Chapter 280 - Last Commission as E-ranked

We finally accumulated enough points to take the advancement exam after one to two more commissions.

I visited the Adventurer’s Guild, and just when I contemplated on what job to get next while staring at the commission requests posted on the board, the voice of a little girl resounded.

“Please, I beg you! Please save my mom!”

I glanced at the counter. A little girl that was shorter than the counter desperately appealed to the teller.

“Did you save this money?”

“Yes… is it not enough?”

“Hm… This is just barely enough to request the cheapest commission for an E-rank adventurer. Based on your story, the commission will be to cure a disease or curse that even the town doctors couldn’t figure out how to cure, but —”

Just investigating the cause of an illness or a curse that a town doctor couldn’t diagnose and couldn’t heal with a simple recovery spell would cost the highest E-rank commission fee.

That would be around five times the amount of money the girl brought.

“The guild also wants to prevent the spread of an unknown illness. That’s why I can put more guild points to this request, but…odd adventurers who will receive the commission for this amount — Ah!”

The counter lady spotted me standing in front of the board where commissions were posted.

Good timing.

Our last commission was decided.

“We will take that commission.”

“Older brother, are you an adventurer?”

“Yup.”

“Will you save my mom?”

“Yup, leave it to me.”

She would be healed no matter what kind of illness or curse it was.

After all, a former saintess and the dragon’s shrine maiden, the world’s greatest Healers, belonged to my family.

“Halt, the amount is as you can see. Are you really sure about this?”

The receptionist lady knew that we were moving as a group of five parties. This amount was obviously far too small to support everyone.

“No problem, just as always.”

“Yes, you’re right. I did think that you’ll accept this request, Halt. This is just for confirmation. Okay, I’ll add bonus points like always.”

“Thank you very much.”

We needed to complete two more commissions depending on the request, but since we would get bonus points, we would be able to take the D-rank advancement exam.

And so, the Guild officially accepted the request, and I received it.

“I’m Halt. Nice to meet you.”

“I’m Miu. Please take care of me.”

She’s so little, but she’s a good girl with great manners.

I took Miu, the client, and teleported to my mansion where everyone was gathered.

“Mr. Halt, you’re amazing! We went, like, zap!! Is that your magic, Mr. Halt?”

“Yup, that’s right.”

Miu seemed to have enjoyed the sensation of being teleported.

When teleporting, it felt like your body got forcefully pulled somewhere else, so there were people who felt sick after doing it, but it seemed she was different.

“Ahm…This is?”

She looked a little anxious after being taken to a strange place.

“It’s my home. My comrades are here, so we’re going to talk about it with everyone before heading to where Miu’s mom is.”

“T-This is Mr. Halt’s house?!”

“Yeah. Huge, isn’t it?”

Everyone around me had gotten used to whatever I did, so they wouldn’t bat an eye anymore.

That’s the reason why I was really happy that Miu reacted this way.

“Halt-sama, welcome home. And who might that be —”

“Our client this time, Miu-chan.”

Tina noticed my arrival, so she went out to welcome me.

“Wow… Such a beautiful Elf.”

“Oh my! Thank you.”

Miu mumbled after seeing Tina, and it made her really happy, it seemed.

“Oh, Halt. You’re back.”

“Yeah, I’m home, Shiro.”

“Ah, so cute!!!”

Shiro came out of the mansion, and Miu jumped at him.

“Mr. Halt, is this child also part of your family?”

“Yup. He’s called Shiro. He’ll be really glad if you pat him, so gently pat him, okay?”

“Okay!”

Miu started rubbing Shiro.

“Hnnnn. S-Stop it….”

Shiro was telling her to stop, but it’s a piece of cake to leapt from her arms if he wanted to.

He didn’t do it, so he was probably happy being touched by Miu.

“Alright, let’s go to Miu’s mom.”

“Yes!!” (Everyone)

The entire Ernol family had gathered, so we would now teleport to Miu’s house.

“P-Please take care of me!”

Miu was overwhelmed when she faced my family of 20.

By the way, Shiro settled in Miu’s arms.

She was probably nervous after being surrounded by a lot of strangers, but she was still doing her best to save her mom. It’d be good if she relaxed even by a little bit while hugging Shiro.

Shiro also docilely allowed Miu to hold him, probably because he sensed Miu’s anxiety.

I took all the people gathered here and teleported to Miu’s house.

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“—!? D-Danna-sama, this is…”

“This concubine also has a bad feeling about this.”

“Halt…This is terrible.”

When we teleported to the city where Miu’s house was, Sitri, Kikyou and Shiro noticed the strangeness right off the bat.

“...Yeah.”

This was far more awful than I anticipated.

“Ahm, did something happen?”

Miu seemed anxious while asking me.

The scenery of the town probably seemed normal like it always did to her.

However, Sitri, Kikyou, Shiro and I were well attuned to the presence of curses.

Curses of the Evil God, in particular.

We could sense a rather strong curse from the Evil God coming from Miu’s house.