The Devil Does Not Need to Be Defeated
chapter-23

Chapter 023: First Time Joining an Adventuring Party

“You must be Shien right?”

The one to speak to Shien with a gentle voice was a young girl who, although she had a beautiful face and figure, also wore a set of heavy armor and had a huge shield and sword set beside her.

Around that girl were three other female adventurers with similar age and level of beauty.

That is to say, within the room, every one of them is a young female adventurer of above average appearance.

That kind of scene made Shien stop right at the door and descend into silence. He hesitated to step in.

The beauties within the room were at the same time looking at Shien. Each had their own different expressions, but they all seemed to be observing him.

In that kind of situation, the gentle girl stood up first.

“I’m Vivian, the current leader responsible for this adventuring party, and also the one who will be guiding you for the next month. You can just call me Vivian.”

Vivian thus smiled at Shien with a very kindly expression.

However, the others were different.

Shien looked towards the other three girls.

Those are three girls who were, in various ways, not inferior to Vivian in terms of appearance.

Siting besides Vivian was a girl with a petite build. She was covered in a black cloak that nearly completely covered her. Even her face was hidden under the hood, allowing others to only see the pale and blemish free lower half of her face, with her eyes undetectable.

Besides the girl in the black cloak, or rather, hidden behind her, was similarly petite girl with a set of beast ears and tail. She was very cute, but her face showed an expression of nervousness and fear of strangers. She was a beastman girl who gave people the urge to bully her.

As for the last girl, she was an elf. She has a pair of pointy ears and green, waist-length hair. She wore a magician’s robe and held in her lap a long magic staff. Her face was even prettier than the others. An elf girl who was more attention-grabbing than a top idol.

With the addition of Vivian, what appeared in the room are four beauties who attracted attention in various ways. Even the black cloaked girl who hid practically her entire face under the hood. Based on just the bottom half of her face, her looks definitely won’t lose out to the others.

For this adventuring party at this time, besides Vivian who showed a gentle and friendly expression, the attitudes of the other three can’t be said to be particularly friendly.

The black-cloaked girl didn’t even raise her head.

The beastman girl was hiding behind the black-cloaked girl with a scared expression.

The elf girl showed a tense expression. Her gaze on Shien held a certain amount of vigilance towards him.

Shien didn’t say anything for a while.

Because he had rather complicated feelings about this.

(A party of beauties was it?)

That kind of setting. He didn’t think it would really happen.

Plus, he himself is a newbie, and he was going to be joining this party as the only male adventurer.

This situation –

(Cliched as expected)

Shien could only think that.

Vivian, who didn’t know what Shien was thinking, just watched him who neither moved nor spoke with the same gentle expression.

She must have understood as well. Vivian’s adventuring party was indeed very attention grabbing in various ways.

For a newcomer, and a man at that, to be suddenly arrange to join such a party. Generally speaking, when they first meet, some confusion was probably normal.

Therefore.

“Please don’t be so formal. Come sit.”

Vivian thus welcomed him with even more friendliness.

Truth be told, Shien doesn’t really want to go in.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to be with a bunch of beauties.

Shien is a man too. There’s no way he wouldn’t be happy with being able to spend time with so many beautiful girls.

But, due to how he is, rather than happy, Shien was more morose.

No way around it.

(I can already imagine just how much trouble I’m going to encounter after joining this party.)

Shien just sighed depressingly in his own mind.

In addition, he had wanted to start up his adventuring life normally and raise his levels without getting too much attention. For him to join such an eye-catching adventuring party really isn’t what he wanted.

Unfortunately, things have already progressed this far, so Shien could only enter the room and sit down on a chair.

And facing his was Vivian’s group in a row. Not a single one of them was sitting on the same side as Shien.

Facing those 4 beauties, Shien couldn’t keep silent anymore.

So, while sighing in his own mind, Shien opened his mouth.

“I’m Shien. Hello.”

Shien had basically fulfilled all that etiquette demanded of him.

Seeing Shien’s show of deference, Vivian was also a bite more relieved.

In the past, the majority of those male adventurers who joined Vivian’s party showed their poor demeanor in their first meeting.

Some of them kept trying to size up Vivian and her party’s looks and bodies in secret. Some even showed their lust outright on their faces. Some even tried putting up an act and purposefully acted gentlemanly and friendly, but they couldn’t hide their true thoughts. There were even some who, although they didn’t have any bad intentions, they still couldn’t help but try to gain Vivian and her party’s favor and ended up acting very lowly.

As for the character of this current newbie in front of her, Vivian still can’t be quite sure, but from the look of things, he should be a fairly decent person, so they won’t need to worry about him going wild.

Of course, this still needs more watching.

This is just the first meeting after all. The truth of their character still need further observation.

As she though that, she signaled her companions around her with a look.

Seeing that, the three girls finally raised their heads one by one.

“Diere.”

The black-cloaked girl coldly introduced herself. Although her voice was cold, it sounded unexpectedly nice. Plus, it carried a certain amount of childishness, which made it hard for people to feel upset by it.

“I-I’m Lumia. P-Please take care of me.”

The beastman girl ended up stuttering out her name while still holding onto Diere’s hand with both of hers. Her nervous and timid personality was on full display.

“I’m Melika. Please take care of me.”

The elf girl also nodded to Shien in a greeting with her face still tense. Although it wasn’t to the point of being hostile to Shien, it did clearly display her tenseness and caution towards strangers.

Then, the three girls stopped talking, which made Vivian feel rather resigned.

As for Shien, he was relieved.

When a male suddenly entered a party with all beautiful girls, this is the proper response after all.

But, because of that, Shien still wanted to clearly state what needed to be said.

“Miss Vivian.” Shien thus addressed Vivian, “Can I really join this adventuring party?”

Thus, Shien headed straight into the main topic.