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There was no man who would not be delighted to be in that position. And Mira turned around and announced with a proud grin, 「Well, I’m just your average rank A adventurer」 while casually taking out her adventurer card for them to see.

「You’re right, it says A here!」
「I’ve never met a rank A adventurer before.」
「And a summoner at that…」

Rank A was considered the highest rank attainable, so Milet and her friends quickly gathered around Mira’s card and spoke in amazement, unbothered by Mira’s pretended humility about it. That also started making Mira get carried away, as she began claiming that the age of summoners was upon them, and trying to spread the word.

But then Marietta thought of something.

「Wait, I just noticed. Aren’t fights really violent for adventurers of high ranks? How did you get around that if you never used inner pants until now?」

She essentially reeled the conversation back on topic, wondering how it came to be that such an experienced adventurer who must have been through many battles was only looking for inner pants now.

Milet and Nene were also curious about that, as they quickly fell silent and waited for Mira’s reply.

Someone who was interested in those clothes from a fashion perspective did not necessarily need inner pants, so the three girls could understand that. But adventurers were constantly engaged in fights with monsters, requiring a lot of movement that would very easily make someone’s skirt flip up, making inner pants almost a requirement for adventurer girls.

But Mira claimed she had never worn them before, which did not make any sense in their feminine minds.

「Well, how should I put it… I didn’t really care about it until now…」

The fear that she would be thought of as an exhibitionist took over Mira for a moment again, but then she decided to be honest. After all, she had never been bothered if others saw her underwear, and that was not going to change.

「…I see, there are girls who pay less attention to things like that.」
「So you’re that type of person, I see.」
「So manly.」

They looked stunned for a moment, but then they laughed a bit as they replied like that. There were plenty of pragmatic female adventurers out there, who did not mind changing clothes around others, as finding a place to be alone could expose them to monster attacks. But the three girls were nowhere near that level yet.

「I’ve never seen any of them wearing girly clothes like you though, so I didn’t expect you to be like that.」

From their experience so far, all of those more pragmatic women wore outfits that prioritized function over form, and would certainly avoid cutesy dresses like those Mira was wearing. This was the first time any of them was seeing someone with both traits.

「I heard that people who got to rank A all have their quirks, I guess that was true…」
「Yeah, they always feel special.」

Marietta muttered with a pensive voice, and Nene followed up, looking at her with respect. All of the rank A adventurers they had heard about tended to have strong personalities.

「I…guess that might be true…」

Thinking about it for a bit, Mira realized that there was some merit to those claims as she recalled all the rank A adventurers she had met in the past, There was Sero, a former player, Heinrich who she met on her way to the Abandoned City in the Sky, the warrior Arrold who was part of the Fifty Bells, Jack Grave and Eleonora who were aboard the airship after defeating Chimera Clauzen, and Tryd who she had met recently in the Ancient Underground City.

Maybe Tryd had not stood out as much, a thought that felt almost rude, but Mira concluded that in general they did have more unique personalities. She was only a bit conflicted about how to feel being included in that group.

At least the three’s response had been more positive than she anticipated, so Mira felt a wave of relief. She had been worried that they would doubt a real girl could act that way, but instead she learned how tenacious adventurer women could be, and how accepting of others they were too.

Barely a moment passed and the three girls’ behavior changed again.

「This means we have to pick inner pants for a manly rank A adventurer who wears magical girl style clothes. That feels like a lot of responsibility, but we’ll have to do our best!」
「Yeah! This is an urgent mission!」
「We’ll carry it out with our lives.」

In their minds, Mira had gone from being a lost beginner in their hobby to a high ranking adventurer they admired, which was especially fuelled by how well Mira’s outfit suited her. But that also made them feel more envious about her.

Moreover, they had just been tasked with selecting inner pants for that person they started looking up to, so their motivation was at an all time high.

Usually inner pants were simply something worn to protect the wearer from accidentally showing their underwear, avoiding embarrassing situations. But that preconception was different when it came to a high ranking adventurer like Mira.

It was common for adventurers of that caliber to move around a lot while fighting, even if they were spellcasters. That only got worse the higher the ranks were, so almost no one wore skirts in the realm of rank A adventurers.

So for Mira, the chance of her underwear being revealed went from being a small possibility to a certainty, which made Milet stress how carefully they had to be when choosing something for Mira.

They quickly decided that they had to find something that was resilient, could be worn in any situation, and would compliment Mira’s outfit nicely, proceeding with that mindset without even giving her room to interject.

And so Mira had to endure feeling their hands revealing every corner of her body, as they wanted to make sure they would find something perfect for her.

「This one looks cute.」
「I think this would match nicely color-wise, so we should keep it around.」
「What about something more lingerie-esque?」

The three gathered a large number of inner pants on the table of the fitting room and began discussing between them. They would pick one after the other, get Mira to wear it, and then check her appearance from various angles and with her skirt turned up to make sure it would work in any situation.

They had no intention to compromise on anything.

Regardless, in just a few minutes Mira had become close enough with the three for all of them to feel comfortable showing their underwear to each other, though it was hard to say whether that happened because they were adventurers, or because the three were such fanatics of magical girl style clothing.

Mira was also elated to have befriended a group of young girls, though that quickly turned to dismay as she remained stuck there for longer.

(Why…why did it have to end this way…)

She had asked them for help picking inner pants, believing she could trust their judgment as they had been girls for longer, but as they started trying out different sets on her, they quickly ended up treating Mira as a dress up doll for inner pants.

「Why don’t we try something with a more mature vibe to it?」
「That sounds good. I saw many that came out last month, I’ll go grab them.」
「They didn’t fit us back then, but maybe they’ll work on Mira.」

Their drive showed no signs of slowing down as they expanded their search. It was hard to say whether they were sound in mind, but at least they were taking it very seriously, so Mira could not say anything, even though she really wished she had told them that something more simple would work, as long as it did not look weird.