A Righteous Female Knight Never Compromises!-Chapter 45 : Knowing How to Eat Meat
Chapter 45 - Knowing How to Eat Meat
After delivering the dozens of goblins to the prison outside the city, Anna and Atala returned to the Adventurer's Association to complete the commission.
However, Anna didn't expect that the client would personally come to the Adventurer's Association to greet her and Atala, and was utterly dumbfounded upon seeing them, unable to utter a word.
“...Why are you looking at me like that?”
The person in front of her was dressed in luxurious silk attire, short and stout, fitting the stereotypical image of a nouveau riche merchant often seen in novels.
But this person didn't exhibit the usual arrogance of such characters; instead, he was drenched in cold sweat, presenting another stereotype of a nouveau riche merchant.
“This... Are you Anna Latim... ah, no, Lady Garland?”
‘Am I that famous now?’
Anna felt quite strange. While everyone knew that the young ladies of the Latimir and Bartham families had chosen a daughter of a fallen noble as their fiancée, that didn't mean the Garland family was famous.
Those who spread gossip only knew of such a person but didn't bother to find out which fallen noble had such good fortune, after all, the main targets of gossip were Louise and Heliga.
...Could this nouveau riche be aware of this and trying to curry favor?
I've always disliked nouveau riche. Maybe I should find a way to release those goblin bandits...
Seemingly sensing Anna's confusion, the merchant took out a white handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. “Actually... this caravan...”
After hearing his explanation, Anna suddenly understood.
So, these blind goblin bandits had attacked my dear Louise's caravan.
Moreover, the merchant kept hinting that this caravan wasn't just a “caravan”...
Anna immediately realized that this caravan might well be sent by Louise to contact those neutral nobles...
Good! Well captured!
Instantly, she discarded her earlier resentment towards the wealthy and the un-knightley thought of releasing the goblins. Now, Anna was utterly unscrupulous, unlike a knight.
Oh, she had already been corrupted by her three girlfriends, so it didn't matter.
Wait, no, can a female knight's actions be called corruption? It's called understanding worldly desires and enhancing marital bonds!
Anyway, as usual, after receiving the so-called reward, Anna held the money bag and watched the nouveau riche scurry away from the Adventurer's Association, exchanging a look with Atala.
Thinking about it, the money from this commission somehow ended up coming from her own people.
Isn't this money essentially Louise's?
Looking at the Latimir family crest on the money bag, Anna couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time.
...
After completing this commission involving her own people, Anna didn't plan to go home directly.
After all, she had come out to unwind, and she wasn't done yet. Following Atala's suggestion, she decided to sit at the bar in the Adventurer's Association and have a drink.
Although Anna and Atala were both high-quality, attractive women who could attract a lot of attention in the Adventurer's Association, Anna's armor was so bloodstained from the earlier carnage that it was quite unsettling. Even Atala, who had been sitting in Anna's lap, had bloodstains on her clothes, emitting a strange smell.
The smell of goblin blood was too strong for most people to ignore, and the Adventurer's Association was no stranger to adventurers covered in goblin blood coming in to complete commissions, filling the room with the stench.
But for two beautiful women, it was just... weird.
“Anna, are you really not going back to wash up?” Sipping her drink, Atala looked at Anna, who was slowly savoring her wine, with some confusion.
“It's fine, I'll just have one drink and then go back soon.”
“I remember you take several tens of minutes to finish a glass of wine, Anna.”
“Don't worry about the details.”
Anna waved her hand, then sniffed a few times, indeed noticing the strange smell on her.
“...Although the smell is really disgusting.”
After a small self-deprecating remark, Anna turned to Atala.
“Speaking of which... Atala, you don't seem to mind, do you?”
“...I'm used to it. After being an adventurer for almost a month, if I weren't used to it, how could I continue being an adventurer...” Atala sighed, “I'm now a meat-eating elf.”
“...What do you mean?”
Anna couldn't understand what “meat-eating” meant. Was it some slang she didn't know? Or some saying from the Elven Forest...?
“Literally, I can eat meat now.”
“...Can't elves eat meat?”
Anna suddenly realized this.
“It's not that they can't eat meat... but some people in the Elven Forest are... vegetarians.” Atala recalled, “Even some elves who have traveled outside don't accept eating meat.”
“Is that so?” Anna felt like she had learned something new, “I really didn't know. Since I've known you, I've felt like you don't have any dietary restrictions...”
“If I didn't eat meat, I would have starved to death when I left the Elven Forest to be a mercenary.” Atala understood where Anna's confusion came from, “According to the official statistics of the Elven Forest, elves who eat meat while traveling outside have mostly been adventurers.”
“There are even such statistics...”
Anna was momentarily speechless but suddenly remembered some rumors she had heard at the academy.
It was said that if you encountered a meat-eating elf, it meant the elf was a seasoned adventurer.
Anna hadn't taken it seriously back then, as she didn't know that elves didn't eat meat, so she naturally didn't pay attention to the rumor. Moreover, the person who spread the rumor wasn't very familiar with Anna, and at that time, Anna was careful in her social interactions, afraid of offending some unknown noble, so she wouldn't actively inquire about rumors from unfamiliar people.
Besides, such rumors were completely useless to Anna, who had no intention of becoming an adventurer and was solely focused on joining the Royal Knights.
Now it seems... this saying does have some truth to it, as the Elven Forest even has official statistics.
After sharing this saying with Atala, Atala blinked a few times.
“That makes sense!”
Chapter 45 : Knowing How to Eat Meat
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