episode_0137

Soon after, the mercenary office

The guide, a retired mercenary, who welcomed Seira and her group after completing their mission, offered Seira another item in addition to the mission reward.

Receive “ characters.”

“Huh? What is this?”

“Well, a bunch of low-level mercenaries. It’s the mezadol over there.”

“Has Mejadol become a low-level mercenary?”

“By completing today’s mission, I became a low-level mercenary. The lowest level is promoted as soon as you complete the mission without any special conditions.”

“ho… . is it. It’s here, it’s yours.”

“Yes”

The senior mercenary who handed over the junior mercenary badge implicitly called Seira before calling the next guest.

“And you are also ready to be promoted to a mid-level mercenary.”

“Intermediate mercenary?”

“Mercenaries start at the lowest level and can move up to the lowest level by completing missions. Then, to advance to intermediate and advanced mercenaries, you need to complete a certain number of missions and take a test. If you pass the test, you can become a mid-level mercenary. How about that? It’s a challenge.”

“Is there anything different about being a mid-level mercenary?”

“Of course, you can receive better missions, and if you are a mid-level mercenary, most of the status procedures are simplified at the gateways of other countries. You can get some immunity if you cause trouble, but don’t abuse it. If there is no justifiable reason, it is grounds for demotion or dismissal.”

“But why don’t you explain the top level mercenary?”

Seira suddenly asked a question out of curiosity, and Luvia behind her answered it for her.

“Because you can’t become a top-level mercenary on your own.”

“What do you mean?”

“The highest level mercenary is a qualification given to a mercenary guild master of a country who has stayed in the mercenary force for more than 20 years, reached the upper level mercenary, selected a country, settled there, and led the central mercenary office of that country. It can be said to be an honorary position, or it can be said to be a qualification given to the senior of the seniors.”

“I think I know it’s complicated. It’s a position you don’t have to think about.”

“I think it’s Seira-like. Well, I also received an offer once, but it’s true that I wasn’t very interested.”

“You’ve been a mercenary for 20 years?”

“I’ve been working as a mercenary since I was 16, so I’ve been doing it for about 18 years. There was a space left in a hurry, but other high-level mercenaries were too far away, so I was offered to become a master of the Sith Kingdom’s central guild. Because I refused, a senior mercenary with less experience than me, with 16 years of experience, took my place. They didn’t seem to think that 20 years of experience was that important if it backed up their skills or if there were special circumstances.”

“I roughly understood. Still, I have no intention of going up there. Again, once I have a certain amount of money, I will set off for the royal road. I need to think about becoming a mid-level mercenary.”

“With Seira’s skills, the intermediate mercenary exam won’t be that difficult. Think calmly.”

“Okay.”

“The mission is not difficult and we finished early. Shall we go to the dorm?”

“No. I have to go pick up my dad today. You’re working at a lodging not far from here, right?”

“That’s right. Then let’s do that.”

After finishing work at the mercenary office, Seira and her group moved to the inn where the three male team members were working.

At that time, Kaka was in charge of serving at the inn.

“There are three glasses of ale on table 1, two glasses of ginger ale on table 2, and five glasses of beer on table 5.”

“Okay. Master.”

Kaka, who is trying to drink ten glasses of alcohol, looks anxious on the outside, but he is one of the weakest among orcs, and by human standards, Kaka is a very powerful being.

“Tsk!”

She lifted the tray in one go, showing off her smooth legs in stockings that were revealed by her skirt, and walked forward with a brisk step, moving the table horizontally and vertically to serve drinks.

The empty trays were filled with all the dishes that other guests drank and ate, and the tables were cleaned thoroughly. The inn master, who nodded and looked satisfied, gave instructions to Kaka again.

“Good. Next is the snack, number 1… . And number 2… . Number 5… . Did you memorize everything?”

“I memorized everything. Master.”

After snacks and food were provided, Kaka walked up to Yuzu, who was receiving customers at the entrance, and took a short break in the remaining time. Then, he suddenly made eye contact with a customer who came in at the entrance, but he immediately bowed his head and said hello. It seemed to pass without any problems, but… .

“He often sends me strange things these days. Isn’t there a bitch with a dick? Aren’t there things that aren’t men that wear women’s clothes?”

When I slightly raised my head, the customers in front of me were dressed as soldiers. Among them, one soldier looked at Kaka in particular with an expression of displeasure.

“Why are you arguing with an employee who has nothing to do with you? Let’s go and have a quick drink. Today’s training was hard, so I think I need to drink some.”

“Tch… unpleasant things. It seems the man has no pride or cock. Ugh!”

The soldier who spat openly in front of Kaka sat down at an empty table.

“Father, are you okay?”

Yuzu referred to Kaka as father. Although they are similar in age, after finding out that Kaka was the father of Seira, whom she chose to follow, she began to treat him as an adult regardless of his age.

“It’s okay. In the past, I was bullied even worse than that guy within the tribe.”

“Don’t worry. If you do anything worse than that, I won’t tolerate it either.”

The stockings that covered her bare thighs inside her slightly lifted skirt showed the line of a garter belt leading to her waist, and there were three daggers attached to it.

Seeing that, Kaka told him to stop covering her and held her hand to put her skirt back to its original state. Yuzu soothed Kaka with an expression telling her to just trust him.

“Kaka. I have to go back to work. Please move the orders of new customers.”

“Okay!”

The bar master, who knew that the work was hard, ordered Kaka, who was resting, to start working again without criticizing him. He handed Kaka a tray full of newly ordered drinks and alcohol.

