A few days after returning home, the tank accepted two requests at once.

One is a request to defeat ogres, and the other is a carriage escort from the furniture workshop.

The ogre's crusade was made in the village of Kabane, east of Ibro, while the Furniture Workshop's carriage was destined for Kilmaya, a small town in the Duchy of Escalante, south of Viscount Ragato.

You may think that it is impossible to receive requests in completely different places at the same time, but it is possible if you divide the normal party into two parts.

Long-time collaborators Leos, Gad, and Sergio will be tasked with the crusade against ogres.

On the other hand, the escort of the furniture workshop was originally requested by Schuller, so as a reward I also followed.

"I want to conquer the ogre, but this time I'm going to learn how to protect it from Shure."

I was temporarily escorting the chief of Azka to Ibro, but I was just sitting on the driver's desk with Mr. Zeor, and I didn't do anything like escorting.

"Bolz, the owner of the furniture workshop Diaco, has a quirk but the pay is high"

"A habit...?"

"You'll know when you see him"

Early in the morning, while heading to the south gate of the meeting point, Shuler detailed the contents of the request.

The furniture workshop Diaco is a workshop that produces high-end furniture, apparently also has customers in towns outside Ibro.

The workshop owner, Boruz, seems to attend business meetings with Kilmayr's business partners about twice a year.

Last spring, Schuler began to take on escort missions, which would be his fourth request.

A one-way carriage ride from Ibru to Kilmayr takes about four days.

Along the way, there are knights from the Lagarto family, the Escalante family, and both families patrolling, so it seems almost dangerous, but it's not absolutely free of thieves and monsters.

"On rare occasions, you may encounter a Wyvern"

"Isn't the Wyvern an A-class monster?"

"That's right, but it's the weakest of the A-class, and I only attack Travelers once every few years, so I don't worry about me thinking."

A bipedal wyvern is a pterosaur with wings on its arms.

The length of the wings is about 4 meters, from the head to the tip of the tail.

Sometimes, they nest every few years on the Bule Mountain, located on the border of the regions of La Gato and Escalante, but they rarely seem to come down the mountain to the highway.

"Even so, there are cases of livestock being attacked on farms at the foot of the mountain."

"What would you do if the Wyvern attacked you?"

"When the time comes, I will sacrifice my horse to protect my employer"

"Wyverns are big monsters, but once they get the necessary food, they leave."

"The horses are pitiful, but the contract for the guards seems to say that they will be sacrificed."

Shure and I were waiting at the designated spot near the South Gate when a large carriage arrived.

It has four horses and a cargo bed behind the cabin.

When the carriage stopped, a woman who appeared to be a maid and a man who appeared to be a butler were followed by a middle-aged leopard man and a leopard woman who was a little older than me.

"Good morning, Mr. Bolz."

"Good morning, Schuller, is this the adventurer he spoke of?"

"Yes, it's Hua Wuming from the same party."

"It's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Hua Wuming, a C-level adventurer."

"Hehe, although you're a cat person, you're also C-level."

Borch looked around as if judging me, and Shure's temples twitched.

It's hard for others to understand, but he doesn't seem to be in a good mood.

"She's a cat lover, that's fine, don't go near my daughter unless you have to, okay, I see!"

"Yes, I understand"

Schuller seems to say that he has a quirk for Bolzi, the idiot parent.

Her daughter, Elisa, is said to be 17 years old, and although not as tall as Schuler, she is also quite tall and beautiful.

It seems that Schuler was asked in the first place because he didn't want the male adventurer to get close to Elisa.

This time I was allowed to accompany him because he was from the same party as Schule and was a cat lover.

If I were walking side by side with Alyssa, it would be like an adult and a child, owner and pet, so Boltey would naturally allow it.

However, Bolts didn't know the cleaning techniques that Miss Leila had taught me.

"Well, I don't have anything to show Elisa"

When we met, Alyssa's fingertips twitched.

"It looks like you're trying to take off my proud coat, but Boruz's eyes are bright, so give up."

"Really, I'm also a guilty man Nyanten."

The cabin was big enough to accommodate about 10 people, but Shure and I sat on the bridge or rather, I sat on Shure's lap.

