Chapter 18

Chapter 18

18. First Request (5)

They arrived at Bromwood.

Unlike when first coming the checkpoint did not take a long time. It seems because there is no merchant mixed in.

“Are you really not going to tell what it is?”

While walking after passing the city wall Matthew asked.

It is the story about the strange and suspicious living being Benrik found.

“Later at the office let’s look together. Because if the lid is opened it seems it will run away.”

It also seems it will draw attention. Actually he also doesn’t know if this is really the rumored kidnapped fairy.

As expected.

‘It didn’t say it is a real fairy.’

Though a short moment he clearly saw.

An appearance as if a person was reduced to the size of a palm and even translucent wings attached on the back.

That was not a fairy‘kin’ but an appearance infinitely close to a fairy.

Fortunately Matthew did not act persistently. He just said with half-closed eyes.

“Yawn, then let’s do so. You are going to the guild right? I will go to the office first.” “Huh? Aren’t you going to the gambling den?” “Yes. I’m tired to death, I need to close my eyes a bit.”

At Matthew’s words Bram advised.

“At times like that a woman’s embrace is the best.” “That is only you. Usually one gets more tired.”

Only then Benrik noticed that he had been forcing himself inwardly.

When arriving at Louiswell from the mountain range, and when arriving here Bromwood from Louiswell he was the one who stopped by the gambling den first.

‘Well he alone took care of ten Shouting Old Trees.’

For about two days from leaving the southern forest until arriving at Bromwood, he couldn’t even rest properly while being wary of those who attacked the forest keeper.

The two people who parted with Matthew moved their steps to the great square where the adventurer guild is.

“I can go alone though.” “Because I am curious what the adventurer guild looks like.”

The child who answered calmly asked.

“Come to think of it does one have to stop by the adventurer guild every time one finishes one request?”

Hodge’s first thing upon arriving at Bromwood was also stopping by the adventurer guild.

“That’s right. This time because the requester was nearby we went directly to receive the reward, but it is not always like that.”

It seems the general method is to take the evidence that the request was completed and go to the adventurer guild and receive the reward the requester entrusted in advance.

There were also other reasons.

It seems that the request processing record must remain in order to proceed with the promotion of the mercenary group and the individual mercenary later.

“It was not that one receives the Silver Badge right away just because one can handle mana?” “In my memory I know there must be at least twenty or more records. Of course this also changes according to the request grade.”

Isn’t a fairly concrete system established. The high threshold of the promotion condition was also an unexpected point.

New knowledge is always interesting.

“Our mercenary group was mid-level right? What are the promotion conditions?” “Possessing three or more Silver Badge mercenaries, two hundred or more completion records. And also··· what was it? I don’t remember well. Anyway the biggest conditions are roughly those two.”

If 200 cases, even if one processed one request every ten days without rest it is at least five years or more.

‘The history is deeper than thought. Our mercenary group.’

But, there was something catching.

“Wasn’t there only Jenkinson as a Silver Badge mercenary?” “The leader’s father is also belonging to our mercenary group externally. The remaining one is in another land because of a request.”

It wasn’t only us.

Besides the Silver Badge mercenary who is out in another land there seem to be about ten more mercenaries. Somehow, for what seven people use the building was too big he said.

Talking like that they arrived at the adventurer guild. The guild was on the north of the great square, and seeing closely it is more magnificent than thought.

Benrik who vaguely imagined a feeling like a manpower office from his past life stood in front of the grayish-white building and had a time of reflecting on his own preconception for a while.

─Clop···.

Then a carriage pulled by a well-shaped horse passed Benrik and the others and stopped in front of the adventurer guild.

‘?’

The carriage door opened and a young noble lady who covered the area around her mouth with a fan got off the carriage while receiving the coachman’s escort.

The noble lady who got off the carriage with a prim expression disappeared to the 2nd floor of the building together with the guide who came out to meet from the adventurer guild.

That was the first noble Benrik saw since birth.

‘That kind of feeling.’

Excluding that the exterior is clean, and that it is decorated with things that look expensive it did not look particularly different from an ordinary person.

Anyway why the adventurer guild is in the square not the adventurer street while hanging the nameplate of adventurer guild, he was inwardly questioning···.

It seems it was for their peaceful coming and going.

“By the way even nobles come here?” “Merchants with lots of money, nobles, criminals, humans with statuses they cannot speak of. All sorts of human groups come and go here.”

Bram who roughly ruffled the child’s head opened the adventurer guild door.

─Murmur murmur

Inside the guild there were the most mercenaries Benrik had seen so far.

In between there are also those like merchants or soldiers, children mixed but most were mercenaries exuding a feeling of armed bandits wearing swords.

Bram holding a large armful of neatly stacked old tree logs left for the window.

Benrik who was examining the inside walked toward the wall almost plastered with paper.

‘Wow, is this all requests?’

The papers stuck thickly were all requests. When the population is about 300,000 are there this many requests.

Looking for a while from trivial requests like find a lost cat or find a dementia elder to bizarre ones like eliminate the ghost that came to my house or obtain the clothes a virgin wore for a month.

Unexpected requests were overflowing.

As much as the kinds of requests the things presented as rewards were also diverse.

