And so after helping, or trying to at least, with lunch, I sat down to eat with the two sisters. It's somehow a bit wholesome thinking about it, still the food will do nothing for me sadly.
“I think I’ll register in the guild anyways!”
“You shouldn’t do that Mari!”
“Are you worried about me? I’m telling you, I’m pretty strong!”
“Well, big sister is stronger!”
“Ellie!”
“oh... then how about we test it?”
“Eh?”
“Of course! Big sister can beat you easily!”
“Ellie!”
“Then let’s put it to the test shall we, how about an arm wrestle?”
Heather turned pale, how cute, I love teasing her like this. It's also her sister’s fault for putting her on the spot, although I'm pretty sure she’s genuinely concerned about my well-being if I'm an adventurer or something.
“M-Marisa... there’s no need...”
“Of course not, I’m just pying around”
Heather then gave me a wry ugh, maybe worried I’ll rip her remaining arm off?
I had a peaceful lunch with the two sisters. Ellie got surprisingly attached to me it seems, she was a bit sad when it was time for me to leave the house.
“Well, I’m going to the adventure guild to register~”
“Eh!? Were you talking seriously?”
“Yes, But...”
I just said nonchantly.
“I don’t know where I can register, can you show me around Heather?”
“M-me?”
“Un, if it’s not too much of a bother of course”
Heather sighed, then she just nodded, saying ‘it’s fine’ with a tired voice.
“Great!”
And so I headed outside with Heather guiding me towards the guild.
“You can take this as your job for the day, after I register you can go back home”
“Eh!? But mistress!”
“It’s ok, I want you to rest actually, you passed out yesterday as well, so...”
“O-ok mistress”
I don’t want to push her too much, besides I actually felt a bit unsatisfied, so I’ll skip it today, tomorrow I’ll fuck her silly again.
“Umm... y-you weren’t serious about blowing the guild right?”
“It’s my city I do what I want”
“P-please reconsider”
“Sigh... Fine, just because you asked nicely~”
“Thank you mistress!”
“But tell me about the guild, you said something about ranks”
“Of course, every adventurer is given a rank, and it dictates what missions they can or can’t take”
“I see”
“There’s 2 types of ranks, it’s given by the number of stars of your rank and the material of the stars, arranging them in order, the lowest rank would be a 1 bronze star, then 2 bronze stars, and so on, 5 bronze stars is the maximum rank of bronze, then you receive a silver star, then two, after 5, you get a golden star, and finally after 5 gold stars a ptinum star, that also goes up to 5”
“So a 5 ptinum stars is the highest possible rank for an adventurer?”
“Un, but the amount of adventurers to reach that status is so low, you can count it with your fingers”
“I see, Well, I’m hoping they just pce me at the highest rank then~”
“A-at much they’ll pce you on 3 silver stars, that’s the highest a person has entered the guild, and he was a renowned captain of the royal knights, they won’t give you the max status right away”
“That’s because they haven’t seen my persuasion techniques”
“Mistress... don’t do anything rash please...”
And so while we were talking on the way to the guild, it seems we finally arrived after a rather short walk, not very far but It’s a big building and quite eye-catching all things considered, I headed inside with Heather, and as soon as we entered a bunch of people started looking our way.
“Oi! Lass, this isn’t a pce for children!”
“Then what are you doing here?~”
I answered with a smug smile to the burly man threatening me first thing I do when entering.
“You!-“
Before he could finish his reply, everyone, including him, got quiet when Heather entered as well. Surprisingly enough, the hostile environment turned to murmurs and rumors about Heather, they totally forgot about me.
This infuriated me a little bit for some reason...
“Let’s go mi-Marisa”
“You can call me Marisa if you want, I’m not forcing you to call me anything, plus I see you struggling every now and then”
“O-ok, let’s go to the receptionist to get you registered Marisa”
And so we headed amidst the people’s voices to a good looking girl behind a desk.
“K-knight Heather! It’s a pleasure to be your acquaintance!”
“T-the pleasure it’s mine”
I’ll just let Heather talk for me, seeing the receptionist it’s ignoring me as is everyone else, this did pick my interest though, everyone always looked at me like some sort of freak when on the streets, why is it that the guild treats me different I wonder
“What can we help you with today ma’am?”
