The Man Picked up by the Gods Volume 1 Chapter 22

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“I came when I heard the Guild Master was looking for me. Is there something the matter?”

“Yes, I did.”

“Alright, looks like this time I can allow members from G Rank up, to take this request. But… to think there was also a metal slime.”

“Yeah, that time we were moving separately but the Ojousama captured it and gave it to me as a present. Like that I was able to tame it.”

“That’s right. Right now, I have 728 sticky slimes, 323 poison slimes, 211 acid slimes, 11 cleaner slimes, 3033 scavenger slimes, 2 healer slimes, 1 metal slime, 1 normal slime, which in total makes 4310 slimes."

“So that’s why. By the way another request to clean the latrine pits came out so… mind taking that?”

“All 30 pits. Can you do it?’

“Then I’ll leave everything to you. The townsmen are really annoying.”

“Yeah, there’s no limit on the number of people participating, so there won’t be a problem. You can even process the documents as soon as you get home after the quest, today.”

“Alright, I understand. And then, regarding the monsters in the abandoned mine, can the corpses be sold?”

“Then, if I were to pay up, will I be able to get the corpses?”

“So that’s why. Then in that case leave the handling of the corpses to the guild. I’ll make it so that there’ll be an extra reward for people that bring the corpses back.

To begin with, leaving the corpses there was never really a good idea since other monsters may just end up living there after scrounging for those, so I was already planning to have those gathered. Even if the bonus is dirt cheap, if there’s a bonus then they’ll end up wanting to do it. Also, you’re the one paying for the bonus, alright?

“You don’t need 20. Even 10 is plenty.”

“Got it. However, are you able to bring that many with you? And also, it’s going to rot, you know?”

“It’s alright. I can use space magic and preserve it with ice. And even if it rots, there are slimes that like that, so it won’t be a waste.”

“Yes. Very much.”

After talking with the Guild Master, I left the room and took the request we talked about a while ago from the receptionist.

“Thank you so much for taking this quest again. There really aren’t any people who wants to take this quest, you see?”

“Honestly we’d be better off, if they just took the odd jobs instead of pushing themselves and failing a job… Oh by the way, Ryouma-kun, because of the previous job you took your rank rose. From today on you’re an F Rank.”

“Is that so?”

“Really? Thank you very much. Umm…”

“Thank you very much, Meilin-san. Well then I’ll be on my way.”

I left the guild and then did my best to clean the latrine pits again today. Because of the King Scavenger Slime’s ‘Enlarge’ and ‘Overeat’, I was able to finish all 30 latrine pits in one day. Although the skill level rose, the amount we had to deal with today were quite few…

I then went to report the completion of the request. After a little bit of time, they were able to confirm that I finished the job, and the request was completed.

“Alright, you’re good to go. Take care of it again in the future, ok? And then… Ryouma-kun will also be taking the subjugation request for tomorrow, right?”

“Then in that case I’ll take care of the papers…… OK. If you come over to the guild by 8 in the morning tomorrow, there’ll be a stagecoach that you can ride for free. If you miss that, you’ll have to either borrow a horse or walk there, but regardless, if you fail to get there by 11, then you’ll have your pay reduced.”

The Next Day

Because of my appointment today, I was sent off by the four members of the Jamil Household and the guards. I then headed towards to the guild in order to be able to ride the stagecoach. When I got to the guild, there was a huge crowd of adventurers and many stagecoaches lined up.

“That’s quite a crowd, huh?”

Seeing the stagecoaches, I wondered to myself whether to exercise by running while using the neutral magic ‘Strengthening’ since I still had some time, but a voice suddenly called out to me from afar.

“Hey! Ryouma!”

“Mornin’.”

“Good morning – de aru. Ryouma took this quest too?”

“Still, although there’s been big requests like this before, there’s quite a lot of people this time, huh?”

“Still, I wonder who’s the guy paying for the bonus and buying the magical beasts. I took a look at the list of the magical beasts, and no matter how you look at it those aren’t the kind of beasts that have any useful parts. These beasts are just small fries, you know?”

“Nah, actually, it’s nothing special. It’ll just be used for feed for the slave monsters.”

“It’s because the one buying the corpses is me.”

“What do you normally do for their meal anyway?”

“Well that’s true. Aside from you, there’s no one who can do this.”

