THE ADVENTURER OF EDEN
2.5 "Chairman of the Adventurers Guild, Silva"

The battle at Mount Romus ended in a decisive victory of the royal forces allied with Shiki and his three heroines. Not a difficult opponent, they were not injured quite badly and without any significant damage.

Rocky is still unconscious after his right hand is slashed by Shiki and the Duma ends it. While the dangerous axe he had also disappeared after he lost.

The bandits surrendered immediately and the battle of Mount Romus ended in just 23 minutes.

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Now Shiki, Reina, Alicia, Yui and Duma are heading to Mount Romus where their first GATE is located.

The Duma said the reason he came was because he was the captain of the mission to defend this Gari town and he needed to know what kind of ancient thing Shiki cs was looking for.

"We've been walking 30 minutes from the city, and are we getting any closer to GATE's ancient objects?" yui asked curiously, she got tired of going on.

"Reina sensed GATE's magical energy, that's why she's guiding us now." Shiki said there.

"True, to break the boredom, I have a question..." The Duma wanted to ask them something;

"I've heard that three royal noble families have their own roles. Blackmore was the "leader", Romanova was the "connector" and Stardust was the "guardian"... Right?"

"Yes, that's the role of the three royal families. I'll explain as briefly as possible, but easily understood." Alicia answered the Duma's question.

"His simplist, Blackmore was the leader of the Kingdom of Asteria. Romanova is the link between the nobility and the people. Stardust is the guardian of mysteries in the Kingdom of Asteria."

"Mystery?" Shiki repeated that.

"Yes, things that smell myth, magic or something like that seem to be handled by the Stardust family." replied Alicia, she glanced at Reina to hear this explanation from her as well.

Reina nodded. "GATE maintenance includes keeping the mystery, Shiki-san. The creation of regalia for the future king, and the knowledge of the Monsters was also taught to me from childhood."

"So apparently, that explains why you know about Monsters." Shiki understands. Reina knew about the Golem and she also heard from Yui, Reina also knew about the Monster wolf named Warg.

"The Stardust family is affiliated with the Sanctum, which is why they can easily carry out their duties as the guardian of mysteries in the Asteria Kingdom." Alicia added.

Shiki just found out about this. The Stardust family was affiliated with the Sanctum, a religious organization that existed in the Kingdom of Asteria. Their followers were already quite a lot in this country, plus their Priests were also magic medicine experts.

Shiki had a lot of questions, but she thought she would ask Reina later.

"Ah, that's up ahead!" Yui realized that they had reached the place where GATE was.

"So that thing is GATE..." The Duma looked on with quite awe.

GATE, a large round object that is hollow in the middle like a doughnut. It was made of a powerful stone that would somehow be hard to break upon sight. All around GATE amazed them, the trees did not grow near there and there were only weeds and some flowers growing.

The sunlight also directly shone on GATE, as if to say that the ancient thing made of this stone was a sacred object.

"First GATE..." Reina walked there; "I wonder if I can find a father with this thing?"

Reina started it, when she touched the GATE with her left hand, her crystal necklace glowed bright golden and made Reina flinch.

"Look!" They close their eyes when a bright enough light is released.

Reina came back in just a few seconds, she closed both her eyes and smiled, apologizing.

"Sorry, I didn't find any trace of you here, hehe."

Reina didn't find what she was looking for, they were annoyed. Even so, this is only the first GATE and Shiki feels this GATE search will not be in vain.

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Everything burned that day.

Wh why? Why is this happening to me?

My sister and I were so scared. Fathering... Mothers... They all just die.

Don't worry, ***. We're gonna be fine.

We just need to pray, hope and keep our spirits up. Everything will go back to normal or it could just get better!

Very optimistic...or very naive? You always have, ***.

Forever we are together, if you die, I must die too. We'll be together forever. Because we are twins.

***

The journey back to Guildtown was already made after the battle against the bandits on Mount Romus. Bandits in their 50s will be sent to Asteria prison, and their boss, Rocky, will be interrogated first in the Capital when he wakes up, then in prison.

Duma hopes to get a lot of information from Rocky, especially about the weapons and monster wolves that he has.

On the way to the capital...

"Keh.kehkehkeh!"

"uh? Who're you?!" The soldiers were shocked by the appearance of a green-skinned old geezer, he was short and wore the clothes of a mage and could fly over them.

The duma went straight out and prepared with his sword. "Who are you?!"

"I'm Dr. Goblins. I'm here for.well, I'm sure you know why." Dr. The goblin said that, then he flicked his finger.

DHUARS! A massive explosion occurs on the train behind the Duma troupe where the unconscious Rocky is.

Panic instantly ensued, the Duma's face was shocked as well, as the massive explosion took out at least two carriages of their horse-drawn carriages and killed dozens of bandits and several Asterian warriors.

"I'll exterminate you too.ah, but there's no need! The kehkehkeh!" Dr. The goblin is ready to go.

"Damn it!! Wait!!!" Shouted the Duma to Dr. The goblins that flew away from there.

Duma's upset, he won't be able to get any information like this...!

***

"Shiki-kun?"

Shiki heard a soft voice calling out to her, and was startled when Anna was behind her. "Anna?!"

...

"Who are the three of them??" With a surprised face, Anna asked about the three heroines of Shiki.

