Vol. 2 Chapter 5

“Thereupon, what should we do?”

We introduced ourselves to Altria-san, who serves as our test supervisor, and went out to the city.

The city is as lively as ever, and unlike inside the guild, a refreshing bustle was out here.

“Ah, about the request that you guys will do …… At first, I get the requests for chores.”

“Chores …… is it? For example, what ……”

“That’s right…… There are three things that have been handed over from that Gassur guy this time ……”

“Three!?”

“It’s usually one, but I guess that guy Gassur thought that this was a chance to get rid of unpopular odd jobs at once.”

That asshole Gassur……!

Even if his ability as a guild master seems to be low, I wonder why in such a place he’s completely shrewd. Is it just this time?

“So then, the content of these requests was about…… For the time being, it’s 『helping the orphanage』, 『demolition of a ruin』, and 『walking the dog』. “

“… It really was odd jobs.”

Walking the dog …… I wish they could do it themselves.

It’s true that all of them can be said odd jobs, but what is 『demolition of a ruin』 you said? Is it a good thing to be a chore?

“Altria-san”

“An? What’s wrong?”

“The 『demolition of a ruin』 you said…… what will we do with it? To dismantle a building, I think it would be safer to dismantle it if a professional did it, though……”

“Ah, that’ll be okay. Even if I said to dismantle, you’ll just destroy it.”

“It’s very miscellany.”

As expected, this is a different world. I usually thought that it was going to take a lot of steps to break it.

Rather, there was a guy who was shouting that he wanted to break things abnormally in the guild, and wouldn’t it be solved if we left it to him?

“Well, I know what kind of request we’re going to do. So then, where are we heading now?”

“Nn? The orphanage”

Apparently, the first thing to do is to help the orphanage.

Now I know what kind of request and what we will do first, but ————

“Uhmm …… why are you so far from us?”

“……”

For some reason, Altria-san kept a certain distance from me and Saria, and doesn’t try to approach.

Apart from that, I don’t think that she wants to get closer to me, but what do I say…… it feels like I’m being avoided.

Besides, as I found out when I went out into the city, the people in the city who saw Altria-san, keep a uniform distance from her.

……What do you mean?

In the end, she didn’t answer me at all during that time, and before I knew it, we had arrived at the orphanage.

“This is the orphanage”

“Hee, is this…… the church?”

The place shown by Altria-san, was the church I saw when I arrived at Terviel when I was walking around the city.

As I thought that it was a church, it was an orphanage huh. Altria explained to me in order to solve my doubt.

“Indeed, this is a church, but it also has an orphanage.”

“I see …… By the way, what is the religion of this church?”

Coming to another world, I who have a little common sense in here, need to get information in these situations as much as possible.

“Ahn? You don’t know? This is the church of 『Belfilleism』.”

“Belfilleism …… you said, that’s, what kind of teachings does they preach?”

“You don’t know that either …… Well, simply put, not only human being but also monsters are of the same creatures, and there is no superiority or inferiority in each life. It’s, 『There is a miracle thing in love. Love is the cornerstone of peace』…… Were they preaching such a teaching? Love that never bothers others is the first step toward peace. It’s a religion that believes in real people, and not Gods.”

Hee. What great personage. It’s been worshipped, and religion can be made in this way.

Certainly, God said that he wouldn’t interfere with this world, and in that sense, it would be nice to have a certain object of worship.

Besides, there is a miracle thing in love, huh…… There is an example of Zeanos, and I don’t think it’s absolute, but still, many people may be saved if this teaching is followed. I mean, it was such a noble way of thinking that I can’t think of them as the same being.

Well, there was even a word of love and peace on earth, and in that sense, the different world and Earth may be the same.

When I was thinking about such a thing, Saria was shining her eyes next to me.

“Love…… I love Seiichi!”

“O,oh!? …… M,me too.”

“Ehehehe!”

Too unexpected attack ……!

However, Saria can express her pure love without being shy, whether she was in her gorilla or a beautiful girl form now. That’s something, we humans can’t do very much. It’s a virtue since Saria has lived in the wild.

“Ah, please don’t speak fondly in a place like this. I’m embarrassed seeing this.”

Being said with that, I became aware that I was doing something embarrassing in public for the first time.