“A registration, actually...”
“My! Of course we will be gd to have you, but are you sure you want to register with those wounds?”
“N-no, it’s not for me...”
“Then?”
The receptionist took a gnce at me and got quite angry at Heather.
“Ms. Heather, this is going too far for a prank don’t you think!?”
“It’s not a prank, sadly...”
“Un! I came here today to register as an adventurer!”
I said puffing my chest, I’m bored beyond my mind so I’ll entertain the receptionist even if her tone of voice and demeanor annoys me.
“Kid! This isn’t a pyground! This job is dangerous!”
“I’m sure it is”
“Then?”
“Register me!”
“I refuse!”
Heather looked more distraught by the second, so she looked at the receptionist tag hanging on her chest and interrupted our discussion.
“U-Umm... please... Liv, can you register her?”
“Sigh... I’m so disappointed in you miss Heather... Fine! Only because you asked so nicely! you kid!”
“You receptionist!”
“Sigh... there’s gonna be a test to register, if you fail any of them, you won’t put another foot in this guild understand!”
“Of course~”
Besides if they fail me, the guild ceases to exist, so I’m gonna keep my word.
“Sigh... it’s a written test and a test spar, if you pass both I’ll register you as a 1 bronze star, understand?”
“Eh!? I want a higher rank!”
She’s getting really mad, and Heather is turning more pale by the second, this is so fun to watch.
“A-anyways! What test would you like to do first?”
“I’ll do the spar! I want to scare your instructors!”
“Sigh...”
She rang a bell that she pulled from behind the counter, and a tough looking dy came by.
“Ah! I can’t believe I get to meet the legendary captain of the pace knights! Did you come here for a test spar? I can’t wait! I’ll wait for you in the backyard!”
She was so excited when she saw Heather, she didn’t even let us say anything...
“And she’s just as awkward as always... it’s straight to the bottom of the hall, you can’t miss it”
“L-let’s Go Marisa...”
“Eh? You’re coming?”
“Yes, I’m going so there’s not a crime in this guild...”
“You should listen to Heather! Our instructor will kill you if you’re not careful!”
I think Heather was referring the other way around.
“Meh, I won’t do anything stupid, I promised remember, still feel free to come if you want”
We both headed to the backyard, there’s a lot of mini arenas, little dirt patches with a circle painted on the floor, with people fighting with dud weapons.
“Miss Heather! Over here!”
“Ah, instructor-“
“It’s a shame I don’t get to fight you at your peak but, I’m sure you’re a formidable opponent nonetheless!”
“No, I-“
“Heather”
“Y-Yes!?”
“Don’t you want to fight her?”
“Eh?”
“I won’t force you of course, but she’s thrilled to have a bout with you, Why don’t you indulge her just a bit?”
“I”
She saw the instructor doing puppy eyes, as well as my ‘I’m bored’ face, so she ended up agreeing to participate.
“Fine”
She grabbed a dud sword from a nearby barrel, and approached the fake arena.
“Great! Then let’s begin!”
The instructor then lunged to Heather! Trying to give her a diagonal ssh with her whole body weight, it was quite an amazing move, and Heather managed to dodge it barely by jumping back.
“Pretty good!”
The instructor relentlessly attacked Heather, a flurry of fast sshes all directed towards her! Meanwhile she’s only backing up, and defending with her bde at the st second.
“It’s a shame! You should have made yourself an adventurer before that happened!”
“Enough!”
Heather moved to the side and made the instructor slip by hitting her legs with the sword in a very gracious and smooth movement despite her falling down for a second cking her other leg for support, she then quickly regained her bance by shoving the bde to the ground, and after lifting it again, she pointed the sword to the instructor’s neck.
“Wa! As expected of the legendary knight!”
Heather is panting quite hard...
“I’m... not in shape for this!”
“If it’s you, the simpler mobs like goblins shouldn’t be a problem, congratutions on passing the test spar”
“Haa... I’m not the one here to take the test!”
“Eh?”
“Yo! It’s my turn now?”
She’s looking at me dumbfounded, while I headed to the barrel and picked a fake sword.
