"... what good would it do to hire a yakuza like you or an adventurer"

"Prevention and early detection of yellow ghost disease. and some other infectious diseases."

To Zem's words, Rupard's expression gets more and more rugged.

But Zem proceeded without worrying.

"Regardless of what Mr. Nargarva was looking for, his strength as a doctor was certain. His remaining notes are now across to the Knights. It must be a difficult place to cross from the Knights to you. Let's be honest. Let's say this is a golden tree. But if we could have sedated the spread of the disease based on Nargarva's notes in the construction abandonment zone, where the disease is still spreading."

Isn't prosperity what you think it is? Until then, Zem didn't say. Zem still couldn't figure out who Rupard was. I don't know if I'm a person who falls just for simple immediate damage. But I didn't even think of myself as someone with high self-esteem enough to kick the bait in front of me. Close to a kind of bet.

"I'm not asking you to hire me to do anything all the time. If you get the know-how to walk in the renunciation zone, you can cut your hands off completely with me."

To the words, Rupard finally loosened his eyebrows and sighed.

"You're a hero. Relieve the poor who gasp at the suffering of the disease and abandon their prosperity and their origins just boring"

"I don't even mean to."

"It's a race I hate."

That's what Rupard says and stares at Zem.

"I don't hate being a hero. I'm telling you, I hate it when you try to blame someone else for being a hero."

"That would be something that a person in a responsible position should take. There's only money in your life or your wallet, like the responsibility that a broken cleric can take."

"Then I'll put you in a responsible position."

"Huh?"

Now it was Zem's turn to be surprised.

Rupard smiles happily when he sees Zem's expression.

"I'm not going to tell you to quit being an adventurer or anything. There are many who do adventurers as clerics. But use this when you need to identify yourself. If you want to use it."

That being said, Rupard took his seat and brought some things and gave them to Zem.

It's a chained medal. The medal depicts Wheat Ho. It is only allowed to be owned by the priests of the Temple of Bair. In other words, this is nothing more than an ID card showing that you are a cleric.

"... you want me to go into the Temple of Bair?

"That's why I'm not saying that. But once you use this, it means you've entered my temple?

"Didn't you just say that a return to the clergy might also come true if merit was recognized? Isn't it muscular to give this medal to a human being who hasn't even done his credit?

"Don't blur. What you've done, what you're about to do, it's all a good enough feat."

Zem makes tannic surfaces.

When I saw it, Rupard laughed funny.

"Is that a word from knowing how I was broken?

"I thought you knew. When I heard the story of the Bankrupt Cleric in and out, I gently checked it out. If your troubles are going to be a problem, you just have to break out of here again."

"But..."

If Zem ever enters the Temple of Bair and is broken again, Rupard will be penalized in some way as well. Because it is the world's learning that identity and duty are the joint responsibility of the given and the given. It's too drunk to try to take on someone who's already been broken once.

"I'm looking forward to the day you want authority."

The man sitting in front of Zem had to admit that he was a wider figure of nostalgia than he thought.

Zem sighs as if he had noticed.

"... No, I'm sorry I did something to try. If you're going to try people, you should be prepared to be tried."

"That's what I'm talking about. Whatever it is, let's make it work as you see it. It's actually a profitable story. Unless you turn to desire, responsibility and honor belong to you. If you want a share, you can always come."

And they laughed wildly.

A cleric of an apprenticeship-like girl who brought tea for a guest was staring at them with the eyes of "What are these people, disgusting".

"I'm just tired"

"Ooh... good job"

He looks like Zem's dead and he's stuck around the counter.

The dog woman at the counter who saw the look also looked somewhere surprised.

"I've never seen this guy look like this before. What's going on?

"No, well, I've been busy... Let's just ask for a drink."

Yes, Nick says, a dog woman has been getting ready right away.

A small glass of wine is poured into a special bone processed by the demon.

And next to it were branches of round bar-shaped trees placed on the plates.

"What is this?"

"Still a tree? Oh, would lemon flavor be better, not plain?

"No, I'm not..."

Nick with a question mark on his head, but Zem grabbed the stick of that tree.

"Oh, our passes are fine with nuts and walnuts"

"Whoa, speaking of which, don't you want a human race? It's not bad to have weak teeth."

The dog woman has offered another small plate.

Beans and nuts that are barbecued and covered with salt are served messily.

Simple, but Nick pinches that it's not too bad for booze.

"You've never been suddenly put out a tree..."

