It is customary for adventurers to take at least a day off between their last quest and the next one to rest.

It is also rare to find a suitable quest immediately afterwards, and our party did not receive the next quest until three days after we had finished the goblin-slaying quest.

After two days of "inside work" and deducting living expenses from the goblin extermination reward, we had saved up 11 gold coins.
I'm only 689 gold coins away from my goal of 700 gold coins.

'...Conquering the undead?

Satsuki returns from her morning training session drenched in sweat, wipes off her sweat with a wet, wrung-out cloth, and sits down at the dining room table.
As usual, I feel sorry for her as she wipes her hands from her chest to the inside of her kimono, but since she won't listen to me, I have no choice but to ignore her.

Incidentally, me, Mee, and Cyril were already seated at the table.
The three of us had just gone to the Adventurer's Guild to look for a quest of the appropriate rank, that is, an E rank quest.

'Yes, sir. It seems that a village about half a day's drive from the city has somehow been destroyed, and there's a massive zombie outbreak there. I've been asked to go and exterminate them all, as they're causing trouble for the traders.

'Scary! That's scary! You don't know the cause?

Satsuki blurted out her frank opinion at Mie's explanation.
And Cyril added his calm analysis to it.

'The fact that the village was destroyed itself could have been caused by any number of things, such as being attacked by monsters. The problem is that there are undead in the village. Either the village was attacked by undead and perished, or the villagers who lost their lives for some reason turned into undead.

Cyril took a sip of his tea and then proceeded to give his analysis to Mi and Satsuki.

'There are two main causes of the undead. One is naturally occurring and the other is caused by magic. In the case of natural occurrences, corpses that have not been properly mourned by priests rarely become undead. I'm not sure if I'm right or not.

Having said that, Cyril turned his gaze towards me.
As a priest (Holy Order) who is a specialist in the extermination of the undead, he must have studied the undead very carefully. I could say that his knowledge was accurate.

'Yeah. That's pretty much what I thought. If I may add, there are various theories on the conditions of spontaneous generation, and there are some papers that show that they occur frequently under certain conditions, but I haven't studied that area thoroughly either. If you go back to the magic city of Rector and search through the library of the academy, you can probably find some papers. ......'

I'm not sure what you're talking about Will, sometimes it's too difficult to understand. But that means, in short, we don't know what's causing it, right?

Satsuki summed it up for me.

'...... Well, you're not generally wrong. But as a possibility, we should keep in mind the existence of someone who is creating the zombies - an evil priest or sorcerer.

If that's the case, please say so from the beginning. I don't understand even if you say something difficult.

Satsuki complained.
Cyril and I saw this and sighed at the same time.

Noticing the synchronization, Cyril chuckled and smiled at me with a friendly smile that he usually doesn't show.

'It's wonderful to have someone to share your hardships with.

'It is.

'What, what? Wait a minute, why are you two in such a good mood?'

Satsuki was looking at me and Cyril in a confused way.
Seeing this, Cyril chuckled again.
I was naturally smiling too.

But the unexpected attack came from the other person present.

'Hmm...? What's that, Mee?

The beastman girl tugged at the hem of Cyril's priest's robe.
It's a good idea to take a look at the web site of the company and see what they have to offer.

'Does ...... Cyril also fall in love with color?

'Is ......?'

Cyril's cheeks flushed red, and he froze.

'What, why would you do that? We were just having a normal conversation, right?'

'I had a feeling so. My intuition is pretty good.

That's all she said and went upstairs as if the conversation was over.
Cyril watched her walk away with his mouth agape, but then he coughed and said, 'She's mistaken,

'It's just her misunderstanding, don't worry about it. I'm sure you know that, but just in case.

She said that to me.
So I'll make my own stance clear.

'Yeah. I have no intention of doing so either.'

'Yes, you are. It's a little frustrating when you assert that ....... I think I'm going to try to turn him around.

It's a good idea to have a good idea of what you're doing.
I'm in trouble, why do you do that?

'Huh? What? Wait a minute, Cyril. ...... are you serious?'

'Well, I don't know. The only thing I'll tell you is that I'm pretty competitive.

Cyril replied to the flustered Satsuki and took another sip of his tea.