Chapter 5: W-W-W-WHAT THE HELL DID YOU HUNT－－－－－!!!

After breakfast, I was relaxing in the living room with some coffee.

By the way, breakfast was meat, at my familiars’ request. It was a quick ginger-fried orc bowl. Tempted by the smell, I ended up eating a really heavy breakfast, too.

“Hey, everyone, it’ll be a week tomorrow since we rented this house. What do you all think about extending it three more days?”

I wanted to go to the morning market at least one more time, and I needed to stock up on food for the trip, too — hence the three extra days.

“Mm, three days? But that will delay our foray into the dungeon,” Fel said with a stony face.

《Whaaat, three whole days? It’s true that the fish here is delicious, but I want to hurry up and go to the dungeon...》

Dora-chan was also unhappy about it.

《You know, Sui wants to go to the dungeon, but Sui is fine if it’s only for a little while. The fishies here are really good.》

My only friend here is Sui... Isn’t three days fine?

“Please? It’s only three days. I want to get some more seafood, and I need to cook the food we’ll be eating while we travel. So it’s just three days. It’s fine, isn’t it?”

“Fine. I get it. In exchange we are going to the forest today. I have been cooped up in this town this entire time, I want to hunt to get some exercise,” Fel said.

《Oh fine. A hunt in the forest, huh? That’s a great idea. I want to go too.》

The forest, huh? I can still get orc meat if I have some butchered, but I’m running low on wyvern and bloody horn-bull meat, aren’t I? I can never get enough meat, so going to the forest might not be a bad idea.

“Well then, let’s go to the forest. But before that, I have to go to the Merchant’s guild to ask for the extension, and there’s also some stuff I want to buy, so we’ll be stopping by the general store, too. Also, I have some business to attend to, so we’ll go to the Adventurer’s guild as well. Since we’ll be going to the forest anyway, we might as well get some requests on the way.”

“Indeed. Might as well if we are going to the forest anyway.”

With that settled, we headed off.

For the business I had with the Adventurer’s guild... Well, given what happened yesterday, I wanted to pass something off to Marcus and Charlotte as thanks. After much consideration, I, of course, thought that it had to be sweets, so I baked some more pound cake last night. I’d already done it last time for Ugohl too, so I figured there’d be no way I’d botch it if it was pound cake.

This time, in addition to the plain pound cake, I also made some with earl grey tea leaves inside to make tea-flavored pound cake. When I opened up my Online Supermarket, there was a surprising amount of varieties of tea, so I splurged a little and got a slightly more expensive one in a can. For the tea pound cake, you don’t put in the vanilla essence you would in a plain pound cake, but instead just mix in some black tea leaves that have been thoroughly powdered by putting them in a vinyl bag and crushing them with a rolling pin at the step where you add in the mixture of weak flour and baking powder.

It turned out to be very full of the tea’s great fragrance, as I expected when I used the expensive leaves. This time I used good tea leaves, but using the kind that comes in bags would be just fine. At that point, they’re already crushed, so you can just mix them in as is. I figured I could use pound cakes as a thank you gift, and since my oven was so big, I baked quite a lot. I was prepared to hand over the tea pound cakes to Marcus and Charlotte as a thank you, so all that was left was to get the basket I’d use for that at a general store and pass it on, plate and all.

Now then, first up, let’s go to the Merchant’s guild and extend my stay another three days.

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I entered the Merchant’s guild, and the process to extend my rental ended in what felt like an instant. When I asked for the extension, I was told that all I had to do was pay the money I would owe and that would be it, so I just handed over 28 gold and it was finished, easy as pie.

After that, I went to a general store that was near the Merchant’s guild and bought two baskets before heading for the Adventurer’s guild.

When I got to the front of the line at the Adventurer’s guild, the receptionist immediately called the guildmaster for me.

“Hey, what’s up?”

“I came to give my thanks, since you and Charlotte did really well for me yesterday.”

“What? You didn’t have to do that, you know?”

“Here. Please try this. Can you hand this one to Charlotte?”

