Episode 5.12
"The na's Doug. Captain of Golbul Dungeon Guard. Go ahead and take a seat. Is that bag all you've got on you? You're not carrying much. Is that a ?"
"Need you really ask."
"Guess not. Now then, let's get down to business, so you went inside this dungeon five days ago, correct."
"Either five or six days ago."
In fact, Lecan thought that it had been seven days. He got to lower floors faster than he expected.
"Yeah, so you see. There were adventurers who were intimidated by you on floor 1 and 2 or at the stairways. Numbering in quite a few."
"I don't rember doing anything of such."
"Yep yep, of course you don't. I'm sure you didn't intend to make it like that. Nothing for you to gain doing sothing like that after all. But we got complaints about people getting attacked you see. We can't turn a blind eye to those, so we've gotta ask your side of story."
"Even if I did attack other adventurers, what's the problem. Murders or thefts inside a dungeon aren't counted as cris, are they."
"Exactly. You're exactly right. But that doesn't an that you can do anything you want. You co from afar, don't you?"
"Yeah. From the north."
"I knew it. So then, have you registered as an adventurer?"
"I have."
"Let see your Adventurer's Badge."
Lecan pulled the right side of his coat with his left hand, put his right hand in, took the badge from and handed it over to Doug.
"Copper? Hou, you registered just recently huh."
After jotting down what needed, Doug gave the badge back to Lecan.
"I dunno how it is at your place, but there's a lot of young ones at this dungeon, ya see. These lots gain experience on upper floors and slowly get better. So of 'em gave up on being adventurers though."
Lecan listens to him in silent.
"The lord here wishes to create a place where those young folks could be safely get strong enough up to a certain point. As that will ultimately benefits the town. You get it right."
"Yea."
"And well, those young ones might be a tad spoiled, but they're really giving their all. Desperately doing the best they could as to not lose to the rivals all around them. In such a situation, an obviously veteran adventurer stuck out like a sore thumb among them, of course they'd gonna get worried. Like, 'what's this guy gonna do to us'."
"I see."
"I heard you leaped over so young adventurers many tis over. On the stairways."
"Right, now that you ntion it."
"A completely in-black, huge ominous, excuse , it's how it looks to them, a huge ominous monster with flapping wings just flew over them, those young folks were completely terrified you see."
"Yeah I guess they would."
"You got it! Ah, here cos the skewers. Go ahead and have 'em. It's on ."
Steaming hot skewers letting out a really appetizing sll were put in front of Lecan.
"These look good. You have my thanks."
Lecan put the skewers in his mouth without hesitation. Finally, a decent al after a long ti. His whole body was ecstatic.
"Eh don't worry about it. Oh also, we got complaints about you threatening them to open the path."
"I thought it's a good etiquette to call out when you want to go pass by other people."
"Indeed as you should. But, here we have a mutual non-interference rule amongst inexperienced adventurers you see. They're gonna get suspicious about anyone who goes out of their way and approaches them, thinking you're plotting sothing. Well, that's exactly what we taught them to though."
"You're quite caring for young adventurers going into this dungeon huh."
"We totally are! I'm glad you understand."
Lecan slightly took a liking to this dungeon guard captain.
"And uh, this is hard to say, we also got reports about a huge black monster scattering lightning everywhere on floor 3 as it excessively hunted Ground Grazers (Ajazal)."
"I killed dozens of magic beasts on Floor 3."
"I knew it. No well, I'm not saying that's a bad thing. Just that elderly mages also gotta make their living y'see. The third floor of this dungeon is an unusual hunting ground in that a mage can even go hunting solo, you see. So..."
"Got it. I will refrain from hunting magic beasts on floor 3 from here on."
"Real sorry about this! I'm just glad you're so understanding. And this one's hard to say as well. A certain group had one of their mbers suffered major injury because they were distracted by you when you passed by behind them during battle."
That's those adventurers' fault. However, Lecan pondered a way to save this captain's face.
"I wasn't aware of that. Are those adventurers still in this town?"
"Yeah, I also know their inn."
"Then if I could trouble you, please hand these over to them."
"Huh... Aren't these small red potions. And two of them."
"One is for the injury, and the other is my apology. I don't care how they're going to use these."
Doug stared at Lecan in surprise for a while.
"Man, yer' really a good guy. Alright! I will take care of these two potions. They'll get delivered to them tonight. Again, sorry about this. Now I can inform the young ones about you in good light. I'm sure they'll be relieved to hear it."
Lecan continued to chew on the skewers.
"Lecan. Are you staying long in this town?"
"No, I have work at town of Vouka."
"Is that so. That's too bad. This was your first dungeon exploration right?"
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