55-Chapter 3-10 Tamers Guild (tentative)

There are a total of four men surrounding Aimee. I quickly pull on Aimee's arm and get out of the men's enclosure.

At the same time, Shiroumaru leaps over us and takes the men's back. Above us, Solomon is flying around. Slarin, say..........................and before we knew it, he was at the feet of the men.

The situation is now completely sandwiched between the men, and we have a definite advantage.

''Wait, wait a minute! We're not suspicious!

One of the men will plead his case.

That's what everyone says when they're suspicious.

I cut the man's words to pieces. The men were in a panic.

Um, sir........these people are tamer........

Amy said, and I couldn't help but think.

You want Solomon!

And he was about to take up an offensive stance when....

"W-wait, wait, wait, wait! We're just here to recruit you guys!

When I checked with Amy, it seems that the man was right, he was just trying to invite me and Amy to their gathering. He was on his way to visit me when he happened to see Aimee, so he called out to her first, and this is what happened when I saw him.

''........Is this true?''

I swear to God, it's true!

In my opinion, that's not material to trust, but he doesn't seem to be lying.

'I beg your pardon. I spoke too soon.

I apologized honestly, but the men didn't seem particularly bothered by it.

'No, I've heard about what's been going on with you lately, so I don't blame you for misunderstanding.

And he forgave me. The latest situation is that some people have been trying to kidnap Solomon. I've fought off both of them, and I'm doing my O-HA-NA-SHI to make sure they don't happen again, but those kinds of idiots show up on a regular basis.

At any rate, I decided to bring Shiroumaru and the others back to my side and listen to the guys. They don't seem to have any guilty feelings, as they say the place is a guild.

The men led me into the guild and upstairs, and I was led to a table at the end. An elderly man was sitting there first, and when he saw me and Amy, he stood up and welcomed us.

His name...Agri Monakert.

Age...61

Race... human race.

Title: Tamer, a first-rate adventurer.

'I'm Agri Monakert, the man who's putting this gathering together. Nice to meet you.　

Then he holds out his hand to me. I take his hand in mine.

Temma. And this one....

I'm Amy. Nice to meet you.

I returned the greeting. Amy seemed a little nervous.

'So what is this gathering about?'

At my question, Aguri gave me a surprised look and turned to the men who brought us here.

Boys! You brought him here without any explanation!

Fool! I'm sorry," he said angrily, as the men tried their best to explain themselves.

'I'm sorry...Here, why don't you introduce yourself first?

With that, the men were introduced.

'I guess I'll go first. I'm Ted. Nice to meet you.

Name...

Age... 28.

Race... human race.

Titles... adventurer, tamer, courier

I'm Light Cedar. Nice to meet you.

His name... is Light Cedar.

Age...26

Race...Beastmen (dog race)

Titles: adventurer, tamer, peddler

I am Akagi Sakharath.

His name... is Akagi Sakharath.

Age...24.

Race... human race.

Titles... adventurer, tamer, blacksmith

'I am Aoki Sakarat. I will be a twin brother to Akagi.

His name... is Aoki Sakharath.

Age...24.

Race... human race.

Titles... adventurer, tamer, blacksmith

They all have a tamer in their title. If there's nothing else they have in common.

We call ourselves the Tamer's Guild a guild, though we are a small mutual aid society.

Aguri explained. It was true that he had never heard of a Tamer's Guild. At least, it didn't exist in Gunjo City.

After asking Aguri to elaborate, he heard that the number of tamer's has been gradually decreasing in recent years, starting twenty years ago. There used to be guilds for tamer's, but these days they are rare. There was one in Seigen at first, but it went out of existence a little over ten years ago.

One of the reasons for this is that taymars are either unsuitable for dungeon-catching or difficult to play. There are three main types of tamer: those who make up the numbers, those who assist, and those who are elite.

Those who are counted are those who supplement their strength with the number of their families.

Those who assist are those who focus on scouting and checking by their families, using their families, using birds to give orders, and assisting large demons in transporting and moving.

Lastly, it seems that the elite few are simply guys like me. They are good at attacking and intercepting powerful demons.

