CH ss - 15

[Alfine : A Difficult Start]

The new adventurer registration reception is…I’m nervous because it’s been a while since I’ve been at the registration counter.

There it is.

“Excuse me. I want to register as an adventurer…”

“New registration, is it? I will prepare the documents immediately.”

The receptionist was a woman who was a little older than me, but she seemed to be accustomed to the receptionist’s work and immediately gave me a set of documents.

While receiving her explanation, I write down fake birthplace, name, and gender.

The lower positioned rookie adventurer is like a disposable, so as long as you don’t have a criminal history, you can even register with any alias.

It was surprising that the Adventurer’s Guild’s side could manage the gold and higher rank adventurers well though.

I submitted the document to the receptionist and she confirmed whether I have criminal history.

“There is no problem. Al-sama has been successfully registered as an iron-rank adventurer of the Youg Hannotes’ Adventurer’s Guild. Congratulations. If you have any problems, let me know so that I can help you right away, and feel free to ask me for advice.”

Unlike the receptionists in the Royal Capital, the receptionist lady was very friendly and talked clearly, so I got a favorable impression of her.

While receiving the iron-rank badge she presented, I check her name tag, it says Rebecca.

Since she is also a person who seems to be accustomed to the work, I wondered if I could get along with her and have her help me to collect information about Finn at this Youg Hannotes as Meila said.

“Thank you. I’m new to this city, so if I have any problems, I’ll talk to Rebecca-san.”

“Yes, please don’t hesitate to ask me for advice. The Adventurer’s Guild of Youg Hannotes is active in supporting adventurers. Also, new registrants can measure their magic power for free now, would you like to try it?”

“Eh? Magic power measurement…”

Rebecca said so with a smile and took out a crystal ball to measure magic power.

I kept saying that magic was a heresy to Finn, who was interested in magic, and didn’t let him measure his magic power.

It was because I had shallow and sly thought that if he had magic talent, the relationship that we had built since we were at the orphanage when we had nothing at all would break.

‘Amazing, you can do anything,’ Finn has always praised me so, but I just did those so that I can get him to praise me.

I have no choice but to admit that I was only a stupid and shallow woman whose only redeeming feature is her sword skill.

In order to re-affirm that, I think it’s time to measure my magic power which I haven’t done before and face my true self.

I looked at the crystal ball Rebecca handed out, and perhaps because I was nervous, the sound I made when I swallow my saliva became loud.

“Can I measure it for free?”

“Yeah, yes! Thank you. Now then, would you please put your hand here?”

I touched the crystal ball that was handed out, but there was no change in the crystal ball.

“Unfortunately, Al-sama doesn’t seem to have a magic talent. But it’s okay. It seems that there are only about 20% people who have magic talent, so you don’t need to be depressed, you know. Even without magic, you can still use sword after all.”

As I thought, I didn’t have any magic talent…

I’m only a selfish and self-centered idiot woman who can only use a sword.

That was the real me.

The false image I had created was peeled off, and I was able to see my true self, which made me feel more regretful of the bad deeds that I had done until now.

Finn…I’m sorry.

Sorry that this selfish and self-centered idiot woman who can only use sword selfishly said that she is your lover.

I get that I’m not in a position to say ‘I love you’ or ‘come back’.

However, I want to meet you for the last time, apologize, and say goodbye.

“Al-sama, is there something wrong?”

Rebecca called out to me, who was absent mindedly thinking about Finn.

“Eh? Ah, no. I was just thinking about something.”

“I see, I thought you were depressed because you don’t have magic talent.”

“I had been only using sword, so I’ve always wondered if I have magic aptitude, that’s why I’m glad that I confirmed it here now.”

When I was talking to Rebecca, I felt a shock on my back.

“Oops, sorry.”

Looking back, it seems that a middle-aged male adventurer has bumps into my back.

It seems that it was intentional because the man was grinning.

“A young beautiful-faced Bocchan said that he was devoted to swordsmanship, it makes me laugh. This is the frontier y’know. Did you think that you can defeat monsters with stilettos you got? Besides, why do you have two on your waist? Don’t tell me, you can use both of them? That’s impossible, right?”

The male adventurer wearing a silver-rank badge directed his unscrupulous gaze this way.

There were a lot of guys like this in the Adventurer’s Guild of the Royal Capital too…

It’s been a long time since I last met an adventurer who picks on a beginner.

Guys like him had been visibly reduced in the Royal Capital since I beat them down with my sword. This is the frontier area after all.

“Would you like to see whether my swords can be used?”

I pointed the two sheathed stilettos at the man to provoke him.

I had used this method in the Royal Capital to utterly defeat the adventurers who were picking on beginners.

I saw the man’s complexion change quickly due to the provocation.

It seems that he was angry at being provoked back by the rookie, me.

“Recently, a monster class rookie magic swordsman called Frick has been throwing his weight around, and the rookies has become more and more cheeky, so let me as a veteran teach you how important order is. Bocchan, don’t cry if you get hurt. The one who pointed his swords first was you after all.”

“Wait, Al-sama!? Personal fight in the Adventurer’s Guild is――”

“I’m sorry. But I can’t forgive those who picks on a rookie.”

“Shut up!! Don’t be cocky, you rookie!”

The man pulled out his own sword and slashed at me.

His skill is not a big deal. As expected, he must be just an adventurer who manages to get up to silver-rank somehow.

I lightly dodged the man’s weak slash, and stabbed him consecutively with my two sheathed stilettos toward his opened torso.

“Guhee…what is with that swordsmanship…you coward…”

The man dropped his sword, fainted, and fell to the floor.

Commotion spreads among the adventurers who were watching the situation.

“The one who fell down just now was a guy who had a quite good achievement in silver-rank, right? He seems to be easily dealt with though.”

“O-oi, did you see that guy’s swords?”

“I couldn’t see it. I couldn’t even see the preliminary movement before that!”

“It’s another dangerous rookie! First is Frick, then that beautiful-faced brat, what the heck is going on in this Youg Hannotes’ Adventurer’s Guild!”

The adventurers who saw my swordsmanship stepped back.

However, at the same time, the line of sight of the adventurers in the guild were focused on me.

“Heeeey, Al. Onee-chan has always said to not pick a fight, right!? I’m sorry, my younger brother has such a beautiful face, see. There are many strange people who approached him with various intention, so he tends to react excessively. Hey Al, apologize too!”

Meila, who was in the waiting room, got in through the gaps of the adventurers and apologized.

She glanced at me with an expression that seems to say, ‘You’re being pursued, if you stand out, you’ll be exposed, y’know’

“Y-yes. I’m sorry. Please forgive me.”

“N-no. Our idiot was the one who caused trouble.”

I handed over the fainted man to a female adventurer who seems to be his companion.

However, Rebecca taps on my shoulder.

“Al-sama, let’s have a little chat over there. Onee-sama too.”

““Eh?””

Rebecca was pointing towards the office behind the counter.

Afterward, I was given a long sermon by Rebecca, but due to my sword skill and her mediation, the Guild Master would let me off by having me completing requests free of charge.

Thus, my search for Finn in Youg Hannotes was met with a difficult start.

Ahh the classic rookie-bullying, Finn didn’t get the chance to try it, did he?