Published: July 30, 2025
This time, five chapters are updated simultaneously.
This is the first chapter.
The Next Day
Today, I came to the Adventurers' Guild alone. There were slimes, but I was the only human.
At breakfast, the Duke's household told me that today everyone had to go to the government office to meet the magistrate, so I was to act alone. The madam said that if I didn’t want to walk the town by myself, I could stay at the inn, but since I had just registered at the guild, I decided to take on my first quest.
Should I start safely with gathering medicinal herbs?
I slung on the special basketed backpack I had used in the forest (with slimes inside), and looked at the G-rank quests posted on the bulletin board. Besides gathering medicinal herbs, there were plenty of quests such as cleaning and helping with moving — quite interesting.
At first, I thought about picking the herb gathering quest, but apparently, you can accept that quest on the spot when you bring the herbs. In that case, I can gather herbs on the way back from another quest sometime. With that in mind, I looked for quests other than herb gathering, and among the many quest papers, two stood out prominently.
They were for cleaning a house and cleaning the public toilets in town. The house is one thing, but the public toilet should be manageable with the scavenger slime and magic I devised earlier. I decided to ask the receptionist for details.
“Excuse me, may I ask a few questions?”
“Welcome. What would you like to know?”
“The two quests posted over there — could you tell me the details?”
“Let me see... Ah, those quests. Both have been posted for quite some time. The content is just cleaning, but they’re smelly and dirty, so no one wants to do them. Also, the size is...”
“Is it large?”
“Very much so. First, about the house cleaning — the neighbor of the client’s house used to be a garbage dump. The client was unhappy but bought the house because it was cheap.
A few months after buying, the basement wall separating the house from the garbage dump collapsed, and garbage flowed into the basement. So the smell has permeated the whole house, and they want someone to deal with it. Even if you clean, unless you fix the wall, more garbage will come in. But to fix the wall, the garbage must be cleared first, so it’s a vicious cycle.
As for the public toilet, originally the government hired people from the slum to clean it, but apparently the government stopped paying, and the slum people refused. So there’s no one to do the waste removal, and it’s been left for three months. Complaints about the stench have come in, but it’s almost impossible to suppress it anymore...”
That’s terrible… No, “terrible” doesn’t even cover it.
“More than complaints, I’m worried about diseases... for both places...”
“Oh my, you really understand. Good for you. That’s right. They say that filthy places breed disease, and epidemics are likely. So they want it done, but no one takes the quest...”
“How large are the places exactly?”
“The house basement is about 200 square meters, and for the public toilet, there are thirty waste pits, each about 7 meters wide and 2 kilometers long. You accept the public toilet quest one pit at a time.”
“What’s the garbage like? Though I can guess for the public toilet.”
“For the house, mostly kitchen waste, and some scrap wood.”
That can be fed to scavengers.
“I see... then may I accept the house cleaning quest?”
“Eh!? You’ll take it!?”
“Yes, I have a slightly convenient magic for cleaning. It requires quite a lot of mana, so not many can use it.”
“I see~ Then show me your guild card. There’s no deadline, but if you quit halfway, you’ll be fined.”
“Understood.”
Maybe because no one really accepts these quests, or maybe this receptionist is just diligent, she quickly prepared everything as instructed. I handed over my guild card, completed the procedure, and headed to the client’s house.
The client’s house was in the eastern part of Gimul city, a district of cheap houses in a residential area. The surrounding buildings were mostly old. The target house was also a worn-down brick structure.