Isekai For Hire Chapter 28: Guilt Versus Practicality

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Guilt Versus Practicality Something feels off, Lorena said to Ren. She was back in the Trade District of Darnathal having completed the quest, but despite it being the early afternoon, the square was nearly empty. Where is everyone? Lorena walked up to Chila, the boar meat vendor, and gave him a friendly smile. “Oh, hello. Back already?” “Yep, I’ve got all the boar meat right here.” Quest [Become the Supplier] Complete! Rewarded: 2400 XP 25 gold, 75 silver Beer Battered Boar Skewer (5) “Is everything okay? You seem sad, and the square is practically empty.” Chila sighed, his eyes falling to his cart. “Someone robbed Amirsa and Vestar.” Lorena had to fake the shocked expression on her face, but not the sadness. “That’s awful, was anyone hurt?” “No, thankfully. But it’s very upsetting. The city has been getting more and more dangerous, but it has mostly kept to Old Town. To see the crime reach the rest of the city…” “At least everyone is okay.” Something thrashed inside of Lorena, an angry rampage of mixed emotions swirling. Are you okay? Ren glowered and Lorena’s shoulder twitched. Goddess Tevra is conflicted. “Physically? Sure. But emotionally, financially? Everyone is pitching in, but I honestly don’t see how they will ever recover.” Dread ripped at her stomach and Ren whimpered. What do you mean? You talked to her? It’s complicated. I… Ren sank down several layers in their shared mind to somewhere safe. She’s mad I hurt the shop. But she’s happy I saved you from Amirsa. Lorena took the boar meat from Chila and continued slowly through the square, her focus on Ren. Do you want to talk about it? I never got a chance to thank you. I’m still a little confused what happened, to be honest. But thank you. I’m not ready to talk about it. Lorena didn’t push, and made her way to Cassin, the leatherworker they’d gotten a quest from to collect leather in exchange for armor. “Ah you’re back! Perfect timing, I’m running low on materials. Go ahead and select one uncommon piece of gear.” Lorena opened up Cassin’s shop window and filtered down to only Uncommon items, which was still quite a long list. It was honestly a steal compared to the deal they had gotten back in Silvershire. I miss Jade. Me too, Lorena said. Okay, would you like to give input on our armor choices? I want us to fill out an empty slot, so head, shoulders, or wrists. Lorena filtered the list further by those slots. [ Polished Leather Shoulderpads] (uncommon) (shoulder slot) +50 armor +20 health [Etch Wrist Guards ] (uncommon) (wrist slot) +20 armor +2% power [ Helm of the Boar] (uncommon) (head slot) +60 armor +10 health Straight off the bat, hard no to the Helm of the Boar. Lorena didn’t want to ask, but she did anyway. What is your reasoning? It doesn’t have a spot for our ponytail. How are we supposed to wear that? And don’t you dare say we’d cut our hair. Lorena sighed. Excellent point. How about the wrist guards? Ren focused on them, they were a simple leather strap with etched symbols in them, but neither of them could identify the symbols. Ask him what the symbols mean. “What do the symbols on the Etched Wrist Guards mean?” “Ah, they’re a runic symbol that symbolizes strength. Very good. Very lucky.” Those. I want those. Lorena shrugged, you sure you don’t want to consider the shoulder pads? No, and the power increase would be nice to have anyway, right? That was going to be my argument for them if you had wanted a different choice, so that works for me. Excellent! This is exciting. We really should stop and get some armor dyes though, we need to look more put together. As soon as we get some spare change I’ll get right on that. Lorena thanked Cassin and made her way through the square, but quickly came across a large gathering of people. Lorena watched as the crowd worked together, all doing separate tasks but working toward one common goal. The girl who Lorena had bought hair ties from was cleaning the street. Elena from Graymark Forge was helping sort donated g