Shut-in Magician

The shopkeeper spoke enthusiastically about the aged meat.

Siu also has one word for the meat, so we talked deeply about the meat with each other.

Especially in the way rock pigs are preserved. They taught me how to do it like Latricia and I learned.

Here they dig the dirt, lay the straw there and preserve the cut meat. Layer straw over meat as well and cover with dirt. That doesn't freeze too much, they say, creating a moderate refrigeration and increasing the deliciousness.

However, since it does not work near the hot water route in Wangdu, if the garden is large, he was advised to use the middle of it.

"You can't hunt rock hogs in the middle of winter, can you?

"No, the adventurers go hunting even to the nearby woods."

"Heh. That's amazing"

"Instead, you have a wizard with you."

"The wizard?

"Fire attribute holding warms up. The snow and ice also melt and proceed. Luciera has a lot of magic schools. A wizard is essential."

"Are you following a student from Seeker Magic College? I wonder if it's pennies."

"No, no, most of the students that go to that school over there are aristocrats. You won't need a dime. It's just that I don't think it makes sense that wizards can't be used in practice except for research. So I hear you're actively trying to get your students out."

"... the aristocratic sons don't disagree very often"

"Well. Rumor has it, every time a freshman deals with a teacher,"

"That's funny"

"Students said they really didn't want to do it, so they asked me to move on to research. There are other magic schools besides Seekers. Even so, they say the level drops considerably. If only we could get our prey."

"Are you buying from the market?

"Mostly. And sometimes an adventurer I know brings it"

"... if I came hunting too, would it be okay to bring it in here?

"Oh, well, thank you. But you, you're still a kid, aren't you?

"I'm thirteen, but I have an Adventurer Guild card, and if I were a rock pig, I'd hunted up to ten herds a few times."

"... are you an adventurer"

"He's an adventurer and a wizard."

Eh, and I answered proudly, and the store owner, who was wrinkling between my eyebrows, accidentally zeroed my grin.

"Right. Then let's ask for it."

"Yes, I've been thinking about going to the guild since school started, but I'll try again tomorrow"

"Maybe you"

"It's Siu-Aquila. I'm going to the Seeker School of Magic."

"Oh, my God, yeah! So you came to this country. Still, you're young. Maybe not the youngest admission since the Seeker started?

"He said the youngest was twelve."

"Heh. No, and you're young. He's a genius."

I couldn't even say it was because of the gift God gave me, and I laughed vaguely.

We talked in and it was late, but we still had time until the evening to wander around the city.

I went first to the bookstore. I also took a peek at the old bookstore, but I didn't have any books I might want.

Tool stores have a lot of magic props on them, and that's right on the knees of the school of magic, the highest in the world. It was a great assortment.

While picking up other stores I'd like to see, I'm going to stick a Sticky Note to my brain map.

"It's getting cold, let's go home"

"Nha."

Return from the Central District to the Grand Merchant District and the Noble District. I was given a laissez-passer just in case, but I could never be stopped.

He was wearing a robe, and he was carrying a horseman, and he seemed to remember if it was distinctive.

I walked through as I greeted him in a light meeting. I wish I could have known her face the same way Lowal did, but she just returned the meeting with an emotionless look like Nobu.

The next day we headed to the Adventurers Guild early in the morning.

By the way, I made my own breakfast and ate it. He explained that he was up early and refused to make his own in the morning because cooking was a hobby. The cook also told me where I could use the kitchen. We can't even engage each other, so we divide places beforehand.

I made more and left it as a hemming because it's also what I make just for myself.

I greeted the gendarmerie as I walked through the aristocratic district, but I knew I was only small enough to be interpreted with no expression. It's my job in the cold, so I guess it's a lot of trouble.

I got to the Adventurer Guild wondering if there was anything good. I walked pretty early and it took me twenty minutes. When I run, I go inside the building, thinking maybe thirteen minutes. Ferres was also let in because he was still a freshman. I'll take it to the beast house next time.

The building at Luciera's guild headquarters is completely stoned and cold from the looks of it. The waiting area was also cold inside. Beyond where the receptionist sat, there were many staff in thin clothes who seemed to be heated. The lady at the reception was dressed a little warmer, but I guess that's because it's cold at the border.

