Huge Holy 35

35 - Aren’t they idiots?

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...Aren’t they idiots?

When the receptionist was bringing in the ingredients, I demanded a newspaper article from her.
That is my impression after reading the latest article.

I continue to be alert to the movement of the surrounding countries, such as about the previous stampede.
The latest article has thoroughly written that A Empire was doing stupid things, and I understood their real intention.

Most likely, A Empire's aim is to weed out adventurers.
By making the adventurer's blunder showy, the trust toward the adventurer will drop, and in the end, they want them to come to the conclusion that “It’s better to leave it to magic tools instead of relying on adventurers.”
That’s probably what they are thinking.

After debates about things like, “Isn't it better for strong adventurers to belong to the knight order of the country?”, come to an end, they’ll try to dig up another problem from a different aspect.
But the World Adventurer Agency won’t stay silent, and they are trying to cause something that will likely cause bashing from all over the world.

“Hmmm~! It's delicious no matter when you eat this―!”

“I won’t feel like I've started the day unless I eat this.”

Commoner adventurers are eating their breakfast in a carefree manner without paying attention to newspaper articles.
Recently, it's become established that I'm in charge of breakfast in this place.
I make various things with the ingredients that are brought in and serve it in a buffet style.
Among them, one of the most popular is French toast, the staple food. Since this is another world, it is not called French toast, but [Fall First].

After reaching a good stopping point, I also start having breakfast while reading the newspaper in a corner, but...

“Josiah! I want four of your special potions!!”

“Got it. I’ll leave it in front of your room.”

“Josiah-san, umm... bugs were eating through my clothes...”

“I'll repair it, so please leave it here. As for the insect repellent for your clothes――I’ll put a bag of medicinal herbs that have the effect of repelling insects in front of your room later.

“Somehow! The water stopped coming out here.”

“I'll go fix it later.”

“Wait, Josiah. Lina's room, please fix it――”

“I’m sure there are things women don’t want men to see there. Tell Lina that I will take care of everything once she gets them out.”

Can't you at least let me eat quietly during breakfast? Oi.
Just when I was about to drink an isekai pseudo-coffee.
Again, someone... this time, it’s Port, came running with a changing expression.

“Josiah-san! It's a bit of a big problem... they ordered us to let other people accept the quest!!”

“Haa, the heck is that...?”

I had no choice, so I headed to the guild's reception while holding a French toast that is also a [Fall First] in my mouth.

☆

“...I can't talk to him at all. Muu.”

☆

“All you commoners! Haven’t you been getting carried away recently?”

“The one in charge of the dungeon investigation! Should be us, nobles, not you commoners!”

“It's a problem when you take advantage of us taking a li~ttle bit of a break!. You can’t do this without permission.”

Apparently, all noble adventurers are in a boycott.
If they don’t create this trouble, the commoners would stand out more than them, and they probably wouldn’t like that.
...Well. Other than the C-rank dungeon, there are no signs of activation on others, so it's fine.
I swallowed my [Fall First] and asked.

“Then, everyone, would you be willing to do dungeon investigations? If so, that would be extremely helpful.”

When I said that, their angry voices weakened.
I keep talking.

“Dungeon investigations are usually something that has to be done everyday. It is an important duty and task for adventurers. It was difficult for us commoners to investigate all the dungeons by ourselves in one day. With your help, the investigation will progress further, and the peace of the country will be preserved.”

An A Empire adventurer can easily spend ten weeks in the dungeon though.
Now that I've finished talking about the good points, I'll ask one question.

“However, if you are going to do the dungeon investigation… Will we be the one in charge of monster subjugation and collection?”

“Wha, don't be stupid! We'll do that too!!”

It was the receptionist who interrupted them.

“Please don't say such unreasonable things! Look at this map!! It takes a lot of stamina just to go back and forth between dungeons that are far away from the guild, but if you add completing quests on top of the investigation... that will be impossible.”

“That commoner over there goes to the dungeon many times a day!”

“Josiah-san can do it because he's, you know, a skilled adventurer...”

“We are saying that we can do it! Hurry up and complete the procedures!!”

Eventually, the receptionist was overwhelmed, so she went to the guild chief and lowered her head.
In the end, the dungeon investigation we were going to do ended up going to someone else. The remaining quests were just the usual miscellaneous tasks.

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