THE ADVENTURER OF EDEN
3.1 "Daily in Adventurers Guild"

Their enemy's name is revealed, NARAKU is his name. A group of******* that had a purpose to destroy Eden; one of two worlds besides the human world, a world where goodness would return, Eden.

"MY VOICE..." Shiki repeated a name she had never heard of, as did Reina, Alicia and Yui who had only heard that name for the first time.

"Yes, the group's name was revealed during an annual meeting with the military and Sanctum yesterday in the capital. They had existed for at least 5 years ago and it seemed that their main target was the Asteria Kingdom." Silva told me that.

"That's why unlike when attacking other countries, in Asteria, they did it slowly and viciously."

"Slow and cruel?" Alicia repeated, curious.

"Rapat yesterday, although this is still a guess, but many of us have concluded that NARAKU was the mastermind behind the incident a year ago in which the Blackmore family was slaughtered by Prince Artha."

"Then happened 9 months ago where "Duke Peter" and his wife..." Silva didn't tell us more about Romanova because there was Alicia; "and Duke Robert Stardust's disappearance 6 months ago."

"Huh?? So they're the mastermind?!" Shiki.

"It's still conjecture, even though it's most likely to be a reality" Silva replied.

"Kira and Mira are probably members of NARAKU, which is why they tried to kill you. Prince Artha Blackmore is also likely a member of NARAKU."

"Now they are targeting the Asteria Kingdom. Not surprising, because this country is the center of the world itself."

Yui blinked hearing that. "World center?"

"Yup, that's the big nickname of this country. The reason for that was because the thickness of the magical energy in Asteria was very high and this land was the wall that separated Eden and the Abyss." Alicia told Yui that; "I see now, if they want to destroy Eden, then obviously they have a connection with the Abyss."

"MY SON will destroy the Asteria Kingdom, not even destroy the world and make the Abyss invade Eden."

"Yes, that's the clearest conclusion, good work, Princess Alicia." Silva.

"God!" Shiki suddenly looks excited, then holds both hands of Reina; "REINA!"

"UH! Yes, Shiki-san?!" Reina was shocked, blushing.

Yui shouted "Aaahh! Don't hold hands like that! Stupid aniki!" And Alicia's face was also very surprised to see Shiki holding Reina's two hands.

"Thank you..." Shiki said that; "thanks to you, I'm not retiring for a while."

"Huh?" Those who heard it were shocked.

Shiki also took off both of Reina's hands and her face was excited, fiery because of something Silva could understand.

"MY SON's after Asteria, isn't he? Well then, sooner or later they'll be after us, right?!" Shiki said that, she remembered how powerful Kira was able to regenerate instantly and Mira was able to summon Monsters.

If both of them were weird and strong like that, what about the other members, right?

"I can't wait to confront them! This will be my serious fight since two years ago!" Shiki said that, full of vigor and his fighting instinct was very burning hearing how dangerous NARAKU was.

Yui praised her brother as cool, and Alicia was just cynical because Shiki was just crazy to fight. Reina chuckled because Shiki was like that. Silva can only smile and be relieved, just like before, he is happy that Shiki looks like his mother.

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The next step in this last quest is GATE search. Shiki cs decided their next destination was the Carnea Forest in the Central Area near the Capital where their second GATE was located.

But before there, Shiki told the three heroes. "The city will host a festival. So let's delay going to the capital for a day or two."

"Huh?" The three blinked hearing that.

Shiki explained, the festival that will be held in the city of Adventurers is called "Adventure Festival" which is held every three months. Since this is the end of the year, the festival will be held.

It was actually a simple festival, the citizens would hand out food to the Adventurers Guild in gratitude. Then enjoyed together in the Guild office.

While the residents will be invited to race together by the Adventurers, such as eating competitions, music games and sports, then many other festive races.

Every festival, Shiki would settle in the Guild and help anyone who needed help. Tonight the preparations for the festival will be held and all the Adventurers who number up to 200 people will be very busy.

"I don't care about the festival. Indeed we need to relax after a few days of this tense." Alicia agrees. "You should be my guide as a special guest at the festival, you know."

"I'm excited to date you at the festival, aniki!" Yui said that with pleasure.

"Festival.I was nervous with the crowd, but as long as Shiki-san was near me, I didn't think it was a problem." Reina said with a smile.

Shiki sighed hearing the words of his three heroines who wanted Shiki to accompany them at the festival.

"I can't duplicate myself, and plus.I'll be busy too, so there's no time to accompany you." Shiki told those three heroes.

Alicia's reaction was a bit upset, Yui sounded disappointed and Reina didn't bother about it. Shiki asks the three to look for their respective busyness during the festival later so as not to disturb the busy Shiki as well to take care of the festival.

They understand, although a bit upset, they can only obey Shiki because that's their only choice at the festival.

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The festival preparations in Guildtown were ripe and the helping Shiki was already quite tired and rested.

Dion and Vira help in the south of the city, Warren and Theo help in the east and Shiki help in the west.

'I think this festival will be my last.' Shiki muttered.

