Rebellious Maidens - Episode 10: Rest

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Maria stood at the room where they fought the mummies from earlier, and waited for Rance to return, when suddenly smoke appeared before her.

"Rance, did you-"

Maria stopped herself as a blue haired person appeared when the smoke vanished, going silent as she recognized the man before her.

The man was Bird Lithfie, and he seemed very confused, until he saw Maria.

"You-" Before he could utter another word and charge at her, he tripped down to the hard ground by a coincidentally placed rock, and was knocked unconscious.

After another while, four figures appeared from the hole, standing up on a magic circle that had brought them to this floor.

She recognized all of the figures as being Rance, his slave, Elenoir, and Kyoko Yoshikawa.

Elenoir was timid, and looked very meek when she saw Maria, as if she expected to be scolded by her.

Sill was carrying a backpack, as usual, even when she's

Kyoko had been covered by Rance's cloak as she was being carried by his arms. She's also sound asleep.

And then, there's Rance who looked very relieved.

"All's left is Shizuka Masou, right?" Rance asked, as when Maria nodded, he looked to be thinking. "We'll rest at Custom when we get back, all the recent work was tiring my damn ass."

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The moment they returned up to the Underground Town of Custom, they began to notice something different from it.

There were several holes on the ceiling of the cavern that let the evening moonlight pass through. With that in mind, it should be noted that the people who were outside seemed to be celebrating.

Maria took Bird somewhere, as Elenoir also followed her. By this action alone, the group effectively split up.

Rance immediately walked towards the info shop, and returned the girl on his arms to her home, just before he took back his coat and went to another location: The Mayor's House.

When he arrived, Gazel was bedridden as usual, and Chisa is not seen anywhere.

"Hello again, Old Man." He spoke, as Gazel's expression brightened up with a smile. "Just in a few hours, I've managed to save three of the four witches at once. Maybe due to that, the walls of the cavern is slowly breaking apart."

"I figured that minutes earlier, Sir Rance." Gazel spoke, sighing in relief. "The people of this town are happy to see the sun once again thanks to your efforts. At this time, word about the truth about Ragisis is quickly spreading. I also heard word about the three witches assisting in rebuilding this town, they will all begin doing so tomorrow as they also needed some rest."

Rance took a step back, before taking one last glance towards Gazel.

"Where's Chisa, anyways?"

"She's buying ingredients from the store. Is something wrong, Sir Rance?"

"Hm? It's nothing. Oh, and I'm taking my leave now, we're going to camp around this town."

And then, Rance and Sill left the Mayor's House. The latter sighed, as the former folded his arms below his chest.

".... I want to return home soon and relax there...."

"I feel the same, I don't really want to keep my house waiting unclean back at home you know? We're going to do some harsh housework when we do get back." Rance spoke, as Sill nodded in response. "For now, you know what to do when we are going around dungeons."

Sill began to sit down and take out the items needed to set up a tent from the backpack.

While she began to set up the tent, a girl tapped on Rance's shoulder.

"Umm... May I have your attention for a short moment?" The girl asked, as Rance turned around and looked at the girl. With a mere glance, he could tell that the girl was a photographer based on her outfit and equipment.

"I am Pepe, a photographer around the Free Cities Alliance News Department. You're the famous adventurer Rance Roswell, aren't you?" She asked, as said person nodded. "I see! I have heard several stories about you, you know? I don't want to waste your time, so please let me take some pictures of you!" The photographer bowed her head in front of him, as he immediately gained a small smile.

"Yeah, yeah. I don't mind." Rance replied, as the girl began to take pictures of him, saying "cheese" everytime she did.

After a short while, and several different poses, Pepe bowed her head in thanks, before lending her camera.

"Please give me an autograph, too!"

"I cannot just refuse that from a fan, you know?"

When Rance did, Pepe suddenly remembered something.

"Hey, Sir Rance. Did you know that the Princess of Leazas is in this town? I remembered she arrived here half an hour ago and she's waiting for somebody in this town's inn. Though I think that's definitely you, considering what happened months ago...."

'.... So, some people know too, huh....' Rance thought, recoiling back once he did remember the time when Lia suddenly arrived to the town around the Free City of Ice to declare her love to him.

As much as he wanted to sigh out, it must come to this. Otherwise, something horrible might happen.

When Pepe was leaving to take some pictures about the town, Rance looked behind him to see that Sill had finished her task of setting up camp.

"Sill, prepare our dinner. I have something to do in the inn. I'll be back shortly."

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