Diola

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She loves dindel fruit. Has an Aunt of some authority.

### Personality

Bright and cheerful. She worries about new adventurers, and admitted to worrying about Nao's group when they had started.

## Story

### Volume 1

When Nao, Haruka, and Touya, arrived in Laffan, and went to the Adventurer's guild, they met with Diola and registered. During the registration, she asked them if they were healthy, to which they replied yes in confusion. She explained that that day there had been people their age who had suddenly dropped dead, including two in that very building. When asked about the incident, she said there unfortunately nothing was known about what caused it. After Haruka asks about any herb-gathering questions, she explains that there are, and to do so from the East Forest, an easier location for beginners, or the South Forest.

The next day, when the party returned from gathering herbs, Diola explained the guild offers a simple tutorial on request for herb gathering quests, but many don't listen and bring back useless plants or parts of plants. She went on to explain about Dindels being an option to be gathered when they get more experience as it was about halfway through their season. After paying the party for the herbs, she collected parts from the boar they had hunted and explained that most rookies move on to other quests with better rewards by the time they get used to gathering herbs. The party and Diola then introduced themselves to each other and Diola says she primarily works as a receptionist at the guild.

Later, Haruka asked about Natsuki and Yuki, but was unable to provide information about them. When the group return with dindels, she admitted to being impressed by the party's skills at hunting and gathering in the forest. She bought the dindels from the party, admitting that she loved the perk of getting damaged dindels before they were entered on the guild ledge at a discounted price. She hinted at the process at producing dried dindels, and later tested the results of the party's attempts at making them calling herself a dindel connoisseur. She rated the samples and then purchased dried dindels for the guild from them.

### Volume 2

Haruka told Diola that the party was going to visit Sarstedt in an attempt to find Natsuki and Yuki and asked if there were any good places to eat and drink there. She recommended the a café that had sweets on the menu as the prices were more expensive than other places. When the party returned, she was happy to see them as well as Natsuki and Yuki who admitted to joining the party. She administered the purchasing of boar parts and explained she was glad to hear they'd be working as a party of five as a lot of adventurers who start to mistakenly believe that they can take on tend to not make it. She then asks about the backpacks the party was using and offers to purchase the plans on how to make them.

Haruka asked about the possibility of renting a house. Diola explained they would be able to rent a house for anywhere between about five thousand and ten thousand Rea per month, but we would be chased out of the house right away if they were late with the monthly rent, and that they would have to pay for repair fees themselves if the house was damaged. Also, the amount of rent would vary depending on the location, layout, and the size of the house. During the conversation, Diola asked for their adventurers cards. After adding a seal to the back, she congratulated them on becoming rookie adventurers and explained would normally have to retrieve magicite from monsters before you could be considered an adventurer. But this didn't really apply to their party.

Diola then offered to help look for a property that met the groups desires explaining the service only applied for property within the vicinity of the guild. As ordinary citizens tend to kind of avoid that part of town when it comes to property, and the property owners also felt safer when the guild acted as the middleman. For one of the properties, she borrowed an amulet from the guild branch master.

A little while later, Diola showed the party the properties she'd found that could possibly meet their specifications. One was a spacious chunk of land many times larger than the inn they stayed at. The building on the land looked more like a warehouse and was tucked way in the corner of the lot. She explained there used to be a large mansion on the plot, but without any inhabitants, it gradually fell into ruin, so it ended up being demolished. The owner of the plot even gave permission to have the building demolished if they wanted as it wasn't included in the rent cost. The next property was a smaller plot compared to the first one, but it has a nice-looking two-story mansion along with a beautiful yard. But it was believed to be haunted. The mistress of a noble once lived there, and since then, occupants of the plot tend to get sick often. She was very pleased the party said no to it. The third plot had space available somewhere in between the first and second plots. The house located on this plot is a one-story house, but decently large. It was that spacious due to the fact that it used to be on the outskirts of the village before Laffan became a town. There had been similar plots in the vicinity, but those plots had been split into smaller ones to build houses on. The group then asked Diola to negotiate on their behalf in purchasing the first plot in stead of renting it where she would get some dried dindels for it.

Diola hoped she could successfully conclude the negotiations with the noble, Baronet of Reed, who owned the plot. If she was, then it would almost guarantee that the party would settle down in Laffan. She felt the noble was not an easy person to negotiate with, but told herself rewards would be great if she succeeded. She had to do her best, "for the sake of dindels!" After several days of scheming and she worked out a price of 280 gold coins.