Fortunately, however, there was only Altria around. Altria-san, who shyly dyes her cheeks, suddenly looks far away.

“Well, things like love has nothing to do with me for the rest of my life.”

“Eh?”

“…… It’s nothing. Rather, let’s go quickly.”

With that said, Altria-san left us and went into the church.

“Hmm…… I wonder if I made her angry……”

“I’m not sure, but …… I think it’s fine.”

I was healed by Saria who answered with a smile.

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“I’m sorry. Right now, we’re only recruiting for one person.”

When we entered the church and explained the situation, an elderly sister-san told us so.

However…… this means that we can’t accept the request together.

“I usually have a young sister who works here, but…… now, that child is out for a different errand, and will be back tomorrow, but I didn’t have enough manpower. So, I recruited only one person…… for that reason, I only prepared a reward for a single person.”

It was me and Saria, who came to such a place.

We don’t even know this because aren’t we just newcomers, so I ask Altria-san.

“Err…… what would we do in this case?”

“Only one person will accept it. The other one will be on another request. The request here isn’t particularly dangerous, and if I ask the client about your attitude during the request, I can understand it in one shot, so it doesn’t matter if we don’t have a test supervisor here.”

“Tha,that’s right ……”

Refreshingly declared so in a single stroke, this person. But on the contrary, it makes me feel better if she’s so dry.

“Well? Which one of you will get the request here?”

When she asked so, I turned my face to the side, and Saria had a happy expression on her face.

“Seiichi! I want to do it!”

“Eh? But…… Are you gonna be all right?”

Although she is human now, Saria is a monster. I wonder if she can take care of human children. Altria bites a laugh at me who feels uneasy on the inside.

“Kukuku…… you bastard, say that after you see yourself. No matter who sees it, isn’t Saria the right person for it.”

“…… Indeed!”

A man in a robe like this taking care of children …… there’ll be various unnatural things. It smells like a crime.

In comparison, Saria looks good and is clearly more suitable than me.

“I get it. Well then, Saria. Do your best?”

“Yup?”

Seeing Saria nod cheerfully, the elderly sister-san asks.

“Did you decide on that cute little lady?”

“I am called Saria. It’ll be for a short time, but please take care of me!”

“Ara, I’m grateful for your kindness. I’m Claire Hastur, the director of the orphanage. Claire is fine.”

This Sister was the Director huh. She doesn’t look that way in a different sense than Gassur. I mean …… it feels like she’s a commoner, and she don’t feel like a great person.

“All right, then, Saria should do her best here all day today. I’ll come and pick you up after Seiichi’s exam is finish.”

“Yup!”

In response to Saria’s reply, I and Altria left the orphanage.

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“Etto …… where are we going next?”

“That’s right …… It’s better to finish the 『Dismantling the abandoned castle』 first. If we leave that hassle behind, it will be a lot of trouble.”

Certainly, I can always walk a dog. It’s their own pet, so I’d like them to walk it by themselves, but…… well, there must be a reason why they can’t go.

While thinking about the request, I and Altria-san move around the city.

All the while, Altria-san keeps a constant distance from me and doesn’t try to approach me.

There were many buildings under construction around, and people like carpenters were seen here and there.

As we continued to walk silently through the city, a child came running from the front. I wonder if he’s playing tag with his friends, since he was running at full power and doesn’t realize our existence.

Then, the child fell down strongly in front of Altria-san.

“Uh …… it hurtss ……”

While still flopping down, the child begins to cry. His knees are scraped off, and it looks very painful.

When I approached to raise the child, Altria-san held the child in her arms.

“Look, don’t cry. You’re a man, right?”

“Uh……”

“Ah …… it looks like it hurts …… wait a moment. I’ll take care of it now.”

As Altria-san says so, perhaps from her item box, she takes out a small vial of green liquid.

Seeing the people from this different world use item boxes, it’s not unnatural for me to use an item box, I think. I’m glad to think that such doubtful element is gone.

Altria-san soaks the liquid in the small bottle into the handkerchief, and carefully applies it to the child’s knee.

“It hurts!”

“Be patient. I’ll cure you now.”

And then, as she keeps applying the handkerchief for a while, the wound on his knee disappeared cleanly.

“See, it’s all right now.”

“Wah! Onee-chan, thank you!”

