Chapter 87 : Request Complete
“Alright. I’ve checked that the documents I’ve received are indeed the documents related to the request completion. Please wait for a moment while I verificate the signature on the documents.”
“Yes.”
After we returned to the guild, we handed the paperwork we had received from Lennox-san to the guild staff who was managing the counter. The staff told us to wait for a little while until they confirmed the signature on the documents. When you sign a document, a small amount of magic would flow into the signature, making it impossible to fabricate it. That was why it wouldn’t take long for the guild to verificate the signature. Although the one who submitted the request was the butler, it seemed like there was no problem in using Francesca-san’s sign, the client we actually had to protect.
“Now then, I want to confirm that instead of splitting the reward by the total number of people in both parties, you will instead split the reward in half between two parties?”
“Yes. Actually I’m still not sure if we deserve the reward as well. Honestly speaking, I don’t think we could get out of it alive if you guys weren’t there… But, I wanted to do whatever I could for my subordinate since they had done their best during the subjugation. If you guys are alright with it then I’d like to receive the reward too.”
On the way back to the guild, Fel-san had been discussing how to split the reward with Mel-san. Seemed like they had finally decided to just split the reward in half?
“With that being said, Ren-kun, do you agree with this arrangement?”
“Eh? Y-yeah. If Mel-san and the others are fine with it then I don’t mind either.”
I was caught off guard since I didn’t expect Fer-san would bring me into the conversation! Not only Fer-san, everyone also always made sure to have final confirmation of things with me as the leader of the party. Even though I wasn’t a dependable leader…
“Well then, we’ve decided that the bandit subjugation reward will be split in half between two parties. Please proceed accordingly.”
“Y-Yes! Ah, I’ve confirmed the signature. Would you like to receive the reward in cash? Or through deposit?”
“Yes. ─────────”
Realizing the guild staff had finished checking Francesca-san’s signature, Fer-san told the staff that we were going to split the subjugation reward in half. He also told the staff that we wanted half of both the subjugation and escort quest reward to be wired to our party card and the other half to be split between the four of us individually just like what we did with our previous quest’s reward.
The reward for our escort quest this time was 500.000 elk. The bandit subjugation reward was 200.000. We were going to split the reward in half with Mel-san’s team so we only received 100.000 elk. There were a lot of things I still didn’t know about this world so I couldn’t know if the reward we received was high or not.
“I don’t know if our reward this time is high or not…”
“Hm~ We received 500.000 elk because the quest specifically asked for an A-rank party I guess?~ If the quest didn’t specify the rank of the party then the reward should be lower~ Escorting quest to Laserna itself is not that difficult after all~”
“I see.”
Which reminded me, Francesca-san specifically asked for an A-rank party because she wanted Sig-san to accept the quest, didn’t she..? If she hadn’t done that, the quest’s difficulty should be C-rank or B-rank at most. That meant the reward money this time was pretty reasonable given the circumstances?
“As for the bandit subjugation. No matter how many victims there were, only 3 cases had been discovered so far. According to the survivor’s story, they assumed there were 20 bandits so each head was priced for 10.000 elk, alright? If the bandit were left rampaging for a little bit more and caused more damage, the reward might be higher.”
“Sometimes the family of the victim will want you to avenge their family member and pitch in more money into the reward too~”
“Ahh… Is that so…”
Of course, there was no way the country could just go… Oh my! A group of bandits has appeared! I will pay you a lot of money so please defeat them quickly!
The policies in this country, Aspell, were pretty good for its people. The taxes were not that high and they were putting a lot of effort into improving the public facilities so their money was far from infinite.
“Ah…By the way, do you know if the food we ate was drugged or not?”
“Who knows?~ The only demerit in [Detox] is we can’t know for sure if the food we ate was drugged or not… Though I’m pretty sure they did drug our food~”
“Is that so…”
She really wanted Sig-san that much? Well, it was not like I had the slightest intention in handing him over to her though. I didn’t think we would meet again or rather, if there was any other suspiciously specifically designated request like this again, I’d be more careful before I decided to accept the request.
“It’s finished.”
“Ah, thank you very much!”
“Yes. I will return your card now, okay?”
While the three of us were talking, Fer-san had already finished with the procedures. He handed our guild card back and gave me our party card.
Our savings increased again… The money in our party card also kept on increasing and showed no sign of decreasing. Though I usually only used the party card to buy ingredients for the food we ate… Well, having money was much better than not having money. I guess it’d be good if we could keep on increasing our savings.
“Well then, see you!”
“I will see you guys again when I return to Pedrell!”
It appeared that Mel-san in the near future, he planned on retiring from his current job and returned back to Pedrell to search for another job. If that was the case then there would be no problem in meeting Mel-san again. After parting ways from Mel-san and promising to meet again another time, we left the guild.
“The three of us are going to come with you when you meet with Mel again.”
