No One Gets Past This Gatekeeper: The Unwanted Warrior Guards His New Post Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 4] by Kametsu Tomobashi

Author:Kametsu Tomobashi
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 6: Harassment

After lunch, it was back to gatekeeper duty and doing inspections. A few merchants approached the gate during that time, as did a traveler. The merchants all had permits, and we checked on the identity of the traveler, finding nothing suspicious. He had a harp, so he was most likely a bard.

Over the course of all that, the sun had set, and soon a bell rang out, signaling the end of the day’s work.

“All right, it’s about time to pack it up,” Lambda said, turning around, but when I started to follow him, he clarified, “Oh, no, you don’t understand. You need to stay here. We can’t leave the gate unguarded at night.”

“Isn’t that when the night watch team takes over?” I asked.

“They had something very important they needed to take care of today, so I swapped shifts with them. We’ll be handling the night watch tonight.”

“So where are you going?”

“I have some other duties I can’t get out of, sadly. But hey, you used to be a B-rank adventurer, right? I’m sure you can handle things just fine without me.”

“Won’t you get in trouble for skipping your shift?”

“Oh, I’ll be fine, as long as you don’t tell on me! Though even if you did, it’d be easy enough to sweep things under the rug,” Lambda explained, then pointed at me with a smile. “Just a warning though, make sure you don’t slack off! If you let any monsters or bad guys in, it’ll be both of our heads rolling!”

“I see...”

“Hey! I see that look on your face, Sieg. You’re thinking, ‘What a garbage supervisor, I can’t believe he’s pushing all the work onto me while he goes off somewhere to play,’ aren’t you?”

“That’s not what I’m thinking at all.”

“Really? Don’t lie to me, now.”

“If you believe that’s what I’m thinking, that means you have some level of self-awareness about it, doesn’t it?” I pointed out, and his smile vanished.

“Now, now. You might have some skills, but you still shouldn’t act like that. You’ve got to turn on the charm a bit more, or you’ll never get along well here!”

“Thanks for the warning,” I said flatly. “Though with all due respect, when it comes to this job, I think having the power to protect the people of the city is far more important than having charm.”

Lambda sighed. “Talking back to your supervisor...unbelievable. Have you never been out in normal society?” He stared at me and continued lowly, “This is just part of the experience of being a new hire, okay? I’ll have you know they worked me way harder than this, back when I was new.”

Maybe this was his way of paying it forward?

At any rate, I wasn’t about to let him force onto me his own biased notions of how the world around him worked. ‘Common sense’ wasn’t a set of absolute truths, it was just a collection of biases held by the majority of those in a group. When something was wrong, it needed to be pointed out.

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