Chapter 49

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"Da...Daddy... Are you my daddy, hehehehe"

When the Reda group returned to the inn, they told the innkeeper Riggs that the three of them would be living together. Without asking any deep questions, he said, "I see, so you've become a father. Good luck."

Mina's friend Meilin, upon hearing the news, was overjoyed as if it were her own, and due to her naturally friendly nature, she quickly bonded with Luna.

"From now on, please take care, Daddy."

"Even if I may not be perfect, I'll do my best to be a good father."

Although Mina seemed a bit embarrassed, she didn't seem to have any resistance to calling Reda "Daddy."

Relieved by this, Reda turned his gaze to the always quiet Luna.

"Wh...What?"

"Well, I was wondering if Luna would call me anything. I don't want you to force yourself to be a father, so I hope you can feel at ease. I'm fine with any form as long as we can be a family."

"Hmm."

Luna's eyes seemed to sparkle mysteriously.

"Then, I want to be your wife."

"Lu...Luna?"

"Well, you proposed to me, didn't you? I thought I should give a proper answer."

"I said we should be a family, but I didn't propose to you..."

"But I felt like you did. When you said so strongly that you want to be a family and make me happy... my womanly side ached... hehe."

Despite being a girl who still retains some innocence, Luna smiled seductively.

Reda felt a cold sweat run down his back.

"Will you be Daddy's wife? ...Wait, will you be my mommy?"

"Don't think too much about it, Mina. We're all family. That's enough, isn't it?"

"Yeah, that's right."

"You're such a good girl, Mina. Hehe."

"No, no, wait! First of all, Luna, you're not an adult yet! You can't get married!"

While it's not really about being an adult or not, he decided to use age as a reason.

However,

"Hehehe, I'll be an adult in just one month. Do you understand what that means?"

"..."

Basically, marriage is for those who are fifteen years old or older.

Age difference doesn't matter.

Moreover, polygamy is allowed under certain conditions.

"I'll be fifteen next month, so hehe, I'm looking forward to it. Oh, right. I'll call you Papa. Of course, it doesn't mean 'father,' but 'you.'"

Reda couldn't tell if Luna was serious.

If she was teasing him, that would be fine, but if she was serious, he had no idea how to respond, and it gave him a headache.

Mina was genuinely happy that she could spend time with her sister and Reda as a family.

(Well, this is fine for now.)

To be honest, there were many things that worried him.

The organization Luna and the others were part of might send people after them.

Reda thought they should consult the guild.

(There's a lot to do, but I want to be happy with these girls.)

With renewed determination, Reda smiled along with the girls who had become his family.

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At the headquarters of the Recovery Guild in the capital, Amanda, a guild employee, was reading a letter from a healer in the border town of Amrus and was furious.

"...What do you mean the Adventurer's Guild is officially employing a healer who isn't registered with the Recovery Guild!"

There are two healers in Amrus.

They are young but talented, and she remembered them well.

Given that the Baron of Rodenvalt was gathering talent to develop the town, she had even introduced the healers to him. She couldn't accept this treatment.

"There are some people who, with their strange sense of justice, provide treatment at low prices. Really... If such people cause the market rate for healers to collapse, what will happen? They must not understand the value of a healer's skills, so they treat people at ridiculous prices... Oh, this is giving me a headache."

Amanda knew very well that the treatment fees for healers were high.

But she also knew that they were worth it.

Injuries heal quickly. That alone should show how excellent recovery magic is.

Therefore, she firmly believed that charging high fees for treatment was a fair and just compensation.

"From the perspective of the Adventurer's Guild, which often deals with injuries, it's understandable that they don't like high treatment fees, but that's just their convenience. They should be more careful to avoid injuries in the first place."

It's problematic if people think it's okay to get injured because they can be healed.

Healers also have their limits.

Moreover, healers are not perfect.

If they do their job, they get complaints about high treatment fees, and if they fail, they get accused of being murderers.

It's extremely unfair.

Therefore, the Recovery Guild does not set treatment fees.

This is also to prevent being used at will.

Healers who use the rare recovery magic should not be exploited cheaply.

That's why the Adventurer's Guild in Amrus is unacceptable.

The Recovery Guild, which was unaware of the healer Reda Dixon, is also at fault, but to employ him at low treatment fees is inexcusable.

As a result, other healers are not getting work, and they are even being called money-hungry by the residents.

All of this is because Reda is providing treatment at unreasonably low fees.

"...I need to give Reda Dixon a warning. If he understands his own value, he will stop doing foolish things."

Amanda decided to warn Reda, the healer, out of concern for him.

For his own good, he should receive the correct treatment fees.

Healers should be appropriately evaluated, respected, and admired.

They should not be used by people without money.

"I'll head to the town of Amrus as soon as the preparations are ready."