“Huh? Yes, of course we’re going together…”
“No… Don’t you get it…? Ah…Guess that’s the kind of guy Ren is…”
“….?”
Sig-san suddenly said that as we walked but that was what I had intended to do from the start. Mel-san was closer to them after all since they all fought on the same ground together. For some reason they looked kind of down. I wonder why?
“Hey, hey, Ren-chan~ We’re going to stay in Laserna for two days, right?~ Then how about if we splurge a little with the inn?”
“Splurge, you say?”
“Yup~ Right, right~ A hot-spring hotel with a private hot spring in each room! I wonder if there’s any room available for us?~”
“A private bath!”
We were walking downtown in order to look for an inn to stay at when Chris-san said that. We were planning on staying for two days in Laserna and left the day after tomorrow in the afternoon. We didn’t have any inn in mind and had planned on staying at an ordinary inn.
But after hearing Chris-san’s suggestion, I became very tempted to get a room in a hot-spring hotel with a private bath…
“I stayed there the last time I’m here. We can take our time relaxing and we don’t have to worry about letting other guys see Ren-chan’s naked body so let’s go for it, okay?~ It costs 40.000 elk for one person per night and comes with two meals~ I can pay it using my own money if you want?~”
“Fufu~ That place must be very good since Chris-san talked about it like that… Fer-san, Sig-san, is it alright if we go there?”
“Yeah, of course.”
“I don’t mind. I hope we can stay there without making a reservation first though…”
Chris-san sang high praises about that place. It made me feel like I had to go there with how Chris-san recommended it. The other two also didn’t mind going there so it was decided we would be staying there on this occasion.
“Let’s go there first~ I will show you the way~”
Chris-san took my hand as we walked down the hill road.
I hope there will be a vacant room for us…
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“Fufu~ Thankfully someone cancelled their reservation! It must be thanks to all the great deeds I’ve done~”
“We’re in luck… But nevertheless, this inn is truly wonderful…”
Chris-san guided us toward an inn located on the outskirts of town. As far as my eyes could see, the entire area was covered in this western-style inn. I heard this inn was usually fully booked but thankfully someone cancelled their reservation so we were able to stay here.
“Can’t agree with you more, Ren. Or rather, this place has a great privacy. It’s really amazing that we even need to walk for 5 minutes to reach the main building.”
The rooms in this inn were not connected to the main-building with corridors or anything like that. All of the rooms were detached from each other so there was a slim chance in you meeting another guest of the inn.
This inn looked like something a big-shot would stay at.
Sig-san was even slowly wagging his tail as he looked over in marvel at the room’s interior while sipping on the tea that was provided for us.
“Isn’t it nice to enjoy something like this once in a while? We don’t have any other quest either so it feels like we’re on a pre-wedding trip.”
Because we had finished with our quest, the tension had left Fer-san’s body. A soft smile was blooming on his face as Fer-san became even more relaxed.
“I’m going to wash my face for a bit… Pre-wedding… I really need to pull myself together soon…”
I slowly stepped away from the three of them and walked toward the bathroom to wash my face.
Haah… We still didn’t get to do it up to the end yet…The three of them said they will wait for me but still, there is a limit in everything. I have a feeling I will definitely come when we start doing it but the problem is…
“I’m the one who needs to say it out loud that I want us to go all the way… Aaaah… I’m so embarrassed I feel like I’m going to die…”
Can… Can I say it…? But if I don’t say it, everyone won’t ever bring it up because they’re gentle like that. I guess I need to do my best so I can say it properly.
“What’s wrong? Ren, your face is so damn red.”
“N-no! Nothing’s wrong! … But really, this room looks so wonderful…”
When I returned to the room, Sig-san pointed out how red my cheeks were.
I’m going to die from embarrassment for real if he knew what I was thinking about! Haah… Calm down… Calm down…
With that kind of thinking in mind, I tried to divert the subject.
“You’re right. It feels nice, being unable to sense any other person’s presence in the vicinity. Ren-kun, it’s still 15.00 so what do you want to do? Would you like to visit the gambling house I mentioned before? Or do you want to just spend time relaxing here?”
“If everyone is not too tired then I’d like to visit the gambling house.”
Relaxing here sounded so tempting to do but I was curious about the gambling house too. Besides, the hot springs wouldn’t be going anywhere. I could just dip in at night later.
“Thanks to Ren-chan’s frequent [Heal], I’m feeling super great!~ Shall we go now?~ The inn also provides a carriage to go to the downtown area. I can go and ask for a carriage if you’d like?~”
“Ah, yes! Please do!”
Chris-san then left the room to ask for a carriage. As expected from a good inn… It really left nothing to be desired. We also came here using a stagecoach but if the inn could provide us with a ride, that’d be great.
After that, the four of us went downtown with the carriage provided by the inn.
