Legend

Ray goes inside the stuffing and sits in a chair recommended by Langa. The Death Size may be standing next to the chair so that Seto can be used at any time because he is not here.

With a bitter smile at the look of it, Langa draws water from the water spill into a wooden cup and takes a sip of it herself to prove that there is no strange object in it before handing it to Ray.

"Sorry."

I drank the water in one sip just because I didn't drink and eat it on Ceto for hours.

It was very difficult to say that it was cold, but it still felt quite delicious because I was thirsty.

"Would you like another drink?

Let's have it.

Drawing water into the glass again, so Langa finally lowers her back across from Ray as well.

"Well, what should I start with? No, shall I introduce myself and go before then? As I said earlier, I say Langa, who is captain of the guard force in this city of Gilm."

"It's Ray. Griffon on the table is seto"

After a short introduction, Langa finally opens her mouth just to the point.

"Right, shall we start with this question? What's the purpose of this city of Gilm?

"I want to hear one before I answer that question. Did you say the city of Gilm or something? Do we have an Adventurer's Guild here?

According to Zeppyre's knowledge, the Adventurer's Guild had no branches unless it was expressed as a capital or something. But for Ray now, Zepile's knowledge was only about reference. And...

"Isn't that natural? Even though it's normal for a small village to have a branch of the Adventurer Guild, there's no reason why there's no such thing as a city in this Guild?

And naturally, the langa nods in such a way.

(Again. Now it's decisive. Zeppyre's knowledge is... pretty old. We'll have to find out how much error there is later.)

Open your mouth as you sigh inside.

"Good. Anyway, since I was born, I've only lived with two of my masters. Thank you. I don't like public opinion. It's easy for me. I'm here to be an adventurer."

"... from what I just said, I didn't even know if there was a branch of Adventurer's Guild in this city?

The tone is soft, but Langa asks questions in such a way as not to miss a lie.

In contrast, Ray just gently flaunted his shoulders.

"As I said earlier, I've lived with my master in the back of a mountain that could be anywhere since I was born. Even his master was a witchcraft fool and neglected his common sense."

"... magic? Isn't that magic?

Langa asks strangely. In this respect it was also the moment when the unreliability of Zeppyre's knowledge was revealed.

"Magic? My master said magic... you call it magic over here?

"... I see. You certainly don't seem to know public common sense. [M] It was hundreds of years ago when you called me magic. Nowadays, magic is rarely called magic, it's called magic."

For hundreds of years, Ray frowned slightly at the place, but immediately regained his mind and continued the conversation.

"If that's true, my master certainly doesn't know the rest of the world.... Well, just come out for training. Spatial magic... No, if it's the way the wind calls it now. Spatial magic moves it to a place that could be anywhere, so isn't that strange?"

"Training?"

"Oh. He told me to train myself and hone my powers after I fixed a stretch of magic."

"Well, that's why I'm an adventurer. By the way, is the Griffon on the table with your magic?

Sip a glass of water and then shake your head.

"I'm not magically letting you follow me when it comes to Seto. Have you ever heard of a skilled man named Tamer?

"You're a skilled monster. So, what?

"It will."

"Hmm, isn't that summoning magic or something?... and then..."

Langa thinks of something in Ray's words.

It was Ray, who felt subtly disgusted by the way it looked, but waited silently for Langa to open her mouth.

"Once again, there are those who are also taming monsters to the adventurers of this city. However, I still don't have an A-rank monster griffon... what an adventurer. I don't care if you're there, it's a monster up to D-rank, so I was wondering what's going on."

That's what Ranga said, but for Ray, who doesn't know the common sense of this world in the first place, I can't really understand the specific difference between A-rank and D-rank. I can predict the rank due to combat power and danger.

"Besides, I'm gonna have to pay taxes to get into this city for once."

In this world called Elgin, basically 10 copper coins and one silver coin. 1 gold coin for 10 silver coins. It is 1 white gold coin for 10 gold coins and 1 light gold coin for 10 white gold coins.

If Ray could explain clearly, would one piece of copper coin be one hundred yen, one piece of silver coin be one thousand yen, one piece of gold is ten thousand yen, one piece of white gold is one hundred thousand yen, and one piece of light gold is one million yen?

"So, basically, people other than adventurers - I mean, travelers and merchants - basically need a tax on a single piece of silver coin every time they go into the city"

It's a simple story that an adventurer doesn't get taxed when entering the city, because then the adventurers stop using the city as a hometown. If you think about it, it's natural, but even though there are requests that need to be made to go around and around the city, it's not something that I would have enjoyed if they had taken a single piece of silver coin each time. For this reason, the nobles who hold the city are exempt from taxes when entering the city only if the adventurers who belong to the Adventurer Alliance show their guild cards. Because the adventurers have decided that it would be more rewarding to come back to the city if they were asked to work than if they were taxed on a single silver coin.

Incidentally, at the outset of this idea, some greedy lord did not grant an adventurer tax exemption within his ruling territory. As a result, one adventurer after the other ran from the land of its lustful lord, and no new adventurers could lean on it. As a result, there was a vicious circle in which no more monster crusaders were asked to crusade, and merchants would no longer lean on them when they heard about it… The end was waiting for the Lord, whose tax revenues were ultimately surprisingly reduced, to forcibly take up taxes, to cause a popular revolt, and for the Lord to take over. Since the story spread, it has become insensitive to exempt adventurers from taxes when entering the city.

Ray inadvertently sighs when he hears such stories from Ranga.

