Chapter 121 - Talk about Investigations and War (2/2)

“As a mercenary, does it make you tingle with excitement?”

When Lapis asked him, he asked it again to himself.

“Not interested. No intention of participating. Also, I’m a former mercenary, alright?”

“But it seems like you would make quite a bit, don’t you? This might be your chance.”

Until a short while ago, he had been thinking that if a war broke out, he could pay his debt in no time.

But currently, when he asked himself Lapis’ question, he realized that he wasn’t interested at all, and he raised the glass he was swirling and gulped the rest of the contents down.

“No interest at all. I’m content with how I’m living right now.”

It was his true feelings.

In any case, it was a lot lighthearted and safer than on the battlefield, constantly on alert and the air prickling around him, missing meals and sleep all the time.

Although, he had been exposed to dangers far worse than anything on the battlefield the past few jobs, but he had made it out alive every time, so he thought that complaining was too much of a luxury.

“Hearing that makes me a bit happy.:

Seeing Lapis’ gaze on him as she smiled happily, Loren averted his own, feeling slightly embarrassed.

A complaining look appeared on Lapis’ face for a moment when he did so, but she immediately stood up and changed the subject.

“Then that means avoiding jobs related to the war…which there aren’t many of.”

The guild wasn’t an organization to pass on jobs from the nation that paid well.

Not just because the guild was a mutual aid organization to adventurers, but because the guild itself was a profit organization.

With so many good paying jobs, there was no reason for them to pick up ones that didn’t look promising.

“Loren, do you have enough money saved up to last you until the war ends?”

Loren scowled at Lapis’ sudden question.

It was a topic he didn’t want to hear about, but it didn’t seem like he could get away without answering, so he managed to spit out a reply.

“You’re asking even though you already know that I don’t, aren’t you?”

With all the debt he had, there was no way he had anything saved up.

In fact, all his debt was from Lapis, and even with no interest nor deadlines, Loren wasn’t the type of person to keep any money when he owed some.

“Of course. Then I guess we can’t go without taking any jobs at all. You won’t survive until the end of the war.”

“I’m ashamed to say so, but yeah.”

Loren did have a bit of coins in his wallet.

But since they didn’t know when the war would end, whether it be a few days or a few weeks or even longer, if one was to ask if he had enough to last without working at all, Loren would have to shake his head.

If he used all his coins with no income.

He would be slowly going dry.

“Then I guess we need to find work.”

Loren couldn’t deny Lapis’ words.

As if she had seen through all of this, she pulled out a piece of paper from an inner pocket and spread it out on the table.

“There’s really nothing much other than jobs related to the war.”

It wasn’t that there weren’t other jobs, but the guild didn’t recommend jobs that weren’t related to the war, so naturally, those were the ones that would catch one’s eye.

“I tried to find one that’s as unrelated as possible.”

“You already investigated…?”

Usually, having the needed information already investigated and gathered beforehand would be something to be praised, but it was Lapis he was looking at.

He couldn’t just praise for what she did because he couldn’t put aside the possibility that she could have secretly induced many factors to engineer the current situation, so all he could do was look at her bitterly.

“This is the one I recommend we should do…what’s wrong?”

“Nothing. Go on.”

Whether it be that she predicted correctly, or everything went according to her planning, it wouldn’t change what came next, so Loren gave up and told Lapis to go on.

Lapis cocked her head as she looked at Loren, but she soon pulled herself together and started explaining the job to him.