“Sure, got it. Sorry for making you go through all that. I’ll be taking this with gratitude. And I’ll take responsibility for getting this one to Charlotte. Still, snacks, huh? My wife’ll be happy,” Marcus said, grinning.

Impressed that even a guy with a face that scary can get a wife, I asked about her in the spur of the moment, and he started babbling happily. Even about stuff that I didn’t ask about. Just on and on...

It seemed that Marcus used to be an A-ranked adventurer, and as an adventurer he wandered around everywhere, so he never got married back then. Apparently that was the reason why most high-ranked adventurers got married late, if at all. There are a lot of problems that can only be solved by high-ranked people, so it seemed that that was why they went all over the place.

“It was because of this wound here that I ended up retiring at 40 to become the guildmaster here......”

Apparently it was in this town that he had met the woman who would be his wife, who was away from home to work. His wife was a village girl he met ten years prior on a request while Marcus was still an adventurer, and apparently it was her that recognized him first. Marcus also remembered the village, and he was really surprised that the village’s biggest tomboy grew to be so pretty, he told me. So it seemed that from then on they met from time to time due to their history together. At the time, his wife was 22 and was just at the age in this world where people would start to say that it was too late for her. It seemed that she was so busy working to make money for her sickly parents that she had no time for romance. But about a year before she met Marcus again, it seemed her parents left this world one after the other, which apparently caused her to start thinking about her future.

“My wife, you know, she said that she likely wouldn’t be able to marry at all her entire life, so she wanted to first learn how to read and write so she could live on her own.”

So it seemed that she asked Marcus, who she knew could read and write, to teach her. People got married a lot earlier in this world, and most girls were already taken and with children by the time they were 18, or even 15 at the earliest. It seemed that women who were older than that and single would feel ashamed. So Marcus was shot in the heart seeing that optimistic and brave girl... was how the story went. Without even minding the age gap that was so wide she could be his own daughter, he made really earnest and fervent moves on her and got her, so to speak.

“I just had a daughter last year, you know? She’s like her mother, so cute~,” said Marcus, all lovestruck.

Stop putting out that aura of happiness with your pirate face dammit. Fuck, to think this scary dude who totally looks like a pirate and nothing else was a normie......

“When I was an adventurer, I would’ve rather died than get married, but you know, marriage is great~,” said Marcus, sounding completely heartfelt as he nodded repeatedly.

“You’re a high-ranked adventurer too, so make sure you don’t miss your chance either, you hear?” Marcus said, slamming his hand into my back.

Stop hitting me with that idiot brawn of yours, please. Actually, like, if I had someone, I’d have been married already, damn. I can’t stand this normie version of Marcus, spraying his happy vibes all over the place. I gotta leave.

“Well then, I’ll go look to see if there’s any requests I can take so...” I went towards the board.

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I looked at the board, but the outlook was grim. There’s not much for the forest, is there?

“What, you’re going to take a request?”

You were still here, you damn normie? *Ahem* I mean Marcus.

“Yes. Fel and the others want to go hunting in the forest for exercise, so I figured I might as well try to take a request while we’re there.”

“The forest, huh? There’s not really any for high-rankers at the moment...”

Just as Marcus said, there were basically no requests for high-ranking adventurers. Although there were quite a lot for low-to-mid-ranking ones...

Hmmm, what should I do...... Hm? My eyes stopped on a certain request that was posted at the very edge of the board.

“Marcus, this sabre tiger request......”

“Oh, that. That one’s just like a permanent request......”

Apparently there was a count or viscount or some sort of noble who retired here after having his son inherit his position, and his hobby was collecting taxidermy mounts. It seemed that he was the one that asked for a sabre tiger.

“He said it’s not really urgent or anything. In the first place, there’s no sabre tigers around here, and the reward is a little low for something of this level, so it’s ended up being about a year since it was first posted.”

The reward was 70 gold with materials. If I remember right, the sabre tiger was A-ranked, right? With that in mind the reward certainly is low. But I actually have a sabre tiger right now... I think it was back when we were in Dolan?

