「Cooperating and Companions | Some NPCs can cooperate with you: They are either accompanying NPCs or companion NPCs.
Accompanying NPCs only follow you until a certain goal is reached. You can either part ways with them earlier or invite them to become your companion depending on their favorability.
Companion NPCs won’t leave you until the player decides to part ways with them. They can gather information, scout l2ocations etc.
Both accompanying and companion NPCs will act at their own discretion, but you may be able to give them specific orders depending on their favorability.」
「Favorability | NPCs will react differently according to their favorability. It is not possible to directly check your Favorability level.」
Looking through the information provided by the system window I came to two conclusions. It is very hard to romance a companion NPC. And I wondered how I could check those two’s levels.
However, the latter wasn’t actually that important, and the former wasn’t anything serious. If necessary, I wouldn’t have a problem playing solo either.
“Banish any thought of treating me like your companion or something from your mind. If it weren’t for the sake of killing Satan, I wouldn’t even dream of sharing a single space with you lot.”
To reiterate, I had always been crazy about role playing and sticking to my settings that I ended up breaking games a lot because I wouldn’t take any companion characters with me.
“Do you understand?”
I wasn’t really that regretful about that favorability I never had to begin with. So I just delivered my lines in quite the ferocious manner.
However, the answer I got back was unexpected.
“Yes!”
…I tried to draw a line between us saying that she shouldn’t treat me like a companion, so why did she answer so brightly? Did her head really turn into a kimchi dumpling? She was still maddingly cute though.
That aside, I had no idea why her eyes were sparkling like that. No matter how hard I thought about it, weren’t we supposed to have low favorability between each other?
Just what did I do for her favorability to rise?
I did leave her tongue attached to her mouth, so in a way, it could be seen as me showing mercy. But if I asked people if that was something that would raise one’s favorability, 100 out of 100 would vehemently shake their heads.
Or what? Was our first meeting when she had been just a blank slate, that just entered society, too stimulating? Was it like the Suspension Bridge effect?
Or maybe it was just a setting to help the player enter the plot. Something like no matter what problems the player caused before entering the main quest would be erased from their minds making it more comfortable to join these two.
Hm, well. That was probably the most likely.
“……”
So what now? Setting the NPC’s favorability aside, I somehow had to resolve this situation.
While breakfast had been served, the atmosphere around us seemed rather ambiguous. Should I just talk to them like the quest wanted? But how should I go about it without going against my setting—.
“Found you!”
I gripped the sword hilt I was holding even tighter to look menacing. It was a reflexive action.
“Adventurer!”
When I turned my head slightly, what I saw was the errand boy of the Adventurers’ Guild. It was also that kid who led me to that inn yesterday.
“What is it?”
I had to talk to those two, but that over there smelled like a side quest.
As soon as I came to a decision I turned around. Still feeling conscious of the two, my face still looked rather grim, to the point that the boy flinched when he saw me.
“…Erm, someone is looking for you……”
When the kid came closer and saw the two people next to me he titled his head.
He probably had been surprised by the Inquisitor who wore knight-like armor and the Archmage who was of a different race. it was hard to come across other races other than the human race – called ‘Middle’ here – unless one went into their territories.
Well, if the settings I could recall were implemented in the Remake as well.
“Erm……”
The child seemed rather nervous, so the Inquisitor greeted him lightly, and the Archmage smiled kindly at him, which helped him relax immensely.
“Sir Adventurer, the clerk is looking for you……”
…The clerk he was talking about was probably Izren. I checked the info of the Side Quest that was right under the Main Quest in my Quest list.
「❖ Danger in the Northwestern Forest
∎ Talk to clerk Izren」
Even though it said I just had to go talk to her, it more or less meant that I should go get my reward. Even that rescue quest from last time stayed in my list until I got my rewards.
“I-if you can wait, I can also bring her to……”
“Lead the way.”
“Huh?”
I usually would have asked him to bring her here, but the situation didn’t allow that right now.
