Strange Grief Wants to Retire ~ The Weakest Hunter Dreams of a Hero ~

Chapter68，Part1: 1 - Gap

Chapter 68 Gap

Part 1

The morning of a Clan Master is early.

Shortly before the sun rises. When I wake up in my private room in the Clan House, I first go to the bathroom to take a light shower to remove my drowsiness.

Then I put on my clothes. As I have many of the same clothes, I always wear the same clothes. But the type and the number of Relics I equip are different. The Relics I have collected vary from their type to their number and it has long exceeded the number one person can equip at once. There are some where their effect is activated just by wearing it but even if they are not big, there is a limit to the amount I can carry.

The Relic I equip depends on my mood of the day. Every day, I wear “Barrier Finger” and most of them are accessories. Even if I wear a ring, earrings, necklace, etc… they are very convenient because it doesn’t get in the way and has various effects.

Even among Treasure Hunter there are a lot of them who wear accessory-type Relics. Depending on how you do it, you can even hide the facts that you have Relics equipped on you.

In my collection, there are many weapon-type Relic but as I don’t have any battle skills, I don’t carry them unless I have a reason to. I can at least activate its ability, but I have more chance to inflict a serious injury to myself rather than to others.

Instead of those, I carry chain-type Relic. It is useful to hinder someone. It doesn’t get in the way and even I can use it. Rather than carrying a weapon-type Relic, these allow the opponent to drop their guard down. Those has helped me many times, they are my favorite Relics.

However, there are only a handful of Relics that are currently charged. The choices are limited.

When I lightly look around the room, I can see that some Relics are gone but Sytry said that she might take some because she need it to develop a new Magic Recovery Medicine, so it doesn’t bother me. There is no one who could steal in the Clan House of such a large Clan.

Once fully equipped, I go to the Clan House Lounge for a breakfast.

The Lounge is open twenty-four hour a day but most of the people are busy during the day so there are only Clan Clerical Staff. After having a light breakfast with sandwiches and coffee, I climb the stairs in high spirit to the Clan Master Room.

And then I sit down in the beautiful chair which was disproportionate to my real strength as a Clan Master.

… I have nothing… To do.

The spacious office desk is shiny, polish but also empty.

Initially, as a Clan Master, I have almost no job to do. I gave almost all directive power to manage Footprint to Eva. The only things that comes to me are those that Eva can’t judge about or things that are delicate to make a decision unless you have the position of a Clan Master. But those kinds of work don’t appear on a daily basis.

It is not a joke when Eva told me to just sit there silently.

Since I have nothing to do, I take out a soft cloth from my desk and with familiar movement, begin to polish my Relics one by one.

To be honest, I am bored. I don’t feel like trying to conquer life threatening Shrine, but I can’t help but feel, I am wasting my time.

Usually, I go out and look around the town or check the performance of my Relics collection in the underground training ground, but I can’t do that now.

Liz had sold a fight with Arnold.

I didn’t do anything, but he saw my face and for some reason I am often people grudge target. I had asked Gark-san to put them in their place but going outside at this timing would be dangerous.

Even if I go out with guards the opponent is a Level 7… Tino will not be able to do anything, and I don’t know where are the reliable Sytry and Liz. Above all, I can’t take the busy Smart sister around and distract them just because I am free. Liz and Sytry also needs private time (Most of it are for training though).

And also, it isn’t good to check the performance of my Relics when their recharge can’t be fulfilled. That is a luxury allowed only when Lucia is here.

Each ring-shaped Relics are carefully polish and place on the desk.

A Relic randomly manifest. Since it is based on the information of the civilization that have once existed, the shape is roughly fixed, but there isn’t two perfectly identical Relics.

Even if they have the same ability, their designs may slightly differ. A simple one that doesn’t have anything on it. One with gems-like stones on it. One with a complex pattern engraved on it. There are some made with a different colors, different shapes and even different materials.

Although when the Relics are line up like this, these are just simple object, but you can feel as if they are giving off a mysterious atmosphere.

Some Hunters don’t trust the Relics of the past civilization and depends only on their own power. But I like it and couldn’t resist the unique brilliance emitting from the Relics.