‘Ingredients and meal treat, specialty products, inherited jar, straw doll···. Doll? No why is there a doll?’

With that Benrik knew that the request fee is not necessarily exchanged only in money.

When examining the request forms for a while with a curious feeling.

‘This···.’

It was a signboard separately fallen to one side.

On the paper hung there the requests were written in a slightly more neat handwriting.

What was written was also not rough paper but luxurious parchment.

While scanning the list, a familiar name was seen.

─Requester: Drenor Vinter

Jenkinson’s reverse scale, and the knight who handles aura, and the founder of Jenkinson’s mercenary group, and the noble, and Matthew’s dream person.

─Request content: Investigation and tracking of the high fairy kidnapping incident ─Deadline: ─ ─Request reward: 50 gold coins + negotiation ─Special notes: Belonging to a mid-level or higher mercenary group, being a Silver Badge or higher mercenary, no criminal history.

Along with such content one separate sheet with the overview of the kidnapping incident written, and another paper with the detailed impression of the kidnapped fairy drawn were attached separately.

Benrik who slowly examined the content could not hide his disappointment.

Dark gray hood and height written as 170 centimeters, a small face with harmoniously attached features.

Besides silver hair and green eyes there were almost no common points with the fairy Benrik caught.

‘Baelonian Lunagrif, the name is long once.’

The impression itself rather looked more similar to the fairy seen in the market.

First the height was ridiculously different, and there is also a difference in attire. And the most important two pairs of wings were also not in the drawing.

Consciousness naturally reached the bottle in the bosom.

Then what is this? Is it a real fairy? The forest keeper’s pet?

‘···For that it spoke didn’t it?’

While disappointed on the other hand a sense of relief was also felt. If he had carelessly said he found the fairy look how much he would have been teased.

He doesn’t even want to imagine.

“What are you doing?”

It was then that Bram who finished the work at the window approached.

“I was sightseeing. Bram, what is different about the requests on this side?” “They give a lot of money.”

Bram who said so jingled the silver coin pouch containing the reward.

“It’s a joke, they are the requests of the noble lords. Those people always do not want to be in the same position as things like us.”

There was a bone in the words.

Actually it also seemed he saw deep-rooted hostility in the eyes of Bram saying so.

“Here.”

Bram held out his hand.

Receiving in a daze and looking it was three scratched silver coins.

“What is it?”

There is no reward Benrik will receive from this request. Because he already received an advance in the name of contract fee from Jenkinson, Bram would also know that.

“Pocket money.”

Bram who roughly ruffled the ashen hair walked ahead loosely.

‘···The guts are big.’

He is a man who should be the model of all mercenaries.

***

They arrived at Jenkinson’s mercenary group office. But there was no sign of people.

They also looked for the leader’s room and vice-captain’s room on the 2nd floor but only silence hovered.

“It seems no one is there.” “It is so.”

─Kreeee···!

No, Matthew is there.

“It can’t be helped. When the two people come tell them. Say I took my share separately.”

Saying so he strides out of the office. Throughout coming he was talking about Lisa, so his heart is set it seems.

It was a good opportunity just in time.

Benrik who went to the room on the 3rd floor of the office locked the door and opened the bottle.

Whoosh-

Along with a scent that clears the nose, light powder scatters.

The fairy that flew up as if surging from the bottle scolded.

─You impudent guy!

As expected he did not hear wrong. It really speaks.

Poll poll poll···.

─To confine me in that narrow place for how many days! Do you know who this body is to treat like this!

“Who are you?” ─Huh? “Who are you?”

He is sincerely curious.

***

Fairy Baan. Adventuring to experience the world.

“So you mean a real fairy. A race whose race itself is different from fairy-kin.” ─······That is so!

The silver-haired fairy, Baan frowned saying how many times are you asking again. In the cute hand she was preciously holding one pomegranate seed Benrik handed a little while ago.

“Sorry, because it’s amazing. But why were you in the bottle?” ─Because human guys charged in I hid.

While briefly relying on the forest keeper’s hut during travel, the usual men charged in holding weapons.

─They are guys I happened to encounter not long after leaving home. How persistent and tenacious. But who is this body, Ba···an. I exerted wit and escaped.

To simply summarize it was a runaway fairy.

“Why are those people chasing you?” ─Hmph, obvious. Aren’t you human guys greedy. Seeing this body’s outstanding appearance they thought if they catch and sell it money comes.

Oho, she knows that.

“But why are you so calm now? I am also a human?”

When Benrik muttered she flicks, flips the silver hair and scoffs.

─Hmph, even if a kid like you is greedy what of it.

I myself don’t even get a sense of how much greed is inside me.

“Amazing confidence.”

Anyway with the conversation with the guy a few things became certain.

“Anyway the runaway is certain right?” ─Where did you eat my story until now. Even if it is world experience.

The head is a bit aching, but the outline was roughly grasped.

“Let’s go, home.” ─Home? “Yes, your home. I will take you.” ─Huh? Ah, no there is no particular need to···.

He snatched the fairy who was speaking falteringly and put it in the bottle again and closed it.

───!

Where is this fairy guy selling medicine.

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