chapter 17
17 – Quite a Suspicious Boss Employee (2)
“Hey, Celestine!”
When I called out loud, Celestine, who saw this, was startled and quickly hid what she was eating behind her back.
But I’ve already confirmed that it’s a fried donut sprinkled with sugar.
“Uh, what are you doing…?”
Celestine, with a lot of sugar on her lips, approached me with an awkward smile.
“It didn’t come very often, so I came to look for it in case I got lost. What did you hide behind your back?”
“Eh…? I was curious about the mouth… I bought a donut.”
“You put up all the wall coverings and buy them, right?”
“That’s…”
When Celestine hesitated, he grabbed her by the shoulder and jerked her body around.
Then, along with a hand holding a donut, I saw a hand holding several posters.
“Huh? You haven’t put them all on yet? You can put them on quickly with a hundred sheets.”
“That’s not it. I was kicked out for putting a poster in a strange place.”
“What do you mean?”
Celestine explained that while she was walking and mechanically putting up the wallpaper, she was putting up the mural on a building when the people who lived there came out and said something.
“What did you say?”
“He asked what if we put a guild promotional poster on another guild. I didn’t see the signboard, but it must have been a guild building similar to ours.”
Upon hearing that, Leanna nodded her head knowingly.
“I think it’s the Montaigne Guild. It’s in Celestine’s area.”
“Really? If it’s Montaigne, you’re talking about the medium guild? It has a standing platoon.”
“That’s right. Our guild collapsed and the return benefit was huge.”
Having a platoon-level unit that can be used at any time is great.
It means that I have to pay salaries to between twenty and thirty people, whether or not there is a request.
Unless it’s a fairly large guild, forming a standing army is something you wouldn’t even dream of.
But once you cross that threshold, it’s relatively easy to increase your weight class after that.
Because just having a standing army increases the trust of the guild, and more and more requests come in.
So most guilds struggle to become a medium-sized guild by making ghost guild members through expedient methods.
“Didn’t you say there was Montaigne and another guild?”
“Drepenner. It’s a small guild with less than 10 members. They’re also latecomers, but with a bit of an agency-like concept, they’ve properly targeted the niche market.”
“Heungsinsora…”
If a large guild like Montaigne is holding out, it’s not a bad strategy to break through other customers like that.
If they acted like an intelligence agency, they would usually be those who do dirty things like assassination, kidnapping, theft, and background investigations.
So to put it simply, it’s like a thieves’ guild.
I remember having to annihilate several of them while playing.
But that’s not to say that if you do the same thing now that you have possessed the world in the game, you will be properly punished by the law.
Montaigne and Drepenner.
In addition to Lucas, one medium and two small.
Schlesch is a big city, but it’s still saturated.
No matter how you think about it, it will be difficult to grow quickly unless that Montaigne Guild is blocking your way.
All fairly large requests will be absorbed by the other side.
It’s probably easier to entrust a normal quest than us, who only have one demon hunter in City Hall.
Clemence?
Clemence is in charge of the guild, but his rank is low, so it will be difficult for him to exert a great influence on the city hall’s decisions.
The same is true when looking for a guild to be entrusted to a noble or a grand prize.
Rather than demon hunters, I’ll leave it to a big guild that’s guaranteed.
To compete with Montaigne, you need to develop more guilds, but Drepenner is in the middle.
If Drepenner and I can merge, I think we’ll have a chance.
But it’s like a thieves’ guild that only listens to Leana, so they can’t readily accept my proposal.
I’m sure he’ll use all sorts of ploys to hit him in the back.
If I get a chance later, I’ll have a look at the Drepenner Guild.
Looking at the guild leader’s face and grasping the atmosphere.
“By the way Celestine. You.”
Leanna pulled out her handkerchief and wiped Celestine’s mouth, she said.
“If you eat anything just because you’re curious about your mouth like this, will you become a pig?”
“It’s not like that, guild leader. I’m so hungry that I’m abstinent while in the sect, so I have to eat some. Otherwise, I might collapse.”
At those words, Leana’s eyes turned to Celestine’s chest.
Now Celestine borrowed her clothes from Leana and was wearing them.
Leah I usually prefer clothes that cut her breasts deep, but Celestine, who has a bigger physique than Leah Na, wears such clothes and her breasts stick out like they’re about to explode.
