Taylor/History

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Early Life

Not much had been revealed of Taylor's early life prior to him becoming an adventurer who fought as a Crusader of the Eris Order, and he was already leading Keith and Rin on adventures by the time Dust saved them from being overwhelmed by monsters outside Axel.

Irregular of Axel Arc

Taylor was one of the adventurers Megumin took notice of upon her arrival at Axel when his whole party celebrated a profitable quest.

Beginner Adventurer Arc

When an emergency broadcast by the Guild called for adventurers to gather outside the city, Taylor hurriedly led Rin and Keith towards the city gate, and didn't dawdle on his surprise at Dust who was dragging along a huge cart of Tomatoes. He soon witnessed the fierce battle against Beldia, before the flood summoned by Aqua put an end to it. Taylor afterwards received the rewards from the Guild for participating in the battle against the Devil King's General, while making comments about Dust who had missed the deadline for participating in the profitable emergency quest.

Deep Winter Arc

Taylor was talking at the Guild with Rin and Keith about the exploits of the nearby Darkness, Megumin, and Aqua during the prior battle with Beldia, when Dust audibly taunted Satou Kazuma for having a harem of fine ladies despite being the weakest Class. This set off an argument between the two, which cumulated in Dust and Kazuma switching parties for a day. As Taylor and his party set out on a quest against Goblins that settled surprisingly close to a nearby road, Kazuma who initially was assigned to bear their luggage surprised them by Enemy Detecting a Beginner's Bane heading their way before hiding everybody with Lurk until it walked passed. Carrying some of his own luggage because of Rin's newfound respect for Kazuma, Taylor and the others hurried towards the Goblins unexpectedly numbering a full score. Yet despite a tough fight at the start, the quest soon became a piece of cake thanks to Kazuma's skillful application of various basic magic, prompting him along with Rin and Keith to praise the Adventurer on the way home. Their return however was blocked by the Beginner's Bane which had turned back and started chasing them, though just as Taylor was about to stay behind and cover for Kazuma's escape, the Adventurer in question blinded the monster with basic magic to allow the whole party to flee. Returning to the Guild late at night, where they were greeted by an apologetic Dust who had a disastrous day with the three pretty but incompetent troublemakers, Taylor ended up complying with his plea of them returning to their previous parties.

During the attack of the Mobile Fortress Destroyer, Taylor accompanied his party to the emergency meeting at the Guild, and also joined the storming of it following its immobilization. He was one of the first to discover the remains of the Head Researcher, and subsequent to Aqua's reciting of the dead idiot's diary, evacuated the fortress with the other adventurers while Kazuma sought ways to prevent its self-detonation.

Late Winter Arc

Taylor was one of the adventurers who witnessed Kazuma's arrest for treason by Sena, and later listened in on his trial. He afterwards lauded Kazuma again for his adaptability with magic, before ignoring the complaints of poverty from Dust. Some time later, Taylor led Rin and Keith on an effort to ignore Dust's pleas of borrowing money as a means to teach the spendthrift delinquent a lesson.

Early Spring Arc

Having teamed up with a temporary party member introduced by the Guild to replace Dust during his fortnight of incarceration, Taylor ignored the grumblings of his delinquent companion following his release, and subsequently headed out with his reformed party on a quest against Goblins near Keele's Dungeon. Arriving in the area at sundown and setting up camp, Taylor as well as Rin and Keith let the temporary member go to sleep first so he could keep watch while they slept later on. The trio was thus surprised when Dust showed up warning them that the temporary member was actually an accomplice of a criminal organisation aiming to kidnap Rin, an account which they believed upon a pink-haired petite girl and a noble covering his face with a helmet who traveled alongside Dust confirming it. After the sleeping accomplice was given a traumatising nightmare by the pink-haired girl, Taylor expressed his gratitude towards Dust, though he still let him stand watch while everybody else slept some hours later.

Making it back to Axel the next day, Taylor agreed with the decision to reward Dust with all of the reparation money paid by the Guild for recommending a criminal into their party, though its ensuing seizure by Vanir forced the four of them to head out for quests.

Magical Stones Arc

Taylor with his party mainly hung around the Guild during that period, and subsequent to the vanquishing of the Imitation Dragon also participated in the celebrations.

Cursed Relic Arc

Due to landing themselves into debt from gambling, Taylor as well as Keith during that period were forced to work faraway, leaving Dust and Rin behind to join Kazuma's adventuring.