The best suited to attack dungeons are the auxiliary and elite types, but the demons that are good at auxiliary are not suited to battle, and the elite types don't have much need to team up with others, so as a result, it is difficult to form an instant party, and rather than aiming to be a tamer, aiming to be a warrior or a wizard will give you more opportunities to play an active role and give you a chance to become famous. The number of tamer's is decreasing because there are so many of them.

I've heard that I'm an anomaly among them, I'm a high fighter, I can use magic and my subordinates are all powerful, so they thought there was no way I wouldn't invite them to join their own group.

It's just that I'm not suggesting that you form a party with any of them and dive into the dungeon. However, one of the purposes is that if there are as many tamer's as possible in a time of need, it will be easier to find a solution to the problem when we consult with them.

So Ted says, and as Aguri adds, he says

'And helping new would-be tamer's. It's not usually such a fortunate thing that happened to Amy with Tenma, so it's easier to help them if they know our name. So it's easier to help them if they know our name.

They also discuss other things such as how to raise your family members and exchange opinions on little things related to your family members.

But since each of them is an adventurer, it is rare that they all get together.

The story then moves on to their families.

Aguri's family is a large ape called a grappler ape. They are about 1.5m long and look somewhere between a gorilla and a chimpanzee, with high muscle strength and agility, and are said to be able to handle human weapons with dexterity. There are three of them, and each one is equipped with a sword, a spear and a bow. Of course, as its name suggests, it can also handle close quarters combat with its bare hands.

Ted's quarter is a large eagle called the Thunderbird. It's 2.5 meters long, with a wingspan of just under 4 meters, and Ted is sometimes called a courier because he can hold onto this eagle as it travels long distances.

Incidentally, he has the attributes of lightning and wind, and is said to have considerable fighting power outside of dungeons.

It is said that Wright has ten wildcat-shaped demons called Hard Lynx in his household, and they are also useful in dungeons. Hard Lynxes are 1.2 meters long and have the habit of moving in packs, which is unusual for cats. However, other adventurers have asked them if they use cats, even though they are dog beastmen.

The Sakarat brothers have an unusual way of using their family members.

The two brothers are said to be the masters of their own household. When I first heard this, I couldn't believe my ears, but it seems to be true and is considered to be one of the biggest mysteries of the tamers.

Their families are the Mountain Turtle, a tortoise-shaped demon with a 2-meter-long shell, and the Flame Tiger, a tiger-shaped demon with a fire attribute.

Other mysteries include how to determine the maximum number of families and how to make a higher level dragon a family member. It is said that.

The maximum number of tamers was once when a tamer tamed 50 wolf-type demons, and the wolf-type could no longer be tamed. However, other demons were able to tame, so apparently there have always been tamer's trying to figure it out.

And it seems that they each use a small capacity dimension bag to move around, but even the 10m class ones cost at least several hundred thousand Gs each, so they make them endure with 5m class ones.

Incidentally, I gave Amy a 10m class bag that she never used as a gift.

As a defensive function because it's a nuisance to be targeted, if anyone other than the contractor tries to forcibly use it, a powerful 'stun' will be generated and only the opponent will be attacked.

However, it doesn't completely prevent theft, so I've told them not to use it or talk to anyone until the chicks have become adults.

For now, the men don't intend to harm you, and since they don't seem to want to use you unilaterally, I decided to take them up on their invitation. More than anything else, I decided that these guys could be used to reduce the possibility of harm being done to Amy.

There was no contract or registration form to join the guild, just a declaration of intent and permission to join.

The most important thing to remember is that they came to recruit me, so I knew there was no way I would be rejected.　

And while I was at it, I went to the guild's board.

Oh, there you are, Temma.

I encircled the djinn and the others. Just in time, I pulled the head of a large centipede out of my bag and

I got rid of these things, but there are too many of them.

I learned from my appraisal that it was a Gigant Death Centipede, B-rank, but I had never heard of it on my first sight of the demon.

As soon as they saw the centipede, the djinn and the others

Get that thing away from me!

He shouted and retreated. The adventurers around me had the same reaction.

I thought it wasn't bad material-wise, so I had no choice but to nod my head at the reactions of those around me.

''Oh, hey Temma.......is it okay to touch it.......''

