Vol. 8 - Chapter 402 - ‹Support Department› Member Part 2! What? An Adventurer? Rejected!

With Nico's self-introduction coming to an end, we proceeded with our next member.

"My turn, eh."

Next to Nico, the girl rose from her seat, offering a slight bow. Her tousled purple hair, styled in a short, boyish fashion, swayed with the motion. Her eyes were the same colour as her hair, showing her determined spirit. She had quite an athletic body, giving her the sport-minded girl vibe.

She should be as tall as Ester, but her sculpted legs brought an added charm to her appearance.

"Much like Nico, I am also from ‹Support Department Class 1-2›. Please call me Kairi. I used to be in the E-rank guild ‹Adventurers› a while back, but due to some reasons, I am now imposing myself on ‹Arc-Arcadia›. My job is ‹Seeker LV13›. I might still be a rookie in contrast to seniors here but I will try my best to become a reliable explorer in the future. I am in charge of searching traps, hidden pathways, treasure chest and scouting in the dungeon. I hope to learn many more things here."

Kairi finished her introduction and offered a bow again. Everyone gave a round of applause to her.

Kairi, just like Nico, was also someone I had tasked Misato to look for. ‹Seeker› was a high-ranking job in the ‹Explorer› category which, as its name implies, specialises in exploring the dungeon.

In addition to the abilities Kairi mentioned, she also had the map production ability and correction for when harvesting to some extent. The job was also capable of dealing with topography that started appearing from advanced dungeons if it were to be promoted.

It was honestly quite an all-rounder job that could do anything but fight. Every single skill of ‹Seeker› job was oriented for exploration.

Well, it's a pity for the lack of battle power, but on the flip side, it was quite reliable when it came to the dungeon.

One of my main reasons to scout her was to deal with the terrains that would start appearing from advanced dungeons. There were a lot of terrain like desert, volcanos, ice and snow zones, snowy mountains or jungle etc that were equally bothersome to deal with. Then, add on the environmental damage and you undoubtedly get a firsthand experience of what it feels like to be either a frozen popsicle or a grilled steak etc.

Kairi's cheek flared a bit as she put up a wry smile and sat down on her seat.

It was a waste of human resources to let such a wonderful job eat dust in the E-rank guild. Her former guild, ‹Adventures›, was a gathering of all sorts of utility type jobs like ‹Searcher›, ‹Adventurer› from ‹Collection Department›, ‹Trap Disarming Department› or ‹Investigation Department›.

At a glance, that place seemed to be a treasure trove of excellent talents. But if I were to point out a downside, it was the lack of combat jobs. It was impossible to make progress in the dungeon without them, and that was the same for the guild battles. To put it in short, they seemed to be content with being an E-rank guild.

It was like the legendary treasure trove that adventurers sought on the high seas turned out to be gradually consumed by termites.

It was in one such moment our headhunter Misato showed herself. Upon receiving my directive to search for a job in the ‹Explorer› category—and if possible, a ‹Seeker›—she promptly boarded into negotiation with ‹Adventures›.

There were two members, both 3rd year students, with ‹Searcher› jobs, and Kairi with ‹Seeker› job. She swiftly picked up Kairi as a potential candidate. There was also an ‹Adventurer› job holder who seemed to be promoting himself crazily. Well, I might have considered it if it was ‹Big Adventurer›, the high-ranking version of ‹Adventurer›, but ‹Adventurer› was definitely in that list so it was a swift rejection.

Kairi was all green in personality as well so I had her rounded up as our new member.

On the side note, the ‹Adventurer› had fallen on his knees and shed river of tears at the rejection apparently. Misato informed me of that scene with her signature 'Tahaha~' smile. It seemed like he was one of her acquaintances from the way she spoke.

When I asked her 'will he be alright?', she replied back with 'It should be'. Either way, that was how the scouting for Kairi, ‹Seeker›, had gone.

It sucks, O' ‹Adventurer›. But this is life, huh.

Come to think of it, he later said something like "Since the connection isn't going to work, I'll prove my worth by passing it on my own." I wonder what he must be doing now?