“So the soldiers were targeting that vilge?”- Ayame spoke in a low voice, her eyes darting back and forth on a piece of paper reading its contents.

  “Yes, are there any other vilges there?”- I whispered back to her. We are sitting on a couch, she is sitting in the middle, and Hana and I are sitting on the sides.

  “Yes, I am afraid there are other problems right now with the nation of monsters that need our immediate attention. You will have to live there for some time and help rebuild a broken vilge in the nation.”- Ayame rapidly extended her hand to a stack of papers. She is searching frantically for something, but why the sudden rush?

  “Here. This is a house design blueprint. We need a carpenter to build it. But where do we find one?”

  “Maybe we can find one in Welcia. We won’t use Fumiko this time. We will make the carpenter come to us willingly. The only thing that we will need from Fumiko will be money”- Hana whispered to Ayame, she searched for another paper from Ayame’s stack and wanted us to read it.

  It writes ^Budget allocation^, looking down at the remaining budget we got ptinum coins to spare.

  “The Plundering still has some money to spare, we already have that covered. Now we need to find the carpenter, we can’t request more of Fumiko than we already did.”- Ayame took the paper out of Hana’s hand, she pced it back into the paper pile.

  “Well, have you told her about this? That we need to do more stuff in the nation of monsters than we first anticipated?”- Hana sighed and closed her eyes, ying on her back on the couch.

  “Yes, I already told her all that she needs to know. She said that you two can go today. The supplies are already prepared. You can find them in the kitchen. You will have to travel to the same vilge you were before and from there you must go North. You will find some tents there with other monsters like you two.”- Ayame pulled a sheet of crumbled paper out of her pockets.

  “Is this the vilge yout or something simir?”- It looks like a drawing of three mountains that are close to one another

  “No, but you should know you are in the right pce if you see this. The vilge is right behind the mountain”- Ayame gave the paper to Hana.

  “Ok, now all we need is to search for a carpenter, right? Well, we should search in Welcia for one, we are more likely to find one there. We are off!”

  Welcia:

  We went to Welcia to find a carpenter. And where better pce to find one than in a workshop?

  “What brings you two here? Think I seen people somewhere”- The man is dressed in a leather apron with thick clothes and gloves. When we arrived in the workshop he was carving a piece of wood with his chisel.

  “Well, we would like a carpenter to build some houses or at least teach us how to build houses. There are some people in need of houses in an isoted vilge in the mountains.”- The carpenter got back to his work, with slow and precise hand movements he continued to carve the piece of wood.

  “Well, I can go there, but I don’t have anyone to protect me, plus the traveling fees are high. It will cost you”- He looked up toward up. His pupils are small and seem to be ser-focused on us.

  “We can protect you and go with you on a route where there are no travel fees. You know who we are don’t you?”- Hana took over the conversation.

  “I really don’t. But you guys look strong”- The man stopped carving, he gently put back his tools on the rack. He sat on a chair near him looking straight at Hana.

  “Well, we are Lord Fumiko’s guards. She permitted us to do this. She would be grateful if you could assist us here”- Hana did a small bow in front of the carpenter.

  “Well, I can’t say no, can I? How much money are we talking about?”- The man starts to get uneasy, I can see his palms starting to sweat and his breathing begins to get faster and faster.

  “Well, 10 ptinum coins when you get there and 5 more once you build a few houses there. I know it will take a long time but please accept our offer”- Hana extended her hand toward the carpenter.

  “That’s a lot for a few houses. Ok, I accept. When are we starting to travel? I will be free in three days.”- We left the workshop, the man continued his work and we returned home.

  We went straight to Fumiko and expined the whole situation to her. She already knows most of it from Ayame, we just filled in some gaps Ayame left.

  “So, you found a bcksmith”- Fumiko continued to look over papers while yawning loudly.

  “Yes, we did find one. In total, we use 15 ptinum coins from Plundering’s funds. He accepted and now we are waiting 3 more days for him to be ready”- I took a fast look over a paper she is struggling to complete. With Sia’s help, I was able to finish it for her.

  “Well, as long as Akira and Oka stay here then I will have nothing to worry about. Ok, guys. Help me out with this batch, I will go to sleep afterward”- Fumiko pointed to the huge pile of paperwork she has left.

  “Leave it to me, master”- Akira appeared out of nowhere from behind me.

  “Don’t scare me like that Akira!”- Hana turned around. She has her hand clutched into a fist ready to strike Akira.

  I managed to hold her off. We continued to complete the papers with Akira, finishing in an hour or so.

  This is it for today. 2 more days of waiting for the carpenter to finish his work here and come with us to the nation of monsters to build houses there