A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation

Today as well, Lizel had come to the guild together with Gill.

It had been a week since his first quest. Accepting requests, wandering around town, reading books—he was spending peaceful days for an adventurer. Today too, he was planning to take a quest, and stood in front of the lowest-rank, rank f quest board, looking over the various request papers posted there.

The low-rank adventurers around them somehow looked uncomfortable.

“We’ve already taken a few extermination requests, you must be getting bored, Gill.”

“It’s not like I got nothin’ to do, so not really.”

“I see,” Lizel nodded, and continued letting his eyes pass over the papers one after another. Extermination, gathering—since he wanted to get various advice while Gill was still accompanying him, he tried to avoid taking too many quests of the same type.

Rank f was designed so you would rank up quickly, so right now he could only take rank f and rank e requests. But if he cleared even one more quest, his rank would probably go up and he’d be able to take rank d quests as well. Gill had said so.

“Oh, how about that one?”

Lizel looked up at a request paper posted at the very top of the board. He raised his arm, thinking he might just barely reach it if he stretched, but Gill took the paper from behind him, so he let his arm drop. That was fine too.

“Something about a labyrinth, huh. True, we haven’t done that yet.”

“I’ve been wanting to see the labyrinth here at least once.”

[Wanted: Dungeon Items!]

Rank: F–E

Client: Labyrinth Tool Collector (provisional)

Reward: Base reward: 10 silver coins + the price of the item (requires appraisal certificate: up to 1 gold coin).

Request: I want anything that can be obtained in a labyrinth and exists only in a labyrinth.

However, limited to items from up to the 5th floor.

“Provisional?”

“If you’re handing it in through the guild anyway, they don’t have to use their real name. If it’s only up to the 5th floor, low-rank is enough, so they probably don’t have the budget to hire high-ranks or pay huge sums for the item.”

“I see.”

“Depending on what it is, even low-rank dungeon items can fetch a decent price though.”

According to the request, they not only had to obtain the requested item in a labyrinth but also get it appraised.

He might be an interesting client, Lizel thought as he took the paper and headed to the counter. If Gill wasn’t saying anything, it probably wasn’t a strange request.

It was a busy time, so all the windows were occupied, and there were lines behind each one. The adventurer currently at the counter glanced back and then did a spectacular double take before hurriedly turning to face forward again. It seemed to be his first time seeing Lizel.

Despite doing adventurer work, Lizel still didn’t look like an adventurer at all. His noble air had quieted down somewhat, and yet—Gill looked at Lizel, who didn’t seem to care in the slightest.

“Mm?”

“What is it?”

“Nothing.”

Lizel’s gaze drifted toward some tables a short distance away. Several tables, left open for party discussions and such, were currently all occupied.

The people sitting in the chairs were probably party members, but instead of talking about anything, they were all glaring silently at the sheets of paper on the tables.

“Next in line, please.”

Thinking that this was a scene he had been seeing a lot lately, Lizel noticed that the neighboring counter, which had been closed, had suddenly opened. Saying “next in line,” Stud was clearly only looking at Lizel, and had abandoned the new registration seat to move over here.

With no new applicants at the moment, it wasn’t exactly wrong. But Stud almost never came over to take request-processing work, let alone interrupt the paperwork he’d been doing just moments before. Ignoring the lukewarm looks from his coworkers, Stud sat down; since Lizel was up next anyway, he moved over with a wry smile.

“Please.”

“Ah, this one. This client posts the same request over and over.”