CH 23

When I returned to the city after I finished gathering the herbs, I immediately went to the adventurer's guild.

As soon as I entered the guild, I saw that everything was the same as before, so I walked to the counter for the purchase counter without worrying about it.

“Welcome. Are you here to sell something?”

“Yeah, I've fulfilled my request. Please check it.”

I put the Serenite grass in my hand on the counter for the young receptionist girl in charge, and as soon as she was checking to make sure there was no problem, her attitude suddenly changed.

“A-ano. How did you collect this Serenite grass?”

“Was there something wrong with the way it was collected?”

“No, rather it was the opposite. It is rare to find such high quality Serenite grass. I was just wondering how you got it.”

“Fumu, in that case, I won't tell you how it was collected.”

As the term "confidentiality rights" implies, some professions, not just adventurers, profit from specialized skills.

Some of them were so important that they could be passed down from master to apprentice or parent to child.

I wouldn't compare it to those special techniques, but there was a chance that my way of collecting it might not be the usual way.

If I revealed it to the public, some powerful people or clever merchants would take notice of it, and I might get into trouble.

Therefore, I chose not to answer her question.

However, as if she didn't understand the situation, she persistently asked me how to collect medicinal herbs.

“Please. Please tell me.”

“I can't do that. I have my own problems.”

“I'll take care of it somehow – ouch!”

Then, as if to interrupt her from speaking, there was someone who hit her.

It was a familiar face… it was the breasts…no, it was the glasses woman, Marian. The breasts glasses woman who was in charge of my adventurer registration.

Marian raised her glasses in a gesture while maintaining her usual sales smile but somehow maintaining a negative aura on her face.

“Nicole, I've always told you. The skills adventurers possess are unique to that person, and it's not right to force him or her to ask about them...”

"Ma-Marian-senpai!?"

“I've been telling you for years, and you're still trying to uncover the secrets of adventurers. Furthermore, you've been bothering Rolando-san, who I was in charge of registering as an adventurer…. It seems that you need to be re-educated.”

“No, please spare me from that! I don't want to go through that hell again!”

“Nicole, I think you have the wrong person to apologize to.”

The situation was settled in no time at all, and the girl called Nicole apologized to me.

It was an amazing turn of events, and I could tell that she was desperate to get my forgiveness at any cost.

Probably, if she couldn't get my forgiveness, she would have to undergo Marian's re-education, which she was afraid of.

I was curious to see what her re-education would be like, but I didn't want to hurt her just to see what it would be like, so I forgave her easily.

“As long as you don't do anything like this again then it’s not a problem.”

“We apologize for any inconvenience caused to Rolando-san by this incident. I'm very sorry.”

“I don't mind. Well, I'd personally want to see Marian's re-education…”

“Then, shall I show it to you now?”

“Hi, hii!”

Marian understood that I was joking, and she also jokingly replied to my joking words.

However, Nicole couldn't stand it and let out a convulsed scream.

Seeing her like this, Marian and I both burst into laughter, and I could feel the atmosphere loosening up. While the atmosphere was becoming friendly, a man intervened.

"Hey, kid. Shut up and listen to me, you're getting carried away. You're in good company with a flower in each hand, aren't you?”

(There it is, the scary senior adventurer from the famous adventurer's guild in another world.)

His appearance was that of a real adventurer, with some kind of fur wrapped around his waist, a sword and a dismantling knife.

His face looked ugly, and he looked more like a bandit or mercenary than an adventurer. He hadn't bathed in days, and his body reeked so badly that you couldn't help but frown.

The man's face was colored with an even uglier smile, as if he took my contorted face as displeasure for interrupting his seduction of Marian and Nicole.

“I don't think Marian or Nicole would have anything to do with a stupid brat like you. If you don't want to get hurt, get out of here!”

“…was I hitting on Marian and Nicole?”

“…No, I don't remember anyone hitting on me so far.”

“What about you Nicole?”

“I've never met you before, have I?”

“Yes, that's right?”

I tried to refute the man's claim by asking Marian and Nicole to confirm it, but that didn't seem to satisfy him, and he raised his voice even more.

“Kid! Don’t get carried away when I'm nice to you! I'm serious now!”

I was ready to question him for an hour or so about when I had gotten ahead of myself, but I knew that no matter what I said to this kind of person, it would only be in their ears, so I kept my mouth shut.

This attitude seemed to be taken as being intimidated, and now he made a threatening demand.

“But I'm a kind person like you. I'll forgive you if you give me all your money.”

“Haa? Just when I thought you were making a strange accusation, now you're mugging me. Are all adventurers like you?”

As I said this, I turned my gaze to the other adventurers. It was an implied question, "Are you people just like him?” But the other adventurers, not wanting to get into trouble, simply looked away.

As if he didn't like my attitude, the man raised his voice even more, but Marian and Nicole who were involved didn't remain silent.

“Lovelace-san, that's enough. He was just chatting with us, he wasn't hitting on us.”

“That's right”

“Look, the girls are saying this, and I could laugh and forgive you right now, but what are you going to do?”

“I don't care about what were you doing, kid…. Follow me!”

It would have been nice if he had pulled it off, but unfortunately that didn't seem to be the case. Oh dear, this is really troublesome.

At any rate, I followed his lead and was brought to the training grounds of the adventurer's guild.