Echoes of mugs smming onto tables shook the inside of the adventurer’s guild. Heads turo the source of the ruckus that was made. The source was a young man, looking to be the age of 19-20, his short brown hair was u, a big goofy grin ainted onto his face. tless gres of annoyance were shot at him. His rea was against their expectations as he kept his stride as if nothing affected him. However, his panion a white haired demi-human woman who followed a short distance behind him, shrunk her body so as to not be seen.

  “Tch, that little brat thinks he waltz in here without a care in the world.”

  “Don’t mind him, this’ll be the st time we’ll see him.”“Hah? What makes you think that?”“Well… That fidence he has, it’ll get him killed if he bees an adventurer.”“And if he doesn’t bee one, well he just ticked off every adventurer in this pce.”

  “Haha, yeah yer right, what a poor bastard.”

  The stant murmurs shot throughout, ered the ears of Lu. The words danced around Fei’s mind.

  “Y’know the biggest mistake he just made? Bringing a filthy demi-human with him! She’ll just get him killed with her useless magic!” A stifled ugh could be heard amongst the crowd. “Hey, who wants to bet he’ll abandon her in a week?”

  “A week? That’s hirious, take a look at her! I'll bet a few days!”

  “Hey, are you okay?” A ed frown repced Lu’s grin, his eyebrows furrowed as he looked at Fei. Her plexion aler than normal, bined with her quied breathing and lowered ears screamed that something was b her.

  “I’m, I’m fine.” Fei replied. If he could hear what was being said, he’d bring her back when there were less people. “I’m fine… Just nervous…” Averting her eyes from Lu’s gaze, she hoped he wouldn’t push the subject further.

  “If you say so…” Lu mumbled before taking aep forward. Due to him not looking where he was going, he ran face first into a man who wore bulky ptemail armor. Lu romptly sent back by the collision, meanwhile the man stood there as if nothing happened. “Ouch… Sorry about that!” Lu apologized whilst scratg the back of his head.

  “Watch where yoing.” The man who stood over a head taller than him, ented without looking back.

  “Yeah… sorry.”

  “Damn kids.” He mumbled under his breath.

  “Man…” Lu sighed under his breath. The sudden awareness spped him across his face, the gres that jabbed at him and the man he ran into clearly being annoyed caused his skin to prickle. ‘I Really messed up already, huh?’

  “Just hang in there. Once we’re signed up and t a request we’ll be out of here, okay?” Lu whispered to Fei who was clearly bothered by everything.

  “Okay…”

  Seeing her nod, Lu gave her a smile before fag the front again.

  Over ten minutes had passed, the duo in front of them didn’t even move an inch. Tapping his foot impatiently, Lu leaowards his right to see what was going on. A tanned elf stood there with her arms crossed as she talked to the receptionist, who was an elven man wearing the guild’s staff uniform.

  “Lady Bronya, Sir Roth, thank you for finishing the request! Here is your reward.” The elveionist excimed as a young woman who wore a simir uniform to him brought two medium-sized sacks to the ter. “20 silvers and half the materials from the monsters you’ve sin as we agreed upon.”

  “Thanks.” The tanhanked him. She easily grabbed the sack that the woman gave her. Due to how easily she lifted it, the woman was shocked she was struggling to keep a straight face whilst lifting them.

  “Thank you. Hm… looks like we got everything.” The tall man said after taking a quick peek.

  “Great.”

  “Have a great day!” The receptionist excimed as the two walked off. “Hello! How I help you?”

  “Hello! We’re here to sign up to bee adventurers!” Lu responded while pointing to himself, then to Fei. “Ah, right our ids.” He tinued while fumbling in his pants’ pocket, moments ter he pulled out 2 copper ptes. Oe held a picture of him on the right, to the left it carried his name, gender and more basiformation. The other was Fei’s. Due to her peculiar taste in clothes, Lu held onto everything whehey went out.

  “Lu… and Fei, correct?” The elveionist firmed with them. Only Lu nodded his head, as it was obvious something was distrag Fei. “It’s a pleasure to meet you two, you call me Thran.” He tinued with a smile. “Before I fully register you two as adventurers, I must ask, are you sure you want to bee one?”

  “Yes, we’re sure.” Lu answered for both him and Fei without hesitation. Normally, he’d ask her just in case, but his excitement took over him and he answered without thinking.

  “Alright…”

  Before he turned around, he g Fei and shook his head slightly. ‘Pirl.’ He has seen many demi-humans bee adventurers, all of them had either been abandoned and quit, or have died due to their teammates or monsters. “Give me 10 minutes.”

  “Ah! Shoot, sorry I answered for the both of us.” Lu excimed a couple minutes after Thra.

  “It's… Fine.”

  “What type of mission do you think we’ll get first?”

  “...”

  “Hopefully something fun, probably fighting some monsters or… I think that’d be the most fun!” Lu excimed. g his fists iement, he began to talk Fei’s ear off about what they might enter iure.

  “And once we make en-”“Here you go, you’re officially an adventurer.” Thran interrupted him as he held out the two used to be copper ptes, which were now lined with silver. Taking his and Fei’s ids and holding them up to his face, he could see his refle through the silver edges.

  “Thank you!”

  His enormous goofy grin reappeared as he held their ids near his heart when he bowed to Thran as thanks.

  “You’re wele.”

  “Fei, do you know what this means?!”

  “...”

  “...”

  “...”

  “Fei?” Lu repeated her name. His hand waved bad forth in front of her eyes multiple times causio wake up from her daze.

  “Eh? Sorry, did, did you say something?”

  “We finally do what we dreamed of doing!” Lu excimed as he held Fei’s id in his outstretched hand. Fei’s eyes were filled with emotions as she stared at her id in his hand. Worry and fear snuffed out the hope she had felt in her heart. Will that dream ever e?

