He returned alive from the subjugation, received a small but small reward, and sold the spoils he had obtained from the Black Mage Guild. Geo’s party, which had recently made quite a fortune, continued to process requests.
“Go there!”
“Aww! Don’t come this way!”
Vita, holding something like a dragonfly instead of a cane, closed her eyes tightly and swung it around. shouted Boris and Corby, who had run out of the woods.
“and! Got it!”
“Ouch! I’m trying to get out! Catch me!”
The youths rushed to Vita’s screams and poured the slime into the prepared bucket.
Rocking-!
“it’s okay!”
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“How many?”
“Three! The slime is full!”
Vita exclaimed as she took out her notebook. Boris looked back.
“Geo! I caught the slime!”
Geo came out belatedly from the forest. He looked exhausted, and even though he was breathing hard, he grinned.
“Su, I never knew that slime was so fast.”
“Shall we take a break?”
“Hoo-wook…! What’s next?”
Vita, who was looking at the notebook, said.
“There are herbs and mushrooms left over. It’s common, so you can find it quickly. oh! Found it over there while talking!”
Vita, who ran with her robe waving, rushed to pick mushrooms that were blooming under the broken tree, then found something else and started running around.
“Hoo-wook…”
Looking at G.O, who bent down and caught his breath, Boris said.
“You look pretty tired.”
“Shall we end here today? I told you to do only one adventure a day.”
“No, let’s do one more if possible. Winter is coming soon, and I need to save money.”
“I think our party leader will collapse before then.”
As Boris puts the net on his shoulder as he speaks, Geo grins.
“I’m done collecting herbs!”
A goddess with full vitality runs carrying a full leather sack on her back. Just then, raindrops began to fall from the dark sky.
“this! it’s raining!”
“What if it rains?”
cried Kobe, looking at the wagon parked nearby.
“Rain in this season is dangerous! If a horse catches a cold, it’s a big deal! That’s number one on our property list! That’s all for today! withdrawal! Withdraw!”
Geo had a sad face, but it was raining so he couldn’t help it. By the time I hurriedly packed up and returned to the city, it started to rain pretty hard.
Shoot aaa!
“If I had been a little later, I would have been in big trouble.”
“It’s still big enough! We have to get to the base quickly!”
Sitting in the driver’s seat and holding the reins, Kobe lit the torch. The carriage hurriedly ran through the rain and arrived at the party home rented with a big heart with the money earned from the subjugation.
It was a shabby warehouse in the suburbs, a little far from the residential area, but it was able to avoid the wind and rain enough. Before they knew it, they had a pretty decent living room in the warehouse.
After putting the whole wagon in the shed, Kobe brought a large towel and wiped the horse’s body.
“Kobe is hot.”
“You help me too dude!”
“I am busy.”
Boris picked up Gio, who had collapsed from exhaustion, and laid him down on a cot.
“Geo! what’s the matter?!”
“I passed out in the luggage compartment on the way. Tsk, he ran around hard by himself and looked good. Vita.”
“yes.”
Vita came over and put a glowing hand on Gio’s forehead.
Hwaaak…!
The light stayed for a moment and Ji-oh’s face became comfortable. Vita removed her hand and said.
“It just lowered the heat. The only way to deal with a cold that accompanies overwork is to eat well and rest.”
“Then let’s take a few days off. We haven’t been able to rest properly lately. Seriously, if we debuted as adventurers and already set up a party home, aren’t we doing pretty well? Although the monthly rent.”
“Okay, come quickly and help! no! Boil water! Heat the air in the house!”
“okay.”
Boris swept back his wet bangs, rummaged through the utensils, brought a large jar, and set it down on the floor. Vita poured water into a bucket.
Afterwards, Boris lit the recently purchased magic furnace and threw it into the water jar.
Bubble bubble…!
In an instant, hot steam rose as the water boiled, and the temperature inside the warehouse rose rapidly.
As soon as the warmth was secured, Kobe, who had been wiping the horse, sighed. So I started taking care of the horse a little more leisurely.
“Whoa-! Who would have thought of this in the first place?”
“really. And how else did he try to tell us such a wonderful idea? It’s really great. I don’t think I can do it for free…! wow! Look here! It says this!”
Turning over the thick book in her hand, Vita found a passage and read it.
“Knowledge must be shared.”
“That’s what a tiger teacher would say.”
The book Vita was holding was written by Carrot the other day as a kind of reference book for beginner adventurers, which the guild has recently started giving out to beginner adventurers for free.
“This is so popular these days. There are many cases where information is sparsely mentioned in the first place, but I don’t think there has been a book that has been organized like this in one place before.”
“Since the rice bowl was caught, it was because they only knew how to pass word of mouth, but did not leave a record. I think I did really well in that respect. Let’s praise Mr. Peanut.”
Thinking it was a bit rude, Vita hardened her expression.
“Please don’t say that in front of yourself. Similar veterans are a joke, but if we do it, it’s a joke.”
“ah···! I just finished…! tired.”
After wiping the horse’s body dry and tidying it up, Kobe sighed as he approached the stove and sat down on the chair.
“Purrule.”
The unbridled horse followed and lay down, hugging the stove that radiated heat. Everyone laughed, as if that nerdyness was fun.
“I wish I had a mana boiler. How do you survive the winter with one of these?”
“It’s so hot, isn’t this enough?”