“Today the slimes are resting because I worked them really hard yesterday to clean the latrine pits. And also they’ll just get mistaken by the surrounding people and end up getting killed.”

“Wait a moment, you cleaned the latrine pits again?”

Hearing that, Jeff-san was shocked,

“I cleaned 30 pits for 3 days during the incident, and then yesterday I cleaned another 30. Every single pit, counts for a mission, so all in all that counts towards a total of 60 completed missions.”

“Same here, Ryouma.”

“Take care of me ok?”

“That’s probably impossible for Mizelia. We already met a while ago, but take care of me as well, ok?”

“It’s cuz even though you’re good at fighting, you’re careless.”

“What are you guys doing…? Ryouma, let’s just leave these two. Just to confirm our fighting strength, what weapon do you have with you? And also, the magical beasts we have in this cave are the cave mantis and the small rat, have you ever fought with them?”

“Well it’s not really like I can’t use it nya. It’s just that as beastmen we run out of magic power really quickly nya. So please don’t rely that much on our magic.”

After her, Jeff-san began to say as he puffed his chest up,

“… You just changed the way you phrased it. In the end it’s all the same nya. Well, Ryouma, what attribute do you have nya?”

“All Attribute Aptitude huh? That’s quite rare nya.”

“Earth Needle and Rock Bullet. As for the other attributes, the ones I can use inside the cave are the ice attribute, Ice arrow. And the electric attribute, Stun Arrow.”

Mizelia-san couldn’t help but shake her head,

“Besides if a monster that could fight Jeff were to come out it’ll problematic nya. We’ll be fine, but the others who are ranked G and F will be in danger nya.”

Said Syria-san, as Wereanna-san continued to explain,

“Something the matter, Ryouma?”

“There’s no such thing. That old man is definitely a busybody, but when it comes to request he’s quite strict. At times like these, he places priority on ability alone.”

“The guild master may have thought that it would be problematic if a monster that couldn’t be defeated with anything else except with magic were to come out with only the five of us, so he had you come along with us. I think he must value Ryouma-kun’s abilities quite a bit to make you come with us.”

“At the start I thought that we’d have to slow down the pace once Ryouma started to get tired. But since you kept up with us calmly we just kept going like this.”

“What’s the strongest magical beast you’ve been so far?”

“Is that so?”

“That’s right. If Ryouma-kun can beat a Black Bear alone, then Ryouma-kun definitely has the ability of at least a Rank C. Did you show that ability to the guild master?”

Now that she mentions, yeah he has.

“When I registered, the proctor of the practical test was the guild master.”

“Yeah, without a doubt. From that time on, he must have been watching you.”

Said Mizelia-san as Jeff-san added,

“Oh, now that you mention it what are your ranks?”

“We’re all Rank B.”

“It’s the rank at which an adventurer can finally call himself first class.”

“From the smell, there’s a colony of bats ahead IT’s not dangerous but because there’s too many of them we won’t be able to beat them all as they’ll end up running away.”

“Are there any person over there?”

“Yes, I have a magic that’s convenient for this kind of situation.”

As I mentioned that, I explained the effect of my ‘Sound Bomb’ from yesterday.

Wereanna-san showed me a look of admiration,

Syria-san also nodded,”

“The number is really a bit much. If you knock them out, killing them off will be quite easy, but as for whether or not we can finish them off in time…”

Then, Wereanna-san realized something,

“It’s because I’ve lived in the forest for 3 years. I’ve become quite sensitive to the presence of others.”

“We were picking up the monsters that you threw away…”

When she said that, a young man replied in a panic.

“At the start we were still fine, but when we bought weapons and armors for ourselves we ran out of money…”

“We are also just barely getting by with our lodging fees and so we wanted to find a way to cut down on our expenses, when this request came out. We thought, that if it was this request, then we would be able to get some money for our current lifestyle for a while. The magical beasts are weak so it’s safe, as long as you join you get money, and if you bring monsters with you back you’ll also get money. So we thought that we didn’t have any way to get money aside from here!”

“And…”

“We saw you guys take with you that brat. We figured if you’re taking with you into the tunnel a brat like that, then it’d be fine even if we took the corpses of the monsters you threw away. We thought you’d let us off with picking those up since your taking with you a brat that couldn’t be anything else except for a hindrance.”