Even though I agreed to accompany them, the relationship between those two and my character was still a mess, and I didn’t think my character would want to go to Izren together with them now that I missed the timing to have a proper conversation with them. As such I decided to go there myself.
“I said lead the way.”
Of course, there was a high possibility that those two would follow me, even if I went to the Adventurers’ Guild. Usually, after characters joined your party, they would always follow after you.
However, I didn’t know if it was like that in the Remake version of ‘Legend of Heroes’ as well, so I wanted to give this a try. No matter what happened, it wouldn’t be a loss to me at least.
“May I go with you? I seem to have some business over there as well.”
Well, a game was still a game in the end.
I urged the boy to go ahead, not giving the other two who also stood up a single glance. The puzzled child looked at the two others and me before energetically shouting.
“Follow after me!”
The child took the lead, his steps seeming quite cheerful. His walk was actually closer to running, but it wasn’t that hard to catch up to him due to the different lengths of our strides.
“Why are you coming along?”
“You didn’t refuse when I asked.”
“So if I didn’t refuse does that immediately mean that I agreed?”
“It……It depends.”
Rather than that, did the Inquisitor study up a bit about society?…… I felt a little proud of her..
“Miss Clerk!”
When we reached the vicinity of the Adventurers’ Guild, the boy suddenly rushed forward. I already reached my destination so I didn’t bother rushing after him.
“I found Sir Adventurer— Ah!”
When she saw the boy, Izren, the cheerful clerk, made eye contact with me next. Her face stiffened a bit when she saw me.
“First, let me apologize to you.”
I was about to ask for my reward, but when I heard her sudden remark my eye twitched slightly. Don’t tell me they docked my reward……
“The thief has been handed over to the guards. Usually thieves don’t appear around those parts……”
Fortunately that wasn’t the case. It seemed like she felt apologetic that something like this happened to me in a place she had recommended.
“P-please give the inn another chance……”
“There’s no need.”
Usually I would always welcome additional compensation, but I believed it would only be right to refuse that offer taking my character setting into consideration. I quickly managed to shake off any regret I might have felt and completely focused on the situation I was in.
“Is that all you have to say?”
“…Well, erm, are you hurt? I heard there was a fight.”
“Do you really think that I would be beaten by someone as weak as that?
She had scratched my pride, so, of course, I would react like that.
The clerk was instantly taken aback by my fierce attitude.
“However, the Sage of the Magic Tower and the Inquisitor……?”
The clerk’s gaze, which had been on me as she spoke, slightly shifted. As this Godgame perfectly simulated the natural movements of a person’s eye, I could immediately tell why she suddenly stopped.
The NPC seemed to have finally noticed the two behind me.
“Y-you two……”
“Haha, it’s been a week.”
Oh, they had met before.
“The request……”
The clerk began to notice even more things. After thinking about her reaction a bit more, I had an inkling what was going on.
She, as the middleman, had been unable to stop that cranky old man from contracting another person for this request.
“Yes, yes. That guy caught it.”
Still, they shouldn’t feel that troubled about it, considering that a penalty fee had been mentioned. Was it because their image had been damaged? I was a bit weird discussing image and pride when speaking about NPCs though.
“We were the ones who were too slow to catch it so it’s alright that we don’t receive any reimbursement. We are fine with just the advance payment.”
“No, of course, you will be reimbursed for the trouble. It’s our Guild’s job to protect the adventurer’s rights after all.”
The clerk strictly shook her head at the remark of the Archmage, who reacted rather leniently to the matter. They didn’t take a broker’s fee for no reason after all.
“But, why are you three……?”
“There had been a misunderstanding yesterday, so we got into a bit of an argument, but we managed to resolve it and even decided to become a party as of today.”
“Ah, so it’s like that.”
Well, that was none of my business though.
“If you have no other business then let me ask you something.”
“What is it?”
“When are you going to pay me?”
I thought she called me here to give me my payment, so why did she bring up something unrelated to that? Just give me my reward already. My reward.