Jin was afraid to ask me.

It bit me, but I managed to detoxify it quickly.

""That's not right!"

Jin, Menace, and Garratt join their voices. Even Leena sounded surprised.

Temma-san.... this centipede, as its name implies, is a giant species that possesses a poison so powerful it can kill an ogre in a matter of minutes... ...

He told me that a normal human-sized creature could kill you instantly if you're not good at it.

Oh, I have a constitution that doesn't respond well to poisons, so maybe that has something to do with it.

That's how I explained it to him.

''No, no, no, no, it's not at the level of 'the poison is hard to effect~'.......you're a monster as expected.......''

I think he meant to whisper that last word so that I wouldn't hear it, but it was firmly in my ear. So.

Jin, here.

And I threw the head of the centipede at it. By the way, the fangs are pulled out beforehand, so there's no danger........

''........heh, gahhh.

Jin reflexively took the centipede's head and hurriedly threw it to the side... towards Menace...

Don't throw it at me!

Menace also hurriedly struck back at the centipede's head. At any rate, the head of the centipede's mouth hit Jin's lips.

From the time the centipede's head hit the djinn to the time it fell to the floor, it would have taken only a second or two.

However, at that moment, the adventurers around them stopped moving completely and all looked at the djinn together.

The head of the centipede rolling around on the floor, it was as if time had stopped only in this area, and there was even an illusion that time had stopped. That illusion was broken by

No... I don't want to die like this! Somebody please... detoxify me, detoxify me!

It was Jin's screams that made him panic like that. Jin was sprawled out on the floor in a scattered manner, but when Leena saw that, she refrained from

''Um, Mr. Jin........the poison of the Death Centipede is not effective when taken orally.......''

...What do you mean by that?

At Leena's words, Jin, lying on the floor, asks a question... He's still confused and doesn't seem to understand the meaning of Leena's words.

'In other words, Jin-san isn't going to die,'

The illusion of time stopping around us again.............................hits us.

Jin slowly gets up, lightly tapping his clothes to remove the dirt, then

d*mn it, Temma, that's dangerous! However much centipede venom is ingested orally...? ....because that doesn't work!

As if nothing had happened, they re-partitioned and crowded me. Behind them, many of them, led by Menas and Garratt, were desperately trying to hold back their laughter.

''Jin-san, no matter how much you say that poison doesn't work when taken orally, it can still cause addiction in large doses.

At Leena's words, Jin stopped moving and

Seriously, am I going to be okay?

That's not a problem. A glass of wine can be dangerous.

Jin, clearly relieved at those words.

Haha, it's not gonna work... haha, it's sickening.

Did you see Jin's face.... he had a look of great relief on it...　

The two behind them began to burst out laughing like they couldn't stand it. And starting with the two of them, the surroundings turned into a whirlwind of laughter.

When I repeated Jin's line from earlier in the bar, the people around me laughed even louder, using it as a catalyst.

'Hey, hey, Temma!

Jin reached out to grab me, but I slipped away.

Oh no, this is not how I want to die.

I repeated the challenge further. Jin was desperate to catch me, but

"d*mn it, I'm not gonna get caught! Menas, Garratt! Help me get Temma!

Finally, I called for help from my friends - they were laughing too hard and squatting on the floor, holding their stomachs.

It was bad enough that I didn't want to mess with the djinn too much.

'Sorry, sorry, Jin. I'll give you this to make up for it.

Then I put something on the table. It was.....

'Wait a minute! That's the fang of a centipede, isn't it!

It was the thing that could be said to be the cause of Jin's fuss just now.

Oh, don't worry about the poison. I've washed out the poison and put an anti-dote (antidote) on it just in case.

Even so, the djinn didn't try to get close. When Garratt saw that, he said.

'Good for you, Jin. The fangs of the Gigant Death Centipede are quite useful!

Saying that, Garratt taps Jin on the shoulder, but his face looks like he's trying to laugh.

Then Menace taps him on the opposite shoulder from Garratt.

'That's right, Jin. Wouldn't having centipede fangs be a good chance to overcome your weaknesses!

I'm saying that, but Menace's face still looks like it's holding back a laugh.

''Is that so?''　

