Chapter 14 (1/2)

If you thought about it normally, the winner of the fight was obvious. However, the actual conclusion was the rookie shutting out the 4 D rank adventurers in a clean sweep.

Of course, there were various reasons why Rei won, half the watchers were convinced while the other half were unbelieving. In their vision, an adventurers rank was absolute.

Some people understood, for Rei to be accompanied by a rank A monster Griffon, he must have some ability. As for the unbelieving people, he was only a 165cm tall person who was neither big or muscular.

While being watched by the onlookers, Rei called to Set.

「Set.」

「Gururu~!」

With a joyful cry, he left the spot and passed the items he was protecting to Rei as the prize for the fight..

Firstly, he re-quipped the Misty Ring on his right arm, then he returned the mirthril knife to his waist. Putting his money bag back to his chest, he took the bag of gold that Vargas had bet and stored it into the Misty Ring.

(I will invite unnecessary people if I count the money in front of so many people, I’ll confirm how much there is when I get to the inn later.)

A person in the crowd clicked their tongue. When Rei heard it, he saw the person who had clicked their tongue and recalled who he was..

「Well, is that okay?」

The voice that called out was from the man that came out of the guild and indicated the fight area. He had watched and spoke out at a suitable time, Rei shook his head at his words.

「No, give me a little bit longer.」

He replied shortly to the man. Sequentially, he took the long sword, two daggers, a bow, arrows and the battle axe that was lying on the ground and stored them into the Misty Ring.

「……I thought it wasn’t necessary to take their weapons.」

The man that was watching called out reprovingly, but Rei shook his head in silence.

「In the first place these people picked a fight and the contents of the bet was all their property. They should be grateful and thank me for not stripping their clothes.」

There were also other reasons why he didn’t want to strip the men’s clothes.

「……Well, okay. The guild policy is not to interfere between adventurer conflicts. Though I don’t think I need to confirm it again, the rules mean that I have to check. Are you Rei?」

「Ah.」

「You’re hoping for a rank up from H to G?」

「That’s right. If you have combat knowledge, I heard you can rank up from H to G on the first day?」

「Certainly.」

「So, I think I was able to show my combat ability from the battle before……is the rank up possible?」

「There are no complaints. A rookie who just just registered with the guild knocking down a D rank adventurer party alone……although I saw it with my own eyes it’s unbelievable. However, since I saw it, I’ll believe it.」

Interested in the words of the man, who was smiling wryly, Rei observed him. He was in his late thirties to forties, from the scar that could be seen his cheek, he was probably a former adventurer. His height was about the same as Vargas, 190cm, and seemed to have a muscular body.

Urged by the man to re-enter the guild, Rei faced the guild, disregarding the curious gazes of the spectators.

By the way, Set returned to the place he was at before and lay down again after he saw Rei go back into the guild.

Also, the residents of Gilm were of course happy that even though the spectators were curious, none of them were reckless enough to meddle with Set.

「We’ve already entered the guild, but what about those guys lying outside?」

「As I said earlier, it has been ruled that the guild will not intervene in problems between adventurers. So, your guild card.」

Following the man’s words, the man walked further inside after Rei gave his guild card. As the man walked away, Rei looked around the guild. The people who had saw the commotion earlier wore expressions of astonishment and assent as they looked at Rei.

Among the people who were looking, one man approached Rei.

Rei remembered the man. At the beginning, he was one of the people drinking with Vargas, he had left to drink by himself when Vargas picked a fight with the rookie Rei.

「That was surprising, after all, what to say……well, it feels like everything fell into place.」

「……You are?」

「Runo. Though I think you know, I’m a person who formed a temporary party with the fools who picked a fight with you.」

「……Temporary?」

「Yes. Those guys said that the request this time was tough. That’s the reason I temporarily joined their party as an assistant. I wonder what they were thinking, getting involved with a monster like you. With that party, I’ll receive damage if I stayed with them.」

Monster. Hearing that word, Rei’s cheeks twitched.

It didn’t hurt his feeling that he was called a monster. In the first place, Rei thought that about half his body was like a monster. However, that was true because Rei knew the performance of his body. The existence of Set probably wasn’t even noticed by those inside the guild.

「Monster, eh. Why would you call me that?　It can’t be……by appearance?」

He watched Runo closely so as to not miss any suspicious movements.

However, Runo quickly shook his head, showing that he had no hostility.

「Oi oi, don’t look at me like that. When I said that, I was honest.」

「……So?」

Prompted by Rei, Runo continued with cold sweat.