Perhaps it was a recovery medicine or something that was in the small bottle earlier. A recovery medicine can be used just by applying it to the wound without taking them hah……

Anyway, I’m glad that the child’s injury was healed. I was going to take the highest-grade recovery drug out of my item box and cure him.

However, unlike the appearance and tone of Altria-san, it seems that she is actually very caring. She answers my questions in a lawful manner.

However, it was at that time when I had such an impression while watching the situation of the two people.

“Wa,watch out!”

A screaming voice, echoes in our ears.

When I look around for something, I found a huge piece of wood falling down just in the position where Altria-san and the child were.

…… wait, this is not the case to calmly analyze!

“Altria-san!”

I immediately release my power, and take a step forward. However,

“Haa …… as I thought I’m no good, I ……”

Yes, Altria-san muttered faintly. The child is dumbfounded since he can’t grasp the situation.

And, Altria-san dealt with the situation earlier than I did.

“Fuh!”

After Altria-san lightly catches the fallen wood with her one hand, she carefully lowered the wood to the ground so as not to damage it. Her movement of instant action is very fluent, it was as if she had foreseen this from the beginning.

“…… It’s all right now. Go.”

“Ah……”

The child, who returned to his sanity in Altria-san’s words, left the place in a hurry.

“So, sorry …… are you okay?”

“Nn. Don’t worry.”

The carpenter man, who had dropped the wood, apologizes in a regretful manner. After accepting the apology lightly, Altria-san, turned to me.

“Hey, let’s go? We can’t make Saria wait.”

“Eh? Ah, yes”

Although I was confused by her lonely appearance, we head to the ruins we were asked for.

After that, we walked around the city silently from beginning to end, and we eventually reached the ruins.

“Is it…… this place?”

“…… That’s right.”

The building in front of us, was a house that was exposed to the rain and wind, and was about to break at any moment now.

If, it was in its beautiful form, it would be a fairly large house that would be comfortable to live in.

“Why has this happened?”

“It seems to be the result of the death of the former landlord, and the neglect of relatives who had trouble maintaining it afterwards.”

From a Japanese person full of profane spirit, I can’t believe that. Considering the size of the house, was it some kind of aristocrat? I think that it’s definitely a good house if you take good care of it ……

Or rather, there is a limit to how much you can leave it alone. How many years ago did the landlord die?

“So, can I completely destroy this house?”

“That’s right. Well, I’ll give you instructions now ————”

“Then I’ll break it.”

“……Ha?”

In response to my words, Altria-san uttered a dumb voice.

However, I did not notice such a situation of her, and approached the ruins as it was.

I thought I’d get closer, but it’s still a pretty big house. It looks like it’s going to crumble at any moment, but it doesn’t seem to break at a level if it was just touch. I have to release my power.

I drew such a conclusion without permission, and I released the power that I disguised. My status that was visible to the other party hasn’t changed, and my atmosphere should not have changed too, so even Altria wouldn’t notice my monster-like power.

“What the hell do you ————”

“Ey”

Blocking Altria-san’s words, I lightly hit one of the pillars supporting the ruins with a very light shout.

At that moment, the pillar that I hit was shattered into pieces, and the shock wave caused by my fist pressure blew away the nearby walls all at once.

…… Yes, as expected of the one who just has a profession of monster. I never thought that the wall would be blown away by my fist pressure. Moreover, the pillar disappeared just by me hitting it lightly……

“Wha!?”

I can see Altria-san’s figure, who is speechless, in the back.

Well …… as suddenly I hit the pillar, I erased it. She’ll doubt her eyes.

When I think about such a thing, Altria-san suddenly yelled when she returned to her senses.

“Oi, you stupid guy!”

“Eh?”

At this time, I couldn’t understand why Altria-san yelled.

After all, I was yelled at, even though I was sure to be fulfilling my request firmly.

However, what happened after this made me realize all of that. By blowing off the pillars and crushing the walls, the whole house which had been holding up until now, began to collapse.

I was stunned by the unexpected situation, and couldn’t move.

When I look up, the pillars on the roof and ceiling of the ruins come down towards me, and I was able to confirm it in slow motion.

Stupid, me. It’s fragile, so I have to be careful in breaking it.

I forgot to avoid it, as I thought about such a thing.

As a result, the rubble of the ruins assaulted me all at once.

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