Chapter 187: I’ll Keep Quiet for You
After Hilbyid calmed down and we started walking, we reached the 10th street.
Continuing through and entering a side path toward the 9th street, several familiar adventurers were walking from the opposite side.
A familiar person, Folia, spotted us and approached while tilting her head slightly.
The adventurers following behind Folia also spotted me and continued after Folia while laughing happily.
I also tilted my head because it was unusual for Folia and the others to be in the capital at this 13:00 time.
While walking toward us, Folia’s gaze was directed at Hilbyid, and she made a slightly surprised expression.
When she came right in front, Folia smiled and looked at me saying,
"What a coincidence, Raide-san. And you are... from the time of the stampede?"
"Yeah, I was saved at that time. ...Thank you."
"It’s fine. It’s good that we both survived."
"Really..."
When Hilbyid said that with a face as if she had bitten a bitter bug, Folia smiled wryly looking at that.
I greeted Folia and asked where they were heading, and she smiled troubledly saying she was called by a guild staff member.
Apparently she was called because they wanted her to mediate some adventurers causing a ruckus at the guild.
I thought it wasn’t something to ask a woman for, but then I remembered Folia is an A-rank adventurer.
Folia looks weak, but contrary to her appearance the amount of magic power she holds is large, and the magic she specializes in is the rare light attribute, so she is relied upon.
Looking at those comprehensively, the evaluation of A-rank is probably the result.
...Even so, she’s a woman.
Though the shadow in her eyes has lessened, hearing she’s going to mediate adventurers makes me worry.
No matter how many familiar faces from [Bell House] are gathered, right?
I folded my arms and looked sideways at the neighboring Hilbyid; noticing my gaze, Hilbyid smiled wryly as if exasperated and fluttered one hand.
"I can understand well that Raide is called a busybody."
"...I’d like to know who you heard that from."
"There’s only one person, right?"
The only person for Hilbyid to talk about complaints with would be Erika, whom I introduced...
I let out a small sigh and told Folia, who was tilting her head at our conversation, that we would also follow along.
The adventurers behind, hearing that I would follow, happily slapped my shoulders.
The reason for being happy is probably because I don’t go to the guild much; there’s a proper reason for avoiding it, and the adventurers had also been involved before.
So if I don’t show my face at the guild, the adventurers start getting restless.
...Even if I say I show my face sometimes, lately they haven’t been trusting me.
I also want to grasp things like the scarcity of requests... won’t you stop hitting my shoulders already?
There are four guild branches in the capital.
Each is established near the four gates, easy for adventurers to understand and also easy for those posting requests.
It’s not that there are factions in the guild; the reason is that with this wide capital, just one wouldn’t be realistic, so they were divided into four.
Thanks to that the guilds don’t get crowded, and the evaluation of the adventurer guild in the capital is high.
I said branches, but I’m only saying branches because it’s easy to express; all four are also headquarters.
This time Folia and the others were called for mediation, but actually rough incidents happening at the guild are rare.
That’s because there’s a scary guild master, but today it seems a rough incident happened by chance while he wasn’t there.
While hearing such explanations from Folia, we walked toward the gate on the 11th street.
Hilbyid was seriously listening to Folia’s talk, sometimes making a slight thinking gesture, then listening seriously again.
Seasonally, in the abundant country of Yulral, stampede hasn’t occurred yet, and it’s said it has never occurred once until now.
Well, publicly... that is.
Actually when visiting Yulral in free play, one can discover several traces that stampede likely occurred in the past.
The stampede that Hilbyid will experience in Yulral from now on.
There are many hints that can take countermeasures for those, but since the royal family of the abundant country of Yulral is concealing this, there’s no saving them.
From listening to Hilbyid’s talk, the duke’s daughter seems different from the hopeless royal family... but I’ll have to think about this side’s move after meeting her.
"Just from monsters disappearing around, does it become so impoverished..."
"Our big earnings as adventurers are subjugation and escort requests, you know. When monsters disappear, fewer escorts are fine and subjugation isn’t needed."
