All the people in the village were repairing the wooden fence and moving the goblin’s corpse. Everyone was frightened, but the atmosphere was quite excited. In the meantime, cheers began to spread as even the people who remained in the base had returned.
“I’m back!”
“You are safe!”
“Are you okay?!”
Boris, who was covered in scars from the attention, felt awkward. Carrot replied.
“The guys who came back to the lair beat me half way. The other half escaped, Boris is slightly injured, but let’s treat it anyway. Vita?”
“Ah, yes!”
Vita came running, removed Boris’ bandages, and tended to his wounds. Rimo came over, chewing on the bread.
“Let’s eat, take a break, and start cleaning up the leftovers. You guys are going to roll hard today. Be prepared.”
Although they looked exhausted, Geo, Kobe, Boris and Vita were full of motivation.
“yes!”
“Then, where can I get this valuable practical experience?”
At that time, the village women were horrified to see Boris, who had been treated for his wounds after removing the bandages from his face.
“oh! oh my god! Long-haired and handsome!”
“Eh?”
Leaving the boisterous village girls and the sullen Boris behind, Carrot found Rimo.
“Really?”
“Yeah, there’s something like that inside?”
“that’s interesting. Haven’t you heard anything, chief?”
The village chief, who had been listening to the story in silence, also shook his head.
“I have been there since the town was created. This is the first time I’ve heard of it.”
“okay. Let’s bring it when we go to rob the loot later.”
“okay.”
Just in time, young children picked up arrows with fern-like hands and brought them back in a basket.
“Adventurer! I picked up an arrow!”
“Oops! is it so. Well done.”
Rimo smiled brightly, brushed the children’s hair, and rummaged through their pockets to hand out candy.
After some maintenance and some rest, like reloading the arrows, Rimo put the team together. Yuri and Vita defend the village, and Lena, Adam, Gio, Boris, and Kobe clean up the debris.
“And me, Carrot, and the townsfolk at loot collection and clean-up! let’s go!”
The bravest men of the village, suitably armed, pulled the carts through the woods. Carrot was at the front and Rimo was at the rear. Upon reaching the cave, it was lined with dead goblins.
“Let’s collect the loot! you know? Gather all the irons! Bring it and use it as farming equipment or whatever!”
The villagers had a hard expression, but they busily stripped the goblins of their weapons and filled the carts. Most of these guys’ armaments were stolen from humans anyway, so there was nothing to shy away from.
Carrot saw it and said something.
“What to do with all those goblin corpses?”
“If you just leave it alone, wild animals or other monsters will take care of it. why?”
“No, in the town I visited before, the crank was that one…”
When Carrot told of Crank’s eccentricities, the villagers were horrified.
“A monster? Fertilizer?”
“Eat something like that?!”
“Yes, the potato I made was the size of my head. I heard it’s delicious?”
Most of them were disgusted, but a few had faces deep in thought.
“By the way, whose work is this?”
What Rimo pointed out was a trap that Carrot had set up.
“oh! Did it work?! The bamboo spear of justice!”
Just inside the cave, there was a grim landscape with several goblins being pierced by bamboo spears pouring down from the ceiling.
“Are you cool? did you make it?”
“Ahem! Learned from Crank! This is easy!”
Carrot, who was looking up his nose, entered the cave first. After a while, after confirming that there was no danger, the people were called in, and soon a considerable amount of loot and the bodies of the kidnapped people were recovered.
“Is this it?”
“okay. Is it a huge crystal?”
“The woman inside is also quite beautiful.”
“Do you like it?”
Carrot asked with a wry smile, and Rimo shook his head.
“I’m not a fan of such paintings. Let’s dig this up and move it. If you bring it to the guild, they will take care of it.”
“Look out of the way.”
Puck puck puck! clang clang clang!
When Carrot borrows a pickaxe and starts wielding it, the hardened soil and stones begin to break apart in an instant. A villager asked Rimo, who looked at it with satisfaction.
“Um, that girl is…”
“Oh, is that him? It’s an automaton.”
“Oh, an automaton?”
Rimo, who had been silent for a moment, said.
“It’s not something I’m going to do, but buy an automaton for the town’s defense. Everyone in the pioneer villages around them does that.”
“Because it’s not something that costs a penny or two…”
“That’s right.”
Rimo didn’t say anything.
Teddeuk!
thud!
