“Even yesterday, there was another noble who got arrested for causing a ridiculous commotion in the royal capital. Honestly, even from our perspective, people like that are a real nuisance. They keep piling unnecessary work on us, making it impossible to do our actual jobs.”
Just as Goki-san said, there were times when we couldn’t properly carry out our adventurer activities because of interference from the dark organizations.
We’d also had plenty of trouble doing our jobs because of those people, hadn’t we?
“Incidentally, when Arisa visits Count Broker’s estate, Goki-kun and I will be accompanying her. Hehe, it seems they’ve been supplying defective goods to us as well.”
“Damn it! The meat they delivered was from a completely different region than the one I’d been looking forward to! I’m going to have a serious talk with them about this.”
Whoa. Goki-san looked absolutely livid. They say people never forget a grudge when it comes to food, and the people Count Broker had managed to make enemies of were far too formidable.
I wonder if Count Broker will even be captured alive…
“Anyway, it’s already been decided that you and your companions, Shun-kun, will become nobles. However, you’ll probably be granted a certain degree of freedom. I imagine you’ll be allowed to continue traveling from place to place as you always have, taking on the role of resolving problems in each region.”
“Since Shun and the others will be keeping the idiots in check out in the various territories, we’ll be free to run wild in the royal capital to our hearts’ content. We need to give those dark organizations and the Human Supremacy Cult a good taste of their own medicine.”
It seemed likely that these arrangements had already been discussed with His Majesty. Knowing the king, he’d probably made all the necessary preparations behind the scenes.
In any case, it looked like we wouldn’t have to deal with any of those troublesome duties in the royal capital.
“For now, we should focus on capturing that fool and making sure we can welcome the New Year without any trouble. My husband will be attending the year-end meeting of the frontier lords, too, so I’d like us to have some good news to report.”
Even Arisa-sama was calling Count Broker a fool.
At any rate, our original plans had come to an end in the blink of an eye.
“Your Adventurer cards have all been updated. I’ve also brought the outstanding payments for your completed requests.”
“““Yaaay!”””
Just then, the secretary arrived with our newly updated Adventurer cards and the money we were owed. Well, I could understand getting our Adventurer cards back, but the sheer number of leather pouches filled with money was on another level.
They were piled high on the table with a heavy thud. Even Sue was taken aback, not just me.
“These were requests involving the frontier Margrave’s family and the royal family. An amount like this is only natural. And you can expect that sum to grow even larger from here on out.”
“But I honestly don’t know what we’re supposed to do with this much money. I have a feeling we’ll just end up leaving most of it sitting unused in our Itembox for the time being.”
“Why not buy a mansion? It might be too soon to do that this year, but by next year, you should establish a proper residence to serve as your base of operations. Broker Marquis’s mansion will be vacant, after all. If you’re going to buy one, you might as well take that one.”
No, no, no! The Broker Marquis’s mansion was enormous. There was no way we could afford to buy a place like that with the money we had right now!
Sue and I exchanged glances and let out a sigh.
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeneijiworks.com
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