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"Shit, what the fuck, Koitzla?"

"Wasn't that an easy request to hunt a horn rabbit or something!?

A village with a large strong gate down.

The perimeter of the village was covered with fences and demons were kept away.

One adventurer standing on the roof of a house on the outermost side of the village was attacking Eat Ant, who was attacking the village with a bow and arrow. But when I'm inhibited by Eat Ant's hard armor and it hits my body, I get bounced.

A wizard standing next to an adventurer who was attacking with a bow and arrow is shooting a flaming arrow, but the ET Ant, who knows that magic can do damage to him, is sure to dodge it, unlike the arrow.

"Hey, can't you get rid of it yet!?

"Why do you think I hired you until I gave you money for it!

Near the house the villagers were making one curse after another.

I guess the villagers don't mind being attacked by a vicious demon named ET Ant either, but it's not an attitude toward those who are fighting to protect themselves.

"Terrible."

Mr. Louise shrugs when he sees the villagers' attitude.

I agree, but it would be too rude to come this far and abandon it.

"Sometimes I do it."

Turn your right hand toward the five Eat Ants about to eat through the gate.

"Leistinger"

A line of light is emitted from the tip of the five fingers, flying to Eat Ant in front of the gate.

"Gi!"

I notice an ET ant on the looming laser, but it's already too late.

Leistinger bursts through Eat Ant's head.

"I wonder if it's something like this"

Five Eat Ants, which were being attacked by five lasers on the village, were defeated.

"Hey, what!?

An adventurer finally realizes that ET Ant has been defeated speaks out of surprise and sees where ET Ant was.

There's just a body rolling around with a lost head.

"Did those guys do it?

"Such amazing magic...?

He seems to have noticed our presence, so he approached the village.

"Amazing magic... Leistinger is a C-rank light magic"

Magic that can produce lasers and eject fast.

A lot of people like to use it because it's speedy and powerful magic.

"It's really C-rank magic, but that's not C-rank or anything. Leistinger flies straight to where he's aiming, so I can't believe he's aiming one spot at a time and dealing with five at the same time... and didn't he bend the laser?

"It's my fault."

No, it's really bent.

From my position, I couldn't hide in the shadow of Eat Ant in front of me and aim for my head. Because there was Eat Ant, I definitely let him go into the mountains to destroy my head and then pierced my head.

I had no problem with it if I let it pierce me, but I was only allowed to destroy my head because it seemed like it was a problem that the material couldn't be recovered when I crusaded ET Ant earlier.

This would be enough material.

"Hey, what's that guy..."

Upon entering the village, the villagers also realized who crusaded ET Ant.

"Is that Mr. Mars?"

I don't recognize him, but the adventurers seem to know who I am.

"It's Malus the Adventurer. Can you explain what happened?

"Yes, sir"

The villagers ignore and listen from the adventurers.

There are two other parties of adventurers, a man with a sword and a shield standing beside the wizard, and a man with a long sword standing next to the bowman.

"We are E-rank adventurers who have just become adventurers, but we stayed in the village for one night and we tried to get to the woods where demons come out within this morning, and ET Ants overflowed from the nearby woods. There were other adventurers in the village who were escorting pedestrians, but they abandoned the village and just fled. We were fighting because we were left in the village without knowing what to do about it."

"Right."

The villagers didn't care, but it was good to be helped by them just taking on a brief crusade request.

I'm more concerned about their attitude than that.

"You don't have to be so nervous. Because from what I've seen, there shouldn't be that much difference in age."

"That's not why. We're E-rank. You guys are famous for ranking up to A-rank at an unusual rate, aren't you? Rank is absolute for adventurers. You all admire it for us."

"A-rank!?

The villagers were surprised to know my rank.

I guess I didn't expect to have been raised to almost the highest rank in just over a year of being an adventurer.

"Well, fine..."

I don't recognize him in Alistair.

But I'm pretty sure the fact that you're taking on a request in Dayton Village is an Aleister-based adventurer.