Boris, who had taken off his wet clothes and was hanging them here and there in the storeroom, looked back. Vita, who had already changed and was sitting by the fireplace and warming her hands, narrowed her eyebrows and turned her head away.
“Never! Never! Winter here is really terrible. We have to repair the base, install the boiler, prepare emergency food, and prepare for the winter anyway. It will be as warm a winter as I prepared.”
Boris, who took off his top and sat by the fireplace, crossed his arms before turning his head.
“But why are you a girl in here? When your clothes are dry, go to the temple.”
“crying! no, I do not want! We’re a party! The party is one body! I’m not going!”
“wow···! He’s good at making goofy noises. Are you really 17?”
Boris looked at Vita with the expression that he saw something terrible. Vita pursed her lips, turned her head, and looked at the stove.
“Even if I go to the temple, I’m busy and I can’t rest much. As for me, I want to earn money quickly, pay back all the favors of the temple, and start a family.”
“What is the grace of the temple?”
“Aren’t there temples in the south?”
“there is. But not in the town where I was born and raised. So what? Didn’t the priestess sister I met before in the subjugation team say that too?”
“Eris! This is Sister Eris! It is said that he became a priest because his divine power manifested late. I was very lucky.”
Shoot aaa!
Inside the warehouse where the winter rain is pouring down, Gio is lying on a cot, and Boris, Vita, and Coby are talking over a fireplace in front of them.
Vita said.
“When the spiritual power is manifested in the trainees who belong to the temple, they officially become priests. But the problem is that this is not determined by any method or effort.”
“You mean it might not manifest?”
“that’s right. Sister Eris is on the late side. He is already 25 years old.”
said Boris, who had undone his long hair and wiped it with a towel.
“Aren’t you in your prime when you’re 25?”
“In terms of life! But when will I repay the favor of the temple and find happiness? It’s hard if you’re not very lucky.”
“Let’s go back to the previous question. What is the grace of the temple?”
“The temple accepts orphans and homeless people, but it’s not just that. When you leave the temple, you make a donation with all your heart, and that is to repay the favor of the temple.”
“aha. I see what you mean. You’re getting the price you raised. It is a small temple.”
“You’re small! Don’t insult the priests of our temple!”
Vita raised her eyebrows and shouted.
“Then isn’t it?”
“no. slightly different.”
He puts the kettle on the stove, takes out biscuits from the sack, passes one to everyone, and puts one in the mouth of the horse lying next to him. Kobe turns his head.
“You really don’t have to pay it back.”
“Oh really?”
“Well, you don’t have to pay. There are people who really try to pay it off. Vitana, like that Priestess Eris.”
“Oh oh. So why don’t you pay it back?”
“How could a person say such a thing! Abandon grace!?”
Boris, who was looking at Vita with a bewildered expression, turned to Kobe.
“Am I weird?”
“Puhihi…!”
Coby explained, giggling as he stopped chewing on his biscuit.
“Originally, it was said to inspire people who leave the temple with the will to live.”
Vita held her hands together and opened her mouth.
“Work, earn money, love, live like that. And if you have time, come return the favor of the temple.”
Boris, who was chewing on a biscuit with his eyes wide open, nodded.
“Ah, now I know roughly. okay. That’s it. Then there are people who don’t pay.”
“Yes. There are people who can’t pay it back until they die, and it’s just a burden on their mind. no obligation I don’t think too much in the temple.”
Boris looked at Vita with the expression of someone who found something very strange.
“This is what it means to live in the same space but in a different world.”
“Ah really! Let’s stop talking about that!”
Vita waved her hand. Boris murmured as he tilted the kettle and drank the hot tea.
“So, how much is it?”
“…10 million liz.”
“Is the amount specific?”
“Usually, it’s up to you to decide, but these days, it’s been fixed at this price. Something close, but an amount far away?”
“Once you pay it off, what are you going to do now?”
“It’s about becoming a free priest. It becomes a walking temple. Whatever I do, it’s my heart.”
Boris nodded, looked at Vita, and then asked Kobe.
“Now that you’re talking about it, then what about those who can’t become priests?”
“It is also your heart after all. Serve in the temple until death. Either change your mind and go out on your own. It’s rare, but there are cases where a spouse repays the favor after getting married.”
“Do you know Kobe closely?”
“Because my mother was a priest?”
Vita’s eyes flashed.
“please! I want to see Sister John An!”
“Okay, I’ll ask.”
“Do you live here?”
“huh. In the 1st Avenue residence,”
said Boris.
“Then why don’t you go home for the winter too?”
“My house is here.”
Boris turned his head as he looked at Kobe, who briefly spoke and tipped the cup to his mouth. Vita is now pressing the soles of her feet into the brazier.
Boris sighs.
“under···! It’s a tough world to live in.”
“···Yes?”
Geo woke up.
“Ugh… too, have you arrived?”
“lay down. Eat and sleep some more. Cook Kobe.”
“Sometimes you do it!”
“I’m busy. Vita.”
“yes?”
Boris got up and dressed, looking at the buckets and piles of herbs in the luggage compartment.
“Let’s bring that and get the commission fee.”
“yep! let’s go!”
“Take an umbrella. And when you come, buy some meat. Let’s have a hearty beef stew for dinner.”
Boris with a bag of herbs on his back, buckets of slime in each hand, and Vita, holding an umbrella in one hand and a bucket of slime in the other, disappeared into the rain. Looking at it from the warehouse entrance, Kobe scratched his head.
“Did I have to go?”
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