“Now, where to?” I inhaled slowly, absorbing the aroma of the afterlife. It was a beautiful war fighting for victory, yet in the process made a glorifying abstract masterpiece. When I was sitting on the carriage, a lot of different restaurants caught my eye, but there was one thing that stood out the most.

  From the two-story conglomerate towering over everyone to a restaurant with so much glass, you would mistake that you were in the modern world. There was a lot of variety, a lot to trick you into curiosity. Beautiful women, well-crafted greenery, addictive aroma, eye-catching signs, yet out of all those, in the middle of angels, a normal human stood in the middle.

  A wooden sign with bad writing, a restaurant made of entirely wood with no windows, squished between an alleyway, caught my eye instantly. Surrounded by beauties, who wouldn’t be curious about the ugliest one. To stand side by side with beautiful appearances, the thing inside could probably answer my questions.

  Once again, I entered a dark, tight tunnel. Thankfully, this one didn’t take more than four steps, and I didn't need to make out with the wall while my entire life was falling apart. After going in, the alley became larger, revealing a single outside dining with the butts of trees used as seats.

  “Okay, I think this might be a dangerous place. Why have a table outside when there is no light?” I looked up. “Oh, I guess when it’s in the middle of the afternoon.” My body shivered for a second and then I entered through the wooden door, creaking with each tick of push.

  As soon as light slipped out of the hole made by the door, a large pub was inside. The screams of joy and broken wood instantly entered my ears, and I knew that the place I just entered was fascinating. Multiple barbarian-looking men and women filled the restaurant if I could still call it one.

  “Welcome sir! Aren’t you a bit too young to be here?” A young-looking lady with a black ponytail dressed in an extremely revealing two-piece. Wait… is this a brothel?

  “I think you're the one that’s too young to be here, lady. I’m just extremely handsome.” I still had no idea how I looked. At the same time, being dressed like a noble probably made me the brightest dung beetle in the room. As soon as I answered the lady, everyone became silent, staring at me like they wanted me gone from the world. Heh…

  My heart pounded in excitement. This time it wasn’t some feeling of death that excited me, rather it was the feeling of power. I wasn’t being arrogant, but just by the smell, the mana that these people exuded, it wasn’t even half of what I currently had. So, with power, I smirked and walked passed the girl, making my way to the front desk.

  I sat and said to the bartender behind, “What food do you guys have?” Man, that doesn’t even sound cool. Well, I’m under pressure I can’t think of anything else.

  “Kid, the fuck made you think you can just enter in here while we were having fun?” Said a rough voice behind my back.

  “Why do you own this place?” I turned around, facing a man standing twice as tall as me. His entire body was so shredded to the point his pants looked like it was being strangled to death. He was completely shirtless, having a long brown beard and multiple scars on his face.

  “Yes.” He said, then grabbing a glass cup.

  “Oh, then could I please get a menu? I’d like to try some of your most delicious delicacies.” He crushed the glass with his hand. Then blood started to drip on the floor.

  “Wait, you might not know that word. It means food by the way.”

  While I was talking, the man had extended his arm to the top of his head, and the crowd had begun to cheer. “What you all being so loud abo-” The man punched me in the face, blocking my mouth. I didn’t have much of a reaction to his attack, not like it would deal any damage to me. However, with that punch, I realized that even if I had incredible destructive power, I sucked at fighting. His fist moved so fast I didn’t even realize it had moved until it was in front of my face.

  The man removed his hand. His eyes widened and the crowd went completely silent. Then I sighed while thinking of a much different thing. “I’m still so weak.” I turned back around to the bartender dropping my smile. “Can I please get a menu?”

  “Everyone attack him!” Yelled a much younger voice followed by the drop of a broken table immediately stopping everyone.

  “Let him be, none of you can defeat him.” Said the man who had attacked me. Then just a second later, he sat beside me and pointed at the bartender. “Bring him the menu.” The bartender immediately ran to the back.

  “Nice to meet you. Name’s Gard, you?” He reached his hand out for a shake.

  “Daniel,” I replied and reciprocated his handshake.

  “Sorry about earlier, you know how it is in this world.”

  I ignored him, but then after a second, he wouldn’t let go of my hand until mana started to gather, tightening his grip. I sighed. Seriously? Before I thought that such dumb people didn’t really exist, but I guess they do. Is it because of stupidity? Or the pride of looking weak in front of his people. It’s the latter, but I would love to think it’s the former.

  After a few seconds of his struggle, his face started to wrinkle and turn red. Then in the spurt of a second, I concentrated half of my mana to crush his hand in the split of a second.

  “Ahhhh!!!” He screamed, falling down his chair.

  “I don’t want to cringe, so just get out of my sight. I thought you would be sensible, but I guess not. Learn how to bow, you shithead.”