“Hmm, well, I guess I’ll have to eat to keep this up. But don’t eat too much. If it gets bigger, the clothes won’t fit.”
“Okay. I’ll eat in moderation.”
With that, Celestine began to eat the halfway donut again.
“Is it delicious?”
“It’s delicious. Would you like to try it, sir?”
“No, that’s okay. You eat a lot.”
The three of us went back to the guild side by side.
As the sun went down, the sky turned red, and white smoke rose from the chimneys as each house cooked dinner.
Sulesi in the early evening of late summer is lukewarm rather than hot, and the climate is pleasant with a cool breeze blowing.
Compared to the Grand Test Empire, which is always damp and foggy, it is nothing short of heaven.
The Empire of the Grand Test is, to put it mildly, like a prostitute who fell into mental illness and self-loathing.
It would be appropriate to describe her as a crazy b*tch who clings to her soggyly even if she gives her a little room for emotion.
On the other hand, Schlesi here has the image of a bright, cheerful and beautiful girl.
Like the guild leader walking and humming to my right, or the stupid saintess smiling happily while eating donuts to my left.
Even if you think about it twice or thrice, moving to the principality is a good decision.
Even though he couldn’t have stayed in the empire after being banished anyway.
What are my old party members doing now?
I wonder if the commander of the knights will be living with a sense of pride, and whether the rest of the b*tches are filling their seats one by one.
Maybe he’s as tall as I am, but I’d rather be in the most glorious and high position than that.
It hurts a lot when you fall from a high place.
When will that bastard of the Great Devil resurrect, destroy the empire, and bring many requests to our guild?
“Why are you laughing, chief?”
As I laughed to myself, Leanna smiled and asked.
“I just feel good. I walk with you guys.”
“Ha, cringe.”
Leanna walked away from me, her body shaking.
* * * * *
As a result of the effect of the poster, requests began to come in.
Most of them were ordinary citizens of the city, and the quests they brought were mostly trivial.
Still, no matter how big or small, a client is a client, and we are a guild that fulfills a request.
Leana sat at the reception desk and received simple requests that did not require consultation, and I dealt with clients who needed more in-depth discussion in the consultation room.
Celestine was busy in her own way, cleaning and going to the counseling office.
Then, from time to time, Leanna called Celestine and handed over her requests.
They were mostly very easy things that Celestine could do alone, for example.
“A cat?”
“Yes. The cat is missing. Go find it with him.”
“A kid?”
“I’m the owner of the cat. For details, go to the address here and meet the client in person to hear it.”
“Oh, yes.”
“And this.”
Leanna took a silver coin from the drawer of her front desk and gave it to Celestine.
“Thank you. I’ll buy you a snack on the way.”
“It’s not a snack. Buy some catnip and go.”
“Catnip? What is it?”
“It’s a drug that cats love to die for. It’s on the market.”
“Drugs?!”
As Celestine didn’t understand and kept asking, Leanna ran a hand through her hair.
“It’s not a drug, it’s like a drug that makes the cat crazy. Hurry up and go. I know that because I promised to find it until sunset today.”
“Yes. Then I’ll be back.”
Leanna sighed and looked back at me as Celestine walked out, stuffing her silver coin into her pocket.
“Can you find her cat?”
“Well, if you can’t find it, don’t do it. It’s a quest that doesn’t matter if you fail.”
“Well, that’s true. Since it’s just the beginning, I’m accepting all of these requests, so I’ll have to filter them out later.”
Then the door opened and the postman entered.
“A letter addressed to the guild leader!”
“For me?”
Leanna tore the envelope of the letter handed to her.
Then a gold coin inside fell to the floor.
“What is this? Huh?!”
When Leanna picked up the gold coin, she was startled and handed it to me.
“Huh? Isn’t this a Pallion coin?”
Palion coins are a type of gold coin, equivalent to 10 normal gold coins.
Why is such a huge gold coin in an envelope?
I tried to ask, but the postman had already left, and there was only a recipient on the outside of the letter, but no sender.
Let’s see what’s inside.
In addition to the gold coins, the envelope contained a finely folded piece of white paper. Is it a letter
“What is it?”
“Okay. I’ll have to read it.”
I opened the letter and read it carefully before opening my mouth.
“This is a request. It’s quite a big one.”