Chapter 44: Purified Village
As Kai and Gwen arrived at the village square, they spotted multiple people there, all sitting around as if they were waiting for someone. But these weren’t just ordinary people; they were adventurers.
"Looks like we’re not the only adventurers here." Kai pointed out.
"Oh great, more adventurers to take the prize." An older man grumbled, clearly annoyed at something.
"Prize?" Gwen asked
"Tsk, the bitch doesn’t even know about the prize. What, are you here to sightsee or something? Give me a break."
Gwen almost blew the man’s head off, but Kai calmed her down in time.
"Sorry, but we’re not here for any prize. We’re on our way to Vaudrille, and we stopped by here to stock up and take on a few requests. We didn’t know the state of the village until we arrived." Kai attempted to ease the tension, but the man wasn’t having it.
"Don’t worry about him, he’s always like that. Nice to meet you, I’m Wendy." A wolf-kin woman with black hair walked up to them.
"Hello, Wendy. Can you tell us what’s going on here?" Kai asked
"Sure can. You probably heard from the locals that a suspicious man came here, told the people that they were heretics, and they got sick a little while later, right? Well, that’s bullshit. Someone spotted a cloaked figure in the middle of the night tampering with the water supply, and they believe that whoever did this was the cause of the problem."
"Do you know if anything is being done?"