Chapter 32 (1/2)
Thirty-Second Episode〜 Adventurer’s Guild
Translator’s Corner: Hey everyone. Sorry there was no chapter yesterday. I was too tired to work at a decent pace so I gave up and got some sleep instead. Anyway, we’ve got a great chapter today! Enjoy~
The open s.p.a.ce was a market. A huge market.
It is place where various street stalls are gathered.
Not only gla.s.s products or ceramic plates, but also various furs, a great variety of meat, wonderful multicolored vegetables, a really varied selection of items are being sold.
I come across standards of fantasy in one of the stalls, a Dwarf-san.
Dwarfs really are short.
The plump figure dressed in fur seems to be a merchant.
A group of humans and tiger beastman with iron traps thrown over their shoulders are making exaggerated gestures while talking and removing money from their wallet, making a trade.
Speaking of Dwarfs, I remember coming across Loirr when I was deep underground.
Just a little, but is this one of short as Loirr who was underground?
After all I can only see a lot of figures of demi-humans in a city.
Furthermore, a crowd is forming in one corner of aslant corner of the market.
-Right away I go to the crowd.
It is slaves. Here is a slave market.
Humans and beastmen are wearing dirty clothing and collars around their hands and feet, chained together and made to walk.
The slaves are placed on a low wooden stand.
Thereupon, richly dressed people in the area begin raising appraisal of the slaves all at once.
There is a great amount of compet.i.tion in the auction place.
It does not seem to matter if the slave is a demi-human.
The upper part of the body is like a human woman connected like the other slaves with a collars around both hands, and her lower body is that of a snake.
…I am curious about the race, and for a while, I watch how she is able to walk.
Then,
“Can’t you shop satisfactorily? I’ll buy it if the sense of smell is superior, being made to buy such rubbish-”
N? What?
I hear suddenly hear a rough voice from the person next to me.
“S-sleepy-”
A beast woman is kicked and her face touches the ground.
“Hahaha, a face stuck in horse dung. As punishment stay like that today.”
A fat merchant or n.o.ble man, has a vulgar smile and is smelling beastman slaves like garbage.
The beast woman is keeping her face to the ground according to his instructions.
Horrendous treatment.
Cold eyes are gathering from the area, but no one is going to stop the scene.
I stop such a thing here too. I do not intend to say such a thing.
This is the common sense of this world.
It makes me feel sick, but the corner slave market continues for a long time.
When I pa.s.s through the area with various stall gathered, I appear on the main street.
The main street is a straight road with a large number of build forming a line on each side.
I see a big building on the right side will an oblong signboard.
Adventurer’s Guild is written on the sign board. (TL: :D)
The is the Adventurer’s Guild.
With three stories, it is the biggest build in this area.
Next to it there seems to a stable prepared with magic beasts similar to thoroughbred horses and popob.u.mus shoving their face into their own feed pails, eating.
There is a plump seemingly good-natured person in charge too.
Without delay, I try talking to the person.
“Can I use this place?”
“Ou, sure.”
In that case, should I hand him a tip?
“Well then, I will be in your care for a while.”
I pull a little extra and hand him the tip.
“Wao, uh, a silver coin? You are very generous. My name is Pyutchi. This is enough to look after ’em for three months, so I’ll see to it properly”
His reaction to the tip is good.
“Then, please take care of this magic beast.”
I get down from the popob.u.mu while saying so to the care taker, then remove the magic bag connected to the back of the saddle, and lean the spear against the should the black cat is not sitting on and head to the neighboring guild.
The two wooden doors of the guild’s entrance are big.
Both doors are left thrown open to the left and right.
A large number of adventurers are coming and going.
I mix in with them and set foot into the Adventurer’s Guild for the first time.
Looking from the entrance, the ceiling is high.
There is a big pillar in the middle of the ceiling and the first floor is considerably large.
Sunlight is coming in through a sky light and open wooden windows, lighting up the whole hall. The floor seems to be high-cla.s.s wood; the grain of the wood is reflected beautifully making you feel the smell of cypress if you touched your nose to the floor.
