I am escorted to Hephaestus' office and she waves me in.

"Hephaestus-sama, do you have work for me to do recently?" I ask her.

She thinks and says that she needs a few Minotaur pelts for a project she was working on and if I got her the materials she would give me some materials to make my own equipment with.

After around 4 hours I finally have all the pelts she requested and am walking back when I hear the shout of a Minotaur and immediately chase after it thinking that the original plot has finally begun. Much to my disappointment it was someone else from another familia. It looked to be a chienthrope with gold hair and silver eyes. I send a blast of fire at the Minotaur, not caring about destroying the pelt. It mooed in a painful tone and looked at me. It's eyes promised death, and it was coming for me.

I summon Kitsu and ask her to incinerate this dumb bull. She obliges and I walk up to the chienthrope. She was shivering while begging to not be killed and praying to her god/goddess. I gently shake her and tell her to calm down and that she's safe. She finally looks up at me and starts hysterically crying and laughing at the same time. I simply try to comfort her and don't mind the snot she's getting over my shirt.

After around an hour she finally stops and looks at my face. Wow… She was beautiful. Think of the most beautiful face you can imagine and multiply that by a hundred, that's what I was seeing. She started thanking me over and over, praising me for saving her from a pass parade. I'm shocked, it shows.

"Yeah it was a couple of guys wearing full body armor. One had a sword and the had a halberd. They were being chased by a dozen Minotaur and happened to see me. They drew aggro to me while taking one or two out, until there were three left. By the time they got to me they threw something at me which all the monsters went after, which had been thrown towards me."

She takes a couple deep breathes and introduced herself, "By the way, my name is Rice. I am from the Hephaestus familia, gatherer worker. I came to get some gems for one of the requests that was posted. And this is where we are now."

I feel really mad since she was from the same familia. I tell her I'll bring her back with me to Hephaestus. She looks at me and asks if I'm from the same familia. I nod and start princess carrying her up the dungeon while protecting us were Kitsu and Shine, the diamond golem.

After a couple long hours we finally get to the surface and I immediately yell to get out of the way. They knew something was wrong and didn't stop me from leaving and made a path for me to get through. I manage to get her back to the workshop and yell to get Hephaestus immediately. One of the senior blacksmiths went to do as said and not even five minutes later we can see Hephaestus rushing towards us. She asks us what happened and I simply say "Pass parade." She pales, looks shocked, and then finally angry.

She immediately goes to the guild to report what happened and tells me to go home after taking rice home. I do as she says and fall into a deep sleep.

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