“In actuality, I’m just accompanying her today, so she can register”
“Miss Heather! You should know to quit jesting! Especially such a tasteless joke!”
“No, I-“
“Shut up you two!”
I said in an angry voice.
“Since I came here, you all treated me like a nuisance, it’s pissing me off”
Heather turned ghostly pale in a second.
“M-Marisa!”
“Fine kid! You want to spar so bad! Come at me!”
“Finally! Heather, can I borrow that sword?”
“Y-Yes...”
Heather handed me the dud sword, holding now two of them, one in each hand.
“Please don’t kill her!”
“Of course I won’t kill her, Heather!”
“She’s asking me, not you!”
“Come at me then”
“Are you sure?”
“Of course, kid!”
“Don’t regret it!”
I closed the gap between us in a second. I was so fast, a furious wave of wind swept everyone from the force of my movement, I’m standing in front of the instructor.
“You’re weak!”
I said then I stroked her sword with mine, sending it flying.
“W-What!?”
Everyone in the sparing arenas stopped what they were doing to look at us.
“I don’t need this”
I lifted one of my swords, then tossed it at the wall, passing next to the instructor.
The result was an explosion from the force of the wooden sword colpsing in the wall. The instructor is dumbfounded.
“Now, it’s your turn to come at me!”
I said, tossing her my other sword to her feet, leaving me empty handed.
“Come~”
I said smiling, with both my hands behind my back.
“Y-you!”
The instructor is trembling, she then rushed to attack me just like she did with Heather, I can see her using her full force. As the sword got close to me, I stopped it with my index and thumb, applying pressure to not letting it go, the instructor struggled but the sword won’t budge, it is cracking from my finger grip though.
“If this is all the guild can offer, I’m disappointed”
I grabbed the instructor by the colr on her shirt, and smmed her to the ground.
“Oi!”
I said to the instructor now ying on the floor.
“I want another test spar! Get every capable guild staff that can fight, and fight me all together!~”
“Eh?”
The instructor looked at Heather, and she, pale as a ghost, made a sign with her hand like pleading with her to do what I said.
“R-right away!”
She left in a hurry, so I sat down with Heather.
“W-what are you doing!?”
“I was bored, so I came her to have some fun”
“T-that’s...”
“I’m sure that every single capable person in the guild fighting me will pose a challenge”
“M-mistress, you beat the entire pace knights by yourself! there’s no way that the guild can even reach your heels...”
“D-did I hear that right?, you defeated the entire pace knights by yourself...”
Said the instructor I beat to the ground with a shaky voice.
“Yep, they were pushovers anyways, don’t let me down you guys~”
The instructor is now as ghostly pale as Heather.
“What’s the commotion!”
“Guild master!”
“Why are you requesting such a stupid thing Fel!”
“T-that’s!”
She expined everything to this muscle guy, the so-called guild master, making his grand entrance.
“Hm! Then I’ll personally fight you girl!”
“Eh!? I asked for everyone!”
“If you’re as strong as you cim to be, then at least for me, it would just be using them as cannon fodder, you’ll have to make do with me!”
This guy... he’s strong, I can tell, even Heather would have a hard time fighting this guy, even with her complete limbs, although I think Heather would still win by the end.
“Fine by me! If I beat you, what rank can you give me?”
“Is that the reason for all of this? I can pce you in a single gold star if you ace the written test, is that clear?”
“Seems Fine”
“Let’s go to another pce, not here”
“Ok”
He took me to another arena, quite a big one this time and outside the guild in the back, but it’s only for the two of us this time.
I can hear gossiping with things like. ‘The guild master is fighting’ and such.
“We’ll begin in the count of three”
“Of course”
“1, 2... 3!”
Said the other instructor then ran away as fast as she could.
What!? He closed the distance between us immediately.
I quickly tried to push him back by shoving my arms towards him, but he managed to not only dodge, but punch me in the face, making me take a step back!
“You!”
I quickly punched him but he dodged again and punched me back, this time in my belly.
“Hey!”
...
Grr! Doesn’t matter how much I try! I can’t nd a hit!.