Dora-chan caught one when he and Fel went out to hunt. I was told that sabre tigers tasted terrible and were inedible, so I just left it in my Item Box. I was sure that it would only continue to fertilize my Item Box at this rate, so I was thinking that it’d be fine to just bring it out here.

“Uhhh, I have a sabre tiger... Will I complete the request if I bring that out here?”

“Hm? What, you have one?”

“Yes. I have one that was hunted while we were traveling.”

“That’s not something you just hunt because it’s there, but well, it’s you... I guess it’s not really that strange.”

What? What does that mean, because ‘it’s you’? I think Marcus’ way of treating me is a little weird... I’m just a normal guy. The ones who just put down high-ranking monsters left and right are Fel, Dora-chan, and Sui.

“If you just hand over the sabre tiger you’ll complete the request, since it’s not asking for you to defeat one. Those requests require you to go out and defeat one, but this is just for materials. As long as you have them, then you can complete it.”

“Ah, the sabre tiger has a big hole in its body, is that fine?” Dora-chan’s attack blew a hole clean through it.

“He said that he’d just be preserving the head, so I think it’s fine, but...... It’s been a while since I’ve seen a sabre tiger, so I’ll take a look anyway. Let’s go to the storehouse.”

With that, I followed Marcus, who was gleefully taking huge strides towards the storehouse.

“Okay then, let’s see it.”

I produced the sabre tiger from my Item Box.

“Ohh, it really is a sabre tiger. It’s just as you said, there’s a hole in it, but...... Yeah, it should be fine. Still, what kind of attack caused this hole?”

“Well, uhhhh......”

《It’s me! I did it—!》 Dora-chan said while flying circles around me.

《Dora-chan, only Fel, Sui, and I can hear your telepathy.》

《Tch! That’s right. But I wanted the humans to know the tales of my bravery...》

Now, now, just calm down, Dora-chan.

“This pixie dragon here was the one who brought down the sabre tiger,” I said, to which Marcus reacted with slight surprise.

“So that tiny dragon’s pretty strong, contrary to how it looks.”

That’s right. My familiars are all strong. Ah, since I’m already here in the storehouse, let’s ask them to butcher some more stuff.

“Sorry, can I ask you to butcher some orcs, too? I’d just like the meat back, and you can buy the rest of it.”

“Sure, orcs right? That’s fine.”

With that, I brought out ten orcs from my Item Box.

“Ten orcs, huh? Should be finished by this evening. Isn’t that right, guys?” When Marcus asked all the butchers that, they all replied with a hearty, “Yes!”

“How much do I owe you for the service?”

“What are you talking about? You’ve brought this guild so much profit — as if we could take fees from you.”

Oh, so there won’t be any? That’s great.

“Okay then, can you give me the reward for the sabre tiger request along with that stuff?”

“Sure. I’ll get it ready.”

“Is it over? We are going to the forest.” Fel must have gotten impatient, as he came over to talk.

“Yeah. We just finished. Okay, let’s go to the forest. All right then, bye Marcus, we’re heading off to the forest.”

“Sure. Ah, if you guys catch something big, bring it over. I’ll make the butchering free. In exchange, let us have all the materials other than the meat.”

“Okay.” Now then, let’s get to the forest.

Just like that, we left Berléand for the forest.

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After about an hour of riding on Fel’s back as he ran, we came to a stop.

“Hm, around here should be fine, there is no one around.”

“Okay then, I’ll be here cooking the food for when we travel, so just put up a barrier please.”

“Understood. Well then, let us go, Dora.”

“Yeah!” Just as Fel and Dora-chan were about to go off hunting, Sui jumped out of my bag.

《Sui wants to go too—.》

“What? You’re going too, Sui?”

《Sui wants to go pew-pew and beat things up.》

But then I’ll be here alone... “Fel, can your barrier really defend from things around here?”

“Of course. There is no problem.”

