Gauss got the village chief to sign the quest paperwork.
The chief had assumed Gauss would leave the village soon, like the other adventurers.
So he was surprised when Gauss said he planned to stay for a while and clear out more goblins from the surrounding area.
The chief's face immediately lit up with a welcoming smile.
When Gauss asked whether there was an inn where he could stay for a while, the chief waved his hands repeatedly.
He warmly took Gauss to a guest room in his own house, which he had specially prepared for him to rest in.
Of course, he welcomed Gauss's decision to stay and clear out the goblins.
Even if the other goblins weren't as close to their village, or were even near other villages, as long as goblins lived in the surrounding area, they remained a potential threat. Goblins weren't inanimate objects; once they settled somewhere, they didn't migrate.
And people like Gauss, who were willing to spend time on such thankless work after completing a quest, were few and far between.
Gauss couldn't refuse the chief, so he temporarily settled in his house.
Besides the chief's son and daughter-in-law, there was also a boy with short, dark brown hair, a little over ten years old.
When he heard Gauss was an adventurer, the boy excitedly pestered him with questions.
Things like, "Do goblins take baths? Do they poop?" "Who's stronger, ordinary humans or goblins?" and "How do you become an adventurer?"
As Gauss answered, casually sharing bits of his own experience, he treated the goblin left ears—the quest items—under the light of an oil lamp.
After all, if he left them as they were, by the time he returned to Grayrock Town to turn in the quest, the ears in that bag would