Chapter 35 An unexpected encounter

When I came to the counter where the business was handled, there were two waitresses on duty. In addition to Tiggy in a bright green uniform, there was also a strange waitress in a goose-yellow maid uniform.

Gordon naturally went to the former, which is relatively more familiar.

 “Good morning, Tikki.”

 “Huah~”

Tiggy first covered her mouth and yawned, and then said lazily: "Good morning, Gordon~"

 The strange waitress on the side also looked over and said hello to Gordon in a friendly manner.

　　After a brief introduction, Gordon learned that the name of this lady who seemed to have a very gentle personality was Madge, and she seemed to be Miss Tikki’s predecessor.

"What's the matter? Gordon, you don't have to come here early in the morning to choose the commission, right?" Tiggy held her chin, looking weak, until Madge glared at her, then she slowly stood up straight. body.

“Yeah, I want to choose a mission and stretch my muscles. I had just been seriously injured before coming to Minagard. I lay in bed for more than a month, and now I feel like my joints are almost rusted to death.”

 “Oh? What kind of monster did you encounter and you were so seriously injured?”

Although Tiggy always gives people a lazy feeling, she is actually a very lively and talkative girl.

Gordon didn't hide anything. He curled his lips and said as if he had a toothache: "Fire Dragon, you really got beaten hard. If Pork Chop hadn't saved me, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to come back."

 “Well, then you are really weak.” Tiggy looked at Gordon with pity in her eyes.

She knew Gordon's hunter level. It was impossible for a two-star hunter to accept the mission of hunting the male fire dragon. It could only be an accidental encounter.

Bad guy

 After chatting for a few words, Tiji slammed a huge "book" on the counter table.

　　After Gordon flipped through two pages, he realized that every page on it was actually an entrustment document!

There are thirty or forty two-star missions, and the number of one-star missions is over a hundred. Just these tasks in front of you have been enough for Kokot Village for several years.

 Should it be said that it is worthy of being a meeting place in a big city?

Gordon had no interest in doing a one-star collection mission, so he chose it from a two-star mission.

As for the optional three-star mission "under special conditions", he has no plans to touch it for the time being.

Gordon thinks he has a very clear understanding of his own strength - the level of a regular two-star hunter may be a little higher, but it is definitely not at the level of a three-star hunter.

 Forcibly participating in three-star missions now is not only irresponsible to oneself, but also irresponsible to teammates.

 However, these two-star missions alone dazzled him.

 After all, he had just been promoted to a two-star hunter not long ago. Apart from the emergency mission of the Blue Dragon King, the only two-star mission he had ever taken was actually the one of stealing the fire dragon egg.

 In the end it failed.

He has no way of judging which tasks have high rewards and which tasks are appropriately difficult.

 Fortunately, Oshula taught him a trick at the dinner table yesterday.

 “Ahem.”

Putting aside the guilt in his heart, Gordon cleared his throat, bent down and carried the pork chop following him to the counter, rubbed the latter's furry little head, and said seriously:

“Miss Tiggy, if you can help me choose a suitable two-star mission, I will lend you the pork chop for ten minutes.”

Pork Chop: “Meow meow meow??”

　　Looking at the shiny white and golden fur of the pork chop, Ti Ji's eyes began to shine, and her lazy tone became urgent: "It's a deal, it's done!"

Machi: "."

It feels like the reliability of all the poster girls at the Minagarde Hunter Assembly Hall has been lowered by just one person.

Without noticing the helpless look in her senior's eyes, Tiji flipped through the task sheets. After just ten seconds, she took out one of the sheets and handed it to Gordon.

  —

 Punitive mission: plunder everywhere! The robbers of the Strange Face Clan! (★★)

 Mission content: Defeat 20 odd-faced tribesmen

 Remuneration: 4300z

 Mission location: Metabe Forest

 Limited time: 10 days

The Summer Festival of the Qimian Clan is about to begin again. These annoying guys are starting to plunder food and livestock as sacrifices. They don’t even let passing caravans go. They even rob villages. Go teach these nasty guys a lesson. The guy!

  —

 “How is it? It’s pretty good, isn’t it?” Di Ji looked proud.

Gordon has read the assignment carefully and it's really great.

The so-called strange-faced tribe is a kind of orc monster that is smaller than Ellu. Compared with the gentle and kind-hearted Ellu, these guys are much more violent and ferocious, and often attack humans actively.

The difficulty of defeating 20 odd-faced clansmen is not high. After all, you don’t need to fight large monsters. It is just more time-consuming. If there were not too many, it should be regarded as a one-star mission.

It is true that as a two-star mission, it lacks some challenges, but it can be said to be perfect for Gordon, whose bones have become loose after lying for more than a month.

 The most important thing is that the reward is also quite generous. You must know that Gordon's urgent mission of hunting the Blue Velociraptor King at that time was only 4,000 gold.

 “Very good, I’ll take this task.”

Gordon gave a thumbs up to Tiggy, and then pushed it towards Tiggy under Pork Chop's disbelieving gaze, "Pork Chop, just show off your lust, and I'll treat you to smoked cod sausage later." !”

Ti Ji, who had been impatient for a long time, took Pig Chop into her arms and began to move it around amidst the latter's "Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow!" resistance and struggle.

 “Hey hee hee hee”

Just as the waitress was caressing the cat with a crazy smile, two figures walked towards the counter, one behind the other.

Gordon looked back when he heard the noise and realized that one of the people coming was none other than Yamos, whom he had just met yesterday.

 “Senior Yamos, good morning.”

Gordon took the initiative to say hello. He still had great respect for this powerful senior.

 “Good morning Gordon.”

Yamos also smiled kindly and nodded to him.

 Selectively ignoring Ti Ji who was in a strange state, Yamos said to Madge: "Madge, show me the mission slip."

 “Okay, Lord Amos.”

Maggie bowed respectfully, picked up a thin but exquisite booklet, and before she had time to hand it to Amos, the latter waved his hands and refused:

“No, no high-level missions, just one-star and no more than two-star crusade missions. I plan to take my apprentice to the hunting ground to see blood.”

Gordon then noticed that following Yamos was a slender girl.

The girl is wearing a very new hunter suit. The style is slightly different from the men's suit he is familiar with, but the material and design style are exactly the same.

 How does it feel? It looks familiar?

Gordon muttered something in his heart, but the girl's eyes were staring directly at Tiji, or to be precise, at the struggling pork chop in Tiji's arms.

Noticing the girl's gaze, Yamos, who had some misunderstanding, smiled and said: "That Ellu is a hunting cat, a good partner who fights side by side with hunters. As for this child, I remember that he is Gordon's partner."

"You are, you are a pork chop, right?" The girl took two steps forward and asked tentatively.

".Meow?"

Suddenly hearing someone calling his name, Pig Chop stopped struggling and looked towards the other person.

After carefully identifying the girl's facial features and recalling it for a while, Zhupa finally pulled something out of his memory and said in surprise: "Are you the little girl in the caravan, meow? It seems to be called Hayata, meow?"

 (End of this chapter)