On Joey the Escort’s proposal, the girl pointed towards a straight path with a clear wheel track which remained.
“Well thank you but, I am not some child, I believe I wouldn’t get lost.”
“I don’t mean it like that… Or rather, no matter how I look, aren’t you a child? You’re still around 11 years old.”
By that word for some reason the girl expressing a complicated bitter smile.
“…I am more or less 13 years old, you see”
“―Eh, is that so? M-my bad.”
Girls around this age have various rate of growth, so it’s very hard to judge at this point of time. For example, a girl that is presently 15 years old would be mad when she was mistaken for a 13 years old. Grasping the meaning of the girl’s expression like that, Joey meekly bows his head to apologize.
Even a man themselves want to overreach around that age. Not to mention how a girl who’s 13 years old, in the village where Joey was born, they already married and had a kid or so… The moment when he thought so, his chest is throbbing fast.
(That’s right, she not a kid anymore, then she’s around the age where she could marry!)
He’s instantly conscious of it, the girl’s charming lips, her modest breasts, her slender legs; so he undoes his locked gaze in a big hurry. Joey then tries to warn her in an easy way.
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“You see, I know you’re obviously some kind of rich young lady, but if you’re really walking alone like this, you will get yourself involved with all kind of guys, and then you’ll… experience some unpleasant things. That’s why I will escort you till the town.”
“Aah, Indeed. The like who would kidnap me, kill me, and bury me, those kinds of guys right?”
The girl seems to easily understand the meaning of Joey’s cloudy words, and then she looks at Joey’s face with curious-like expression.
“But, is that fine? Judging from your appearance you are still empty handed, aren’t you in the middle of a job?”
“…Its fine. After all, the war dog extermination plan is completely out of place, I didn’t consider that there were 2 of them so I didn’t make any necessary preparation. ―In the first place, it feels uneasy leaving you out here!”
Hearing the word that he shouted while turning his face away to hide his embarrassment, the girl was astonished for a moment, then she smiles delightfully.
“You―are Mr. Joey right? What a good fellow you are.”
“―Wh, what are you talking about! Aren’t you just making fun of me?!”
“I don’t have any intention to do so, but I apologize if I was hurting you… However, I would feel bad if I just took advantage of your good will. ―Hmmmm, in that case as a job, can I ask you to escort me to the town and show me around? If possible, I want to see the adventurer’s guild”
“A job, huh…”
“Eh? By any chance, is a direct work request like this no good?”
“Well, although it wasn’t reflected on guild point, there was no any particular rule that prohibits it. But in case of situation like this, it’s usually done with payment in advance, moreover it normally has an extra charge in comparison with usual requests…”
This is natural, considering Joey just only became an F rank who graduated from G rank when he still an apprentice, he doesn’t know the usual reward rate for an escort request nor does he know the extra charge rate, so he can’t decide how much of a reward he would take.
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But on the girl’s side, Joey’s indecisive attitude was that he must be worrying about ‘Could she really pay?’.
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