Huge Holy 11

11 - Each of their circumstances (except you, you broke the engagement, you’re no good)

RAW

In front of the valley, several monsters were loitering around.
If it's just one or two I can understand, but I can confirm around ten of them with just a quick look with [Scan].

It's still hard to say whether they didn’t manage to catch up with dealing with monsters overflowing from the dungeon, or whether the nobles are slacking off.
I killed a total of ten each of the Horned Rabbit and Needle Raccoon... rabbit monsters with a horn growing on their head and raccoon monsters with needles growing on them like hedgehogs. I put their corpses in the traps and set them in suitable locations.

After that, until the meeting time, I will look for potential side jobs in the town.

If I were looking for a job, then I guess it would be a good idea to go to the government office, but what the government office will offer me is [a job that pays], not [the side job I'm looking for].
What I’m looking for is the so-called miscellaneous work that makes use of light magic.

Whether it's the delivery business, the farming business, or the cleaning business, there are a lot of miscellaneous works that are judged to be trivial enough to not hire people.
What I unearthed was――an acceptable cleaning business.
But, it's not just a simple cleaning.
It is cleaning problematic places, such as bakeries and factories, where there are stubborn dirts or where their age is showing.

This kind of thing is profitable for earning experience points, so I have no complaints at all.
At least I won't be taking anyone’s job.

Now then, the problem is――…

☆

At first I suspected that the nobles here were just playing at hunting, but that doesn't necessarily seem to be the case.

The leader of the party this time, Christoph Le Crezio.
He is the son of B Republic's trader [Crezio Company], the eldest son even.
Christoph, a young man with refreshing blond hair that looks like something out of a shoujo manga, talks about himself as he was greeting me.

“My parents run a trading business, but they are zealous [Job Adherents] you see. I myself am a [Job Adherent], so I didn't have much of a problem choosing the path of an adventurer, but... I regret that I ended up putting all the responsibility of running the household on my brother.”

In this different world, there exist a certain number of ideologies.
One of them is [Job Adherent].

A Job is a gift from God.
Hence, a person’s Job is their mission and raison d'être――that’s the idea.

Even a bon vivants trader like Christoph, if he were to awaken the [Swordsman] Job, he ought to go toward that path.
Christoph himself is a [Job Adherent], so it’s fine, but if he's not, he'll have a hard time.
Even though he was ready to take over as the head of the family, he was forced out of the house because his parents were [Job Adherents]. It is not rare for this kind of thing to happen.

A timid man with disheveled black hair and glasses nervously greeted me.

“I, I'm Sedoor. Right now I'm just Sedoor... I'm Christoph-kun's classmate. My Job is Appraiser... because of that, I was disinherited from my family.”

The second of the isekai ideologies, [Job Discrimination].
There is a use for any Job, but when it comes to the nobles, children with a Job that is not fitting for nobles are discriminated against as an inferior and are expelled or disinherited.

Those nobles have the tendency of having high class Jobs such as [Sword Saint] and [Saintess] while having no actual combat experience.
A waste of talent in the true sense of the word.

A suspicious-looking man with short black hair that looks like a comedian amiably says.

“I guess this is where I also introduce myself? My name is Randy. Same as Sedoor, I was disinherited, and I managed to join this guild using Christoph’s name~ Nice to meet you~♪”

That’s when Sedoor interjects.

“No, you are different from me, you haven’t been disinherited right!?”

“Huh? Is that so? I thought I was, you know.”

Reluctantly, Christoph explained.

“You see, Randy caused a [Broken Engagement Scandal] last month. His father got really angry. When I offered to let him join the party as an adventurer, he narrowly managed to get his disinheritance canceled if he were to dedicate his whole life as an adventurer…”

T-this guy. No, this guy… is an idiot!
If you ruined the [Political Marriage] that your parents thought through, you should be disinherited!!

Unfortunately, this is the third thing that happens in isekai, the [breaking off an engagement out of true love].

In the past, it seems that such an insane idea did not exist (how could there be?), but in recent years, a certain novel has become popular among the nobility.
That is, abandon the political marriage and tie the knot with someone who taught him the real, the true love… It is a romantic love story according to the public opinion.
Apparently, the young people were so impressed by the final scene in the novel, in which the engagement is broken off in front of the public, that they started doing it all the time.

At one point, there was a country that was in chaos because the excessive number of broken engagements, a country that took advantage of that to cause a coup d'etat, a country that banned the novel itself and demanded the death penalty for the author, and even a country that passed a ridiculous bill called the [True Love Prohibition Act].
I thought things had settled down and the boom had passed nowadays but…

Randy, the man in question, excuses himself like this.

“That's wrong! Hey, old man. Listen to me! My fiancée is shit even though she has a cute face. You see, she was a daughter in a house who despised her because she was the child of the mistress, she was the one who proposed the engagement.”* (T/N: can’t tell if the fiancee is the one who was despised or if there’s another daughter, the ‘true love’ who was despised and wanted him to break up with the fiancee and get engaged with her.)

…Is that ‘old man’ supposed to be me? I’m twenty though.

Well... if he is an adventurer, he wouldn’t be disinherited.
This may seem like a lukewarm measure, but adventurers are side by side with life and death. It's a job where you can't get ahead safely.

In other words, if he dies an honorable death as an adventurer, the disinheritance will be dropped.
But, if this Randy can't be used even as an adventurer, he'll probably be disinherited for real this time.

Also... there should be another person here, but only these three gathered.

“Um, where's the other one?”

When I asked, the three of them made unhappy expressions.

“Heinz-kun. He doesn’t want to participate in the quest... he goes somewhere else.”

“His Job is [Farmer] right? Doesn't he feel like he’s at his limit??”

“He was focusing on raising his level until recently, but he stopped participating in quests because he said there was no point in raising his level…”

…Ha? What the hell are they saying??

I can't believe it, I speak.

“It can't be helped isn’t it. Defeating monsters only raises the Job level, it doesn't raise the farmer's skill level.”

“““?”””

Oi oi, you’re joking right?
These guys don’t know anything don’t they…

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(T/N: セドオア: Sedoor. This is not Theodore, that’s セオドア. Maybe I should use Thedore anyway?

translating ‘isekai’ into ‘another world’ felt awkward, because another world could mean modern world, sci-fi world, etc.)

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