【Adventurer Mitran】The Bustling Town of Nebo

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“Welcome, welcooome! How about some grilled shrimp, the pride of this tooown!?”

“If it's grilled shrimp you're after, ours are the beeest! Our pride and joy, Ahate River Shrimp marinated in our secret sauce—you've gotta try 'em at least once!”

“Wooow, that smells so good!”

Strolling down the town's main street, listening to the lively voices of the vendors calling in customers and smelling the wonderful scent of shrimp wafting from every direction: that's me, and my name is Mitran!

I'm a boy adventurer and an isekai reincarnator who set out on a journey after receiving an oracle from the Adventure God!

“Hey, you there, missy! C'mon over! A cute missy like you gets one grilled shrimp on the house!”

“Eh, really? Thank you!”

......As I just said, I'm a boy adventurer.

I'm a boy, but...... apparently I look really cute, so most of the time I get mistaken for a girl, like just now.

Maybe it's because I haven't had time to cut my hair while traveling, and it's grown out silky to about my shoulders.

I'm wearing a boy's adventurer outfit, though......

I used to desperately insist that I was a boy...... but since more people didn't believe me than did, lately I've decided not to deny it and just accept the misunderstanding.

I feel a bit bad, like I'm tricking people...... but well, it's not like anyone's getting hurt, so it's fine, right!

Ehehe!

“Here ya go! Head and tail're both cooked right through! Eatin' the whole thing's how the connoisseurs do it!”

“Ooooh! Let's dig iiin!”

Following the advice of the scary-faced old guy who handed me the shrimp on a skewer from across the grill, I take a big bite of this town's specialty, the Ahate River Shrimp, starting from the head.

“!”

First, I feel the crisp texture of the shell.

The shell is thin to begin with, so it's easy to eat and very fragrant!

And next, the rich umami of the shrimp miso spreads through my mouth!

While letting that umami linger, I keep munching away with a second and third bite.

Next to enter my mouth is the plump white meat of the shrimp.

Combined with the umami of the miso, the taste is simply exquisite!

Before I knew it, I'd gotten so into it that I'd polished off a whole grilled shrimp in a flash.

“I, it's delicious......!”

I can't help but beam!

“Yeah? Well, ain't that great! Here, there's plenty more where that came from, so keep buyin' and eatin'! Right now I could serve up 13 of 'em to a single customer, no sweat!”

The scary-faced grilled shrimp old guy said that, his cheeks flushing just a little.

“13 shrimp......?”

“A, ah, sorry, just talkin' to myself. A while back, this priest girl came by—smaller than you, but a real big eater. And at first, back then, I couldn't serve her any grilled shrimp at all! I was just rememberin' that!”

“Hmm......?”

Now, this town where I'm currently eating shrimp is called Nebo.

The main street in the center of town is a very bustling place, with grilled shrimp shops lining the road, their grills set up so they jut out into the street.

It's a town along a road called the Saikanan Highway, and I came all this way specifically to eat the shrimp of this town.

After all, my journey doesn't have a clear objective so far......

All the old guy, the Adventure God, ever told me to do was something like ‘Become a fine adventurer’.

So I'm traveling around, doing requests and raising my adventurer rank, but if that's all there is, my journey's kind of bland, right?

So for me, the food you can only taste in each town is a perfectly good reason to travel, too!

“Say, missy. You're dressed like an adventurer, so you travelin' with your family, doin' adventurer work along the way?”

“Hm? Yeah, that's right.”

While I was eating my third shrimp, the grilled shrimp old guy asked me that.

Actually, I'm traveling alone.

But since things flow more smoothly if I say I'm traveling with family, I give a vague answer like I always do.

“Heh. So little, and already such a hard worker! So, you came to this town for the shrimp, I bet? Or, bein' an adventurer...... you here for the ruins?”

“Ruins?”

I couldn't help but tilt my head.

Because I hadn't heard anything about there being ruins nearby!

“Oh, you didn't know? Some impressive ruins were found upstream on the Ahate River not long ago! Some time back, this town was plagued by a monster nobody could identify. Word is, that thing came from those ruins, y'know?”

“Hmm! You're amazing, mister! You know so much!”

“Hahaha! Butterin' me up won't get ya any more freebies!”

“Aww, maaan!”

Hmm, hmm, I see.

This smells like adventure!

I slowly look around.

“I see...... that's why there are quite a few adventurers in this town, huh?”

“You bet! Pretty sure the Adventurers' Guild branch office in this town put up ruin exploration as a request, too. If you're curious, swing by the branch office later with your mom and dad!”

“Got it! Still, good for you, mister! The ruins brought you more customers, so you got lucky, didn't you?”

“Yeah...... well, I guess......”

“?”

And just then.

For the first time, the scary-faced grilled shrimp old guy looked glum.

“What's wrong? Is something troubling you?”

Worried, I peer up at the old guy's face.

The old guy's face turned red when our eyes met, and after clearing his throat with a gohon, he said this.

“Ah, well, it's like this. I'm glad to get more customers, sure. But more people means, inevitably, y'know.”

The old guy scratched his cheek with a troubled expression.

And then, at that very moment!

“I'm tellin' youuu! A weakling like youuu! Explorin' ruins!? Don't make me laugh—that's what I'm sayin', right!?”

“That's right! The treasure in the ruins is ours! Scholar, you just go read a book or somethin' in your little room!!”

That's when I heard such vulgar and violent words coming from behind!

I spun around without thinking, and there stood three men.

A tall but slightly slim, well-dressed young man with silver hair was being threatened by thugs who couldn't have looked rougher!

The thugs were two men: one with a square face and one with a long face.

Both of them wore an eyepatch over their right eye, and their presence was incredibly intimidating!

“......More people means, inevitably, that sort crawls out of the woodwork too. It's a real pain.”

Before I knew it, the scary-faced grilled shrimp old guy had moved in front of me, planting himself in the way as if to hide me from the thugs' eyes.

I really appreciate the thought.

......Not that I need it, though.

Because I'm strong.

Now, thanks to the old guy's kindness I'd taken my eyes off them for a moment, and in the meantime that young man seems to have talked back to the two thugs.

The two of them are completely enraged!

“Why, you! Here we are, givin' you a nice friendly warnin'!”

“Unforgivable! Ander, let's take this punk down!”

“You bet! Let's give 'em a world of hurt, Tappa!”

Look out!

The two thugs swung their fists at the young man!

“H, hey, missy!?”

Without thinking, I shook off the grilled shrimp old guy's hand holding me back and leaped out in front of the two thugs to save the young man!

【Town of Nebo】

First appeared in Arc 12.

The town where the showdown event between the hero and the fake hero occurred.

Its name is also mentioned in the report that the Vice-Commander of the Adventurers' Guild is reading in Arc 13.

【Mitran】

Appears in Arcs 6 and 12.

The protagonist of the Adventure God's Isekai Reincarnation Broadcast.

A boy who is, any way you look at him, a beautiful girl.

【The big-eating priest girl】

That's Chiron, one of the hero's companions.

【Tappa and Ander】

Appear in Arcs 2 and 5.

Members of the Megzam Thieves Band.