Chapter 27 (1/2)

Although they didn’t know who or what she was, there was no reason for them to stay in the forest tending to the young girl.

Loren thought that someone who knew the girl might be in the area, so he left her with Lapis and looked around, but he couldn’t find a trace of anyone. They couldn’t just leave her in the forest alone, so they decided to take her back to the city.

“I don’t really want to do this.”

“Then should we leave her?”

“That’s even worse.”

Even though the girl was around ten years old, she was a bit too big for Lapis to carry, so Loren let her carry his sack of herbs and decided to carry the girl on his back.

He was surprised at how light the unconscious girl was when he picked her up.

“She’s light, right? It’s not like she’s thin. She’s actually pretty healthy. She’s probably from a wealthy family.”

Lapis walked up next to Loren and touched the girl’s foot.

Although she was found in the forest, she was barefoot.

“She doesn’t have much muscle, and the flesh on her hands and feet aren’t hard. Either she didn’t walk around much, or was taken care of very well.”

“Rather than that, she must be insane to be barefoot inside a forest.”

“That’s true. Usually your feet would get cut up really bad.”

Even if you were careful, if you walked around barefoot you would get cuts and sc.r.a.pes.

But the girl’s feet were smooth and clean with no cuts whatsoever.

Loren was curious about her feet, but what was really on his mind was the white dress she was wearing.

The dress was pure white, with no stains on it at all.

If didn’t make any sense if she had wandered in the forest.

“Well, I guess we can ask her when she wakes up.”

“I’m kind of worried that people would think we kidnapped her.”

“Well, two rough looking people are carrying around a helpless girl, so.”

“Can you not naturally include me like that?”

They continued to talk the whole way back, and when they reached the city, Lapis suggested they take the girl to the adventurer’s guild.

They looked like they would be stopped at the gate, but the soldiers in Kauffa didn’t stop people much.

“Apparently, they’re pretty lax about it, unless you obviously look like a criminal.”

“Well, even if they did mistake us for kidnappers, we don’t really have a way to talk out of it.”

“I don’t think there are people who would attempt kidnapping with a priest in their party.”

“Priests are pretty amazing, huh.”

“Nothing beats priests when it comes to social trustworthiness.”

Although Lapis puffed out her chest and bragged, it wasn’t like priests did amazing things, but instead their trust came from the fact that they served the G.o.ds.

When they reached the guild, everyone’s gazes were on Loren, who had two girls with him. But Loren stopped feeling the gazes soon enough and tilted his head.

While he was thinking that it wouldn’t be weird if adventurers like the ones in the morning showed up, Lapis reached the front desk and explained their situation, and came back with the receptionist.

“Is it correct that you found and rescued someone in the forest?”

“Yeah, that’s right. Here she is.”

Loren turned around and showed her the girl.

She stood and looked at the girl for a while, and seemed to have found something. She called over the other employees at the desk, and they ran towards them with a stretcher.

“We’ll take her from here. Is that okay?”

“Yeah. I can’t keep her here on my back forever.”

Loren gently let the girl down from his back and laid her on the stretcher.

As the employees stood up and picked up the stretcher, Loren saw their surprised faces.

As he was thinking that they were surprised at how light the girl was as well, the receptionist called him over and asked him to follow her past the receptionists’ desk.

“I’m just saying, I didn’t kidnap her.”

“I’m sure that a kidnapper wouldn’t hand over the person he kidnapped to the adventurer’s guild. It’s nothing like that, but I’d like to talk to you about something.”

“It’s okay if it’s the two of us, right?”

“Yes, with the priestess please.”

Loren felt that they weren’t going to be questioned and looked towards Lapis for her opinion.

She noticed Loren’s gaze and nodded, so Loren decided that there was no problem and followed the receptionist into a drawing room.

“Let me get straight to the point. I’d like to put a restriction on your actions.”

The receptionist told them that as soon as they entered the room and sat down.

It was so sudden that Loren couldn’t understand what she was talking about, so instead Lapis started talking to her.

“What do you mean? Is there some sort of problem with us?”

“No, it’s nothing like that. The guild is going to investigate the girl, and until we are finished, we don’t want you to move around too much.”

“Do you mean that there’s something with the girl?”