Succubus' Life in Another World

Chapter 35: Exchange Party

Urania enjoyed the Koo Stew. She gives me exaggerated praises as usual, but as expected, her being happy about it made cooking really worth the effort.

The after-meal dessert, pudding, seemed to have stolen Uranias heart. She says If its for this, I can do anything, so I ended up inadvertently taking her lips and Life Essence.

Mh Mnhh!? Mh, Amnh Mnmh Pwah Haa haa Its troubling, if you do it abruptly. Sorry, I didnt mean to do that.

My first kiss with Urania since two days ago tasted sweet like pudding. Well, I kissed her right after, or rather, as she was eating pudding, so thats just natural. Urania says some words of protest, but she doesnt really look angry, so its not like shes against it, I think.

After that, we pass the day comfortably gazing at the lake, having some tea and dozing off until sunset. Days like these are nice too, huh. I thought to myself while gazing at Uranias sleeping face.

Alright, you all came, huh! In this times mock battle, the hopeful rookie party, Little Fairies is joining us too! Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!! First, lets have the self-introductions. Whos going first?

The next day, as promised, Urania and I went to the guilds training area. Already gathered there waiting for us were more than ten parties, including Grim March. Each party varies from three to five people. There doesnt seem to be parties with only two members like us.

The first ones to introduce themselves were Grim March and another C Rank adventurer party, Invierno Fyne. They have five members, but theyre a unique party with three Mages with them. Their leader Audrey speaks in a quite slow and calm way, but it looks like shes related to the Sage of Pisces.

Though I said that were relatives~ Its not like I can use Magic anyway~ And although I was from the Magecraft Academy~ Its not like I have any talent, so~ Here I am~ Being something like an adventurer, see~

She herself was saying things like that, but it seems like her other party members really like her. Everyone followed up by saying Shes always like that~ or Audreys the only one whod take dropouts us, you know?. It looks like shes good at taking care of people.

By the way, the five members of Invierno Fyne are all female, consisted of the spear user vanguard Kety, the shield-bearing vanguard Jessica, Magecraft and sword user Audrey, Magecraft and bow user Emily, and Magecraft and throwing knife user Bia.

It seems like in the Magecraft Academy, each of them was only assessed by their Magecraft and ended up being labeled as useless, but being able to handle arrows and throwing knives well made them rise up until they became C Rank Adventurers. It seems like the fact that the schools assessment doesnt always coincide with societys assessment is the same even here.

The next party is Eastern Tempest. Theyre a D Rank party like us, having three party members. The wind-related party name and the part where theyre all men end up reminding me of Gale Viper, but unlike them, these guys seem like good people.

The leader Hang is a twin sword user, and seems to come from the same village as the shield-bearer Ning and the bow user Tung. You may have noticed from the flow of the conversation, but parties are fundamentally formed by people from the same hometown, people from the same school and people who happen to meet somewhere, decided to work together and became adventurers. Those kinds of things seem to happen naturally.

There are also a few people like Urania and I who start out alone, but sooner or later they either join someones party or end up dying in the wild. And even when they join an existing party, they chose parties with people from the same village or school, parties they have some sort of connection with. Well, it is better to join a party that you can connect with rather than some unknown party, right?

Furthermore, most parties generally have a tank and an archer. Thats because monsters are generally tough. Beating them by slashing right in front with a sword is good and all, but most adventurers will probably die when attempting to do that. Thats why the role of a tank is really important. Theyll pin the monster down while the damage dealers whittle out its stamina.

Meanwhile, the archer will position himself somewhere he can watch over the whole battle. It seems that there are a lot of cases where the leaders are archers.

Well, were just riding along with our leaders nave dream, so our leaders naturally Hang, you see. Wai-, Stop talking about that! Nave Dream? Yeah. Hey, tell them about it, leader!

Saying that, Ning and Tung poke fun at Hang. It seems like all of the parties, including Grim March really like their leaders. There were also some parties that had a business-like relationship, but they really dont seem to be on bad terms.

After all the parties finished introducing themselves, our self-introductions also ended safely. Being a two-person party, Urania and I dont really have a leader, so we just ended with our individual self-introductions. However, it seems like thats not good.

Having a relationship of equal terms is important. Still, having a leader is different from that. What do you mean?

I also ended up acting as the partys leader, but thats just my role. No matter what we do, there are always times where we adventurers face the danger of losing our lives. In those times, theres the choice of fighting against it or running. Making that final decision is the role of the leader. Its not necessarily true that youll always agree with each other. Both of you should at least decide on who will make the decision in times like those. And then after that, you can talk about whether what youve done was right or wrong. After all, the monsters arent going to wait for the two of you to reach an agreement, right?

Grimhart said so. Though he added that itll also depend on the situation as well. Its true that up until now we always talk it out whenever we decide on something, but we never had anyone to make urgent instructions in emergencies. It seems like this may be something Urania and I need to talk about after the mock battle, huh.