My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s - Chapter 200

「Now then, what’s the next thing we need to get?」

As expected, I wouldn’t be able to fight while holding several large horns in my arms, so we decided to briefly return to our base and recover our strength.

On the way, we accidentally encountered monsters, but that couldn’t be helped when we’re in this forest.

Rather, even if our existence in this forest threw its ecosystem off balance, there wasn’t anything strange about that.

Spread out on the table that was wide enough for everyone to eat at was Zeal-san’s specially-drawn map of the forest that I had seen the other day.

Kyousuke read out the note that, Noa had given him that detailed the necessary materials.

「The next one is, says here that it’s the viscera of the Orgun. Viscera, does that mean it doesn’t matter which internal organ we get?」

I turned to look towards the entranceway.

Noa was leaning against the wall over there with her arms folded and was suppressing her presence.

Standing there, Noa shook her head.

「No, I don’t know what viscera is referring to in your world, but here, it means the magic stone.」

Since most monsters wouldn’t even exist without a magic stone, Noa laughed.

Certainly, even in the dungeons, even though they hadn’t been completely defeated, once the magic stone was pulled out, the monsters would die.

At that time, I had thought that the timing of when I pulled out the magic stone just happened to align with the timing of when it died, but it seems that I was wrong.

「In other words, this Orgun monster could be what would allow us to traverse a continent?」

Kyousuke frowned as he asked this.

Certainly, there was only『one Orgun viscera』written on the paper.

Would one be enough.

Amaryllis and Amelia entered through another door.

The two people were talking quietly,

It seems that they got along with each other.

When she heard that Amaryllis had been together with the elves who had been kidnapped, and had made use of what little medicinal herbs that she had been given to heal their injuries and cure their illnesses, Amelia was deeply moved, and extremely thankful, so it would be impossible for them to have bad affinity with each other, but there’s nothing better than them getting along.

「Orgun’s viscera, that is to say, their magic stone, is said to be the largest magic stone in this world. There is only one drawback.」

Noa paused there.

「An Orgun is constantly on the move within this forest. Tracking it down is a Herculean task. Even I have only met it once.」

Having said this, Noa went into the neighboring room, and then came back carrying something big in her arms.

If I’m not mistaken, wasn’t Noa using that room as a storage room.

「Is that…a magic, stone?」

The hero muttered this, with disbelief written all over his face.

I too looked up at it with my eyes widened.

Noa gently put the magic stone that was taller than me onto the ground.

「This is the only Orgun viscera that I own. However, I had obtained it quite a long time ago, so we would not be able to use this magic stone for what we need it for.」

I agreed with Noa that, this was on the smaller side.

If it was a magic stone of this size, then we might not be able to use it to cross the continent.

「So the problem is that it’s constantly moving.」

It not staying in one place meant that, it would require much effort to find it.

However, it would be difficult for our members to split up and look for a monster that lived in this forest.

Having said that, I knew that we wouldn’t find it if we blindly searched.

As I racked my brains trying to figure out what we should do, I sensed someone approaching.

When I looked up, Amaryllis was staring at my hand.

「Wh, what’s wrong?」

Come to think of it, I often saw her talking with Ria and Amelia, but I’ve just realized that I rarely spoke with Amaryllis.

What exactly did she want to do.

After taking Amaryllis away from that cold place, and before meeting up with Amelia and the others, I had asked her if she was going to go with us.

Amaryllis was determined when she said that she would remain at that place, but I had taken her away due to my own ego.

I had wanted to save everyone, including Amaryllis.

Amaryllis said that she had to atone for creating the “strengthening drug”.

In that case, I gave her more choices to choose from.

Exposing it, dying, or going with us and developing the antidote for the “strengthening drug”.

Hearing that, Amaryllis, after worrying about it for a while, said, with the same bright eyes as when she decided to die in the prison, that she would make the antidote 

Fortunately, the necessary medicinal herbs seemed to be growing in a certain place in this forest that was located within the beastmen territory and was near the demon territory, and Yoru went to harvest them.

Since that exchange, we only ever talked about routine things, and I did not have the time to pay any more attention to Kurou’s situation.

「Ah, sorry. Where did you get this ring?」

Looking up, Amaryllis pointed at the ring that I was wearing.

It was not the ring that Amelia gave me, but the one that Kurou handed to me when we went to rescue Amelia that I wore on the index finger on my right hand.

I had taken off the gloves that I always wore when I came inside, so both of the rings as well as the crest that signified my contract with Yoru that was on the back of my hand could be seen.

Leaving aside Amelia and Yoru’s marks, I had always worn the ring ever since Kurou gave it to me, so I had gotten used to it and did not realize that I was wearing it.

「This is something Kurou gave me.」

When I asked her if there was something wrong with it, Amaryllis collected a bit of magic power in her eyes and stared at the ring.

「This is a splendid magic tool. With this, wouldn’t it completely solve the problem that was troubling you just now?」

Hearing her say that, I too looked at that ring.

When he gave it to me, what did Kurou say.

「Ooh! If I’m not mistaken, isn’t this the ‘Ring of the Vanished’.」

Coming to stand next to Amaryllis and looking at the ring, Noa raised her voice.

Or rather, the two of you were too close.

「Close.」

Putting into words what I was thinking, Amelia intervened and kept the two people away.

The two were separated away from me, but their eyes were fixated on my ring.

How scary, how scary.

「If I remembered correctly, it would point out the location of the wearer’s desired target.」

I closed my eyes, and wished for a large magic stone just like the one Noa brought over.

Strongly, wished for.

「Ooh! It seems that it’s working fine!」

I opened my eyes when I heard Noa’s excited voice, there was a red light, just like the one from that time, coming out from the ring and pointing at the wall.

It seems that the light continued on to shine towards where the Orgun was.

Perhaps it was constantly moving just as Noa said, as the light moved little by little.

Unexpectedly, the problem was resolved, thanks to Kurou.