Chapter 98 - Concluding after Reporting (2/2)

“That’s true…I guess?”

It wasn’t like they wanted it to happen or they made it happen, but ever since Loren became an adventurer, most of the jobs he took were things that would never be given to copper ranks.

“What do you think would happen if we became iron rank adventurers?”

“What do you mean by that…?”

“I can’t help but feel that we’ll get caught in something that iron ranks wouldn’t ever be doing.”

There weren’t many people who would willingly walk towards trouble.

If the job were to end somewhere far from trouble, Loren was fine with that, and had no intentions of sticking his head into it.

But judging from his experiences up to that point, it resulted in troubles coming towards him, even though he didn’t want anything to do with it.

“You might have a point there.”

“Right? We’ve been doing jobs that make people wonder how we’re still alive. As a result, Loren’s success rate should be one of the lowest in the whole guild in Kauffa.”

“Wait, if I’m one of the lowest, shouldn’t you be as well?”

Loren stopped her as she said something that he couldn’t just let past.

Since they were a party together, Loren and Lapis should have been doing the same jobs, so Loren thought it was weird that only his success rate would be considered the lowest, but after thinking for a moment, Lapis said something very heartless.

“I’ve actually done a few jobs successfully on my own, so my success rate is higher than Loren’s.”

Although the two of them were a party, they weren’t with each other around the clock.

Of course, Loren had his and Lapis had her private time as well as things to do on their own, and Lapis had been using that time to do simple jobs such as collecting herbs and materials.

And so her success rate was the number of times she had succeeded higher than Loren’s.

“When did you…”

“This is all for Loren, you know. Don’t make such a scary face.”

Lapis said to him, not afraid at all by his glare.

Loren didn’t understand the logic behind her doing all those jobs behind his back and telling him it was all for him.

“If both Loren and I have the lowest success rate in Kauffa’s guild, it would sound bad, wouldn’t it?”

“That’s what you meant.”

If both of them were failing, they would be at the bottom as a party as well.

Loren realized that Lapis doing some easy jobs on her own would make their success rate slightly better, so he interrupted her explanation.

Although he wished that if she were going to do so, she could have invited him to go along, but whenever the two of them went on a simple job, there was a chance something that made it far from simple could happen, so when putting that into consideration, Lapis going on her own might have been the optimal thing to do.

“Am I the jinxed one…?”

It seemed that Lapis’ jobs stayed easy when she was solo.

Which meant that the one who was pulling unnecessary factors around was someone other than her, which naturally meant that it would be him.

“It could be that the condition is only when we’re together, so don’t worry about it.”

As Loren started falling into a loop of negative thoughts, Lapis followed up.

In fact, the prominent reason for Lapis was that it would be troublesome if they were denied from jobs because of a low success rate.

But she had no intention of upsetting Loren, so her follow up was a very quick one.

“Anyways, going back to the rank-up exam. What do you want to do?”

“As much as I would like to add and take off conditions and have fun negotiating with the guild, but if you don’t think well of it, how about just taking it?”

Loren thought that the guild staff was wary of her because she said and thought those kinds of things, but instead of saying so, he asked her something else.

“Aren’t you going to take it?”

“I’ll take it if you do.”

She seemed to leave the final decision to Loren.

After thinking for a moment, Loren told her his thoughts.

“I think trying it would be okay since it’s free.”

If they passed, they would receive the qualifications to be iron rank adventurers for free.

Even if they didn’t it wouldn’t hurt their finances and wouldn’t bring any problems either.

So, Loren concluded that it was worth taking a shot at.

“Then let’s go with that.”

Since Loren made up his mind, Lapis had no intention of arguing, and since they were in consensus, they would be going along with the guild’s recommendations and taking the rank up exam.