Kojiin Tamer

I'm going to the dragon forest again today to collect.

Even though it's just kids, I've been going in and out of the town gates lately due to the presence of Cruz and Ilya, who are a little older than me.

Normally, children are not allowed out of town alone, but the soldiers who guard the gates know the current state of the orphanage, so they had to be let out specially.

Also, it costs money to enter the town except for residents and adventurers/commercial guild members, but this was also given free of charge. You live in the town, so you're not a resident? You might think, but we weren't nominally recognized as residents, as we didn't pay taxes.

It's not good to be indebted to them, so I always gave them a little fruit on the way home. The soldiers are happy to see us.

'Oh, you orphanage monks! Are you in the dragon forest today?''

Yes.

I said, "Watch out for the road!

""Yes!"

Oh, and the number of adventurers you've been seeing lately has been increasing, so watch out for the jerks!

Bad people?

'A lot of adventurers have been coming to this town lately, and they're causing a lot of trouble for the residents. That's keeping us busy, too.

There are people like that?

''I'm an adventurer, but I hear he does very little guild work. I heard that someone threatened the residents' harvest in the Dragon Forest the other day.

There are people like that?

Apparently they're hired by the Lord to work for him. Well, I'll tell you what, you're all gonna have to watch out. If they do anything to you, I'll tell you!

Oh, I understand. Thank you very much. See you later.

""I'm off..."

Pui." "Cui.

Hey, have a nice day!

I know it's been bad lately, but I never knew there were people like that around.

We've got to watch out for that.

You guys don't want to go out of town alone either, do you?

"Yes.

Then we arrived at the Dragon Forest and headed to our usual spot. But it's true that we've been passing adventurers more and more lately.

Unlike in the past, I no longer hide, but I tried to stay away from them since they were only children.

However, there is a limit to how much you can avoid seeing them when there are so many more of them.

'If there are so many people here, there's not much to pick around here.

Well, maybe we should change the location a bit.

Totally.

''Well, if we're going to change places, we'll have to go deeper into the forest or farther away from the street entrance.

"It's not safe to go in the back, okay?

'Well, it's not safe for us to go back there yet. Well then, let's go a little farther today and find a new place!

I disagreed with Cruz-kun's opinion, as I thought it would be dangerous without weapons and armor. And then I decided not to go deep into the forest, and decided to look for a place away from the road near the town where I usually gather.

We came to a place about an hour away from the forest entrance.

We wanted to go to our usual spot on the way, but we gave up because of the presence of people.

It was time to start collecting, so each of us explored the area. Pi-chan's aerial view, my magic detection, Cruz and his sister's sense of smell, and Ilya and Miu's sense of hearing.

Then we found a weak magical reaction. It's just that the reactions are so weak that I'm not sure how many there are. Cruz-kun also seemed to smell blood.

Ilya and the others say they can hear something crying.

We decide to approach cautiously to check it out.