156-Chapter 10-1 Handing out souvenirs

We made it back to Seigen almost two weeks after we left the southern autonomous region. The only reason we were able to get back earlier than we did was because we knew where we were going, we didn't stop for anything, and we worked in four shifts (three men and one animal), including Slarin, to get the carriage going from early in the morning until late at night.

Raiden was a little unhappy with the fact that it made him work too much, but me, Grandpa, and Slarin kept him in a good mood by sending him magic on a regular basis. Most importantly, since we're only planning to stay in Seigen for one day, we'll soon be traveling for about a week, and now it's a headache to figure out how to get in a good mood.

''As for the entrance, we can get through as soon as we show the request form, so let's just head straight to the apartment, what do you two want to do after that?''

I'm going to head to the guild as soon as I get to my apartment and gather information while I'm gone, then I'll go around to the people I know and hand out souvenirs.

Since it's before noon now, Master Ganz, Karina and the others will probably be in the workshop or at home, but Jin and the others and Aguri may be hiding in the dungeon. If they aren't there, I'll visit them again in the evening and if I still can't see them, I'll have to give them a souvenir the next time I come back to Seigen.

If you can't see him, you'll have to give him a souvenir the next time you come back to Seigen. I'm tired from a long time in the past, and I need to make sure that Raiden is in a good mood.

'I'm going along. Waiting is boring.

Okay. Grandpa, I'm sorry, but you have to take care of Raiden for me. Slarin will stay here or you'll have to deal with Raiden. Shiroumar and Solomon can come along if they want, but they'll be safe.　

With that in mind, I headed to my apartment while making a brief schedule, parked the carriage in its usual position and greeted Carina and the others. I gave them a souvenir at that time, but since Amy has already been to King's Landing, I decided to give it to her in person when I went to King's Landing.

When I returned to the carriage after having a quick chat with Karina and the others, Grandpa and Slarin had started to give Raiden some magic power and wash his body to get him in a good mood.

After asking them again about Raiden and the carriage, I noticed that Gol, Jill and the two lambs hadn't asked them what they were going to do, so I looked in the bag and saw that Lamb I had challenged Gol and Jill to another game and lost, so they were wrapped up in spider silk and were not in a position to talk (and communicate), and Lamb II was sleeping quietly. Gol and Jill seem to be fine with either of them.

I decided to take Gol and the others with me, just in case (Gol and Jill don't seem to want to leave the bag, but I have something to put Shiroumaru and the others in), and I headed for the guild with Amur.

I ran a bit to relieve myself, so I got to the guild in no time. As I entered and was about to head to the bulletin board, I saw Aguri and the others gathered at their usual seats just in time.

The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most important information. When did you get back?

'Just now. I was going to give you a souvenir from the South, and I was going to look for Agri and the others.

Aguri and the others were all discussing their future activities, and they asked me if I would like to join the conversation, but I declined since there was still more to go around. In addition, I asked him about the djinn, and he told me that they had just returned from the dungeon yesterday, and today they were probably either hanging out in the city or sleeping at the inn.

We talked for a little while about the recent past, but we didn't get much good information from Aguri and the others. Instead, I had to listen to them complain that Amy had gone to King's Landing and that she had a lot of time on her hands these days.

After leaving the guild to escape the complaints of the Tamers Guild members (especially Aguri), Amour and I headed next to Master Ganz's workshop. Considering the possibility of the djinn coming to the guild, we left a message for Aguri and the others that we would return to the guild after Master Ganz's visit, and that they should either wait for us at the guild or at the djinn's lodge when they arrive.

I ran from the guild to the workshop, thinking about my later plans, so as not to take any time, but I didn't get to see Master Ganz. It's a good idea to have a good time to think about what you're going to do later, but I didn't get to see Master Ganz.

It seems that a little while after I left, he got into a fight with one of the noblemen (because he ran out of time due to their recklessness), and because he had to spend a lot of time cleaning up afterwards, the deadline for some of the jobs he had been taking on is just a few days away. So, it seems that if I show up and hand over the drinks and other supplies to him now, the stressed-out master might start drinking to escape from reality, abandoning his work.