Was this building just finished?
There are three big magic formations installed against the wall.
When an adventurer steps foot in the magic formation they immediately disappear, so it appears to be a metastasis magic formation.
They have such a thing. While admiring it, I move to stand in front of a wide wooden bulletin board.
Paper requests are posted on the bulletin board.
The adventurers seem to be choosing the posted requests and it is considerably crowded.
Should I look at the request papers too?
I look and read the characters on the papers posted on the bulletin board.
…Fumufumu…I see.
On each bulletin board written in big letters in A, B, C, etc
Monster exterminations are written as A+ or B+
This is for ranks?
A small sum is set at the bottom of the bulletin board; it seems to a be a wooden tally to record what requests are taken.
This must be what you do when you choose a request.
Anyway, I should stop looking and register now.
I can see a desk further inside.
In the middle of the Guild a counter is set up-
The desk is windowed like a bank or government office.
There is a female receptionist and a middle-age male receptionist for the adventurers.
First time at the guild.
If possible I want to talk with the cute young woman.
Besides, it is crowded…
Oh, itaita.
Girlish short-haired woman. Long eyelashes and blue and eyes.
She feels like a beautiful foreigner.
Her full chest is good too. It is not crowded, so I will ask that girl.
“Sorry. I would like to register as an adventurer.”
“Yes. I will receive you. The registration charge will be one silver coin. And then, on this paper please write down your name, race, age, and home town. Do you need someone to write for you?”
“No-”
Then, Rollo jumps from my shoulder.
She gets on the reception desk.
“Kya!”
“Ah, korra, Rollo!”
“Wow, cute… Black-chan, Rollo, is that you name?”
The receptionist places her voluptuous chest on the desk and begins the stroke Rollo’s head with a smile.
“Nya, Nya〜n.”
Rollo happily responds as her head is stroked, and focuses her eyes on the receptionist’s jiggling chest.
I take advantage of it as well.
Deliberately I appreciate to jiggling melons.
Receptionist-san has loose clothing wrapped around her body, and because her chest is big, the upper half of her chest is exposed and faint blood vessels stand out.
When I turn such erotic eyes to her, the receptionist-san raises her face and looks at me.
Quickly, I look at Rollo to deceive her.
“Ah, sorry, this fellow official name is Rollodinu. She came down.”
When I catch Rollo by the scruff and lift her up-
“Ah, it’s all right so leave her here.”
“…Is that so? Rollo, be calm, okay?”
I accept and place her gently on the desk.
Rollo looks up with her small face and moves her red eyes back and forth between receptionist-san and me, as if sensing the atmosphere, she s.h.i.+ts into a sitting position and becomes quiet.
“Oriko-san〜”
“Uh, you should right it on this paper.”
Hearing a loud voice calling out in a questioning tone, the big breasted receptionist-san turn away from Rollo and fixes her posture.
-Her b.r.e.a.s.t.s jiggle.
Receptionist-san opens her small lips that contrast with her hug b.r.e.a.s.t.s.
“Ah, yes. On this paper write your name, race, hometown, etc., and now what kind of job. Please write your Battle Occupation. If you have multiple, then please write down the one you specialize in. Because when it comes to appeal there are jobs acquired by experience so anything is okay. It is also fine if you don’t write to write anything or lie. You are free to do such things.”
On the paper I am handed there are multiple things like name, race, hometown column, occupation column and Battle Occupation column.
“Is hometown okay?”
“It is fine if you do not want to write it.”
“Can it be changed later?”
“It is possible. However, there is an exclusive use charge each time.”
“Understood.”
I can write in different world characters thanks to the skill.
I write it in a flowing script and hand over the money and doc.u.ments.
“Well then, please wait a moment.”
After receptionist-san checks what I wrote and walks back with the paper.
I wrote my name and age properly without stating my hometown.
