Adventurer's Guild Café: I Was Wrongfully Exiled by the Saint, So I Will Enjoy My Second Life with My Fluffy Friends-Chapter 2V .1 .4 - The Gryphon’s Request

“I’m going to explain it simply because there’s no point in hiding it. Listen carefully.”

After a bit of small talk, Kiril-san began speaking.

I involuntarily straightened my back.

“First, you know I was investigating the mythical beast that appeared in the dungeon, right?”

“Yes.”

“And so when I went there...”

Kiril’s story went like this.

First, the dungeon has multiple levels. The deeper you go, the stronger the monsters that inhabit it become, so only adventurers of a certain level can proceed further down. However, the returns are higher the deeper you go, which is why many adventurers head further and further into the dungeon.

Recently, on the hundredth floor of the labyrinth, an adventurer party discovered a raid boss monster that shouldn’t have been in the dungeon.

There is a rule in the dungeon that every ninth floor will have a powerful monster on the next level. The monster on the tenth floor is called a “boss monster.” Following the same rule, once you progress to the ninety-ninth floor, a stronger boss monster will appear on the next floor. The monster on the hundredth floor is referred to as a “raid boss monster.” Raid bosses are said to be so powerful and massive that they can only be defeated by linking up parties.

By the way, one of the conditions to become an S-rank adventurer is that you have to defeat a raid boss by yourself. Kiril cleared that condition and became an S-rank adventurer. So, he’s a pretty amazing person.

“So, I also saw it...”

Kiril said as he looked me in the eyes.

“There was a gryphon.”

“A gryphon...?”

Ah, I messed up. I don’t really know much about monsters.

Maybe Simon noticed, as he pulled a book from the bookshelf, opened it to the relevant page, and showed it to me.

“This one. It’s designated as a protected species by the country.”

“Wow.”

As I looked into the book, there was a picture of a majestic creature with the body of a lion, and the face and wings of an eagle.

Looking at its sharp claws and beak, I got a bit of a start. Since I’m usually seeing relaxed mythical beasts, this one was actually pretty scary... So, what happened with this gryphon?

As I tilted my head in confusion, Kiril spoke with a bitter expression.

“There were no visible injuries, but it seemed weakened. I thought I could just give it a potion and send it back to its original place, but it wasn’t listening at all.”

“...”

There are spatial distortions inside the dungeon, and sometimes creatures wander in from outside the dungeon through these distortions. Kiril seemed to have tried to treat the gryphon with a potion and send it back outside the dungeon. However, it didn’t go well at all, and it ended up taking several days.

“It wouldn’t give in at all, you know. I got pissed off.”

“Eh! You hurt it?!”

I said this without thinking, and Kiril frowned.

“Idiot, there’s no way I’d do that. But, well, I was thinking of going home.”

He then seemed to recall that moment, muttering.

“The gryphon demanded something from me. It wanted the food in my bag.”

“...?”

“Hey, do you remember?”

“Eh?”

“When I was leaving, you made me lunch and drinks.”

“...Ah, now that you mention it.”

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A spinach and egg quiche, and... I think I made honey lemon too.

“It wanted me to give it that. But by that time, I had already eaten everything, and there was only a little bit of honey lemon left, so I gave it that.”

And then, the gryphon, who had refused the potion, skillfully used its beak to drink the contents!

“Th-That’s amazing!”

“It is amazing, yeah, but...”

“Huh?”

Kiril looked at me with a slightly embarrassed expression.

“Apparently, it really liked the taste or something, I don’t know, but it told me to bring the one who made it.”

“...”

“Then it said it would leave the dungeon if I did.”

...Bring the one who made it?

Who is that...?

Wait...?

He means me...?