“Ah, I sent out an investigator yesterday, so the investigation results will get to me tomorrow. I want to ask you to wait until then, Adventurer.”
However, the clerk only provided me with this shocking news with a bright smile on her face. To a gamer that answer felt like a slap over the back of one’s head.
“Tomorrow.”
As I fell into thoughts, I reflexively answered with a dismayed voice.
Tha-that was a bit shocking. A game that took more than 2 days – 16 hours in real time – to give out rewards for a quest.
“Yes. We need to be sure that the forest is really free of any danger…… Is there a problem?”
The clerk even acted like there was nothing wrong with that. In hindsight, her reaction wasn’t that unreasonable. Realistically speaking, it was only right to go through these procedures and really make sure that it was safe.
But that was only true if this was reality, but for something like that to happen in a game…… Was rather shocking. It was good and all that it was realistic, but I felt like this was just too much.
“Ah, about that. We can guarantee it, so could you pay him in advance perhaps?”
Fortunately, the Archmage spoke up before my puzzlement was replaced by irritation.
“From what we could see, the only dangerous entity in the forest was the Medusa. As this young man had killed it, and we took care of the purification, there shouldn’t be any problem.”
“I can vouch for him as well!”
The kimchi dumpling also declared that she could vouch for me at the same time. The clerk’s face immediately filled with bafflement.
“Uuhm……even if you two say that……”
“If there’s any problem because of this, just let the Tower or the Temple know. They’ll send someone to take care of this matter.”
“If you go so far, alright. I shall comply with your request and hand out your payment.”
The clerk turned her head towards me. It seemed like I would receive my reward right away. I felt relieved, very relieved. I had been very nervous.
…I knew things turned out this way in an attempt to make it seem more realistic, but what could I say? It strangely felt like I was only able to manage to shorten the time because I was with these two.
I wondered how they would have reacted if I had chosen a different class.
“Please come this way.”
However, there was no reason for me not to take the reward. Because I deserved those 1 million gal.
I followed after the clerk.
“Would your business in this city be over after this? Or do you have more to do here? Or do you already have your next destination in mind?”
The Archmage also sneakily followed me. I was all too familiar with what the intent behind that question was.
It was to get our schedules matched up.
“If you don’t have any other plans, I’d like to leave this city by today, if you don’t mind. Would that be possible?”
They were planning on going to the next city straight away. I didn’t really mind, as long as they gave me time to prepare.
However, we were going to leave Tatara already? I thought that it was still too early to completely change my base but I didn’t really mind moving to different hunting grounds like the Northwestern Forest.
“As long as there are Demons.”
Anyway, I decided to give him an answer. I still felt a bit hesitant to strike up a conversation with him first, so I felt grateful that he always started the conversation.
“Oh, in that case, would it be alright if we left at 9? The group of merchants we were escorting for part of the way is leaving at 9.”
There was a time limit?
“Is it too sudden? My apologies. We made that appointment before we even knew you were here, let alone joined us. Of course, we can just cancel that request. We don’t necessarily have to escort that merchant group to leave the town.”
I twitched my eyebrows. It seemed like I could postpone our departure, but the mere existence of that time limit felt strange to me.
Moreover, I heard that they would have to cancel a request to postpone it, so how could I?
If I had any other plans I would have told them to just cancel it, but I didn’t. I didn’t set up this character to just twist the truth for no reason. Honestly, he was the type of person to simply do the request because of his pride.
So I had no choice but to accept that time limit……
The departure time probably wasn’t at 9pm, so it should be 9am. Then I probably didn’t have that much time left. What time was it now?
I covertly scanned the area for a clock. Fortunately, there had been a clock on the front of the building we had just entered.
It was about 7:10 am. Then I would have to move a bit faster.
Flutter.
As I busily calculated the time, the hem of my clothes fluttered as I picked up the pace to indicate that I agreed to their plans.
The Archmage and the kimchi dumpling followed after me. I felt like a mother hen with two chicks following behind me.