Early Summer Arc

When Kazuma one day offered to pay adventurers at the Guild who would help Darkness defeat the Kowloon Hydra dwelling in a nearby lake, Taylor also signed up to join the high-risk but high-return endeavour. Under Kazuma's instructions, he and other front-line adventurers lacking Darkness' toughness covered for the supporting adventurers, then once all of the monster's eight heads were Binded with wire that rope was soon hooked onto, helped the other adventurers heave the Hydra ashore and stop it from fleeing back into the lake. Following the vanquishing of the monster that during the battle swallowed Dust, the sight of his partially dissolved body made Taylor give up hope, until Aqua managed to Resurrect the delinquent.

Having received a considerable amount of rewards from participating in the Hydra's vanquishing, Taylor decided to take it easy and not take quests for a while, before expressing nonchalance at Dust's panicked claim about Rin getting a boyfriend.

On the day of Darkness' marriage to Alderp, like other adventurers in the city, Taylor also gathered at the church of Eris where the wedding ceremony was held in hopes of glimpsing the rare sight of the Crusader dressed as a bride, though the governor's guards kept them from drawing too close. Soon witnessing those guards sent flying by Megumin's Explosion and Kazuma's ensuing escape from the church with Darkness, he ignored Alderp's command to capture Kazuma's fleeing party.

Accompanying his party on a quest for exploring some ancient ruins one day, upon Dust accidentally discovering a hidden passageway leading from the derelict abode of the dungeon's master, Taylor with Keith in tow investigated the doorway within leading right while the others searched the left one. After finding nothing of interest inside the room beyond, the two of them suddenly felt sluggish on top of losing motivation to continue exploring, and even the lewd books presented by Dust after they rendezvoused with him and Rin didn't feel remarkable to Taylor. Trudging with the others back to Axel, he on the following day lethargically declared unwillingness to do anything for the next several days but rest.

Taylor some days afterwards heard Dust declare in the Guild his plan for treating them to a rehabilitation trip at Arcanletia, something he didn't pay heed to until hearing that it was funded by the tickets gifted from Kazuma. On the day of the trip, Taylor was introduced to Yunyun at the carriage terminal where their companions assembled, and after a lot draw for deciding seating, he and the other two men in his party rode in one carriage while the girls rode with Vanir on the other.

Following an uneventful day of traveling, the caravan made camp along the highway leading to Arcanletia, and without anything else to do, Taylor went to sleep early. Yet during the night, he had an especially awful nightmare about himself and Keith lustfully trying to rape Dust, prompting Taylor to spend the rest of the trip on the ensuing day resting. His situation still didn't improve upon arrival at Arcanletia, where on the way to the inn he had soap, hot spring water, and conversion forms forced onto him by followers of the Axis Order who made up most of the city's population. Later passing by the three girls who had retreated from the inn's hot springs all embarrassed, Taylor with Keith in tow found Dust in the mixed baths, then expressed surprise at the delinquent declaring that he had enough with women and preferred having men as friends.

Like his other companions sans Dust who woke up late, on the following day Taylor was approached on the streets by all sorts of conversion attempts by Axis followers, and returned to the inn all traumatised and stuffed full of conversion forms. He thus declined Chris' idea of hitting back at the city of lunatics despite wanting to exact some payback, yet once hearing the Thief bring up the subject of the lewd books that Dust had secretly circulated in Axel possibly becoming the subject of investigation by the Eris Order, Taylor afraid of being seen as an accomplice tried returning his share of the contraband's sales in order to escape responsibility, and had no choice but to comply upon Dust agreeing to help Chris.

When the delinquent worked on his plan of letting the Thief dress up as Eris and perform great deeds for elevating the status of Eris followers, Taylor became unnerved when reminded him how suicidal walking around like that in the headquarters the hostile Axis Order was, and breathed a sigh of relief upon Dust scrapping the idea. Suddenly hearing the Axis followers outside clamouring about a Demon at the fountain plaza, the Crusader followed them and Chris who was still in her costume to the location, where he found Vanir alongside Lolisa on a stage. Subsequent to the masked man disparaging the patron goddess of the Axis Order by listing Aqua's indolent and rascal antics, which the lunatics instead appreciated as part of their teachings, Taylor found Dust's lifestyle very similar to the Axis followers. Next hearing Vanir declare selling the Axis followers photobooks of Aqua at half price, he at Dust's sudden coercion was compelled into helping sell the product, though they turned out to be photobooks of Vanir instead. Soon pursued alongside his travelling companions by the extremely furious Axis followers, Taylor successfully escaped back to the inn thanks to Dust splitting off and leading the mob to him.

