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Chapter 24
Feli. Full name Felix Earnest. Hes the hero partys scout. The game set his age as 14 years old but his ability as a scout is second to none. There are many trap-filled labyrinths in the game that cant be conquered without his help.
His appearance is cute, but hes, without a doubt, a male. If the game had been released 20 years later Felix is probably going to be a girl.
And well, this isnt important but I think the illustrator must have taken a lot of inspiration from the Peter Pn in Dsney animation series.
With this thought in mind, I take a seat back in the Adventurers Guild of course with Feli. Its not like I dont have any other works to do but it never hurt to keep in touch with Feli while hes here.
So you recognize my face.
Youre famous after all, Viscount-sama
Feli is sitting on the chair with his leg still dangling off the floor because hes short. In front of him is a fruit juice, though because hes 14 it doesnt matter if he drinks alcohol, but he chooses the fruit juice instead.
The fruit juice, along with fruits and nuts on the table are all my treats.
So, what are you up to, Viscount-sama?
Simply put, I want to buy stuff.
After saying that, I proceed to tell him the same official reason that I also told Mr.Bierstedt. I cant tell him about the demon king matter but hiding the matter of buying equipment from Feli is useless since Im pretty sure Feli will be able to find it in no time.
Heh, so you plan to go around towns and splurge money to buy all sorts of equipment?
Not exactly splurging money.
Then youre doing a panic buying?
That word has a completely different meaning you know.
I wonder to what extent hes being serious. Feli has this kind of personality. Hes good at digging through peoples real intentions with his joke.
Hes also good at digging through others pockets, a.k.a pickpocketing. He wont do it here, in Adventurers Guild though. The guild might expel him if he does after all.
In the game, there are some events where his pickpocket skill come in handy. Think about it, if you can pickpocket a valuable item from your opponent isnt that quite a great skill?
It sounds interesting. Maybe I would like to be part of it?
Why is it a question?
Because other than it sounds interesting, I have no other reasons to go all the way to distant towns.
Well, I guess so, since the matter of the demon kings revival is still a secret.
Well then, where should I put a great pawn called Feli? Ive been wanting a person that can become the behind the scene support for gathering information in the capital.
Feli would be an excellent choice for that.
On the other hand, I can also put Feli in the merchant corps so he can ascertain the geography and the location of the future heros party journey.
There is an expendable item called Skywalk that allows teleportation to a town youve visited once. That means if Feli joins the merchant corps now when he joins the hero party in the future, the scope of activities of the hero party will be significantly broadened.
After all, the town where Skywalk can be bought is among the towns that the merchants corps will visit. Buying 2-3 of them would make Mazells future journey a bit easier.
Well, Feli, what do you want to do? the question might seem straightforward but it actually isnt. I ask him this on purpose, so I can fit him in whatever job he wants and I need, even if its unrelated to the merchants corps that been the subject of my conversation with him.
Feli answered nonchalantly, Anything, as long as its interesting.
.In a sense, thats a simple condition.
But in fact, thats a hardly simple condition to follow. The scope of interesting is just too broad. Whats certain is that Feli is the type of person that will willingly fall into a trap just because he found it interesting to do everything in his power to escape.
In my past life, I have handled a new employee that has a similar character to Feli and he causes me a really hard time. In a way, this type of person is the most difficult to handle.
How about a tedious but quite thrilling job? Will you be interested in it?
Heh, what kind of job?
A scouting job for the merchants corps.
Then I proceed to tell him the explanation about the fact that the recent demon outbreak is orchestrated by a devil and the possibility of similar things may happen in other areas as well as the possibility of a change in the frequency of demon appearances, etc.
Actually, both are certain facts that will happen, not just possible but Im probably the only person who knows that.
In short, the roads that used to be safe are now unsafe and different types of demons might emerge so we need to be careful
Your commission sounds tough and it will take a lot of time to complete.
In exchange, you will be able to acquire things that can only be found in those towns. For example, specialty dishes that you can only eat there. Yep, his expression changed a bit. As expected people of the Feli age care more about their stomachs rather than a beautiful woman. Speaking about beautiful woman, is there any red-light district in those towns? I had never paid much attention.
I can provide you a food allowance in addition to your daily allowance
That a lucrative deal.
For me, as long as the merchants can return safely I dont mind spending some extra.
Thats my real feeling. I really need the merchants to return safely so if Feli is with them the chance for that to happen is increased.
Above all, putting Feli to work in the capital will only help me but putting him in the merchant corps will help Mazell and that alone can improve our whole situation against the demon king.
Thats why I judged that having Feli travel with the merchant corps is a better investment for the future. Unfortunately, I still cant tell if he wants to go. Well then, should I start exploiting Felis character setting?
More specifics explanation will be provided in the gathering at the Counts house in a few days so please show up.
I will go if I feel like it.
Here for your traveling expenses.
I toss a pouch filled with gold and silver coins to the table. Feli, who probably knows the contents from the sound it makes when it hit the table shows a stunned expression.
Even if youre a Viscount isnt this too much?
Im just a nobleman in name only, I dont have that much money
More than half of that words are true since the majority of my funds belong to my count father. This time, I gathered enough funds by practically taking a loan from my parent. But its fine since this money is my investment in Feli.
But since Ive given it to you, its yours. I dont care where you donate it.
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If Im not wrong, the setting said Feli is from an orphanage right? Well, the orphanage has never really been depicted in the game but Feli is part of the protagonists party so its definitely an orphanage. Really, a protagonists friend from an orphanage theres nothing more cliche than that.
Come to think about it, there was no orphanage building on the game map.
The meeting will be held in Hunt&Rearday. See you later
Now, all I need to see is how Feli will act after learning about the fact I know hes from an orphanage. There is a 50% chance he will end up doubting me and become wary of me.
But if it is to get someone of Felis caliber in my hand, it is still a worthy gamble. I left immediately after giving him the meeting day to cut off any questions he might have. The money I give to Feli is the last of my funds so lets call it a day.
Thus, my Nativityday which was normally a holiday ended on a hectic note. Sigh lets do some training and immediately go to bed.
T/N: Hello! Nisarah is here. So in regard to the complaints about the novel info dump, after some discussion with my friend, Fleeting whos also the sites admin, Ive decided to implement two things:
1. I will stop splitting chapters unless its an extremely long like chapter 14. So instead of 5 split chapters/week, the release rate will be 3-4 full chapters/week.
The main reason Ive decided to split chapters in the past is to give the readers a more frequent and stable release rate but it ended up making the novel feel like a drag so I decided to stop splitting the chapters
2. I will add a skip button for future info dumps with a summary.
So Ive actually implement it in the past for an unrelated info dumps (You know, the spices chapter) but I decided to implement it for every long info dump in the future so for those who found it interesting and want to continue reading the info dumps (like me :v) can continue to read it.
Despite the constant info dump, the novel is actually pretty good so I hope everyone can give it a chance! I hope by implementing these two things, everyone can enjoy the novel better. Please leave your thought and suggestions in the comment below.
Thats all, Nisarah out!
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