Kujonin Chapter 58

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Kujonin
Author: Hanabokuro
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We reported our various activities while eating dinner.
Looks like Ayl and Seth were really only hunting monsters in the forest.
When I asked what kind of monsters there were, seems like they have no interest in anything other than large monsters.
They said they couldn't find any flowers that monsters avoided.
Looks like they tried to look.
Merumo made the coveralls, went to buy cloth, and made the bags, she said.
She was wearing the coverall while she made the bag, but she felt dizzy and had the feeling she was running out of magic power.
She quickly took it off but she wanted to finish the bag in one go, so since the Magic Tool Production Skill appeared, she allotted 1 point to it.
As for skills, just like Velsa, she asked if there were any skills that the I'd want for the company, but I told everyone that I would leave it freely up to their own intentions.
As for Seth, it seems like he only took the Helmsman Skill.
"Look, see?"
Ayl said, striking Seth on the shoulder.
"Haa~."
Seth gave a large sigh.
When I asked what was up,
"Ayl-san… she said I should use all the skill points I got from leveling up on Helmsman skill, and that learning the other skills with my body as much as possible as its own merits…"
Seth said, looking at the ground.
N? There's nothing wrong with that, right?
"You can't cut down trees with a long sword without the Swordsmans.h.i.+p Skill, right?"
Seth complained.
"Aa, I see. Stop right there, Seth-boy. When you entered this company, you abandoned all of that common sense. At dusk, Naoki cut down a tree with a knife in order to craft with it."
Velsa explained as she ate some meat with the bone in it.
After Seth stared at me, dumbfounded,
"I wonder if I'll be able to do it?"
He muttered.
"It's fine. You're already matching up to the coverall, after all."
'Somehow it feels like I'm the only one who got a late start, ne. President, please buy me a weapon and defensive equipment too!"
Merumo raised her hand and complained.
"Ayl, go with her tomorrow to buy it. I'll leave the expenditure to you."
"OK!"

After eating, we returned to the men and women's separated rooms.
Seth started snoring 5 minutes after he jumped into bed.
Being able to fall asleep immediately is a good point.
I sewed a magic circle onto the bag Merumo made to turn it into an item bag.

Knock, knock, kachya!

With a meaningless knock, Ayl and Velsa entered the men's room.
"What's up?"
'I thought we'd go over the map."
Ayl said and unfurled the map on top of the table, and described what kinds of monsters were in the forest, a cave that can be used to take a break, and the like.
"I was thinking we'd trying going to the gra.s.slands."
"Isn't that fine? Just don't push the newcomers too hard."
"They won't get stronger is I don't push them to some degree."
"I'm asking you to keep it to the degree where they won't die."
Ayl seems to be having fun teaching people after all this time.
"What about Velsa?"
"It's about that guy in the recovery potion bottle."
"It seems like locust hoppers could be a target for exterminations. If they swarm, requests might pop out from somewhere. Before that happens, I'm searching the for the method to exterminate them. I'd also like to find the flowers for pesticide to try it on them." (Naoki)
"I'm also interested in things like what kind of effects will happen when they swarm and what kind of cyclic period they have."
"Are you going to do field work?"
"Yeah, if it's possible."
But like this, we're not doing our main job of pest control, huh?"
I made a company after all so I'd like to get it back on track, but although I'm thinking that, this is a prior investment so it can't be helped.
"What? There's no problems with how things are right now. Me and the newcomers are hunting monsters after all."
Ayl said that kind of thing, sweeping it aside.
For pest control only, I can do it by myself, huh?
"Let's put out a request at the Adventurers Guild to look for the flowers for pesticide. We'll give out 10 gold coins."
" " 2 gold coins!"
"Even 2 gold coins is a lot."
Ayl and Velsa are looking at me like I'm an idiot, as always.
"Then we'll request information about where a large amount of flowers that insect monsters won't approach for 2 gold coins. I'll go to the Adventurers Guild to make the request tomorrow."
"We'll search too, but the locals will have home-turf advantage, after all."
Ayl said.
Tomorrow Velsa will buy a tent and things needed for living in the desert for field work.
"Is it fine not to hire an escort?"
"It will be quite expensive to hire adventurers with a higher level than me, after all."
Velsa is level 25, so she said she'd basically have to hire Rank B and above Adventurers.
It's dangerous, so I'd like her to have them.
"I'll ask about it at the Adventurers Guild when I make the request."

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"A request for escorts into the desert? E!? For locust hopper exterminaion?"
I tried asking.
"Please wait a moment."
The Adventurers Guild Onee-san went further into the Guild.

After talking to Ayl and Velsa last night I did some work at night and made an item bag and communication bags.
The communication bags are for Ayl and Velsa to carry.
They're for communicating if anything happens.

From within, a brawny Occhan who looked like a long-term warrior cam out.
"I'm the Guild Master, Langrey. You said you're going to exterminate locust hoppers?"
'Yeah. I haven't found a way to exterminate them yet, so our goal is ecology research and investigations as to why they swarm, but we have to do field work in the desert."
"I see. Frankly, locust hopper damagers are enormous. There'd be no better news if you're able to find a way to exterminate them for the countries in the desert's vicinity. I definitely want the Adventurers Guild to cooperate with you. But this city's adventurers are just ruffians who drink. N~ try going to the governmental office too. They might be able to select people suitable for escorts into the desert."
"Thank you very much."
And, when my discussion with the Guild Master was over, the inside of the Guild became noisy, and you could hear men's yells and wolf whistles.
When I turned to look, Merumo and Ayl were both wearing bikini armors and had entered the Adventurers Guild.
Seth has a bright red face, but Merumo is surprisingly having fun.
"We came to have an Adventurers Card made."
While raising her hand, Ayl said to me.
Merumo smirked and smiled in the midst of the hooting and cheers being raised.
"You seem to be having fun?"
"It's fun! This feeling. I like it!"
Merumo completely doesn't care about her appearance, staring at her surroundings with a mace in hand.
According to Seth, the shopkeeper at the armor shop told Merumo, who was concerned about her chest, "That chest is a weapon, so it's a shame if you don't use it," and "If you show it boldly, there will be nosebleeds everywhere1" and seems to have sparked something inside her.
Merumo seems to have interest in the "nosebleeds" part.
"Alright! You have their attention. Merumo, advertise!"
'Yes-!

Merumo struck the floor with her mace, making a loud sound.
"Hey hey! Floura's rough and rowdy crowd! I belong to the Outrageous Battlers Komura Company, the sheepman Merumocchi Jefferson! There's nothing I don't know about the eastern mountains! I am a warrioress that the monsters of the eastern mountain fear! From now on, I'll turn the forest into a sea of monster blood!"
She took a pose like a kabuki's declaration pose.
"Keep it up-! Nee-chan!" "Yo-! A warrioress is something to fear!" "We're cheering for you-!" and the like were yelled from her surroundings.
Merumo has become popular in an instant.
This is better than being strangely embarra.s.sed and wrapping around herself.

"You have the talent to be an idol."
"You think? When I wear this armor, courage wells up somehow."
Merumo smiled.
Is that like the feelings of a cosplayer?
"Then, see you later at the inn."
"Yeah."

I parted from Ayl and the others and headed for the city's governmental office.

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