CH 51

"Dismantling the Orcs, and Doing Another Thing."

Translated by Dawn

After returning to town, I immediately headed for the Adventurers’ Guild. After saying a few words to Nicole at the reception counter, I headed toward the dismantling site.

As soon as I entered the dismantling site, Bold spotted me and came over. He is …… still the same dazzling old head.

“Oh, boy, you’re back. Where are the orcs?”

“I’ve retrieved it. Can I put it out here?”

“Yes.”

With Bold’s approval, the orc herd and the orc general are taken out of the place. In the spacious dismantling area, the ugly, pig-faced monsters are laid out in a narrow space.

Other employees showed a variety of expressions such as those who were fired up by the removal of the orcs and those who were dumbfounded with their mouths hanging open. Bold’s announcement comes as if to encourage these employees.

“Alright, boys, we’ve got work to do! Don’t think you’re going home today!”

(Is this a Black company……)

The thought of what the labor laws of the Adventurers’ Guild were like comes to mind, but then I realize that the world I am in now was another world, and I shake my head and switch to get rid of the values that were tainted by my previous life.

The time was still before noon, and I was pondering what to do with the time I had left when I had a good idea and asked Bold.

“Hey, old man, you got a minute?”

“What’s up?”

“Actually, I was wondering if you could teach me how to dismantle an Orc. I haven’t dismantled an Orc yet.”

“Oh, sure. It’s good for us to have more dismantling crews!”

So Bold taught me how to dismantle orcs, which I quickly learned because it was not a particularly difficult technique to dismantle them.

The main materials of orcs are meat and bones, and I heard that testicles are the most highly-priced of their race. I was a little curious, so I asked him about it.

“Why would something like that fetch such a high price?”

“I heard that it is used as an ingredient for a tonic or energy-boosting drug and that the drug sells for a ridiculously high price to the nobility.”

“Vi**ra, huh.” (+)

“What’s that?”

“Nothing. I’m talking about this.”

Orc testicles have apparently become explosively popular among the nobility as an energizer. However, due to the lack of a stable supply route for orcs themselves and the fact that there are not so many apothecaries who can prepare the energizer, the supply cannot keep up with the demand, causing the price to skyrocket.

“Well, I don’t need to rely on those pills, I’m always hard! Gahahahaha.”

“……that’s right since you are bald—”

“I’m not bald!”

When I turned my attention to the employee who was proceeding with the dismantling work while lightly brushing off the old man’s banter, he seemed to be having a great deal of difficulty in carving the meat. The orc’s body is wrapped in very tough fat, making it difficult to even insert the blade with an ordinary dismantling knife. When I thrust my dismantling knife at it, it did not penetrate the blade at all, so I was given a steel knife from the dismantling area to borrow.

“Damn, it’s going to be a long day.”

“Haha, but if you force it, you’ll ruin the material. We have to be steady here–”

“Hmmm, oh it cuts. Okay, now I can dismantle it in a jiffy.”

“…”

Since there was no way out of this situation, I applied wind magic to the steel dismantling knife to improve the sharpness of the blade. The work, which used to take more than an hour, was over in just a few minutes.

Bold, who was witnessing the scene, froze with a look of incredulity on his face. The combination of his muscular body and the lack of hair on his head makes him look like an artistic Greek sculpture.

“B-b-bo-boy? W-what did you do?”

“It was hard to cut, so I used wind magic to make it easier.”

“T-that magic, can you put it on my knife?”

“I can. There.”

What I used was a simple magic trick of putting wind magic on the knife itself to improve the sharpness of the knife, so this magic can be used with any knife other than the one I use.

When I told him this, I used the same magic on his knife to make it sharper, though I was suspicious of Bold, who choked on his words but asked me with a serious expression.

“T-this guy is amazing! That orc cuts like a slice of slime. With this, we’ll be able to finish dismantling by evening! Gahahaha!”

As expected of a professional dismantler, he finished dismantling the orc more skillfully than I did. It was probably not my imagination that his head was shining in proportion to how lively Bold was.

Then, other dismantling workers who had been watching the scene asked me to cast a spell on their knives as well. Since there was no reason to refuse, I cast magic on the knives of everyone present, and they began to make a fuss, just as Bold had done, but they soon concentrated on their work and completed the dismantling quickly.

After that, it was lunchtime when I had finished dismantling the third orc, so I thanked them for teaching me how to dismantle it and decided to leave the rest of the orcs to them when it was time to eat lunch.

I insisted on eating lunch, which triggered the others to take a lunch break as well, and we had lunch at the Adventurers’ Guild Tavern.

As I was washing the dirt from the dismantling clean with the water magic method, for some reason I felt their eyes on me, so I turned my head in that direction and they all rolled their eyes and looked at me.

“What is it?”

“B-boy? How do you do that?”

“I’m just washing it off with water magic.”

“Can you do that to us?”

“Yeah, I can.”

As with the dismantling, I washed everyone with water magic and cleaned off the places that had been stained by the dismantling. Everyone was stunned when they saw this, but I was more hungry than anything else, so I left the frozen people alone and headed for the guild’s bar.

“I can finally eat lunch–”

“Ara, Rolando-san, are you having lunch now too?”

“Ah, Nicole and the others too?”

“Yes, we are. Do you mind if we join you?”

“Yeah, sure.”

On the way to the tavern, I ran into a group of guild employees, including Mirian and Nicole, who were also about to eat lunch, so we decided to eat together. We sat down at an open table, and just as we finished placing our order with the waitress who came to take our order, Bold and the other dismantling workers arrived…….