I already know how amazing Fel’s barrier is, so I guess it’ll be fine if Fel says so... And I have the Perfect Defense skill the gods gave me too, at least, so...... Okay, it’s probably fine.

“Okay. This time you can go too, Sui.”

《Yayyyy!》 When I allowed Sui to go, it started happily bouncing around.

“Ah, Fel, take this.” I hung the magic bag (medium) around Fel’s neck. “Also, this hunt is meant for getting more meat, so make sure you all get things that are edible this time, you hear?”

“Mn, I understand.”

《Fine, fine.》

《Yeeesss.》

I reminded them just in case, since, if they bring back something we can’t eat, it’ll just sit in my Item Box forever.

“Well then, let us go, Dora, Sui,” Fel said, and all three of them went off into the forest.

Now then, let’s start cooking.

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First, I decided to build up my stock of meat-based dishes. I started working on a menu around things that could be made into a rice bowl or put into a sandwich since we’d be eating it on the move.

You’ve got to have miso-grilled orc and bloody horn-bull, right? And ginger-fried orc and beef bowls made with wyvern and bloody horn-bull meat.

It felt a little like overspending what I had, but I also decided on two kinds of vegetable stir-fry using both wyvern and orc meat. So that they’d both work in a rice bowl, I flavored them with a garlic yakiniku sauce and a slightly spicy yakiniku sauce. Then, I ground up some mixed orc and bloody horn-bull meat for making Hamburg steaks, soy-marinated minced-meat rice bowls, and Bolognese sauce. And, since it would work great with rice, I made some keema curry.

Of course, I also cooked up the fried dishes all of them liked so much. I fried up pork cutlets, Hamburg steak cutlets, and karaage made from the sea serpent meat. It would have been great if I still had something that could pass for poultry left, but unfortunately I didn’t, so I just fried up a huge amount of sea serpent meat. Of course, I flavored it with both soy-based and salt-based sauces.

Meanwhile, I used the oven to make roasted wyvern. Of course, I steamed rice as well, and minced a large amount of cabbage.

“Whew—, this should be it for the meat.” Before I’d really noticed, I’d already made a lot of varied meat dishes.

As I thought, I’m able to cook this smoothly and quickly because my level’s higher, isn’t it? Of course the fact that I’m used to cooking for Fel and the others every day is a part of it, but a lot of my movements are most definitely faster than before, too. But I don’t know how I feel about only noticing the effects of my leveling up during cooking......

I was a little miffed that everything was happening just as the gods wanted, but maybe I’d try a little harder in the next dungeon instead of just leaving everything up to Fel and the others. I’m not trying to unlock any new Tenants, but I do feel like I want to see just how strong I can get...

Simply put, I should get stronger from every level up, so even for swinging a sword, I should be able to do it much better and with more power than before. And I have more magic now too, so my Earth and Fire magic might have gotten stronger as well. Okay, so let’s try some stuff out in the next dungeon.

Ah, I’ve just been using a sword up until now, but it might be nice to have a spear. I don’t have a swordsmanship skill or anything, so it’s not like I have to stick to swords at all. What I use would be categorized as short swords, so it’d be nice to have a spear that I can maintain some range with.

Okay, let’s buy a spear when we get to the next dungeon city of Aveling.

Wait, more importantly I need to keep cooking. It doesn’t seem like Fel and the others will be coming back any time soon, so next is seafood.

Grilled squid using the kraken was easy and delicious the last time I did it, so I decided to cook that. The salt-grilled kraken with vegetables was good, too. I made it both salt-grilled and with oyster sauce too.

The fried oysters from last time were also really delicious, so I decided to fry up other seafood too. I fried up the mackero that resembled horse mackerel (it even looked exactly like horse mackerel when fried), the vermillion shrimp (this one looked exactly like fried shrimp too), the kraken, yellow scallop, and big hard clams too. The clams were truly huge, so I halved them before frying.

White meat fish were great fried too, so I also fried up some aspidochelone and tyrant fish.

After a while of thinking, this would be great fried, and then frying it, I ended up with a huge amount of fried seafood. Well, they all seemed delicious and I could just leave them in my Item Box, so I decided not to mind too much.