"...Indeed, that’s true. But Folia-san and the others don’t look impoverished—do you have some secret plan?"
"Eh? Ah~, is it okay to say this?"
Folia smiled troubledly and looked only with her eyes at me.
I continued as if taking over Folia’s words and said to the seriously expressing Hilbyid,
"I own a mountain, and I’m having the silver wolves there exterminated."
"Exterminated... are there that many?"
While smiling wryly at Hilbyid’s surprised appearance, I explained that if left alone a silver wolf stampede would occur.
It’s not something I’m particularly hiding, and I’m not concealing it.
Even if known, one can’t freely enter the mountain I own, and moreover adventurers go hunting almost every day as monitors.
If entering without my permission is discovered, one will just be captured by soldiers... and the adventurers won’t allow it either.
After hearing the explanation, Hilbyid folded her arms and thought for a while, then nodded many times as if convinced and looked at me saying,
"I see... Even if monsters disappear from the surroundings, if one hunts at Raide’s mountain rewards come out. Moreover stampede can be prevented."
"Silver wolf fur is also selling high... right?"
"I have nothing but gratitude for the teacher."
"No, really..."
"But you know... silver wolves are still scary."
...Hmm? One person uttered a weak voice?
Thinking that and looking only with my eyes that way, he was already being teased by the surrounding adventurers.
I laughed looking at that situation, then continued to Hilbyid who was murmuring "I see..." with a serious expression.
"During the previous war there really wasn’t a single request, so public order was considerably worse than now. When investigating the town’s vitality it’s good to peek at the guild; you can roughly grasp it from the number of requests posted."
"...May I take you along for inspection?"
"Haha, spare me. I’m full with instructor work."
"It seems so, but is that true, Folia-san?"
’Fufufu, I’ll keep quiet for you."
To Hilbyid’s mischievous-child-like smile, Folia said while smiling happily.
Strange, I really am full with instructor work, you know?
I’m earnestly training the students... and also about events and such.
I smiled wryly at the two’s appearance and lightly rubbed the back of my neck with one hand.
While talking about such things, in the distance a large gate and an old two-story wooden building came into view at the same time.
The size is about the combined grounds of Rude Tavern and Nifa Inn, and that is one of the guild branches.
Looking carefully at the guild’s entrance, several adventurers are arguing, aren’t they.
I let out a tired-looking sigh and said to Folia who also had a tired-looking expression,
"Is that the reason you were called?"
"Isn’t it also inside? If it’s about 3 or 4 people the guild staff can handle it..."
"Well, that should be so."
Looking sideways, not only Hilbyid but the other adventurers also had tired-looking faces.
I let out a sigh and headed toward the guild’s entrance, saying I’ll walk at the front, and the arguing voices started to be heard.
After telling Folia and the others to move immediately if something happens, I entered between them to stop it.
"Share some this way a little!!"
"Who would say that, you idiots!!"
"The idiots are you all—what are you doing in such a thoroughfare?"
When I said while intimidating, the five who were arguing glared at me.
Two of them were adventurers who had been behind Sagua; when they noticed me they averted their faces looking guilty.
...Is Sagua inside?
While thinking of asking the three adventurers who were silently glaring for the situation, with a large sound Sagua came flying out from the entrance.
I glanced sideways as Folia and the others were surprised and ran toward Sagua, then looked at the man who continued coming out from the entrance.
Good build—about the same height as me?
"Blah blah, noisy! ...What are you? Could it be the teacher this guy was talking about?"
"...And if I say yes?"
"Then throw some work our way too! You’re a teacher, right?!"
"...Hah, puhahaha! To you? Hey hey, is that a joke? Hahahaha!"
I had been seriously waiting for what the man would say, but I ended up laughing involuntarily.
Moreover, an adventurer who comes intimidating and asking for work himself being in the capital makes me laugh.
This is good that the guild master isn’t here—he would have received a scary sanction, right?
More than that... this guy is directing killing intent at me.
When I withdrew the laughter and approached the man who was looking at me laughing suspiciously in an instant by putting power into my legs... I punched him full force from the front in the face.