「Cooperating and Companions | Some NPCs can cooperate with you: They are either accompanying NPCs or companion NPCs.
Accompanying NPCs only follow you until a certain goal is reached. You can either part ways with them earlier or invite them to become your companion depending on their favorability.
Companion NPCs won’t leave you until the player decides to part ways with them. They can gather information, scout l2ocations etc.
Both accompanying and companion NPCs will act at their own discretion, but you may be able to give them specific orders depending on their favorability.」
「Favorability | NPCs will react differently according to their favorability. It is not possible to directly check your Favorability level.」
Looking through the information provided by the system window I came to two conclusions. It is very hard to romance a companion NPC. And I wondered how I could check those two’s levels.
However, the latter wasn’t actually that important, and the former wasn’t anything serious. If necessary, I wouldn’t have a problem playing solo either.
“Banish any thought of treating me like your companion or something from your mind. If it weren’t for the sake of killing Satan, I wouldn’t even dream of sharing a single space with you lot.”
To reiterate, I had always been crazy about role playing and sticking to my settings that I ended up breaking games a lot because I wouldn’t take any companion characters with me.
“Do you understand?”
I wasn’t really that regretful about that favorability I never had to begin with. So I just delivered my lines in quite the ferocious manner.
However, the answer I got back was unexpected.
“Yes!”
…I tried to draw a line between us saying that she shouldn’t treat me like a companion, so why did she answer so brightly? Did her head really turn into a kimchi dumpling? She was still maddingly cute though.
That aside, I had no idea why her eyes were sparkling like that. No matter how hard I thought about it, weren’t we supposed to have low favorability between each other?
Just what did I do for her favorability to rise?
I did leave her tongue attached to her mouth, so in a way, it could be seen as me showing mercy. But if I asked people if that was something that would raise one’s favorability, 100 out of 100 would vehemently shake their heads.
Or what? Was our first meeting when she had been just a blank slate, that just entered society, too stimulating? Was it like the Suspension Bridge effect?
Or maybe it was just a setting to help the player enter the plot. Something like no matter what problems the player caused before entering the main quest would be erased from their minds making it more comfortable to join these two.
Hm, well. That was probably the most likely.
“……”
So what now? Setting the NPC’s favorability aside, I somehow had to resolve this situation.
While breakfast had been served, the atmosphere around us seemed rather ambiguous. Should I just talk to them like the quest wanted? But how should I go about it without going against my setting—.
“Found you!”
I gripped the sword hilt I was holding even tighter to look menacing. It was a reflexive action.
“Adventurer!”
When I turned my head slightly, what I saw was the errand boy of the Adventurers’ Guild. It was also that kid who led me to that inn yesterday.
“What is it?”
I had to talk to those two, but that over there smelled like a side quest.
As soon as I came to a decision I turned around. Still feeling conscious of the two, my face still looked rather grim, to the point that the boy flinched when he saw me.
“…Erm, someone is looking for you……”
When the kid came closer and saw the two people next to me he titled his head.
He probably had been surprised by the Inquisitor who wore knight-like armor and the Archmage who was of a different race. it was hard to come across other races other than the human race – called ‘Middle’ here – unless one went into their territories.
Well, if the settings I could recall were implemented in the Remake as well.
“Erm……”
The child seemed rather nervous, so the Inquisitor greeted him lightly, and the Archmage smiled kindly at him, which helped him relax immensely.
“Sir Adventurer, the clerk is looking for you……”
…The clerk he was talking about was probably Izren. I checked the info of the Side Quest that was right under the Main Quest in my Quest list.
「❖ Danger in the Northwestern Forest
∎ Talk to clerk Izren」
Even though it said I just had to go talk to her, it more or less meant that I should go get my reward. Even that rescue quest from last time stayed in my list until I got my rewards.
“I-if you can wait, I can also bring her to……”
“Lead the way.”
“Huh?”
I usually would have asked him to bring her here, but the situation didn’t allow that right now.