  Then after the commotion of a dung beetle, the bartender came back with the menu, etching a smile on my face. I quickly grabbed the menu while the people behind me tried their best to attack me, only to be stopped by their pathetic leader. Even if he did try one more time despite being beaten the first time, it seemed like he wasn’t that stupid to try a third time.

  I’ll just hope he doesn’t go and call some boss or something. Well, if it happens, I’ll just never enter any suspicious places ever again. I sighed again.

  With a series of sighs filling my day, I first looked at the drinks offered. As the place was a bar, it had an entourage of beverages, which were obviously mixed with alcohol. I was never really a fan of alcohol so I just asked the bartender to not waste my time.

  He was standing at the far back edge of the desk, directly in front of the kitchen door, shivering in fear. “Come here,” I said. He immediately runs, almost tripping.

  “What can I do for you, sir!”

  “Do you have any non-alcoholic?”

  “Uhh, Yes Sir!”

  “...” I stared at him, waiting to say the list. However, it seemed like he didn’t understand it until I stared at his soul.

  “Ah! Sorry, uhhh.” He rubbed his nose. “We have an assortment of milk and juices.” He stared at me for a second, he immediately understood he wasn’t getting a word out of me. “Then, starting with milk. We have cow milk, deer milk, dranken milk, balatan milk, siton milk, wyvern milk, minito-”

  “Stop! Just get me cow milk and your finest medium-rare beef steak.” After hearing so many unknown species of milk-producing animal, I didn’t even want to listen to it anymore.

  “Is that all sir?”

  “Yes.”

  As the bartender left the counter, heading to the back kitchen, I heard a voice yell at me from behind.

  “You will regret this!” That was the same voice of the man who first dared to attack me. He was probably the right-hand man of the group, a weakling who was the first follower of their leader and was highly incompetent, thinking his leader could do anything while dick-sucking to the top.

  “What a son of bitch.”

  I gathered back all my pent-up emotions and calmed down my frustrations. That was the first time I had ever done such a thing. The feeling was exhilarating yet at the same time, the constant foolishness of people to fight those stronger than them can really be rendered from bravery or stupidity, depending on the case.

  “Well, not like I’m saying me fighting that forest beast was also not stupidity.”

  After a few minutes of waiting, my food had finally arrived. With all the wait and commotion it took to get there, the food was alright. It wasn’t the best I have tasted, but the quality is commendable for the time. My time was a hundred percent wasted and I acknowledge that.

  When the ragtag group of insects left the bar, there was not a single person left, and some of the female attendants were just scared shitless. Once I left, walking back to the daylight from the bar, I spotted Harry from just across the streets.

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  “Your Highness!” He yelled, crossing the street. I immediately slapped my face, my identity was definitely exposed. Now I wasn’t just a noble, but royalty. Thank you, Harry, thank you.

  “What the hell are you doing here?”

  “I was just looking for you, Your Highness.”

  “Lower down your voice.”

  “Sorry, Your Highness.”

  “Now why were you looking for me?”

  “Well, because I am now your only guard and there has been a lot of cases where we have dangerously faced life and death, I thought we should hire adventurers to escort us and leave as soon as possible.”

  “Hmmm.” The adventurer guild. A famous group of people that are used as the number one center for a lot of stories. Not a single human being in the market has not heard of it. Every single person had always dreamt of being an adventurer when they get transported into another world, including me. I definitely would not have thought I’d be the employer, not the employee.

  “Sure. No complaints, let’s go. Oh, wait. Remind me again… we are going back to the palace right?”

  “Yes, Your Highness. Why? Do you need to go somewhere else? Because I won’t allow you, Your Highness. You should not cause any more problems!”

  “Yeah, yeah, I was just asking. Lead the way, lead the way.”

  On the way to the guild, every single person who crossed us stared at me for longer than ten seconds. Harry was not helping either, with his constant “Your Highness, where did you buy new clothes? It looks amazing. But, where did you buy new clothes? Did you meet the tailor of the lord of Numinity?”

  “Secret, also no. I have not met a single other noble since coming here.”

  “Well, I never expected you to wear such an outfit, Your Highness. Are you not feeling hot, or did a sage engrave that piece of clothing?”

  “Are you stupid Harry? I defeated a forest beast, do you think I’m not capable enough to protect myself from the sun?”

  After a long annoying session of questions and my bitchy answers, we had finally arrived in front of the guild. Placed at the far edge of the city, costing a long walk that had exhausted not my feet but my mind. It was your typical fantasy guild, the tallest building around, having 3 floors and as wide as three normal houses.

  The first thing I saw as we arrived was a group of adventurers walking out of the guild with ripped clothing, holding onto their weapons like possessive spirits. Well, not like I’ll be the adventurer.

