Justice!
The adventurer's guild notice board was covered with lots of papers, all of them requests.
To take a request, you needed a level, and adventurer teams of a certain level could only take requests of their own level or one level higher.
That means the F-level "Black Wolf Second" team could only take F-level and E-level adventurer requests.
But these levels didn't have any interesting requests, mostly just jobs you could do in town.
Like tidying up a warehouse, helping with cooking, keeping accounts, finding lost pets, getting rid of pests, and so on.
Each one was easy to do, but the reward was small.
It was less like an adventurer's request and more like a day job for a bum.
However, every adventurer basically starts with the lowest level tasks. Shirou didn't mind doing good deeds, and he was completely fine with doing this kind of low-paying work.
"Let's just pick a task at random and get it done."
Shirou glanced and saw that most of the F-level requests were simple.
The E-level requests were harder, but the difficulty was slight.
For example, finding a lost pet was an E-level request because searching a whole city for a pet was too hard. It wasn't something you could easily do.
But Shirou didn't think it was difficult.
After all, he had the special vision of Eagle Eyes, and he could easily find even a bug, let alone a pet.
However, while Shirou himself was fine with it, Eris obviously wasn't happy.
"Don't they have any requests to fight dragons?"
"A request to fight a dragon... that's at least S-level."
"Then let's do that request!"
"No way. First, we wouldn't be able to win. Second, our adventurer level isn't high enough to take on that kind of task."
"Huh? Why not?"
"It's to protect low-level adventurers, so you don't face enemies that are too strong when you don't have experience."
Shirou said quietly. He'd heard a lot of stories.
Like young, arrogant adventurers going up against goblins on their first quest, and they didn't win. Instead, the women in their team were all raped by the goblins...
Eris hadn't heard about these kinds of things actually happening, and her head was full of adventurer fantasies from stories.
"So we can't fight monsters now?"
"Monster-fighting requests are all C-level or higher."
"Why? I remember there should be weak monsters we could handle, right?"
"This is the Demon Continent. Even the weakest monsters are too much for a normal adventurer to take on alone."
Shirou denied all of Eris's ideas.
Eris wasn't happy, but she couldn't argue. Her face clearly showed her disappointment.
"Let's take this request."
Shirou discussed it with Ruijerd and decided that finding a lost pet would be easy to do.
Not only did Shirou have Eagle Eyes, but the gem on Ruijerd's forehead could also help him locate creatures nearby. It was a request they could complete easily.
After taking the request, the three of them prepared to leave the adventurer's guild.
This, once again, made a lot of demon adventurers wary.
But because of Shirou's actions just now, the demon adventurers didn't dare provoke them. Their hostility was very clear.
Shirou ignored these demons and was about to leave when he saw the horse-headed man who had helped him before.
But he just smiled at him and didn't say anything else.
Shirou wasn't the kind of person who would strike up a conversation easily, so he just left the guild quietly.
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After leaving the guild, Shirou and the others found an inn to stay in.
Staying in the city was much better than staying outside.
When they stayed outside the city, Shirou and Ruijerd had to take turns keeping watch to prevent monsters from attacking at night.
But there was no danger of that in the city.
"Ah, Shirou, look over there!"
Eris suddenly pointed excitedly.
Shirou looked and saw a faint light coming from the direction of the old Kishirika city. As the sunset faded, the light grew stronger and lit up the whole town.
"That's a magic light stone."
Ruijerd explained, "Magic light stones can store sunlight during the day, and when it gets dark, they glow like that. But the light only lasts for less than half the daytime."
"So that's what that is."
Shirou and Eris were both surprised by the magic light stone.
Eris just thought it was interesting.
Shirou thought that he could use the magic light stone for forging.
If he had known about magic light stones when he forged Galatine, he could have mixed some into the sword. That way, the Holy Sword could glow at night and solve the problem of Galatine only being able to use its full power during the day.
Shirou asked how to get a hold of magic light stones.
He heard that they were very rare and were only used in demon king castles on the Demon Continent, so he sadly gave up.
