A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation

Lizel doesn’t wake up very well.

However, as long as he gets enough sleep, he can wake up whether it’s early morning or at dawn.

When the sky, still holding the colors of night, just began to brighten, Lizel woke and slowly raised his body.

His body, which had slept like a log due to mana depletion, felt somewhat heavy, but his head was clear.

Gill was sleeping in the bed next to his.

This was the first time that when Lizel woke up, Gill wasn’t already up and ready.

Maybe after Lizel fell asleep last night, Gill went out somewhere and ended up going to bed late, Lizel thought, as he quietly got out of bed.

His upper body, as usual, was completely bare, and his shoulders stuck out from under the blanket, looking cold. Lizel gently pulled the blanket back up over him.

As he had expected, that movement woke Gill up.

“...Pretty early for you.”

“Sorry, did I wake you?”

“I mostly wake up around this time anyway.”

“Please, go back to sleep. You made quite a show of it yesterday.”

“Nah—”

Gill shook his head at Lizel’s suggestion that he go back to sleep and pushed his upper body up.

Seeing the well-trained torso laid bare, Lizel started changing clothes with a wry smile, thinking that his effort with the blanket had gone to waste.

Even if you called it “quite a show,” Gill had come out of the fight with the subterranean dragon without a scratch, so Lizel didn’t force him to rest.

While they each got ready, they started talking about how they’d be heading back today.

“It’s too early to go over to Judge-kun’s house, isn’t it?”

“He said we’d leave around noon. No matter how you look at it, the old man must’ve said something like, ‘At least have lunch together.’”

“It’s nice they get along so well.”

Lizel had never met Judge’s grandfather himself, but from Gill’s stories, he seemed to be quite the doting grandparent.

Thinking that he probably wanted to spend as much time as he could with his grandchild on their last day together was rather heartwarming.

Judge had asked them to come pick him up before lunch, but Lizel felt it might be better to go after they’d eaten. He slipped on a loose outer coat.

He wondered if, as an adventurer, he shouldn’t wear clothes that fit his body more, something easier to move in like Gill’s. But he’d worn similar clothes in his original world as well, so it wasn’t particularly inconvenient.

“We’ve got time. Why don’t we go to the guild?”

Updating the labyrinth map at the guild had its benefits.

It counted toward the accumulation needed to rise to the next rank, and they would also receive a reward.

The reward was proportional to the amount and usefulness of the information. This time, Lizel had discovered a hidden room, and on top of that, there was the existence of a subterranean dragon that could be called an extra boss. It certainly wouldn’t be a small sum.

It wasn’t an obligation, but most people who discovered new information brought it to the guild.

This would be Lizel’s second time at the guild in Malcaid.

In the Capital City (Parteda), he’d already grown used to the sight, and no one made a fuss even if he was in the guild. Here, however, he still drew curious looks.

All the more so with Gill at his side. It hadn’t been long since they’d been dragged into trouble and caused a huge commotion here.

Even though the sun had only just peeked over the horizon, the guild was already crowded with many adventurers stopping by to pick up requests.

“For updating, do we go to one of the support counters?”

“Who knows.”

Gill had never updated a map himself.

He never relied on maps anyway, so he didn’t know when he’d discovered a new path, and even if he had, he wouldn’t have bothered to go report it.

With a wry smile, Lizel headed over to the support counter, where someone was currently buying a map.

The support counters handled everything from selling maps and lending out monster and plant encyclopedias, to introducing inns for adventurers—just as their name implied, they covered all support services for adventurers.