Then I remove my chain-type and my bracelet-type, in this exact order.

When I was feeling a strong self-satisfaction with my shining Relics, I remember that I have receiving a bracelet-type Relic from Tino.

It was a Relic which luckily appeared in the famously easy 『Alain Column Ruins』 Shrine.

Immediately afterwards, a Huge Golem appeared and started to rampage and then I became so busy that I completely forgot about it.

I search inside my desk and take out the bracelet-shaped Relic that was left unattended.

I wonder what her Shisho, Liz is teaching her. Tino gives me most of the Relics she finds.

Even if I say it is a Relic, its ability is unknown. Tino who is still under training only capture Shrine with a level that isn’t too high, she rarely finds useful Relics. But I thankfully accept the gifts from Tino.

The Relic found this time came from a Shrine certified to be Level 1. The hidden power in Relics are also proportional to the concentration of Mana Material, so it may not be such a powerful Relic.

The Relic was a simple black bracelet with no special trait.

The bracelet is made from metal. The weight and size are average, and the color is all black. There is a pattern engraved along the design but there is no particular jewel attached on it.

I observe it carefully while rotating it in my hand but there are no features that suggest its ability.

Relics ability assessment is performed by collecting and comparing information of Relics found in the past. With Relics without any features, it is often the case that you can’t know its ability unless you actually use it. It is common to ask for a Relic appraiser who knows how to use Relics to appraise it.

They collect as many Relics as in a Relic Shop and they can somehow activate a Relic that they have no information about. They are not different from me.

There are some Relics that give drawback to its user. It is not uncommon for users to die like with the 『Night Hiker (Dark Wing of the Night Sky) 』. There are difficult one, so it requires careful handling. Well, in the first place, I don’t have enough magic power to try it.

I kind of forgot about it but the more I look at it, the more I want to know about the true identity of this Relic.

It is so plain as an ornament, even though it is to wear in your wrist. It doesn’t look mysterious at all and if you look at the design, you can only see it as a cheap bracelet. If you only want to reproduce its design even with our modern civilization can do it.

The shape is too simple so I can’t find any clue to which civilization it can belong to or what kind of ability it possesses. It is not the same as 『Realize Outer (Longing for a For Away Country) 』, the souvenir Sytry brough back.

As I am no god, I can’t do anything about it.

I put the bracelet around my finger and start to spin it while sighing.

“… There is Arnold.”

Without him, I would have immediately gone to a Relic Shop and appraise it…

I am always plagued by violent Hunters.

Level 7. Dragon Slayer. He is truly a transcendent person. Plus, he is leading a large party, he is more terrifying than any assassins.

Will Gark-san put them in their place well enough? Or will he calm down over time? However, he was so overwhelmingly crushed, so the odds are low.

Then, the final stop will be… A blood-soaked battlefield, is it not?

All my choices are blocked. I can’t see any future that is kind to me.

At least if I let them but really had to let them… Go wild, then don’t do it in the street, I want you to rampage in a tavern exclusive for Hunter. Should I properly tell that to Liz… While thinking about such thing, Eva comes into the room.

Eva is always busy, but she tries to at least show her face once a day even when she has no business.

Some Clan Clerk are afraid of me because I am Level 8. I am sure that even for those talented subordinates, it might impact on their performances. If they see their trusted Executive Head Management, Eva being friendly with the Clan Master, the rest of the staff will be more relaxed.

Eva sees my deplorable behavior as I spin the Relic in one hand and says to me first thing in the morning.

“Were you polishing your Relic again…”

“If you polish it with all your heart, they will respond to you.”

“I have never heard of that…”

I also have never heard of it.

When I show her my shoulder dropping, Eva sighs deeply.

TL notes:

Thanks for reading!

It is so funny when Cry says he have multiple same clothes but weirdly every manga/anime character also only have multiple same clothes, coincidence I think not!

Nothing much to say so see you in part 2…

Tchao à plus!

Shisho: From now on each time they talk about Liz as Tino teacher I will leave Shisho.