The Second Son of The Marquis Runs Away from Home ~ Lacking Talent, He Abandons Everything and Becomes an Adventurer ~ - 207

Chapter 207: Path

“The sun is dazzling…”

I managed to sleep a little after holding the four of them, but I shield the light streaming in from the window with my arm. Since I’m not used to sleeping for long periods, I get up from bed so as not to wake Aria and the others and take a shower.

After Aria and the others wake up and get ready after taking a shower, we decide to have breakfast together.

“So, when are we leaving?”

“Well… we have time until we receive the tag, so I thought we’d replenish our supplies during that time, then leave as soon as we get it. What do you think?”

Aria and Serena nod at my suggestion, while Shurin, still half-asleep, paddles the boat and munches on bread.

“Well, it seems better to eat properly first.”

“You worked hard yesterday…”

While smiling at Shurin’s state, the two of them finish breakfast while taking care of him.

—

After finishing our departure preparations and heading to the Adventurer’s Guild, the guild master gives me a letter to the Empire and… the platinum adventurer tag.

“It’s been a long time since I became guild master, but… I’m excited like a kid to be witnessing the historic moment of the birth of the second platinum-ranked adventurer.”

“I never thought I’d become platinum-ranked.”

The tag I received shines white, and my name is firmly engraved on the meticulously carved tag.

“Berg-kun.”

As I try to leave, the guild master calls out to me, then looks straight at me and continues.

“For adventurers, their origins and lineage don’t matter. What matters is their own abilities and personality. So as long as you’re an adventurer, we’ll continue to treat you as one adventurer.”

“Guild master…”

Saying so, the guild master smiles softly.

“Come back again, I look forward to your adventures.”

“…I’ll do my best to meet your expectations.”

I bow my head and leave the Adventurer’s Guild…

—

Leaving Walkria, I walk while listening to the sound of Garma’s hooves, taking the tag hanging around my neck and looking at it.

“What’s wrong?”

“Oh, it’s nothing…”

Aria moves from the carriage to next to the driver’s seat and asks, and I answer while creating some space by moving slightly to the side.

“…I wonder what Lowd thought when he received this tag.”

When we first met in Heinlberie, Lowd was wearing his tag around his neck.

Lowd, who was despairing at the arbitrary voices around him and the endless stagnation, hadn’t discarded the platinum adventurer tag, which could be said to be a symbol of that…

“…Come to think of it, why was that? Do you understand, Berg?”

“…Even now, I’m not sure.”

Touching the Hyend on my waist, I think, and then speak, imagining if I were in his position.

“Perhaps he had expectations only for adventurers.”

“Expectations?”

“Adventurers risk their lives to obtain what they desire. Lowd was an adventurer himself, so… he understood what adventurers were like.”

“…”

“So maybe, unconsciously, he thought that someone who wanted to become stronger like him… someone who would move forward beyond what he couldn’t…”

“Was that Berg?”

“I wonder… I don’t know now.”

Even so, I think the reason Hyend chose me was because Lowd… entrusted me to see what he couldn’t… the limits of the path he couldn’t see.

(Lowd…)

I bid farewell again while holding the reins. To the adventurer I admired…

(My path continues, to the limits that you couldn’t see…)

My journey is not over yet.