One problem was discovered as we went around each room for confirmation, as we decided to base ourselves within the Wang Dynasty and the baggage we asked for delivery was in place.

Three of the beds I asked for are somehow arranged in two rooms, one at a time.

Since it was my sister who was present to bring in the bed, this means that Kaori instructed me to do so.

I have four rooms, one for three. I thought the other was fine as a spare, but my sister seems to have been different.

Furthermore, the bed is not placed on either end of the room, but is placed as a double bed with two stuck together. What are you thinking, the Kaori one?

Kaori and Rhina are the ones who sleep in this room, and I can still tell if I'm alone. But the room is already packed with me and Kaori. Mr. Rhina's luggage was in the next room.

Really? What are you thinking?

I asked him quickly, with a bewildered look at what was wrong: Huh? 'I was told. This one's like, "Huh?' That's right!

As I tried to further inquire, Rhina called me 'The bath is boiling' and my sister let her face shine and said 'You can come in first!' I asked, and I said yes by accident.

When I drop off my sister, who is happily running to the bath, I realize that Rhina, who came to call me, is looking at this one with something that looks serious. At the next moment, Mr. Rhina had a leech on the floor.

"Lord Yoichi, do me a favor!

What, eh? About what?

Lynne was also doing it, but it seems that there is a culture in this world that is close to dirt. I wonder how hard it is for a mindful Rhina to do that.

"Oh, please?

"Yes, I want you to buy me..."

"............ what?

Until I understood the meaning of the word, I stared down on the floor at Mr. Rhina with my head down.

My head says the day I exchanged my exclusive escort contract. When Mr. Ellis misunderstood me as demanding something nasty, I was looking at Rhina as if I were going to see something dirty.

At the time of the contract, Mr. Rhina wanted me to admit self-defense if he was about to do something nasty.

You want that Rhina to buy herself? I'm only uncomfortable. Please, but I don't feel like I'm joking, and I know I'm not the one who says this in a joke.

"Uh... can you just sit in the chair and let me know what's going on?

"Yes......"

Sitting in the chair of the dining room I had just bought, Rhina tended to lean down, but gave me a clear tone to talk about herself.

As a C-class adventurer, Rhina made 2.2 million astols this past year. Apparently, there are many of them as C-grades.

On the other hand, 1 million Astres for your sister's tuition, 200,000 Astres for maintaining her guild card, 180,000 Astres for the rent of the room where your sister and I live, 240,000 Astres for two people in the cost of living, 400,000 Astres for taking care of weapons protective equipment as adventurers and for purchasing and needing consumables. They consumed a total of 2.02 million astols. That's critical.

And your sister is 15, two years younger than Rhina. He graduated from the Royal School's middle school this year and is scheduled to attend the high school starting next January. Oh, January is the new semester, isn't it?

By the way, according to what Rhina explained, the Royal School is in many towns in the kingdom for three years when the elementary ministry is between the ages of 10 and 12 and teaches reading, writing, calculating, etc. A level where somewhat wealthy families go by.

The middle part is only located in five major cities within the kingdom, from the age of 13 to the age of 15, where the relatively advanced knowledge is learned by children who had excellent grades in the elementary part. As a local official or aristocrat if you graduate, and a major chamber of commerce executive class, life is a cheap level for the rest of your life.

And the High Ministry has only one school in the Wang capital, and only those who performed particularly well in the Middle Ministry are allowed to enroll, from the age of 16 to the age of 18, for the best education in this country. Once graduated, as a central government official and scholar, he said he would be given the status of a quasi nobleman.

Your sister is the middle chairman of Wang Du and has no problems with her grades. Hmm, bragging about this?

But there's a problem, and that's that higher education costs AST 5 million a year. From sophomore year onwards, they choose the specialty of their choice to study professionally, so depending on the subject they choose, the tuition becomes even more expensive.

And your sister's hope is the medical department of the higher among them. Including the cost of living, he needs 22 million astols in three years.

Meanwhile, Rhina and the others are saving 6.5 million astr at the moment. I paid for my first year of school and it's almost suckalakan.

My sister says she does things like a part-time job too, but her earnings are about 100,000 astols a year, and there is no prospect of any more, but if she goes to higher education, she may not have time to work as a study priority.

I've already sold off all the property I could have taken out of the house where I was a former nobleman, and I have no one to rely on. The armor I use is a luxury item in my mother's shape, but even though it's expensive, it's worth about 2 million.

Some systems are like scholarships that ask nobles and the rich to assist with tuition, but as a price, they treat their supporters like pawns, greatly narrowing their postgraduate paths and their lives afterwards.