  We walked into a wide ceiling as high as the second floor. In the middle was a giant chandelier made of gold. While the floor was your usual wide arrangement of tables, just like a modern fast food restaurant. Facing the door, was the front desk. A small area where 3 different receptionists were arguing with lines of people. Adjacent to it were stairs leading to the second floor.

  Well, this place is more chaotic than I expected. Harry didn’t even pay attention to the fighting at the sides or the yelling at the front desk and just lined up on the shortest line. Valid.

  After a few minutes of waiting in line and a lot of disappointed faces walking out of the guild, including a lot of beat-up faces at some sort of gambling session to the left of the room. I wanna check it out, but at the same time, I don’t wanna repeat the thing that happened at the bar.

  While refraining myself from getting into more problems, I had just tried to observe the quality of adventurers. I thought that when the guild would be in view or at least when I walked in it, I would feel a surge of mana that would just make me hallucinate a dragon. However, that wasn’t the case at all, everyone looked normal, and there were even some who didn’t have an ounce of mana at all.

  Suppressing mana was definitely a possibility. If that was the case, then there was no point for me to even look around. My body also shivered at the thought of being captured spying on a very powerful person who would annoy me for the rest of my life.

  A few more minutes later staring into the abyss, we were finally on the front desk, then I asked Harry. “Harry, couldn’t we have just shown a sigil and gotten in the front immediately?”

  “That won’t work with these barbarians, Your Highness.” He whispered as low as possible. Speaking of sigils, I also have one of those that I placed inside my pouch of money. It just looked like a golden coin though, hope I didn’t accidentally give it to the lady from the clothing shop.

  “Who are you calling a barbarian huh?!”

  Oh no, they heard Harry. Fucking son of a bitch.

  “Hey! Someone here is calling us a barbarian!” A different person yelled through the entire guild while Harry just ignored it and gave his request to the receptionist.

  “How much should we offer?” He said calmly. “Your Highness.” He whispered much lower than before to the point I only understood “Yo” and an “s”.

  “Uhhh, 10 of the third one.”

  “You mean Nar?” Then he whispered again. “Your Highness.”

  “Yes.”

  “Oh look! Rich noble here! You acting so calm! Is it because you have the backing of a noble?! I’m impressed!” An adventurer yelled at Harry’s face.

  Also, even I was impressed, to look so composed in such a situation is remarkable. Now that I thought about it, Harry had never been nervous unless it included my life in it. Only at the times where my life is concerned that he acts like a cartoon mom. But on the other times he always looked nonchalant.

  “Well, the request is done, let us go.” He began to lean again until I stopped him.

  “It’s okay, I’ll let you this time.” Thank goodness they didn’t pay attention to the your highness part.

  As soon as we turned around, we were already surrounded by the entire guild.

  “You ain’t leaving until you are taught a lesson.”

  “Bring that knight out! I’ll face him!” Said a man from behind the crowds, just his voice was enough to open a path. He was covered in complete iron armor including his head. As I read Harry’s and the adventurer’s mana, Harry wins by more than half.

  These adventurers don’t know who they are facing.

  “Safari! Go beat them up!”

  “Safari! Safari! Safari!” The crowd chanted.

  “Are they this disrespectful? Do adventurers really have this much power?” I whispered to Harry.

  “Yes, Your Highness. Don’t worry, I’ll face him.” Harry immediately unsheathed his sword without even a change in his expression, but I wasn’t going to let these adventurers away easily.

  “No, let me.”

  “What? Your Highness, it’s incredibly dangerous.” Just like I suspected, it was only at times when my life was at sake does his expression even change. Whether that was impressive or creepy, I don’t even know.

  “It’s an order.” I walked forward as the crowd made a larger circle.

  “Stop barking at my dog. As the owner, I’ll face you!” I yelled.

  “Hahaha! Imagine being a knight and called a dog!”

  “You trash nobles!”

  “Worthless knights! You're a disgrace!”

  The crowd threw insult after insult. I completely understand them, even the image I was showing was exactly what they wanted. Well, I was just going to be a better person after arriving at the palace. At this moment, I’ll be a bastard if that’s what I feel like.

  “Get out of here you piece of shit noble. I don’t want to beat a spoiled brat. I at least want some challenge you know.” Safari said.

  “Just come. Don’t tell me you’re scared?”

  Safari pulled out his sword and the crowd immediately turned silent. I didn’t even know his rank, but this should be easy. At the same time, I wanna test out how brute strength pairs with arrogant skills.

  Safari began to run with his sword held high up while I stood still, waiting for his attack. Not like I was just standing to be arrogant, it was also a provocation tactic, and once people are enraged, they tend to perform badly.

  The tip of his sword struck into my heart while my qi armor destroyed his sword into pieces. In that split second, with his face stretched, I grabbed his head and dragged it to the ground.

  “Who’s shit now?”