Chapter 58

Ch 58 — Goblin Subjugation Request

I went to the bulletin board to get a request immediately . As the receptionist had explained, rank G requests were quite limited . There were many menial jobs around town listed as requests but there was a note at the bottom of the list . . . oh, these jobs only earned one point . Another G rank request on the board was gathering medicinal herbs, worth two points . There were virtually no requests to subdue monsters suitable for G rank adventurers, only goblins but they were worth three points .

Uh, that’s problematic . Right then, gathering medicinal herbs it is . I can do that . When I put my hand out to take the request for gathering medicinal herbs a thought came from Fer .

“Goblins, it says there . “

“What? You can read those letters, Fer?”

“Who do you think I am?” Fer’s thought was tinged with annoyance . “I’ve lived a long time, remember, so learning to read human writing was nothing for me . “

Yeah yeah, OK . But anyway goblins are out of the question . I put my hand out again to take the medicinal herbs request and Fer interjected with a thought . “Hey, I said ‘Goblins’ didn’t I?”

“Tough . I’m going to take a request to collect herbs . “

“You need points, you said . If you want to do that you should choose goblin subjugation since it’s got the highest points . ” Fer said .

“No, I’ll earn points by working hard (safety first is my motto) . “

“What’re you talking about? We’ve not reached the ocean yet . ” Haah? Since when are you wanting to go to the ocean?

“I didn’t say anything about it before, that’s all . ” Fer shrugged . “I just decided . I want to eat Kraken and Sea Serpent . ” What the-? “So you’ll have to get up to rank F as quickly as possible . “

You might recall me mentioning my horrible experiences with goblins previously, no? Due to a certain someone’s actions . . .

“Hey, Sui? What d’you think we should do? You wanna go fire off some Acid Bullets again?” Fer said telepathically to Sui who stuck her lead out of the bag .

“A fight? Sui wants to go ‘pew pew’ shooting . ” Bah, Fer’s enlisted Sui on his side .

“No, Sui, we don’t wan’t to go ‘pew pew’ shooting, medicinal herbs, we want to go gather some don’t we? They’ll be made into all sorts of nice medicines . ” I argued desperately .

“Ehhh . ” Sui sounded disappointed . “Sui can make medicines to cure painful wounds . Better Sui goes to shoot ‘pew pew’, fight . ” Unfortunately that was true, Sui had a restorative medicine creation skill .

“Sui agrees with me, take the goblin subjugation request . “

“Goblins? Green goblins? Sui go ‘pew pew’ at the goblins, finish them off good . ” S- Sui-chan?

“You’re outnumbered . ” said Fer contentedly . Gaaaah . I give up . I can’t say no to cute Sui when she says she wants to go ‘pew pew’ and finish them off good . I plucked the goblin subjugation request off the board and took it to the receptionist .

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The request entailed subjugating goblins which lived in the forest east of the city . The receptionist explained that was the most common place for them to appear . The request was for killing five goblins and the reward was three silver coins and three points . Right, let’s go hunt goblins and then return to the city . That’s best . We ran into a group of three goblins as soon as we entered the forest .

“Aruji-, can I go ‘pew pew pew’?” Sui asked excitedly .

“All yours . ” I said .

Pew pew pew . The goblins were hit in the belly by Sui’s Acid Bullets and fell to the ground with a thump . The dead goblins had large holes burned in their middles . Awesomely lethal, our Sui is .

“Skillful as ever, Sui . We’ll cut off the ears as evidence that we got the goblins, Sui, so remember to hit them in the belly like just now and don’t aim for the head . “

“I got it-“

I’ve got to cut off the right ears of the goblins to prove we killed them to claim the reward . Actually I don’t really want to do it but I had to, I suppose . . . I took my knife and started cutting the ears off, dropping them into a sack I had bought on the way out of the city . I felt sick, uuuurp . . .

I pulled myself together and we moved off again, looking for more goblins in the forest .

“Hey, there’s another five goblins over there . ” Fer said . I followed his gaze .

“Can Sui do it-?””Wait, Sui . This guy here will do it this time . ” Fer ordered . Me? Well, OK . We’re in the forest so I’ll use Stone Bullet rather than Fireball . Right, concentrate and-

“Stone Bullet!-” Pebbles smacked into the goblins . Two fell down with a thump but the other three weren’t hurt too much . They screamed as they ran towards us waving their clubs .

“Stone Bullet! Stone Bullet! Stone Bullet!-” The goblins running towards me fell down . Fuuh, I managed to stop them . I need to fire off three Stone Bullets to do the job it seems or some of them could get away . I should remember that . Safety first .

I bent down and cut off the ears of the dead goblins . With eight ears that’s us done .

“We’ve completed the request, let’s go back to the city . . . Fer?” Fer was sniffing the ground then he looked up, gazing deep into the forest .

“What’s up?”

“There’s a goblin village up ahead . “

“What, a village?”

“Let’s go . “

“Whaddya mean, ‘let’s go’ . We’re not going anywhere except back to the city . “

“If you hunt more goblins, you’ll get more points won’t you? So if we go to the goblin village and kill them all then you’ll get lots of points . “Well, I suppose so but goblins and especially goblin villages hold bad memories for me .

“Sui, do you still wanna fight?”

“Uh-huh, Sui wants to fight more, shoot lots more ‘pew pew pew’!”

Damn it, this bastard’s got Sui on his side again .

“Eh? Sui, we’ve done enough, we could be back in the city in ten minutes . “

“Eh-, don’t . Sui wants to shoot more ‘pew pew pew’, Aruji-“

Sui, when did you become such a battle maniac? You bounce around and jump up and down and are so healing and comfortable and that’s enough .

“That’s how it is . Give up and get on me . ” Fer ordered . Geh, I lost again .

“Can I go ‘pew pew pew’ some more? Yahoo!” Sui bounced around and jumped up and down . Somehow that made me feel happier . Then she jumped up to my chest and trembled . “Thanks so much, Aruji- I love you-“

Ah, Sui-tan is sooo cute . She loves to fight but her true strength is in her cuteness .

“Hoi, hurry up . ” Yeah yeah . I’m just enjoying being cuddled by Sui . I put her in her bag and then I straddled Fer’s back .