Chapter 12
“But unless we solve this problem, our savings will just keep dwindling.”
“……!”
Misa’s words left Guy speechless.
He had no choice but to admit she was right.
Even Guy, who wasn’t the sharpest, had realized that over the past few days.
“It’s all that piece of trash’s fault! I can’t believe that coward would resort to such underhanded interference even after leaving the party!”
Misa’s pent-up frustration finally erupted.
“There’s no other way~. Like Misa said, let’s find that damn bug~.”
El agreed.
“Damn it, Rent! When I find him, I’ll kill him!”
Spurred on by the two, Guy changed his mind.
At this point, whether Rent was really to blame didn’t matter.
He just wanted to take his anger out on Rent.
That was all he cared about.
“Let’s ask at the Adventurer Guild first~.”
“Yeah, good idea. Let’s go!”
The three headed for the guild, driven by anger――.
“Tell me where Rent is!”
“Rent-san? Please wait a moment.”
At the guild’s reception counter,
Guy rudely grilled the receptionist.
She dealt with rough adventurers every day,
and simply went about her work without changing her expression.
She deftly operated an information terminal—a magical device that stored information about adventurers.
The Adventurer Guild had a system for registering one’s base.
It was meant to show where adventurers who traveled from town to town were currently active.
Adventurers could keep their base secret from third parties, but most made it public, so the guild could tell you if you asked.
After a short while, the receptionist relayed the information she’d found on the terminal.
“Rent-san’s registered base hasn’t changed.”
Normally, adventurers filed a change-of-base request when leaving a town.
They could also file one after reaching their destination, but there was no telling what might happen along the way.
So they usually informed the guild of their destination ahead of time.
But Rent had deliberately skipped the procedure.
MP had put the idea in his head.
The plan was to make them think he might still be in town and buy himself some time.
And it had worked.
“Tch, let’s go!”
Having fallen completely for the ruse, Guy took the other two along and began searching for Rent.
They questioned the adventurers in the tavern attached to the guild,
searched every likely place Rent might visit,
and checked inn after inn.
――But they came up empty every time.
Even after sunset, they still hadn’t found Rent.
That was only natural, since Rent had already left town.
At the guild tavern, a drunk Guy was making a scene.
“Damn it, Rent!”
“He’s the worst, causing trouble even after leaving the party!”
“He should just die already~.”
The other two joined in Guy’s anger.
The three vented their fury at Rent without caring who was watching.
The adventurers around them looked at them with disapproval.
Word of Rent’s expulsion had already spread among the adventurers.
Guy and the others had been boasting about it everywhere, as though it were some great achievement.
People also knew Rent was no longer in town.
Some adventurers had seen him leave in a carriage.
Still, no one told Guy and the others.
The three had grown arrogant about their own standing and looked down on everyone around them.
Rent, on the other hand, had worked hard to build good relationships with guild staff and other adventurers so he could gather information.
It was obvious whose side everyone would take.
It would be some time before Guy and the others learned that Rent had moved his base.
That would only happen after Rent registered his new base in another town――.