CH 40

“Selling Wild Dashboa and Rank Promotion.”

Translated by Dawn

“…”

I was donna donna(+), and quietly wait in the reception room.

For some reason, I was taken to this room after I told Nicole that I had hunted Wild Dashboa. ……I can’t figure out why.

The waiting room was not particularly luxurious, just a simple room with a large table and two long leather sofas.

I waited for Nicole’s return while admiring the room’s interior for a while, and within a few minutes, she returned.

But she was not the only one who entered the room. Three other people also entered the room.

One was Darren Walm, the guildmaster of the Adventurers’ Guild. It was an understandable choice for him to come on this one occasion.

It was a natural response for the guild’s chief executive officer to come out since I had hunted a rare monster, the Wild Dashboa.

However, I could not understand why the other two had come to this room, and they looked at me quizzically.

These two people are Mirian, Nicole’s direct supervisor, and Bold, who was in charge of the dismantling facility.

“Why do you come back with Mirian, the sister with big boobs and glasses, and the old guy with a bald head?”

“I’m not happy to be called that. It’s true that she wears glasses and has big boobs, but…”

“Mirian is right. I told you I’m not bald, this is just a shaved!”

“’Mirian aside, Bold’s head is bald. There’s no doubt about that.”

“Putting aside Mirian, Bold’s head is bald.” There’s no doubt about that.”

“I told you I’m not bald!”

As both protested the nickname I had given them, Darren calmly butted in.

From there, Darren and Bold were about to open a debate about whether he was bald or not, but the calm Nicole’s words managed to settle the situation.

After another round of the debate, Darren asked a question.

“So Nicole tells me you hunted the Wild Dashboa.”

“I’ve already dismantled it and stored it in here. You want to check it out?”

“Yeah, bring it out.”

I followed Darren’s words and laid out some of the Wild Dashboa material on the table.

There was no need to put out all of it, so I put out the pelt, meat, and bones for now. The faces of everyone present began to scrunch up as the materials took over the table.

After roughly taking out the materials, Darren and Bold started to check the materials in their hands. I see, Baldy…… I mean, Bold was called for this purpose.

Darren and Bold looked at each other and nodded.

“Definitely Wild Dashboa material.”

“Yeah, but above all, this quantity and quality. No Dashboa could have produced this much material.”

“So, kid, just for the record, you hunted this Wild Dashboa all by yourself, didn’t you?”

“Nicole and Milian there would know very well that I’m a solo adventurer.”

“Certainly, I’ve never seen Rolando-san with any other adventurers, but ……”

“I still can’t believe it! I can’t believe that Rolando, who hasn’t even come of age yet, would hunt Wild Dashboa all by himself.”

Nicole, looking puzzled, answered my question, and then folded her arms under her chest with a disturbed expression on her face.

I barely succeeded in preventing my gaze from falling on the two bulges pushing up against her clothes with the stopper of reason and asked her a question just to make sure.

“Just to be clear, I can sell this material, can’t I?”

“O-of course. By all means, sell it!”

“Well, tomorrow’s commercial guild may be full of deaths…….”

“Bold-san’s hair roots are already dead, though.”

“That’s irrelevant right now!!”

“Then, Rolando-kun. I’m going to start the assessment now, so please get all the material out here.”

“Okay.”

All of the Wild Dashboa-related materials that were in the magic bag were removed, and the other four were busy processing them.

Nicole and Mirian assessed each of the materials, and Bold carried out the materials that had been assessed and completed. Darren had already left the room to talk to the other staff members.

From there, the work of assessing and carrying out the materials continued with several staff members who came to support them, but it would not be over soon because there was a considerable amount of material to be removed.

“Nicole, you got a minute?”

“What is it?”

“It’s looking like it’s going to take a while, so can I go back to the inn and come back later?”

“T-that’s right. Sure. It’ll probably be done by nightfall, so please come back then.”

“Okay.”

After such an exchange with Nicole, I decided to return to the inn as I had told her.

It was a little before dusk, a little early for dinner.

At any rate, once back at the inn, I was greeted by Nesana, a beautiful witch.

The mature and sexy scent unique to a mature woman(+)  almost made me lose all reason, but I was determined not to make a mistake.

“I see you’re back a little early today~”

“I was able to hunt the monsters I wanted earlier than I had planned. Right now I’m waiting for the assessment to be done at the Adventurers’ Guild.”

“What about dinner? I know it’s a little early, but would you like to eat~?”

“No, I’m fine. I’ll come down when the time is right, so I’ll ask you then.”

“Ye~s. I’ll be waiting for you~”

As I parted from Nesana, who seemed to be in a vague mood, and approached the corridor where my room was located, I saw a girl with a familiar face.

It was Nesa, Nesana’s daughter whom I had talked with some time ago. She was moving suspiciously in front of the room, listening to something, so I crept up behind her and held her mouth behind her back.

“Hmph–!?”

