Dukk... Duukkk...
I cleaned my shoes which had make a muscular man to faint until his body went limp.
Several adventurers' eyes were on , and their gazes observed my every gesture.
"This is the first ti I've seen soone who has a personal grudge like this pathetic man, did sothing happen before?" I asked one of the female staff of the Adventurer's Guild who stood frozen after seeing pressing the head of the Adventurer's Guild Master.
"Ahh... T-That..." With a face full of hesitation as if sothing was holding her back from saying words, the female staff of the Adventurer's Guild turned her head as if looking for sothing.
"C-Can I whisper sothing to you.. Uhmm... Miss...??" when she wanted to say a sentence directed at , the female staff of the Adventurer's Guild seed to have difficulty finding a suitable nickna to address properly.
"Lily Schwartz De Roml," I said to introduce myself while showing the cape engraved with the Marquess Roml family crest.
"Uhhmm... L-Lily-sama… I-It seems that our Adventurer Guild Master has a personal grudge against the noble girl who has been burdening so adventurers here with her financial and labor costs for the past few years," the female Adventurer Guild staff replied, glancing left and right while lowering her voice to a whisper.
"A personal grudge against a noble girl? Which noble family would dare to directly disrupt Marquess Roml's territory?" I asked without lowering my voice so that my words echoed clearly inside the Adventurer Guild building.
"Uuuhh… T-That's because that noble girl has a higher authority than Marquess Roml, so we can't possibly act impolitely by refusing every strange request of hers… I guess?" as if trying to rember the burden that the Adventurer Guild Master had once received who had to submit to the noble girl, the female Adventurer Guild staff looked restless after telling this information.
"Soone who is above Marquess Roml's nobility? Do you know about this, Earl Timoti?" I continued asking Earl Timoti.
My purpose in asking Earl Timoti was right on target. Before my family went on vacation, only Earl Timoti had prepared himself to guard our territory's forest and control the monster population along with Marquess Roml's troops who were intentionally left behind to control the forest population so that there would be no wild monster invasions entering the nearby town.
"I think I know the noble girl that this bastard ntioned… I an the Adventurer's Guild Master ntioned, Lily-sama," replied Earl Timoti who called the Adventurer's Guild Master a bastard.
"… Uhuh?" I replied patiently until Earl Timoti told what he knew while my family was on vacation.
"It has sothing to do with the arrival of Princess Anastasia who had a complicated plan to settle in this town while building her own house so that she could find out information about your return from the family vacation, Lily-sama," said Earl Timoti while giving the answer that beca the source of this problem.
"Then… what problem happened that this stupid muscle man had a personal grudge against a noble girl?" I asked Earl Timoti further.
"Let think about it, Lily-sama. Rembering Princess Anastasia's stubborn behavior in the Royal Palace and in this territory has a thin thread that is difficult to distinguish to be called... a problem," while stroking his chin and closing his eyes, Earl Timoti seed to be struggling to rember Princess Anastasia's behavior that caused soone to have a personal grudge against her.
"If I'm not mistaken, Princess Anastasia once hired several adventurers as construction workers who brought building materials to build her private house until the private house beca the subject of a dispute between Princess Anastasia and the King," continued Earl Timoti who dug into his past tiline mories about Princess Anastasia's behavior that caused soone to have a personal grudge against every noble girl.
"There was a case where Princess Anastasia hired several adventurers who were experts in carrying out stealthy Quests to break into Marquess Roml's residence that I was guarding."
"Fortunately, I managed to block her path from entering Marquess Roml's residence which had beco my responsibility as the sword and shield of your family, Lily-sama."
I was stunned after hearing so of Princess Anastasia's behavior while I was on vacation with my family.
"The biggest problem that happened was Princess Anastasia who tried to destroy the Adventurer's Guild building because one of the Adventurer's Guild staff wanted to reject her strange Quest request until the fight reached the legal institution of the Aurora Kingdom Capital."
"Uuhh… Wooow, I didn't expect Princess Anastasia to be that crazy, did she win the trial?" asked Alyssa who seed interested in this story.
"You could say that Princess Anastasia won like a landslide in the trial so that this stupid-looking man had to pay damages for violating several rules of the Adventurer's Guild vows... that make the Adventurer's Guild shouldn't have rejected her Quest... as her Quest not violated any rules to be broken," replied Earl Timoti in answer to Alyssa's question.
