Chocolate, A Truck, and A Railgun

Chapter 9

Their first agenda would be looking for food. An inn was open close to the walls, thus they had their breakfast there. After that, they went toward the sheriff's headquarters to register their truck. Captain Daven was free by the time they arrived, thus he assisted them in getting their truck registered. William categorized it as a 'magic cool-looking, high-power carriage' as a joke.

Captain Daven was about to write that down when William stopped him.

Guess people in this world really thought of it as something weird.

Once that was done, they headed for the guild.

"What should we pick today..."

Now that they understand how the guild works, they no longer need to head to the receptionist to pick a quest. There were slightly more quests on the board compared to the day before.

"Anything you're interested in?"

"I prefer something that you can practice magic on." Her eyes went from left to right, searching for a quest. She tiptoed, reaching for a quest paper on the top side of the board. William leaned in closer, inspecting the quest paper. It was a rank seven quest. The writing itself was tidy and easy to read, exactly what he expected from a professional guild, but its contents didn't seem professional at all.

"... Is this written by a child?" William said after reading the quest.

"You'll be surprised, but there's a lot of quests we received that came from children. Usually under the approval of their parents, though."

"Related to tutoring?"

"Some, yeah. Sword lessons or the like."

This quest came from a small town west of Pakihana. The request asked for the removal of 'big, scary looking thing that are round and have big balls as eyes'. It stated that this 'monster' had been appearing a few times in the last few days and is scaring the person. The person even offered a very generous reward consisting of the person's entire income, a whopping twenty thousand Karape.

Enough for two whole chocolate breads.

The request time was 'as fast as possible' with a little love sign drawn on the bottom.

"Is this some kind of joke?" he muttered.

"Ah, sorry about that one." A receptionist came up to them.

"A child wrote that one. To please him, the local adventurers' guild sent a copy of the request to us, and we put it on as a joke. Wasn't expecting anyone to actually pick it up." The receptionist offered to take the request back, but Feodora held on.

"Feodora?"

"Do you... do you want to do this?" she asked, looking a little hopeful, hiding the bottom part of her face behind the piece of paper.

Like hell I can say no to that!

"Sure, let's do it."

"But are you sure? That thing practically rewards nothing. You'll earn much more with any other quest."

"If Feodora wants to do it, then I want to," William stated firmly. Lily nodded behind him.

"If you say so, then I won't stop you."

Using her magic, Feodora put magic on the stamp.

"I wish you luck." The guild receptionist smiled.

"Thank you. We'll be claiming that twenty thousand Karape!" William said excitedly, Lily shaking her head. "You're no different to the child."