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“Then I’ll be back. I won’t go anywhere and will come straight home, so guard the house well, and if anything happens, run away right away, okay? ”

After some time had passed, Aion eventually had no choice but to go out to work to earn money.

If Aion could make money without working, he would live his whole life as an unemployed person, but Aion was not rich enough to do that, so he ended up having to go to work.

He just looked at them, making sure his steps weren’t faltering.

In fact, it was not a good idea to leave them home alone, and I would have liked to hire someone to take care of them.

‘People don’t believe things lightly.’

Aion, who had been exposed to many people, did not easily trust others.

Even if Aion hired someone to take care of them, if that person was a bad person, he might covet the family fortune or she might put their lives at risk.

Of course, there are more good people than bad people in the world, but even so, he couldn’t leave them in the hands of someone he didn’t even know, so he had no choice but to strengthen the perimeter around his house without hiring anyone.

Although it was not noticeable, he had placed a strengthening spell on the entire house, making it so strong that it would be difficult to absorb even the slightest impact.

And with a brave and obedient dog, Aion could rest easy.

He looked at them one last time before leaving the house and said.

“I have to come back soon, mister.”

“Have a nice trip..!”

Danawa and Fre looked at Aion like that and greeted each other according to their personalities.

The puppy also nodded as if it understood what Aion said and responded to what Aion said.

“Then I’ll be back.”

Aion went out, seeing them off.

They stared at the tightly closed door for a moment as Aion left the house, then looked at each other and nodded.

***

“Hmm… What quest should I do this time?”

Meanwhile, Aion was pondering what quest to do, not even dreaming that they were carrying out a secret plan.

Aion, who had recently taken a break from hunting monsters, wanted to do something related to hunting to relax, but he remembered Dana’s words telling him not to overdo it, so he was looking for something that was relatively easy.

Arriving at the guild, he quietly looked at the request form on the bulletin board.

Since there weren’t many things that weren’t related to monsters and were that hard, Aion just stared at the bulletin board in silence.

As he was blankly staring at the bulletin board, a request caught his eye.

The content of the request that caught his eye was, to put it simply, a request to run and deal with the bandits occupying the only road connecting one village to another.

Aion couldn’t help but smile when he saw that request.

That was understandable. Compared to monsters, dealing with people was relatively easy. And most importantly, they were humans who could communicate, so Aion, who had seen this quest, smiled and walked towards the guide.

“Hello, adventurer! What brings you here?”

As Aion approached the guide, the guide who met him smiled kindly and spoke to Aion.

At the guide’s smile, Aion confidently showed the request form and said.

“I would like to make this request.”

“Okay.”

As soon as Aion finished speaking, the guide answered without a moment’s hesitation.

“Hey..Can’t you see what kind of person I am?”

Aion looked at the guide who had so coolly handed over the request and asked.

“You’re already famous in this guild. And how much time have we seen?”

The guide whispered so that only Aion could hear.

Aion smiled and nodded at the sight of the guide.

In fact, I had a connection with her from long ago. The day she first entered the guild as a guide, Aion also first set foot on the path of an adventurer.

Over the course of three years, she and Aion frequently encountered each other as guide and adventurer.

Since Aion was someone who did quests at least once a day, he was almost a celebrity in the guild.

The guild also recognized Aion’s talent and achievements and built a long relationship with him.

Aion did various things with them, such as cleaning up or solving problems that were difficult for them to deal with.

Most of the people in the guild were familiar with Aion, except for the newbies who had just been assigned here.

That’s why things like this were possible because they almost completely believed in anything related to Aion.

“But that’s strange. Didn’t you originally only do quests that deal with monsters?”

The guide asked why we were doing a quest that wasn’t about subduing monsters.

At this, Aion could not tell the truth, so he muttered.

“Ah..well..I just wish I could take a break sometimes~”

Aion spoke as nonchalantly as possible.

The guide smiled and answered Aion’s words.

“That’s true. It’s hard to see that monster every day, but sometimes you need a day off.”

Fortunately, the guide seemed not to have any doubts about Aion’s words and smiled as he spoke.

After completing the procedures, Aion tried to move to where the client was.

“What the heck!! Where did the request that was here go!!”

A loud voice like thunder echoed through the previously quiet guild, and the guild was instantly filled with silence.

People’s perception of adventurers is actually not very good, and one of the reasons for this is that they are mostly composed of choleric and easily excited people.

Just as people in hydrogen ruin the image of a company or a country, there are people everywhere who ruin the image.

Adventurers in particular had a higher percentage of such people than other occupations.

Since the job involves killing monsters and fighting, 3 out of 10 adventurers act like crazy.

The one who instantly filled the guild with silence was also one of those 3 out of 10 people.

“Hey, guide! Where did the request to deal with the bandits go? Did someone already do it?”

A man with blond hair and a proud face barged in between Aion and the guide, who were having a conversation with confident steps.

The guide answered the adventurer’s words with the kindest smile possible.

“Yes..Just now, an adventurer came with a quest..”

The guide spoke with the most friendly expression possible, but the man frowned as if he didn’t like the guide’s expression.

“How dare you intercept the request that I, Carlos, have set my sights on! I don’t know who that arrogant bastard is, but he’s clearly a coward.”

The adventurer, who identified himself as Carlos, clenched his fists, seeming furious that someone had taken the quest he had set his sights on.

He immediately grabbed the guide who was watching this by the collar and shouted.

“Why did you pass on the commission I had marked to someone else!”

Carlos started harassing the guide with ridiculous excuses.

In fact, if it was a request he had wanted so badly, it would have been a wise choice to just do it quickly, but he was not wise and grabbed the innocent guide by the collar and scared the woman.

Aion, enraged by Carlos’ actions, grabbed his hand tightly and made him shake it off.

When he grabbed her by the collar and threatened her, even though they had been greeting each other for three years, Aion’s body reacted first, grabbing the man’s hand and making him let go of her hand.

“Eww!! It hurts..!!”

The man who had been holding Aion’s hand let go of his hand in agony as the pain surged through him.

Aion grabbed the man’s hand harder than expected because it was a hand held with emotion, causing his arm to turn red.

Carlos glared at Aion in anger at his sudden intrusion.

“What the hell are you doing! How dare you…how dare you touch this body!”

The man looked at Aion, who was holding his hand, and his face turned red in anger as he spoke.

He was breathing heavily, holding the arm that Aion had been holding, as if he could feel the pain in his arm.

At his words, Aion almost lost his senses for a moment as his anger rose to the top of his head, but he soon came to his senses and suppressed his anger.

He spoke softly, showing me the letter of request he was looking for.

“I’m the one who got to do the job you wanted to do.”

Aion looked at the request he was holding and gave it to her.

“What the… Are you the guy who took my request?”

Carlos looked at the request letter that Aion was holding and smiled rottenly.

A strange current began to flow between the two who had been looking at each other for a while.