The exhausted group afterwards took the carriage back to Axel, determined not to set foot in Arcanletia ever again, though Taylor still kept his share of the photobooks' sales. Once they arrived at the gates of Axel, however, he became surprised by the guards as well as the townsfolk acting sluggish from lack of motivation to work. Heading for the Guild with his party, Taylor found the employees limply lazing around, a phenomenon which according to Rin and Dust was identical to what he and Keith had suffered while exploring the ancient ruins. After hearing from the sluggish Luna how people all over the city began turning more and more lethargic ever since their party's trip to Arcanletia, Taylor began discussing possible causes of the phenomenon that may make them too lose motivation over time.

Accordingly visiting Kazuma's mansion for information, the four of them only discovered Yunyun loitering around its entrance because the residents were all out, so at the Crimson Demon's suggestion they went asking Vanir for advice. In Wiz's Shop where they found Wiz crispily zapped for falling to a con scheme, the gang was advised by Vanir to head back into the ruins for finding what was draining motivation from people before Axel's residents starve to death. Without anyone else in the city capable of helping, Taylor joined his party as well as Yunyun and Lolisa on the journey there. Yet following their carriage ride to the ruins, he lost all motivation to go on and thus stayed at the entrance, until jolted awake by a powerful tremor.

Faced with the Prototype Destroyer bursting out from the ruins, Taylor was inspired by Dust valiantly motivating them to destroy to scaled-down version of the Mobile Fortress Destroyer before it destroys Axel, and proceeded to shield Rin and Yunyun from the construct's attacks while they prepared their spells. Returning to the remotivated Axel subsequent to the Prototype Destroyer's explosive destruction, Taylor was given a generous share of rewards by the Guild, where his party and Kazuma's partied along with other adventurers.

At some point during the period, as a party leader who had to manage two troublemakers, Taylor privately went meeting with Kazuma so they could both vent about the woes their party members had caused them.

Mid Summer Arc

Told at the Guild by Dust about Vanir requesting the collection of fruits from Tranquility Girls to serve as ingredients for dietary snacks, Taylor accepted the job despite not willing to kill the humanoid plant, and refuted his party members' ensuing criticism about the person who once cut down one of those alluring monsters being cruel, resulting in Kazuma treating him to a drink for some reason. Following Luna's lead about a Tranquility Girl sighted in the forests near the picturesque riverhead lake, the party found dozens of adventurers wandering around the area.

Eventually discovering the Tranquility Girl inside the forest, Taylor became enthralled by the plant that looked like a little girl, though after being given one of its addictive fruits filled with narcotics, he couldn't stand it when Dust began pressuring the Tranquility Girl into eating its own fruits, before feeling sorry for the delinquent after he confessed having scavenged rubbish cans for leftover food. After return to Axel, the Crusader waited around at the Guild while Dust went to hand Vanir the fruits, though he later refused another run there for the purpose of more fruits in addition to eliminating the Tranquility Girl.

When the time came for eliminating the masses of summer monsters so that people could hold the upcoming Eris Appreciation Festival in peace, Taylor also joined in the days of questing against insect monsters within the forest, despite mishaps on the first day such as Megumin blowing down adventurers with a surprise Explosion and attracting more monsters than they can handle.

Late Summer Arc

With Rin having accepted a job from Vanir for delivering some junk inventory to a reseller based at the royal capital, Taylor alongside his party marveled at the prosperity of Belzerg's core, then became surprised at Dust being more concerned with completing the delivery instead of staying around for sightseeing. Subsequent to witnessing a royal knight and wizard leading a search for somebody and the party expressing more sympathy towards the abnormally serious delinquent, Taylor decided to walk around alone once the delivery was completed because Dust wanted to go rest at their inn.

Heading to drink at the Guild with Keith one night, the Crusader noticed Dust who was said to have already left after drinking drunkenly staggering in while wearing a mask similar to that of Vanir. Although perplexed to find the delinquent bewilderedly responding to them inviting him over for drinks with courteous feminine tones, all the questions were thrown to the wind upon Dust proclaiming that he would treat everybody at the Guild to meals and drinks. Taylor accordingly reiterated what had happened when the delinquent suddenly appeared confused about the situation before taking off the mask, then stopped Dust from causing a ruckus once he tried to bar the other adventurers from ordering at his expense.

Asked by Dust a couple of days later to help distract the security detail of the royal castle, Taylor without prying into the details agreed to aid him. That night once Claire and Rain led a band of soldiers out of the royal castle in response to Megumin's Explosion outside the city, he started a gig with Keith in which they loudly talked about the popular dietary snack being on a sale in limited numbers, and successfully helped sow confusion among the soldiers' ranks.

At some point during the period, Taylor in the Guild heard Dust uncharacteristically declare his intent to earn money through working hard, something he should have been doing from the start, but then turned puzzled over Rin becoming skeptical with the quest that the delinquent had accepted which entailed capturing a Giant Toad alive, before the quest was later cancelled, followed by his party being paid the cancellation fee.