I Said Make My Abilities Average!

"This is the village of the client..."

The day after receiving the request, I immediately started working on the [red oath].

Because we left early in the morning, we arrived at the desired village before noon.

"Yes. The request is made in the name of the village, and the request fee will come from the village budget, so you can think of all the villagers as the client."... of course, the representative is the village chief... "

"... but if you were to walk five to six hours to the port town, wouldn't it be better if the villagers went directly to the pedestrians instead of asking them to do so?" If it was just the requisition form, I would have deposited the requisition fee and three gold coins for deposit, to the pedestrian...

For a small rural village, three gold coins is quite a lot of money, right? "

For the current "Red Pledge", three gold coins, the equivalent of 300,000 yen in Japan, is not a big amount.

However, for a rural area that is largely self-sufficient in food and consumables, that amount of cash would never be a small amount. It seems strange to Pauline, who is already a merchant, that she can easily put it in the hands of someone else.

Besides, would you entrust someone else with a request that is quite important to the village?

Pauline couldn't help but wonder.

But Lena, the daughter of a trader... a pedestrian... also denied it.

"Five to six hours one way means ten to twelve hours round trip. Given the time for meals and rest, you shouldn't be forced to stay in the city for one night to be safe.

That would cost an adult two days' worth of labor, a night's worth of lodging, food, and other money. Besides, when you trust and deposit three gold coins, you are a trusted pedestrian, a serious pedestrian who has been going there for many years, or someone from the village...

It's nothing strange or anything. "

"Is that what it is..."

When Pauline was at her parents' house, she wasn't involved in the business.

By contrast, Lena and her father were on a pedestrian journey, and she was always there when her father had a business meeting, and she saw and heard a lot of things. Therefore, Pauline, who knows it, does not deny what Lena says in such a story, but accepts Lena's knowledge and judgment honestly.

(Nh......)

However, unlike Pauline and Mavis, who seemed to be convinced by Lena's explanation, Miles had something in mind.

(5-6 hours on foot from the port town. At this distance, I think I've sent out several requests before... This hasn't been the first time since the village started.

... I think I'm sending out a request about once every few years.

And since I use the budget of the important village, I think the village chief and so on will stop by the guild when they go to the port town to investigate the method of request, the quotation of the request fee, and so on.

Because it is not very far, the village chief will go to the port town once in a while. Whether it's the transportation of the wheat of the year, or a complaint to the lord....)

There is a feeling that it will not fall into the ground, but there is no certainty.

On the surface, it is only a request from a rural area plagued by vermin, and if it is not due to intentional malice, it is a very normal job for the new American C-rank hunter.

So Miles also didn't argue with Lena's explanation.



"...... Welcome, you're here......"

It's a "red oath" at the village chief's house, talking to the village leadership...

The tension is low, and the village chief does not openly try to hide the color of disappointment.

All the village officials who were present were in the same situation.

Well, that wouldn't be impossible either.

Three gold pieces from the invaluable village budget.

As a result, there was no choice but to be discouraged even if the four young daughters who had come were not much different from their granddaughters.

However, since the request form did not have an age restriction or the condition that it be "limited to male parties", there was no way that the guild could complain now that it had accepted the order as "no problem if it was this party".

If this is an escort request, it is written in the order conditions that "the acceptability of the order depends on the result of the interview"...

As expected, if the merchants were attacked by a monster, they would abandon the client and flee immediately. "No, you're definitely an undercover spy for the bandits!! 'Cause you wouldn't want to hire a villain like that...

"... no, I know how you feel, but don't worry, this is still a C-rank party with a good history.

Also, if we fail to fulfill the request, we will not be paid as "request matters not fulfilled", and the request will be sent to the next contractor.... "

The village chiefs were relieved to hear Mavis's explanation.

Everyone is not angry because they are used to being underestimated by their first sight.

"... so I'd like to check the details of your request..."

The details of the request confirmed by the guild were too messy.

That's right, there's no way that anyone other than the [Red Oath] can accept an order...

And according to the village chiefs... "

"In this village, there is a 'forest to enter' a short distance away.

There lived a monster, and the people of the village would not enter the forest.

However, recently, monsters came to the village from there, and the livestock began to be attacked.

That's a big problem, but I don't know when humans will be attacked.

Therefore, I wanted to defeat the monsters and keep the village safe.

Excluding horn rabbits and oaks from the subject. I want to make sure that all wolves are wiped out. "

It was so.

Excluding horn rabbits and orcs would be necessary in the village as prey for meat and ingredients.

The orcs were a bit dangerous, but not as dangerous as the Augur and Wolf monsters. Once in a while, if one is hunted, it greatly contributes to the food situation in the village.

... and perhaps the orcs won't come all the way to this village.

"" "" "Ahh..." ""

This is what I was worried about.

However, it is surprising that it was really a request of that kind, just because it was "not impossible".

If this is a request from a vicious individual to trick a hunter into just doing his job, or to use a breach of contract as a shield to do something reckless, I still don't know.

However, this is a formal request as a village, and this is not... "

"... do you mean to destroy all the monsters in the forest?" For three gold coins? "

"Are you licking the world?"

Please ask the lord!

Spicy (shy), miles and Pauline, and Lena's words.

And......

"I wonder how many years it will take, hahaha..."

"It was Mavis who smiled bitterly..."



"No, I got a request, so I need you to do it!" It's a breach of contract! "

"No, if the detailed explanation is too out of order, the guild has instructed me to go back without working...."

No matter how good Mavis is, I can't take this story.

Even though we are the only ones to suffer badly, rumors circulate that "stupid hunters can only be made to work if they cheat well", and "The hunters I asked for before received these conditions!” Other hunters get annoyed. This is a place where we must never compromise.

"... then let's go home!"

"" Oh! ""

And when everyone took their seats at Lena's direction... "

"... I have no choice. Now, let's lower the terms a bit."

The village chief said such a thing, but everyone walked out of the room, completely through the words.

"... no? No, wait! I told you I'd lower my terms!!"

But the [Red Oath] did not seem to stop.

"Wait, wait, let's talk..."

So Lena stops and looks back, expressionless.

"Even though the other person is asking for reasonable conditions, I have put 10 times the conditions on it, and if the other person does not drink it, then let's take the middle of each other's conditions." That would be fair, wouldn't it? "I'm not stupid enough to listen to a villain who imposes a 5.5-fold condition.

Rest assured that I will tell the guilds and hunters exactly what we have been asked to do with the reward of the three gold coins. Next time, there's only a hunter who understands what this village is looking for.

... if such a stupid or friendly hunter existed, I'd say so.

I feel sorry for the salting that we've been receiving for so long, even though we were just volunteers. I wonder when that kind of hunter will appear next..... "

…………

And the village chiefs trembled with blue faces... "