At that young man’s unpleasant words, the other 5 gave off an unpleasant look. Well I mean yeah, even as a joke I am still a member of this group. You normally wouldn’t say that a member of a group is useless. But as for whether it was because they also thought what he thought, or because they were reflecting on the fact that they gave their approval and started acting on that thought, not a single one of them tried to rebut what the young man had said.

To that young man over there. You said it really arrogantly, but you know… the monsters I fell with my own magic were also included amongst the corpses you’ve picked up, you know?

I’m a little irritated, but it can’t be helped even if I were to mind it.

“You guys should know your…”

Wereanna-san who wasn’t happy about that raised her voice, but I stopped her.

“Its fine, Wereanna-san.”

“This kind of thinking isn’t something that can be changed by talking. It really can’t be helped that I look weak on the outside.”

I could also fix them up with brute force, but I’m not particularly good at holding back so… this guys will probably end up really hurt if I did that…

“… Got it. But… You guys! If you’re going to do something like that, at least say something! Just doing something like that on you convenience makes you look like a bunch of thieves! Don’t do that!”

“If you have problems with money, then its fine. Take it.”

Hearing that, the six’s expression immediately brightened up. They showed their gratitude to everyone else except for me, and said their thanks. Wereanna-san wasn’t happy, but in the end we continued as we planned and Miya-san began to recommend the others to help us.

“Actually, there’s another reason why we called you guys, nya. There’s a colony of bats up ahead, but there’s too many so it’ll take time before we’re able to kill them all, nya. So, won’t you guys also help out? It’ll be fine even if you take all the corpses back with you, nya.”

The six agreed as if it was given. And then, while I confirmed that there were no people around with the magic ‘search’, Miya-san gave a simple explanation.

“First, Ryouma is going to hit them with magic, and then afterwards were going to rush in, nya.”

“Won’t that kid’s magic just make the enemy put up their guard?”

Yep, as expected they aren’t reflecting at all.

“If you have any complaints then go home!” roared Wereanna-san.

At that they withdrew, but after getting away a bit, they started whispering things like, “It’s the kid’s guard, huh?” or “I don’t like this” or “It’s for the sake of money so it can’t be helped”. I know, because they can be heard perfectly clear.

Even then though, I ignored them and continued with my preparation. After confirming that there aren’t any people over there, I put up a sound-proof barrier, and finished my preparation.

“I’m ready.”

“I’m going! ‘Sound Bomb’!”

As I invocated the magic, a sound exploded from within the tunnels. However, because of the barrier, we didn’t hear a single sound. So the 6 people from a while ago thought I failed.

“Nothing is happening though?”

“This is why brats are useless.”

These guys are really shameless. They already completely forgot about what happened a while ago, huh?

“It’s a success. It just happens to be a Wind Attribute Magic, so you guys can’t see it.”

Saying that, I went with Wereanna-san and the rest deep inside. At that, the 6 people made a bunch of excuses while they followed.

However, when they got inside they couldn’t help but look at the floor, dumbfounded. What lay on the floor was a great number of cave bats.

“These have all only been knocked out, so please divide the labor amongst yourselves and quickly dispose of them all.”

As I said that I immediately began. After we finally finished killing off all the cave bats, we left the six members alone in the deepest part of the cave and went out. As we went outside, Wereanna-san said this,

“Ryouma, is it really ok not to have said anything?”

“Well that’s also probably true but…”

“Having been slandered like that, if you don’t beat them up a bit and show off your strength, you’re going to be made light of, you know?”

“You don’t have to mind something like that, you know?”

“Rebellious… is that something that someone younger should say? They should be around 15 years old, you know?”

“Well, whatever… if that’s what Ryouma-kun has decided then just leave it be, nya. It will be fine as long as you raise your rank quickly, nya.”

Although it’s true that I’m bad at holding back, it’s also because I’m actually an uncle at heart, even though I may look like a kid that is… Anyway, I don’t really feel like scolding them over a minor matter, much less beat them up. I really can’t do something so childish.

Besides everyone had already scolded them. I’ve also shown them my abilities with my magic. Aside from this, all that’s left is to let them reflect on their own.

While we were talking about that, since it’s already time for us to start preparing our meals, we all went back to the entrance of the mine.

Chapter end