Even though I agreed to accompany them, the relationship between those two and my character was still a mess, and I didn’t think my character would want to go to Izren together with them now that I missed the timing to have a proper conversation with them. As such I decided to go there myself.
“I said lead the way.”
Of course, there was a high possibility that those two would follow me, even if I went to the Adventurers’ Guild. Usually, after characters joined your party, they would always follow after you.
However, I didn’t know if it was like that in the Remake version of ‘Legend of Heroes’ as well, so I wanted to give this a try. No matter what happened, it wouldn’t be a loss to me at least.
“May I go with you? I seem to have some business over there as well.”
Well, a game was still a game in the end.
I urged the boy to go ahead, not giving the other two who also stood up a single glance. The puzzled child looked at the two others and me before energetically shouting.
“Follow after me!”
The child took the lead, his steps seeming quite cheerful. His walk was actually closer to running, but it wasn’t that hard to catch up to him due to the different lengths of our strides.
“Why are you coming along?”
“You didn’t refuse when I asked.”
“So if I didn’t refuse does that immediately mean that I agreed?”
“It……It depends.”
Rather than that, did the Inquisitor study up a bit about society?…… I felt a little proud of her..
“Miss Clerk!”
When we reached the vicinity of the Adventurers’ Guild, the boy suddenly rushed forward. I already reached my destination so I didn’t bother rushing after him.
“I found Sir Adventurer— Ah!”
When she saw the boy, Izren, the cheerful clerk, made eye contact with me next. Her face stiffened a bit when she saw me.
“First, let me apologize to you.”
I was about to ask for my reward, but when I heard her sudden remark my eye twitched slightly. Don’t tell me they docked my reward……
“The thief has been handed over to the guards. Usually thieves don’t appear around those parts……”
Fortunately that wasn’t the case. It seemed like she felt apologetic that something like this happened to me in a place she had recommended.
“P-please give the inn another chance……”
“There’s no need.”
Usually I would always welcome additional compensation, but I believed it would only be right to refuse that offer taking my character setting into consideration. I quickly managed to shake off any regret I might have felt and completely focused on the situation I was in.
“Is that all you have to say?”
“…Well, erm, are you hurt? I heard there was a fight.”
“Do you really think that I would be beaten by someone as weak as that?
She had scratched my pride, so, of course, I would react like that.
The clerk was instantly taken aback by my fierce attitude.
“However, the Sage of the Magic Tower and the Inquisitor……?”
The clerk’s gaze, which had been on me as she spoke, slightly shifted. As this Godgame perfectly simulated the natural movements of a person’s eye, I could immediately tell why she suddenly stopped.
The NPC seemed to have finally noticed the two behind me.
“Y-you two……”
“Haha, it’s been a week.”
Oh, they had met before.
“The request……”
The clerk began to notice even more things. After thinking about her reaction a bit more, I had an inkling what was going on.
She, as the middleman, had been unable to stop that cranky old man from contracting another person for this request.
“Yes, yes. That guy caught it.”
Still, they shouldn’t feel that troubled about it, considering that a penalty fee had been mentioned. Was it because their image had been damaged? I was a bit weird discussing image and pride when speaking about NPCs though.
“We were the ones who were too slow to catch it so it’s alright that we don’t receive any reimbursement. We are fine with just the advance payment.”
“No, of course, you will be reimbursed for the trouble. It’s our Guild’s job to protect the adventurer’s rights after all.”
The clerk strictly shook her head at the remark of the Archmage, who reacted rather leniently to the matter. They didn’t take a broker’s fee for no reason after all.
“But, why are you three……?”
“There had been a misunderstanding yesterday, so we got into a bit of an argument, but we managed to resolve it and even decided to become a party as of today.”
“Ah, so it’s like that.”
Well, that was none of my business though.
“If you have no other business then let me ask you something.”
“What is it?”
“When are you going to pay me?”
I thought she called me here to give me my payment, so why did she bring up something unrelated to that? Just give me my reward already. My reward.
