Listening to Luru’s words, Gran scratched his head and replied.
“You’re expecting quite a lot from us but… There’s heaps of stuff that we don’t know, and our knowledge isn’t that plentiful, yanno?”
His words sounded like a refusal, but you could tell from his expression that it wasn’t so.
His smile seemed to say, ‘My, my…[/yareyare]’ after all.
“Just that is fine… It’s not like I was hoping for expert level information. I’d be happy just to hear about general knowledge, or the feel of different regions, broad things of that kind of level. In other words, the stuff that you talked about the other day in the bar. …More than anything, I want to talk to you guys occasionally. Is that no good?”
It was close to an entreaty, but it wasn’t as though there wasn’t that kind of reason as well.
The village had very few stimuli.
Just having adventurers come on occasion could make the village lively.
The bar was like that, and children like Rusty were like that as well.
He was also thinking that it’d be nice if they dropped in by the village on occasion, even if there wasn’t anything to do.
Perhaps understanding what Luru wanted to say, Gran replied.
“It’s not like we can’t, but… Geez, you’re being quite straight with me, aren’t cha? If it’s just that much, it’s fine… Or so I’d like to say, but…”
Contrary to expectations, Gran’s words stopped.
Luru tilted his head in confusion.
“But?”
After that, Gran held up a finger and continued.
“We’re adventurers. We can’t just come down here that often. Moreover, coming down here just to talk with no reward at all is, you know? So… I’m thinking of giving you conditions.”
“Conditions?”
While questioning just what kind of conditions Gran could make him swallow, Luru decided to listen for now.
Compared to his time as the demon king, right now he had few fetters of obligations.
As long as it wasn’t anything crazy, he was fine with one or two conditions.
Gran spoke.
“Yeah, conditions… Won’t you enter my clan?”
Clan.
In the adventurers guild, it was one of the types of groupings of adventurers.
Unlike parties, clans had the point of being quite large scale organisations.
Put simply, it was said to be a grouping of a number of parties, and entering one bestowed various benefits.
For example, clans based around people from the same birthplace[/homeland] would proactively take in novice adventurers, and drive knowledge and skills into them to guide them into being full-fledged adventurers existed, and because these were useful to the guild as well, they were acknowledged by the guild.
In the past the guild didn’t have this sort of system, and had nothing but parties, but in those days, it seems the death rate of beginners was a lot higher.
As expected, inheriting skills from experts was something incredibly important.
That’s why being invited into a clan by Gran wasn’t really something you could call a condition.
On the contrary, it was a benefit.
Being invited into the clan was the same as being asked to become an adventurer, but to begin with, Luru was planning to becoming one in the future so he was fine with that.
And he knew that clans weren’t something that strongly compelled you to do anything, so there was no problem with that either.
However, as for the one problem that did exist…
“Gran. I said so earlier, but I’ll be staying in the village for a while. As for registering to become an adventurer, no matter how strong a backer I may have, I shouldn’t be able to do it if I’m below 14. That’s why…”