Chapter 35

The soldiers at the camp didn’t come close to us.

I just watched the adventurers getting off the wagon and saw them fussing among themselves from a distance, but they didn’t even move until we stood in a line and looked at the forest after receiving simple instructions from the guide.

“Leader. What are those chidees like?”

I ordered them to stand in a neat line and asked the man who was moving while checking the distance between them. Only a blunt answer came back.

“Don’t you know when you see it? It’s a private soldier of the farmer to be on guard against thieves.”

“Are you ready to go to war?”

“For them, it will be no different from a war to protect the farm. Just stay focused.”

Perhaps it was because he naturally followed the action of keeping the distance as if he were observing military ceremonies, he said only that far and then went on, demanding the same distance from other adventurers. It didn’t look particularly rushed, but it didn’t mean it was leisurely either.

However, the strangely pressured tone gave off the scent of a training assistant whose purpose was to deliberately block anyone from thinking about anything else.

“What does it mean to line up 60 people like this?”

“Actually, it wasn’t a request to exterminate thieves, but rather a request to find a needle in the forest.”

“If you look at it, it’s credible.”

Of course, neither of us cares the slightest about that possibility. Needless to say, we stared at the forest with utmost nervousness, and before long the leader, who had all lined up, gave a loud command.

“The request is not much different from what everyone knows! It’s just added that we run from here to the border of the forest like this! We can’t pay a reward to those who distort the formation or run away!”

However, what came out of his mouth was not words, but bullshit. Needless to say, adventurers quickly start complaining.

“Don’t fuck! Let’s just do what the contract says!”

“We’re sick and tired, really. Are we idiots? Did you know something would fly out of the woods and pay the price?!”

“In a situation where we should be grateful that we lined up even though there was no explicit command line, it’s a little tricky to catch fault with even running, sir, leader?”

“Unlike you, we learned to walk right away, so pay more if you want to see us mess around like idiots!”

It was a very natural reaction. Even if you do adventurer things relatively safely in the capital, you are still an adventurer after all. If you ask for more than a contract from those who risk their lives for pennies, that’s the way it has to be.

Even Cheryl, who is almost at the top of the kingdom’s nobility, is grinding her teeth at the crazy move we predict. No longer looking at the forest, she was in serious trouble as she looked at the campsite. Perhaps they are weighing whether to keep an eye on the progress or to leave it out. I look around just in case, but the knight who is supposed to be escorting Cheryl is not showing up.

Did they say lions push their cubs off cliffs? Of course, real lions never perform such eccentricities, but the lion named Ecap may surprisingly have no objection to such eccentricities. He is a man who clearly differentiates between caring for his children and caring for and raising them unilaterally.

“It’s better to see it with your own eyes than to judge hastily.”

As befits the daughter of such a man, a bold conclusion comes out of Cheryl’s mouth. It was a perfectly reasonable argument, but is it a decision worthy of risking one’s own life? There was a little bit of skepticism about the part.

“It’s true that your skills are good, but haven’t you tried avoiding or hitting flying arrows?”

“Well, it’s possible, but it doesn’t mean it’s actually going to happen. Even if it were, I’d be able to do normal shooting somehow. I don’t think there’s a person with the ability to shoot with mana on a bow.”

“That’s shameful confidence.”

“That’s not what you’re talking about.”

Cheryl looked at me with a dissatisfied look at me, and I moved my head to express my question, but she did not give me a specific answer. what? I didn’t show myself dodging or blocking arrows, so why are you saying that? I think there’s nothing you can’t avoid if you want to avoid it, but you never bothered to show it off?

“Above all, the escort hasn’t appeared yet. I don’t know who it is, but they’re probably judging that I can get through this much of a situation.”

“Isn’t that just believing that you’ll fall for yourself?”

“If the situation is so sudden that he can’t respond, my exclusive butler will take care of it and devote himself to it.”

In the end, I felt sorry for Cheryl, who did not want to reveal her identity and leave this place even in this situation, and Cheryl’s vicious mind trying to wield my life as if it were her own. I couldn’t help but applaud in admiration for the misfortune of ‘.

“Why are you clapping all of a sudden?”

“It’s because I couldn’t stop admiring your vicious personality...”

“Charge!”

As if the applause was a flare, the leader shouted, so we couldn’t talk any more. Whether the other adventurers were stupid, easy-going, or bold and full of skills, I started running frantically for two silver coins even in such a pathetic situation, and Cheryl and I looked at each other and sighed.

“At least we weren’t the first to face an unexpected situation.”

“That’s right.”

After a long time behind, we decided to walk slowly while watching the others running furiously.