"Yup, Princess Anastasia is a crazy girl for a long ti. I have to be more careful if Lily-nee is alone with her," said Alyssa with a smile at .
Alyssa's smile was directed at with her cold gaze that was looking at the future accident with her girl's intuition.
"Let's just assu this is a misunderstanding," I said to stop this complicated problem from becoming a new problem.
"Ignore your weak Adventurer's Guild Master, is there anyone who has the power to make my request for a Quest known to the adventurers here and elsewhere?" I asked the remaining Adventurer's Guild staff in this place.
Swiilrr...
Poosshh...
"Considering that the enemy this ti is the Golden King Bear, the Marquess Roml family has responded to a major threat that could potentially beco dire if not dealt with imdiately…" using the magic circle formation of the Soul Ta of stealth sli number forty-seven, I showed them the ergency situation that had to be responded to properly.
My Soul Ta magic formation showed the courage of one of the stealth slis hiding near the Golden King Bear who was trying to eat the magic cores of the King and Queen Slis that looked hard in its mouth.
The hard magic cores made it seem like the Golden King Bear was having difficulty swallowing them raw.
Unlike magic cores processed with human Alchemist technology, monsters, and animals only have the knowledge to eat magic cores to digest the power of the magic energy possessed by the magic cores.
Kraaauukkk...
Crraasshhh...
"As you can see, the Golden King Bear has now beco a serious threat that must be dealt with properly, right?" While letting out my cold and nacing grin, I showed the people who are still inside the Adventurer's Guild building the threat and destruction of the Golden King Bear could cause.
Just by showing the silhouette of the Golden King Bear and the power of its raw magical energy that ca out of its body, it had given the hunting difficulty level equal to a Calamity Disaster.
Baaaammm!!
Once again I stomped the heavy bag filled with gold coins.
"Can you take care of the Quest request to do this Golden King Bear hunting?"
"Ahh!! One more thing... it needs to be underlined that this will be a high-level Quest with a monster hunting scale equal to a Calamity Disaster!"
With a smile on my face, I emphasized every word I said until this abnormal Quest was able to attract the attention of all the civilians' eyes and the adventurers' eyes that were spread across every branch.
"Lily-sama, you seem to have forgotten one important thing," Earl Timoti chid in, drawing everyone's attention.
"This Golden King Bear hunting operation will be entirely under your command as the holder of the command baton representing Patriarch Marquess Roml!" Earl Timoti's words made my body jump.
"Eh? I have to lead this Golden King Bear hunting operation?" I whispered back to Earl Timoti.
"Don't you want to continue the follow-up attack together with the stealth sli herd to take back their cave?"
Earl Timoti's answer made my back break out in a cold sweat again.
The stealth sli herd and the group of adventurers who will hunt the Golden King Bear who are led in my direction?
Wouldn't this be a difficult task for my amateurish ability to lead a large-scale attack operation?
"Ohh!! I understand now, Lily-sama. You must be talking about my soldiers working together with Marquess Roml's soldiers as the main attackers while being assisted by the stealth sli herd and the adventurers who are willing to contribute to this large-scale attack, right?" The question given by Earl Timoti has beco a ti bomb that exploded inside .
Behind my expressionless face, I could feel the terrible workload when receiving the command baton given directly by my father as his replacent.
I swallowed my saliva to calm my rapidly beating heart.
My hand imdiately pressed down my military cap until it covered my face with a black shadow.
"It seems that you realize the mistake that has occurred, Earl Timoti," I said to play my role as a military girl.
If my Goddess saw this, she might have gone crazy with my roleplay which suddenly increased the level of difficulty rapidly.
[ Is it wrong if I enjoy this too much, Lily-chan? ]
Hearing the reply from my Goddess, I was able to let out a heavy breath with my heartbeat calming down again.
"This freaky-heavy problem has beco a responsibility that I must take as my father's representative! Let us return ho to plan our attack strategy!" I imdiately stood up and headed towards the exit of the Adventurer's Guild building.
My cape, which had the Marquess Roml family crest carved into it, seed to be waving as the cold wind managed to penetrate through the gaps in the door that was not completely closed.
My footsteps as I left the Adventurer's Guild building felt like they were stabbing my already heavy back.
This invisible burden.
How can I reduce it?
This Matriarch's burden... is so heavy!
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