Chapter 216.1
The Town Where the Demon Lives Part 4
Jean started having the same “dream” a few weeks ago.
He did not know why he was having these dreams, but he somehow guessed that there were other people in town who were having dreams similar to Jean’s. I knew that there were others in town who were having similar dreams.
But Jean never told her friends about it. The dream could only be understood by those who had dreamed it, and those who had dreamed it understood it without being told.
In that dream, Jean saw herself making a [promise] to [Someone] from a third-person perspective. She did not understand the content of the dream, but perhaps because she was looking at it from another point of view, she did not think of [himself] who was making a promise to someone else as [himself].
An unknown [self] was making an unknown [promise] to [Someone]. Not knowing what it meant, Jean did not consider the promise important.
Around the time Jean started dreaming, there had been incidents of people from outside disappearing in the town. The timid Collete looked frightened when he heard about it, but Jean naturally assumed that Someone who dreamed must have fulfilled [the promise].
The reason Jean did not even tell her was that it was “someone else’s business” after all.
This was a closed town. As was common in the countryside, it took years for outsiders to settle in the village where Jean and his family grew up. They had to have a home and children before they could be accepted as one of the community.
As adventurers, they left their village with Slay and his friends and became adventurers in this town, the closest one to them, but it was no different in the adventurers’ guild, where many people came from the outside.
Jean used to think that this was because they were good at what they did.
There was not much work for adventurers in this town, which was halfway to the frontier along the border where there were many monsters and no dungeons. Still, the presence of adventurers served to reduce the number of monsters around the town, and for this reason, the lords of such towns subsidized the lives of adventurers by raising the purchase price of magic stones, even if it cost them their own money.