I Said Make My Abilities Average!

"Also an expedition..."

"Well, it's not that long this time, and it's just a 'slightly longer request for escort'. A month or so of escort requests is common."

On the way back to the inn, Pauline can forgive you for saying that about the overflowing miles.

"That's well, yes... But it's as if they were waiting for us to come back..."

"No, the fact is, weren't you waiting?

"Huh?"

To Mavis' words, a surprising mile.

"No, if we didn't return after some wait, I'm sure you would have asked for another party. Still, I thought maybe if I could, it would be us.

And since we're back within the tolerable period, you've been waiting for the rest period to end, and our rest period is so much shorter than the general party, you've waited a little longer, and I guess all the 'Goddess Servants' put up with me until I left here... "

Normally, there is no such thing as an Alliance Master who cares so much for a one-time C-rank party. If Mavis is right, it is quite a special treatment.

"I don't know..."

Lena was half-hearted, but no matter what the facts are, the results remain the same.

The Alliance Master waved the request to The Red Pledge, and The Red Pledge took it.

It was just that.

"Yeah, going on a journey again? Didn't you just come back, sisters!

You look stunned, Renee.

"No, this time it's not enough to say 'journey'. It's just a small merchant's escort request, so it's a very normal hunter's job to come back all the way around another country."

To Mavis, who says so, Lenny, who shuts up.

Renee says things are off to the Miles, the other three, but for some reason she doesn't answer Mavis very strongly.

"When Lenny's waiting for us, we'll be willing to go home alive!

"Hey..."

Renee blushes a little and runs away towards the kitchen.

"You..."

"What?

Mavis, who doesn't know what it means to have a frightened face Lena and that reaction of Lena, looks decent.

... Girl Whee, don't be afraid!

Yeah, I told Renee, even if it's a request for an escort, the journey is a journey. From the details of the request, it will be a journey of nearly a month, as it will not just carry the load around the area just quickly, but will stay in the area for a while.

For "Red Pledge," it doesn't matter how many days or anything because it doesn't matter about getting ready for the trip. Anyway, because all luggage, huge amounts of food, drinking water (which can be magically served each time, but once, I am ready), daily necessities, etc. are put in a mile of storage (item box), "Red Vow" does not have concepts such as "Prepare for Journey", "Pack", "Prepare for Necessities", etc.

(... yuck. I can't think of a hunter's life without miles anymore...)

Hunter's life without miles, Lena, who has been self-conscious many times so as not to forget something, is no longer able to think about traveling without storage (item box).

Even Lena, this is it. Mavis and Pauline, who only know "Training Without Miles," which they previously did when Miles was away on vacation, such as Hunter Life Without Miles, have little sense of crisis.

The two seem to think only of the inconvenience of that time as such 'having a good experience' as urban children enjoy an inconvenient life in camp. Perhaps the two of us who have never lost company think that this life for the four of us will last forever as long as we continue our hunter lives. I am well aware that that is not possible, unlike Lena......

(Aww, too convenient storage magic to do. Ohhhhhhh!!

Yes, magical magic, storage magic.

… Of course, the normal storage magic is not unlike the "What a Storage Magic (Item Box)" in miles, which is infinite capacity where tents, bathrooms, dragons, etc. are fine without deterioration due to the passage of time…

Then two days later.

"We are the merchants of our client."

Face to face with the three "self-proclaimed, merchants," the "Red Vow".

Men around 30, 40, and in their late 40s who don't look very healthy with skinny (or) mouldings.

If you are an ordinary merchant, you do not refer to yourself as a 'merchant of the client', etc. Normally, they would say, 'We're the clients'.

I don't need to bother adding 'I'm a merchant' or anything from what I asked for. And that's what I said.

... not really a merchant, I suppose.

Of course, I have heard the situation in advance from the Alliance Master, so now it is.

And the request is to be the escort of three carriages, the plan to return through the main streets of the Alburn Empire to the Imperial Capital and around the interior of the Empire, further confirmed the route of the schematic, "The Red Oath" with the client.

Apparently the appointment was only tentative and the route and the city of stops would be changed as appropriate due to the circumstances at that time. It is natural to change the next course of action by the information gathered, and even if it were an ordinary merchant, it would be the same. It is the merchants of the caretakers who act on an ad hoc basis due to information purchased along the way, such as areas where heavy rains have flushed bridges, landslides have prevented the passage of mountain streets, and where the value of the goods being loaded has risen or fallen.

Of course, if it is pre-contracted or promised, this is not the case….

"You don't have to worry too much."

Once you remove your superficial mask as a merchant, your clients will tell you the real story.

"It's not like we're the only investigators. For quite some time now, several groups of investigators have taken turns going to the Empire. In addition to pedestrians carrying goods on their backs (soy sauce), people pulling luggage, merchants acting alone by one carriage, and merchants, there are also people dressed in various things, such as travelling hunters, preaching clerics, etc...

Unlike us, they're real people. I don't know how many of them will get useful information and how many will return safely... "

Of course, "real job" does not mean merchants, hunters, clerics, etc.

"Where's 'no need to be nervous'! You mean this team doesn't mind being wiped out because someone else will bring the information back? You'll die on your own, but don't let us get caught up in it!

I am convinced that putting my life on guard duty is part of my job. However, it is a wish to be swept away by a client who thinks lightly of their lives and is unscrupulous. A client who hastily explains that to an exasperated Lena.

"Yes, no, that's not what I meant! Forced or illegal investigations are done by them, so we can bring back 'information we happen to see and hear' while doing business normally, without doing anything dangerous. Of course, you may change the route of progression depending on the 'information you happen to see and hear', but you don't have to do it unless you can't afford to be impossible/impotent.

I'll leave that to you, because there are people who specialize in that. We are just civilians, we do not study or train in rough affairs or intelligence activities...

Much of the information is not gathered in fancy illegal activities like writer Miama Satodale writes, but rather gathers rumours of Shirai in tunnels, analyzes them, and picks up useful information. We're in charge.

So I won't do anything funny or dangerous, so if you consider it a very ordinary merchant squad escort for all of you... "

If you are an army of modern earth, no matter how clerical you are, if you are a soldier, you should have minimal training. In this world, or in this country, isn't it...

(Or technicians, clerks, people who aren't military...)

Indeed, even in the modern Japanese militia, Miles, who had heard that technicians and clerks were not 'self-defense officers' and would not do military training or physical training, was convinced on their own.

And Lena, too, noticed her mistake and put up a spear (dust). Apparently, Lena has no intention of apologizing for her mistake because Lena had no choice but to receive it that way.

But the clients, they don't look distracted. Is it warm or is that not the shallow ones that offend you......

Anyway, the meeting went well after that.