For Battle Occupation I wrote “Spear Officer” and “Chain User.”
I also did not write my actual race, Rusivault, and neither did I write my proper Battle Occupation, “Dark Magic Spearman.”
“Spear Officer” is also aa type of spearman so it should be fine.
It may be better to write it properly for appeal.
However, I intend to start out safely.
When I think about such a thing, receptionist-san takes a silver board with a crystal down from a shelf in the back, and carries it.
And, the silver board in placed on the desk.
“Then, please place your left hand on this crystal ball, place your thumb on the board, and please understand that several drops of blood will be collected from your thumb.”
Blood is extracted. Achilles-s.h.i.+sho also said something about that.
The tool for gathering blood is connected to the metal plate.
The crystal ball is a little bigger than an adults palm and is pretty and transparent.
As told I place my left hand on the crystal ball.
I push the thumb of my right hand into the indent on the silver board.
A needle is stuck in my thumb with a *chiku* and a little blood flows to the silver board.
Thereupon, a small magic formation floats in the crystal ball under my left hand, emitting a white light before it disappears.
“With this it is complete.”
When receptionist-san says so she removes a small silver metal plate from inside the board and places it on the receptionist’s desk.
“This, is it an adventurer’s card?”
“Yes. Certainly. Please take it.”
I pick up the card and look at it.
Name: Shuya Kagari
Age: 22
t.i.tle: None
Race: Human
Occupation: G Rank Adventurer
Affiliation: None
Battle Occupation: Spear Officer: Chain User
Number of Completed Requests:
With this, I am an adventurer from today going forward.
I need to be careful not to lose this adventurer’s card from the receptionist’s desk.
The explanation of rank begins, but since I heard it s.h.i.+sho I mostly ignore it.
“Because the guild adds t.i.tles without permission, do not mind it so much, to receive a request bring one of the wooden tags marked with a number from under the board.”
Wooden tag.
“There are cases when a request is completed but a client does not submit a ‘completed wooden tag’ to the guild. Please remember that in this case, the client with the completion tag must submit it to the guild beforehand or the adventurer must come to the guild together with the client with both their completion tag and the commission’s items to complete the commission. However, for most monster subjugation requests the guild looks after the wooden completion tag, so there is no need to worry.”
What?
Saying I do not need to worry even if the client is a bad guy…
“The adventurer’s guild of this city appraises materials to some extent but we are basically a brokerage. Please remember that for clients and quarrels between adventurers, accept for “special cases” we will not interfere.”
I am curious about the exception, but is it such a thing.
Even if there is a crooked client it has to be taken care of yourself…
“In the case that you would like to store your luggage there is a storehouse company that will hold your possessions in the warehouse district that the guild recommends. Please remember that it is not under the guild’s jurisdiction. And then it is explained by the Adventurer’s Guild’s bank in 【Fort City Hector】”
I can deposit my luggage?
There is also a bank.
“A bank?”
“Yes. You are able to deposit a gold coin. However, the money cannot be withdrawn from other Adventurer’s Guilds.”
It seems both convenient and inconvenient.
It is something like a safe-deposit box.
The deposited amount does not seem to be recorded in the adventurer’s card.
“How does the bank account work?”
“When registering and receiving an adventurer it is recorded with the ‘magic crystal.’ Since your blood is registered with your adventurer’s card, the magic crystal only reacts to the blood of the person. It is an authentication method.”
I see the magic crystal reacts.
The card authenticates it. It probably is not DNA authentication, so it might be mana in the blood?
“Is it possible to forge this card?”
“That would be impossible. Blood is something that goes hand in hand with a person’s mana. Even if someone does I think it would be rejected. Only the original that is registered with the guild reacts with the magic crystal, and it is said the magic crystal was given to the Adventurer’s Guild when it was founded by the ‘G.o.d of order, Orimiru” so you do not need to worry.”
Hee, G.o.d of blood and mana. (TL: I don’t know why he says this, it doesn’t fit, so just now that I’m confused too.)