Okami Wa Nemuranai

1

"I just left."

I heard a voice at the front door. It's Edda's voice.

Looks like you're home.

"Seems so."

"Ugh."

Jericho is also in the conversation.

Sometimes I wonder if this guy really understands human language.

No, you must understand some words.

If you order me to bring you a chair, I'll bring you a proper chair, and if you tell me to hold a barrel, I'll hold a barrel.

But don't seem to understand such a limited number of words as well as the contents of complex conversations.

"Nike."

"What?

"What's Jericho?"

"Whatever you say, it's the long-armed monkey (Zambaldu) as you saw it."

"Don't you give them special abilities?"

"I didn't."

"Right."

"Some humans, some idiots, some smart ones. Jericho is one of the long-armed monkeys, and he's a very smart individual."

Thank you. I feel like I can't explain myself, but I don't know how to ask you any more.

Edda came into the room.

It's just a glowing smile. Eda looks even younger when she looks defenseless like this. To be honest, I don't look very adventurous.

"I'm home. Eh heh. Pleasure. I've been doing a really good job."

"You said I got it?

"Yes, Lecan. Don't be surprised to hear it. One five-day escort, one man, one gold coin!

"Eda."

"Whoa, what's up?

"You, what were you asking?"

"What were you listening to, from whom?

"On Nike's instructions, you went to the Adventurers Association. What did Nike say then?

"You don't remember much. I told you to find me a favor. The three of us asked for it. You said you could use a copper grade. It's like going out of town for a few days."

"That's right. Nike told me to find a favor. Crusade or collect."

"Well, sure, you said crusade or collect would be nice, but you didn't say no escorts"

"Do you know what you're doing, getting a request to leave town"

"... Huh?

"To practice your magic outside of town."

There are other reasons to get out of town for a few days, but that has nothing to do with Edda.

"Ooh. Right. For my magic practice."

"If you get out with an escort, you're with your client. You can't practice where others see you."

Edda blinked her eyes wide open.

It is flashy.

"But if you're in the woods or something, you can practice where your clients aren't the only ones, right?

"Are you going to take the job of escort and, during that escort, leave the escort?

Edda became silent again.

My face gradually becomes sadly distressed.

"Oh, no."

"And Nike said, Don't take the request. When I choose from a few. I don't think you've been asked to escort me."

"Ugh.... I took it"

"Say no."

"Can you, now! That was a great job!

Lekan thought he could hear a really good job.

I'm still not sure about the common sense of this world, but I know that there can't be one gold coin per person with the usual escort.

The job of escorting the Chainy store carriage to Bantaroy was five gold coins for three, but that wasn't the usual escort.

In that case, an amazing assassin was expected to raid. And as for Cheney, I really wanted to carry a bunch of the labyrinths I got from Lecan safely. As a result, Chainy earned credit for that labyrinth deal and built a scaffold in the town of Bantaroy.

So far, Lekan realized that there was.

What would have happened if Nike, Lekan, and Edda hadn't been on the escort?

Vandamm and Zeki would have been killed and their gear taken. Those two outfits should have been pretty good stuff. Olst and Ghetto would have been killed, too, or used for some kind of deal.

And what happened to the carriage's luggage? That was worth it to the extent that Cheney changed the color of her eyes.

Speaking of which, in every case there were signs of multiple humans a little further away from the raiders. Maybe that was Zach Zykers' spinner.

That means without the Lecans, transportation would have failed, and Cheney would have lost credibility, lost a lot of money, and then left Zach Zykers in a lot of trouble.

I see. Reasons for putting large pieces on the Lecans were all around.

But still, the reward was one gold coin and six large silver coins. In fact, thanks to the distribution of the raiders' possessions and equipment, they were given many times more than their regular rewards.

And even if you think about it, one gold coin is broken. Too broken. Obviously, this client is not going to pay for his promises.

How can you not know such an obvious thing?

Lekan glanced down at Edda's face, sighing.

"Hey, what is it? I look at people's faces and I say sigh. You're a rude one."

"Eda."

Nike's voice, hard, cold.

Edda also looks at Nike with a stiff face.

"You did two things you shouldn't have done. One is the failure to follow instructions. One was to involve me and Lekan in a dangerous job."

"What? Dangerous work...... what do you mean"

"Lekan, tell him."

Recan thought it would be troublesome again, but he can't say no in this flow.

"Eda."

"Hey, what's up?"

"The client is not willing to pay"

"How do you know that?"

"Where does my client get enough profit to pay such a large sum of money to engage?

"Huh?"

"Are you trusting enough to get you to pay such a fortune?

