[Because you are strong! Please accept this request!]
Yurika, who has been silent until now, suddenly says that.
[Didn’t you hear want I said?] I ask. [This request don’t even have a clear objective. I can’t accept that kind of request.]
[But people of this village might be in trouble!] Yurika exclaims. [As adventurers, we must help a person who is in trouble!]
Yurika seems to have misunderstandings about being an adventurer. She has a strange sense of justice.
[I can’t say you are wrong with that,] I begin. [But there is a limit to how could we accept the request properly. Being an adventurer isn’t a charity job. Please don’t misunderstand that.]
[But it is natural to help people in front of us who are in trouble!] Yurika says.
She is stubborn. I didn’t say I wouldn’t accept this request. It won’t be a problem, at all, if this request has a proper objective and reward. The village chief doesn’t intervene either, since this situation gives him an advantage.
[Don’t try to change the subject.] I say. [We are talking about adventurers who are or aren’t going to accept request right now, not the reason for being an adventurer.]
[Ugh, b-but I thought being an adventurer is cooler than this…] Yurika says.
Yurika’s voice become weak. Completely depressed. Like we aren’t going to accept this request. Well, let’s copy her skill before it is too late. I just take one point each from and . Then, I add an unconverted point to them and return. So… We finally have and in our hands!
It seems Yurika’s skill is about to level up, so I add one extra point as thanks. Well, it doesn’t matter…
[We can’t accept this request right now.] I state. [Today, we are going to stay in our carriage and have a vote about what we are going to do tomorrow. We could bring you to town with us, too.]
We return to carriage as I said since we feel bad about staying at the village chief’s house. I mean, our carriage is more comfortable than the village chief’s house…
Yurika doesn’t go with us. Instead, she stays at the village chief’s house. So we don’t have to worry about “facilities we can’t show her”, specifically, the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom in”Room”.
The next day, I have everyone prepare for departure while I head toward the village chief’s house alone.
[You are here again,] the village chief begins. “But aren’t you going to return soon?]
[W-Well, you are right…] I mumble.
The village chief is suspicious. Don’t tell me he plans to make me accept the request at the last moment?
[Come to think of it…] I begin. [Where is Yurika?]
I don’t see Yurika on the Map.
[That ojou-san…] the village chief begins. [She said,”I’m going to investigate that forest.” She left early this morning.]
The village chief gave up and told me this. It seems she really has a strange sense of justice. So she moved on her own. Great! I already took her skill yesterday, so she has nothing to do with us, anymore.
Am I heartless? It doesn’t matter because she acted on her own, and she wasn’t even our companion, either.
[So? A request note?] I ask.
The village chief is a little surprised when I asked for the request note.
[Are you going to help us?] the village chief asks.
[Why did you ask?] I counter.
[Is it for your companion?] asks the village chief.
[No, it isn’t.] I say. [She just followed us when she transferred her request to us.]
It seems he thinks we are going to follow Yurika, who went ahead to investigate. Perhaps he even enticed Yurika to do it.
[Don’t you have a request note?] I ask.
[N-No, I don’t.” the village chief stammers. [I think I’m going to wait for her to report back first.]
Well, he is right. According to yesterday’s event, the village chief knows how to make a proper request now.
[Understood.] I say. [In that case, we are leaving.]
I left.
[P-Please wait a moment!] the village chief calls out. [Could you wait while I make a request note?!]
[I will wait this morning only.] I say. [I have no intention of waiting for Yurika to report back, so you have to make it right now or forget it.]
[That is…] the village chief mumbles.
I don’t have plans to hide anything nor intentions to clean up this mess. I want to return to town and prepare to go to the next town…
I leave the village chief’s house and return to the carriage.
[Eh? Yurika-chan and the villagers?] someone asks.
[It seems Yurika is investigating the forest on her own.] I begin. [We are going to accept the request if there is one because of the result of our vote, but we have to go soon.]
[It seems so. There is no point to wait.] says someone.
[Then, let’s go.] I say.
[[[[Yes]]]] everyone exclaims.
I leave the driving to Sera and Maria as we leave the village. Since Yurika isn’t here, we are free to use”Room”.