Chapter 404 – Clans and Missions (4)

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Did you say that the executive who invited us was Millia? She said the woman’s office was on the upper floor. She seems to be in a pretty high position in her own way.

“Nice to meet you. Have a seat.”

The office was ordinary.

He said he was a great clan official, so it was a bit grandiose, like a stuffed monster’s head. I thought there would be something like that.

There is only a desk for work, a table for guests, and a sofa. It is rather unusual to look ordinary. This world is also a place where people live, so it’s all the same.

The ceremonial teacup rotated once and we started talking. Millia bowed her head slightly at us.

“Last time was a big help. It’s not to the point of being heavily overloaded, but if it weren’t for you, the damage would have been greater.”

“You’re welcome. We are all adventurers, so we have to help each other.”

Milia smiled at my words. When I first saw her, she was distracted after the battle, but now that I see her, she is a decent beauty.

“Ugh.”

“What are you doing?”

“Oh, no. It’s nothing.”

The glass guy subtly turned her hand down and pinched my side. Are you reading your mind now? I was just thinking, just thinking!

Conversely, I pinched the back of Yuri’s hand and coughed.

“Hmm, hmm. Anyway, I’m glad the damage wasn’t too great. What happened after that?”

Milia replied while maintaining her smile her.

“Fortunately, nothing major happened. There was no sign of another wave happening… And it is safe to say that there is no major problem now. Besides, the guards switched over at the right time.”

“Okay.”

This woman She’s smiling but she’s pissed off.

Millia’s nuance was very strange. She gave off a bad vibe because the guards had a last shot, but her content her was very polite.

Milia took a sip of her tea and she opened her mouth again.

“By the way, I want to ask you something, would you mind?”

“Tell me.”

Millia’s eyes became a little serious.

“Those ants. The ants flying through the air seemed to explode on their own. May I know what method you used?”

In the meantime, I was watching it. Is it true that when you become an executive, you have a wide field of vision. However…

“…That’s a little difficult. Because this side is a source of business in its own way.”

Would you let me know if it’s like you!

Milia laughed as if she knew it, then she continued.

“I heard about Tinajo. She did the quest in a very interesting way…. Especially when dealing with saber tigers and wyrms, she used a strange technique.”

“… Yes, what. That’s right.”

When doing a quest with Tina. I put the eunuch skill on the male lion and the estrus skill on the worms to make them leave the nest. I was just passing it off as a stimulant exclusively for monsters. It seems you’ve seen it all.

I asked Milia with a slightly measured look.

“Can you guess why the ant wave happened?”

Why did the ants suddenly jump out? That is also the reason why even the surplus class, the male ants, rushed to die.

“….I do not know. What, even the queen ant was kidnapped?”

“Why do you think so?”

Millia’s eyes sharpened slightly.

“Well, it’s just… Isn’t it common sense? Ants follow their queens.”

“I don’t know that kind of common sense?”

“You stay still…”

Seeing our bickering, Millia smiled and said,

“From saber tigers to worms to ants. As expected, you know the ecology of monsters well.”

“… It’s a coincidence.”

“When coincidence continues, they say it is skill.”

I don’t know why you’re putting things out there like this. The two guys in front were jojin with skills, and the ecology of ants is common sense!

….Wait, isn’t that common sense? Well, it’s me who went through the education process in modern times, and I have a lot of knowledge that I know widely and shallowly through things like YouTube, but this side doesn’t have such a concept of public education.

So, is it normal to not know about this side?

“Actually.”

Milia clicked her teacup to get attention, then opened her mouth.

“In fact, the reason I invited you all like this is because I wanted to make a separate request.”

“… ?”

Clan commissions to individuals? I didn’t quite understand.

“Doesn’t the quest have to go through the guild? The receptionist is very trustworthy.”

“It is not something that can be considered a quest. It’s something outside the dungeon.”

Millia chuckled and took something from her desk and placed it on her table.

“It’s a communication port.”

Ariel muttered as if she was talking to herself, but it was clearly telling me to listen.

Right. That’s a communication machine from another world.

Come to think of it, important places like churches and guilds have things like that. I don’t think it’s as common as a phone, but this woman seems to have quite a place.

Miria said with a smile.

“It would be better for the three of us to talk.”

As I manipulated the communication tool, a familiar face appeared in the air like a hologram.

“Oh, Eugene! Nice to meet you!”

“Mr. Rize?”

Rize briefly exchanged greetings with Milia. Somehow, it seems that the two of them have already been talking. When Milia nodded her head, Lize let out a sigh of her own and began to speak.

“You can’t go anywhere to talk about what I’m about to tell you. Did you know?”

Then came the story we already knew.

