33-Chapter 2-6 Unexpected rewards and retaliation

Wow, I'm Primera von Sangha, commander of the Fourth Squadron, of the Knights of Gunjo. I have been entrusted with full authority on this matter.

And I introduced myself with a straight spine.

"Sangha?

Captain....I was curious about the same name (thing) as the head of this dukedom attached to Primera's name.

I hurriedly used the appraisal.

Name... Primera Von Sangha.

Age...20

Race... human race.

Title: Third daughter of the Duke of Sangha, commander of the Fourth Squadron of Knights of the City of Gunjo

And I got it. She was really the daughter of a duke (a good place).

'Yes, she's the third daughter of a duke, but only in passing.

'Okay. So what do we do now?

And he continues to talk like it's not that important.

'Um, what do you want to do about...'

So it's a deal. If you don't, I'll take it somewhere else.

Will you do it?

Really? Primera asks, "What do you mean? Your attitude is very different from the first...

'If you're going to make a down payment and write a testimonial, accept the deal in later installments. But not jewelry.

'The jewels are more important, sir, but...'

And then he pulls back, but

''Can you pay, a large sum of money, over 20 million g's, in one lump sum? This one will almost certainly be worth more than that if we put it up for auction.

And let me make it clear that this one is non-negotiable.

I understand. But please refrain from displaying them for a while. I will consult with my father...the Duke of Sangha.

I agreed conditionally with a shrug of my shoulders.

'I understand. If possible, please respond within ten days. The deadline for the auction item is near.''

The guild should be able to register their items, but I'd like to hear their response as soon as possible so that we can decide on our future plans.

Once we've reached an agreement, we'll sign a contract with the guild as a witness. With the bounty of killing the bandits, the sale of slaves, the sale of weapons and the rescue of Serna and the others, a total of 4.5 million G's was paid, with 500,000 G's as a down payment immediately after this, and the rest was settled with 2 million G's to be paid two months later and another 2 million G's to be paid two months after that.

'Then I'll hand over the bandit and the body to you. Where shall we put the body?

When I asked him, he told me to take the prisoners away as is, but to take out the corpses at the Knight's headquarters. They must have thought it would be bad to expose the corpse here.

I agreed, and when I approached the carriage carrying the bandits to bring Banza in, Banza noticed me and was frightened and had a hard time. The knights were also a little scared, as I was causing a lot of attraction and leaking.

Banza will be put to death and the others will be sent to the mine as slaves, they said.

When the situation was settled, Serna approached with a man.

'Thank you very much for saving Serna. My name is Serna's uncle, Marcus.

He greeted them politely. I wanted the knights to have at least half.............or about a quarter of this courtesy.

This Marx-san is Serna's mother's brother, and he's an excellent person who became the assistant treasurer of the council without any great connections (according to Flute).

'No, I just happened to have to help him out...'

But that doesn't mean I didn't get him out!

He repeatedly thanked her and kept his head down until Serna stopped him.

After that, I pulled Serna-san up to take her to the doctor's office, but at the end, I told her to come to me whenever she needed help, and she left.

After that, I went to the Knights' headquarters to write the contract. Mr. Flute accompanied me as a witness. At that time, he asked me to put the corpse out in a corner of the training camp, so I put the iced corpse in a pile and some of the knights and soldiers who were watching me spat it out on the spot, and some ran to the bathroom.

They were enchanted so that those who could use ice magic wouldn't melt, so they wouldn't have to worry about them rotting.

Three copies of the same contract were written in Flute's presence, and me, the Knights and the Guild were to keep each of them.

We're going to have to go back to the guild after leaving the headquarters, but it was late, so we each went back to the inn and decided to show up at the guild in the afternoon of the next day.

When we headed to the Manchurian Tavern, we were greeted by an old man. It looks like the bar is closed today.

It seems that Tenma is safe. I have heard that you were attacked by bandits and fought back alone, and that you blackmailed the knights.

He seemed to be starting to twitch slightly at the truth, and he went through the reception process, correcting himself.

Here's the key.

He gave me a key to the same room as before.

'But that was really fast, you said you were due in a few days, so the room hasn't been cleaned yet.

'Yeah, I'll at least clean it up myself, and I might go out again in ten days or so.

I told him about the auction.

'That's a lot of money! I don't think that's what a rookie earns.

I was surprised. Then the lady came out of the house.

Have a seat at the table. Tenma just got home.

And then he turned to me and warned his father.

Welcome back, Temma. You can have dinner with the leftovers if you want.

Please.

And we were served dinner. The lady said it was leftovers, but she had made some extra chicken with herbs. It was pretty good, so I'll try to make it next time I get the recipe.

When we finished eating, we felt tired, so we decided to go back to our room and go to sleep.

'Old man, old man, I'm going to go to bed today, good night.

Yeah, good night.

Good night.

The two of them saw me off and went back to my usual room. When I walked into the room, I felt like I was home and I could feel myself settling in.

