Divine Protection of Many Gods

Chapter 8

Takami no Kago Episode 8

The merchants office was located near the West Gate of the city, just off the main street .

『Kuresuto Company』

“Is this it ?”n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

The town of Brett is in the center of the Angle continent, but the capital city of the Angle kingdom is on the west side of the continent .

The East side of the Angle kingdom is treated as a frontier, so it clearly has more monsters inhabiting this side as well has far more monster’s surprise attacks . The west side of Brett is mostly where all of the noble live in .

I don’t see anything wrong with the high-class [Jade Fabric] goods .

“Master, the guard in the merchant’s office is glaring at us . ”

Aria looks like she was half-crying when she said that . I have never set foot in the West District where nobles live in . Probably because of anxiety Aria grabbed my sleeve and didn’t let go of it .

“It’s all right . we are probably stronger than that guy over there anyways . ”

I confirmed the guards stat’s, and their levels are 2 and 3 .

If they had such strong guards in the first place, why would they request the Adventurer’s Guild for help . Do I have to make a request to the guards in order to speak with the merchant .

“Um, we’re the people sent from the Adventurer’s Guild . Is Mr . Kuresuto home?”

The clients name was Kuresuto from the Kuresuto Company . In other words he would be the owner of this place, and the guards employer .

“Why do you need to speak with Mr . Kuresuto?”

Guard A seems to be looking down on me with a very condescending attitude . Guard B is only glaring at me with his eyes, what’s up with these hostile guys .

“I am here about the request Mr . Kuresuto made to the Adventurer’s Guild . I asked you if I could see him because I wanted to confirm this matter . ”

From a civilian’s standpoint, this merchant is very wealthy and does business with prominent aristocrats . I should listen to what he has to say before I open my mouth . I shouldn’t really worry about this, except I need to be polite when I have to get my point across . In a very Japanese-like manner Hibiki politely spoke to the guards .

“I didn’t hear anything about a visitor coming . Go home . ”

Guard A is trying to force me to comply using his intimidation . I’ll go home if they continue to be this persistent . I decided that would be the best course of action .

“Anyway, since I just rushed over here, you might have not been informed that I was coming . I’m sorry, but could you please check again?”

I can only hope that they pass this on to Mr . Kuresuto if they refuse to check, because I’m going home if they refuse . In a moment guard A declared without any hesitation .

“I won’t do it now . Come back later . ”

“I see well then, please forgive my impoliteness for today . ”

Since he said so, I turned around and was about to head home .

“Wait a minute . Are you the adventurers sent by the Adventurer’s Guild?”

There was a stout man around the age of 40, with nicely tailored clothes on, standing at the entrance of the building . 」

“I’m sorry about what happened to you earlier . Even though you’re an adventurer you’re as polite as a noble . On the contrary, as for our guards . ”

This man was glaring at guard A while he said that . When guard A noticed the glare his face went pale .

“I, I’m very sorry sir!”

“I’ve had enough already . You will receive your punishment later . I was almost about to lose this relationship with this adventurer directly because of your actions . ”

“Th, This can’t be!?”

“Shut up . Be silent and go stand over there until I say otherwise!”

After that guy said that, he urgently welcomed Hibiki into his mansion .

The inside of this house seemed to be overflowing with expensive furniture and priceless goods . However, that way it was all arranged inside made it not look distasteful . The inside of this house almost give off a feeling of nobility in it . Just like that Aria and I were guided down the hallway into the meeting room, and were quickly prompted to sit down on a sofa to begin the interview .

“This is the Kuresuto Company’s chamber of commerce . First of all, I have to apologize about the way you were treated earlier . ”

“Er, don’t worry about it . He was just doing his job properly . ”

“I’m happy when you say it like that . ”

“I would like to talk about the matter you were making a request about more than that . ”

I said that, and Kuresuto[Crest] nodded .

“The request states that we have to guard your wagon carrying your goods . Which will take approximately 3 days for us to reach Wereo village . We’ll stay in Wereo village for 2 days, while you purchase the good, and escort you back to Brett .

It’s about 6 days long round trip . Making it 8 days if we included the 2 days we stay there . It’s our first time traveling, but I think we’ll be alright .

“I understand what the request is saying . Although there are things I would like to confirm with you, the most important being . We are looking forward into making Brett our base of operations . Even if we go with you to Wereo village, we don’t know anything about it, or even where it’s even located . ”

Mr . Kuresuto [Crest] made a gesture as if he was thinking, then slightly nodded . I don’t think he’ll have any problems .

“I have someone from Wereo village right here in my chamber of commerce . We could ask her to guide us while we are traveling so there wouldn’t be any problems . ”

“I understand . But so far you have judged 4 pairs of adventurers so far and they have all failed, but how would you say we did?”

I only said that because I hate being rejected . And I would rather confirm it ahead of time as opposed to waiting .

“Of course . If an adventurer has a [Divine Gift] and acts just like nobles, then there’s no problem . ”

Hmm, looks like the four set of adventurer’s that came before me were all disqualified for arguing with the guard outside . I think the test was to see if you could act like a nobleman instead of acting like a barbarian, while talking to the guard . It is also most likely that the guards outside were deliberately instructed to act like that to any adventurers coming for this request . Looks like they really don’t want anyone to be causing problems for them in Wereo Village . Even though Mr . Kuresuto [Crest] seems like a good person, he is still a very wealthy merchant, who also deals with a lot of prominent noble figures, so he obviously doesn’t want anyone causing trouble for him .

Throughout this discussion Aria hasn’t said one word, except for when she made a difficult face .

“Are you okay Aria?”

When I talked to her, she made a relieved face and affectionately clung to me .

“What a relief . You’re still the same as ever master . ”

“Yeah?”

She seems to have been confused because of the way I was talking drastically changed especially when I was speaking to the guards . It seems my humble way of talking looked rather ridiculous to Aria . I thought about what happened and decided to explain to Aria that depending on the person I was talking to, I had to adapt my speech to fit them and the conversation . Looks like she still doesn’t understand, looks like we should go to bed soon .

“At times it is necessary to humble oneself!”

The next morning I could see Aria talking to Lily about what I explained to her last night . I told you, it was a secret last night .