I Became the Guardian of Big Shots in the Game

On the way to downtown.
Ethan was accompanied by Levi, who said she had some business to attend to as well.
“Levi, wait a moment.”
“Yes?”
Lately he had been so focused on Hwaryon’s fate.
That he felt he had been somewhat neglectful of Levi, who was expected to drive everything.
‘I should check Levi’s disposition too.’
He lightly took Levi’s hand and.
The jewel on his arm shone.
[Target: Levi]
[Disposition: Blind Obedience, ???, ???, ???]
‘Is it broken?’
Except for ‘Blind Obedience’, the rest all showed up as question marks.
Even when he let go and took her hand again.
It was the same, nothing else showed up.
‘Should I decide on a career path slowly?’
Once you start intensively raising certain stats, you can’t go back afterwards.
High-level jobs like mage, knight, or priest each require different stats.
‘Let’s decide after leaving it to the tutors for now.’
After finishing his check.
As Ethan was about to let go of her hand.
-Squeeze.
“?”
He couldn’t because Levi gripped his hand in return.
“Ethan-nim, your hand is cold.”
“Is it? It feels fine to me-”
“So I’ll warm it up with my hand. Don’t refuse. Come on, let’s go.”
Though he was a bit flustered.
Because Levi smiled brightly.
Ethan ended up letting her hold his hand.
*
On the bulletin board at the entrance to the Free Market, there was a flyer about the election.
[Candidate No. 1 Asif Carodin]
‘It’s the mayor I met recently.’
He remembered because it was shocking how the mayor suddenly bowed his head asking him to become mayor.
“If he gets elected this time, it will be his 4th term.”
“This is his 3rd term now?”
“Yes. He must be a very competent person.”
Ethan was astonished when he calculated the timeline.
Asif Carodin is one of the people who appears, albeit in name only, at the beginning of the main story.
[The legendary mayor Asif Carodin was finally able to hand over the position of Serdin’s mayor to his successor.]
‘I can’t believe he was elected 5 times.’
While Ethan was inwardly surprised.
He was also puzzled.
‘Why would such an amazing person come looking for me?’
He thought hard about it but.
Ethan couldn’t find the answer.
That’s because Ethan didn’t have enough merit to warrant it.
It’s not like someone discovered the fact that he found the ruins.
He just bought the huge empty mansion for a cheap price.
He’s not a renowned scholar, nor a great mage where each person is a destructive war machine.
Just an ordinary man.
Who happened to have some good luck.
That was Ethan.
‘I hope I didn’t cause some strange misunderstanding.’
Thinking that as he walked.
They had arrived at the Free Market before he knew it.
“This place is always lively no matter when you come.”
Serdin’s Free Market, which is practically the center of logistics movement in the western part of the continent.
Not only are there countless street stalls here.
But also large merchant guilds, banks, and various other guilds.
“What’s on the agenda for today?”
“I’m going to register a request at the guild for a private tutor, and then I plan to go see Dobber.”
“You mean the slave trader from before? Do you need new slaves?”
“It’s similar, but a bit different.”
There are quite a few children among the remaining big shots who are in slave status.
He was thinking of requesting the slave trader to purchase them.
And then freeing them like Hwarin after buying them.
Ethan roughly knew the places where the big shots might be.
And he knew their appearances, names, and character stories by heart, but.
‘It’s too far.’
It would take too long to go around all six kingdoms of the continent, so he gave up on going himself.
It would be almost like a grand adventure crossing the continent.
So for now, he was thinking of bringing the closest one.
The big shot who would be in the Kingdom of Ligrion to the southeast.
“Are you in?”
“Oh? C-Customer, it’s been a while! Have you been well?”
After exchanging brief greetings with Dobber.
He asked if a request was possible.
“Ligrion? It’s possible. We usually import gladiator slaves from there. The distribution network is connected.”
“It’s not just a simple purchase. The underground arena in Legville 3rd Street in Ligrion. Please bring a lion beastkin named Ponya from there.”
“Hmm, it shouldn’t be too difficult. But the request fee will be quite high. From travel expenses to slave purchase costs, bribes for the underground arena…”
-Thud.
Ethan placed a heavy pouch of gold coins on the table.
“5,000 gold.”
“!”
Dobber calculated the profit in his head.
Then he soon reached out to grab the pouch.
But.
-Grab!
“I haven’t heard you say you’ll accept Ethan-nim’s request yet?”
