Adventurers Make Their Move, and Operation: Continental Reharmonization – Part 06

The satellite town of Pond in the Kingdom of Ponsonia lay close to the royal capital, though that was about its only defining feature. Otherwise, it was an unremarkable town.

These days it did have a few small attractions—an oddly popular hot dog stand, a restaurant serving unusual dishes, a bakery known for its excellent bread, and a hotel front desk run by a laid-back feline beastfolk. But even those were only known to people who had lived in Pond for a long time.

There was also the assassination of Count Morgstadt, one of the kingdom’s most prominent nobles, but for ordinary townsfolk that case belonged to a completely different world, and everyone had already forgotten about it.

“Whaaaat?! What kind of request is this?!” exclaimed Freya, a receptionist at the Pond Adventurers Guild.

Aurora, another receptionist, walked over and asked worriedly, “What’s wrong?”

Freya was in a small