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The Marble Town
“No. We just happened to pass by this town… Just what is the matter?”
Ar-niisama asked seemingly worried, with a face that seemed to say that he didn’t have any idea about the incident that had occurred in this town.
Ooh. Ar-niisama might even be able to become an actor.
“Oh my. So you’re not the dispatched knights?”
The town mayor opened his small eyes widely, looking at us in turns. Then, he was surprised upon seeing Noir who had the Armored Insect’s horn on its back.
“Isn’t that a Dark Panther?!”
No, it had always been here since before, though?
Moreover, the soldiers that came together with the town mayor had all been on guard towards Noir since before. As expected, they wouldn’t go so far as to draw their swords before Ar-niisama and Amanda-san who were the kingdom’s knights, but they were in a stance that seemed like they’d be ready to draw their swords at any time.
It was weird for the town mayor to only notice Noir just now.
“This one is this child’s pet, so there’s no need to worry. We’ve received a permission from Izel fort’s lord, Leonhart-sama to have it travel together with us.”
“That great hero’s…”
The people of Ares kingdom refers to Leon-san as the great hero, huh? It’s cool somehow.
“That, the young girl over there, just who…?”
Bewildered, the town mayor looked around us.
His eyes wavered between Ar-niisama, Amanda-san, Frank-san, Virna-san, Karin-san, and lastly me, in order.
That’s right. Certainly he wouldn’t be able to tell what’s up with our line up.
“I apologize, but we can’t reveal that information.”
Ar-niisama smiled sweetly, silently applying pressure that he won’t be answering any more than that.
At that moment, the town mayor’s face worsened.
“So, it’s like that… Then, what kind of business do you have that prompted you to visit this town?”
“We’re thinking of bringing in this Armored Insect’s horn to the Adventurer’s Guild.”
“Oh my, an Armored Insect that had this big enough of a horn appeared? That’s terrible. The soldiers, hurry—”
“Aah, no. The Armored Insect appeared near the Graham village. It’s good that it’s been defeated, but we were told that we were unable to sell it there.”
“I see. It’s certainly a very large horn that’s hard to be sold.”
The town mayor was looking at the horn of the Armored Insect that was on Noir’s back with admiration. Then, he turned to stare at Noir.
Hmhmhm. Noir is indeed cute, but I won’t give it to you!
“Then, this person shall lead you towards the Adventurer Guild… We wouldn’t want to be careless.”
“Yes!”
After saying that to the soldier that was right next to him, the town mayor returned to the path that he had walked up before.
As Ar-niisama stared at the figure of his leaving back, the remaining soldier smiled at him.
“So, can we enter the town now?”
“Please do. Welcome to Abbot town.”
With the guidance from the soldier, we walked towards the inner part of the main street.
The town’s buildings were all built from marble, and for some reason it seemed as if we were wandering into a high-end residential area.
At the end of the main street, there was the public square. There was a water fountain at the center of it, and the fountain was also made from marble. There were flower beds at the edge of the public square, and there were also benches where people could rest at. Of course, they were marble benches.
In this world, there’s a round public square in the center of a town, and there are lots of people who go there to relax. That was also the case with Graham village, but their public square wasn’t as refined as this one.
I thought that there would surely be lots of tourists coming, but there wasn’t anyone who’d go through the trouble of coming here to see the quarry.
Certainly, it was safe inside the town or village because there was a barrier, but taking one step outside it might make you encounter a monster. Perhaps they weren’t able to go out of their way to enjoy sightseeing around it with the risks of meeting danger.
Though it’d surely be nice to slowly enjoy the sceneries safely in this world.
I was deep in my thoughts that I didn’t even realize we had arrived in front of the Adventurer’s Guild.
If I wasn’t told that this was the Adventurer’s Guild, I might not realize that it was indeed its entrance due to its air of luxury.
I had a feeling that the Adventurer’s Guild’s image was a place where the rowdy people gathered, but the entrance was, probably because it was made of marble, more fitting to be the entrance to a high-end store.
Perhaps I would never realize that it wasn’t the case, had the crest of Adventurer’s Guild not been on display on top of its entrance.
The symbol was exactly the same as the crest that I had received in my occupation change quest to a sage—a picture of a sword and staff crossed—, but the position of the sword and the staff was the opposite of it.
I wonder if the occupation of a sage had something to do with the Adventurer’s Guild?
After saying thanks to the soldier who had led us to this place, Ar-niisama and Frank-san who unloaded the Armored Insect’s horn from Noir’s back then entered the Adventurer’s Guild.
As expected, it’d cause an uproar if Noir were to enter the Adventurer’s Guild together with them, so all the girls including me and Amanda-san were waiting beside the entrance together with Noir.
“It might be good to have Noir wear a medal.”
“A medal?”
“Yeah. This is the case with the One-Horned Cows. Since they have a meek temperament, they’re often kept and used for transporting items. But people won’t be able to tell if the monster is kept or not aside from the time when they’re transporting items, right? So, they wear a medal on their neck, that has the owner’s name engraved on it. I think that Noir won’t need it if it’s in its kitten size, but with this big of a size, well… We can have the Adventurer’s Guild make it, so shall we have Noir’s medal made later on?”
Is a medal something similar to a pet’s collar?
Will Noir be willing to wear such a thing?
As I turned to look at Noir who was snuggling up to me, Noir let out a cry, “Migyaa,” with a curious face.