Chapter 28 (1/2)

As Lapis had said before, the inn that the guild prepared was indeed high quality.

Loren couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable spending someone else’s money, but Lapis didn’t seem to mind at all and enjoyed all the inn had to offer until she was satisfied.

“You’re pretty bold, you know that?”

“You’ll miss out on a lot of stuff if you don’t have fun when you can, you know?”

As Loren was wondering if that was the case, their bliss time came to end.

The adventurer’s guild had contacted them that the girl they had rescued had regained consciousness.

Two days had gone by since they had stayed at the inn.

They were summoned to the adventurer’s guild, so Loren pulled out Lapis, who didn’t want to leave, and headed towards the guild’s front desk.

They were immediately pa.s.sed inside.

“Thank you for coming. I will now tell you the results.”

The lady that started talking as soon as they sat down was the employee that talked to them two days ago.

Her lips were tightened, determined not to let the two of them say anything until she was done. Loren didn’t know that she felt so bullied, and put his hand on the back of his head awkwardly.

The employee didn’t notice Loren’s apology and continued with a serious expression, telling them exactly what she was told to tell them.

“There are no problems concerning the two of you, so we’ll take off the restrictions we put on you. You’re free to go now.”

Loren was surprised at the anticlimactic conclusion, but Lapis didn’t seem satisfied with what the employee told them.

“Is that it? Is there no explanation of the situation for us?”

“Do you need one?”

“Yes, of course. I’m not sure why you thought we didn’t need one.”

Lapis tilted her head, looking confused, and the employee went silent, with a difficult expression.

Loren didn’t want to poke his head into trouble, but since he had promised Lapis that he would stay with her, he couldn’t just leave her and go on his own.

“The following information has been shared only to adventurers iron rank and above that the guild has chosen.”

Loren guessed that since they were limiting information, there was something to the girl which made them act secretive.

Even among mercenaries, there was information that only the leaders knew and normal mercenaries often didn’t know or were required to act like they didn’t know about it.

Due to these experiences, Loren was satisfied with the employee’s words, but Lapis wasn’t one to back off without all the information she could get.

“But the ones who brought her here was us, right? I don’t know what the situation is, but don’t you think there should be some sort of explanation for us?”

Lapis’ beaming eyes met the employee’s glare.

Loren thought he saw sparks erupting from between them and looked away at the ceiling.

As the information was for iron rank and above, the employee had no reason to tell them anything and she probably wanted them to understand that and leave, but Lapis didn’t want to miss a chance to get her hands on information that she shouldn’t be able to get normally.

Loren knew that this stalemate would last until one of them was too tired to go on, so he patted Lapis’ back and drew her attention.

“Loren?”

“Sorry but my partner is a priestess of the Knowledge G.o.d. If you try to keep things from her she can’t help but try to find out what it is.”

“Well…I’ve heard that that’s the case most of the time. But this is something that the guild has decided, so…”

“Yeah, I know. You can’t talk about it. I won’t force you to.”

“Wait, Loren!?”

Lapis, who thought Loren was going to wrap things up, raised her voice slightly, but Loren patted her on the head with a bit of strength in his hand.

The strokes not only make her head shake, but caused her neck to sway as well, so Lapis couldn’t help but go silent. Then Loren faced the employee and casually asked her.

“By the way, is the information already out? You can at least tell us this, right?”

“That’s…yes, we have already selected adventurers and told them everything.”

Since it wasn’t related directly to the information, she replied to his question.

As soon as he heard her reply, Loren lowered his hand from Lapis’ head and took her arm, then stood up. Although Loren had stopped patting her on the head, her head was still shaking inertly.

“I see. Then since we’re innocent, we’ll be taking our leave here. We’ll check out of the rooms by the end of today as well.”

“That would be very helpful. Thank you so much for your cooperation, mister Loren.”

“We’ve been treated pretty well for the past few days. Don’t worry about it.”

He used his free hand to wave back, dragging Lapis out with his other hand. After being dragged for a while, Lapis whispered to him.

“You’ve got a plan, right?”

“Yeah. They’ve got strict confidentiality so you wouldn’t have gotten anywhere. If she did tell you, then that itself would be a whole different problem right there.”

If the employees were people who would share information that they weren’t supposed to with a slight push, then he couldn’t trust the guild at all.

From that perspective, the fact that the employee refused to tell them the information, even though Lapis was in a bad mood, raised Loren’s view and evaluation of the guild.

“That’s true, but…”

“Trying to force someone to talk is too bothersome. What we have to do is just find someone that can.”