He wondered how long this last quest had been. Since it was not an official quest from a Guild, there was no expiration deadline in this quest. If Reina was willing to end this quest, then it would be easy to do and without giving Shiki any compensation.

Shiki was also so, she could have just left Reina if she wanted to, especially after the woman had trapped her on Star Island. But that's not an option, Shiki tried to be professional because this is her job as an Adventurer.

But the reward that Reina initially said, as a lure to trap Shiki, is to marry him if this quest succeeds is a reward that Shiki might get.

Married to a woman like Reina, who is beautiful, sexy, soft and so feminine is a dream. But somehow Shiki was still somewhat traumatized by Reina's innocence which led to her being framed by him on Star Island at that time.

"I think it's too fast to think about that" said Shiki, he stood up and had a long time to find out what reward he got in this quest.

"ah! Aniki! That's where you look!" Yui came to her brother.

The brunette girl was carrying two cotton candies and a cold coffee drink. Shiki smiles see Yui enjoying the night before the festival.

"Tomorrow's festival will be great, huh? I talk a lot with the citizens, they look forward to this well." Yui said there.

"true." Shiki nodded, she ate the cotton candy that her sister gave her. "I'm glad you're enjoying your time here."

"Sure...! Indeed the festival in this city is different from that on the island, there is no eastern dance of the Haruna clan..." Yui said the difference; "I can't dance it, if I can I'll do it for this festival!"

"Eastern dance..." Shiki tried to remember what the dance was like.

She remembered it was a dance where the single women of the Haruna clan danced in long kimonos tied with scarves. This dance is performed by single women to attract the attention of Haruna clan fighters.

"Ah, right, the single woman's dance."

"No!" yui komikal.

"Haha, I remember that dance. But it was a relief to hear the Haruna clan do well." Shiki smiled, she indeed missed everyone in the clan.

"Dad said it before, didn't he? Paradise Island will be rebuilt by the Haruna clan. This island will be our home forever! Now, Paradise will return to being heaven!" Yui said happily; "it's not impossible when we get married later, Paradise has returned to being heaven...!"

Shiki smiles hearing that. (when we get married later, huh.) Yui always said that to lure Shiki to marry her. But for now, she still considers Yui as her younger sister.

And it might take a lot of time for Shiki to consider Yui as the opposite sex that made her fall in love, but her younger sister is serious about making her love and getting married as the future leader of the Haruna clan.

"Thank you, Yui. This is all thanks to you and the Haruna clan." Shiki rubbed Yui's head; "without you, I can't be here."

"Yes, aniki." Yui blushed a smile. He is happy and wants to enjoy this moment together for longer tonight with his brother.

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Shiki escorts Yui back to the apartment, and the girl says she will go to bed first. Shiki will return to Warren's apartment then, because as long as his three heroines live in his apartment, he will settle in Warren's place.

Shiki meets Warren on the street, the muscular middle-aged man says something to Shiki; "Hey, Shiki! The chairman is looking for you in the Guild, there's something he wants to tell you."

"Uhuh, why not just now?" ask Shiki wonder.

"Wahaha, I don't know!" warren laughed back; "The chairman said there was something important he wanted to talk about."

Shiki blinked hearing that, well, he also wanted to have something on the Guild chairman and that had to do with the remaining GATE location.

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As Shiki arrived at the quite crowded Guild office, she passed by Alicia who was indeed helping around the Guild office.

"Gov..." Alicia called. Shiki greeted back, saying his goal was to meet Chairman Silva.

"Ah, so. Does the chairman want to talk about NARAKU again?"

"Maybe." Shiki replied, he blinked at something.

Alicia looks easy to blend in with the Adventurers. When Alicia first appeared, the Adventurers told Shiki her surprise about Alicia helping, she was accompanied by Vira helping the Adventurers. Unlike Reina, Alicia is a famous princess and has a striking nickname.

Shiki initially thought because of Alicia's arrogance, this girl would think twice about mingling with ordinary people. But it's not, Shiki is sure because of the upbringing of her parents, Alicia can blend well with the citizens even though she is a royal noble.

"You want to go see the chairman?" ask Shiki.

"Of course, I need to know the information if he wants to talk about NARAKU" Alicia replied. Shiki understood, they went in together and met the chairman directly in his office;

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Chairman Silva it's no problem Alicia is coming. "You came too, Princess. Sorry to bother you about tonight, Shiki's a forced person sometimes."

"Hey." Shiki wonder.

Alicia shakes. "No problem, in the city of Romanova, I often mingle with people. Romanova was also not as educated as Blackmore was, so we were a good "connectors" Alicia replied with a smile.

Silva smiled, knowing the quality of Romanova as a noble indeed deserves thumbs up.

"Now...what do you want to talk about for calling me?" ask Shiki. "On NARAKU? Or about tomorrow's festival?"

"Well, I originally wanted you to enjoy the festival and not charge you with this, but the sooner you figure it out, the better." Silva said that.

"What do you mean?" Shiki frowned.

"Listen Shiki, this might be surprising, but there's a high probability that there's a traitor in the Adventurers' Guild." Silva stated that with a serious face.

"Huh?"

...Chapter 3.1 "Daily in the Adventurer Guild" - finished...