Why did the orphanage kidnapping case occur?
The reason is because the company that owned the warehouse was involved.
Behind the scenes, the company that owned the warehouse hired an assassin who was committing various misdeeds.
Kidnapping, obstruction of business, illegal slavery, killing troublesome opponents in the dungeon, and so on.
After kidnapping the kids from the orphanage, he planned to send them to a village he ran and force them to make potions and paper there so he could make money.
He also bribed some of the guards hired by the lord. It looks like he was planning to sneak out of town tonight, so we found out about each bad thing he had done quickly.
"As a result, the criminal slaves are sent to work in a mine. Also, the company was destroyed and their assets were taken. This is so that no one will ever dare touch or kidnap the children again."
The children were safely taken to the church where the priest was, and the bad adventurers were all stripped of their adventurer ranks and was turned into slaves.
Originally, after I rejected the schedule of the B-rank promotion exam, one day after resolving the unexpected case, thanks to Arsus-san and company we were enjoying a meal.
“Even so, it was a shame that your B-rank promotion test was postponed.”
"I don't really care about that. Ranking up is just ranking up after all……"
I knew that having a high rank was just a title in itself, so the fact that it was delayed didn't bother me the slightest.
"Yes, that's true. Well, for now, we'll make a decision about your promotion based on what we think, and the next exam will be a dungeon stampede."
“Stampede is ‘that’, right? Monsters overflowing from the dungeon”
“Yeah. Most of the time, we kill a certain number of monsters on each level, which keeps them from leaving. But once a year, a lot of monsters show up in the dungeon and try to get out. So, it's a tradition in this dungeon city to deal with the monsters that rise from the lower levels to the upper levels of the dungeon to get to the surface.”
As an adventurer, various skills were required to withstand the attack of a large number of monsters lasting for about 3 days.
"In time, if you can stay at the front of the line of defense without going back to the surface, it will be a lot harder than the other test we were supposed to give you for promotion, and other B-rank and C-rank adventurers will be watching you." “If we play an active part in the presence of so many eyes, can we move up to B-rank?”
“Well, that’s about right. In fact, people who do great things in a stampede can be promoted without taking an exam.
(T/N: At this rate Chise and Teto won’t be tested until S-rank lmao)
Having received such a story, the luxurious treat from Arsus-san’s party [Sword of the Dawn] was over.
Then, we would keep working as adventurers until the stampede happened, explore the dungeon past the 21st floor, make money, spend time with the kids at the orphanage on days off, and ask the priest to teach about the magic in the church's spellbook.
I also sometimes checked the potions the kids made and dealt with the idiots who tried to sneak into the orphanage.
Before I knew it, I had gotten the name "Black Saint" because I had rebuilt the orphanage and given harsh punishments to those who tried to hurt it.
Even though I'm a witch, I still don't understand why I got that title.
Then two months had passed, and today as well we were thinking of diving into the dungeon and making money.
However, a soldier who was supposed to be guarding the dungeon’s entrance that day rushed in.
“Monsters which originally don’t exist there are gathering in the lower levels of the dungeon! It’s the sign of a dungeon stampede!”
An annual tradition in the dungeon city, a stampede, was about to start.