“Sshh, don’t make any noise……”

Suddenly, her body, which had been tense from being restrained from behind, relaxed when she realized that it was me who was restraining her.

When I released her hand at the right moment, she screamed in protest.

“Moo, Rolando-kun! Doing something like that so suddenly. You startled me.”

“I’m sorry. I thought you might yell if I suddenly called out to you. I don’t have any other intention, so don’t worry. What on earth were you doing here?”

“U-umm…t-that’s—”

When I asked her, she became slurred, unable to hide her obvious agitation. There was only one reason to eavesdrop in an empty hallway, and that was to listen in on a certain room.

Moreover, even now, I could hear the charming voice of a woman who was probably performing ” those acts,” although it was a bit stuttering, coming from behind the door of the room. In other words, this must be that.

“I see, I see. If it’s too difficult for you to say, I’ll ask the landlady.”

“P-please don’t do that!”

I was about to turn on my heel and tell Nesana what had happened when she frantically tried to stop me. I guess that’s the last thing a daughter wants her parents to know, huh?

Well, that was enough teasing Nesa, I thought I’d better get back to my room. I had to tell her something before I go…

“Nesa, I have one piece of advice for you: do those things when no one is looking. I’m going to rest in my room until dinner.”

“W-wait! T-that’s not it, you know? I’m not going to do that—”

“…… I was just advising you not to skip work, what’s wrong with that?”

“Uuhh, Rolando-kun, you’re so mean today…….”

“Fufu, I’m just kidding. I’ll see you later.”

Jeez, you’re about my age and you’ve already started to learn that stuff? This girl…

I wanted to tell her so, but I was afraid she would start crying if I teased her any further, so I didn’t say anything like that.

Just before I closed the door to my room, I heard a voice say, “Mooo,” so it seemed that she really took my earlier words as a joke.

After spending some time doing the daily training and tending the cooking utensils, it was time for dinner, so after eating in the dining hall, I headed back to the Adventurers’ Guild.

When I arrived at the guild, the assessment was over, but I noticed a flurry of activity in the guild.

It seemed that adventurers, who had probably discerned the Wild Dashboa material being transported, had gathered to gather information.

The evidence was all over the place, “Who hunted this?” and “Isn’t your party?” 

“Rolando-san, we’ve been waiting for you. We’ve finished our assessment and would like to hand over the reward, is that all right?”

“Yes, that’s fine.”

“Come this way, please.”

The moment the adventurers heard Nicole’s words and understood what she meant, even though they were stunned, the Adventurers’ Guild was in an uproar.

They probably couldn’t believe the fact that a young adventurer like me, who had not yet reached adulthood, had defeated a Wild Dashboa, which was a higher species of Dashboa.

“Hey, isn’t that that guy, that fledgling adventurer?”

“The what?”

“He’s an adventurer who delivers high-quality materials to the merchants, and he’s quite famous among them.”

“I hear the adventurer’s guild is still getting requests for him, but it seems they’ve stopped all of them.”

“I can’t believe he’s already a popular adventurer at his age. I found a great property.” 

“I had my eye on it before you did. I’m not going to let you steal my property.” (+)

I couldn’t help but feel like I wanted to say a lot of things, but there was nothing I could do if I cared too much, so I moved with Nicole to the reception counter.

After a while, a leather bag brought by a male employee was placed on the reception counter, and Nicole responded with a sales smile.

“Here is the appraised value of the Wild Dashboa material. Twelve small gold coins and four large silver coins.”

“Oh, that much?”

“Yes, partly because it’s rare, but also because it’s of such high quality, thanks to the dismantling, that the value is higher than the market price.”

“Can you give me a breakdown of the valuation?”

“The pelts were quite large, so we cut them up into seven pieces of easy-to-use size. Each piece is worth six large silver coins, for a total of forty-two large silver coins. Rolando-san also wanted some of the meat, which totaled 250 kilograms, so we bought three medium silver coins per kilogram for a total of 75 large silver coins. Then there is ……”

Nicole then explained that the bones were 40 kilos and the price per kilo was one medium silver coin for a total of four large silver coins, and the tusks were 15 kilos and the price per kilo was two medium silver coins for a total of three large silver coins.

“The total is twelve small gold coins and four large silver coins. That is the breakdown of the valuation.”

“Alright.”

Since I was satisfied with the assessment, I honestly accepted the leather bag and immediately put it away in my magic bag. Because that’s 1,240,000 Japanese yen, you know!? That makes me scared!

Although I felt a bit bewildered at suddenly becoming quite rich, I now had a considerable amount of financial leeway.

“Also, can I have your guild card, please?”

“Yes.”

“Your rank promotion has been approved for defeating Wild Dashboa. From today, Rolando-san is a D-rank adventurer. Congratulations!”

“Thank you.”

With the adventurer’s rank raised to D, I left the guild before I got tangled up with other adventurers.

The transaction of the Wild Dashboa ended without incident, and the day came to an end.