v5c179.2 - Intermission 70 - Tabitha, the confused guild official
“…… What? Again?”
“What’s wrong? Senior Tabitha.”
“Colette …… what do you think of this?”
“Uh, is it an error ……? Did you fail to pour in magic power?”
“No, you’re the only one who would do that.”
“Ahhhh …… are you bullying a newbie? You’ll make me cry, you know”
Bullying a newbie, you say.
This girl makes so many mistakes, though.
But because she’s young and pretty, adventurers forgive her …… especially the men, and she never learns.
Should I put her in charge of one of the few female-only parties in our guild …… for example, Ms. Stella’s party.
“…… Ahem. I’m putting the right amount of magic into it. It’s just isn’t working well lately.”
“But isn’t it scary that the transporter isn’t working well? If the coordinates of the destination are off and the transporter transfers you inside a wall ……”
“That’s not going to happen. If the coordinates of the transferring device are specified that it’s impossible to transfer, it will only say that the transfer has failed.”
But since it wasn’t really well before, I had called a magical engineer to fix it, though.
“By the way, didn’t the magical engineer who came before say that if there is a powerful magic circle at the destination, it will affect the transfer?”
“Did he say that? But in these coordinates …… I don’t think there is anyone who uses magic circle in the demon territory, though?”
Mr. Alex uses holy magic, but he can’t use advanced magic that requires a magic circle, and the same goes for Ms. Monica.
The member over there who uses magic is Ellie, but she shouldn’t be using magic circle.
The remaining possibility is Fiine-chan’s witch skill.
To be honest, I don’t have any information at all about the witch job, so it’s not impossible, but …… I wonder if she could make a magic circle that would affect the transfer device enough?
The most important thing is that it’s only been a few days since the last time I had it fixed.
“We’ll have to call a magical engineer as soon as possible. We’ll never be able to deliver food to Mr. Alex and the others.”
“Ah! Mr. Alex-san, you mean the rumored S-class adventurer, don’t you?”
“Rumor? What kind of rumors?”
“Hm? That …… there is a man called Alex, the Peerless King, or the King of Harem, or someone who satisfies his older sister, his childhood friend, and his younger junior adventurer every night, and who is amazing in many ways ……”
“Stop! Who told you that?”
“A female party bowman named Bella. The other day, when we went out to eat, we sat down together and talked about many things.”
Kuh …… I know they say you can’t put words in people’s mouths, but I only told Ms. Stella about it.
“A-About that …… you shouldn’t say too much.”
“What? But Ms. Bella was talking quite loudly about it, though? Well, she didn’t mention any names.”
Ms. Stella is not the type to talk about these things with others, and Ms. Grace is the quiet-type.
But I didn’t realize that Ms. Bella was the type to talk about such things out loud.
I still have a long way to go, I guess.
“Speaking of which, Ms. Bella told me that someone named Grace is interested in that devil king Alex …… and wants to get close to him.”
“No, no! Absolutely not! You’ll get pregnant if you get close to him! I mean, what’s the devil king ……?”
“Ahaha, well, I think she’s just joking, though? …… probably.”
While we were talking about this, Colette finished her own business smoothly and left the room.
I’m amazed she can talk so much while working.
…… I wonder if that’s why she makes a lot of mistakes?
I finished my own business first, and was about to call the magical engineer when I was called by the guildmaster.
“You wanted to see me?”
“Oh, yes. Look at this. It’s information that just came out recently.”
“Let’s see …… the independence of Kingdom of Alexander in the fourth demon tribe territory? Wow, there was a country in that place? I didn’t know that.”
“Tabitha. It is a small snow country, but it is an official state document. Also, what do you think about its location in the territory of the fourth demon tribe, the name of the country, and the name of the king?”
“The name of the first king is …… Eh!? Whaaaaat!?”
“The Shiina Country, which is adjacent to the territory of the Fourth Demon Tribe, will not remain silent about this. That country may be like that outwardly, but behind the scenes, there are many things going on. Right now. Depending on the situation, it may be necessary to send someone on an inspection tour.”
“I-I understand!”
M-Mr. Alex …… what the hell are you creating an independent country for!