Chapter 92 - Accepting after Questioning (2/2)

To Loren’s worried words, Lapis’ response was strong.

Because they were worried about someone seeing them, Lapis hesitated using her powers, and Shayna, who was within Loren, couldn’t use her powers to the fullest.

But if that were gone and they could use their powers without any limits, both Lapis and Shayna were powerful beings, and would be able to stand their own against the chief.

“Well, even if there were people looking, we could probably talk our way out.”

‘Onii-san, Shayna will secretly help too!’

Even if they didn’t go all in, between the strengths of the demon Lapis and no life king Shayna, Loren thought they could go even with the chief.

Either one of them could destroy a whole nation if they wanted to.

Since all he could do was swing his great sword, Loren was thinking he would be able to be an annoyance at most, but Lapis and Shayna were thinking that putting Loren in front and supporting him would work out.

“So are we fine with accepting her request?”

“Yes. I’ve talked about the rewards already as well.”

Loren thought that Lapis had just been questioning Corne, but it seemed that she had made her request into a job, and even talked about payment.

As Loren was impressed at how quick she was with it, Lapis started talking about the payment details.

“Although I said we decided on the payment, it won’t be anything fancy. After all, fairies are a race that don’t have many metal items, just like elves.”

“They don’t look like they’d eat much either, so there wouldn’t be much to give us either.”

“If you think about it that way, the fact that the chief ate all the food from the elf village is quite terrifying. Maybe they have stomachs made of iron and very strong stomach acids?”

“No idea. So what condition did you agree on?”

Fairies had less contact with humans than elves did.

He couldn’t think they had money stored anywhere in the village, and asked Lapis.

“She promised that if we manage to kill the chief, we could choose one thing what they have, and take it.”

Lapis’ conditions bet on there being something of value among the things that the fairies had gathered.

Even if there wasn’t anything that would be expensive, if they could find a gem, that would still be worth quite a bit.

“Even if we don’t get lucky, I’m looking forward to finding something that would give us some profit.”

“That seems reasonable enough.”

There was also the option of asking for more, since the fairies were desperate for help, but Loren thought that taking advantage of them wouldn’t feel good when they received their payment.

So he thought that the condition that Lapis had chosen, which allowed them to take the job in a good mood and keep them from being in the red, seemed just right.

“We leave Feuille here. No objections, right?”

“Of course not.”

Feuille raised his head when they said that, but neither Loren nor Lapis was going to take him to the chief.

There was a possibility that the fairy chief had killed everyone in his village.

Then it meant that it could be a chance for Feuille to avenge them, and he did indeed want to strike a blow.

But even knowing so, the reason why Loren and Lapis wasn’t going to take him was because of what Corne had said earlier, that the chief created new fairies out of the dead bodies of elves.

“If we take you, we need to protect you. And in the case that the chief makes fairies out of your body, we’ll be attacked from both front and behind.”

So when Loren asked Feuille to keep his feeling in, he looked like he wanted to complain, but he silently looked towards the ground.

Seeing it as he understood his reasoning, Loren told Corne, who was floating around and wondering when their conversation will end, that they would accept her request.

“I can’t guarantee that we’ll be able to do something, though.”

“That would be wishing for too much. We’re thankful that you are willing to help us.”

Corne flew around Loren happily.

Loren decided not to follow her with his eyes, since he would get dizzy if he tried, and asked Corne, who was still flying around him.

“We can count on you guys to break the blockade, right?”

“Of course. We’ll be as much help as we could.”

“So you’re fine with the request being defeating the chief? Killing him?”

“…Yes, please do so.”

There was a small moment of silence before the words came out of Corne’s mouth.

Loren didn’t know what kind of thoughts and feelings went through her mind in that short moment, but since she managed to give him a definite answer, he gave her a firm nod.