'Sounds more like mental exhaustion than physical exhaustion. Let's go to bed early and go take a bath in the morning.'

A nearby bathhouse is useful for those who work the night shift, as they fill up the bathwater early in the morning.

Good night. Slarin', Shiroumaru.

I opened the bag and called out to the two animals, but what came back was snoring.

I chuckled and closed the bag and pulled the covers over me.

The next day, I woke up to find Shiroumar and Slarin's faces in front of me. Shiroumar was halfway out of the bag, peering in.

'Good morning you two. What's up?

At the same time, a grand sound came from Shiroumaru's stomach.

All right. Let's have dinner.

I said, and they slipped back into their bags as fast as they could.

I chuckled as I dressed and went out into the garden.

I cooked a meal for Shiroumaru and his friends, mainly vegetables. Slarin was pleased with the food, but Shiroumaru was not happy with it.

Shiroumaru glanced at me, but eventually gave up and took a bite of the vegetables.

I also decided to eat breakfast and head to the guild early.

The guild was busy even before noon, but it was quiet for a moment as I entered. Every now and then I would hear a small voice talking about Banza and the others, but no one spoke to me directly.

I'm not going to be able to get to the board and look at the request form in order.

I found a special request to kill a demon called Rockbird in the mountains about half a day away from this city.

There is no limit to the number of defeats or ranks of a special request, and it can be accepted by anyone who is registered to this registry, and as long as this request form is posted, it is a valid request. You don't even need to apply for an order for the request.

Apparently, the number of rockbirds is increasing and they want you to thin them out before they do any damage.

Rockbirds have feathers as hard as stone and cannot be mortally wounded with ordinary weapons. On top of that, they are said to be bird-shaped demons that are 1.2 to 3 meters long, with a wingspan of more than 3 meters, and have a high flying ability that makes them difficult to defeat alone.

However, their feathers are used for ornaments, weapons and armor, and their flesh is used for food. Meat is especially popular among women because it is delicious and low in fat.

And let's not forget eggs. Eggs are highly nutritious and have a rich taste, and the price per gram (gram) is higher than that of meat. The shells are thick and tough, so they are used to make processed goods.

For a strike fee of 1000g per bird, the material belongs to the attacker. That sounds like a pretty good request. We should go and take them down tomorrow.

I'm going to see if there are any other requests that look good, but none of them attracted me more than Rockbird.

As I was looking at the request, I was called by Flute, who noticed me.

'Mr. Temma. Please come here for a moment.

What's going on around you? So he looked at me and Mr. Flute, but he seemed to lose interest immediately, especially since Mr. Flute wasn't in a hurry.

'What's going on?'

I spoke to Mr. Flute at the counter and was immediately ushered into the back room.

I walked into the reception room behind the counter and sat down in a chair.

Congratulations. Mr. Temma has risen to a C grade.

Mr. Flute said and clapped his hands.

'....Huh?

I sounded dumbfounded, and Mr. Flute said

''I contacted the guild leader in the royal capital about Banza's case with my magic tools, and he replied that I should raise his rank then, so Tenma-san's rank increase has been officially approved.

That was the point.

'Isn't that too easy? And the test?

And since things were going so easily, I asked him anyway.

No problem. It's a special power of the guild leader. But this is not a favoritism, it's a matter of precedent.

And then he told me about that precedent.

There was a time when a noble adventurer, when he was just starting out, contributed to the security of the city by capturing a wanted criminal. The criminals at that time were quite skilled and formed a clique, so he once raised their rank from E to C as an exception.

Since then, a special exception was made to raise the rank to C for those who performed similarly.

By the way, ranks can only be raised to C.

That's why my rank was raised to C because that special exception was applied to my performance this time.

Well, considering your performance so far, it's not surprising that you're ranked B.

Mr. Flute said with a laugh.

'Well, I'll take it gratefully, then.

I gave the guild card to Mr. Flute. He would give me an updated one later.

When I walked out of the reception room, Lily and the others were there. The three of them were surrounded by other adventurers (mostly men).

I just watched them (because it wouldn't be a bad idea if I called out to them), but Mr. Flute was

'Miss Lily, Miss Nellie, Miss Millie. Mr. Tenma is waiting for you.

I dropped the bomb loudly. Lilly and the others reacted to those words and came to me through the adventurers with their ears pinned up and slurped. On the other hand, very happily, Flute-san was laughing. Absolutely on purpose!

Morning, Temma!

Sorry, wait?

I'm sorry to keep you waiting.

He greets me as usual.

'No, I just came early because I had to run some errands,'

I replied, and the three of them said something shoujo-like, even though that's where they were going to say, "We just got here" or "We were waiting to see you because we wanted to see you sooner".

What do you guys think I am? I was tempted to ask, but decided it was best to ignore it.

'I need to talk to you all about a request, please come this way.

I was ushered into the same parlor as before.

