Chapter 353 Meeting An Important Merchant

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When we arrived at the adventurer guild, we quickly moved to the house where the guild master lives. In there, we found a large carriage that looked quite expensive, frilly decorated with golden paint and other decorations such as wings and flowers, it had two white-colored horses as well as two men armed with armor sitting at each side of it.

"Could this be the carriage of Frederica's father?" Eleanora wondered.

"It should be…" I said.

"Welcome, Elearose and her little brother!" The receptionist lady welcomed us to the house, opening the door and letting us walk inside.

The moment we reached the interior, we found a tall man with a sharp pair of eagle-like eyes, and a pointy white mustache, his hair seemed to be well taken care of, and he was wearing very noble-like expensive clothes.

Frederica was right at his side, as the man raised an eyebrow when he saw both of us, analyzing our clothes and everything with a single gaze.

"S-Sir Eastbern, these are Elearose and her little brother, the ones that rescued your daughter and her servants." Said the guild master, who was right at our left side.

"Hmmm…" The noble man slowly walked our way, but his daughter was faster, reaching the two of us and suddenly hugging me.

"My hero is here!" She said with enchanted eyes, her father's eyes quickly popped out of his face as he saw his daughter acting all too close with me.

"Frederica, get away from that dirty serf!" He roared, quickly grabbing his daughter by the neck of her dress and pulling her away from me. Quite honestly, I was thankful he did that.

"Uwah! B-But father! Don't call him serf! I'm pretty sure he's a commoner!" Frederica angrily protested.

"Commoner or serf, all the same!" Said the man. "They might had rescued you but you must know your position as a noble of your caliber, my daughter. Don't touch them, they look nasty and their clothes are just rags! What if you get an infection or something? Think about your health for a bit!" The man said angrily.

"F-Father, don't be so rude with them!" Said Frederica, protesting against her father. "They're good people, don't treat them like this!"

The man quickly gave us a gaze once more, wore a pair of gloves, and then extended his hand towards us.

"I… apologize for acting like this. I suppose I should be grateful to you two for saving my daughter and defeating those devil bandits. It's just… I can't let my daughter act like this with commoners." The man said. "Ahem! Well, as it was stated, there was a bounty for those bandits, and also, there is a reward for finding my daughter. I am… very grateful for this, despite the difference in classes, I am not a man without honor."

The man quickly brought a big sack of coins and placed it over the table.

"This is the million Telis of the reward… Plus, another million for my gratitude to have brought her to me with no wounds and unscathed." Sighed the man as he smiled. "Thank you very much. From the bottom of my heart."

"Ah, it was nothing. We go around hunting bandits and we found her accidentally." Said Eleanora.

"Indeed, we are grateful you could reunite with your daughter, Lord Eastbern." I said with a nod.

Both of us had to handshake the lord as he didn't took away his hand from our front. Thankfully, he didn't asked us to kiss his hand or something.

"Hmm! You two are well behaved." He said with a nod. "Then, we shall depart."

"W-Wait! Father, how can you just go away now?" Asked Frederica, stopping her father.

"Frederica! Don't act spoiled now, you must quickly go back home and take a bath. We also must treat your servants injuries and mental health as well. You insisted on keeping them, so we'll need to help them recover." Sighed the man. "You also must resume your Magic Studies and Spirit Control Studies, alongside general knowledge, such as language, mathematics, and alchemy theory."

"But father… Can't we bring them with us? Oh! Maybe we can pay them to become guards?" Asked Frederica, smiling back at Eleanora and then directly into my eyes, she seemed to be fixated on me.

"No is no! They're adventurers and hunters, they live a life filled with danger, the tranquility of the capital is probably not something they want, even less be restrained in a life of servitude to a noble family." The noble knew very well our mentality.

"Hold on a minute, Lord Eastbern." I said. "Do you require extensive healing of Lady Frederica's servants both physical and mental health? I think we can help in that regard."

"You can help?" The noble man looked at us while raising an eyebrow. "How so?"

"We are rather well versed at healing magic, and also at psyche healing magic as well." Eleanora said.

"We can heal whatever trauma those people had." I said.

"Hm?! Is such a thing possible?" Wondered the man, filled with doubt about our words.

"Y-You two can do that?!" Frederica wondered.

"Please trust us. We do so as we said, we would want to ask for a single favor in exchange for any monetary reward." I said.

"And if we fail, you may take the rewards you've given us back." Eleanora added.

The receptionist and the guild master were both looking at us in shock, completely in silence.

Frederica's father slowly walked towards us as he inspected our faces, as if he was trying to see if we were lying, but as we betted all the money we just earned, he seemed to no mind it.

"Well, if what you say is false, I shall take my money back then, there's no outcome where I won't win." He said with a confident nod. "You may do as you please."

"Thank you."

With that said, we quickly moved towards the servant's room.

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