26 First Quests 3 (1/2)
Nearly an hour later, Seran walked into June's office, looking very haggard for a 10-year-old. He flopped down in a chair and groaned, ”Finally done... I hate doing that so much...”
June, half-prepared for a ridiculous number as the answer, slowly spoke, ”So... how many jobs did you go through this time...?” When Seran didn't answer directly and said a math problem instead, it left her rather confused, but she still did it since Seran insisted it would lessen the blow just a bit. ”Let's see, 7 times 10 is 70, minus 3... 67... wait, 67?” When the white-haired boy gave her a halfhearted thumbs-up, smoke literally burst out of her ears from her brain being fried.
The silence was almost deafening, twenty minutes passing by the time June managed to recover her senses. Just like Seran, she leaned back in her chair and groaned loudly, ”Gods, dealing with you is going to be the death of me... What's your current job, then?”
”Well, do you remember when you mentioned Merlin earlier?”
”Yes..?”
”I've got his job now.”
Silence, followed by, ”Grand Sage!? You've reached Sage in all magic jobs? Wait, 67 jobs... I can see how most of that is for magic classes, so it makes a bit more sense. Still, Grand Sage... Mind telling me the job progression you chose to do?” June was starting to develop the same mindset as those of Greenwood Town: don't apply common sense to Seran, he'll always do impossible things.
”The first job I chose was Magic Archer, then I advanced all of the magic jobs to Sage. After that, I advanced from Beast Tamer to Beast King, followed by Spellsword, Magic Swordsman, and then Shadowblade. I then advanced to Thief King, Reaper, Master Spy and Marksman, and then finally, I became a Grand Sage...”
”... give me a moment while I write all of this down... I might need to call the continental guildmaster again...” Poor June began to write down, as neatly as possible with a shaking hand, the job progression he had mentioned, along with changing his guild card and files to say his new current job.
”Well, you might need to anyway, considering what I'm really here for might need approval from the highest authority of the guild on this continent. I want to do something crazy and reach S-rank as fast as possible. The easiest way for me to do it is to just straight up do an S-rank quest, but there aren't any on the continent... So, I'd need to do one of the long-time unfinished A-rank quests... The one of the highest difficulty.”
After a minute of that all-too-familiar silence, June activated the mirror with the 'urgent' setting rather than the usual.