Day 109: Don’t underestimate the sea.
Holy Era 6102, Month of the Seven Night Horses, 31st day.
Weather: Sunny
In the morning, I woke up to the feeling of something yanking on my hair.
Ouch…that hurts! What the… Soshio!?
My hair! Please don’t eat my hair! Uh…now it’s all sticky.
…I had slept so comfortably up until now. This is the worst.
I suppose I better go and take a bath. Soshio, you are not sleeping in the bed anymore!
Due to this morning incident, we did not reach the guild ship until midday.
Now, as for work… Ah, this one looks good.
My eye caught a request to hunt or capture some hogfish.
Hogfish were monsters that had the upper body of a pig and the lower half of a fish.
They were often hunted for food and tasted like the most expensive pork…
It seemed like an easy enough quest, but…
The problem was that they were quite large. And they were heavier than ordinary pigs.
Would we really be able to pull them out of the water…
While I wasn’t sure, we decided to accept it anyway.
The muscular guild worker was worried about us…but we would surely be fine.
If things got dangerous, then we would just run away!
And so we left the ship and headed to the port.
From here, we would borrow a boat and head out to sea… But what kind should we get?
As I wondered about this, someone asked me if I needed help.
I turned around and saw the captain, Guildmaster Ed! He was smoking a cigar.
Yes, we might as well confide in him… He also seemed bored.
After talking to him, Captain Ed recommended a small sailing ship.
It was a white ship distinguished by its two masts rigged with fore-and-aft sails.
Uh, it really was a proper ship…that we would not be able to sail.
Isn’t there something…like a simple boat?
I asked. The captain sighed with exasperation. And then he began to shout at me angrily.
You are underestimating the sea, he said. A small boat would sink easily against some hogfish, he said.
I couldn’t help but shrink back at his voice. He then declared that our acceptance of the quest was void.
WHAT!? But then we would have to pay the penalty! I don’t want to have to pay a fine!
He then said he would make an exception for us just this once.
Because it was the fault of the guild worker for allowing us to accept it without considering the dangers… I’m sorry, muscular man.
After that, as we had little choice, we went out to the beach to hunt Lemoras.
Still, Soshio sure lured them in a lot.
Was there something about kelpies that did this…?
We returned to the guild ship in the evening, and the guild worker apologized to us repeatedly.
No, no. Please don’t worry about it. It was our fault for not thinking it through.
We accepted our reward and were handed four familiar papers.
…National taxes? Hmm? But Ms. Nico is only D-Rank, so why is her amount the same as mine?!
What? Membership fee for the Alchemist Guild? Ah, if that’s the case…
Oh, we have to pay Soshio’s registration fee every month… The world is a cruel place.
Hah… So much money has disappeared.
Today’s earnings and expenses:
Silver: +30 (Lemora reward x10)
-10 (Taxes)
-15 (Taxes: Ms. Noa)
-10 (Taxes: Ms. Nico)
-3 (Soshio: Registration fee)
-2 (Inn x3 + Soshio) (Bed: ◎, Food: ◎)
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Balance: 1 gold, 30 silver, 1 copper
190 cat coins
(ﾉ_-;) Hah… Fees…fees.