{I was thinking about whether to write the desert questline, but my memories of it weren't very clear anymore. Then I found some videos to catch up on the story and was stunned to discover that it was fourteen hours long!}
{Plus, everyone doesn't seem to like it when I drag out the plot, so I'll get to Nod-Krai as soon as possible for a transition, then continue once the Snezhnaya storyline starts in the game. I'll probably finish the novel after Snezhnaya, because the earnings are getting lower and lower now. It's summer vacation right now, isn't it? But there are only fifty-something requests for updates. I can't even manage to get the full-attendance bonus; I'd need at least one or two hundred update requests for that to be possible. So it's not that I don't want to keep writing.}
"And these are private commissions. We aren't planning to submit them to the Adventurers' Guild, so no third party will take a cut of the three million Mora."
"But since we aren't particularly familiar with the desert, we wanted to find some Desert folk to serve as guides."
Theresa really didn't remember the desert very clearly anymore. She vaguely remembered a desert girl named Jeht and some scattered bits of her story.
"The desert! Didn't we spend some time in Sumeru before? We know someone! Uh, if she still counts as a person..."
Paimon recalled that she and Lumine had gone to the desert on a commission, hadn't they? They had helped that girl Jeht investigate her origins and dealt with the people in that tribe who had ill intentions.
In the end, Jeht had left that tribe and established a Caravan of her own. As for its name, they hadn't paid attention at the time.
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