"Tell me, it seems that this boy had been working as an adventurer for quite some time already... why showing up only now?"
"!!!!"
But Banana clearly knew how to deal with the danger without actually jumping in and duking it out in a fight she knew that she would lose, and made Laura become pale and take a step back with just a few words.
"Grape...?"
The tall woman folded her arms and glanced questioningly at the kobold.
"I-it must be because the last mission that mister Zombie accepted was guarding a merchant on a fetch quest to the Great northern forest. It was supposed to take up to four days but it has already been nine."
The kobold hurriedly rushed to the leather-bound book and read out the specifications of a mission after moving a few pages back.