In the case of female students, they sometimes demand a body.

Yeah, well, that's what Mr. Ellis demanded of me. (Misunderstood) You see me with a garbage eye.

I thought I was the only one who would let my sister see me like that, but unlike my promising sister in the future in academia, I'm just a C-level adventurer. Even though it's unusual to be C-rated at this age, the C-rated adventurer himself is enough to sweep and throw away, and his future is unknown. And adventurers often lose their lives in dangerous occupations.

They don't get a contract to get a very short tuition fee up front.

I was just about to tell you what to do, and you saw me get a lot of money in the guild. So, I thought this guy who valued himself highly and signed me an exclusive escort contract for a broken price, and this is how he's asking me to do it.

I see, so things have been strange since you left the guild? I was able to convince you of a lot of things, but you refused to double the reward even though you were in so much trouble with the money, or you gave me a proper return on the expense of renting the house......

Rhina's rating climbs through me. This person is honest and trustworthy. I would love for you to be a collaborator.

It's just that just because you're an honest person doesn't necessarily mean you're tolerant. I have confirmed that Mr. Rhina is not very biased towards the elves, but there is a degree of problem. Let's give it a try.

"Mr. Rhina, if I'm short on tuition, Uh... maybe 16 million Astres on the premise of not selling armor? So if I told you I wanted you to kill someone, would you take it on?

"Is it an assassination... I'm sorry, but you can't sacrifice others for your own happiness. I wouldn't hesitate if it was the enemy that attacked us, but we can't just take on the killing."

He refused at a strong pace. Exactly, even though there seems to be as many people who kill people in about a million astols in this world.

"So what if it's an animal? There's a roba in the back stables, but what if I told you I'd hire you for 16 million astols if I killed that one and showed it to you?

"Is that a story about killing and eating?

"No, I'll just kill you. We'll throw the body in the river."

To my answer, Ms. Rhina distorts her expression painfully and thinks deeply.

"… the Western Palace. I'm sorry, I refuse."

It was a word of rejection that came out to squeeze it out.

"Why not?

"... my mother is no longer in the world, but she taught me to pay equal respect to any life. Both the birds caught in the hunt and the fish caught in the river were taught to feed and give thanks with respect. I can't protect one sister. I can't protect her, but I still don't want to do anything that I can't face my parents as that person's daughter. As much as I trample on my mother's teachings, I want to sell myself this self as a slave for life. I can't be an adventurer, but a lifelong slave would be worth tens of millions."

Oh, this guy's a really good guy... to the contrary, so worrying. You've lived in this world a lot.

"Okay. Sorry for the mane you've tried. Let's hire Mr. Reina for 16 million Astras."

That said, arrange 16 million Astor gold coins on the table. Maybe it should really be the next payment or something, but I wouldn't just take it away from Mr. Rhina or anything. If that happens, he just said he didn't have eyes to look at my people.

Come to think of it, hiring Rhina normally costs about 2 million astr a year, so I don't think it's such a loss if you think it's eight years in advance.

The escort is a dangerous job, so there's a risk that he won't be able to continue his work due to death or injury along the way, but that's also, well, then.

"Lord Yoichi... thank you..."

Holding the gold coin in her chest, Ms. Rhina bows her head with tears pounding. Rin beauty's crying face has something to come all the way...

"Oh, yeah. If my sister agrees, but I have extra room, and Mr. Rhina's sister wouldn't live here if she was good? Looks like school's close here, and Rhina should be with her sister as much as possible, right? And the rent floats."

"It's... you know, I'm the only one who bought it, right?

"That's right. If you were my sister, you'd be a nobleman and a rich pawn."

"Excuse me. Yes, if so, please."

"Yeah, it's good to see you again"

Your sister said she was 15, so she's close to 13 years old Kaori and old. If I made friends of my generation, my sister's dependence on me might be a little better.

"Brother, I took a bath!

Just then, a sister in a good mood came into the dining room in the hot water.

"Oh, good timing, Kaori. All of a sudden, I'm sorry, but can Mr. Reina's sister live here with me? He's going to a nearby school."

"If your brother's okay, I'll be fine."

As always, it's a highly brother dependent answer, but I hope you and Rhina's sister get along and change. But I might miss you a little bit if that happens......

With that in mind, I still can't see Rhina's sister thinking...

5 December 418 Continental Calendar

0.001% progress towards continental reunification at the moment (based in the village of Lynne's hometown)

Asset holdings 15.2 million 3400 astr (-16 million)

Subordinated Lynne: Elf's Bow Rhina: Adventurer