Seventh: Volume 6 [Parts 1 to 3] by Yomu Mishima

Author:Yomu Mishima
Language: eng
Format: epub

Lionel and I were led not into the parlor, but into the office. This seemed to be where Ralph did his work for the most part, and unlike before, we were not offered any tea.

Sitting in a chair, his back pressed against the backrest, Ralph looked between us as we stepped in.

“Walts, each and every one of them. My daughters might share similar tastes.”

As I struggled to find a response, Ralph promptly got to business. He placed a sheet of paper on the desk.

“We were talking about it before we were interrupted—a request came from the palace. There’s a small village in a place named Geony, and a Hippogryph appeared there. It’s leading a small army of monsters. The capital plans to send a team to take it down.”

The document certainly laid it out like that.

Hippogryph—a monster with the body of a horse, and the head and wings of an eagle. Its front limbs were also tipped with an eagle’s talons—or so I’d read in a book. It was quite intelligent, which made it a rather troublesome monster to deal with.

“This is a request from the palace, right?” I asked.

And, perhaps thinking I didn’t understand a thing, Lionel spoke up from beside me. “When putting together a subjugation force, it is possible to recruit adventurers and civilians. Don’t you know that?”

What’s with him...? The way he spoke irritated me, and I felt like those last words were unnecessary.

The mood took a turn, but Ralph continued on.

“You get the picture. This time around, the party will mainly consist of houses without government posts—low-grade unemployed nobles, and volunteers from the public.”

The court nobles lived in the royal capital, but it wasn’t like there was a job for every single one of them. The ones without work—the unemployed noble houses were occasionally offered temporary work.

As for why there were unemployed houses, to begin with, they were apparently there just in case anything happened. They were backups, so to speak. The members of these houses would take part in these jobs in the hopes of finding work and rising up in the world.

From my point of view...I couldn’t help but think it would be better to just send the army to take care of it. But, if this was how the royal capital handled things, I was in no position to speak out against it.

“Will the village hold out until then?”

I asked, just to make sure it hadn’t already been destroyed.

But Ralph insisted that this wasn’t the case. “This happens more often than you know. Going off the scale of the monsters, they should hold out for another month. In any case, the capital is in the middle of forming a subjugation team... And I would like you two to take part.”

What exactly is he thinking? I wondered. And Lionel seemed to take my moment of thought as hesitation.

“I’ll do it. Please let me do it!”

Ralph nodded. “As expected of the man Doris chose. I have high hopes for you. Now then, how about

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