CH 54

A busy day of rest

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Today is rest day, so I thought I'd relax for a day, but I changed my schedule and decided to move.

If there is something I can do, I shouldn't waste time resting.

The first place I went to was Marcel-san's shop, which was burnt down during the turmoil yesterday.

It's rest day, and it's still early in the morning, so there aren't any people around, but Marcel-san, who looks like he's at a loss as to what to do, is standing there.

To be honest, it takes courage to talk, but if I'm shy here, the situation won't change.

I will take the plunge and call out.

"Good morning, Marcel-san."

"Hmm? Why are you here, yesterday's boy?"

"Yes, I was wondering if I could help with cleaning up."

"Well, I don't know where to start, so I don't need anyone to help. Or rather, what happened to the person who burned the store down in the first place?"

"Yes, everyone involved in the turmoil are in the garrison's prison."

"Well ... why are you not in there?"

"I was outside the city when there was the turmoil ..."

"You weren't part of the turmoil yesterday?"

"Yes, I wasn't involved in the turmoil."

"Then why did you apologize?"

"That is ..."

I was a little lost, so I talked to Marcel-san about the history of our past, including being summoned and having my classmates deceived and detained, and how I still have to rescue the rest of my classmates and have them accepted by the city.

"Stupid kid! Why did you keep silent about such an important thing!"

"Sorry, I'm sorry ..."

"Ah, enough already ..."

Marcel-san bowed to me after scratching his head.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know, but I did too much yesterday, please forgive me."

"That alright ... Please raise your head, Marcel-san."

"About Kent, I can't immediately forgive what your friends did, but I don't resent you."

"But it happened because I brought them to Volzard."

Marcel-san changed the topic a little after glancing at my face.

"Kent, you, have you done jobs at the guild?"

"Yes, I've done a lot of work."

"What kind of work have you done so far?"

"Um ... I participated in the harvesting work at the livre farm, the shipment work at the Garm potato warehouse, the apprenticeship of the gardener, and the castle wall construction once."

"Well, you've done a lot of work, right?"

"Yes, thanks to everyone, I've learned a lot."

"Kent, the one who finds a job, completes that job, and lives on his own is recognized as a full-fledged person in Volzard. When you register with the guild and get a card, you're alone. It's like proclaiming that you're going to work and live here. Why do you feel responsible about other people making a fuss when you're not there? For example, you brought them to the guild. And yet, you feel responsible for their actions."

I think it's exactly what Marcel-san says.

But in front of the burnt down store, yes ... I can't say that.

"But ... if the store is in this state ..."

"Hmm ... that's right, let the people who were involved in the turmoil take responsibility ... Or so I say, but I wonder what to do ..."

Marcel-san folded his arms and looked up at the burnt shop, with a clouded expression.

When I looked at the store beside Marcel-san, Reinhardt made a suggestion.

[ Kent-sama, why don't you lend money? ]

[ Lending, lending money? ]

[ Yes, how about Kent-sama lends the money needed for reconstruction and immediate needs to Marcel without interest, and Marcel pays back when the compensation from your classmates is received? ]

[ I see ... but I wonder if those idiots will pay up? ]

[ That's right, then I wonder if you should keep it a secret that he owes Kent-sama. ]

[ I see ... ]

Without the funds to rebuild the store, Marcel-san wouldn't be able to make a living.

However, it takes too much time for the boys in my class to repay him.

However, if I repay him in secret, Marcel-san will not have any trouble with funds.

"Oh, Marcel-san, I have a suggestion ..."

"Suggestion? Kent, you can't say you're paying."

"Yes, I understand that ..."

When I talked about lending in place of my classmates in secret, Marcel-san thought with a bitter expression.

"Honestly, it would be great if you could lend to me, but do you have that kind of money in the first place?"

"Yes, my genus are powerful and I make a lot of money subduing monsters, so I have money after selling magic stones and other materials. I can't use all of it, and use it for the living expenses of my classmates."

"Is that so ... I wonder if I should ask, but I'll have the guild act as an intermediary."

"The guild is it?"

"Ah, you can get a loan from the guild, but you can also have the guild take on a role of an intermediary to prevent troubles with lending and borrowing personal funds."

"Okay, then ... oh, today is a guild holiday, they'll be back tomorrow, can you go with me?"

"Kent, that's what I should be asking, well, thank you."

"Yes, thank you for your cooperation."

I feel that I managed to repair the relationship by shaking hands with Marcel-san.

"By the way, Marcel-san, this shop has to be destroyed to be rebuilt, right?"

"That's right ... It would be difficult to repair it if it is burned so much."

Marcel's two-story store is in a state where the front side is burnt down and the rear half is somewhat whole.

"Of course it costs money to tear down, right?"

"Well, that's right, it doesn't cost money to dispose of the dismantled building materials due to the labor cost of dismantling."

"Can I do it?"

"Huh? How would you do it?'

"Well, using my genus, I can do it all at once ..."

"Dahahaha, you can do it if you really can."

"Then, can you bring out just the things that you will still use? I'll help you."

"Well, I have to carry it out anyway, can you help me a little?"