The crystal stone fell and appeared. Carrot, covered in mud and carrying a pickaxe on his shoulder, rubbed his nose.
“This is fun too.”
“it’s okay. Now let’s move this. Help me guys.”
Village men came and moved the crystal stone by tying it with wood and rope. Surprisingly light, it was not too difficult to transport.
After stacking stones at the entrance of the cave and moving back and forth between the villages several times to move the loot and crystal stones, it was evening.
The party roasted wild boars they had caught during the subjugation of the jandang, and ate and talked with the villagers.
“how is it?”
“I think it will be quiet for a while if I stay for a few more days and go on patrol. Because these guys might come back.”
Where Rimo turned her head, village girls were wiping Carrot’s body with wet towels.
“Carrot.”
“why? Shall I show you my panties again?”
Rimo burst into laughter.
“Yumma! No need for that! Rather than that, teach me how to make traps.”
“To whom?”
“To the people of this town.”
“Oh, okay.”
Rimo said to the villagers.
“I will leave more than half of the loot behind. Do whatever you like.”
“really? Can you do that?”
“Yes, but we will take the crystal stone containing that strange woman because we have to submit it to the guild.”
The villagers, who had only seen adventurers like rogues, were grateful. Seeing that, Carrot asked.
“why? Without taking them all?”
Rimo said after seeing Carrot staring at him with a virtuous look.
“Oh, you must have seen something like that?”
“huh. I went around with Crank and saw a lot of people. The adventurers were all greedy. so it’s kind of fresh you,”
Rimo giggled and said.
“There are adventurers who aren’t like that. And it should look good. Later, when you quit being an adventurer and settled in a suitable town, what would you do if you met someone you knew? I’ve seen a lot of knives like that. Because of that!”
Rimo jumped up from her seat and bowed to the villagers.
“If we meet again someday, please take good care of us then.”
The villagers who were listening next to them laughed brightly.
“sure! Come anytime! You are welcome!”
Carrot, who was looking at people’s faces, said.
“Wow, I got people’s credit. amazing. Remo.”
“not a big deal. I just watched Captain Ghetto from the side and imitated it.”
“Ghetto Captain? Are you also a military veteran?”
“We all met in the military. He got into an accident and was forced to become an adventurer. Except for Molly,”
“Wow, glass too?”
Yuri, who was cleaning the automatic crossbow while chewing meat, nodded.
“Oh wow! Will everyone be like you after you go to the army?”
“Generalization is not good. How many idiots like us are there, but I was an officer even if I looked like this? is not it? Lieutenant Yuri?”
“Don’t twist your words to confuse people. Lieutenant Rimo, we did our job. That’s what happened.”
“It was great back then. A woman in a glittering uniform, a generous salary, and sometimes in the capital…! Uh hmm! Anyway, what did you do?”
“By the way, what accident did you come here for?”
Rimo, who was about to open his mouth, looked at the ears around him and smiled hihi before turning his words around.
“Let’s eat and go to bed early. Carrot night watch, please. I’ll pay for you too.”
“oh! good!”
Carrot and the new adventurers who had participated in the subjugation of monsters around the village hurried to return until around noon on the third day.
“If it’s late, a rescue team will be dispatched! We have to go quickly!”
“Yes, say hello to Crank!”
“huh!”
Villagers also came out and waved.
“Bye! Please come again next time!”
“Coby! I will definitely hear from you again!”
“yes!”
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Boris, who had been treated and still had his face bandaged in the carriage’s luggage compartment, looked at Kobe and said grimly.
“Kobe will have a girlfriend soon?”
“Yes?”
“hmm.”
Beside Boris, Priest Vita took out and ate roasted corn from the lunch box the villagers had packed for her, watching Koby and the village girl’s something with excitement.
“why! what!”
“No, it suits you well, so next time we have a subjugation request in this town, can we come?”
“Oh, really?”
“hey! You guys don’t flatter yourself. Don’t forget that you were helped by the shadows of your sky-like seniors, you still have to accumulate more experience while catching slime, okay?”
“yes. Miss Carrot.”
“good! Let’s go. It’s nice to be able to ride in a carriage.”
Arriving at the Argon Adventurers Guild in the afternoon after half a day, Carrot finished his mission by handing over the new adventurers to the reception desk.
“It’s pretty late, isn’t it? Did you think you would come that evening?”
“A lot of things happened. Ask those friends.”
