The Two Apostles Chat
The campfire snapped and crackled. Cain and I were camping out on one of the Habhain islands under a beautiful sea of stars.
Several skewers of fish were cooking around the fire. They smelled delicious.
“Guess they’re about done,” I said. “You having some?”
There was a long pause before Cain answered.
“Sure.”
I held one out to him and he took it with an exhausted expression. The second “Seafloor Temple Reconnaissance Tour” must have worn him out.
I bit into my skewer. Flavorful juice flowed out of the meat, filling my mouth with flavor.
In this era, the only seasoning we had was salt, but the fresh fish was well and truly appreciated by our tired bodies.
“Yo, Cain—bread.” I tossed some over to him.
“H-Hey! Don’t just throw it out of nowhere!”
I’d brought it with me from the temple. Honestly, I would’ve preferred onigiri or something, but that wasn’t an option in the past. Bread and grilled fish was a somewhat odd combination, but it still hit the spot after a day spent adventuring.
I glanced over and saw that Cain wasn’t eating.
“You don’t like it?” I asked.
“No, it’s good.”
I didn’t sense that he was lying. It seemed more like he was slowly savoring his food.
“You seem down,” I remarked.
“Well...” He shot me a glare. “I think it’s weirder that you don’t seem down. Especially after we had that many monsters around us.”
“Ah, yeah, that kraken swarm was kinda scary.”
“No one said anything about us having to deal with monsters like that in order to get to the temple.” He gave a short huff of laughter. “I never thought I’d be adventuring like this while I was her apostle.”
“I figured that, for an apostle of Noah, trying to get to the temple would be an obvious priority... Oh, I guess you didn’t know where it was.”
“Right. But I didn’t try to find it either. She said I didn’t need to, so I obeyed.”
“Why not? Your goddess is trapped there, so of course you’d try and get to her prison. Though, she did tell me that I shouldn’t bother pushing myself.”
“You...don’t pay much heed to what the goddesses say, do you?” Cain asked incredulously. He was looking at me like I was a complete enigma.
“Well, it’s one of the last dungeons, isn’t it? Of course I’d want to beat it.” If I gave up on something like that, I’d never be able to call myself a gamer.
“When I said I wanted to do this,” Cain continued, “the other demon lords were all against it.”
“Oh, how so?”
“Well, Lady Erinyes—she was the one to invite me to their ranks—asked ‘Are you an idiot?’ as soon as I told her.”
“She’s like that?”
Erinyes sounded easier to get along with than I’d thought. Well, that was probably because Cain was one of them.
While we chatted, we picked all of the skewers clean. The conversation between us went a lot further than it had yesterday. Having a connection with your fellow adventurers is important.
Though, this “fellow adventurer” is a demon lord...
“Hopefully we get to meet Leviathan tomorrow!” I exclaimed.
“You’re really going up against that thing?” Cain asked uneasily.
“We’ll figure something out,” I said optimistically.
Of course, the two of us would soon find out just how ridiculous the Divine Beast Leviathan actually was.
But that was a story for another day.
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