“Ah, I sent out an investigator yesterday, so the investigation results will get to me tomorrow. I want to ask you to wait until then, Adventurer.”
However, the clerk only provided me with this shocking news with a bright smile on her face. To a gamer that answer felt like a slap over the back of one’s head.
“Tomorrow.”
As I fell into thoughts, I reflexively answered with a dismayed voice.
Tha-that was a bit shocking. A game that took more than 2 days – 16 hours in real time – to give out rewards for a quest.
“Yes. We need to be sure that the forest is really free of any danger…… Is there a problem?”
The clerk even acted like there was nothing wrong with that. In hindsight, her reaction wasn’t that unreasonable. Realistically speaking, it was only right to go through these procedures and really make sure that it was safe.
But that was only true if this was reality, but for something like that to happen in a game…… Was rather shocking. It was good and all that it was realistic, but I felt like this was just too much.
“Ah, about that. We can guarantee it, so could you pay him in advance perhaps?”
Fortunately, the Archmage spoke up before my puzzlement was replaced by irritation.
“From what we could see, the only dangerous entity in the forest was the Medusa. As this young man had killed it, and we took care of the purification, there shouldn’t be any problem.”
“I can vouch for him as well!”
The kimchi dumpling also declared that she could vouch for me at the same time. The clerk’s face immediately filled with bafflement.
“Uuhm……even if you two say that……”
“If there’s any problem because of this, just let the Tower or the Temple know. They’ll send someone to take care of this matter.”
“If you go so far, alright. I shall comply with your request and hand out your payment.”
The clerk turned her head towards me. It seemed like I would receive my reward right away. I felt relieved, very relieved. I had been very nervous.
…I knew things turned out this way in an attempt to make it seem more realistic, but what could I say? It strangely felt like I was only able to manage to shorten the time because I was with these two.
I wondered how they would have reacted if I had chosen a different class.
“Please come this way.”
However, there was no reason for me not to take the reward. Because I deserved those 1 million gal.
I followed after the clerk.
“Would your business in this city be over after this? Or do you have more to do here? Or do you already have your next destination in mind?”
The Archmage also sneakily followed me. I was all too familiar with what the intent behind that question was.
It was to get our schedules matched up.
“If you don’t have any other plans, I’d like to leave this city by today, if you don’t mind. Would that be possible?”
They were planning on going to the next city straight away. I didn’t really mind, as long as they gave me time to prepare.
However, we were going to leave Tatara already? I thought that it was still too early to completely change my base but I didn’t really mind moving to different hunting grounds like the Northwestern Forest.
“As long as there are Demons.”
Anyway, I decided to give him an answer. I still felt a bit hesitant to strike up a conversation with him first, so I felt grateful that he always started the conversation.
“Oh, in that case, would it be alright if we left at 9? The group of merchants we were escorting for part of the way is leaving at 9.”
There was a time limit?
“Is it too sudden? My apologies. We made that appointment before we even knew you were here, let alone joined us. Of course, we can just cancel that request. We don’t necessarily have to escort that merchant group to leave the town.”
I twitched my eyebrows. It seemed like I could postpone our departure, but the mere existence of that time limit felt strange to me.
Moreover, I heard that they would have to cancel a request to postpone it, so how could I?
If I had any other plans I would have told them to just cancel it, but I didn’t. I didn’t set up this character to just twist the truth for no reason. Honestly, he was the type of person to simply do the request because of his pride.
So I had no choice but to accept that time limit……
The departure time probably wasn’t at 9pm, so it should be 9am. Then I probably didn’t have that much time left. What time was it now?
I covertly scanned the area for a clock. Fortunately, there had been a clock on the front of the building we had just entered.
It was about 7:10 am. Then I would have to move a bit faster.
Flutter.
As I busily calculated the time, the hem of my clothes fluttered as I picked up the pace to indicate that I agreed to their plans.
The Archmage and the kimchi dumpling followed after me. I felt like a mother hen with two chicks following behind me.