Since it was absolutely necessary for fried seafood, I made a matching amount of the homemade tartar sauce I’d made yesterday. I’d keep it a secret that I couldn’t hold myself back while I was doing that and ended up having a taste test of the fried mackero and scallops.

“Whew~, this should be fine for today.” I managed to finish most of the cooking I’d need for travel.

“Still, Fel and the others sure are late. Are they so caught up with hunting that they forgot food? The sun’s about to set......”

Fel and the others headed off to hunt before noon. They hadn’t even come back for lunch. Even though they were all big eaters, I figured that missing just one meal wouldn’t kill them, so they’d be back for dinner and I wasn’t worried, but......

After that, almost another hour passed, and the sun had already halfway set, when everyone finally returned.

“Sorry we are late.”

《Mannn~, I got so caught up in the hunt.》

《It was fun—.》

Geez, so they really were just having too much fun, huh? But it looks like they got a lot. It must have been too much for the magic bag, because an enlarged Sui was carrying more bodies inside it.

“We have to get back before they close the gates, so you’ll have to eat after we get back.”

“Mnrr, fine.”

《But I’m hungry... Aww man, we have to wait till we get back—?》

《Sui is hungry~.》

“It’s your fault for being late. Just suck it up a little. Also, as for what you got...... Sui’s holding it all?”

“Indeed. Sui, let it go.”

《Oka—y.》

Sui dropped four cockatrices, two rockbirds, a huge horned rabbit that I’d never seen before which was as big as a light truck, and a cow that was also a first for me. It was a little smaller than the rabbit, but still plenty big in its own right, and was colored brown with a goldish patch on its back. When I appraised them, I found that the rabbit was called a “giant horn rabbit,” and the cow was called a “golden-backed bull.”

It seemed that they were both B-ranked monsters. Looks like they made sure to only catch edible monsters this time.

“Also, this.” With that, what Fel dumped out of the magic bag was......

“W-W-W-WHAT THE HELL DID YOU HUNT－－－－－!!!!”

I couldn’t help but scream, seeing the reddish-black giant carcass that Fel showed me.

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“Stop being so loud.”

《Wow, that was loud.》

《Master —why did you shout so loud?》

Everyone shot back.

Nonono, I’m not the one in the wrong here. Of course I’d shout if you showed me this.

I stared at the giant reddish black carcass in front of me. No matter how much I stare, it’s......

“This is......”

“Indeed. It is a red dragon.”

.........Yep, that’s what I thought. It looks exactly like a red dragon. I can’t think it’s anything else.

《Isn’t it awesome? We hunted it down!》 Dora-chan said, looking all smug.

《Sui went pew-pew and hit it too~.》 Sui — now back to its original size after spitting out all their prey — said that as it started happily hopping around the place.

“A red dragon......... What the hell do you even expect me to do with something like this......?”

Even just the earth dragon was really hard...

“Well, this red dragon is still young, so it is on the smaller side. That was exactly why we managed to fit it inside that magic bag.”

This is on the small side...... From the tip of its snout to the end of its tail, it’s around 12-13 meters...

“Red dragon meat is also delicious, you know?”

Fel, my guy, you’re going to eat this too? Wait, if the earth dragon was that delicious, is the red dragon even more so? At any rate, getting the red dragon butchered at the Adventurer’s guild in Berléand will most likely be impossible. I really will have to go ask that guy again, won’t I......? Elrand, the dragon-crazy guildmaster of the Adventurer’s guild in Dolan...

“We’ll probably have to go back to Dolan to get this butchered...”

“That strange elf?”

“Since you apparently need both the skills and equipment to butcher a dragon, you know? Also, I did in fact promise Elrand that I’d bring any dragons we got back to him. If I asked anybody else, I can totally see him actually quitting as a guildmaster to come with us......”

He’s a stalker I say, a stalker.

“From what I have seen, that does seem probable......” Fel said, remembering what Elrand was like. He made an expression like he hated the idea.