Chapter 87 : Request Complete
“Alright. I’ve checked that the documents I’ve received are indeed the documents related to the request completion. Please wait for a moment while I verificate the signature on the documents.”
“Yes.”
After we returned to the guild, we handed the paperwork we had received from Lennox-san to the guild staff who was managing the counter. The staff told us to wait for a little while until they confirmed the signature on the documents. When you sign a document, a small amount of magic would flow into the signature, making it impossible to fabricate it. That was why it wouldn’t take long for the guild to verificate the signature. Although the one who submitted the request was the butler, it seemed like there was no problem in using Francesca-san’s sign, the client we actually had to protect.
“Now then, I want to confirm that instead of splitting the reward by the total number of people in both parties, you will instead split the reward in half between two parties?”
“Yes. Actually I’m still not sure if we deserve the reward as well. Honestly speaking, I don’t think we could get out of it alive if you guys weren’t there… But, I wanted to do whatever I could for my subordinate since they had done their best during the subjugation. If you guys are alright with it then I’d like to receive the reward too.”
On the way back to the guild, Fel-san had been discussing how to split the reward with Mel-san. Seemed like they had finally decided to just split the reward in half?
“With that being said, Ren-kun, do you agree with this arrangement?”
“Eh? Y-yeah. If Mel-san and the others are fine with it then I don’t mind either.”
I was caught off guard since I didn’t expect Fer-san would bring me into the conversation! Not only Fer-san, everyone also always made sure to have final confirmation of things with me as the leader of the party. Even though I wasn’t a dependable leader…
“Well then, we’ve decided that the bandit subjugation reward will be split in half between two parties. Please proceed accordingly.”
“Y-Yes! Ah, I’ve confirmed the signature. Would you like to receive the reward in cash? Or through deposit?”
“Yes. ─────────”
Realizing the guild staff had finished checking Francesca-san’s signature, Fer-san told the staff that we were going to split the subjugation reward in half. He also told the staff that we wanted half of both the subjugation and escort quest reward to be wired to our party card and the other half to be split between the four of us individually just like what we did with our previous quest’s reward.
The reward for our escort quest this time was 500.000 elk. The bandit subjugation reward was 200.000. We were going to split the reward in half with Mel-san’s team so we only received 100.000 elk. There were a lot of things I still didn’t know about this world so I couldn’t know if the reward we received was high or not.
“I don’t know if our reward this time is high or not…”
“Hm~ We received 500.000 elk because the quest specifically asked for an A-rank party I guess?~ If the quest didn’t specify the rank of the party then the reward should be lower~ Escorting quest to Laserna itself is not that difficult after all~”
“I see.”
Which reminded me, Francesca-san specifically asked for an A-rank party because she wanted Sig-san to accept the quest, didn’t she..? If she hadn’t done that, the quest’s difficulty should be C-rank or B-rank at most. That meant the reward money this time was pretty reasonable given the circumstances?
“As for the bandit subjugation. No matter how many victims there were, only 3 cases had been discovered so far. According to the survivor’s story, they assumed there were 20 bandits so each head was priced for 10.000 elk, alright? If the bandit were left rampaging for a little bit more and caused more damage, the reward might be higher.”
“Sometimes the family of the victim will want you to avenge their family member and pitch in more money into the reward too~”
“Ahh… Is that so…”
Of course, there was no way the country could just go… Oh my! A group of bandits has appeared! I will pay you a lot of money so please defeat them quickly!
The policies in this country, Aspell, were pretty good for its people. The taxes were not that high and they were putting a lot of effort into improving the public facilities so their money was far from infinite.
“Ah…By the way, do you know if the food we ate was drugged or not?”
“Who knows?~ The only demerit in [Detox] is we can’t know for sure if the food we ate was drugged or not… Though I’m pretty sure they did drug our food~”
“Is that so…”
She really wanted Sig-san that much? Well, it was not like I had the slightest intention in handing him over to her though. I didn’t think we would meet again or rather, if there was any other suspiciously specifically designated request like this again, I’d be more careful before I decided to accept the request.
“It’s finished.”
“Ah, thank you very much!”
“Yes. I will return your card now, okay?”
While the three of us were talking, Fer-san had already finished with the procedures. He handed our guild card back and gave me our party card.
Our savings increased again… The money in our party card also kept on increasing and showed no sign of decreasing. Though I usually only used the party card to buy ingredients for the food we ate… Well, having money was much better than not having money. I guess it’d be good if we could keep on increasing our savings.
“Well then, see you!”
“I will see you guys again when I return to Pedrell!”
It appeared that Mel-san in the near future, he planned on retiring from his current job and returned back to Pedrell to search for another job. If that was the case then there would be no problem in meeting Mel-san again. After parting ways from Mel-san and promising to meet again another time, we left the guild.
“The three of us are going to come with you when you meet with Mel again.”