It was a well thought out construction. Adventurers should keep their cold gear on as they go right outside. It's troublesome to undress or wear one at a time, and there seem to be many types of people who don't do that.

"Oh, boy, you're up early"

There is a chillaphora and an adventurer, who also speaks to Siu. Adventurers seem to have a lot of similarities everywhere.

"You, little man, are you going to take the request?

"Yes, this is still a class 10 rank."

"Heh, that's awesome! Are you with your father?

I guess even kids get their jobs early when they're parents and kids doing adventurers.

"Yeah. I'm alone. But my grandfather, who raised me, gave me a job as an adventurer."

"... well, you've heard bad things. What about Grandpa?

"Dead."

"Oh, my God. So you're alone now?

He seems to be a child-loving adventurer. He looks serious and worries me. Siu laughed and waved.

"There's this kid, and in Steyburn, he can be a replacement or a backshield, and he's having fun doing it. I'm coming over here because I'm going to enroll in Explorer, but I'm letting you boarding at a house I know, so I'm fine."

"Oh well. That's good. So, you're going to work to get into school?

He looked at Siu from top to bottom and saw Ferres sitting next to him even more, looking strange. I guess it looks like a chisel outfit. I'm wearing a handmade fur vest under my robe today. It's called hunter fashion. Still, if he was an adventurer, he would know that the fabric was the finest anyway in shades, and he was sneering.

"I've got good stuff."

"Because it's an unpopular shade of fabric, I got it. Tailor it yourself. I made my own fur in this. I don't know how cold it is, so I've been taking care of the cold."

"Ha ha, I see. Well, there's someone to take care of you, but do you make your own pennies?"

"That's how it is."

Convinced that it was so, the man told me about the characteristics of the land around here and what kind of requests tasted good.

Then they also told me to go with someone if I was going hunting.

"I wish I could go, but I'm gonna be a helper today, too."

"I'm used to winter mountains by myself, and I'm good at hunting, so it's okay."

"... what have you taught your grandfather?

He looked gnawed, but Xiu only laughed and clasped his shoulders.

The man named Gasparo and seems to be famous as a local adventurer familiar with the woods near Wangdu. The adventurers also seemed to admire him and he was called out.

"Oh, you're teaching newbies again? Same old."

"We used to be helped when we were rookies, too. Listen carefully, kid."

"Yes."

"Whoa, this time the rookie is being polite."

"The Wizard Apprentice looked great in the meantime."

"So, Peppy, you cried and left."

"Ha!!

Since it was getting noisy, Siu thanked Gasparo and took a sassy request from the bulletin board and sent it to the reception.

I didn't see a woman yesterday and a young man was sitting there. I put out a guild card with the requisition, wondering if it would be a newbie because it was unusual for a man to sit at the reception.

"... Yes, a constant request, a rock hog hunt, isn't it? That, but, alone? Party members..."

"I'll take it alone. You don't specify the number of people, so it's okay, right? I'm asking for the ninth rank."

Lowal is good enough for a seventh grade. In the woods nearest to Loire, there are not enough rock hogs to make a constant request.

"... but you alone?

Confused, Siu showed the back of his guild card. The punishment for the prize is a guild card that will be noted without question, but the prize can be in accordance with the person's intentions. However, you have to know what you have achieved to improve your rank. Wherever anybody sees it, the track record is easy to understand, and if something is done, the content necessary for the next rank increase may be written. There's communication magic in this world, but there's no system just like the Internet, so we're taking these methods.

"... when you already have at least a sixth grade rank, do you mean? Uh, I'm putting it at Grade 10 due to age limitation, but if it's up to Grade 6 rank, you can take it without question... in the name of the Alliance General Manager..."

The receptionist man thought more and more, but after telling the officials who had gone through the back the situation and were surprised at each other, he was eventually able to take the request.

"But for once, it's not like I don't believe you, but let me accompany one official"

That's what the boss-like man says, so Siu admitted.

It's just that the boss,

"Take him with you, please"

and pointed to the unreliable young man in front of him.