That guy did in fact start rubbing his cheek on the earth dragon’s carcass...... If it wasn’t for his mania for dragons he’d be a good guy, but we have Dora-chan here, so there’d be no worse companion.

“Well, nothing will come of it if we just sit here thinking, and we have to go back to the Adventurer’s guild too...... At any rate, we’re going back to town.”

“Indeed.”

I shoved the monsters everyone hunted into my Item Box.

“Ah, I’ll be having you explain why you went and hunted something like a red dragon once we get back.”

《Of course. I’ll tell you all about our tales of bravery and strength!》Dora-chan declared, sounding rather proud for some reason.

Well anyway, getting back to town comes first.

We hurried back.

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Somehow, we barely managed to make it back before they closed the gates for the night. And right now, we were inside the Adventurer’s guild.

It’s kinda noisy in here, isn’t it?

As soon as we got to the front of the line, the receptionist went and got Marcus.

“Did something happen?” I asked.

“Well, to tell you the truth......” He told me that there was a red dragon spotted near a mountain a little ways away from town. Apparently, it was spotted in flight, so it most likely wasn’t nested near here, but they still had to be on alert.

A red dragon, huh......? What timely news. Could it be? That the red dragon they’re talking about was the one that Fel and the others beat?

I tried asking Fel about it.

“Hey Fel, could the red dragon that Marcus is talking about......”

“Indeed. From its presence, it mostly likely is the same red dragon, since there was no other presence as powerful as that one anywhere nearby.”

I-I see. So there’s no way I can just......keep quiet about this, can I? While looking at Marcus, who was shouting orders all over the place, I started feeling like there was no way I could stay quiet about it.

“Uhmm, Marcus, could you come with me to the storehouse for a bit?”

“Hm? Sorry, but I’m busy right now.”

“It’s related to what’s happening right now, so please.” I stayed persistent, and Marcus, who sensed that something was up, came with me in the end.

“So? What is it?”

“Can you close the doors please?” I asked, and Marcus had a nearby butcher close the door.

“Uhmmm, around here looks fine. Please, don’t be surprised, everyone,” I warned Marcus and the other butchers beforehand, and took the red dragon out of my Item Box.

“This is the red dragon.”

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.........

......

“Uhm, Marcus?”

Marcus and the other butchers were standing stock still and silent, staring at the red dragon.

Yep, this would happen when a person sees a red dragon. I waited a while for them to calm down, but neither Marcus nor anyone else said a single word.

“U-Uhmm, excuse me, is everyone alright?”

Marcus finally came to after I said that. “A-Ahhh, sorry. It was too much, I lost myself for a moment there.”

It wasn’t a moment, but well, whatever.

“So, this red dragon is......”

“Yes. It seems that this is in fact the red dragon that was seen.”

“I-I see...... So the problem’s already over. Still, wow, for you to have defeated a red dragon......”

“Well, it was kind of on the spur of the moment......” I said, and turned my eyes over to Fel and the others.

They said they wanted to go hunting, so I took them out, and this is what I get. You know, I never once said anything about going to go hunt a dragon.

“That’s right. I forgot because they’re always so quiet — but you’ve got a legendary Fenrir as a familiar, don’t you? I guess a red dragon isn’t much of an opponent for a Fenrir.”

“Indeed. It would be no problem for me to bring down a red dragon by myself, but today, Dora and Sui were there too. It was an easy hunt.”

Marcus froze for a moment when Fel spoke up, but he got over it himself, saying, “Oh yeah, Fenrirs can speak human language.”

“A red dragon is easy prey, huh......” Marcus was a little exasperated at Fel’s statement.

That’s only natural, though. To claim that dragons are easy... Only someone like Fel could ever say that.

“Oh yeah, you’re A-ranked, aren’t you?” Marcus said, suddenly turning the subject of the conversation to me.

“Huh? Yeah, you’re correct...”

“Wouldn’t it be fine for you to be S-ranked already?”