"There are a lot of dogs and rabbits here, both clerks and customers. That's why I'm passing through the trees."

"That's why I'm a tree."

"The teeth-growing species make sure their teeth aren't stretched too much by twisting the hard ones. Especially in cities, where meals are often tender, so if you don't twist these trees on a regular basis, your teeth are damaged or your teeth are sick."

"Heh... you didn't know that"

"Because unless it's a store like this, I don't really show it. Some people make fools of themselves for being beastly when they show it to other species."

"I see."

"Want to grab it?

A dog woman is finally laughing at and entertaining the tree she just tried to pull in.

"All right, let's try something."

"What, are you serious?

"You have to try."

"I don't like things."

Nick laughed when he saw the tree snap.

"How's that? Delicious?

"I feel like a dog-man."

"Can I put my ears on you?"

"I don't need that."

Nick put the tree back on the plate and began drinking very normally.

"In the meantime, what I found out is that humans are more important to brush their teeth."

"You've gained an important insight."

"Has Zem ever chewed?

"I do. Sometimes I looked at the teeth of dogs and tigers. Try this on your own, and you'll be persuaded."

"You're amazing... can you heal your teeth too?

"No, no, I can't cure you to boulders. This will also require a bit of professional witchcraft. But I've been too short on manpower to treat tooth decay and remove calculus a few times."

"That's tough."

"Even when you say you're out of specialty, you're often asked to do it with the momentum of being grounded..."

Ha, and Zem sighs.

"That was tough this time too. You're safe now?

"Yes. A cleric from a nearby temple will be entering and exiting the clinic Mr. Nargarva was using. Well, I'm going to help a couple of times, but I thought I'd leave it entirely to you eventually."

"Saying it's rusty, isn't it great?"

"Well, what do you think?"

"Don't be modest. But wouldn't it have been funny to sit in Nargarva's cauldron like this?

Zem held his head seriously to Nick's chilling voice.

"That's not how it works... I actually got that kind of scout, and they offered me a reward."

"Reward?"

"Yeah, that was the problem. If you like this girl, she's not even old enough..."

"Whoa."

"I was introduced to an elf woman, who looks like... I thought it would be okay to be scared of kids."

Elves only last a little longer than people. Living two hundred or three hundred is just a wind, and the truth is, he's about one hundred and twenty to one hundred and forty. For this reason, you can pretend to be a teenager even if your actual age is about forties.

"... Is Zem okay with that?

"It's okay. I said no before. And I'm NG, even if it's my actual age and my appearance."

"Come on, don't look scared. Sorry, I heard something weird."

Look into Zem's swordswallowing eyes. Nick immediately and honestly apologizes.

But Zem's troubles don't seem clear, and he sighs heavily.

"But it's hard because kids often admire you."

"To be admired?

"Hi, I have a good reputation for defeating Stepping Man... especially for kids. Nick walks around the mall and downtown, and he's hot."

"No, no, it's no big deal if I go. You're appreciated for doing what you do. You mean you've successfully created a mechanism for the safe entry and exit of clerics into the construction abandonment zone. I've never heard of a guy who could have done that."

"No, I haven't."

Zem shook her neck sideways laughing.

"Because there are people nearby who have regenerated about three bottom humans in cold poverty."

So Nick, who was pointed at the spearhead of the story, gave a strange look in the face as he was about to.

"Whoa."

"Oh, what is it?

"In my case, it's a roundabout. You're bragging about what you've done rather than saying that."

"I just want to do that, because it's just not going to happen"

said Zem with a cool face.

Not as repentant a face as I say in words.

Nick was so curious, he mouthed the question he had been trying to ask for a long time.

"... doesn't Zem think about going back to being a cleric or something?

To Nick's words, Zem looked out of his heart.

"What, do you want me to go back?

"Yes, no, it's not like that. I just figured you'd look great doing that kind of work."

"Ma, I didn't think it was bad for me. But..."

Zem looked at the dog clerk, who seemed to be free, and made an offer for a moment.

"Oh, my God, what's wrong?"

"Can you hang out with me for a drink?

"Not a bad guy at all."

And so on, the dog clerk happily pours liquor into the glass.

Kanpai, Zem and the dog clerk drank up deliciously.

"... because playing this way is also going to be hard inside"

"Different."

"I'm not ready to quit my adventurer yet, thank you."

When Zem raised the cup, Nick laughed and matched his cup.

The light noise of the cup meeting sounded small on the counter.