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Night.

That day, after the first appearance of goblins, it was decided to camp at night, especially since nothing had happened and the sun had fallen.

The tools needed for the night camp were allowed to use what Mr. Tech was loading in the carriage and even set up a tent at the hands of our men while they were making dinner soup for the women.

"I haven't even let you help me with this."

"Don't you usually help?

"Right. I hire you as an escort, so you can't be bothering your escort with chores."

Instead, I won't even let you use the tent I set up.

When I accompanied the seniors, they assembled the tent they brought in and used it.

This time, I'm going to let Sylvia and Ira use the tent as an escort.

He also helps with chores for this purpose.

"I'm probably thinking it's okay, but is the escort okay?

I can't help but worry about Mr. Tech.

My leader, me, is helping set up a tent, and Sylvia and Ira are helping out with dinner.

I just can't help wondering who's on guard.

Of course, I use labyrinth magic while helping set up my tent to see if I have enemies, and I have another reliable ally that Mr. Tech doesn't know about, so no problem.

"Nothing unusual."

Yes, the other fellow is the labyrinth nucleus.

This guy uses my magic on his own and uses' Labyrinth Magic: Detection 'around me. The results will be communicated to me as well, but there may be overlooks just as I help set up the tent. But if the labyrinth nucleus can help, that overlook will also go away.

That's how when I finish the dinner the women made me, all I have to do is sleep.

Except we can't sleep normally when we get a request for an escort.

Some demons become active only at night. Besides, someone needs to stay on guard because there is a chance that bandits will attack us in the dark at night.

Ask your client, Mr. Tech's family, to sleep well.

Melissa, the voluntary escort, doesn't mind if we let her go, so the three of us will be watching around.

What we need to think about here is the role of the party.

We need to stay ahead and be vigilant about the whole thing. Sylvia has stronger mental fatigue than we do. So I ask you to take the first watch. However, the time is slightly shorter.

Afterwards, Ira will keep an eye on you, and at the end of the day, I will keep an eye on you until morning and leave.

"Well, say hello later"

Aila runs to the tents of the women as she goes in front of the burning fire a short distance from the carriage. By the way, me and Mr. Tech are letting me rest in the carriage, and the only tents are being used by the women.

I have just woken up and I have to keep watch, and if Asahi Yang rises, I have to leave for Wang Capital. Various tiresome positions, but I wanted to take on about the hardest position as a man.

"They'd take on a hard role."

"So, yeah. Sylvia will take on even if she's tired as a squire, and Ira is responsible for that, so maybe even if she's tired, she won't talk to me."

I kind of know what kind of action they're going to take because they have so much company.

The problem is that my consciousness was getting scattered.

"Oh? Was there anyone there?

Mr. Tech came out of the carriage.

Because my head is not fully awake, I have returned it in words against the pronouncements from the labyrinth nucleus. This would be better if I stayed awake all the time.

"There's nobody here."

"Really? You must have fallen asleep."

With that said, Mr. Tech sits next to me.

Whoa, why are you sitting next to an escort?

"What can I do for you?

"For, not so much... you're a scout if you say so in a nutshell"

Scouts.

I didn't mean to show you that much strength.

"Unfortunately, we are not moving to the King's Capital. My family's in Alistair."

"Oh, you misled me"

"Mistake?"

"Not that I want to pull you out, but I was wondering if you could pull Melissa out of being an adventurer."

"Huh?"

I know you're selling inside, but I don't see why Mr. Tech would do that.

And what does he think?

"I am to be entrusted with one shop by an acquaintance when I return to Wang Du in this business. Then it's hard to keep hiring that kid as an escort"

Right.

The escort needed in Wang Du's shop is one who can fight at a speed that enables him to capture the killer among the walls like Sylvia rather than the wizard whose firepower is more important.

The power of the flames that defeated the goblins was a big deal, but there were other ways to keep the magic consumption down and defeat them smartly.

"The magic of that child is due to the hard work he has carried on from an early age. Because it is a budding talent, I want you to do a job that can bring that talent to life. That kid is only fourteen. There will always be stretches."

"What, fourteen...?

I thought you were very old.

"Ha, I was surprised when Sylvia told me she was fourteen, too."

This guy was eavesdropping again.

"More than that, where did you look and decide you were older?"

I'm going to say it in a gnarly tone, but in this situation, I just have to ignore it.

"I understand the current situation. But we're a party with no track record."

"I guess so. Even so, he thinks he needs friends his age."

From there, I heard that Mr. Melissa had run away from town and had come to a nearby village in a business trip. I had coincidentally reunited with Mr. Tech to be with him.

It seems that Mr. Tech took care of Melissa's father when she was younger, and she wanted to repay him one day. The person became unidentified, but there was a benefactor's daughter in front of him.

"That kid helped me with my work on the platter I wanted to play with, and beside encouraging magical practice, he followed my business, and at some point he actually took action to do something like negotiate and buy the town he lived in. I don't have friends my age because of that. Again, I think if we're going to have a party, we'd better have someone our age."

Apparently, he was actually listening to what he was telling Sylvia. The labyrinth nucleus is nodding yeah.

He just has one thing he cares about.

"Is that really possible?

It was a labyrinth nucleus that I knew a lot about, but the knowledge came from people who visited the labyrinth.

For this reason it was neglected by the administration.

So I decided to ask it from me.

"How is it possible to buy a town?

"It's not even that big a city, so buying itself is possible. It's not like there was no precedent in any other town, so the method itself is possible."

"But the way you put it..."

It sounds as if Mr. Melissa can't use that method.

"When I was reunited, that girl was a girl who was sinking into despair and unwilling to do anything. So I recommended practicing magic and I briefly taught you how you can buy out the town."

That must have been a little word to make the child have a goal.

You can't possibly get the money to buy one town where the kid worked so hard on his own.

However, Melissa, a child and bright girl, found a patron and made steady progress in preparing to buy out the town.

"Can't she?

"Yes, absolutely impossible in her position"

Her position?

"Oh, you know what?"

I didn't quite get it, but they found it in the labyrinth nucleus.

"Yeah, just like you noticed."

They figured out the labyrinth nucleus, so I kind of looked like I figured it out, too.

He made a strange mistake.

"Melissa is the daughter of a lord who was stripped of her territory by bandits, no matter how smart she was in person. Past failures are opposed to shields by those who are further above their lords where they have worked so hard. And the person who became her patron knows that, so we're just going to provide some funding and smoke some delicious honey."

I don't know what profits would be, but I guess it would be of some benefit to the patrons.

Chest shit. Bad story.

I frown unexpectedly at stories that trample the girl's thoughts.

"Ah......!

So I'm late to realise.

Thanks to the labyrinth nucleus for noticing me, I was finally able to notice.

"What do you mean, Mr. Tech..."

I didn't realize Melissa was coming out of the tent.