No problem as long as I admire it a little bit.

"More than that, did ET Ant really emerge from the woods?

"There were twenty when I first saw them, and half a dozen of them chased the merchants who escaped. I hope you're okay."

He seemed genuinely worried, so he was relieved to tell me what he had helped him along the way.

The escaping Maddocks were unaware, but the adventurers, who were looking out into the woods from a place with a nice view of the village, watched as ET Ant changed their aim to the Maddocks who escaped half of the village where they found a group fleeing the woods.

Mr. Maddock, who was rounded in from the outside, mistakenly assumed that he had been attacked at the end of his escape.

This could have done less damage if we had defended ourselves in the village.

"But you came out of the woods..."

That was going to be a bit of a hassle.

"Hey, Mars!

A voice rises from within a group of villagers.

The other boy is a little older than us by the name of Lew, who became village chief.

Lew, who was dating Karen, the village chief's daughter, was running for village chief because the person who was the village chief at the time needed to decide on the village chief on an ad hoc basis because of the problems he had caused, even though he had to decide on village policy when there was trouble in the village before.

I was not interested in it after that, so I left it.

"What are you doing back here now?

When I was a kid, they kept our generation together like a kid general, so they still come with a high-pressure attitude.

It's just unfortunate they're both already adults.

I'm not old enough for that attitude to prevail.

"I'm not coming back to the village. I heard you say you were in trouble if you happened to pass nearby, so it was up to you to rush (...). You got more help than that, and you can't even thank me as village chief?

"I'm busy with the Mars habit!

Lew comes waving his fist.

Maybe it's because of ET Ant that we can't afford it, but it's too short-tempered.

But the old me would have been punched in the cheek just to be scared by my fist, but now I see fist movements firmly in my eyes.

When I slap my fist with my hand and deviate, I grab my arm as it is and when I pull it, I let it fall to the ground.

"What are you doing to this emergency?

"Damn... I know it's an emergency. What a powerful demon came out of ET Ant. We need to bring in a stronger adventurer...!

Lew has given up letting the hired adventurer do the Eat Ant crusade because he had no hands or legs on his Eat Ant opponent.

The adventurers also have a look of regret without disputing the lack of strength.

I can expect that look to grow as far as possible in the future.

But what I'm trying to say isn't that ET Ant showed up out of the woods.

"You don't understand. It's not a problem that ET came out of the woods. The problem is that an insect-shaped demon has emerged from the forest."

"Well, what's the problem?

I haven't noticed that I spent nearly twenty years since I was born in a village close to the forest.

"That forest basically only shows up as a 'beast' type demon. So even if it's a miscellaneous fish, you have to care where the insect demons came from."

The adventurers who have just taken on the crusade request have no choice.

But it's a matter of not knowing about the demons that live as village chiefs in the immediate vicinity.

"As village chief, we have to understand that there are anomalies in the nearby woods and take action."

"Then you should look into it!

A girl appeared from behind Lew.

This is Karen, Lew's lover and daughter of a former village chief.

I used to have a pale heart because we were idyllic in our children, but after seeing the four girls on the left and right, I have nothing to be attracted to.

"Hey, what..."

"No, it's nothing"

I don't know why you liked this girl... but now you seal your feelings and ask.

"It's good to go to the investigation, but can you pay for it?

"Are you going to take the money!?

Naturally.

"We're all A-ranked parties, by the way. When it comes to hiring adventurers of this level…"

"Right. Even if it's just an investigation, you'll need one gold coin per person."

"Five gold coins is a lot of money..."

Of course, if the investigation is not completed, the amount will jump even more.

But it is also possible that the village will be devastated by being attacked while we go to call a strong adventurer to Alistair.

As the village chief who protects the village, the only way left is to hire us.

"I'll manage to get the money, so help me......!

"Oh, good."

It's easy to admit that Lew came with his head down.

A 'bug' demon appeared in the woods where only 'beasts' were supposed to appear.

This ecological change may not be overlooked as my business either.