here.”

That must be related to her subclass. I should explain the floating words to them. Maybe they can tell me more after checking them out.

“Okay. We are all Adventurers in this world. We have something called Detail Check. Just set your intention and floating words will appear in front of you. For some Adventurers like me, the Detail Check is a bit faulty. Maybe yours could be better than mine.”

Salty Ray is intrigued. Timothy is excited. Wanda is confused. I think that Wanda got a terrible floating words just like me. Sucks to be us.

Now that the introduction is done, here comes the hard part. What they join me as a party?

“Since we’re here, we should form a party.”

They all look at me. I feel like they’re stabbing me with their eyesight. Being a leader doesn’t suit me.

Wait a minute. Sorcerer has charisma! Plus, I’ve always been great at talking to customers in mom’s bakery! With these two combined, I should be a good leader!

“If we’re a party, what do you reckon we should do?” asks Salty Ray.

That’s actually a good question. The strength of a party lies in their unity. The best way to unite is we have a common goal. Which goal should I say to them? I can’t say living in a cave. That’s my last objective once everything is done. My retirement, so to say. I can’t say see Contractuaries expand to the entire world because I have no idea what their opinion on slavery is. They might rebel against me. Worse, they might run away and tell slave owners about me. Avoiding my stalker is my personal goal. That can’t be used to unite them. The cult! I can say that we’re fighting cults! I did it twice so it’s accidentally one of my objectives. I took my Keyward Stone to stop a massive army of Demons from coming here in the first place. Let’s go with that.

“Before meeting you all, I was beating up cultists. I could use some help fighting them.”

Salty ray is giving it a thought. Hopefully that turns out to be good.

Timothy is giggling with both mouth. In fact, one of the mouth is moving all over his head. Wait a minute. He’s a Wizard, right? Where is his spellbook? Is that a subclass that doesn’t require a spellbook? That’s just convenient isn’t it? He doesn’t have to worry about it being stolen or occupying his hand. It’s not fair that he doesn’t have to deal with the weakness of his class.

Wanda is... sad? She gets closer to me. She wants to whisper something.

“I’m sorry for everything that happened to you.”

Loss? Is she still using her floating words? Wait! She can use it to see other people’s past?! What kind of class can have a subclass like that? She can’t be a caster. She lost sword. She must be martial. But which one can look into that? Should I be concerned?

Salty Ray interrupts, “I’m in.”

Timothy says, “Whatever. As long as I can cast all my spells.”

Wanda says, “I’ll be here for you as long as you help me find my sword.”

Okay. Everyone seems onboard. At least I don’t have an explosion-crazed chuunibyou, a masochistic tank, or a useless water deity in this party. I suppose that we should begin our journey. It’s still noon. We can walk far before dusk.

As we walk, Wanda pulls me to walk behind the men.

“Is he in this world with us?” asks Wanda.

That’s a bit of a strange question. Does her floating words know about my stalker?

“He’s in this world.”

“I’ll help you to find him!”

She wants me to fight him? That’s considerate of her.

“Thank you.”

“I hope that everything will work out between both of you.”

She wants me to forgive him? Absolutely not!

Before I can say anything, I can see a black-robed figure. Ah, the cultist. That should be the spotter. The rest should come later. Perfect timing! I can see what my party can do! If they’re in danger or lacking in anything, I’ll cover them.

Salty Ray is punching the cultists. Okay. This is useful in a close-range fight. Outside of fighting, he can be my sparring partner. Which class would this be? If I recall, Monk likes to fight unarmed. That could be it. As long as his class doesn’t steal any features from other classes like my Dwarvel, I’m confident that he’s a Monk.

Wait! He can do rocket punch! His hands just split from his wrists! They fly towards some unlucky cultists before returning back to him. What kind of Monk is this? The floating hands grab a cultist each then smack them together. Salty Ray can control his floating hands as an extension of his own body! Floating words, what kind of class and subclass is this?

DETAIL CHECK
Class: Monk
Subclass: Floating Fist Style

That will be handy in and out of combat. Thank goodness he’s in my party. How about Timothy?

He seems to be firing lighting around. Makes sense. That’s what he did against Nostrazues back then. It’s funny to think that Nostrazeus has the name Zeus but didn’t cast any electricity. Floating words, is it true that his subclass allows him to cast spell without ever having any spellbook.

DETAIL CHECK
Correct.

What’s the name of the subclass?

DETAIL CHECK
Subclass: Memoriam.

It has memory in its name? He has his memory boosted?

DETAIL CHECK
Incorrect.

What can he do then?

DETAIL CHECK
A Memoriam Wizard can copy a memory
of one of their spell into other Adventurer.

You’re saying that he can give someone one of his spell?

DETAIL CHECK
Correct.

So I can get one spell. Wait! I’m a Sorcerer but I never learn any spell! What the flour!

As for Wanda, she’s not fighting. In fact, she’s hiding behind me. It’s possible that she can’t fight without her sword. I can’t blame her for that. I’ll cover her until she got her sword back.

The cultists stand no chance against us. Good. Now then, where’s the—

DETAIL CHECK
Initializing boss fight.

There it is!