"Well, of course you do. Mr. Nose turned the request around knowing your name. It's called Edda the Thousand Shots."

Edda gave her right thumb a glimpse of her nose.

(Sounds like you do this when you're good at it)

(Is it someone else?

"Who's Mr. Nose?

"I'm an adventurer. Mr. Dobol and I are escorting him."

"Who is Mr. Dobol?

"It's my client. of this job. Merchant."

"Then the merchant, even though he had a dedicated escort, issued a request for an escort?

"Sounds like important baggage. So the escort will be joined by Mr. Nose, Mr. Ritz and Mr. Numes."

"You think there's six escorts? What kind of treasure are you carrying?

"And don't know"

Suspicious request.

"Did you name me and Nike?

"No, I didn't let it out. This is not a request I took in Mr. Nike's name. It's a request I took in my name."

In the case of escort requests, there are several patterns for clients who are not even Roku.

First, the one that deserves the reward.

Next, the one who uses escorts to crush them.

And the one that preys on the escort.

Preyed escorts follow a miserable end. Peel off, get killed, or be dropped into slavery.

There was no such thing as the Adventurers Association in the world that Lekan also took. If there was a request for an escort, it was the iron rule to verify the identity of the client. If there is such a request for escort of a caravan, the caravan is usually quite face-selling in that town, and it was not difficult to gather rumors of a client. Even on the requesting side, confirm the adventurer's reputation before entering into a contract. It's for granted.

But in this world, there are associations of adventurers. A slight stiffness, but Lecan trusted this association quite a bit. We need to see how this suspicious client deceived the eyes of the Adventurers Association.

"Tell me more about your request."

"The employer is Dobol, the merchant. The load is a carriage. The destination is Coggles. Only one way to work. Four nights on the road, three of which will be camped out. Off the road and into the mountains, there may be more camping for a day. In that case, six days each way."

"What's the load?"

"Huh?"

"What luggage do you carry?"

"So it's a carriage."

"What's that carriage loaded with?"

"Huh?"

"Light stuff? Is it heavy? Is it bulky? Little things."

"I don't know that."

"How many are to be escorted?

"I'm telling you it's the carriage that protects you."

"So even if the clients get hurt, the request will be accomplished?

"Huh? No, that's not good."

"Then if we don't know how many and what kind of people the escorts are, we won't talk about it. And will the client prepare the meal?

"Huh? Well, of course you do."

"Have you checked?

"Huh?"

"Whether the escort's meal is to be prepared on the client's side, it should have been on the request."

"Isn't that what the usual client side prepares for?

"Let it go."

"Huh?"

"Let me see your request."

The request shall be signed by the official in charge. Instead of a contract, so to speak. The signed documents may be kept at the Adventurers' Association or given to the requested adventurer. In this case, the request is completed in an approximate town, so it must be given to the adventurer himself.

"The requisition, hey."

"What? How did you get a request without a request?"

"I received a request directly from Mr. Nose, who came to send me a request."

"You, you must be stupid"

"Oh my God!

I didn't know I would bother to go to the Adventurers Association and get a request not to go through the Adventurers Association.

This guy doesn't know the benefit of having an Adventurer's Association in this world.

"Eda."

"Something, Mr. Nike"

"You'll be sold off."

"Huh?

"Isiah's Bow will be sold off, too."

I guess so, Lecan thought.

It seems likely that Edda's "Isiah's Bow" was blinded by the scoundrel.

"Of, Mr. Nose, what about the bad ones?

"It's black."

"Oh, no."

Edda was so depressed that she felt a little sorry for her.

After a while, I said this.

"I'm going to cancel the contract."

Nike took control of Eda, who was about to rise.

"Wait."

"Huh?"

"Once you've taken on the request, are you going to decide that you didn't?

"It's the only way."

"A contract isn't that light."

"What?"

"The ones who don't keep the promises they make are human scraps. I've lost my credibility and the adventurer can't go on anymore"

I don't agree with Nike at all.

The secret to survival is not to mistake the trigger if you think it's dangerous.

Any number of things, such as having to break a promise.

If you think you should break a promise, you have to break it resolutely, whether you want to be ruined or have a bad rumor.

Without that degree of surface skin thickness, adventurers can't do it.

But Nike is trying to teach Edda something.

That's what I thought, and I was listening to Nike's words in silence.

"So Eda. Eat up your teeth, and you will accomplish this request."

"Ugh, yeah."

"Nevertheless, Dobol? I just got here, and I'm leaving now. Was he just a withdrawer? Though I'd be tempted to make my kids' bastards feel good about the cost of going."

Nike gave me an amazing smile.

"I'll do it."