Strange Grief Wants to Retire ~ The Weakest Hunter Dreams of a Hero ~

n an average Relic.
It is not a quantity an average Hunter can charged.
And this is one of the reasons why Barrier Finger are rarely used.

But I can’t go on without charging it.
Barrier Finger are my lifeline.
If I don’t have it, I would be dead at least ten times in the last few weeks.

Anyway, for some reason, Sytry-chan, who just returned and should have been exhausted, is giving me a shoulder massage.

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There is no other person in the clan master room except me and Sytry.
Eva has been away, for some time, organizing the remuneration of the investigation request.
What is there is only an empty chair, me sitting deeply on mine and Sytry who changed into plain clothes.

Immediately after returning from a High-Level Shrine, she resolved my problem and I am now receiving a shoulder massage.
Aren’t I becoming a no-good human?

And I even owe her a debt… I am completely trapped.

“Hmmm… How is it? Does… it feels good?”

Sytry’s delicate finger crawl from my neck to my shoulder and tenderly massage my slightly stiff shoulder.
Do you know about acupuncture point? A feeling of numbness runs up to my spine every time she applies pressure on me, this numbness feels so good.

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Speaking of which, she has a deep knowledge on the human anatomy.
What you called Alchemist is a great scientist, a great Mage and a great doctor.

All member of 『The Lamenting Ghost』 are in good terms, but Sytry is especially in good terms with me.
This is because in the time when we were training to become a Treasure Hunter, Sytry was growing slower than the other member and that bother her.

Finally, the reason was because the job of an “Alchemist (Renkinjutsu-shi)” requires an enormous amount of knowledge and the need of a lot of equipment, it was just the story of a 『Weak becomes Strong』2 overtime.
Sytry seems to remember the fact that when she was feeling down, irritated, talentless, and inferior, I went to cheered her up when I had nothing to do.
Sytry often take care of me, like now.

It has been a long time that she had repaid me plentiful and with interest.
In the first place, it is doubtful if she owes me anything because I helped her, but I can’t refuse when she sadly said, “If you don’t like it, I will stop…”.

It is true that if someone rub your shoulder your body becomes lighter…

Thank you for reading! This first part is all about Cry and his relics.
Some background story to say why no one is like him and his 16 Safe Ring.
And the second part is Sytry massage be patient because there is a lot of skinship if you know what I mean.
 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Tchao à plus!

1.
Magi (Madoushi: Mage): When in the raw there is Kanji and Katakana, I will leave the Kanji untranslated.
And put in parenthesis the translation if it is differen from the Kanji.
2.
Weak becomes Strong: I put that because it is a trope in the recent light novel, but the literal translation is a 『Big Instrument with Late Growth Type (大器晩成型)』.
It means it takes a lot of time for her talent to blossom.
Like wine which get better the older it is.