Chapter 93 – Two (7)
We arrived at the adventurer’s guild in Nazari right away. Compared to the branch established in Barmela, the scale of the building itself was not much different.
However, when I opened the door and entered the lobby, the twin sisters were welcomed by a large crowd of people.
“Oh, look how crowded it is even at lunch time…”
“The size of the city and the density of people passing by, there must be a lot of work here.”
The two of them were wearing hooded robes long ago to avoid the annoying and unnecessary attention being focused on them.
Nevertheless, I felt glances from all sides, but I decided not to pay much attention unless I was talking to them directly.
Originally, it is unavoidable that a certain amount of attention is focused on strangers. Especially if it is a union made up of women.
“Looking at it, it looks like there is a waiting line over there. Let’s go!”
The twin sisters, who looked around the inside of the guild for a while ignoring the gaze of the people around them, quietly joined the line in front of the reception desk.
Adventurers waiting to receive a request, adventurers waiting to report, and clients waiting to make a request. The line, each with completely different reasons, was long.
If you keep silent while fiddling with the certificate you keep in your arms, the chatter of adventurers around you will pierce your ears.
These days, there are troubles with gnolls and dryads in the nearby forest fighting over territory, adventurers flocking to the newly discovered ruins like bees, rumors about a new beast… It’s an interesting story enough to soothe the boredom of waiting.
“Now, the next person.”
While concentrating on the voices around them, the line suddenly shortened and it was their turn.
A bald, middle-aged receptionist with a fairly burly build, with skin that glowed all over as if oil had been applied, was looking down at her twin sister.
In the case of crowded guilds, it is quite common for a strong man to act as a receptionist instead of a pretty woman.
If a rich macho is the conversation partner, most people are supposed to follow the procedure dutifully.
“Hmm?”
The receptionist looked at Merim and Maril’s identical faces alternately.
“These are the first girls I’ve seen. They’re twins too… What’s going on here?”
Instead of answering, the twin sisters presented the silver grade promotion test certificate to the receptionist.
“This is definitely the seal of the Varmela branch… ．Huh, the ladies were also adventurers. Besides, seeing that you can take the test already, you seem to have quite a bit of talent. How much do you know about the promotion test?”
“As far as we know, we have to pass the test to hunt the monsters designated here after the screening and interview.”
“It’s roughly the same. Thanks to that, it saved me the trouble of a long explanation. There’s something I need to fill out, so hand over the girls’ dog tag.”
The receptionist, who was handed a copper-colored dog tag by the twin sisters who nodded her head, checked her dog tag and simple personal information written on the certificate, then took out a dull brown parchment and a pointed silver pen to fill in the letters.
As a finishing touch, put a certificate on the parchment and put a big stamp on it! I took it down.
“The names are Merim and Marill. Besides, one of them was a wizard… There was no problem with both the certificate and the identification tag. We also have a lot of things to prepare, so it’s difficult right now, and we can start from tomorrow. What should we do?”
“The sooner the better. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Okay.”
Palak.
After hearing the answer without hesitation, the receptionist returned the dog tag and handed over the parchment that had been stamped earlier to her twin sister.
“Both of you, come back tomorrow around this time. Don’t forget to bring the paper.”
“Is there anything else I need to prepare other than this?”
“Examination fee. After passing the examination, you must pay 3 silver when you take the hunting test… Since there are two of us, prepare 6 silver.”
Her twin sister nodded her head at the same time, ending her conversation with the receptionist and quietly exiting the guild.
“Keuuuuu00300000000000000000000000000000000000000.”
“I even borrowed a horse to get here quickly, but now I can’t do it.”
“It is, but…”
Merim, who was silent, felt sorry for the money she lost on this trip.If she even pays for the exam tomorrow, she has already easily handed over ten silver coins.
For ten silver coins, you can buy two mid-level potions at Roden’s shop, or spend a month comfortably at an inn that’s not too bad… It is by no means an insignificant amount.
Well, even taking that into account, it is an investment worth making if it can be silver-rated.
If you just upgrade, the treatment is incomparably better than the previous grade.
The ability to freely accept higher-level requests is to receive transportation support from the adventurer’s guild in the case of carrying out basic, long-distance requests, or to borrow as much as the trust in the guild has accumulated.
