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Picking up the supporter bag, I followed Kaguya, who started walking towards where the girls of the Astraea Familia were standing.
"Hey Alise, I'm back and I found the supporter Rose was talking about."
Kaguya called out to Alise, who was talking with Lyu and the others.
Alise turning around first looked at Kaguya and then at me, then looked at me and exclaimed, "Ah, the yellow haired guy, ahem Light-san from that time."
"Hello Alise-san, nice to meet you."
I nodded at Alise and said hello to her, who nodded back at me.
"Rose already asked us to take of a supporter, but we didn't know it was you."
"As Kaguya said, you can travel with us, we'll try to help you as much as possible."
" Thank you." I once again thanked her.
"Seeing that we'll be travelling together let me introduce my familia members to you.".
"As you already know I am the captain of the Astraea Familia, Alise Lovell."
"This is Kaguya, our vice-captain."
She introduced herself and then pointed to Kaguya standing next to me
"This is Leon" The golden-haired elf wearing mask, gave a small nod.
"This is Lyra" She continued, pointing to the pallum next to Lyu.
" This is Neze" Pointing to the female werewolf with light colored hair.
"And they are Iska and Maryuu" Pointing towards the Amazoness and another blue haired girl carrying a big hammer.
"They are all the members from the Astraea Familia who are joining for this expedition."
"There is one more person who will be joining with us, ah there she is."
"Oi, Airmid here." Alise turned and started calling to the doll like girl I had seen earlier.
The silver haired girl holding a staff longer than her was looking around.
Hearing Alise's shout, the little girl turned towards us and started walking toward us in a fast pace with small steps.
"She is Airmid from the Dian Cecht Familia, one of the best healers in Orario."
Kaguya standing next to me, gave an introduction of the silver haired girl.
Even though I had already heard about Airmid from listening to the adventurers before, I still nodded my head at her.
"Airmid, what happened, why are you alone, where are the others two who were coming with you?"
"Alise-san, we got an emergency request, so they had to stay back."
"And as this was a joint expedition, Dian Cecht-sama, said that at least one person had to join and sent me here."
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A grey-haired god stopped what he was doing and coughed, "That bastard Miach must be thinking about me."
Grumbling, he went back to went back to the task at hand, counting the money he had received for joining the expedition.
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"Hello, Airmid-san."
After greeting her, courtesy to Alise's introduction, we turned and looked at the red-haired girl, who was now standing in front of us.
"Alright everyone, let's get going, the others have already gone into the dungeon."
Sure enough, looking around only the Loki Familia members and a few lone people were left in the plaza.
While we were speaking, it seems the others had already gone into the dungeon.
Drawing her weapon, Alise flashed a smile and yelled.
"Let's go."
Making the people still in the plaza look at us.
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"Wow, this is nothing completely different from our trip a month ago, at that time monsters were rushing at us like anything."
The pink haired pallum, Lyra spoke out loud.
A few of the other girls agreed while Alise just gave a nod.
We had taken a brief stop, with Neze and Iska looking at the map.
Asking the others I found out that, whenever they the Astraea Familia went on a dungeon expedition, they would create a new map of the dungeon each time.
Neze and Iska were mapping the same.
The rest of them were chatting and keeping a lookout, while waiting for those two to finish checking the map.
We were already three-fourth into the first floor of the dungeon, and had yet to find a single monster.
Mostly due to the other groups of people who had already travelled through the floor.
"Light-san, you said you have already gone into the dungeon before, right?"
As I was standing a little apart from the main group, Lyra walked towards me and asked a question.
"Yes, I've gone into the dungeon before, but only twice."
"Good in that case, you can lead the rest of the way and if we find any goblins here, you can fight them."
"We'll be there and you can fight without any worry."
"Everyone said it's fine, and there aren't even many monsters due to the adventurers who have already gone ahead of us."
"And also, I want to see how strong you are currently."
" What do you think?"
Not sure what she was thinking, or for what reason she needed to know how strong I was, the pallum asked me to be the vanguard.
"Sure, no problem. I can be the vanguard."
There was no problem for me, I could easily defeat the monsters on this floor or even the next few floors.
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"We're done." The two girls, Neze and Iska, who were looking at the map, exclaimed.
"Then everyone let's head out, oh and Light will be the vanguard from now on."
As Alise said that she looked towards me and nodded.