"Ah, they..." Shiki was confused as to what to answer. It's the first time I've seen Anna since Shiki talked about her retirement to Anna a few days ago. But if remembered again, he did not meet Anna also while in the Guild.

"...they just happened to come down together!"

The three of them were shocked to hear that. "What?!"

Alicia scolded the young man with black hair. "What happened to come down together?! Don't forget, the one who rented the horse carriage was me!"

"And you didn't dare introduce us, because this woman you know well, right?!" Yui also shouted at Shiki.

"You're Anna-san, receptionist Shiki-san, right?" Reina knows about Anna; "The woman Shiki-san likes, despite having a husband and children."

""WHAT?!!"" Yui and Alicia shouted in shock.

"Why do you even..no, how do you know that, Reina?!!" Shiki was shocked that Reina knew too, and well.this woman must have known as she chatted with the gossipy Vira.

Shiki is scolded, Yui hits Shiki's comic with the handle of a sword and Alicia scolds Shiki by saying "troublemaker of people's wives", "deviled, perverted, indecent."

"Fufu..." Anna chuckled, and the scolded Shiki blinked hearing that.

"Shiki-kun is a grown up? I'm glad you've always been shaded by the luck of the Great Mother" Anna smiled.

Shiki blushed hearing that, Anna's gentle greeting always made her heart beat tight.

(What is that?! She's like Shiki's mom!) thought Alicia and Yui astonished.

"I'll talk to you guys later. After traveling far enough, I want to go straight to the inn and give Gina some souvenirs." Anna told me that.

Shiki blinked, and she realized Anna had just returned to Guildtown. This explains why Anna has not been seen since then and Shiki continues to travel to find GATE with Reina.

Shiki was sure Anna had guessed that her three heroines were not just any women. Anna has a high sensitivity.

Anna goes back to the inn where she and Gina live.

"Hey, depraved."

"Don't call me that!" Shiki the comic protest.

"Let's go to the Guild Leader's place, I think he should be back, right?" ask Alicia.

"I guess." Shiki was also curious if the Guild Leader had already returned from the capital.

Yesterday, Dion cs said Chairman Silva told them to come back first because there was still something he needed to do in the capital. The Guild Leader should have returned, and the distance from the capital to Guildtown was also only 2 days by horse carriage plus several breaks.

They went straight to a fairly crowded Guild. It seemed that the Adventurers were spreading, so there was no big crowd.

"Ah, it's because the chairman told them to work instead of hanging out here." Curly-haired mature woman, one of the 5 receptionists, Paula.

"That the chairman is back?" shiki asked, and the answer was clearly that he was back.

"Yup, he's in his office right now. Although it's busy enough, I think you can bother him." Paula answered, smile.

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"It's been two weeks since we didn't meet, and gathering these high-end Harems is what you did?!" Shouted Silva annoyedly as he saw Shiki arrive with the three beautiful women; ".you're the worst bastard, you fucking boy!"

"Shut up! Do you think I intend that as obscene?!" Shiki's upset.

Silva is working on enough reports for him to sign. And Shiki arrives with his three heroines to discuss a few things.

"Listen, I'm gonna tell you what's been going on with me for the past few days." Shiki said that to the chairman; "It's gone up and down uncontrollably, and the situation is now moving forward."

Shiki told the story all, from the beginning she met Reina and went to Star Island. Then Kira and Mira betrayal Alicia. Meet Yui and search GATE, then fight on Mount Romus against the bandits along with the royal army.

"It's good, you've been through a lot for a few days."

"Your comments are very ordinary, and I think it will surprise you." Shiki was confident; "..after this quest is over, I will retire as an adventurer! I was originally going to retire sooner, but the quest to find Duke Robert Stardust was my last quest."

Silva seemed to be very surprised, and if he remembered what Shiki had done for the past two years, ever since he was dubbed the Strongest Adventurer in the Guild, he had been, Silva feels the boredom that Shiki can because not fighting with a strong opponent makes sense.

"so." Silva smiled; (I'm glad he looks like you, Layla.)

"Your reaction is very ordinary, uncle. You looked really surprised" Yui commented. He knew all the Adventurers would be surprised to hear Shiki want to retire, but Silva's reaction was quite surprising because flat as if he had guessed it.

"Haha." Silva smiled; "..you're Tiger's son, aren't you? Your facial expression is like your father."

"Really! I'm nipping greetings to you!"

"Let's tell me another time, you're coming with this too, Shiki. There are some personal things I need to tell you." Silva said to the young man.

Shiki nodded, she knew what Silva wanted to tell her. It must be about his relationship with his foster father and his birth mother. Shiki had guessed that before she left Paradise to become an Adventurer, her parents must have been former Guild adventurers.

"Now, we're discussing the main topic. On Star Island, were you betrayed by your two aides, Princess Alicia? I've never heard of Kira and Mira, but most likely they are from a group *******." Silva told me that.

"Group *******?!" Alicia and Reina were shocked.

"Yes, the group was named "MY SON", a group of******* that had the purpose of destroying Eden!" Silva told me who the main masterminds and antagonists in the series are, they're called "NARAKU"

...Chapter 2.5 "Chairman of the Adventurer Guild, Silva" - finished...