Since it is a four-horse carriage, the driver's platform is set high and the view is good.

In addition to the four people in the cabin, there was a driver and two craftsmen on the carriage.

I thought that the owner of the workshop was a luxury cabin, and the craftsmen would carry the luggage, but I didn't expect it to be a carriage from a furniture workshop, and there was a comfortable chair on the loading platform.

The three of us sitting on the windswept coachman's platform were the worst of the carriages, but of course we used celestial magic to ward off the cold winds.

"It's the wind that doesn't blow at all."

"Huhu, thanks to Hua Wuming's Heavenly Attribute Magic"

"You can do that with null attributes."

The driver, Haig, is a donkey man in his 30s.

Haig wore a thick cloak and hat to keep out the cold, but he was glad to know that he wasn't hit by the cold wind.

"Well, I know I can't do it because of my profession, but it's a windy day."

"Shall we cover the horses too?"

"No, the horse's body temperature rises when it runs, so it's fine."

"What do you do when it's raining?"

"yes, how convenient it is to only block the raindrops"

"I can do it, then let's not let it get rain."

"Thank you.

"Of course, Hua Wuming is very talented"

From Ibro, continue south along the highway to reach the royal capital.

There are many other large towns in the area along the way, the roads are well maintained, and there is more traffic than the roads to the north, east, and west.

Trees on both sides of the highway have been cut down to improve visibility.

Cows and sheep graze on the other side of the fence, and grass prevents visibility from getting worse.

"Heh, it's completely different from the way you go north."

"The visibility is so good that it's easy to see monsters approaching and it's hard for thieves to hide"

"What if a thief shows up?"

"Fleeing for your life is the number one priority, unless the wagon is completely destroyed."

"A thief's assault on a carriage is a serious crime punishable by death unless there are exceptional circumstances."

Even if the adventurer in charge of the guard kills the bandit, he will not be recognized for legitimate defense, but will receive a bounty.

"If a bounty head like Zosen joins the mix, you can get a higher bounty."

Basically, banditry is a crime that does not pay more than it gains, but even so, in years when crops fail, many people flee at night because they cannot afford to pay their taxes and pretend to be bandits.

"It's been a hot summer, and it looks like the southern part of the kingdom is experiencing a drought."

"I've heard that there's a good harvest in this area."

"Yes.

As a coachman, his own safety was also at risk, so Haig seemed to be concerned about this information.

"Where do you get information about other cities?"

"The first is the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, people from other towns will definitely come to us when they come here to do business, and the information is the most accurate. There are a lot of scary stories mixed in, so you have to be careful. "Be careful."

"I see"

There is an unspoken tacit understanding for carriages traveling on highways, except for extremely slow carriages, to keep a certain distance from each other and travel at a similar speed.

The carriage in front was always at least a hundred meters away.

When attacking as a thief, it is natural to shorten the distance, and keeping a distance will make it appear that there is no hostility towards us.

"That is, when the distance between the carriages is reduced, we guards need to be careful."

About an hour after leaving Ichiro, the carriage in front caught up with the carriage in front.

The wagon that was being chased was loaded with a large amount of straw.

From behind, it looks like a mountain of straw moving.

"Hua Wuming, be careful, sometimes there are robbers lurking in the straw"

"Do you understand?"

At first glance, stacking a large amount of straw does not seem to increase speed, but letting the robber hide in the straw seems to be a classic trick.

It seems that when you try to overtake that slow carriage, the robbers will attack the coachman from the straw.

"Hua Wuming, where's the carriage behind you?"

"Don't come near me"

Schuller lowered me from his knees, sat me down in the middle of Hagrid, and grabbed the hilt of the dagger that had been pulled from my waist.

The distance from the carriage moving in front of it was closer, forty meters, thirty meters

"I haven't seen any suspicious movements of the straws."

20 meters, 10 metersJust as I was about to catch up, something was moving in the straw.

Just as Shure was getting ready, a face peeked out of the straw of a girl with braided hair.

The bear-like girl smiled and waved her hand.

Schuller waved at him, a wry smile on his face.

"Haha, don't be surprised."