Light Novel Volume 15

'''Goblin Slayer! Volume 15' is the fifteenth light novel of the Goblin Slayer'' series.

Official Synopsis

 * A centaur princess goes missing in the frontier town, and the blame falls squarely on Heavy Warrior—thus, he asks Goblin Slayer to investigate the girl’s disappearance. This leads Goblin Slayer and his party to the water town, where Sword Maiden tells them about the lost Silver Star. But how will the pips on the dice land in Goblin Slayer’s search for both the star and the centaur...?

Chapters

 * Chapter 1: Rescue the Princess!
 * Chapter 2: Stay Away From Goblins!
 * Interlude: One Mustn'nt Lose to a Worthy Opponent
 * Chapter 3: Find Silver Blaze!
 * Interlude: Be Careful of Your Contacts
 * Chapter 4: Flush Out the Mastermind!
 * Interlude: Corner the Assassin!
 * Chapter 5: Leave It to an Adventurer!

Chapter 1
At twilight in the Frontier town, a young Centaur girl, a "Baturu" as she calls herself, enters the town fully equipped with a long bow and daisho broad sword. She silently and cautiously, but still with purpose, marches to the Dear Friend's Ax Tavern and spies Centaur Waitress who she clearly admires greatly. Baturu approaches her, but is disgusted when Centaur Waitress is serving people and appears to be getting too friendly with a customer drawing Baturu's ire. Baturu draws her sword to defend the Waitress, revealed to be her older sister, and despite missing her strike, demands the man "hand over the Princess", both Centaur Waitress and Heavy Warrior just stare at Baturu in complete and utter confusion at the situation that had just unfolded.

The next day, chaos had unfolded at the Adventurer's Guild, Goblin Slayer walked up to discover that Baturu had not given up hounding Heavy Warrior despite her older sister, Centaur Waitress, trying to quell her. The site was enough to cause Female Knight to get involve and seriously put Heavy Warrior on the spot as the rest of his Party abandoned him to the ladies. The rest of Goblin Slayer's Party had also gathered around with Dwarf Shaman and Lizard Priest giving Heavy Warrior support, High Elf Archer enjoying the chaos that had unfolded, and Priestess trying to act as a mediator. With Priestess's insistence, Guild Girl allows the two Parties to take the Centaur ladies into a meeting room to explain the situation.

During the meeting, Centaur Waitress gets her sister to open up to Priestess, who explains that a Princess of their tribe, a beautiful woman with a silver streak in his hair, had run off to become an Adventurer at the behest of an Adventurer with a greatsword and has not been heard of since. Baturu deduced that Heavy Warrior was the Adventurer in question and demanded he return the "kidnapped" Princess and will hear nothing else much to her sister's annoyance. Priestess, naturally, reminds Baturu that the concept of a "Black Knight wielding a Greatsword" is actually a common theme among Adventurers, both male and female, and that alone isn't enough to incriminate Heavy Warrior. Despite this revelation, the meeting goes no where until Goblin Slayer surprises everyone by announcing he'll take the case to exonerate Heavy Warrior and find the Centaur Princess.

Downstairs, both Guild Girl and Inspector quickly comb through their Adventurer sheets for greatsword wielders and any recent Centaur applicants. During their research they become shocked at how many greatsword wielders the Guild has registered but find no Centaurs, let alone a Centaur woman, leading Guild Girl to deduce that the Centaur Princess more than likely registered in the Water Town given the Capital would've been too far away. Inspector agrees and asks Goblin Slayer to have Baturu agree to be "interrogated" by her Sense Lie Miracle to further validate her story and hopefully exonerate Heavy Warrior.