Kays Translations
Just another Isekai Lover~
Chapter 252: Days That Could Drive You Mad
Tauro was deeply troubled by the complete absence of requests at the Adventurers’ Guild.
If he remained in the village indefinitely without completing any requests, all the effort he and his companions had put into reaching the D-rank band would go to waste. Yet he couldn’t regularly return to Dansas merely to accept ordinary work.
Unable to remain shut inside Drago’s house, Tauro spent his days walking through the dragonfolk village—which was large enough to be called a town—while searching for a solution.
“Although it’s almost completely surrounded by mountains and isolated from the outside world, it has an abundance of excellent food, and its craftsmanship rivals or even surpasses that of the Royal Capital. The cooking is fairly ordinary, but the overall standard of living is extremely high, and there seems to be very little trouble. At this rate, no one will ever need the Adventurers’ Guild…”
Whenever Tauro had encountered a problem, he had been accustomed to relying on the guild. The dragonfolk, however, could defeat monsters and perform heavy labor themselves. When one person couldn’t handle something alone, neighbors simply helped. There was almost no role left for adventurers.
“In that case… I’ll have to make them want to rely on the guild.”
After several days of wandering and thinking, Tauro came up with three increasingly forceful plans.
The first was to visit the artisans’ district and deliberately demonstrate his techniques, hoping to interest the craftspeople enough that they would submit requests through the guild to learn from him.
The second was to submit requests anonymously and then complete them himself. It would earn him no money, but it would at least allow him to meet the minimum number of completed requests.
The third was to exploit his position as the village’s benefactor and pressure Chief Ryuga into submitting a suitable request.
After days of worrying, those were the only ideas Tauro had managed to produce.
“They seemed reasonable last night, but after sleeping on them, I can see how awful they are…”
Tauro was appalled with himself.
“Still, the first plan is better than the others. The second and third are so shameless that I don’t even want to think about them.”
The techniques Tauro meant to display were, of course, his magic-circle products, which had impressed even Ragune.
Fortunately, the village hadn’t yet adopted the magic lanterns that were selling so well in the Royal Capital, products made from [Non-Wetting Cloth], or the construction techniques used for refrigerators. Tauro also had an idea for a new product that he believed would be especially useful in the dragonfolk village.
He therefore settled on the relatively harmless approach of demonstrating the techniques to local craftspeople and encouraging them to request instruction through the guild.
Unfortunately…
“The Adventurers’ Guild can’t accept that kind of request. Technical work of that sort falls under the jurisdiction of the Merchants’ Guild.”
The receptionist firmly rejected Tauro’s hopeful question about whether such work would qualify.
Her answer was perfectly reasonable. The Adventurers’ Guild couldn’t accept every imaginable kind of request.
I’m becoming so desperate that I’m thinking of stranger and stranger schemes!
Tauro dropped to his knees in the guild hall and clutched his head.
Ten days had passed since he began staying with Ragune’s older brother, Drago.
He visited the guild every morning, but the board continued to display zero requests. His desperation was finally reaching its limit.
Should he resort to the second or third plan despite how terrible they were? For the second, perhaps he could simply give Drago money and ask him to submit an appropriate request.
Tauro didn’t know how long he would remain in the village, and he feared waiting until the last possible moment only to discover that his plan wouldn’t work. He wanted some assurance that he could continue accumulating legitimate guild achievements.
That morning, while he once again stared at the empty noticeboard, the receptionist approached with a sheet of paper and pinned it up.
It read:
Free Quest: Assistance with Dungeon Conquest
Seeking someone with [Spatial Transfer] to transport the expedition party to and from the dungeon.
Client: Chief Ryuga
It was a free quest requesting support for the dungeon expedition.
Apparently, Drago had become concerned by Tauro’s daily visits to the empty guild and reported the situation to Chief Ryuga, who had arranged the request in this form.
“This is exactly what I needed…!”
Tauro sighed with relief as he read the details.
Dungeon conquest itself was high-ranked work and would never pass the guild’s assessment as a D-rank request. By limiting the task to transportation by someone with a specific ability, however, the danger could be reduced enough for a D-rank adventurer like Tauro to accept it within guild rules.
Tauro had intended to help with work far above the rank he could normally accept without involving the guild at all, so this solution had never occurred to him.
“This should be acceptable, shouldn’t it?”
The receptionist smiled as she accepted the request form from Tauro. She was the one who had advised the chief on how to structure the request.
Moved by her ingenious solution, Tauro delivered a line he had heard somewhere before.
“What’s your name?”