“What’s the matter, not so strong now? It’s the problem with monsters like you, so strong they turn their fighting style into that of a simple minded animal, there’s nothing you can do to defeat me!”
Grr! Fine! I was holding back because it’s a mock battle! Plus your punches hurt a bit!
“You want to see sheer power! I’ll show you power!”
I felt angry, then a feeling like the one I felt when fighting Heather’s dad coursed through my body, suddenly he fell to the ground. So I just walked towards him slowly.
“Ugh!”
“Dodge!”
In the nick of time, he managed to jump back, I punched the ground with such force, he and everyone in the vicinity was sent flying, dirt and stone flying everywhere from the explosion of my punch hitting the floor, it seems I may have overdid it for a second.
“Old man! Let’s fight properly this time!”
I said, feeling a grin creeping on my right cheek.
“N-no need! I forfeit, it’s your victory!”
“Eh?”
“I-it’s something wrong?”
“Old man! It’s not fun like this! Especially since you humiliated me just a second ago!”
“I-I’m sorry! Could you forgive this old man?”
“Hm! Fine! You better keep your word”
“Of course!”
And so, Heather, the guild master and I headed back to the receptionist with that rather unsatisfying outcome.
“Had Enough kid?”
The receptionist is looking at me like I failed the test, probably from my rather annoyed face.
“Meh, it was quite boring and infuriating”
“I see, Well it’s a bummer, try again when you’re older”
“What are you talking about, I passed, now the written test please”
“Eh!?”
“Liv!”
“G-guild master!”
“She’s strong, strong enough to beat me in a fight, don’t look at her like just some child!”
“W-what?”
“You heard me!, give her the written test”
“R-right away! Come this way please!”
She took me to a room and gave me a printed paper and a pen, how technological! Certainly didn’t expect it from the medieval setting, dreams and all that I suppose.
“Please start”
“Un”
Let’s see, I can read and write this nguage for some reason.
First part, a couple of math questions, piece of cake, it’s just addition and subtraction.
Next,
‘When was the guild established?’
Hmm... fuck I don’t know, next.
...next...
N-next...
‘What kind of medical herb-‘
Next!
‘Which monster is the most accessible to-‘
Next!
Ah fuck! I’ll just write what I think it’s right!
...
...
“How did it go?”
“Heather, I... umm”
“Yes?”
“Bad”
“Wait really!?”
The receptionist came back, pissed as always, looking at me like some child again.
“The results are in”
“And?”
Asked Heather.
“She got every single question wrong”
“Eh!?”
“Well not everything, the math questions were right, as for the rest”
“How am I supposed to know when the guild was built if I just learned it existed 15 minutes ago!”
“W-wait, you just learned the guild exists!?”
“Yep”
“Did you live under a rock or something!?”
“That’s none of your business!”
“Sigh... still, the guild master vouches for you so, could you fill this form to make the registration official?”
“Sure”
Let’s see, name.
Marisa.
Job.
Uh, ruler.
Affiliation.
Hmm...
“What does affiliation mean?”
I asked Heather.
“Ah! That means which country you belong to”
“I see”
I wrote ‘mine’
Religion.
None.
Noteworthy abilities.
Hmm, this is a dream so...
Omnipotence.
“Here!”
“Let’s see”
“...umm, could you stop joking for once! Not even the registration form you took seriously!”
“Eh!? I wrote everything right!”
“Right! Name, well I’ll believe you, occupation, ruler, what the hell is that!”
“It’s simple I’m the ruler of this town”
“Eh!? Kid you’re gonna get into trouble for saying these things! If a noble or patriotic person hears you they’ll go for your neck! Besides, it meant what’s your fighting role in a party stupid!”
“Oh! But I don’t intent to form a party”
“Sigh... affiliation, mine, what does that even mean!”
“It means I’m not part of any country! Except for my own country of course”
“If you didn’t have any you could’ve put none, just as you did in religion! Besides, who doesn’t have a religion!”
“I don’t have a religion”
“Eh!? You’re telling me you don’t pray to the church of light!?”
“Of course not, I pray to no one”
“Sigh... the church will really try to get your neck for bsphemy... then again you are a demon so I guess it makes sense, and finally as noteworthy abilities, you wrote omnipotence, what does that even mean!?”
