Episode 21.5 (1/2)
Lecan was led to a needlessly spacious room, there he waited for a bit before Tomaj came by.
”Heya.”
He had a composed look on his face, wholly unlike the man who challenged Lecan to a duel earlier.
”I'm sorry that it came to this.”
”Bargos was it, since you had a proxy prepared, this has always been a part of the plan.”
”A messenger from Vouka town lord came yesterday, informing us of your coming today. Bargos had just came out of the dungeon the same night, you see. I had him on standby just in case we couldn't come to an agreement.”
”Hou. So this Bargos is a dungeoner huh.”
”He is. He's the strongest adventurer in this town, a contract adventurer of our earl house.”
”Contract adventurer? What's that?”
”You don't know? Guess they're called something else elsewhere. Our house supplies Bargos with equipment and funds. In exchange, everything he gets in the dungeon is to be this house's property, with a percentage going for him as a reward.”
”I see.”
Food was brought to the room.
Tomaj surprisingly went and sampled the food for poison.
”Alright. This plate here is fine.”
”Poison tasting huh. Sorry for the trouble.”
”Not at all. This is the only thing I can do. Or rather, the food might have poison in it if I didn't volunteer to sample first.”
”The earl huh.”
Tomaj wouldn't directly reply to this question.
”I would like to give you an explanation as to why <Dagger of Harut> is an indispensable necessity to this earl house.”
”No need.”
”Don't say that. It's the least I could offer to someone departing to the next world for the sake of that dagger.
”Hou. Is this Bargos really that strong?”
”I can't tell you the detail, but he has had numerous bouts against the Greatarm Ogre on the last floor. Everyone believed that Bargos would have been the first person who conquered this dungeon.”
”What? You're saying he could get away from that Greatarm Ogre in the midst of battle?”