Helping with Adventurer Party Management

Episode 116: Until Sarah Folds

Sarah seemed to need time to settle down, so I gave up talking to her that day.

The work that had to be done to get the guardian's shoe business on track was a pile, and it would be better to consider an operation to persuade the Adventurer Guild before discussing it, so we can have a constructive story.

I flipped my knowledge of the behavioral principles of the original world bureaucracy and officials and worked out some concepts to match the attitudes and levels of guild staff I spoke about the other day.

Thanks to the days spent, it's taking shape there, but I'm not sure I'm going to stick to the feeling of aristocracy in this world.

It can be said that the lack of trusted counsellors in the nobility is a challenge.

I don't want to turn nobles against my enemies. If you can reduce friction by knowing how they think and behave, that's better.

We also need to figure out how to improve the lives of runaway adventurers without causing friction with adventurer guild organizations.

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"Sarah, I need to talk to you for a second..."

"Oh, yeah, fine."

Sarah was counting the guardian's shoe parts inventory and making notes on some board.

In the past few months, Sarah has really been able to do a lot of clerical work.

Of course, I was the one who thought about the management system so that I could understand the job if I could have simple words and numbers here, but it's Sarah who's actually working with it.

Sarah now has a faint shadow of an ignorant village daughter except she can come out of the countryside and have a little bow.

With a lot of experience, I was able to work with how the world works and moves people.

I'm sure you'll understand what I'm about to tell you.

"Sarah, I mean the Adventurer Guild..."

When I cut it out like that, Sarah's expression got a little stiff.

"I don't want Sarah to hate the Adventurer Alliance or nobility. You don't think I can forgive you."

"No! Those guys, I can't forgive you at all!

Sarah responded quickly. Again, the emotionally unforgivable part seems huge.

"Neither can I forgive the Adventurer Alliance or the aristocracy. But if I hate you, I won't be able to trade you. It turns to the enemy. If we turn to the enemy, we're the ones who die. I don't want Sarah to die. So I don't want Sarah to hate them."

I spoke so hard to Sarah.

Even I can't forgive them. But apart from hating and turning to enemies.

Again, it's different from the distinction between public and private. It is wisdom for the common man to live.

If that's about it, can Sarah compromise too?

"Suppose you killed that double-jawed guild executive. What do you think's gonna happen?

"Kenji gets caught"

Sarah said with her lips pointed. I laugh bitterly and tell you what's going to happen ahead

"Right. So, a new guild executive sits in that seat. Nothing changes the adventurer's situation."

Sarah bites her lips with regret.

"The nobility is the same thing. Even if you hate and kill them, the next thing you know, a new nobleman sits down. Nothing changes."

"Well, what am I supposed to do!

Shout out like Sarah blurted out. The cry is the same thing I've warmed up and repeated in my chest by myself over and over again.

This world is irrational. I can't forgive you. Then I wonder what to do.

"There are people who are free to live, even when they start living as adventurers"

Saying so, Sarah raised her face.

"The army of swordfangs, the dawn of the sun horse, and the first-class clans changed their boundaries on their own. In the end, the adventurer has no choice but to admit it by force. Fight monsters, bloody, wave swords, cut the world open. Its achievements cannot be denied by the Adventurer's Guild or nobility"

"That's right, but..."

"Yes. Jilboa and Swivelry are people who become heroes. I'm not a normal person like us. But even normal people like us could have come this far. Surviving a few years, he was equipped there, while saving small sums of money to start a new business. I want more people from the countryside who can get here."

Sarah nods unacceptably, wondering if there were any parts of her that she understood.

"I can see that. Kenji started the shoe business because of that, right? But it doesn't matter if we forgive that double jaw?

I answer.

"You don't have to forgive me anything else. It's just that it's true they're holding the life of a runaway adventurer. So I want you to figure out a way to help the adventurers together."

Sarah had closed her eyes for a while, but slowly opened her eyes to understand if she had folded into something.

"I get it. Think together. I won't let it loose, but I won't put it on my face or in my mouth. That's good, right? Besides, it's about you, so I'm sure you're planning something, right? Don't waste your time, say it quickly."

Finally, Sarah's attitude returns as usual.

I started explaining to Sarah what I thought about the Adventurer Alliance organization.