Chapter 58 (1/2)

Volume 1

Chapter 58

Ch 58 — Goblin Subjugation Request

I went to the bulletin board to get a request immediately . As the receptionist had explained, rank G requests were quite limited . There were many menial jobs around town listed as requests but there was a note at the bottom of the list . . . oh, these jobs only earned one point . Another G rank request on the board was gathering medicinal herbs, worth two points . There were virtually no requests to subdue monsters suitable for G rank adventurers, only goblins but they were worth three points .

Uh, that’s problematic . Right then, gathering medicinal herbs it is . I can do that . When I put my hand out to take the request for gathering medicinal herbs a thought came from Fer .

“Goblins, it says there . ”

“What? You can read those letters, Fer?”

“Who do you think I am?” Fer’s thought was tinged with annoyance . “I’ve lived a long time, remember, so learning to read human writing was nothing for me . ”

Yeah yeah, OK . But anyway goblins are out of the question . I put my hand out again to take the medicinal herbs request and Fer interjected with a thought . “Hey, I said ‘Goblins’ didn’t I?”

“Tough . I’m going to take a request to collect herbs . ”

“You need points, you said . If you want to do that you should choose goblin subjugation since it’s got the highest points . ” Fer said .

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“No, I’ll earn points by working hard (safety first is my motto) . ”

“What’re you talking about? We’ve not reached the ocean yet . ” Haah? Since when are you wanting to go to the ocean?

“I didn’t say anything about it before, that’s all . ” Fer shrugged . “I just decided . I want to eat Kraken and Sea Serpent . ” What the-? “So you’ll have to get up to rank F as quickly as possible . ”

You might recall me mentioning my horrible experiences with goblins previously, no? Due to a certain someone’s actions . . .

“Hey, Sui? What d’you think we should do? You wanna go fire off some Acid Bullets again?” Fer said telepathically to Sui who stuck her lead out of the bag .

“A fight? Sui wants to go ‘pew pew’ shooting . ” Bah, Fer’s enlisted Sui on his side .

“No, Sui, we don’t wan’t to go ‘pew pew’ shooting, medicinal herbs, we want to go gather some don’t we? They’ll be made into all sorts of nice medicines . ” I argued desperately .

“Ehhh . ” Sui sounded disappointed . “Sui can make medicines to cure painful wounds . Better Sui goes to shoot ‘pew pew’, fight . ” Unfortunately that was true, Sui had a restorative medicine creation skill .

“Sui agrees with me, take the goblin subjugation request . ”

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“Goblins? Green goblins? Sui go ‘pew pew’ at the goblins, finish them off good . ” S- Sui-chan?

“You’re outnumbered . ” said Fer contentedly . Gaaaah . I give up . I can’t say no to cute Sui when she says she wants to go ‘pew pew’ and finish them off good . I plucked the goblin subjugation request off the board and took it to the receptionist .

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The request entailed subjugating goblins which lived in the forest east of the city . The receptionist explained that was the most common place for them to appear . The request was for killing five goblins and the reward was three silver coins and three points . Right, let’s go hunt goblins and then return to the city . That’s best .

We ran into a group of three goblins as soon as we entered the forest .

“Aruji-, can I go ‘pew pew pew’?” Sui asked excitedly .

“All yours . ” I said .

Pew pew pew . The goblins were hit in the belly by Sui’s Acid Bullets and fell to the ground with a thump . The dead goblins had large holes burned in their middles . Awesomely lethal, our Sui is .

“Skillful as ever, Sui . We’ll cut off the ears as evidence that we got the goblins, Sui, so remember to hit them in the belly like just now and don’t aim for the head . ”