The new adventurers, covered in big and small scars and soiled with dirt and sweat, were still laughing.
The four of them bowed and greeted the automaton Carrot.
“Thanks for the map! teacher!”
“Oh yes. Friends with bright greetings, wash and rest a little, then do simple things step by step. See you again when you have a chance!”
After leaving them behind and staying out for three days, Carrot hurriedly headed home.
But what awaited Carrot was a messy workshop and a crank lying on the floor.
“Hey, what is this! crank! crank!”
At Carrot’s cry, Crank suddenly opened his eyes and put on a happy expression.
“eww···? hmm? Carrot? Come on. I came early… I need to get some sleep… Big…! Growl…!”
“hey! Do not be sleep! What the hell is this? Why are the corners of the house like this?! ok?”
After looking around, Carrot found two neatly remodeled automatons lying on the workbench. Carrot grimaced and slapped the back of the fallen crank and shouted,
“Ugh! You should have come back in the evening too!”
After that,
Carrot’s training for new adventurers was surprisingly popular and effective, and since then, at least one training per month has been steadily conducted at the request of the guild. And from sometime on, whenever I had some free time, day or night, I spread the paper on the workbench in the workshop and wrote something down, and one day, I handed out a large pile of documents to Crank.
“what’s this?”
“It’s like a beginner adventurer’s guide. I want to make this into a book.”
Carrot’s paper was full of drawings. Crank looked at it for a while to see if he was interested, then nodded.
“If I had a book like this when I was a beginner, it would have been really helpful. Okay, let’s talk to the guild and publish it as a book.”
“oh! really?!”
“Of course.”
Whatever the case may be, when a well-known crank stepped forward and consulted with the guild, the work went smoothly. A month later, Carrot accepted a thick book.
“wow! wow! Wow! cool! It really came out!”
-Published by the Argon Adventurers Guild, a guide for beginner adventurers.
Co-author, Argon Adventurer’s Guild Master, Temporary Commander of the Demarcation Line at the Border of the Demon King’s Army, Harrison, Adventurer Crank and his Automaton Carrot,
“It was mostly written by you, but I had no choice but to avoid the eyes of conservative people and publish it as a book. Other than that, a few things have been edited and added.”
Carrot, holding a large book to her chest, raised her head with twinkling eyes.
“doesn’t care! ha ha ha! It’s fine as it is! If only this allowed the chick adventurers to die even a little less! I like it! Ahahahaha!”
Crank let out a short sigh. Carrot now hugged his leg.
“thank you! crank! Also my master! I love that you are my master!”
“so do i.”
Crank stroked Carrot’s head. Drunk with great satisfaction, happiness and sense of accomplishment, Carrot did not let go of the crank for a long time.
“Can you drop me now? I have to go exercise soon. I need to train my lower body today.”
In the end, Crank entered the tangled workshop with Carrot hanging from his leg.
The guild leader looked at the crystal stone Rimo brought with a surprised expression.
“Where did you find this?”
“I found it in the goblin den that built a nest near the pioneer village of Bronco.”
“Amazing. What the heck is this…! Doesn’t this look like an old priest’s outfit?”
The guild leader, who was looking into the praying saintess inside the crystal stone, ordered a person to bring the priest of the temple. The priest, who had been called to the adventurer’s guild after stopping the worship service, had an uncomfortable expression, but his eyes widened when he saw the items on the wagon.
“This, this…”
“Our adventurers found it and moved it. Do you know who you are?”
“No, I don’t know. However, this priestly uniform was worn about 100 years ago. Oh oh! sister! After such a long time, you are back in the arms of God!”
The guild leader waited patiently while the priest recited the prayer.
“The adventurers who found it have been shut down, and no one knows yet. I’ll leave it up to the priest to decide what to do. Would you like to move to the temple?”
“Yes, please.”
“All right.”
The priests who were called to move the crystal stone also witnessed the priestess inside the crystal stone and prayed as a group, but the saintess praying in the crystal stone was transferred to the temple without any problems.
Touching his sore shoulder, the guild leader hurried to leave work.
“Because tonight is beef stew.”
“Guild leader!”
The guild leader who was about to leave the guild turned his head.
“What is it this time?”
“An official notice has arrived! An official from the Capital City is sending someone to see the Bronze Gate?!”
“Damn it! Let me eat at least some rice!”
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