CH 67

Arriving at the Adventurer’s Guild, Sasha led me to the second floor.

The guild’s second floor is the guildmaster’s office and reception room, and is basically off limits to adventurers like me. If I had some big achievement, such as a dungeon capture like “The  War Maidens”, I might be invited to the office.

The only thing left is a request for an individual nomination like this.

Incidentally, unlike the requests from the state and the nobility, requests from guilds are more like ” entreaties”. Therefore, you can refuse the request.

Well, that’s why it’s often a case that’s hard to turn down in any way.

Sasha stops in front of the room with the reception room sign and knocks on the door.

“Mr. Tarales. This is Sasha, I have Gray-san for you.”

Then immediately from inside

“Come in”

said a voice.

“Excuse me”

“Hi, Gray. I’m sorry to call you out of the blue. Thanks for your help, Sasha.”

When Sasha opened the door, a small, grayish blue-haired man …… Guild Master Tarales was sitting on the couch.

“No”

Sasha only replied with one word to Tarales’s words.

“I heard you asked for me by name. I came to ask for details.”

“Yeah. Well, have a seat. I’ll make you some tea. I’ve got just the right tea leaves, just give me a minute.”

After saying this, Tarales got up quickly and walked to the next room.

“…”

Does Tarales himself make the tea?

“Serving tea to guests is a hobby of Mr. Tarales.”

Sasha said, she must have read my thoughts.

“…I see”

Tarales doesn’t come out of his office very often, so only a few adventurers who frequent this guild know his face.

I myself have only met him in person a handful of times.

He is said to be a very talented person and was a famous adventurer with two names during his active career. According to information from Harsalia.

As I sat on the sofa and waited, the door opened with a clatter.

“Oh, there you are. Looks like another one just arrived.”

One more person? With that thought in mind, I looked toward the door and saw Emilia, a swordsman with long blonde hair pulled back, enter from behind Tarales, who was holding a tray with a tea set and cookies on it.

What does this mean?

“Yeah, I’ll explain properly, so please don’t look so angry.”

……I have a plain face, right?

“No, that’s …….”

Emilia seems to understand that, and shows a troubled expression at Tarales’ words. She tried to correct him for a moment, but gave up when I sighed and shook my head.

I want to move forward with the conversation.

The contents of the request were mostly as I had heard from Sasha. A series of children who lived in towns and villages near Bastok have gone missing.

I was curious and asked him about it, but he said that he had not received any reports of children disappearing in this town of Bastok.

…If this is a kidnapping, why target a place that is clearly less populated than this Bastok? One possible reason.

They are simply easier to do.

There is a high possibility that what they are looking for is in such a place.

To delay the adventurers’ guild and lords from knowing as much as possible.

They simply haven’t gotten around to this city yet..

Around here?

After listening to the story, it seems that he originally intended to make a request to the “War Maidens”. However, due to bad timing, it seems that a certain wealthy merchant has requested to nominate the “War Maiden”.

The name of this wealthy merchant is Maxime Fillot. He is the head of one of the three largest trading houses in the country.

Come to think of it, Kodar’s orphanage…

“…”

“Are you okay Gray?”

I looked up when I heard my name called and my eyes met Emilia’s with a worried look on her face.

“…I’m sorry, I was thinking about something. So, this request is…”

“Yeah. Firo Company’s request is to escort a caravan to the royal capital. Kasha and the others will take care of that, and I will take care of this.”

“I see. I’ll help you with this.”

It doesn’t matter, but…

“Is the escort of that caravan okay without you, the leader?”

“We’ll take care of the request. With Kasha and Haru, there is no such thing as a ” contingency “. If it’s a request from a nobleman, it’s not so easy…”

Emilia said this with a slightly troublesome expression on her face.

Nobles are all about appearances. It is said that there are some who resent the mere fact that they accept a request they submitted without a leader. Well, to be honest, Emilia’s family is a noble family, so she probably understands this.

“……Then this request. Will you accept it?”

Tarales, who is sitting opposite me and Emilia, said so.

“Oh. I will, as I said earlier.”

“I’ll take it too”

When we responded, Tarales nodded with a look of satisfaction on his face.