Before heading to the royal capital of the Megrand Kingdom, I had wanted to look around a few more places, but I decided to change my plans and go straight to the capital instead — because I wanted to give the Holy Cruel Church a little more "discipline."
I left the town of Forcelue, where the church's prestige was already crumbling to the ground, and set out for the royal capital, Elcid.
At the Forcelue Adventurers' Guild, which had suddenly become hectic, I looked for a job along the way to Elcid and found an escort request, so I took it.
[Super Intuition] is telling me to accept this one…
The client was from something called the Gambard Trading Company.
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"My name is Alan, and I've taken on the escort request this time. Pleasure to work with you."
"A pleasure, Alan. My name is Meiren, daughter of the Gambard Trading Company's president."
The client was a girl a little older than me.
A blonde drill-haired young lady wearing a large pink ribbon.
And standing beside her was an elderly attendant with gray hair.
"My name is Sebastian. I serve as the personal butler to young lady Meiren."
She definitely had that well-bred young lady vibe going on.
"Still, Sebastian, having only one escort does feel a bit unsettling. Oh, I'm not doubting Alan's abilities or anything. It's just that there have been reports of kidnapping rings showing up more and more lately, so…"
Perhaps out of anxiety, her blonde drills trembled slightly.
"Young lady, I apologize, but the town of Forcelue is short on adventurers. I humbly ask that you bear with it."
Butler Sebastian tried to calm the young lady down.
Now that I thought about it, I was indeed the only person who looked like an escort adventurer here.
"Oh, and I need to get back quickly to help Father with his work, too…"
"My lady, due to the chaos at the church, the culling of monsters around this town and the dungeon attacks haven't been kept up with, so adventurers are filling in those gaps."
Ah, sorry about that.
I'll properly escort you, so don't worry.
"I suppose there's no helping it. Let's pray we don't run into any bandits."
The young lady murmured.
It'll be fine—we won't get attacked frequently like in some manga or anime.
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"Come on, come on! Curse your bad luck for running into the Heidecker Company! You're all slaves!"
Oh, right—this is another world.
The young lady's prayers didn't reach the heavens, and we ended up running into a hulking group of kidnappers on the road.
"Men become forced labor slaves! Women become sex slaves! Kill the old ones!"
"What about the children?"
"Kill—no, no, there are plenty of uses for them!"
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I think I'll post the "if" version of this chapter for supporters sometime tonight.
Skills: [Reverse], [Divine Eye], [Sword God], [Fist God], [Spear God], [Blazing Magic], [Freezing Magic], [Clear Gale Magic], [Rock Iron Magic], [Holy Magic], [Dark Magic], [Space-Time Magic], [Thunder God Sword], [Gentleman Thief], [Ninja Master], [Seeker of Truth], [Monstrous Strength], [Pain Mitigation], [Complete Status Ailment Resistance], [Dark Elf's Protection], [Super Intuition], [Heaven's Gate], [Abyss Contractee], [Magic Hand], [Treasure Search], [Seduction], [Eloquence], [Fortune], [10x Growth Speed]
Rank: Orichalcum
Thank you for reading!