  ‘It won’t…’

  “Yes… We .” Fei mumbled under her breath as she took her id with her trembling hands.

  “Ahem… Sorry to interrupt your little moment, there are a ‘few’ things I have to teach you guys before you bee full fledged adventurers.” Thran interjected into their little moment, a little smile was on his face as he leaned onto the ter watg them.

  “Eh? What do you mean?”

  Without uttering another word, Thran straightened his back the below the ter. A colossal amount of books were hoisted onto the ter in the moment. “It’s time for you to learn the rules aions of the guild.” His small smile, now looked like a devilish grin to the duo.

  For the 30 mihran drilled the ey of the rules aions into both Lu’s and Fei’s skulls. Lu’s eyes pletely gzed over in the middle of his lecture, meanwhile Fei’s plexion turned pletely white and if one looked closely to the top of her head, smoke could be seen rising.

  “And that’s about it.” Thran uttered as he she book in his hands shut. The sound caused Lu to instantly jump out of his skin. “Do you have any questions?” He asked.

  “No. no I don’t have any…” Lu responded. A hint of fear could be heard in his. ‘I hope there isn’t anything else…’ He thought. If only that was true, but Thran decided not to delve deeper as he could see that he and Fei couldn’t handle much more information.

  “ht, I almost fot to show you something. Give me your id.”

  ‘Oh for the lo-’ Lu wao roar to the sky but held his tongue. With hesitatio his id into Thran’s outstretched hand.

  “Thank you. What I’m about to show you is important for every adventurer. As it shows…” Thran stretched his pointer and middle finger out, in the instance a blue light appeared at the tips. “Your status.” In a swift motion, he slid his fingers across the silver edge.

  “Woah?! What the heck?!” Lu excimed as a blue box appeared in his retinae. A picture of him sat at the tht er just uhat, the word level followed by 0 to the right of it. To the left, the same information that was on his id was held there with a few additions such as “representative,” “party,” and stly his rank, which of course was the lowest sitting at ceramibsp;

  “What the heck is this?!”

  “That is your status, it tells yo-”

  “Yeah… Yeah…. I figured” Lu cut him off, if he let Thran tinue, he was afraid that his head would actually explode. “Is there anything else you want to show us…?”

  Upon hearing those words, Thran’s eyebrows twitched and a vein popped in his forehead. “There is more, but that wait.” He said with an exasperated sigh. If he “lectured” anymore, that might vihem to quit on the spot. Just by asking the question just a moment ago, Lu winced. Meanwhile Fei stood there in a daze, not even the book snapping shut broke her out of it. “Just go over there, that’s our request board, right now you only take the white-colored requests. Once you grab one, bring it to me.” Pointing to the right with his thumb, a gigantic board filled with tless vibrantly colored papers ehe sights of Lu.

  Nodding in uanding, he took Fei’s hand and dragged her to the board with him.

  ‘White… White… The white… requests.’

  ‘Where the heck are they?! Did they all get taken?!’

  No matter where and how hard he looked, he couldn’t find a single one. Due to their lower rank and ease of tasks, the white requests were mostly finished so if Lu wao find one he’d have to flip through the massive o of requests just to find one. But this would be no easy task, in just 10 minutes of looking he had found none.

  “… there has to be- Aha!”

  Just under a mountain of requests, he finally found one! A crumpled white request hid itself, but Lu mao find it after 10 more minutes of searg. He held his breath just before yanking it from what held it.

  ‘Please, let it be a hunting job.’ He prayed internally while closing his eyes. An adventurer’s job range from ing trash off the streets, to hunting jobs. And being at the lowest rank, the odds of finding a hunting job are slim to none. Giving the request a good eye, he could barely make out what the chi scratches left on it meant, but he got the gist of it after a bit.

  [...help ….. House is… dirty … Need helping hands. Reward: … coppers and a bag of vegetables.]

  “Dang it…” He muttered under his breath. His head hung i. The hopes of finding a fun first job were pletely shattered. The only thing he and Fei will be hunting is the creature called filth which resides in tless ers of the world. Although he could look for another request, it’d take forever just to find another, plus he didn’t have the patience for it. “What a great… find.” He mumbled sarcastically.

  “ let’s go.” Yet again, he dragged Fei by the hand back to the ter.

  “Here….”

  “Ah, that request…” Thran said after looking at the request Lu pced on the ter. Without uttering another word, he took out a pen and quill from uhe ter… Just how many items does he have uhere? An unanswerable questioered Lu’s mind.

  “The old man who wrote this fot to leave an address.” Thran expined just before writing the address down onto the paper. “Once you get there, have him write his signature…” In a quick motioruck the paper he bottom leaving a bck line. “Here. Once you’re finished, e back here and submit this to the front ter, then we’ll mark it as pleted.”

  “You got that?”

  “...”

  “Sir Lu, do you uand?” He repeated in a stern voice. This caused Lu thten his bad the gloomy atmosphere that surrounded him disappeared. Even Fei, who was still dazed from the overload of information, shot up and her ears sprung up.

  “Yes!”

  “Good, now good luck.”

  “Thank you!”

  After they shouted those two words, they left the guild in a rush.

  “What a pain…”

  “Sir, what’s wrong?” A female receptionist asked the elf in front of her, in her hands a clipboard id.

  “Oh, nothing, I was just dealing with two new adventurers.”

  “Wait… Were these two called Lu and Fei?” She asked whilst looking down at the clipboard with wide eyes.

  “Yes.”

  “You- This is unheard of, you really put yourself as their receptionist?!”

  “Hm? Yes, is there an issue?”

  “No… Nevermind.”

  “Who knows, it might be fun.” Thran responded with a smile.