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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Silavin
Just as on the first day, Roman and the others were shown into Tamara’s room and, as soon as they sat down, they checked.
“Don’t the adventurers here take any other requests, or have thought about doing so?”
From the reactions of the receptionist and Tamara, it was clear that they were surprised that he had a certificate of completion for a quest other than the one he had accepted. This suggests that the adventurers active here did not take on multiple requests.
Tamara let out a sigh, shook her head from side to side, and explained.
“From what I have experienced, they don’t have the mindset that they are supposed to bring something other than the requested item.”
“Um… is there some kind of rule that prevents that?”
One of the people from Roman’s group said, looking worried. If there was a rule or unspoken agreement that forbids adventurers from bringing back parts of monsters that were not the target of their requests, then it would mean Roman’s group had violated it without realizing it.
There were times when adventurers had such unspoken agreements to avoid trouble. For example, the first person to hit a target gets priority.
However, Tamara shook her head again.
“No, I’ve never heard of anything like that.”
Roman and the others, as well as Arisa, seemed surprised.
“I believe there are times when adventurers come across monsters other than the ones they were hired to kill… in such cases, they just leave the target there.”
Everyone except Tamara and Riku looked at them with a look of ‘what a waste.’
It was something that would be almost unheard of in Amamiya Tower or the Central Continent.
Of course, there were some monsters whose body parts were not worth anything. However, most of them could be sold for money in some form or another. Some things were worth next to nothing, but if adventurers had room in their luggage, why would they not want to take them back for a little bit extra?
“…I can’t believe it.” Roman muttered in a dazed manner.
The other members also looked as if they agreed with him.
“Is that so? Don’t you think that parts other than the requested ones will just be a hindrance?”
There was a considerable gap between Tamara, who said it as if this was only natural, unlike Roman and the others.
In the midst of this, Arisa suddenly looked as if she had just had a flash of inspiration.
“Is that why there isn’t a purchase counter in this branch…”
Roman and the others looked startled at Arisa’s comment. Most guilds in the Central Continent have counters for the sale and purchase of monster materials.
If an adventurer had obtained materials other than those requested, they could sell them at that counter.
Arisa, who had a certain conviction after seeing Tamara’s expression, voiced her thought.
“If that’s not the case, could it be that hunting monsters is like some kind of sport over here?”
“Hunting? What do you mean?”
“In other words, it means that there are rules that only allow the adventure to hunt a specific prey within a set area.”
That would be able to explain why they could only carry out a single request for extermination, and even if they got attacked by something other than their target, they would not bring back any materials from the monster. All because it was not part of the request they accepted.
Rather than not bringing them back, they might believe they were not allowed to bring them back.
The fact that there was nowhere to sell these additional materials might further enforce this thought. It might have led to the adventurers’ being convinced that they should not carry back any unnecessary materials.
“There are no rules against doing this. It’s possible that they’re doing it without realizing it. I don’t know if it’s just this place though.”
“Hmm. I see. It’s a difference in perception. I can see how this had happened.”
For Roman and the other adventurers active in the Central Continent, monsters were a way of earning money, a way of making a living. Therefore, they were very sensitive to information about monster materials, which could be converted into money.
In contrast, they only hunt monsters that match the requests they receive, so they only took back what they need.
That was what Arisa meant when she said ‘hunting’. In hunting, people mainly compete to see who could catch the biggest prey, and only that kind of prey. Nothing else would be in their radar to focus on.
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“…I never thought our views would be so different.”
Even Tamara could only sigh at the vast difference.
“But isn’t this a little strange? I’m sure there have been adventurers going back and forth between the Central Continent and other Continents in the past. I think there are adventurers who have already noticed this.”
“That’s true, but there are unspoken rules in each region. They might have thought this was one of those things.”
Tamara answered Roman’s question.
If they accepted it as an old custom, it was possible for them to not even question it. Especially if they had been working in that area for a long time. In general, anyone would stop questioning what they were doing as it would just seem natural to do.
“We thought it was natural to bring in materials other than the requested items, and we did so this time too. Clearly, the adventurers here don’t think that way, right?”
“Yes. However, it’s not like it’s prohibited.”
It was a common thought that if everyone else was doing it, then they should do it as well.
“Um… my parents also taught me that I should bring in the materials needed, but is that not the case here?”
Until then, Riku had been listening to the adults in silence.
Of course, the parent he was referring to was Kousuke.
Kousuke also assumed that this was the global standard, as the adventurers he had seen for the first time were adventurers from the Central Continent.
“I see. I don’t know if it’s just the Central Continent that’s special, or if the Eastern Continent is special.”
Arisa said this, but she also thought it was possible that the upper echelons of Crown were aware of this. Otherwise, they would bother building a Guild building without a purchasing counter.
Even if the structure itself was commissioned to a local company, Crown would have at least looked over the blueprint once during the design stage. There was no way they would not have noticed.
However, Arisa was not so naive as to mention this here. If they had deliberately left it alone, there must be a good reason for it.
For example, they could be waiting for someone on the site to notice, as they were doing now.
“Oh, I see. There might have been another reason.”
Everyone’s eyes turned to Arisa, who had suddenly clapped her hands.
“Unlike the Central Continent, monsters here with high ranks have to go to remote places or places like this forest, right?”
“Oh, I see. So, the monsters that appear in places that low-level adventurers can go to don’t have much in the way of sellable materials?”
“That’s right. And as an adventurer’s rank goes up, it’s more profitable to take on multiple requests and only take the parts you need, rather than gathering unnecessary materials for other miscellaneous requests.”
Tamara let out a shout, as if she had suddenly realized something in response to Arisa’s words.
“…I see. That’s true.”
There were a fair number of mid-level adventurers in the Central Continent. In the cases of particularly lucrative requests, there were even battles on who would hunt them. The first one to turn in the request with the materials would be the one that got paid.
In contrast, in the Airika Kingdom, there were not enough adventurers of that rank to cause competition. Thus, there was no need to go through the trouble of earning money by bringing back materials other than those requested.
Iit in a nutshell, it meant that there were only enough adventurers to handle the requests. In fact, there might not be enough of them.
“…I didn’t think we’d find so many problems just from taking on a single request.” Tamara muttered to herself and let out a deep sigh.
Originally, Roman and the others had been asked to come for a different purpose, but it became clear from the start that there were many problems.
As the head of the branch, Tamara needed to resolve these problems.
Thinking this, Tamara let out a deep sigh.
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