<h4>Chapter 05 – Wee to Mulg Vige!</h4>


    Trantor: 嵐zan


    The next morning. We started moving with the rising of the sun.


    Since Millet was a viger, we arrived without getting lost once.


    And as we arrived at the vige gate,


    「Wee to Mulg Vige!」


    Millet said happily.


    Everyone was worried when Millet didn’t return home that night. And now some old guy they didn’t know came home with her.


    「Millet came back!」


    A viger shouted after seeing us approach.


    One by one the vigers swirled towards us, until we were surrounded by them,


    「Whooose the old guy?」


    Some kid asked innocently.


    Millet told them about what happened while she went looking for medicine. She went on about me saving her, how strong I was,plimenting me over and over.


    It was embarrassing.


    All of the vigers said their thanks as well.


    Even more embarrassing.


    Too embarrassing,


    「You have to make some medicine.」


    I said, to get them focused off of me.


    「Okay! See you Mr. Al, in a bit!」


    She said her goodbyes and ran off.


    After she left, I mentioned to the vige chief that I had applied for the quest of protecting the vige of Mulg.


    The vigers’ reactions were odd.


    「Oh! Oh…yeah…」


    (Huh?)


    Their reaction seemed a bit different from their initial one.


    「Is there a problem with that?」


    「Well, no problem…we just thought we’d get someone…younger.」


    The vige chief said haltingly.


    「Oh, I, uh, see…」


    『Need a guard in Mulg Vige. Wolves and boars attacking vige. Payment is clothing, food, and board. *Vige has a hot spring.』


    It was true that they didn’t think that a veteran woulde. That meant that they were expecting a young adventurer.


    I guess that young men were in short number here.


    If things went well, they could get a husband for a girl here, and thus they were thinking they would get the person to stay here for good.


    However, you couldn’t say that it was a good n. Young adventurers wouldn’t take a mission like this. It was a dead-end.


    At the beginning, the chief seemed a bit lost, but then again weed me. He quickly showed me to the ce where I would be staying.


    It was a bungalow that was built right next to the vige gate.


    「Sorry that this ce is so old…」


    Yeah, it was old. But it was big.


    「No! No problem at all!」


    With someone always camping out in the woods like me, a roof over my head was always wee.


    The inside of the house was dpidated, but it had a bed. I was thankful.


    Half of the ce was dirt floor. It had to have been a stable of some sort previously.


    The chief exined the job as we stood in the house.


    The job was mainly keeping enemies froming into the vige through the one gate open during the day. However, that was just the official work.


    Because no enemies were quickly making their way to attack the vige, the chief said you could pretty much just lounge around in the sun all day.


    In fact, I didn’t even need to stand guard that the gate. Even better would be for me to help those that were farming in the vige.


    Hearing him exin it all, I finally had to ask.


    「Uh, chief…」


    「What is it?」


    「Do you even need a guard?」


    It was an obvious question, and the chief shook his head.


    「Well, the wolves outside the vige have been increasing…」


    That’s why, when someone left the vige, they needed a guard.


    If, by chance, a pack of wolves attacked, or perhaps a group of bandits, he wanted me to beat them back, he said with a bow.


    「If that’s all, then I can do it with no problem.」


    Wolves and bandits were my special field.


    Continuing, the chief took me for a tour around the vige.


    About 200 people. About 60 houses and arge field surrounded by walls.


    Three wells.


    「In order to get wood, we have to go to the other side of the mountain. Even with the wells, we still have to use the river.」


    Saying that, the chief took me outside the walls to show me the mountain and river.


    「In other words, when the vigers have to go to ces like this, I’d like you to guard them.」


    「Then I will.」


    I understood the job that Mulg Vige had for me.


    「If that’s the case, then you’ll be great help!」


    As the proud vige chief said this, he had a look of great relief.


    「It seems like you’re a veteran, Alfred, so I thought that maybe you wouldn’t agree to a job like this.」


    When the old man knew that I hade to fulfill the guarding question, his hesitation probably was because he was worried I’d leave.


    「Nonono, there’s nothing wrong with this job at all. It’s true I am a veteran, but my knee was injured. So I’m perfectly FINE with being a guard.」


    「Is that so? Well, then you can take some time at our hot springs. Soaking in them is especially good for old wounds.」


    The chief prepared a weing party for me. After that, I joined them in going to the hot springs and my first day at Mulg Vige wasplete.


    Millet was busy nursing her sister back to health and didn’te to my weing party.


    I slept deciding that I would go visit Millet and her sister tomorrow as a get well visit.


    Then, just as the town descended into a sleepy silence…


    I heard the distant howls of wolves in the forest.