After that, Marcel-san and I carried out everything that could still be used, the neighbors helped us and we were able to finish carrying everything out before noon.

"Marcel-san, do you have anything else to carry out?"

"Oh, this is the last, I was saved, that's right, I can't just stay looking at it, I have to do what I can do from here."

"Then, is it okay to start?"

"Dahahaha, good, if you can, do it, it will help."

Yeah, Marcel-san, you don't think I'm serious about it at all, but let's get rid of it all at once.

[ Then, Reinhardt, I'll put out a shield of darkness, so you can smash everything and move it into the shadow world. ]

[ Okay, let's get rid of everything at once. ]

[ Yeah, I'm counting on you. ]

"Then, Marcel-san, could you back away a little?"

"Oh, what are you going to do?"

"Yes, umm ... then everyone get started."

At the same time as giving a signal to everyone, I wrapped Marcel-san's shop with a dark shield.

If it's like this, the debris will not fly and damage the next building.

"Oh? What's this, what's going on, Kent?"

"Yes, I surrounded it with dark magic so as to not bother your neighbors."

It seems that the work has begun, and a tremendous destructive sound is heard.

Yeah, everyone seems to be doing it without holding back, so let's close the top as well.

"Whoa!, that's some incredible noise, Kent, is that the doing of your genus?"

"Yes, I don't think it will take long because my genus are all demolishing it."

"Huh? You weren't kidding?"

"Well, is there something I shouldn't demolish?"

"No, it's okay, but your genus ..."

"Yes, I can use the demons I subdued using necromancy."

[ Kent-sama, it's over, I'll pile up the waste wood in the corner of the training ground during the night. ]

[ Okay, thank you everyone. ]

Upon receiving the news from Reinhardt, I released the shield of darkness, and the place where Marcel-san's shop was located became a clean and refreshing vacant lot.

"Ehhh ... hey, this ..."

"Hey, Marcel-san, what's going on?'

"Hey, the store is gone!"

Not only the owner of the store, Marcel-san, but also the neighbors who helped carry out the luggage are looking wide-eyed.

"Umm ... wasn't it ...?"

"No ... I don't know ..."

Marcel-san looks at his neighbors and doesn't know how to react.

"Then, why don't we have lunch with everyone who helped us? I'll treat you."

"Hey, don't be stupid, you can't just take care of me and buy me a meal, but I'll pay, oh, everyone come, I'm restarting my economy!"

When Marcel-san raised a shout, the frozen neighbors finally thawed out.

"Oh, excellent, Marcel-san is no longer looking dispirited."

"That's right, if it becomes a vacant lot, there is no reason not to rebuild it."

"If it's just a building, it'll be built within two weeks, during which time it's okay to rent somewhere and prepare for sale."

At lunch with the neighbors, I was naturally interrogated.

It's become a hassle to hide various things, so I talked about everything I was asked, including being summoned.

"Kent, it's like you're fighting with Resenburg alone, right?"

"No, I'm not alone, because i have my reassuring genus."

"Genus is it ... Kartz-san said that it was the skeletons used by Kent that repelled the group of rock ogres, but that was true."

"Yes, they were active in the dismantling work a while ago."

"By the way, you're also the one who was kissed by Beatrice-chan in the middle of the road."

"Eeh .. that is ..."

I decided to talk about everything, but that topic is ...

"Well, Kent, you can't just be put in the corner ..."

"No, no, Marcel-san, this boy, Beatrice-chan isn't the only one, he also brought another child with short light blue hair."

"Haa? Hey Kent, what's he talking about?"

"Uee ... that is, that is ..."

As I was dripping cold sweat being interrogated by everyone in the shopping district, the sound of a signal bell echoed.

Kankankan, kankankan, kankankan ...

As with the rock ogres, it is the sound of a bell signaling the approach of a horde of monsters.

[ Kent-sama, a horde of orcs. ]

[ Great, because I've been having money issues, so let's clean this up quickly. ]

[ Buhahaha, that's right, then I'll go first. ]

[ Yeah, I'm counting on you. ]

The people in the shopping district who were present hurried back to close their stores.

"Hey Kent, a horde of monsters, we should evacuate."

"Oh, it's okay, my genus will subdue them quickly."

"Huh? Don't say that, you're no match for them, we should evacuate."

"No, it's impossible for my genus to lose to such a thing as orcs, and I'm going to watch over them, so I'm sorry, but Marcel-san, please evacuate alone."

"Are you going to the front line to watch over them?"

"Yes, it's okay, even if I look like this, I'm strong."

"Idiot, anyone who isn't C rank or higher won't be called."

"Yes, I'm B rank."

As I continued to be asked and answer questions from Marcel-san, Mart popped out of the shadow.

"Goshujin-sama, if you don't go soon, it will be over."

"Okay, I'm going now."

"Wow, Kent, what's that ... it talked ..."

"Yes, it's okay because it's my genus, so I'm sorry."

"Hey ... eh ..."

I don't have the time, so I moved into the shadows in front of Marcel-san.

I moved to the shadow of the wall and looked outside, but it looks like a one-sided murder.

Alto and the others surround the horde of orcs and drive them towards the center, where Zae and the others swing their Kukri knives to decapitate the orcs before them.