Kaka, who accepted it, moved between the tables as before, serving drinks, and finally arrived in front of the new table he had just entered.

There had been a brief argument earlier, but anyway, he was a guest, and Kaka put his drink on the table with a calm expression, said hello briefly, and then turned to leave.

“Wait!”

However, he had to stop when he heard someone calling him, and when he turned around, he saw that the male soldier who had been openly arguing with him earlier had taken off his helmet and was looking at him.

“You brought it wrong! Who would drink a vulgar drink like ginger ale!”

Kaka looked at the Master with an expression of regret, but the Master’s expression did not change.

The master shakes his head from side to side, holds a tray, and points to the tray with his finger. This is their own signal that other guests do not know, and it means to bring back the drink they ordered without causing conflict with the guest.

“Sorry. It looks like the order was sent incorrectly. I’ll change it right away.”

“Hmph! The waiter’s condition is wrong. I wonder how they confused ale and ginger ale.”

“Sorry. Sorry.”

As Kaka, who bowed his head twice and retrieved the glass and placed it on the tray, was about to move, the soldier who claimed that the wrong drink was ordered tripped on Kaka’s foot before he could react.

“Gasp!”

Kaka, who unexpectedly tripped and lost his balance, dropped the glass containing the drink to the ground, breaking it and leaving the floor of the store a mess.

“Oops!”

Even the master was surprised by the unexpected situation and approached Kaka. He immediately got between the guest and Kaka and raised Kaka’s body up, blocking Kaka from being seen by the soldier who had created the situation.

“Be patient. This is a customer with a twisted mind. Plus, since he’s a soldier, the quality is even worse. I’ll solve it, so stay in.”

“Thank you.”

The Master, who had a grim expression on his face, was a local man who had opened a store and been doing business on this street for over twenty years, so if you wanted to drink alcohol at his popular store, you had to not be disliked by him.

“Jake, you bastard! What are you doing in my store now?”

“Oh my. I’m sorry about this. Master, I’m in a bad mood these days. From the looks of it, that bastard looks like a subspecies of elf, so it brings back bad memories. I’m sorry. I went too far without realizing it.”

He didn’t look sorry at all, but since the opponent was a soldier, it was difficult for the Master to come out stronger.

“If you hit me one more time, I’ll ban you from entering the store, so be careful!”

“I understand. I went a little too far. I’m sorry.”

However, despite the Master’s actions, there was no apology to Kaka. It was just a formal apology thrown to the store manager.

And despite his warnings, he showed an expression of blatant ridicule towards Kaka, who came back to work after coming to his senses again, and he did not hesitate to sometimes call him and ask him to pour him drinks or bring snacks to feed him, even going so far as to harass him.

The co-workers who tried to stop him at first started calling him after seeing Kaka’s pretty appearance after each drink, and they forgot that they were the same man and continued to harass him.

“Grunt… .”

“Father, are you okay? Should I go instead?”

Yuzu, who was used to this sort of thing, tried to appease Kaka and asked him to switch places with her, but Kaka decided to persevere.

“It’s okay. Is it like this?”

Her younger sister Kara, who risked her life to protect her tribe, and her daughter Seira, who is now struggling to earn the money needed to head to the capital to save her younger sister and wife, Kara. This problem wouldn’t even be a problem compared to their efforts.

If you run away from here, you will return to the past where you kept running away. Thinking like that, Kaka gained courage.

However, that courage was testing Kaka’s spirit, as the soldier called Jake this time blatantly placed his hand on Kaka’s buttocks.

“Now, wait a minute, sir!”

“Noisy! Is this a guy who wears clothes like this without even knowing how shameful it is? Do you think your species has no pride? Like a barbaric elf.”

“Stop it!”

“Jake! I can’t quit!”

“Fuck! Everyone get out! I don’t like that bitch or this guy either! How the fuck can you ignore me! Fuck! Fuck!”

“Ugh!”

It turned out that his identity was the soldier who had been punished by his superiors for training after openly arguing with Seira during a small disturbance at the castle gate some time ago.

When he went to a bar with his colleagues to have a drink and saw Kaka in a similar mood to Seira, he remembered what happened back then and decided to harass him. However, when he got drunk, he became incompetent and reached a point where he could not control himself.

However, his behavior like that could not last long.

“Do you want to die?”

Wow!

“Kaaah!!!”

The hand that was holding Kaka’s butt tightened with a crunching sound.

The hand that was grasped was that of a sturdy woman with the same skin color as Kaka.

“Se, Sayra.”

“You took out your anger somewhere else because I trampled on your humble pride. You were a more insignificant person than I thought.”

“How dare this bitch!!! Let go of this!!!”

“Do you think they will let you go easily?”

Kwasik!!!

“Gaaa!!!”

Seira’s hand holding the guy’s hand tightened perfectly. And with that the bones of his hand shattered.

“You shouldn’t have touched the family. You are a soldier and a fool, and you will die to me today.”

“Don’t talk nonsense!!!”

Perhaps due to alcohol or excitement, Jake forgot the pain and pulled out his sword with his free hand. The Master immediately evacuated the other customers and took Kaka and Yuzu inside the store.

He hesitated at the other soldiers and could not easily get between them.

Since the family was in a situation where they were harassed and wanted to take revenge, they were reluctant to step forward even if they attacked the soldier.

The first to step forward in this imminent situation was Jake, who had lost his fear thanks to the power of alcohol.