A/N:

Beware of YURI: seriously, what else did you expect in a K-ON fanfic?

You might see some familiar Dungeon and Dragon elements here, but this is not a D&D fiction. You can count on me to break D&D settings and rules as often as I see fit. In fact I think the deviation is large enough that WotC wouldn't be able to sue me :)

I have been writing this in Chinese for over a year now, and I must be crazy to even attempt the translation of this into English. This is my first time writing anything remotely literary in English, so please do send me suggestions if you spot an awkward sentence or two. Or three. Or a whole lot.

If you read Chinese, feel free to go to my blog for the latest update; I think there's a link in my profile. If you read Chinese and think you are up to the task of translating, LET ME KNOW! After working on the first few chapters, I really think I should spend my time writing new stuff, rather than translating...

The spring always comes late in the North. It was nearing the end of March, and the weather had only begun to turn warmer recently. Yet the small town was still dotted with snow from the previous night.

The snow on this road had been cleared, though; it was after all the only major street of the town. If you walked along the road toward the town limit, the shops on both sides quickly gave way to residences, and you could see the mothers greeting each other while sending their kids out to school.

Similar scene was also enacted at the Hirasawa residence, but neither the person leaving nor the person seeing her off fit into the picture... Not that Ui wasn't the motherly figure of the house, but the one she's sending off was a certain Hirasawa Yui, who didn't appear younger at all, and was indeed older by a year.

"Are you sure about this, Onee-chan? Maybe I really ought to go with you..." Ui said. The natural airhead sister of hers was her eternal liability.

"No problem!" Yui gave her worried sister a thumb up, displaying her perfectly groundless confidence. "You know your Onee-chan is an experienced adventurer; a few bandits on the way aren't any threat at all. And how can the Town Patrol do without you?"

It was true that Ui, as the captain and the martial art instructor of the Town Patrol, can't just leave the town on her whim.

"But, Onee-chan is going alone. What if, what if something bad happens?"

Yui felt that she was looked down upon and protested, "I am just going to the city to deliver a letter for the old lady next door; it's not like I am going fight a dragon. And I HAVE slain a dragon before... "

Yui's protesting went on and on. Ui was thinking: it's true that her older sister was a high-level fighter, and they HAD slain a red dragon at one point during their past adventurer's life. But then they also had other trusty teammates helping out. Then again, Yui wasn't wrong that the "mission" was a simple FedEx errand; she just had to follow the well-maintained highway into the nearest city. It's kind of far, but what's the danger? Maybe a few bandits, but rather unlikely. And possibly a grizzle waking up from hibernation. Yui wasn't reliable, but there shouldn't be anything that could harm her... Right?

Ui was still worried even after Yui had departed.

The Hirasawas were a family of famed adventurers. The exploits, both heroic and romantic, of Mr. and Mrs. Hirasawa had been the favorites of bards across the Realm. They retired temporarily from adventuring after they had Yui, and by then they had already reached the so-called "mythological levels", gaining powers far exceeding what most mortals could ever hope for.

When Ui became able to take care of Yui by herself, the senior Hirasawas once again resumed their adventuring life style, and they were probably wandering in who-know-which alternate plane of existence at the very moment. As the family friends they entrusted their young children to were also adventurers, the Hirasawa sisters started their own adventuring career very early.

Withing just a few years, even though still lagging far behind her parents, Ui had earned herself a reputation. You could just go to any local watering hole close by, and listen to the latest tales of heroes and heroines in the realm. "The second daughter of the Hirasawas" would be the first one getting mentioned, barring only those handful of famous characters in the mythological levels, each about as powerful as a demi-god.

And Yui? Just look at her stats, you would conclude that she's on par with Ui. If she doesn't goof up, that is.

And you know that's just impossible.

One note on character levels:

The level cap in the Realm of Light Music is 25. Anything past 25 are referred to as mythological. Only a few characters who have more love from the author will see the cap-removal mod installed. Or in the case of Mr and Mrs Hirasawa, characters who are supposed to be strong yet won't appear in the main storyline.

Our beloved HTT girls are all at or close to lv 25, with the exception of Azusa, who is somewhere around 15-20.