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"You've caught me again for a long time..."

An adventurer guild receptionist in a city named Hafel has turned a frightened glance at the bandit I've caught.

The numbers themselves were small, but they were frightened that they had chosen the method of pulling the bandits they had caught and bringing them in.

"So, I'd like to turn them over, okay?

"Yeah, I appreciate you catching me because bandits are only harmful to people who use the streets. However, if you ask me if the bounty will come out better..."

The bandits are not strong because of their strength when we fought.

No, I have the strength to be a threat if I try to be a common man without the power to fight, but from a capable adventurer's point of view, it's only the strength to be defeated in one hassle.

There can't be a bounty hanging like a demon sword owner on such an opponent.

"Still, the reward for exorcising the bandits should be paid, so please wait here for a while"

While waiting, Sylvia and Ira, who were looking at a bulletin board with a request form on it because they had nothing to do with it, then approached where Mr. Melissa was.

Melissa thought she would stay next to Tech, who said she was staying at the Hafel Inn because she was tired of everything, but now she's following us because she doesn't want us to meet Tech face to face.

"Did you make any interesting requests?

"Uh-huh... different places. Unlike Alistair, fewer requests are made for combative adventurers."

"On the contrary, you have a lot of requests for sampling like 'collect this material for me'"

"This isn't a place rich in demons like Alistair, so it's gonna be tough just collecting a little material."

Around Alistair lies a place rich in magic.

A wide variety of demons gather in search of their intense magic, forming something like a territory. It is said to be a dangerous periphery because of it.

But the earth is fertile thanks to a danger zone with enormous magic power, and the crops grow easily, so I could say that even dealing with demons is a suitable land for agriculture if I am not mistaken. It was Dayton Village where I was wrong to deal with it.

"Is there no demon near this city?

"Absolutely not. That doesn't mean they only show up with demons."

Sometimes demons can live as long as they get magic, but they only live in one type of demon depending on the land because they choose.

I don't know much more about demonic ecology.

I just have to be convinced that I live there.

"Thank you for waiting"

The receptionist came back to the counter with the prize money.

One gold coin on top of the tray placed on the counter.

"Is this all...?

One gold coin should be expensive enough for a typical household to live a month without luxury, but I feel less than one because I recently paid 42 gold coins to buy slaves, knocked down my prize neck and got a bag full of 100 gold coins or something.

Nevertheless, if you weren't asked to crusade separately, this would be the place because the bounty isn't hanging.

"Thank you"

"No, as I said earlier, this one helped me because I was having trouble with the bandits"

"Is that so much?

"Sounds like a sizeable band of bandits, has it been around for about five years? It looks like a group of bandits who attacked a town and made a lot of money, but they're building up their power over time."

Five years ago.

Bandits.

We all look at Mr. Melissa by surprise at the words.

Me and Sylvia don't react anyway. The story explains the situation, but you're not supposed to have heard about Melissa.

But it seems that Mr. Melissa can't afford to care about that, and he was stuffed by the receptionist.

"Um, do you know what the name of that town is?

"Name, is it? I think it was just a ragway."

Same name as Mr. Melissa's family name.

You definitely mean the town where Mr. Melissa was.

A bandit who attacked the town of Ragway scaled up and attacked us all the way out to ourselves.

"Thank you. We'll be in Hafel until tomorrow."

"Yes, strong adventurers are welcome, so please feel free to come at any time"

Say hello to the receptionist before leaving the Adventurer Guild behind.

"Hey, I need to talk to you, so why don't you come into the coffee shop?

Some unexpected look.

Leaving it like this was going to be dangerous, so I decided to follow her.

When I enter the coffee shop, I order drinks and snacks.

Melissa kept her mouth shut all the time until the beverage was brought in, but the moment she sipped the coffee she was brought in, she turned her gaze at me like she had decided to.

"Please. Please make me your squire, too!

"What?"

I didn't know what that meant.

A squire?

What are you talking about?

'Maybe you're talking about your family?

"What, you talked about your family?

'No, I haven't spoken one specific word like a family member. But she had seen that me and your husband were in a subordinate relationship. She's smart. Didn't you use the word "subordinate" from there without using the word "family"?'

Sylvia tells me her guess in a reading.

Oh, are you talking about your family?

But why are you talking about your family here?

"Mr. Sylvia told me. You owe everything to me now."

We were close the first day, but you were talking about that?

Turning toward Sylvia, I was softly distracted from my gaze.

"At first I didn't know what you were talking about. No, I was going to."

I got help.

Thanks to you for working out, I was able to be strong.

That would be the place.

In fact, the status Sylvia has gained is far beyond Ms. Melissa's imagination.

"But when I saw today's fight, I was convinced. I would defeat a bandit who had as many as twenty in less than a minute with just three. Besides, you guys were being modest."

I was making it a priority to paralyze him in order to capture him. It was like I was handing him off, and Sylvia was intentionally training him to drop his status and fight. Ira was practicing her skills, so it's taking longer than just controlling her.

I mean, not all three of them are at full strength.

"Well, yeah."

"I want to be strong, too. I thought you were given a special weapon from Mr. Sylvia's story, but that's not all."

He's a really smart kid.

You'll be more convinced to tell the truth than you dare to delude.

"Oh, it depends on my skills"

"Please use that skill on me, too. I'll do anything to thank you."

"This skill is also a skill that has disadvantages for the person who enhances it instead of having major advantages. What are you gonna do with that power?

Somehow I can predict, but I have to hear it from my own mouth.

"I will destroy the bandits who attacked my town."

I thought that would happen.

"Why, did you want to do that?

"I don't have anybody else to be angry with anymore."

Anger, have you come?

Until now, I was willing to hate the bandits, but I was once convinced that the Knights had driven me away, and I also got the goal of buying out the town. Thanks to that, vengeance against the bandits had also disappeared somewhere.

But there are bandits nearby who also lose their goals and have nothing to complain about even turning their anger on.

I was burning in vengeance.

Stop the revenge, I'm not going to say anything.

Now I retaliate against the village chiefs of Dayton Village, and Sylvia captured the assassin Davis with her own hands and drove him to ruin his employer, Associate Baron Boban. Even Ira is slashing the owner on the grounds that he was fascinated by the Devil's Sword.

So we have no right to stop her from avenging the bandits who attacked her hometown.

"I'm sorry, but from my mouth it's hard to say about the family contract. Ask me more from Sylvia and Ira. Then you'll have to judge."

If you have a family contract, I do not intend to bind Ms. Melissa to her actions, but I will only allow you a minimum order not to divulge secrets. Sylvia and Ira have also been ordered not to divulge information about the Labyrinth Lord.

Now, say what the problem is......

"Heckle."

'Ugh, shut up!

A kiss will be required for the family contract.

That's a deep guy, too.

I don't want to give a 14-year-old girl a deep kiss.

What gaze would I be exposed to if I gave a deep kiss to the younger Melissa even when I was supposed to get a cold gaze from Sylvia, even when I had Isla as my family?

"Let's not talk about this."

"But what if she asks for a family contract?

"... on hold"