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47 - Can you face your own future?

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“Port! How about we have some dinner?”

“No, my mother is already preparing dinner...”

Just as Port was about to leave the guild, I called out to him——he spoke to me before I could continue.

“Josiah-san! I heard about it! You're planning to go to a C-rank dungeon soon, right! Umm... can you take me with you? I've cleared the C-rank dungeon's difficulty level during special training, and I can do my best to defend myself by using the transfer magic, so――”

“About that. Port, you. Do you have any intention of becoming a national courier? If you do, you shouldn’t go to C-rank dungeons and beyond.”

“Eh.”

Port looks as if he has been caught in the act.
Certainly, at his current level, he can go to C-rank dungeons.
He can go... but I say.

“In the first place, aren't you aiming to become a national courier for the sake of a stable salary and personal safety?"

“That’s! true...”

That's the reason for the majority of those who aim to become national couriers.
Stable income.
Reducing the risk of being attacked by monsters to minimum.
In the first place, he was publicly told that his Job was not suitable for adventurers. That's what Port should be thinking as well.
I tell Port who is hanging his head.

“Dungeons from C-rank onwards cannot be guaranteed to be safe. Especially from B-rank onwards, even a first-class adventurer party will be seriously injured if they let their guard down.”

“I, I know it's dangerous! But!! Didn't Josiah-san tell everyone! Let's aim for a B-rank dungeon together, you said! That promise is the only thing that――”

“You're just using my promise as an excuse. You're even skipping your studies. Are you seriously trying to become a national courier?”

“...!”

“A half-hearted attitude isn't good either as an adventurer or as a government employee. You have to think about which one you want to choose.”

“...Yes.”

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There are several reasons why Port is aiming to become a national courier.
First, he wants a stable income.
Second, it's a safe job.

This second point is related to Port's past.
His father was an adventurer.
At that time, when a large number of dungeons were being generated around W Country, he recklessly went to a B-rank dungeon that has yet to be recognized as a B-rank and never returned.

His mother became a single mother.
Even though Port was a child, he started doing miscellaneous work for adventurers, earning a low salary.
His mother was worried about Port entering a dungeon, so in order not to worry her, he decided to be a national courier instead of an adventurer.

The third reason is that people were ridiculing his Courier Job.
While other people of the same age around him awakened to adventurer-oriented Jobs, Port was the only one who had awakened to a non-combat Job, a Courier.
But, he’ll get everyone to look at him again by having them know the title of a national courier and showing them what it's really like to be one.
He thought that enthusiastically.

However, the real problem is.
I heard from Wendy, he was whining when studying because he was not good at it.

[Even though Josiah-san and Wendy-san are doing so much for me… I'm completely hopeless...]

On the other hand, his skills as an adventurer were only getting better.
During special training, his magic level has increased, he has learnt [Familiar], and has acquired the skills of attacking and defending using transfer magic. Randy and Midia have given him a lot of wisdom in this area, so he has grown a lot.

Like his father, he may have a temperament suitable for adventurers.
Rather, I don't know if he can be anything other than an adventurer with his personality.
He can't concentrate when it comes to studying, aah, but he’s the type who loses concentration even when working as a courier.

Rather, it sounds like I should say “You're not suited to be a courier” to him, but this is entirely his own decision.
I said it harshly, but I don't want him to be hesitant about it.
At this point, it would be better to ask Port to be clear about which way he wants to proceed.

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Now then, the remaining problem is――who will come to the C-rank dungeon.
In the meantime, it’s only me and Midia, Randy is a tentative third. Port is on hold. The only one left is...

The next day, I finished my regular activity and met Christoph and Sedoor for the first time in a long while.
Together with them, I will once again go to the hospital where Heinz is hospitalized.

Also, the only other people who can keep up with the C-rank dungeons are Heinz and Christoph.
It's a pity that we can't bring Sedoor as a supporter, but that's fine as long as we’re not doing it to deliver items.
Perhaps because he went through a C-rank dungeon alone before, Heinz seems to be holing up in the hospital even though his wounds have healed.

I did more or less ask the receptionist to tell him that I intended to apologize for my previous words and behavior, but I don’t know how it went...

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