【Adventurer Mitran】There Was a Misunderstanding

“Fwaaah......”

“Now now, Mitran-kun, yawning is all well and good, but do make sure to look where you're walking. You'll trip, you know?”

Leseida-san and I, having somehow escaped from the collapsing underground ruins after a life-threatening adventure.

And where we're walking right now is the main street of the town of Nebo.

It's late at night.

By day, the lively calls of the grilled shrimp vendors flew from all over and this main street was packed with customers, but this late at night, it gives a different impression.

Apart from the streetlights, there's only the glow of magic lamps leaking from a few houses and taverns, and overhead, the whole sky is full of stars.

I can hardly even hear any drunks laughing; it's nice and quiet.

If you're wondering why we're out walking at such a late hour, it's because our report to the Adventurers' Guild branch office took a long time.

After all, a mysterious set of ruins nearby had suddenly collapsed.

Naturally, the Adventurers' Guild wants information.

And there we were, the ones who knew the circumstances.

Of course they're going to keep us for a long time, right.

Well, for today we somehow got them to understand that we hadn't done anything illegal or wrong, so they let us go back to the inn for now, and that's why we're on our way back.

“It's a shame about Korenuzhinu-san......”

Letting out one big sigh and knitting my brows, I murmured that.

......Not a single adventurer was caught up in the ruins' collapse this time.

No adventurers had gone exploring deep underground in the ruins today.

And yet, it wasn't as if no lives were lost in this incident.

That was Korenuzhinu-san.

The one who had passed away in the upper levels of the ruins...... the person killed by those villains, apparently went by that name.

When his body was found, the Adventurers' Guild branch office realized a crime had been committed and temporarily closed off the ruins.

This was also one of the reasons why no adventurers were caught in the ruins collapse.

By the time we reached that room, Korenuzhinu-san had already passed away.

So it's true that there was nothing we could have done, but......

It's just, such a bitter feeling......

“......Come now, it won't do you any good to keep moping. Lift your head; we've just arrived at the inn.”

When Leseida-san gently pats my shoulder, pon, pon, and I look ahead, what leaps into view is a big sign.

That wooden board, lit up by magic lamps, reads ‘Ahate River Shrimp Inn: Dancing Wildly in the Babbling Brook’.

In other words, just as Leseida-san said, this is the inn where we are staying.

“I know! Mitran-kun, since we're here. Why don't we take a dip in the hot spring together before we sleep?”

Perhaps trying to cheer me up, since I was a little down, Leseida-san made that suggestion as we passed through the inn's front entrance.

Yes, hot springs bubble up here in the town of Nebo!

Compared to the town of Topuringon I visited before, it's on a smaller scale, but the water's really nice, you know.

I love hot springs!

That suggestion makes me really happy.

But......

“But...... I'm a little embarrassed. Because the hot spring at this inn is a mixed bath......”

Yes.

It's a mixed bath.

The bath here.

I'm just, not really fond of those kinds of baths......

For some reason, people stare at me in this weird way.

“Hahaha, it's alright, Mitran-kun. At this hour? There's no way any other guests are there. Besides, we're the same sex. Getting to know each other with nothing to hide isn't such a bad thing, is it?”

“I guess...... that might be true!”

Pushed along by Leseida-san's words, I decided to enjoy the hot spring with him!

After all, having barely escaped from underground with our lives, we are quite dirty and tired.

Refreshing ourselves in the hot spring wouldn't be a bad idea!

Ahh, thinking about it like that, I kind of want to get into the hot water right this second!

Walking quickly down the inn's corridor and tossing my luggage into the room, I headed straight for the bath.

When I arrived, Leseida-san was already waiting in the changing room in front of the bath.

He must be dying to get into the bath too!

“Well, but what a terrible ordeal that was. I'd like to wash off this sweat at once.”

“You're so right!”

Leseida-san let down his hair, then began to undo the buttons of his clothes.

I hurry to strip off my clothes too.

Bath, bath!

“Even I'm pretty tired. If I close my eyes, I feel like I'll fall asleep right now!”

“............”

“I have to make sure I don't fall asleep in the bath and drown. Right, Leseida-san! ......Leseida-san?”

“............”

Just as I tossed the clothes I'd taken off into the basket in front of me, I noticed that Leseida-san had suddenly gone quiet.

“What's wrong?”

So I turned to look at him, too.

And...... I, too, completely froze.

Because.

Because!

There was a mix-up...... a misunderstanding!

And that, we!

At this late stage!

Finally realized!

Leseida-san and I gazed blankly at each other's naked bodies.

And almost simultaneously.

“Leseida-san, you are......”

“Mitran-kun, you are......”

............Screamed!

“YOU WERE, A WOMAN!?”

“YOU WERE, A BOY!?”

Well, some of you may have sort of guessed already.

By the way, from Mitran-kun's perspective, Leseida-san is referred to as ‘he’, because Mitran-kun was under the impression that Leseida-san was a man.

On the other hand, from the perspective of Leseida-san's former teacher Ibrabarleg, who assumed Mitran-kun was a girl and seems to have known Leseida-san was a woman, the three of them, Emi, Mitran and Leseida, were called ‘the girls’.