"So, the demon king's castle... The old Kishirika city used to be a demon king's castle?"
"Yes. The strongest demon king on the Demon Continent, the Undead Demon King Atofe, lives there."
"The Undead Demon King Atofe?"
"Yes, she is the daughter of Necross Lacross, the Undead Demon King, one of the original eight great demon kings of the demon world. After the end of the human-demon war, she is the strongest surviving demon king. Although she is not as strong as the Demon God Laplace or the Demon World Emperor Kishirika, she is still nearly invincible."
Ruijerd explained based on his knowledge, "However, the old Kishirika city is not Atofe's castle. It originally belonged to the Demon World Emperor Kishirika. Kishirika collected the magic light stones, but the Demon World Emperor has disappeared. It is likely that the emperor is dead, and Atofe took over the castle."
"Can't we just steal the magic light stones?"
Eris couldn't help but ask.
"Atofe's personal guards are nearby. If we get close, we will be attacked. And those guards are extremely powerful. Even I wouldn't dare fight them head-on."
Ruijerd spoke in a complex tone, describing his fear of the Undead Demon King.
Since even Ruijerd was so hesitant, Shirou and Eris almost immediately imagined how terrifying the Undead Demon King must be.
While they were talking, the three of them quickly found an inn and arranged for two rooms.
Shirou and Eris shared a room, and Ruijerd had his own room.
The reason for this arrangement was that Shirou was worried about Eris's safety. Otherwise, he would definitely sleep in the same room as Ruijerd, two men together.
There wasn't much to say about the evening.
Although Shirou and Eris slept in the same room, nothing special happened.
First, the two were already very familiar, and their close relationship didn't care about sleeping in the same room. Second, they were too tired from the past few days. Eris fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow and snored loudly.
Nothing happened that night.
The next morning, Shirou and the others set out to complete the adventurer's request.
The first request was to find a lost pet.
Shirou and the others first found the person who posted the request. They found that it was a demon girl, who tearfully told Shirou and the others about the situation.
The demon girl had lost a pet named "Little Mi" and rushed to the adventurer's guild to post a request with all her pocket money.
Although the name was Little Mi, it was actually a black panther.
It can only be said that the customs of the Demon Continent are tough, as can be seen from the pets.
Although this was just a request to find a pet, Ruijerd took it very seriously because it involved a child.
Shirou used his Eagle Eyes in combination with Ruijerd's special detection ability to quickly search the entire city. They finally found a cave that held many lost pets.
Most of the pets had collars around their necks.
After a quick search of the scene, Shirou immediately realized that this was some kind of pet smuggling operation. The pets were captured and then sold.
Faced with such evil, Shirou would naturally not ignore it.
He and Ruijerd hid in the cave. When the criminals returned, they immediately appeared and captured all of the criminals.
The result was surprising. The crimes were committed by three demon adventurers who had appeared at the adventurer's guild before.
After interrogating them, Shirou learned something even stranger.
These adventurers didn't capture the pets to sell them. Instead, they waited for the owners to post a request to find the pets, then returned them, pretending that they had helped find them. This way they could easily get large rewards.
This kind of "fishing law enforcement" was common among adventurers on the Demon Continent. Many adventurers liked to create problems themselves and then solve them to get rewards.
It was a very bad thing to do.
Faced with this evil, Shirou didn't hesitate at all. He took the three adventurers to the town's guardhouse and reported the matter to the adventurer's guild.
For a while, the entire adventurer's guild in Rikarisu town began a purge to ensure that nothing like this would happen again.
Shirou and the others' righteous actions were recognized by the adventurer's guild and even received a reward.
Although their actions were recognized on the surface, Shirou and the others had instantly become thorns in the side of all the adventurers in Rikarisu town.
When the demon adventurers saw him, they almost looked like they wanted to kill him.
After all, Shirou's actions had cut off their source of income.
But Shirou still didn't care. He didn't care about other people's opinions. He only cared about whether everything he did conformed to the justice in his heart.
As long as it was a righteous act, there was no need to worry about any harm.
Because this is what a justice companion has to face.
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