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If You’re Hiding Inside My Clothes, I Don’t Mind

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After selling the materials to the guild, Leon headed toward the request board.

The boy, who had become obedient after being possessed by Silvia, was following him.

“No, just leave me somewhere appropriate.” (Leon)

“Understood!” (Boy)

Watching the boy leave, Leon quickly scanned the posted requests.

“Is there any interesting request?” (Leon)

As expected of a trading city, there were many escort requests for traveling merchants. The rewards were not bad, but these kinds of jobs had long hours, so they were hard for Leon to earn well from. Among them, he found an unusual request.

[Salesgirl at Cooking Tournament]

Looking for salesgirls and bodyguards at a cooking tournament. Preferably girls (boys negotiable). Appearance is more important than skill.

“…Cooking tournament?” (Leon)

Leon tilted his head. He had never heard of this event. It probably did not exist a hundred years ago. In any case, this request itself was of no use to Leon. It seemed aimed at lower-rank adventurers, and the reward was low. In the end, he decided to accept a few hunting requests. They were all for high-rank adventurers, but perhaps because his adventurer rank was already known, the receptionist was different from before, yet she accepted them smoothly.

 

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“I see, so this is the cooking tournament.” (Leon)

That night, after returning to the inn, Leon read through a pamphlet he had picked up in town. Simply put, it was a competition to see whose cooking sold the most. The organizer was the Barbara’s Food and Drink Guild. Only those not registered with the Food and Drink Guild could participate, basically amateur chefs.

Many aspiring chefs gathered in Barbara. Their dream was to belong to the Food and Drink Guild. In this city, it was easy to get permission to run street stalls, but owning a restaurant required membership in the Food and Drink Guild. To join, one had to pass a difficult screening process, but if they achieved excellent results in this cooking tournament, they would be granted membership without conditions. It was, in other words, a gateway for new chefs.

“There is quite a large prize for the winners. Basically, it’s startup capital for opening a restaurant.” (Leon)

Of course, even if one won, it was not mandatory to join Barbara’s Food and Drink Guild. Many who performed well used that achievement to run restaurants in other countries or cities.

“Sounds interesting.” (Leon)

““Sounds delicious?”” (Arc/Iris)

“No, interesting.” (Leon)

The twins only thought about eating, but Leon was not like that.

“I’ve been wanting to try various things if I get the chance.” (Leon)

Leon was used to cooking while traveling, but his basic style was to cook quickly, eat quickly, and sleep quickly. Therefore, he could not make elaborate dishes, and his repertoire was not very large. Since winning would bring prize money, this tournament was a chance to kill two birds with one stone. Of course, he had no intention of joining the cooking guild, but there did not seem to be a rule forbidding participation.

“That said, I need a job first. If I’m going to do this, I want to aim not just to place but to win.” (Leon)

Many chefs had cooking-related jobs. It might not be impossible to overcome that gap through effort, but with the tournament approaching, he did not have the time. Luckily, he had spare job points and could acquire the Class I [Cook] job. It would probably be useless in battle, but he would not need more strength in this world right now.

“However, first I need to raise [King Tamer] to level 20.” (Leon)

He had just obtained it in the Holy Kingdom, and it was still level 5.

“Meltera, can I leave these two with you for a while?” (Leon)

“I don’t mind, but what do you plan?” (Meltera)

“I’m going to level up my job.” (Leon)

There were two main ways to level up a job. The first was the same as leveling up a race, which was defeating monsters. Though less efficient, it applied even to non-combat jobs. The stronger the monster defeated, the more the level would increase.

The second was training appropriate to that job. For example, for a swordsman job, swinging a sword repeatedly would raise the level even without killing monsters. For summoner jobs, increasing the number of summons, raising their levels, or evolving them contributed to job leveling. So, taking summons with him was an option, but…

“Considering efficiency, doing it alone will probably be faster.” (Leon)

“Sura too?” (Sura)

“If you’re hiding inside my clothes, I don’t mind.” (Leon)

That was because the place where he intended to level up was a location even the twins could not follow. He planned to defeat strong monsters repeatedly. Simply by defeating them, he would max out the [King Tamer] job level using the first method alone.

Leon arrived at the place. It was a huge hole gaping in the middle of a wasteland.

“A hundred years have passed since then.” (Leon)

The Abyss. Once, the Demon King’s castle was at its deepest point, the world’s toughest dungeon.

 

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