So I didn't call out to him, but left the message to my apprentice and decided to keep the alcohol for him. Instead, I gave them some food as a gift and left the workshop without being noticed by the master.

''The rest is for the djinn, but........hmm?

As I was leaving the workshop and heading towards the guild, a familiar group of four people walked in from the opposite direction.

''Whoa! I'm here!

Hey, Temma!

The one coming with a wave of his hand was the Sword of Dawn that I was looking for. When we met up with them, it seems that as soon as we left for Master Ganz's place, Jin and the others showed up at the guild, and were on their way to Master's workshop when they heard from Aguri and the others there that I was looking for them.

It seems that it would have been better to wait for them at the guild after all. It's a good idea to wait for them at the guild, because if they had misunderstood, they would have lost their patience.

''That's right. He said he was going to come to the inn in the evening anyway, so we could have waited in the guild for him to report and discuss the next dungeon attack.

Apparently, Menace and Leena wanted to wait at the guild, but Jin and Garratt forced them to come with them.

''No, you're sorry if they keep coming over when they're bringing us souvenirs all the way over, right?

If that had led to a misunderstanding, it would have only added to Temma's burden.

You're lucky you got to see Tenma in one piece.

''It means you don't have to gamble until you've abandoned a surefire way to meet them. I'm just tired after just getting back from the dungeon...

Menace and the others are in a bad mood because they are tired but they are being made to walk because of Jin and Garratt. They are called top-notch adventurers, so they should still be physically fit, but it's apparently hard to be forced to walk while your body and mind are in rest mode.

Resting is important. If you don't rest when you can, you won't be able to move when the time comes.

I'm sorry.

Jin and Garratt bow to Amur for pointing out the problem. They didn't expect Amur to speak so bluntly, and it seems they were able to admit their mistakes in a straightforward manner.

It's a good thing that you're able to get the most out of this, because it's a great way to get to know your fellow man. Of course, Jin and Garratt will pay for it (for six people, including me and Amur).

But even so, Menace and Leena seem to be quite tired.

'Well, you know, I'm more mentally fatigued than physically fatigued.

'Mr Temma, listen to me! When you come with these two, they just keep going on and on and on because they're in good shape! Sure, it's a nice miscalculation that we were able to dive four levels in a week, but only a very stupid or crazy person would go that fast in a place they don't know.

I'm sure it means pretty much the same thing to both very stupid and crazy people, but it's probably that reckless... I've been attacking at a faster rate than that, so I'm probably even crazier than that, according to Leena.

''Temma is always crazy, but that kind of attack speed is impossible for a normal person to achieve.

The two of them may be too tired to think straight. It's a very good idea to be able to have a good time with them. Just.

'I've bought all sorts of souvenirs but I don't need souvenirs from a crazy person.

After saying that much, the two of them finally seemed to have realized their gaffe. They were quite flustered and apologized for their gaffe. After teasing the two of them in one way, I gave them a souvenir as planned. It included items that normally wouldn't last for a long time, but 'Sword of Dawn' didn't have a problem since they all had magic bags.

I asked him for recent information before I got to the guild, and he said there was no major change. However, I heard that the price of the goblin corpses, which had gone up before we went to the south, has become cheaper. It seems that the experiment of using them as fertilizer was successful, and a certain effect was recognized, but it seems that the number of goblin corpses brought in before that time was too large, and so the request was made as a bailout for new adventurers who were strapped for cash (by setting them at a low price, it became a request that would take a lot of time and effort and would not make much money for veterans, etc.) He changed it.

If that's the case, then it was right to destroy the goblins then.

That goblin?　

