34 – Episode 31: Stagnant water rots – 1

We received a request from the guild and are on our way to the next town a little away from Pelter Village.

“Shit…why didn’t you find a wagon…”

Kyoko kept pounding on her knees and complaining to me with a face that she would die from exhaustion.

“Do you know how much it costs to rent a carriage for Kyoko?”

“How much…?”

“It costs 10 silver coins each time you borrow it, so if Kyoko can catch 250 slimes a day, it won’t be impossible for Kyoko to ride a carriage every day.”

At my answer, Kyoko opened her eyes wide and couldn’t keep her mouth shut.

Looking at it, Kyoko seemed to lack common sense about social life or economic concepts.

I didn’t bother asking why.

Because it seemed like it would hurt me a lot.

“Yeah, but Chop needs to not make it hard for me!”

Kyoko continued to grumble next to me.

Then, blocking the front, he pointed at me with his finger and said.

“Why?”

“because…”

When I asked with a tilt of my head, Kyoko started stuttering.

“Ah, nothing!”

Soon after, he became angry and suddenly began to huff and puff on his own.

I was stunned by the sight.

“Joo-hyeok, more than that, what is our request today? I wonder how good the request is that as soon as you receive it, you leave in a hurry without giving an explanation to the receptionist or us.”

“Today’s request…”

At Rin’s question, I smiled meaningfully and began to pull out a request sheet from my chest.

“Shit… This is…!”

“I can’t believe it!”

When a request form was spread out in front of their eyes, they opened their eyes wide and began to be surprised.

After accidentally discovering it among the new requests posted on the bulletin board by a receptionist within the guild, he preoccupied it so that other adventurers would not notice it.

Unusually, there was an application form at the bottom of the request form, so I just brought it out quickly without having to talk to the receptionist.

This was definitely a request worth that much.

If those idiots who can’t use money and alcohol find it, you and I will do it. It’s a very attractive request.

The true nature of the request was this.

「Lopeiron Village, during the annual village festival! 」

In fact, if you look at this, it’s normal, but the real content was written right below.

[The Lopeiron Festival, which has already celebrated its 15th this year! The prelude has begun to rise!

In this festival, a contest is held in which foreigners can participate in order to attract new residents of the village and secure tourists.

Contests with lots of prize money and prizes, such as monster defeat contests, cooking contests, and writing contests, will be held during the festival period!

Also, for travelers and adventurers, lodging is provided free of charge during the festival, and food is distributed free of charge by the village at noon and 6pm.

We hope that many people will participate! ]

First of all, since we are basically only three people, the cost of lodging and food comes out quite a bit every day.

When I first came to the village, I was worried about saving money to subdue the demon lord, but when I started working as an adventurer, it was barely enough to save money, let alone save money.

It’s literally a life of earning and living day by day.

He thought that something could not go on like this and that he had to change it, but as he adjusted to the life by sleeping at an inn with his income as an adventurer and buying and eating food, he gradually became comfortable with this life.

“They say they provide accommodation and food for free, but let’s take this opportunity to save money.”

Yes.

The most important part of this was the free distribution of lodging and food.

First of all, even if we didn’t make money at this festival, we could save money on living expenses that basically go out during the festival, so we were paying our bills.

In addition, if we do well, we can aim for additional benefits in the tournament, so this was an unconditional benefit for us.

“As expected, the head is as cunning as the Chop wwwww”

“Well! This is definitely a good condition. It’s a festival directly organized by the village, so you don’t seem to have to worry about anything else.”

Kyoko and Rin nodded at my words and agreed that this request was a good one.

As Rin said, unlike the previous quests, this quest is directly managed by the village.

It is common for guilds to give the amount previously agreed to be paid after completing a request provided by an individual or group to the person who has completed the request, excluding the commission.

However, the fact that there is a saying that it is normal for f*cking people to live means that there is always the opposite case.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a group, but when you complete a request provided by an individual.

There are not many cases where the request fee is suddenly lowered or the request for a refund is requested because the request was not satisfied.

In that case, it came out in the manner of “slicing pears,” so there was no choice but to explode.

As much as that, personal requests were something he was reluctant to do.

From that point of view, this request was quite trustworthy.

It was a quest under the name of the village, so it was only natural that it would be more reliable.

“We have only one goal. money! I’m going to go and save the money. You know?”

“Have you become a slave to capitalism? The people of the ugliest wwwww Great Japanese Empire do not do such a thing!”

“If I can make a lot of money here, I’m willing to do the weapon production request that Kyoko has been saying she wants to do for a while.”