Inside, in an L-shape, I sat in a single chair and the three of us sat in the same chair. Mr. Flute sat in the chair in front of the three of us.

'I'm very sorry for the inconvenience caused by the guild's inadequacies.

I put my head down. We didn't have a choice, I said.

'Normally, except for emergencies, I would have my client write a form for identification, but that form was incomplete.

This was the case. The possibility that this kind of thing could have happened because of the inexperienced rookie who dealt with the paperwork deficiency.

Therefore, as an apology, it has been decided that an annoyance fee of 10,000 G will be added to the original compensation.

Saying that, Mr. Flute placed a bag containing 15,000g in front of us.

''Does this include hush money?''

Flute-san shook her head at my question.

''No, I will put this matter up on the guild's internal bulletin board. So this is purely a nuisance charge.

He laughed bitterly. They originally wanted to keep it hidden, but since I had an exchange with the knights in front of the gate, it's possible that quite a few people know about this, and if they hide it poorly, their trust in me might fall to the ground, so they're going to make it public.

I'm sorry.

I bowed my head, but Mr. Flute.

''It can't be helped since the knights had a problem this time. Never mind that.　

He said.

After that, we told him the details of what happened in that village and then we disbanded.

After that, me and the three of us decided to split the amount of money that was currently paid.

I tried to divide it equally among the four of us, but Lily and the others were against it. The reason for this is that this request was like a joint request by the Tenma (me) and my family and the Wildcat Princess, so it's common sense to divide the reward in two. I wasn't quite convinced, but when Lily and the others told me that if it had been Wildcat Princess alone who received the request, I reluctantly decided to follow their lead.

That and the dash boa that Shiroumaru and the others hunted are completely ours, I heard, but I decided to give away the three boas. The three of them refrained from giving it to us, but we decided to give it to them halfway through, saying that since we defeated them during the request, the three of them had the right to do so.

Afterwards, we had lunch with the three of us and decided to rent a dismantling place behind the guild to dismantle the boa. We had to make a reservation at the dismantling place originally, but it happened to be available, so we were able to rent it for three hours at 300G per hour. There are professional staff at the dismantling yard to help us.

Including King, we had seven boas. Thanks to the workers, we were able to dismantle the whole thing in about two and a half hours. They were very happy when we gave them a piece of meat and a piece of meat (motsu) as a thank you for their help. They said it was more difficult to eat the fresh guts than the meat, and although it was hard to process, it was worth it.

The three of them will sell all the entrails and most of the meat to a butcher they know, and the rest of the meat will be made into a side dish for the evening. The material was being picked up by the guild.

I decided to sell the material to the guild, with the exception of a few boa bones. The bones are a treat for Shilomar.

As for the meat, I have a magic bag, so I decided to keep it instead of selling it.

We found out that the king's material is more than twice the price of ordinary boas. Fur in particular was five times or more.

Normally I would be happy about it, but the amount of money I got from defeating the bandits was too large, so I only felt it was something like that.

We left the three of us in front of the guild, but it was halfway through the day to do something. So.

Okay, let's go for it.

And he came to the outside of the gate. From there he walked a little way to the field and called for Shiroumar.

'Shiroumar, sit down!'

Won!

He ordered and pulled something out of the bag. At that moment, Shiroumar tried to run away.

"Shiroumar, wait!

Kuhn.

Suddenly, Shiroumaru cries weakly. His gaze is focused on the homemade soap (...) I have in my possession.

I ignore Shiroumaru's gaze and wet him with my water magic technique. Shiroumaru is reluctant to do so, but he listens to my commands and stays still.

I rub the soap on Shiroumaru and make a lather, and in half an hour, Shiroumaru, the foam dharma, is ready. After rinsing off the foam, Shiroumaru appeared with a shameful look on his face.

After about 10 minutes, I rinsed the hair with water.

The only thing left to do was to dry the hair, when Shiroumaru shook his body. That was already a bold move.

As a result, I was drenched. Shiroumaru was trying to move away from me, trying not to make any noise, but　

Shiroumaru. Wait.

Shiroumaru sat up straighter than usual at the words "I'm sorry," he said. I slowly walked in front of Shiroumaru. That's when Shiroumaru showed his belly to me.

'What are you doing, Shiroumaru!

Shiroumaru reacted to the voice and twisted around even more. By the time he got up, he was a brown wolf. Shilomaru, who didn't seem to realize what he had done, decided to become a foam dharma once more.

It took longer than expected. By the time he got back to the inn, the sun was setting and the area was about to get dark. Shiroumaru was slumped in his bag, due to the fact that he had been carefully washed since then.

'Oh, Temma. Welcome back... you're not dressed any differently, are you?

The old man asked me about it, so I told him about Shiroumaru and he burst out laughing. Hearing his voice, the landlady came over and asked him why, and he laughed as well. Furthermore, all the guests who were familiar to me also laughed in the same way.

This was the moment when Shiroumaru's decision to skip dinner was made.