I Got Fired as a Hero Today - Vol.1 Chapter 7: Arata, Surrounded by Beautiful Girls

If he closes his heart, the pain will only increase.

When Arata has a downcast look in his eyes…

“──…What do you think? I like it.”

He was spoken to by Chloe.

Chloe is wearing a lightweight plate mail. Her hair is tied up and braided.

Chloe’s beautiful profile stands out.

“Hairstyle? Doesn’t it look good? Chloe already has a well-defined face.”

She instantly turned bright red.

“N-no?! I meant this natural scenery, not me!”

“I see, sorry. I wasn’t listening at the beginning.”

Since Kotoko often changed her hairstyle and asked for his opinion, he thought so.

“I’m not really… happy or anything… mumble mumble…”

Chloe was mumbling.

Indeed, the scenery was beautiful, and living in the city, Arata felt his heart healed.

Thanks to Chloe talking to him, he was able to take his mind off Kotoko.

The place we were guided to was a slight slope, apparently suitable for herb gathering.

Chloe picks up a piece of grass and shows it to everyone.

“This is the medicinal herb.”

Ohhh! And for some reason, everyone cheers.

There’s no such thing as failing a gathering request. The guild buys what they gather, so if they gather less, their reward just decreases.

Since the quality and quantity affect the purchase price, bringing good medicinal herbs will increase the purchase amount.

Adventurers dislike this kind of tedious work, so it is not popular, and since there is a shortage of medicinal herbs, requests for herb gathering are made year-round.

Arata opens the [Herb Encyclopedia] on the status screen and selects and gathers the valuable items in order.

Even though they say “herbs” in one breath, there are many different types.

Among them, they will select and collect the most valuable items in order.

He was working diligently away from everyone.

He was able to immerse himself.

“Arata, how are you?”

Chloe and Suzu crouched down next to Arata.

Sandwiched between them on both sides, Arata felt a jolt of surprise but,

He showed the collected medicinal herbs.

Chloe also didn’t know the finer details of the herbs, and even when she looked at Arata’s herbs, she didn’t get it.

Arata was shown the medicinal herbs collected by Suzu.

“This is good. This is worthless.”

And sort through them.

“Isn’t Arata knowledgeable?”

“Just a little.”

“Really?”

He was captivated by her smile when she said that.

Suddenly, he looked down and saw that she was bare-legged under her skirt.

“Don’t your legs get bitten by insects?”

“This? It’s fine because there’s an insect-repelling magic stone sewn into the back of the skirt.”

Suzu playfully lifted her skirt and showed it off.

──?! Is she serious? This person!

Suzu’s thighs are exposed. Arata wasn’t looking at the magic stone or anything. His gaze is locked onto her white, plump thighs.

“Arata, where are you looking?”

Chloe was giving Arata a sidelong glance.

It seems he was looking at her thigh with a serious expression.

“Eh? It’s just the thigh?”

Arata also shrugged it off, as if to say, “So what?”

“Is Arata a pervert?”

Suzu casually asked as she didn’t feel disgusted by the lewd stares from men.

“Maybe.”

He thinks all men are like that.

“I see.”

What is this conversation? Arata was at a loss with Suzu.

── “Ah, there you are, Suzu.”

When he looked, Yokomine Hinako was standing up the slope.

Her almond-shaped eyes and plump lips. Long black hair sways gently in the wind.

Her style was exceptional, with long legs peeking out from under her skirt.

Perhaps since the day she was born, she has been told that she is cute.

“Heh.”

Hinako gives Arata, who is next to Suzu, a meaningful glance.

“Because Arata is knowledgeable about wild plants, I had him take a look.”

“Not bad.”

After saying that, Hinako crouched down in front of Arata.

“Look at mine too.”

Since it was an incline, Arata found himself looking up at Hinako’s face a bit.

She placed the bag of herbs on the ground to show Arata, and when he lowered his gaze, something white was peeking through the gap between her feet!

──Could that be a panty?!…

When he seriously looked at the gap between her shins.

“W-What are you looking at!? I told you to look at the medicinal herbs! Medicinal herbs!”

She crossed her legs and held down her skirt with her hand.

“I-I’m sorry. I was just too defenseless.”

“Arata is a pervert.”

Suzu uttered a line that was of no help whatsoever.

Chloe looked at Arata with eyes as if he were garbage.

“Are you stupid?! Pervert!”

Hinako was angrily huffing, but since Arata was giving appropriate advice on the herbs, the four of them gathered them while making a racket.

At that time, Takeuchi Tsubasa and Shitara Takahito were gathering medicinal herbs with Azuma Miku and Inokuma Touka.

However, Tsubasa and Takahito couldn’t help but be concerned about Arata’s group.

Kotoko and Atsushi are happily gathering herbs together. However, since they had no knowledge of herbs at all, they were picking random plants.

The new adventurer was on guard, watching the surroundings.

He never encountered any monsters.

He will exchange the medicinal herbs he collected at the Adventurers’ Guild for money.

Arata is one hundred Rigil (Rigil is the unit of currency in this country).

Suzu is eighty Rigil.

Hinako is sixty Rigil.

Chloe was at ninety Rigil, and she was surprised even herself.

The later members were something like the five Rigil or something like that.

The value of a Rigil can be considered to be around three to fifteen Rigil for a single meal.

Since these are general figures, there are naturally more expensive meals as well, so it can’t be said categorically.

With this income, wouldn’t it be possible to live without risking their lives fighting monsters?

Why isn’t anyone doing this task?

Arata was utterly perplexed.

After that, it was decided to have a social gathering with the new members.

Arata declined it.

While watching Arata leave, Tsubasa…

“The team isn’t coming together.”

He complained.

However, most people don’t care about Arata.

Suzu was watching Arata’s back.

Hinako saw that and whispered to Suzu.

“What? Are you worried about Arata?”

“Hmm, I don’t know.”

She turned on her heel and walked towards everyone.

What she doesn’t understand is whether it means not knowing what kind of person Arata is, or whether it refers to Suzu’s own feelings.

“Is she clueless, or what?”

Hinako chased after Suzu.