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[ To prove them all! ]

Difficulty: A+

After the situation of bankruptcy caused by the nobles on Greld. Greld was forced to move his tavern towards a small place by the alleyway after being forced to sell the property to the nobles. Even after moving to the new place and hoping for a new start, he had no luck with the business.

Day by day, he slowly lost more and more of his money, until now, where he could no longer afford the rental money demanded by the nobles. Although he could abandon his tavern, he chose not to, as he hoped that one day, he'll be able to continue on with being a tavernkeeper and seeing the smiles of his customers like today.

Learning of the possibilities suggested by Frey, he now has hopes to save his tavern if you work with him.

*This quest will have multiple clear conditions. Clear the previous condition to unlock the next. Each specific condition will have its own rewards.

Quest Clear Condition (1): Pay 10,000 gold before the end of the month. (You have 14 in-game days left)

Quest Condition Reward (1): Free access to Tavern Parmic's Facilities / Affinity with Greld will be maxed / Greld would be in debt to you

Total Quest Reward: Free access to Tavern Parmic's Facilities / Affinity with Greld will be maxed / Greld would be in debt to you / Your relation with the nobles in town -15 / Town's Reputation +50 / Your level will rise by +2 / Cooking option will be opened.

Quest Failure Condition: Failure to do any tasks within the given time or the arrest of Greld.

Quest Failure: The fall of Tavern Parmic / Greld's imprisonment for public nuisance / Reputation with the residents of the town will be decreased.

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Reading through the newly updated description on the quest, Shinto felt something bad would arise from this. 'The quest clear conditions have been updated and so did the quest failure...'

Unlike before, the quest had nothing to do with the public or the nobles. But now, with the live cooking show at hand, the nobles and residents of the town will be involved.

'The rewards for this quest is quite high for a ranked A+ difficulty quest, but the risks are just as high...' Shinto continued to analyze the quest as he thought to himself. 'The imprisonment of Greld if we failed this quest? I guess if one were to cause a ruckus in public they'd be arrested. But I'm worried on what these guys might do to make sure he gets arrested...'

For something like that to be in the quest failure, he was worried that the nobles might do something to make sure Greld was done for. They wouldn't just let him run the show without any sort of interference.

'A lot of thorough preparations are needed to be able to pull this off huh? Especially with the set up for the live cooking show and making sure Greld is safe...' Shinto sighed inwardly. 'But now that I think about it... How are we even going to go about this?'

As the thought came to his mind, Shinto turned towards Frey and Greld as he asked. "Uh... One problem. Where are we going to find the needed resources for the live cooking thing?"

"A-Ah...?" Frey blinked at his words. "...Right, we do need to set up the live cooking show huh? Can't we just use the tavern's kitchen?"

"I guess it's possible, but, if you'd want to prove the rumours were false, you'd want to do it in public and in a wide-open area where many can watch."

"Yeah... Then what do we do?"

"Hmm..." Shinto thought to himself for a bit as he quickly turned his direction towards Greld. "How confident are you in your cooking?"

"What kind of question is that? Of course, I'm confident in my cooking!" Greld replied firmly.

"Then, how about you try to challenge someone, most preferably one with high pride and arrogance to a cooking battle?"

"Hmm? Where are you getting at?"

"Well, if you were to challenge someone at the live cooking show, wouldn't the issue of setting up and advertisement be solved?"

"Ohh! That's a great idea!" Frey nodded her head. "But... Who do we challenge?"

"Isn't that simple? We'll just challenge the owners of the hotel," Shinto said.

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Walking through the crowded streets of the town's centre, three people stopped in front of a building which was once known as Tavern Parmic, 'Lavida's Hotel'.

"...Are you sure about this?" Greld hesitantly said. "Although I said I'm very confident in my cooking, but going up against a noble would be..."

"I feel like it'll be fine. You just need to prove your skills right? And by doing so, you'll be able to garner the interest of customers while also removing that rumour," Shinto reasoned. "So it's killing two birds with one stone."

"I guess... But would this even work? Would they even bother to try to accept the challenge?"

"Hmm, well if nobles are nobles, they'll do just that if we just invoke their arrogance," Shinto confidently said.

"Wait, invoke their arrogance? Wouldn't this be a bad thing? Won't we get killed or something?" Frey said.

"The worse that could happen is we get kicked out or banned from the hotel. But that won't happen if we publicly do it."

"H-Huh? Publicly do it? What do you mean?"

"Just trash talk on the food in front of everyone and say that Greld's food is better."

"...But, won't the place have supporters? They won't bat an eye to these remarks," Greld said.

"The supporters are another thing we'll worry about later. We just need to create a dent on the owner's pride, and then it'll start going our flow," Shinto explained.

"...And if it doesn't work?"

"If worst comes to worst, we'll just go with Plan B, which will bring about the same outcome."

"And that is...?"

"You'll know when we get there." Shinto confidently said as he stepped foot into the building. "For now, we'll be learning about our opponents."

Frey and Greld looked at one another in the eye as they turned towards the back of Shinto. Letting go of their doubts, they followed after him.