Chapter 77: A Scene at the Yoshanka Adventurer's Guild Branch Office

Chapter 77: A Scene at the Yoshanka Adventurer's Guild Branch Office A Scene at the Yoshanka Adventurer’s Guild Branch Office

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Arc 6 begins.

Will Emi be able to become an adventurer after all?

“Hmph! What’s wrong, hurry up and take out your weapon, cursed child! You want to be an adventurer, don’t you? You must have a knife or two on you, right?”

“.......”

This is the adventurer’s guild branch office in the town of Yoshanka.

Yoshanka is a town built on a windy cliff, and all the buildings are made of stone.

Naturally, the floor is also paved with hard stone, but the cursed child who was provoked... Emi, a black-haired, black-eyed 7-year-old girl, lightly kicks the floor with her bare toes, checking its sturdiness.

......With the same careful touch as if handling a soft clay sculpture.

“No weapon.”

“Hah? You mocking me, you brat! An adventurer’s job is a matter of life and death! What were you planning to do without a weapon?”

The boy... Kamasse, a magic swordsman with beautiful short silver hair and sharp eyes, sneers at Emi.

It’s around 10 o’clock in the morning, just when adventurers head out for quests, leaving the guild quiet.

Inside the adventurer’s guild, there are only a few adventurers on break, a few clients, and the guild staff – the receptionist and the branch vice-chief.

Apart from the whooshing sound of Yoshanka’s characteristic sea breeze hitting the building, there is no other noise, so the provocation rings out clearly.

However, no one reprimands Kamasse for drawing his sword against the unarmed Emi.

Emi is a black-haired, black-eyed cursed child.

There are very few people who would help a cursed child.

Even Pilitza, the receptionist who should have stopped the commotion inside the guild, just yawned while resting her cheek on the counter, watching how things would unfold.

That cursed child had made the outrageous demand to Pilitza to register as an adventurer, despite being a cursed child.

There was no law against refusing her.

Moreover, somehow that cursed child even had a letter of recommendation from the former renowned adventurer, Baron Martz Salar.

However, she is a cursed child.

Filthy and intimidating.

Pilitza would rather not get involved if possible.

Anything he disliked, he would simply crush with his strength.

That nasty side of him reared its head in this situation.

It emerged.

And his nose...

Was broken by Emi.

Clean off.

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Before he knew it, Kamasse was staring up at the branch office’s ceiling.

He didn’t clearly understand what had happened.

However, the cold feeling of the stone floor, and the pain in the back of his head from being slammed onto it, made him realize he had been literally “defeated.”

The one who did it was the cursed child he had mocked earlier.

In an instant too fast for him to comprehend, she had closed the distance as he tried to strike her. With that momentum, she jumped a bit, grabbed his neck with her tiny hand, and slammed him to the floor.

“.....’defeated’.”

The cursed child muttered that as she held Kamasse’s neck pinned with her small palm.

It was an adorably small voice.

Yet her expressionless face and deep black eyes filled Kamasse with dread.

“......!?”

As Kamasse tried to shake the cursed child off, he noticed with confusion that his body wouldn’t move, as if pinned to the floor.

To explain, that too was Emi’s doing.

【Peel】, the ability to strip away any dirt.

If she could do that, then the opposite phenomenon of 【Adhesion】 should be easy as well.

Thinking that, Emi devised this technique.

Kamasse’s body had been magically stuck to the floor.

For now, this technique required Emi’s body to make contact to activate, but once used, the effect would persist for a while.

Leaving the struggling and confused Kamasse behind, Emi toddled up to the reception counter and conveyed the same request to the dumbfounded Pilitza that she had been repeating:

“......Please register me as an adventurer.”