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Half a century has passed since the appearance of dungeons and the acquisition of magical power.
The establishment of “Adventurers’ Schools” to train adventurers and those who take up the challenge is a rather natural process.
When you enter a dungeon, you will encounter monsters, and if you defeat them, you will first obtain a magic stone fuel….a substance that is in demand and depending on the individual, a monster drop will occur.
The occupation of adventurers, which stimulates the market by the items brought back, can easily lead to heroic tales, and the numerous feats of the past few years have been almost entirely concentrated in the “magic industry”.
The accumulated know-how has been compiled by the nations that have collected it, and schools have been created to produce better adventurers.
Adventurers’ high schools. And elite adventurers who graduated from the University of Exploration Studies with excellent grades achieved excellent results in dungeons. The “Adventurers’ School” became a site of high expectations and heavy pressure.
Children don’t have enough life experience to understand what the people around them are thinking, regardless of whether they understand the expectations and pressures.
Nowadays, being admitted to a better Adventurers’ School and graduating with excellent grades is aligned as an ‘elite’ and ‘successful person’.
“Hey, look at that guy. He’s Yarimizu.”
“He’s wearing a top and bottom jersey. We’re going to the dungeon now.”
Enter the dungeon, defeat monsters, and get magic stones and items.
What makes this important is that there are many ‘actual battles’.
Many Adventurers’ Schools have classes only in the morning, with afternoons spent diving in dungeons.
On the other hand, since there are no assignments for general subjects such as Japanese or mathematics, students can concentrate on how to dive dungeons efficiently, but conversely, if there are no results obtained in dungeons, they are treated as ‘Dropouts’.
For those who are the same age, who live their high school life chasing after such achievements, it must be irritating to see someone like that walking into a convenience store at 12 o’clock in the afternoon in a daze and taking it easy.
“It really pisses me off. He’s got a license, but on a weekday like this, he’s probably chewing on his parents’ backs.”
“No kidding. No matter how many times the teacher told him, he refused to go to high school. And now he’s such a dropout.”
“Damn, I’m getting so angry. Let’s go.”
“Yeah.”
The group, who were about to go to the dungeon, walked away, looking at the dazed boy.
“Nn…….”
The boy, who had been told a lot of things in an audible tone, didn’t seem to move his expression, and after playing with his black hair for a bit, he put the items in the basket.
He went straight to the cash register.
“How would you like to pay…..”
“Using adventurer card.”
“All right. Then, please enter it here.”
He takes out his adventurer card…..a plastic card with the name “Yarimizu Asuka” and the letter “E” engraved on it, and enters it.
“Um, can I ask you something?”
“Hmm?”
“It’s rare for Asuka san to come here. Isn’t Yae san coming today?”
“She’s out shopping somewhere else, so I just came to buy some stuff myself.”
“I see…….”
The girl working the cash register looked disappointed.
“Ah, I’m sorry. I sighed.”
“No, I don’t mind.”
“Still. And, earlier…..”
“Hmm? Oh, those three guys from earlier? We were classmates in junior high school.”
“Heh……”
All three of them have rich parents. They were famous for their ‘muscle-brain decorations’ in which they fought by wearing accessories that increased their physical abilities. Apparently they haven’t changed since then.”
“This is the first time I’ve heard of ‘muscle-brain decoration’……haa, I’ll be waiting for you again.”
“Yeah, then.”
The boy, Yarimizu Asuka, nodded and walked out of the convenience store with a plastic bag in his hand.
……Then, he entered a house across the street.
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