Chapter 8: Ch 8: Lovestruck Receptionist and a Plea for Help

The next day, Rein left the inn early after breakfast. He wanted to give Tasha and Stella some time to freely dress up. They planned to meet up at about 9 AM. Rein left the inn before 7 so he had 2 hours to kill.

So, he decided to visit the adventure guild.

Every platinum rank adventurer had partial access to the special information network of the guild. Rein was planning to use that network to get updated about everything happening around the world.

This was also something that Rein did very often not only with the information network of the adventure guild but also the merchant guild. Information was very important in his opinion.

After entering the guild he went straight to the special counter. In this period of time, the adventure guild was very busy as most of the adventurers chose their quest during this time period. But the special counter, that was there to handle the high ranking adventurer was empty for the time being.

So Rein did not have to wait in any line.

The one handling the least busy special counter was Lulu who was Rein's acquaintance. Today was her lucky day as she was able to handle the least busy counter and her day became even luckier when Rein came to visit her.

After hearing what he wanted, Lulu personally took him to the back of the guild. There was a room there that kept the record of all the important recent news and Rein could read anything there.

As that room was completely empty Lulu was able to spend some time with Rein alone. When she first saw Rein, she had immediately fallen in love with him. She was not ashamed of this fact. After seeing him, if any single girl did not fall for him then that would be weird.

But Lulu knew that her love was less like a lover's and more like a fan's. So she thought that she would be able to just normally admire him after some time. She had many people she admired and she thought Rein would become just like one of them.

But as she spent her time with Rein, her love for him just grew and grew. She was a common girl who had never really fallen in love with anyone before. So, as she experienced her first love, she was able to feel how painful it actually was.

Rein was a great adventurer and she was just a common receptionist you could find anywhere. She was not worthy of him. She had heard that first love never became successful but Rein was her first love. Was it destined to be unsuccessful.

All these thoughts were rampaging inside her mind, making her feel measurable.

Suddenly Rein held her hands. Lulu looked up to see he was gently smiling at her. Then Rein asked her in a soft voice -

The open market was a place where many travelling merchants and adventurers were able to set up a temporary stall to sell things. This was a famous practice as it allowed someone to sell their stuff without much hassle and without going through an intermediary.

There were various types of items sold in the open market. Most of them were junk, but rarely valuable treasures might appear among those junks. There were even stories about someone picking up a trash item in an open market which turned out to be a legendary item.

So many people liked to try their luck in an open market.

But Rein did not need to try his luck with his Eye of Truth. So he was actually trying to find out something valuable in the sea of junk.

Even though Stella and Tasha did not have an ability to appraise like Rein had, they were quite intelligent and knowledgeable, so they were also looking around trying to see if they could find something interesting or valuable.

It was Tasha who noticed an interesting item first and she immediately told Rein about it. Rein looked at the item that she had noticed and gave an amazed smile. Then he walked toward the shop which was selling that item.

The shopkeeper handling this shop did not look like a merchant or an adventurer. So Rein guessed he was most probably a thief. He started to fiddle with various items of his shop and asked about their price. As Rein looked like a really rich person, the shopkeeper was happy to answer all his questions.

Soon Rein chose three items from that shop and brought them. The shopkeeper tried to ask for one thousand zeni for those three items but Rein haggled the price and took five items for that same price.

The shopkeeper saw it as his win because the items that Rein chose were both useless junk in his opinion.

After leaving that shop both Tasha and Stella were unable to hold back their giggles. It was truly a sight to see how Rein tricked that shopkeeper to give away the most valuable item of his shop as an useless extra. Rein took out a small stone the size of a pigeon's egg.

It looked extremely dull but actually it was a very valuable item. This was an item that could only be found in a dungeon called confinement escape stone. This item could allow a person to escape the confinement type traps quickly, saving a lot of time for anyone.

It was not very useful to Rein and his team as all them could use space related magic but still it was a very expensive item.

Just as they were laughing and talking with each other. A little girl suddenly came in front of them from an alley. Rein noticed that she had dog-like ears on her head. She quickly hugged Tasha's legs and asked in a quivering voice -

"Please help me."