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https://kakuyomu.jp/works/1177354054922300995/episodes/1177354054922442346
According to the information, Ryuujin is apparently a dragon slayer who can conquer a dungeon all by himself.
It is hard to believe that such a superhuman being exists. There may be some exaggeration in the information, which will need to be verified in the future, but it should be considered a fact that he has some outstanding abilities.
It is true that there are adventurers who used to be low-level but suddenly break through the barriers and become a hero.
Such promising adventurers cannot be allowed to escape. The guild must somehow regain his trust and get him to come back. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the restoration of the Adventurers’ Guild begins there.
What should I do……
How about letting him rank up?
No, that has already been rejected. Just to be sure, I sent out a bored staff member on a mission and told him about the rank-up, but Ryu’s reply was that he was not interested.
At this rate, the next time Ryu comes to the Adventurers’ Guild, it will be to apply for withdrawal from the guild. We have to do something before that happens……
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Catherine decided to go see Ryu herself in person.
She should have done so from the beginning.
Since Ryuujin is also an adventurer, it was natural for him to show up at the Adventurer’s Guild, and she had been waiting for him, thinking that she would meet him eventually, but Catherine finally realized that that was arrogant. It would be better not to think that the other person is an adventurer who belongs to a guild.
Catherine instructed Leila, the receptionist, to take her to Ryuujin’s house. Leila seemed to be friendly with Ryuujin, and she thought it might be helpful to persuade him to go with her.
However, Leila also said that she was not that close to Ryuujin. She didn’t even know where he lived.
In the end, they decided to look up the address from the adventurers’ registration information kept at the guild, but since Catherine was new to the city and unfamiliar with the geography, Leila ended up guiding her there.
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Ryu lived in a rented room in a housing complex (apartment) in a corner of this city, near a slum.
The old, battered building was divided into countless small rooms, where the poor lived in cramped quarters. It was such an apartment.
The rooms are small, and in the summer it is like a steam bath with no ventilation, and in the winter it is freezing because of the draft.
The walls are thin and there is no privacy. It is like living with other apartment dwellers, and it is not comfortable, but Ryu has lived in this apartment for many years since he was thrown out of this town, and he has become completely accustomed to it.
Once he gets used to it, the proximity to his neighbors and the heat and cold become numbing, and he does not feel so uncomfortable, in fact, he even feels at home.
Ryu has been making a lot of money lately—selling dragon materials for enough money to keep him from having to work for the rest of his life—and he is ready to move out of his shabby apartment whenever he wants to, but since he didn’t feel uncomfortable, he couldn’t think of the idea to leave right away.
Ryu had no particular plans for the day, so he slept in until late afternoon. He has not been taking many requests from the Commercial Guild lately. He hasn’t even shown up at the Adventurers’ Guild recently.
After getting up, Ryu fetched water from the communal well behind his apartment, wiped himself down, and went out to a nearby church.
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It was a poor church located near a slum.
It sheltered poor orphans and other orphans who had drifted into the slums, and also acted as a kind of orphanage.
In the center of the city, near the aristocratic district, there is a splendid, ornately decorated church, but such churches only cater to the aristocrats and the wealthy.
However, the sisters of this church, who themselves are poor, live near the slums to help the poor and accept children who have lost their parents.
Ryu was at his wits’ end when he was thrown out on his own in the city and immediately robbed of his money by robbers. At that time, he was saved by the sisters of this church.
He wanted to repay her for her kindness, so he donated a large sum of money from the proceeds of the materials he sold to the sisters of this church.
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The amount of money Ryu donated to the church was a large sum of money that a slum person would never see in his or her life.
But Sister Ann accepted the money easily, without hesitation or reservation.
Did Sister Ann not understand the amount of money? No, it was impossible for Sister Ann, who is a very firm person, to do so.
Many people change when they receive a large sum of money. Ryu thought that maybe Ann would change, too, and although the possibility was small, it was not zero.
But Ryu was fine with that.
It was Sister Ann who saved Ryu, who was seriously injured by a robber and left him penniless. It was also an undeniable fact that many children in unfortunate circumstances had been saved by Ann.
Even if Ann changed her mind and quit the church or the orphanage after receiving the money, Ryu thought that it would be all right if Ann became happy personally.
If that happened, the orphanage could be done differently by him again, and that much Ryu was prepared to do…….
But nothing changed with Sister Ann.
She kept the money hidden and spent it little by little, really little by little, for the orphans.
Ann told Ryu,
[With this much money, if we continue to live as frugally as we have been, we will be able to make ends meet for the next few decades. So, no more donations. You are free to go wherever you want. Go where you want to go.]
And he did.
Now that Ryu had become the adventurer he had always wanted to be, the day would come when he would leave the city. She hoped that when that day came, he would not have to worry about the church (the orphanage), and would be able to go his own way.
However, Ryu also had no plans to leave now.
Nor does Sister want to kick him out right away.
Whenever he has free time, Ryu visits the orphanage, brings in food, and has tea with the sisters.
Thinking back, Ryu has met many terrible people since he came to this world. There have been some good encounters, but not many.
Ryu thinks that he was lucky to have met Sister Ann when he came to this town.
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