Kays Translations
Just another Isekai Lover~
Chapter 251: New Life
Having decided to stay in the dragonfolk village, Tauro first greeted Chief Ryuga. With Ragune acting as intermediary, he obtained permission to live in Drago’s house for the time being.
Chief Ryuga readily agreed. Tauro was the dragonfolk’s benefactor, and when Ryuga learned that an organization called the Assassins’ Guild was trying to kill him, he had no intention of ignoring the danger to the person who had saved so many lives. Tauro had chosen the village because he needed somewhere to hide temporarily.
Tauro also made an offer of his own: he would assist with the dragonfolk’s long-cherished goal of conquering their dungeon.
“If my [Spatial Transfer] can be of use, I’ll cooperate.”
Chief Ryuga had already intended to ask Ragune whether Tauro might help, so the offer came at the perfect time. It also meant that the dragonfolk would owe Tauro yet another substantial debt.
In return, Ryuga ordered one of the dragonfolk’s units to gather information about the Assassins’ Guild and, if necessary, intercept its agents.
According to Ragune, a forbidden magic usable by only a small number of dragonfolk had been passed to the organization in an altered form. Its founder might therefore have been a dragonfolk or someone closely connected to them. If that magic was now threatening their benefactor, the matter couldn’t be overlooked.
Using Tauro’s [Spatial Transfer] together with Ragune’s [Dimensional Corridor], they first sent several dragonfolk to Dansas. Their primary mission was to find Assassins’ Guild agents who might be hiding nearby or conducting surveillance, while also gathering information from any agents they discovered.
The people selected possessed skills ideally suited to such work and should have little difficulty carrying it out. Other dragonfolk would gather information while moving south from the village, gradually exposing the Assassins’ Guild’s network.
Meanwhile, Tauro could assist Ryuga’s people with the dungeon expedition, making the arrangement beneficial to both sides.
Tauro was initially surprised by the proposal. The mysterious Assassins’ Guild had been extremely difficult to investigate, so support from the dragonfolk village was more reassuring than he could have hoped.
When the operatives being sent to Dansas were introduced to him, every one of them possessed unquestionably first-rate skills. Tauro finally understood why even someone as powerful as Ragune could still be called inexperienced by her own people.
If people like these came after him, surrender might be the only sensible response.
They weren’t merely talented but thoroughly trained, and Tauro almost found himself feeling sorry for the Assassins’ Guild members they would be hunting.
Reassured, Tauro settled into life in the dragonfolk village.
His first step was to visit the Adventurers’ Guild and register the village as his new base.
The Dragonfolk Village branch occupied a larger building than the Dansas branch. Its properly blue roof made it easy to recognize.
When Tauro entered, a lone dragonfolk woman behind the reception counter stared at him in astonishment.
Of course. Humans themselves were unusual here.
Understanding why she was staring, Tauro approached the counter.
“I intend to use this village as my base for a while, so I’d like to complete the necessary procedure. Here’s my tag.”
It was the standard registration process an adventurer completed after moving to a new base.
The receptionist was a dark-skinned dragonfolk woman with a purple bob haircut and golden eyes.
“Ah… yes! Let me check it. …All right, the procedure is complete. Um, Tauro… This branch has no D-rank requests at all. Will that be a problem?”
“What?!”
Tauro stared into her golden eyes and then hurriedly turned toward the noticeboard where requests should have been posted.
There were no D-rank requests. In fact, there were no requests of any rank.
The board was literally empty.
“What?!”
Tauro froze for the second time, then looked back at the receptionist.
“What exactly is going on here?”
He forced himself to ask as calmly as possible.
“This branch hasn’t received a request in a very long time. We don’t really need the Adventurers’ Guild system here. Most people handle things themselves, or ask their neighbors for help. Ha ha… I started this job several months ago, and you’re the first adventurer I’ve ever seen. I did learn all the procedures properly from my predecessor, so you don’t need to worry about that. It’s just that with no requests and no adventurers, receptionist duty in this village is almost treated like a punishment.”
A guild receptionist, normally considered a popular and secure occupation, was treated like punishment duty here.
Tauro was stunned by the cultural difference.
“Then why does the village maintain an Adventurers’ Guild branch it doesn’t need?”
He asked the obvious question.
“I was told that an agreement was made long ago requiring a branch to be established, so it has continued to be managed and maintained ever since. Occasionally, lost adventurers find their way here, but because there are no requests, they ask us for directions and leave almost immediately.”
For the first time, Tauro wondered whether he had come to a truly terrible place for an adventurer.