Perhaps the changes I made are more powerful than I thought.
While pushing through the foliage, we encounter a villager.
"Ah, Hero of the Shield-sama."
What should we do? Escape? No, I hear that a lot of villagers do not believe I did the things that warranted that bounty.
If that wasn't the case, we would have been reported by those villages in the beginning-
"Thanks to Hero of the Shield-sama, we can work in peace."
"Pardon?"