Jin fearfully tucks his fangs into his bag as the two of them round on him like that.

'Come to think of it, I've never seen this centipede before, are these guys common from the 30th floor?

My question caused a moment of silence around me. Did I say something wrong? But then I saw Jin, who had come to his senses.

Is that true? These guys are so few in number, and they should normally be able to dive to nearly 40 levels, but you should rarely see them...

After muttering something like that, I let the guild staff know and had them put up a piece of paper on the bulletin board warning them to be careful.

'Well, whatever it is, good job, Temma! We've never had any sightings near the 30th level, but now we can proceed with caution. You'll be less likely to get hit by the centipede's poison.

Jin said, and called out to the adventurers around him to be careful.

While he was at it, I asked him how to use the centipede, and he told me that although its meat has a bitter taste and is inedible, it can be used as a nourishing tonic if you dry it out, roast it over a fire, and drink it after boiling it.

In addition, the instep is light and strong, so it can be used for armor and has magic resistance. It is said to be very popular with wizards and people who value lightness.

The only thing I can think of is the fact that I'm going to be able to use it to poison centipedes. There is value in using it to poison centipedes as well.

The one who said that was Leena, who looked around in some reserved manner, then gently approached me and overheard.

According to the report, it is said that by pouring the centipede's venom into the fire and diluting it with a solution of several medicinal herbs, a potion can be made that will energize the male functions, and it costs quite a good price.

The poison is bottled just in case, and there is about 500 ml of it. But I'm not interested in that kind of medicine at the moment, so I decided to use it when I'm hunting or something, and decided to fix it in my bag. I heard that the poison would lose its potency when heated, so the fish I killed with it would be able to be eaten with no problem if I let it pass through the fire.

While we were making noise like that, Aimee came down from the second floor.

She seemed to be done asking about tames and how to raise chicks, so we decided to go home together.

Along the way, Aimee told me many things she learned about how to raise the chicks.

For example, bird-shaped demons would grow better if they were fed on insect-shaped demons, and if they were fed a mixture of crushed demon stones and demon cores, they would easily become a subordinate with a lot of magical power.

There were a large number of goblin and orc magic cores in several bags, so I shared them with Amy.

At first Aimee was hesitant to give them to me, but she was pleased when I gave them to her a little forcefully, saying that honestly, the magic core I was going to give her was of poor quality and in large quantities, and that it wouldn't be worth much if I sold it to her, so she wouldn't hesitate to give it to me.

Since I had no more plans for today and it was halfway through the day to do anything, I decided to start making an early dinner.

The ingredients are...........pork. The first item was tonkashi (pork chopsticks), the second item was ginger-grilled, the third item was braised pork, the fourth item was sweet-and-sour pork, the fifth item was tonkatsu (pork cutlet), the sixth item was roast pork, the seventh item was cartilage stew, the eighth item was steamed meatballs, the ninth item was gyoza, and the tenth item was steamed meat buns.

When I made it while remembering what I can do now, I ended up with this... Actually, I wanted to make more Chinese and European dishes, but I couldn't remember, so I couldn't help it.

But my real life is not one of these. I hadn't made it in a previous life, but I knew how to make it for the most part.

The way it's made is by cleaning the bones and patiently getting the bone broth out of them, and it's a dish that sometimes involves cooking onions, vegetables, and eggshells together. However, since there is not enough time to cook it and the other main ingredient is not available, it will not be on the table today.

Oh, I can't wait to eat that dish that was called the national dish in my previous life.......ramen! And it's my favorite pork bone ramen!

You'll have to make your own noodles for that, but if worst comes to worst, just stick with the soup.

Of course it's better to put up with just the broth than eating with weird noodles!

Eventually, I plan to add more variations, such as chicken bones, salt, miso, and soy sauce, but I'll start with pork bones. Fortunately, I had a lot of opportunities to see how it was made on TV shows in a previous life, so I should be able to recreate it somehow!

The night went on as we got into the spirit of things like that.

By the way, the food is almost gone... I was going to make more and split it up into several portions, but my family's foodie banshee was able to perish, and I was able to eat it... recently. I'm worried that Banzai II is forming.　　By.Temma