When Kyoko grunted as if she didn’t like it, I joked about making custom weapons that I had been singing before Kyoko.

“From today, I am a slave to capitalism wwwwww”

As soon as he heard that, Kyoko immediately fired up her will and spoke to me.

Sometimes I like the simplicity of her.

I think it’s because it’s so comfortable that you’re easily persuaded with even a little encouragement.

However, because of that, I also realized that Kyoko should never touch money.

“Lin, what do you want to do when you earn money?”

“I want to buy the spear I saw earlier at the weapon shop. Before I went to study abroad, I learned spearmanship for a while because of my father’s hobby.”

“You mean the one you’ve been staring at from before? It’s a bit expensive, but try your best.”

“Yes, it is said that there is nothing that cannot be done if we work hard with one mind and one mind, so let’s try together!”

Rin smiled at me and said.

Certainly, if you have learned the spear, providing a spear would be a great reinforcement to your powers.

And since she had been wanting to change weapons ever since she came to Felter Village, I also wanted to somehow provide her with a spear.

In order to do that, you need to make good use of this opportunity now.

We started walking toward Loperion Village with steps full of expectations and hope.

…

At that time, the Adventurer’s Guild Felter branch.

As usual, a bout of drinking took place in broad daylight, and suddenly someone started shouting loudly within the noisy guild.

“Hey, someone took the request from here!”

The green-haired receptionist’s face turned pale.

Publicity requests that come in every year.

Because of the rule that normal requests that came into the guild must be posted unconditionally, the request was inevitably posted.

Even from the upper level, there was an order to post the foreign messages that came in every year for a short time on the grounds that they harm the mental health of adventurers, and then collect them and dispose of them again.

In other words, it looked fine on the surface, but in reality it was a very dangerous request mentally.

However, while the receptionist was away for a while, the request really disappeared.

“Receptionist, what the hell are you talking about?”

“That, that request! The Loperion Festival!”

“Kuhh… ! You mean someone took it?”

A man who had been drinking alcohol from a large wooden cup heard the receptionist speak and asked back in disbelief, clearing his throat as if he had heard a sigh.

As word of the Loperion Festival spread throughout the guild, the guild became as quiet as a rat.

“There must be something wrong. Look for it. There is no lunatic in the world who would sanely go to that infamous place.”

“no! I checked the warehouse and the floor carefully to see if I had mistakenly attached it, but it was nowhere to be found!”

The receptionist only rolled his feet with an uneasy expression on his face.

“J-Who are the children who are not in the guild right now?”

One adventurer hurriedly stood up and shouted loudly.

I hurriedly looked around.

“They don’t have them! I can’t see the three kids!”

“These crazy bastards!! Did you really go there?”

“This is a really big deal… Loperion Village…”

Soon after realizing that Ju-hyeok, Kyoko, and Rin were nowhere to be seen, the adventurers began to curse and talk about their stupidity.

“Ha… I went to that village three years ago without knowing anything… I still have aftereffects…”

“So do i… No matter how many years pass… the memory of that village…”

Here and there, the trauma of that time came to mind, and adventurers writhing in pain appeared.

“I can’t help it since I’ve already gone. All we can do is ask for prayers.”

An adventurer with a spleen expression spoke.

Perhaps Joo-hyeok, Rin, and Kyoko didn’t notice the huge storm that this request would bring to them.

The adventurers only hoped that they would enter the guild with a sound mind.

…

“I saw it here…”

We were able to walk two more hours to reach the entrance of Loperion Village.

Arriving at the village checkpoint, we went through a light inspection of our belongings, paid the toll and started entering the village.

The village that appeared through the narrow entrance was extremely noisy.

Colorful flags were hung between the roofs of houses, and many people were walking on the streets.

It really felt like it was a festival.

However, I felt something out of place in it.

And soon the identity of the suspicious sense of heterogeneity was revealed.

That is, there are no travelers or adventurers in sight.

Apparently, the PR request went to all local guild branches in the Feltrohein Kingdom, but there was no one wearing armor or a bag like adventurers or travelers.

It was strange, but since it was still early in the festival, people probably hadn’t arrived, so we started asking people from nearby villages to find accommodations that were said to be provided free of charge.

“I came to see the request over there… ”

Before I could finish talking, he started ignoring me. Suddenly feeling offended, I grabbed him by the shoulder and said,

Then he spoke sharply and said.

“No, hey, people talk to the end… ”

“Ah, if there is an influx of village festivals, just shut up.”

“yes?”

“Don’t ask because it’s annoying, shut up and watch for three days and learn.”

It was at this point that I felt something was screwed up.