As the number of orcs dimished and the circle surrouding the pack shrank, Reinhardt gave instructions, and this time Alto and the others began to wield their weapons.

[ Ah ... orcs aren't even a match at all. ]

[ Whose fault is that, Buhahaha, who is the person who strengthened them so much? ]

[ Yeah, it's me, but it's amazing ... I'm amazed. ]

The adventurers who were taking up arms on the wall also seem to be taken aback.

"What's with those kobolds, they're too fast and too strong."

"Wow ... I'm sorry, that lizardman, I can't see its weapon move ..."

"Hey, are they on our side? They won't attack us, right?"

"Don't say stupid, scary things, you know, no matter which way, you're not their match."

"Wow ... I have a little sympathy for the orcs."

While listening to the reaction of the people on the walls, the orcs were steadily reduced in number, crushed and annihilated.

[ Reinhardt, help me collect all the magic stones. ]

[ Okay, this will make you wealthy even if you cover the construction costs of the shoe store. ]

[ Yeah, it looks like the orcs brought me money. Tell everyone to wash off the blood before they return. ]

[ I understand, what about Kent-sama? ]

[ Yeah, I'm going to report to Donovan-san. ]

There was no figure of Donovan-san on the wall.

Perhaps ... I looked into the guild and saw Donovan-san sitting at his desk and drinking tea in a relaxed manner.

"Somehow he can afford it ..."

"Oh, have you come, well, sit there."

Donovan-san pointed with his chin to the chair he had prepared in front of his desk and began pouring tea into the cup he had prepared again.

Kan, Kan ... I heard the sound of a relaxed bell.

"Did you get rid of the orcs?"

"Yes, I have already started collecting the magic stones."

"It looks like you're doing the demolition work of buildings, well, drink ..."

"I'll have it then ... oh, it's delicious ..."

"Hmm ..."

The tea brewed by Donovan-san has a very nice armoa and less astringency, and a faint sweetness spreads in my mouth.

It is a taste that I can not think that Donovan-san, who seems able to twist and kill an orc with his bare hands, has brewed.

"Kent, are you thinking something rude?"

"Wow, that's ridiculous ..."

"Hmm, well, I'm sorry despite telling you yesterday that you should rest, but I'm saved."

"No, I'm going to spend a lot of money, so it was just right."

"Fufu, yeah, I think it's a good job for you."

"But after all there were a lot of orcs."

"Hmm, how many were there?"

"Um ... how many?"

I couldn't tell at first glance, so I asked Reinhardt, who was hiding in the shadows.

[ It's roughly between 300 and 400. ]

"It seems to be between 300 and 400."

"Really ..."

Donovan-san was thinking for a while with his arms crossed.

"Kent, when are you planning the rescue?"

"Yes, I'm aiming for about a week, but why?"

"Um, I feel that the activity in the Devil's Forest this time is quite large."

"Really?"

"Yeah, rock ogres and orcs, all over 200 in a pack, and besides that, lizardmen and Gigawolfs ... I feel like there's still something coming, be careful."

"What is it, thousands or tens of thousands of monsters?"

"I don't want to think about it, but if I don't prepare for it, we will be wiped out in the unlikely event of it happening."

After saying such, Donovan-san carried the cup to his mouth to enjoy the scent.

"But how do tens of thousands of monsters occur?"

"Well, I don't know everything about monsters, but I can say that most of the parts I guess are like this."

Recalling when I was in Japan, it's not uncommon for tens of thousands of spectators to gather in baseball and soccer games, 100,000 in a concert, and even more in big events.

With that in mind, it may not be strange for thousands or tens of thousands of monsters to gather.

"I heard that only kobolds and goblins gather in tens of thousands ..."

"That's in past examples, but it cannot e said that it is absolute."

"Is it possible to have orcs, ogres, or Gigawolfs?"

"I don't want to think about it, but ... I don't feel like I'd be much help if there are a lot of Gigawolfs."

Having said that, Donovan-san isn't breaking his fearless expression, so even in such a situation, he'll see it through until the end.

"Kent ..."

"Yes, what?"

"Stay in Volzard."

The words that were casually thrown were predictable, but I couldn't answer immediately.

"I know you have a situation, I can't prepare anything to keep you here. Still, I ask, stay in Volzard."

"Well ... let me think about it."

"Well, I wish you could have answered immediately ..."

Before I knew it, the sound of the bells stopped, the guild on holiday was quiet, and I could hear the buzz of the city from a distance.

Resenburg that abandoned me, Volzard that accepted me, Japan where I was only treated as a useless person, I should not have to think about where I belong, but I could not say it right now.

"The idiots you brought, I decided to force them to work."

"Forced labor is ... the city wall?"

"Yes, I'll give them a difference in the number of days depending on the crime, but I'll try to figure out what it means to work."

"I'm sorry, thank you."

"After you finish drinking, go home and rest, you're overworked."

"Yes ... thanks for the drink."

It's the least convincing word, but I decided to obediently follow it.

After drinking the slightly cold tea, I went straight back to the boarding house room in the shadows.

Let's enjoy the Fluffy time until dinner.