Chapter 104 We meet here, but it's been a thousand years (Patreon)

I practiced my fairy magic until midnight and came up with something gelatinous that just barely tasted like something, but I didn't regret it.

So, since I think everyone was mostly asleep by now, we got into action. We put the kids on the Red Dragon and flew them out of the dungeon in a straight line, with Ashia and Run left behind

And I asked only one Red Dragon to stay behind. We'll have to inform Jess at the entrance of the dungeon why we're here.

「「「 Thank you, onee-chan!! 」」」

「 ooh, I’, sure everything will go well～～ 」

「Say hi to Forna for me～～」

「 See ya later～～♪」

「 Be well out there～～」

I waved to the children as I replied to them, who thanked me verbally and then disappeared into the sky. After all the red dragons with the children on board flew away, the remaining hundreds of dragons took off in pursuit.

The last one left over here was the leader, the Red Dragon. You're very disciplined one too.

And so we quickly made our way back to the entrance of the dungeon. The moonlight and the stars were more than bright enough. It's always beautiful....... No matter how many times I see it, I never get tired of it.

「 A, Aidle-jou……」

「 Nn? Ah, sure, you may go ahead 」

「 Thank you very much!!」

When I gave permission to the strangely squirming Quad, he turned into a fairy and flew away into the sky. I guess he couldn't hide his excitement at his first time being out in the sky. He was like a child....... well, his fairy figure was that of a child after all.  He’ll probably come back around sunrise, maybe.

When I went out to the hut, I found out that the counter was still bright even at midnight. I found Jess covering his head and was asleep inside the structure. I tapped on his shoulder, and Jess, who had snapped awake, looked at me and the others with sleepy eyes.

「 What the...? ......Oh, it's you guys.......... Oh!? You're back!!!」

「 Keep your voice down. 」

「 Eh, ah, I'm sorry. Hey, why are Ashia and Run the only kids in the house?」

Ashia intervenes and clears up the misunderstanding before it gets any stranger.

「 No, Jess. We all made it back. We all made it back, and I got the other kids to leave the city first. Furthermore, we're going to stop being stray baggers and start living in a different place. So Run and I stayed behind because we wanted to say thank you to Jess. 」

「…… Thank you, huh?」

A thank you to Jess, which was an affirmation of the children's life as stray backers. The children have been ridiculed by the adventurers every day and forced to live on the edge every day. Sometimes they were violent, and at worse, they would die in the dungeon. But Jess had never been negative about such children.

「 I know that Jess-san bowed to people to ask for the scraps of food from the market and the inn to give to the children, and I know that you approached the prostitutes who abandoned their children to see if they would let you take them in 」

His face was getting paler and paler as they continued.

「……tsk 」

「 That’s why Jess-san, th 「 Shut up!!」

Jess interrupted Ashia's words with an angry reply. Then, instead of turning her head, she used her hand to make her disappear.

「 If you can live without us, then go wherever you want! Don't ever show your face to me again!!!! 」

With that, Jess walked out of the cabin, leaving Ashia and Run who was watching him go while tears streaming down their faces.

「 Jess-san……」

「 ...... Maybe there's some reason he can't be honest with us. We'll ask him later. So you two better get going now 」

「 But!!」

Run tried to argue, but Ashia stops him.

「 Run......, we can't keep everyone waiting. I'm sad, but let's go, okay? 」

「 Uh……（ugh）」

Ashia and the rest looked at Aidle as they rode the Red Dragon. They nodded at each other and Aidle gave the Red Dragon a signal, and then it took off to the skies.

After looking up at the sky where Ashia and the others had disappeared for a while, I then looked back at everyone.

「...... Now, shall we go to the inn. We'll have to ask Jess one more time tomorrow about what's going on 」

Everyone nodded at those words, and we started walking. We found an inn that was just barely open, and we all huddled together for the night. Maybe it was because the kids were gone, but it was a little lonely.......

It was a late morning, and while I was having breakfast at the inn, I was surrounded by a bunch of adventurers from outside. What do they want with a good little adventurer like me?

「 It's morning, shall we do some crushing.......」

Are you still a little sleepy? La Veil was with an angry snarl says that. It certainly stinks of men here. Among them, a well-dressed adventurer appeared. He was working in the front counter of the guild.

When the Inn Master tried to call out, he was glared at and silenced by the clerk. And then, the problem was explained while looking at us here.

「 I didn’t mean to come here in order to go on a rampage… though I won’t know what would happen if you resist 」

「 We wouldn't do that. So, what are your business with us? 」

「 You are the adventurers who monopolized stray baggers and dived in dungeons, weren't you? 」

「 You could say that I guess 」 A grin surfaced on his face when affirming it for the time being.

「 Then, would you like to come with me to the guild? I have to explain the situation and the reason why you returned without stray baggers 」