Chapter 207: The Special Affairs Officer Proceeds with Negotiations

Chapter 207: The Special Affairs Officer Proceeds with Negotiations The Special Affairs Officer Proceeds with Negotiations

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“So, John-san, regarding the land rent next......”

“Hmm, if you agree to the previous conditions......”

“I see, then we......”

“No, if that’s the case......”

In front of Yuju’s eyes, her escort target, Special Affairs Officer Taiche, and the man with the villain’s face, John, were continuing some kind of difficult negotiation.

Yuju was leisurely watching that while standing behind Taiche.

Her job this time was to escort Special Affairs Officer Taiche.

And currently, the escort target was in the conference room inside the base where there was no danger of monsters.

The person she was negotiating with also looked villainous but didn’t seem very strong, just an ordinary person.

Therefore, Yuju was ordinarily letting her guard down and taking a break while pretending to escort.

“Accordingly......”

“Oh my, what a surprise! Taiche-dono, you’re quite the joker.”

“No, no, not as much as you, John-san! Hahahahaha!”

“”Hahahahaha!””

Ah, they’re laughing about something.

(Wow, I’m glad they seem to be having fun!)

Letting the difficult words pass through her right ear and out her left ear, Yuju had a leisurely smile on her face.

She casually glanced out the window.

Was it a field burn?

Several thin trails of smoke were rising from the fields inside the base.Fôll0w current novÊls o/n n/o/(v)/3l/b((in).(c/o/m)

The peaceful scenery soothed her heart......

This brief moment of rest amidst the daily harsh adventurer work.

Yuju was ordinarily enjoying it to the fullest.

However, on the other hand, the two office workers, Taiche and Giovanno, were giving their all to the negotiation, wearing down their nerves and eroding their minds, putting Yuju’s leisurely attitude behind them!

The words they threw at each other with smiles on their faces were like fastballs with blades hidden inside.

Each word contained double or triple meanings, and if you carelessly caught them, you would definitely suffer a major injury!

They weren’t having a pleasant conversation at all!

However, since the goals the two were aiming for weren’t that far apart, although they had some disagreements over the details, it could be said that this negotiation landed at a point where both sides were satisfied.

First, the Adventurer’s Guild recognized the villainous-looking man John’s rights to the land and promised to protect him.

In the first place, the Adventurer’s Guild wasn’t the kind of organization that would do something ungrateful like driving out the pioneer of the land, and they valued this man’s extraordinary talent in demon realm plant cultivation and his leadership in this land.

Huh? A great sinner exiled to this forest?

There’s no way such a person would still be alive, right?

Use common sense to think about it.

Well, that’s how it turned out.

Next, it was decided that Patchino and the members of the “Tea Dragon’s Heel” would work as adventurers based at this Zamago Forest branch office in the future and continue to compensate the victims of their hero fraud.

Also, they would finally receive wages for their labor in road construction and other base development work.

And as for Earthcell, as he had hoped, he would continue working at this place as the branch manager.

Giovanno had negotiated not only for the treatment of the “Tea Dragon’s Heel” but also for Earthcell, who was originally on the Adventurer’s Guild side.

It was the result of considering the ease of living at the base for him and Emi in the future, the affection he had developed for Earthcell and the others as comrades, and the fact that Giovanno simply enjoyed negotiating this and that in the first place.

“...... Then, I look forward to working with you in the future.”

“Likewise.”

...... Realizing that his voice came out colder than he expected, Giovanno felt a chill of panic in his mind.

During a negotiation, it’s not good to let the other party sense your emotions.

However, it couldn’t be helped.

After all, it seemed that the woman in front of him had business with Emi.

Emi is strong.

Sometimes so strong that he couldn’t believe she was human like him.

However, that’s only when looking at her combat ability in isolation.

To put it in a strange way, Emi is monstrously strong as a creature but very weak as a human.

It’s not a matter of mental issues, but a matter of social standing.

After all, until she came here, she was a homeless wanderer without a place to live, and above all, she is a cursed child with black hair and black eyes.

In the “normal society” of this world, she is a being who is despised and treated with malice for no particular reason and yet is never saved.

Emi’s occasional rough behavior.

Her violent, cruel, and beastly nature.

But that’s just one aspect of her.

Emi is certainly crude, rough, and ignorant of common sense, but she seems to cherish her comrades at the base in her own way, and she’s happy when her birthday is celebrated.

Her heart is a human heart.

And unconsciously, she seeks connections between people.

She is not a monster slumbering on top of corpses.

At least, not now.

Absolutely not.

If that’s the case.

As an adult, he protects her.

That’s his job, Giovanno selfishly thought.

Because for Giovanno, Emi is now a life-saver, a comrade who has shared joys and sorrows, and as if she were his own......

“...... Please don’t be so wary.”

Sensing a different kind of fighting spirit from the villainous-looking man compared to the previous negotiation, Taiche hastily spoke up.

“That just now was not a question meant to disparage that girl. I was simply cross-checking her physical characteristics. And there’s probably no mistake. We at the Adventurer’s Guild, to that girl......”

“Hey, perverted old geezer! I brought her.”

That’s when it happened.

Without knocking, the door to the conference room opened, and a man with a shabby appearance entered from outside.

No, it wasn’t just that man who entered.

That man had brought a child with a hood pulled deep over their eyes.

That child had erased their presence and walked without making a sound, so at first, Taiche couldn’t notice their existence.

By the time Taiche was able to notice that child.

That child had already.

Towards the two unfamiliar women in the conference room, Taiche and Yuju.

...... Started emitting a powerful 【Intimidation】!

Ah! Emi-chan, you’re doing the “Opening Move 【Intimidation】” again!

Is she shy around strangers?

I apologize for the long conversation, but the negotiation part is definitely an important opportunity for the brainy old man-type character to shine, so please forgive me.

Despite that, since the author is an idiot who can’t write smart-sounding conversations, the crucial negotiation depiction ended up being completely cut!

Sorry, old man!