“You don’t know? And I’m the uncultured one?”
“Sigh... please fill it properly”
“It’s filled properly!”
“I can’t register you like this!”
“I say you can! Or maybe you’re better off me forcing you to do it!”
“M-Marisa, please don’t get mad...”
“This incompetent receptionist has been mocking me since I came here! How am I not supposed to get mad!”
“Liv!”
“Y-Yes guild master”
“Register her, now!”
“Right, Of course...”
...
“Here’s your guild card”
“Nice”
The front says all my info, and on the back there’s a single silver star...
“Oi! Isn’t this too little of a rank!?”
“Eh!? It’s a miracle you got that! Even if the guild master says you’re stronger than him, you completely blew the written test!”
“Hmm... Fine! Do whatever you want!”
I looked at the guild master and he’s just bowing his head.
“Then I’ll take a quest”
I headed towards the dashboards with papers on it. There’s quite a few but this one seems to be the one with subjugation requests, the thing I was looking for to begin with.
“This one!”
“Girl! For how long do you pn to py around! It’s a party 3 ptinum star request! And you intend to do it by yourself!”
“Of course!”
“It’s a Gargantuan! It’s a national emergency, we assembled here appropriate adventurer parties from different countries to take care of it!”
“But you have it in the dashboard, so I’m taking it”
“You! Do you even know what a Gargantuan is!?”
“Nope, but it says in the paper where to find it, so no problem!”
“Sigh... Heather! Make her understand! You fought a Gargantuan before!”
“Wait really?”
“Yes, it’s a giant stone golem, it took the entire pace knights to subjugate it, and we lost a couple of man”
“See!”
“So if the pace knights can take him down, then I can do it easily. I’m taking it! End of the discussion”
I said that while waltzing off from the guild, request in hand, Heather came with me.
“That was more taxing that i thought it was gonna be”
“Sorry Mistress, I think it went as smooth as it could of”
“Everyone treating me like some child... that was a first, everyone always have a look of terror when they see me”
“Well, that’s probably you being a demon”
“Why though? Are there not any other demons? I’ve never seen anyone other than me, that is if I’m a demon to begin with!”
“Mistress doesn’t know? Most if not all demon’s remain in the demon realm, It’s incredibly rare to see one, plus they just, have a rather unfortunate circumstance, the people of the guild probably don’t mind since they’ve met some demons on their travels”
“Unfortunate circumstances? What do you mean by that?”
“Well, It’s just that well over 4000 years ago a demon managed to conquer the world, they said he was a tyrant but, I doubt it’s anything more than a fairy tale, still the legend of demon’s being bad remained in the consciousness of the masses”
“Sigh... this was so annoying I kinda don’t want to be an adventurer anymore...”
“Why did you want to enter anyways?”
“I wanted to get stronger!”
“E-Eh!?”
“Un! When I fought your dad I was tossed around and even took serious damage, it’s the first time that I couldn’t overwhelm my opponent! So i thought I needed to be stronger, who knows what’s lurking out there, I want to feel safe if I head out of this country”
“M-mistress! I think you’re strong enough already! If there’s things out there that can match your strength, life will cease to exist...”
“I’ll get stronger, you’ll see! For now I’ll go take down that giant thing!”
“Eh!? But it’s already pretty te! Shouldn’t you head there tomorrow?”
“Nah, I’m pretty fast, I’ll be back before dinner”
“T-then take me with you!”
“Eh!? There’s no need, you can go home, your sister is waiting for you probably”
“I know but...”
“...but I just have a bad feeling, I don’t know why!”
“Worried? About what?”
“I don’t know, It’s probably nothing”
“Pff! Fine, I’m gonna carry you then! It’s like a double workout like that!”
I lifted Heather in a princess fashion, she’s really light! Albeit the size difference makes it like she’s almost touching the floor, but whatever.
I jumped off with quite a bit of force and traveled with Heather to kill this golem thing. I wonder what she’s worried about, I can feel it in her presence, didn’t you say that there shouldn’t be strong monsters out there? It’ll be fine, I can just beat whatever comes my way!
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