The goblins at that time were a bunch of goblins that were about to attack a village we stopped by on our way to the Southern Autonomous Region. When we handed over the magic core, we gave them the entire body of the goblins, and at that time, Amur said something like, "If the body is worth money, wouldn't it be better to take it with you? However, in that situation, it was uncool to say "I'll take the body after the demon nucleus is removed," and I didn't want to waste time waiting for that amount of goblins to finish dismantling them, so I just asked them to take care of it and left the village.

"I'm sorry to say this, Temma but you're a monster!　

It's not a matter of if it's a cave or a dungeon or some other sealed off space, but it's not possible to eradicate a horde of goblins camped in a forest, even if the country sends an army. At best, if we could take out half of them, we'd be doing very well.

And it wouldn't take much more than a few people to pull it off.

But it would take decades for the mountain to return to its original state, and the surrounding mountains would also be thrown into ecological chaos. If that happened, the nearby villages would suffer worse than being overrun by a goblin horde, in a sense.

Normally, I would have let the djinn who called me a monster take a heavenly punishment (stun), but after hearing Leena's analysis, I decided to let it go this time. Well, if I used 'stun' or something like that in the carriage, the horse would definitely be surprised and cause an accident.

Continuing on with their trivial conversation and getting off at the guild, Menace and Leena ordered Jin and Garratt to deal with the post-processing of the dungeon exploration and started eating souvenirs at the table.

Djinn and Garratt started to hurry up as if they didn't want to be eaten up by the two of them, but since they ran into some adventurers returning from the dungeon, the procedure didn't seem to be going as well as they would have liked.

Menas and Leena didn't eat up all the souvenirs, but the amount left for Jin and Garratt was clearly less than Menas and Leena. The only redeeming feature is that the souvenirs I bought were of two kinds, one to eat at the Sword of Dawn and one to eat individually.

I was able to hand over the souvenirs to the Sword of Dawn earlier than expected, which was my biggest concern, so I decided to head back to my apartment.

When I was leaving, the djinn invited me to dinner, and when I told them that I had to head to the royal capital tomorrow on a request, I was surprised at the hard schedule that an ordinary adventurer would not be able to imagine, and then when I heard the name of the client, I was convinced and felt sorry for them.

After being escorted back to the apartment by the djinn (and the remaining members of the Tamers Guild), he returned to his apartment to find Grandpa and Slarin polishing Raiden up with a cloth. Moreover, from the light condition of Raiden's body, it seems that they also used oil to clean him up.

Oh, you're back. We're almost done here.

Grandpa and Slarin polishing up Raiden, and they never skipped a beat while talking to me. In the course of the conversation, I found out that Grandpa and Slarin had originally planned to wash Raiden with soap and wash it down and wipe it down, and that was it, but when they saw that Raiden wasn't satisfied, they got kind of pissed off, so they decided to have Slarin clean the inside of Raiden (the doorways and exits of Slarin, etc.), and then they were going to do it all over again. He's been inserting the oil into his joints and applying it to his whole body. He's now wiping the excess oil clean. Raiden seems to be in a pretty good mood as he looks at his cleaned up body.

We can leave tomorrow as planned. Also, we'll have dinner in a little while.

Um, okay.

I had to go to bed early today and get ready for tomorrow, so I quickly got to work on dinner. I didn't make anything too elaborate, but it had been a long time since I'd eaten in a safe (and I'd been warded for the whole trip, so it was safe to say it was safe) place.

'Well, then, after the baths, I guess Amur will go to bed in his apartment and me and Grandpa will go to bed in the carriage.

Even though I should have said the very obvious, Amur was not convinced and was negotiating with his grandpa to switch sleeping places. As expected, Grandpa had refused, but he didn't miss the fact that he was almost ready to be persuaded. I would have to be even more careful in the future.

The next morning, we left for King's Landing as planned, but this time, the only people who came to see us off were Aimee's family members, and it was more of an incidental request to ask them to say a few words to Aimee rather than a pure send-off. The djinn and the rest of the Tamer's Guild probably overslept (possibly because of the souvenir (alcohol) I gave them yesterday), and the master is probably being watched by his apprentices to complete his request.