“Huh? Yes, of course we’re going together…”
“No… Don’t you get it…? Ah…Guess that’s the kind of guy Ren is…”
“….?”
Sig-san suddenly said that as we walked but that was what I had intended to do from the start. Mel-san was closer to them after all since they all fought on the same ground together. For some reason they looked kind of down. I wonder why?
“Hey, hey, Ren-chan~ We’re going to stay in Laserna for two days, right?~ Then how about if we splurge a little with the inn?”
“Splurge, you say?”
“Yup~ Right, right~ A hot-spring hotel with a private hot spring in each room! I wonder if there’s any room available for us?~”
“A private bath!”
We were walking downtown in order to look for an inn to stay at when Chris-san said that. We were planning on staying for two days in Laserna and left the day after tomorrow in the afternoon. We didn’t have any inn in mind and had planned on staying at an ordinary inn.
But after hearing Chris-san’s suggestion, I became very tempted to get a room in a hot-spring hotel with a private bath…
“I stayed there the last time I’m here. We can take our time relaxing and we don’t have to worry about letting other guys see Ren-chan’s naked body so let’s go for it, okay?~ It costs 40.000 elk for one person per night and comes with two meals~ I can pay it using my own money if you want?~”
“Fufu~ That place must be very good since Chris-san talked about it like that… Fer-san, Sig-san, is it alright if we go there?”
“Yeah, of course.”
“I don’t mind. I hope we can stay there without making a reservation first though…”
Chris-san sang high praises about that place. It made me feel like I had to go there with how Chris-san recommended it. The other two also didn’t mind going there so it was decided we would be staying there on this occasion.
“Let’s go there first~ I will show you the way~”
Chris-san took my hand as we walked down the hill road.
I hope there will be a vacant room for us…
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“Fufu~ Thankfully someone cancelled their reservation! It must be thanks to all the great deeds I’ve done~”
“We’re in luck… But nevertheless, this inn is truly wonderful…”
Chris-san guided us toward an inn located on the outskirts of town. As far as my eyes could see, the entire area was covered in this western-style inn. I heard this inn was usually fully booked but thankfully someone cancelled their reservation so we were able to stay here.
“Can’t agree with you more, Ren. Or rather, this place has a great privacy. It’s really amazing that we even need to walk for 5 minutes to reach the main building.”
The rooms in this inn were not connected to the main-building with corridors or anything like that. All of the rooms were detached from each other so there was a slim chance in you meeting another guest of the inn.
This inn looked like something a big-shot would stay at.
Sig-san was even slowly wagging his tail as he looked over in marvel at the room’s interior while sipping on the tea that was provided for us.
“Isn’t it nice to enjoy something like this once in a while? We don’t have any other quest either so it feels like we’re on a pre-wedding trip.”
Because we had finished with our quest, the tension had left Fer-san’s body. A soft smile was blooming on his face as Fer-san became even more relaxed.
“I’m going to wash my face for a bit… Pre-wedding… I really need to pull myself together soon…”
I slowly stepped away from the three of them and walked toward the bathroom to wash my face.
Haah… We still didn’t get to do it up to the end yet…The three of them said they will wait for me but still, there is a limit in everything. I have a feeling I will definitely come when we start doing it but the problem is…
“I’m the one who needs to say it out loud that I want us to go all the way… Aaaah… I’m so embarrassed I feel like I’m going to die…”
Can… Can I say it…? But if I don’t say it, everyone won’t ever bring it up because they’re gentle like that. I guess I need to do my best so I can say it properly.
“What’s wrong? Ren, your face is so damn red.”
“N-no! Nothing’s wrong! … But really, this room looks so wonderful…”
When I returned to the room, Sig-san pointed out how red my cheeks were.
I’m going to die from embarrassment for real if he knew what I was thinking about! Haah… Calm down… Calm down…
With that kind of thinking in mind, I tried to divert the subject.
“You’re right. It feels nice, being unable to sense any other person’s presence in the vicinity. Ren-kun, it’s still 15.00 so what do you want to do? Would you like to visit the gambling house I mentioned before? Or do you want to just spend time relaxing here?”
“If everyone is not too tired then I’d like to visit the gambling house.”
Relaxing here sounded so tempting to do but I was curious about the gambling house too. Besides, the hot springs wouldn’t be going anywhere. I could just dip in at night later.
“Thanks to Ren-chan’s frequent [Heal], I’m feeling super great!~ Shall we go now?~ The inn also provides a carriage to go to the downtown area. I can go and ask for a carriage if you’d like?~”
“Ah, yes! Please do!”
Chris-san then left the room to ask for a carriage. As expected from a good inn… It really left nothing to be desired. We also came here using a stagecoach but if the inn could provide us with a ride, that’d be great.
After that, the four of us went downtown with the carriage provided by the inn.