Nobility, a symbol of authority, can’t deal with adventurers who are silver or higher.
‘Aristocrat. Noble… That’s right. To keep that damn bitch from ignoring us as adventurers, we need to be at least silver level. We won’t see each other again anyway… ‘
“… Lim. Merim?”
“Yes? Did you call?”
“From the middle, he kept his mouth shut and had a serious expression uncharacteristic of you. I wondered what he was thinking.”
As soon as Merim heard her sister’s sarcastic remarks, she said it was nothing to her, and then lightly put on her headlock.
“Under! This supporter openly ignores her sister. I’m always strict, serious, and serious. Now let’s go and watch the arena to our heart’s content.”
“It’s nice to watch, but don’t bet money for nothing. I don’t want to see you wasting money like that.”
When Marill had just left her house with her sister, she vividly recalled the first time she had seen the arena together.
She was an older sister who gained groundless confidence in gambling by matching wins and losses like her tweezers when purely watching games, but from the moment she bet money, she keeps going wrong as if she was cursed with something.
To put it simply, Merim is a terrible asshole.
“Ugh… I know. I’m just going to watch it really innocently.”
“Huh, okay. I’ll believe it for now.”
After accepting her promise not to gamble in the arena, Marill and her sister turned toward the oval-shaped building that looked like a miniature Colosseum.
* * *
The twin sisters who enjoyed the fights between prisoners and monsters, monsters and monsters, gladiators and prisoners, gladiators and monsters, and gladiators and gladiators in the arena.
The two later visited the adventurer’s guild again after spending the day wandering around the city looking for useful equipment, supplies, and souvenirs.
Again, without fail, the macho receptionist from the previous day dealt with them.
“Oh, you’ve come. The screening itself is to be checked at the basic concept level, so don’t be shy and answer comfortably. I wish you to pass the hunting test you’ll take later.”
“”Thank you.””
The receptionist, a retired adventurer from a field job, received a parchment with a stamp on her twin sister and gave her a brief cheer, then motioned her twin sister to go up to the interview room on the second floor.
Climbing the stairs, passing through the hallway and taking a short deep breath in front of the interview room, the twin sisters opened the door.
Two people were waiting there.
A pot-bellied guild employee wearing a guild uniform that had been stretched without mercy,
“… What are you looking at so curiously?”
Ears with pointed tips, horns rising up on both sides… In the corner of the room, a middle-aged demonic man with long blue hair, with his arms crossed, greeted the two.
He snapped at her twin sister, who was staring at him.
“Are you seeing a demon like me for the first time?”
This is not the first time the twin sisters have seen demons.
First of all, Roxia… I know them as humans, so I made an exception, and I encountered some demons who had melted into the human world while I was living in the Principality of Kreuz or during my travels.
At first glance, the demon, who doesn’t seem to have a very good personality, had a shiny silver dog tag on its neck.
“It’s not the first time I’ve seen demons… I’ve never seen an adventurer demon.”
“I’m sure you know that a silver-ranked observer will be put on in the screening, but that’s not it?”
“Yes. Unluckily, I got caught this time. Time is precious, so just sit down quickly. Countryside girls.”
Quick!
Merim was on the verge of pouring out the six heads because of the demon’s attitude of constantly babbling about, but she decided to put up with it for now because she came here to see the review.
And instead of Merim, the fat employee who had been silent all along said a word.
“Yulid. It’s a matter of course even if you’re a witness. Don’t fight needlessly.”
“Yes, yes. Let’s go to headquarters.”
“Anyway… I’m sorry. Miss Merim, Miss Marill. This friend isn’t very sociable, so she talks a lot to people she’s not familiar with.”
The identity of the employee who briefly introduced himself in a somewhat awkward atmosphere was the submaster of the guild. At first glance, it was not a field job.
“Then let’s go ahead and start right away. Please answer the questions I ask from now on.”
“”Yes.””
From then on, the words that Boommaster gave to the twin sisters were questions and answers similar to psychological tests at the level of confirming basic common sense.
Interviews, which are almost formal, are at a level where those who fail fail are rather strange. To put it in plain terms, it feels like taking a written test before getting a driver’s license.