"I mean, I'm not an adventurer yet. That's why you need taxes?

"You will. You didn't get a goodbye from your master?

Ray shakes his head small to Langa's question. There is no such thing as a master in the first place, so there is no way you can say goodbye.

"Um, what's up? I'd like to lend you some money if I could, but the rules forbid it around here..."

Ranga stares at Ray with a grunt.

Langa's position is that we can't let suspicious people into the city. But a person named Ray in front of you doesn't look like a bad guy. On the contrary, he is a man of arms to see, manipulating an A-rank demon named Griffon and also manipulating an out-of-digit sickle. There are quite a few requests to crusade demons in relation to the fact that the city of Gilm is on the periphery. As long as there are adventurers with arms, they can help keep the city safe, so I thought there was no way to miss it here.

It should also be noted that the city of Gilm, where Ray is currently located, may be one of the continents in Elgin, situated on the periphery of the Kingdom of Mireana, a central continental power.

"Right. So there's nothing like you can sell me? I can tell you that we're going to sell it to a store in the city instead."

"Something you can sell... hey"

To Langa's inquiry, it occurred to me that the pieces were given way from a gate of zeppails that was in the misting. In addition to materials such as dragon scales and bones, there are also many other magic items. But I was just hesitant to sell it. Anyway, Ray's current status is only an adventurous man. It is also about 165cm tall and small. They would be totally suspicious if such a person gave out materials and items that could be described as epic. If I could do that, I would have liked to use those precious materials as gear for myself and Seto.

(... No, wait?

Think that far and I'll think of something. Sure, I can't sell the contents of the mysteries I gave away from Zeppyre in a detour, except what I got myself.

"How about something like this?

About 20 carcasses of blade mushrooms on the list behind the brain and fur the water bear.

"Ko, was this... did you have an item box?!? Besides, this is the fur of the jarms and waterbears nestled in the entrance to the Devil's Forest!

Ranga gives a startling look at the fur of blade mushrooms - jarms - and water bears - water bears - that suddenly take them out of a place like nothing.

Although I didn't understand Ray at all, magic items of the kind called Mystering-like item boxes are quite rare, and only a few of them exist in the world that can be counted with one hand, even to objects with mystering-like off-grid storage capacity.

"Is this, uh... could you have tailored...?

"Oh. Suddenly that water bear in the forest you're transferring to... Did I mention a water bear or something? I was attacked by it and I managed to defeat it this way with Seto. Anyway, that was the first real fight, so it took longer than I expected."

Ray snorted as he grinned bitterly at the name Waterbear as if he had translated the water bear intact in his heart.

"Then the place where you were transferred will be the Devil's Forest. As little as I know, the only thing that confirms the existence of Waterbears and Jarms is the Devil's Forest around here."

"Demon Forest?

"Oh. It's a forest where many lower-ranked monsters, but more than that, are at risk as where the higher-ranked monsters live. For some reason, monsters rarely come out of the woods, so the adventurers never go out. Sometimes they go out to get certain monster materials. Still, it's a little hard to believe we're going to take down a C-rank waterbear in the first place."

"Ma, I don't mind you imagining the neighborhood as much as you like. So, can you get rid of this fur and jarm and stuff?

"Ah, oh. I'll arrange it immediately."

When Ranga calls a few of his men back to me in Ray's words, he makes them run into the city with fur and jarm. I dropped that off and then lowered my head to Ray with a face that Langa seemed sorry for.

"I'm sorry. I think it will take a little while to assess the purchase, so I want you to wait in this jar for a while."

"Never mind. He graciously welcomed me with Griffon and no taxes to pay. There's nothing to resent."

"It would help if you said so."

It's a bittersweet langa, but it's the right thing to do when you decide that you can't win first by imitating the absurdity because you're the opponent who originally brought Griffon, a Class A demon.... It is also true that Langa herself did not like the absurd method.

Occasionally this time it took the form of merit.

And about an hour after Ray and Langa started collecting information in the jar named... Normally, lunch time was over, and by the time I started working in the afternoon, the soldiers were finally back out selling furs and jarms.

"Captain, I'm back now. This will be the amount you sold your item."

Ranga gives the smaller bag the soldier gave him straight to Ray.

"Well, it seems that a lot of water bear fur failed the way it was treated. Originally, it seems to be 7 pieces of gold coins, but 5 pieces of gold coins. We didn't even dismantle 20 jarms, so we got seven gold coins a silver coin, including the cost of dismantling it."

As the soldier said, there were seven coins in the bag that looked like gold coins.

(7 pieces of gold… I mean 70,000 yen. That was a little cheaper than I expected)

Ray pounding his tongue inside, but no one can blame him if the cause is his own mistake in dismantling.

Remove one piece of gold from the bag and give it to Langa.

"Yes, the taxes do. It's a change of 9 silver coins. And if you're a tamed monster or take a subpoena around the city, look at this necklace and put it where you can see it. Please note that if a Tamed Monster or Summoned Monster causes damage as a result of a rampage, the punishment will go to your husband. If you're carrying a monster the size of a griffon, you'll find an inn called the Wheat Pavilion at dusk, east of the city. In other words, there are no inns where you can only rest your griffons."

"Okay. And the Adventurer Guild, by the way?

"Get inside the city and go straight down the boulevard and you'll see right away"

"Thanks for everything."

"No. Well, welcome to the city of Gilm. Hope you have a good meeting."

That's what Langa sent me out to, and Ray left the jar.