As I reached out pick up the huge back, Lyra picked it up.
"I'll hold on to it, you please focus on fighting."
Shrugging my shoulders, I let her pick it up and started walking in the direction Neze instructed.
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The Astraea Familia girls were going on an expedition, their last one being a month before, and that was to fight the boss monster summoned by the Evilus Gods.
As soon as Alise and the other girls were about to leave, they found that an unexpected visitor had come visit them.
Rose Fannett, the liaison between the guild and their Familia had directly come to them with a personal request.
After listening to her, that is, to help an adventurer-bar-supporter on this expedition if possible.
"Rose, there is no need to say anything else, we'll do our best to help the adventurer you said about. Introduce him to us in the dungeon plaza. "
Alise as usual said that they would do it, without even hearing the details only asking to introduce them later.
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After reaching the plaza, Alise led all of Astraea girls towards the Loki Familia and started greeting them.
Remembering about Rose's request, she turned towards Kaguya and asked her check with Rose about the adventurer.
Kaguya nodded and started looking for Rose, finally finding her chatting with someone a little far away.
The person's face was hidden from her line of sight as Rose was standing in the way.
"Rose, what are you doin- Yo, aren't you the guy who Noin was fighting with a few days ago? What are you doing here?"
Just as she was about to ask Rose what she was doing and if the person sitting on the bench was the adventure who she had asked the favor for, she stopped mid-sentence, recognizing the person sitting on the bench.
The yellow haired guy who had asked for 'training' by Noin.
Before the yellow-hair, no Light, she now remembered his name, could even reply, Rose turned to her first.
"Kaguya, how many times have I told you not to sneak up on me like that. Wait, you both know each other?"
It seems being snuck up two times in own morning was indeed too much.
"Hello, Gojouno-san, yes, I am the same person, and now, I've registered as a supporter for this expedition. "
Kaguya watched on as Light explained to Rose that he knew Noin from their Astraea familia and about how he had asked Noin to train him.
But it seemed that Rose was still annoyed by her antic from earlier, as she caught Light being friends with a member of her Familia and started to argue with her.
But they had to cut short their argument as Finn, the Loki Familia captain, began his speech.
Kaguya watched as Rose left to join the other guild members by the side. When she had asked about it once before, Rose had said that it was a guild rule.
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Having listened to Finn's speech before, Kaguya tuned it out.
Looking around, the boy next to her caught her eyes, he too had a plain look on his face while listening to Finn's speech.
She was able to tune it out due to having seen the darkness hidden behind the so called 'light', but what about the boy next to her. Did he not feel hyped up?
"Light-san, don't you want to become a hero and save people."
Feeling intrigued she asked him.
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After hearing his thoughts, Kaguya, paused a minute.
As far as she, Kaguya knew, most of the adventures here only cared for fame, fortune and riches and did not or would not even have the thought of thinking that much.
The only ones she knew who had the brains to think that much was Lyra from her Familia and the one giving the speech Finn.
She made a note regarding his thought process in her mind and asked Light to join their group to go down the dungeon.
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On the first floor of the dungeon, the girls of the Astraea Familia and the other two were waiting for Neze and Iska to map the dungeon.
Kaguya standing leaning against a wall, was thinking of how to test Light's strength, being impressed by his thoughts, she wanted to see if he was only words or was, he good enough in fighting.
Unable to come up with any idea, Kaguya turned to look at another member of her Familia, Lyra, the pallum standing next to Airmid.
Kaguya went towards them and then taking the pallum aside, she asked Lyra to help come up with a plan to test Light's strength.
"There's a very simple way, isn't this the dungeon, ask him to act as a vanguard. In case anything happens, we can help him."
Lyra, after thinking for a while, came up with a straightforward plan.
Kaguya then called Alise, and spoke about her thoughts.
Alise, hearing the plan and that Light would not be in any danger, agreed.
A few moments after asking Lyra to go speak with Light, Neze and Iska announced that the mapping was complete.
Kaguya looked on as Lyra picked up Light's bag and Light started to walk to the front.
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A / N: Small developments.
I did not describe the members of the Astraea Familia look, instead will add pics in the comments!
Also, another thing, should I continue using the names from the light novel or switch to the anime ones? E.g.: Lyu Leon (Light Novel) -> Ryu Lion (Anime)