There are many complex circumstances, but in the end it is the sound. It is said that the guards, the management bureau, and the church colluded and struck each other.

After finishing her story, Rize narrowed her eyes and looked at me.

“Eugene-sama… Aren’t you surprised?”

“Yeah, what.”

Since the story was already over between us last time, there is nothing to be surprised about or go to bed with. Only Lenny’s face became a little gloomy.

“Because it was a strange thing to see.”

Rize sighed at my words.

“Yes? It’s a suspicious situation for anyone to see. A wave that has never happened before occurs, the guards are summoned just in time, the church supports the guards… But we had no choice but to open our eyes and face it .”

“Why?”

Yuri’s bold question. Millia frowned and answered instead.

“Because there is no evidence. Because you can’t deal with institutions with heart disease alone.”

“…”

After that, there was silence, but it didn’t last long. Ariel came out as if she was frustrated.

“It is a long story. So, what do you want us to do?”

Milia looked at Rize and nodded her head.

“I want you to investigate the arena.”

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“Isn’t your brother ordering?”

“I… Just do something. That it wasn’t sweet enough.”

“Ah- I’m fine with anything. Do you really do anything? Really?”

“Yu, Yujin-san, the ones that aren’t sweet…”

“Anything?”

Yuri snatched the menu from Lenny’s hand and began to look through it, Lenny caught between me and Yuri.

The place where I am now is a cafe in the downtown area. I was going to go back after the story, but Ariel had already come out and asked me to stop by the downtown area. Of course, Yuri agreed.

But the place where Ariel took us was a cafe, not anywhere else. I thought that this Kamp’s personality would go to buy some kind of magic item, but he asked me to go to a cafe. Ariel, no one else!

What is this elf thinking?

The person in question was not taking his eyes off the menu board. For some reason, it seems that my ears are a bit ripe.

Well, Ariel is Ariel. I’ve been having trouble with what happened in the clan.

Infiltrate the arena.

Why does an arena appear out of nowhere? To my question, Milia answered like this.

There are a limited number of people who have the skills to study the habits of monsters and induce specific actions.

Tamers who have recently gone into hiding as a group.

It’s true. The reason I did the egg-stealing quest with Tina in the first place was because the existing tamers were suddenly at odds with each other.

But besides those tamers, there is a group with skills.

No wonder. If you want to gamble with monsters, of course you have to master monsters.

Perhaps the arena side used their own manpower to create a wave when the freelance tamers disappeared.

But why? What are the benefits?

This is where the administration comes into play.

The arena is a very unique force. It’s not enough to use living monsters, so it’s a place that makes it a spectacle for the public.

In the first place, capturing the monster alive and taking it out of the dungeon itself was a very risky task. Considering the degree of risk, it is a position that has no choice but to be subject to all kinds of regulations.

What if the administration eased the restrictions on the arena as a condition of causing a wave?

The arena controls the ants by releasing manpower under the condition of such a secret agreement, and the ants attack the entrance to weaken the guild and cooperative clan, and the management bureau and the reformation interfere with the guild with that point.

Of course, there is only the heart, there is no physical evidence.

So, ask me to infiltrate the arena and find evidence of the wave inside, the queen ant or its traces.

…That’s a pain in the ass.

Although there were things I had to check in the arena anyway.

The woman in the red dress. She has to make sure that the woman is the subject of the goddess’s quest.

Perhaps, if you complete this quest, you will be able to use the long-awaited advent of the incarnation. If that happens, I’ll know what the goddess wants from me.

“Hmm. You seem to be in a lot of trouble.”

“Yes? Right…What is all this?”

I was stunned by the sight before my eyes. While I’m spinning my brain like this, these guys are stacking up a mountain of desserts!

In particular, the glass guy sucking the drink is very nasty. Lenny put a fork on the cake and smiled awkwardly. Lenny, even you…!

“Hmm. Would you like to open your mouth?”

“What? Why are you wearing it?”

“For now, do as you are told.”

“…”

Ariel had a somewhat serious face, and I was pushed by that momentum to open my mouth a little. Don’t you look a little silly when you’re like this? I don’t know what this Kamp wants to do.

“Huh?! Keck.”

This kampf, you shoved the cake into people’s mouths!

While I was coughing, Ariel said with a calm face.

“When you have a lot of worries, it is good to consume sugar. It’s not a fundamental solution, but it still gives you psychological comfort. How is it? Can you relieve some stress?”

“Collock, Coke.”

What can be solved, this Kamp-ya!

“Yu, Yujin! Hey, try this too!”

Next to me, Lenny thrusts a fork at me again. Eyes burning as if they couldn’t lose.

“No, wait a minute… “

“Companion! I finally met you!”

“…”

Oh My God. Now you’ve even hit the second bottle!