“Ah, hahaha. I’ve been out of it lately. I’ll go swiftly and accurately. Hahaha!”
Only then did Levi let go of his hand.
Dobber rubbed his aching wrist as he asked.
“By the way, you have a good eye, customer. A loyal gladiator slave. Better than most bodyguards.”
He wasn’t planning to use them as security personnel-
Ethan was about to say, but.
“Of course, since you’re going to be the mayor’s aide, you’ll need skilled security personnel too.”
“…Pardon?”
He raised a question mark at Dobber’s following words.
“The rumors are already all over the Free Market. That you’ve been chosen by the mayor.”
‘…Me?’
*
It was the same when we stopped by the guild hall.
Upon hearing Ethan’s name, the counter clerk.
“Oh my, aren’t you the future aide?”
-She reacted favorably.
He was quite taken aback, but there were good points too.
Thanks to the rumor of being the mayor’s closest aide, the request for a private tutor was easily registered.
And it was given top priority on the request board.
“Yes, we’ve received the request. One general private tutor, one swordsmanship instructor, and one mage. Is that correct?”
“That’s right.”
“They should be found within 2-3 days at the earliest. When applicants come in, we’ll send them to your residence.”
Leaving behind the kind clerk’s guidance.
We left the guild.
“Ethan-nim, are you alright?”
“I’m a bit flustered. An aide, really.”
“Are you perhaps not happy with the position?”
Of course not.
The position of aide to a renowned mayor has more uses than expected.
But.
“It’s not that I don’t like it. But why me?”
“Maybe they looked favorably on your contribution to rooting out the black mages?”
“…Is that so?”
Ethan, who had now returned to a calm state.
Decided to just go along with it now.
The call of the mayor who’s set to be elected for a 5th term in the future.
There was practically no justification to go against it.
‘I guess another strange bug has occurred somewhere.’
At the point where he had achieved 1st place in contribution to defeating the 1st-3rd act bosses of the Serdin story.
He had half given up on rational reasoning.
Thinking that it’s good if it’s good.
Ethan returned to the mansion.
“Might as well give it a try.”
“You’ll do well. Because it’s you, Ethan-nim.”
Looking at the backs of those two people.
There was one man who looked pitiful.
A man with a very miserable expression.
Who looked like he had just wiped away tear stains.
*
About 10 minutes ago.
“…Pardon?”
“Michel, Michel. You really can’t understand what you hear properly until the very end, can you.”
“No, Mayor. I heard correctly. But why me…”
“That’s the biggest reason. Now get out.”
Michel, who had worked as the mayor’s aide for 2 years.
He received notice of dismissal right before the voting day.
“H-How could you do this to me!”
After serving so devotedly all this time.
To be thrown away like an old shoe.
He shouted in outrage, but.
“I’ve decided to make someone more capable than you my aide. So don’t argue and just leave.”
“T-This!”
Michel was not a man of great patience.
So he was about to flip over the desk and storm out, but.
“What do you think you’re doing?”
The mayor’s executive administrator Eiley, who had just entered, warned him while slightly raising her glasses.
‘Of all times, that boar-like woman had to come in!’
Of course, ‘boar-like’ didn’t refer to Eiley’s appearance.
If that were the case, Michel would have put his thoughts into action without hesitation.
Her looks were no different from that of a typical office female employee.
“How incredibly rude, Michel. Is this how I taught you?”
Eiley immediately rolled up her sleeves and approached Michel.
And took a stance ready to throw a punch at any moment.
Her aggressive tendencies and considerable destructive power.
The reason for calling Eiley a boar was revealed.
“It’s nothing. Come on, get out Michel.”
The mayor, who didn’t want to make a big scene, gave Michel one last chance.
‘Do you want to leave after getting hit, or just leave?’
Michel, whose head had cooled down, chose the latter.
And.
Michel, who had become unemployed in an instant.
Cursed the mayor who fired him, Eiley who scolded him for not working well, and the bastard who took his job.
He happened to spot that bastard while walking down the street.
Seeing him laughing while arm in arm with a woman made his blood boil.
‘Fuck. Even if he’s the underground boss, can he just do whatever he wants like this?’
Although he was treated as the useless son in his family.
Michel was still born into a marquis family.
‘Remember kindness and repay enemies threefold without fail.’
The family motto passed down in the Garad marquis family.
As Michel mulled over those words.
‘No matter if he’s the underground boss of Serdin, can even a king compare to the underworld?’
Having come up with a good idea, he turned his steps.