“Oh, old man. Go ahead and order already—”

“Boy! No, Rolando! Come work with me as a dismantling crew!!”

“……out of the blue?”

Your abilities should be used for dismantling. So work for me as a dismantling worker–guah.”

“Hm?”

Bold, who was supposed to come at me with great force, stumbled in front of me as if something had hit him. It seems that it was Nicole who hit Bold, and as she puts both fists on her hips from a fist-swinging stance, she says to Bold, who is still lying on the floor,

“Bold-san, we’ve come to the conclusion that we will respect his wishes on the matter, haven’t we? What are you soliciting again so naturally?”

“Isn’t that obvious? This guy has a talent for dismantling. I’d say he’s a genius! That’s why I decided to give all the demolition skills I have to him!”

“What are you saying, you’ve gone bald on the inside as well as the head?”

Nicole, who could not be more cynical, refutes Bold without backing down a step.

“W-what the heck, girl! How many times have I told you I’m not bald!”

“You have no hair! If you don’t call that bald, what do you call it!”

“Anyway, Rolando will get the dismantling job!”

“That’s not going to happen! Rolando-san will continue to be the adventurer he has always been!”

From there, the Nicole vs. Bold battle began again, but this time it wasn’t the only one. To my surprise, the dismantling workers who had seen my magic also began to insist that I should do the dismantling work, and the guild officials who knew me began to argue with them to refute them.

The situation has escalated into a guild staff vs. dismantling workers, a dispute between some of the guild’s departments. The adventurers caught up in the commotion were looking on with puzzled expressions on their faces, but they were watching the situation without intervening. Some of them even tried to start a bet on who would win, leading to a kind of festive atmosphere.

“I-it’s chaos…”

It’s no exaggeration to say that I, the central figure in this situation, was silently watching the scene from the sidelines. I should probably be there to stop it, but since this time it wasn’t just a personal argument between Nicole and Bold, it was difficult for me to stop it on my own.

In the meantime, the food I ordered was placed on the table, and I decided to wait for the commotion to subside while eating my lunch for the time being. I am the one who eats lunch in such a situation, but I am also impressed that the waiter who arranges the food on the table without any problems is also very brave.

Then, some acquaintances of mine who had come to the Adventurers’ Guild heard the commotion and came toward me. Yes, it was Gyrmzak and the others.

After Maylene’s training, there were three people who were exhausted on the way back to town, so I gave them new instructions that they could use weak physical strengthening for the time being, but they returned unexpectedly quickly.

“Oh, Sense–not, Rolando-kun. What’s all this fuss?”

“Actually…”

I was eating lunch alone at the center of the commotion when the four of them came up to me and I told them what had happened.

“Mister Bold! Is it true that you’re going to turn Rolando-boy into a dismantling worker?”

“Yes, he’ll make a good dismantler. There is no mistaking in my eyes.”

“I-I’m going to stop you from doing that! Shisho–this boy should be an adventurer!”

“I disagree with you, too.”

“Sense–Rolando, you’re an adventurer. It’s wrong for you to be a dismantler.”

“I’m sorry, Mister Bold. For once I disagree with you. Rolando-boy deserves to be an adventurer.”

“Fuuh, very well! Then it’s war!”

The situation was further aggravated by the addition of A-rank adventurers, Gyrmzak, and the others. With no one to stop them, I could do nothing but watch, munching on my lunch salad like a herbivore.

Next, I bite into a piece of black bread while chewing on the main dish of grilled Dashboa. The flavor of the meat and the bread matched each other perfectly, creating quite a nice harmony of flavors.

Finally, while sipping the thin but filling soup and enjoying lunch with the hustle and bustle of the surroundings as background music, suddenly an angry voice echoed through the room.

“Enough of thiiiiisss!!!”

The voice was so loud that it shook the entire guild, and even I, who was eating my lunch, shook my shoulders for a moment. I looked in the direction of the culprit who had uttered the voice and saw the guild master standing there with a devilish look on his face.

The general guild employees and dismantling workers were so frightened that they could not speak, and the guild was enveloped in silence as if it were a lie that so much noise had been made.

“What’s all this fuss? Explain it!”

“Actually—”

Mirian explained in a casual manner in response to the guildmaster’s question. By the way, Myrian was not participating in this commotion and was having lunch with me. I thought that her attitude was too leisurely, but since I was also having lunch under the circumstances, I guess I can’t say anything about others.

As he listens to her explanation, the guildmaster’s brow wrinkles up. Clearly, he is clearly angry.

After hearing everything from Mirian, the guildmaster grabbed Bold by the scruff of the neck and began giving instructions to the others.

“All the staff except Nicole and Mirian should return to work immediately after their lunch break. And the boy, Gyrmzak, and the others come to my office after this. Let’s go, bald man.”

“W-wait a minute, Darren! Who’s bald? I told you I’m not bald!”

“Just come! Or should I make you a body where you’ll never grow hair again right here……?”

“Guuh…I’m going.”

Bold, perhaps sensing the unusual atmosphere of the guildmaster, is quietly taken away. I, Nicole, and the other members of the guild followed behind him.

When we arrived at the office, Bold and Nicole were given a big lecture. The main focus was on Bold, but since Nicole was not completely blameless, she was also reprimanded in no small measure.

After the sermon continued for the next 30 minutes or so, I had to break off the sermon and report on the day’s events.