“What? Nonono, that has nothing to do with me. It was Fel and the others that killed the red dragon.”

“Being S-ranked would be no problem for you, since you have familiars that can easily bring down a red dragon, right? Or rather, if you aren’t S-ranked, it calls into question what our current S-ranks even are.”

Even if you tell me that, what do you want me to do about it?

“Well, whatever. There’s no way I can leave you at A-rank anyway if you show me something like this. You’re S-ranked now. You don’t get to say no.”

“Whaaat!! But I only showed you this thing so I could prove to you that the incident is over. I actually wanted you to keep it a secret that I have this...”

“You idiot. As if I could keep the fact that you killed a red dragon a secret. It’s not like it’s an earth dragon......”

According to Marcus, something might have been done if it was an earth dragon, whose movements are very limited, but for flight-capable dragons with wings, methods of defeating them are to be shared between guilds as a matter of course, since they could be considered a threat to an entire continent given their mobility.

And the method was — to sic Fel and the others at them, since they brought down a red dragon so easily.

“Sharing info for emergencies is the most basic of basics, you know?”

If you put it like that...... “Well, I guess that’s unavoidable then, but can you still make it so the other employees and adventurers don’t find out? I’d rather they not make a huge fuss.”

“If you really want it like that, I can make it so only sub-guildmasters and above are privy to the info.”

I guess that’ll be fine.

“Please. I’m counting on you.”

“Sure! All of you, stop spacing out! Get it together!” Marcus’ yell awakened all the butchers, who were still in a shocked torpor.

“Alright, listen up, all of you. Don’t tell anyone about what you saw here. Get it?” Marcus said, and all the butchers silently started nodding fervently.

“So, what do you want to do with this? We can’t butcher it for you, just so you know,” Marcus said.

Yep, thought so. But, it’s fine, because that guy’ll happily take it apart for me.

“It’s fine. I’m going to ask Elrand, Dolan’s guildmaster to do it.”

“Ahh, that guy. If it’s him, he’ll probably be able to take apart a dragon.”

“Yes. To tell you the truth, he’s also the one who butchered the earth dragon. He was reeaaaallly happy about it.”

“Haha! He probably was,” Marcus said, giving a strained laugh. Elrand’s love for dragon’s wasn’t something to scoff at.

“So, you’re going to Dolan after this?”

“No. I think we’ll stop by Dolan after we go to the dungeon city of Aveling.”

“Gonna go dungeon diving?”

“Yes. Fel and the others all say they want to go.”

“So you’re gonna go and conquer the dungeon in Aveling after Dolan, huh?”

I’m not sure myself, but Fel and the others seem totally intent on it.

“Well, I’ll inform the Adventurer’s guild in Aveling for now. So, when are you leaving?”

“I plan to leave in three days. Until then I’ll be stocking up on as much seafood as I can get.”

“Gahahaha! I get it, this place’s fish is great!”

After that, I got the meat for the orcs I left with them that morning, as well as the money for the rest of the orcs and the sabre tiger request from that morning.

All in all, I got 74 gold. Since they had a lot of the superior dungeon-spawned version of orc testes, the naturally spawned, or rather, normal kind, were devalued. I didn’t care as long as I got my meat, though.

Then, I asked them to also take apart the cockatrices, rockbirds, giant horn rabbit, and golden-backed bull that Fel and the others caught today. When I showed them the giant horn rabbit and golden-backed bull, Marcus reacted with, “You brought something rare again...”

It seemed that although they were only B-ranked, they were rare monsters that you couldn’t see unless you went deep into the forest. Their meat was also of the highest quality, and sold for a lot since they were so rare. Since it’d turn into quite a sum if I sold the meat, Marcus asked me, “You sure you don’t want to sell it?” But of course I refused.

I wasn’t in need of money, and I’d incur the meat lovers’ wrath if I sold them now.

“Come back tomorrow for it.”

“Okay. I’m planning on heading to the morning market tomorrow, so I’ll stop by after that.”

Leaving the Adventurer’s guild, we were finally on our way home.