“You’re too serious. This is your merit, and also your shortcoming.”
Thinking too seriously about the consequences of things, then worrying about possibilities that haven’t appeared yet, leading to standing in place unable to advance.
And Miss Huamo in front of me belonged to this type.
And this kind of person only needed a trigger to change their thinking.
Walking toward the counter, I could feel two completely different gazes.
One was the gazes of that previous group with ulterior motives.
The other was caring gazes like Miss Huamo and the seniors she mentioned.
It also let me quickly distinguish the people present into two sides.
One side was trustworthy and worth winning over.
The other side was beyond saving.
“Hello. I want to apply for an adventurer license.”
“Eh…?”
The young man behind the counter who was originally chatting with others turned his head, saw me, and was startled.
But since I had already come in front, he had no choice but to start work.
“H-hello. Let me confirm first. You want to apply to become an adventurer, not intending to post an adventurer commission, right?”
Was it because he didn’t talk much with unfamiliar people?
Facing me he was instead stammering, and even didn’t dare meet my eyes.
“That’s right, Mr. Will. I came to become an adventurer.”
I looked at the work badge hanging on his chest then replied.
And after I said such words loudly, it immediately caused quite a commotion at the scene.
Strange smiles began hanging on the faces of the beyond-saving group, seeming like an expression of prey appearing.
While the good-person group all showed worried looks.
“Th-then please fill out the application form. I-if there’s anything you don’t understand please tell me!”
Like throwing away a dangerous item as quickly as possible, Will quickly finished speaking then immediately handed me paper and pen, then shrank to the back.
Mm, temporarily put him on the good-person group side.
Let me see the application form… Name, age, gender and such I’ll write according to [Shihua]’s situation.
Specialized skills and ranks… I don’t know if past ability standards can be applied here.
Just write swordsmanship, grappling, and magic.
For ranks I heard from Miss Huamo just now, so temporarily write all as C-rank.
License?
In the past there was no such thing as licenses.
Does that mean there are specialized teaching places, then unified management of qualifications?
That’s a really good idea.
If there’s a chance later I’ll go take a look.
But now I can only write “self-taught” first.
The rest… that’s about it.
This should be fine…
“Hey, don’t just randomly fill it in!”
While I started writing according to the situation, the back had already filled with people at some point.
Everyone seemed very curious about my information.
But among them there also seemed to be people who sneered at my information.
“May I ask what’s the problem?”
I asked the uncle who just raised an objection, and found he was a person in the beyond-saving group I had just classified.
“What’s the problem? Young people nowadays are really bold enough. You dare write such obviously bluffing things on it?! Are you looking down on us adventurers?!”
“I wouldn’t say looking down. From the look of your big belly and loose muscles after just drinking two bottles of wine, this doesn’t seem to count as a dangerous job.”
“What…?!”
The surrounding people then burst into laughter after hearing my mockery.
He who had been hit on what he just did fell into a slightly embarrassed state.
“What kind of joke is this? You brat tired of living?! I’ll let you see what kind of strength a so-called adventurer should have!”
Was it because alcohol went to his head and anesthetized his reason, or was he usually this overbearing?
The uncle unhesitatingly wanted to lay hands on me.
“Can’t win with words so you want to use force?”
“Wait, you stop!”
Though Miss Huamo wanted to stop that uncle, because her own position was blocked she couldn’t come over quickly.
And the seniors beside also seemed to want to rush over to protect me.
I threw them a look not to worry, then only needed to turn my body sideways and hook the unsteady-stepping uncle’s foot with my foot, letting him fall directly.
“Alright, now you’ve become an even bigger joke.”
As if taking my words as a signal, the onlookers laughed even more unrestrainedly.
After all from a third-party view it was just the ridiculous scene of a drunk wanting to prove his strength but getting his foot hooked and falling by a little girl.
“You… stinking brat…!”
But from the involved uncle’s angle, this was a completely infuriating situation.
After all a man’s pride is very important.
Quite coincidentally, I was originally a man too, so I understand.
Please allow me to silently give you a little apology in my heart.
“Damn it… don’t run… have a proper duel with me!”
The uncle covering his nose gushing with blood struggled to stand up and roared at me.
But his appearance was really too comical, adding even more laughter for the people present.
“Duel? With that appearance of yours you intend to slander the act of dueling to the degree of an ordinary fight?”
“Hey, that’s enough. Don’t embarrass yourself here anymore.”
“Yeah, hurry back and drink your stinking wine.”
“Really enough. People like this can still be adventurers.”
People who couldn’t stand it tried to insert themselves, wanting the uncle to back down a bit.
But the stubborn uncle didn’t seem very willing to retreat in this situation, wanting to work hard to salvage his worthless pride, and even pulled out his sword.
In an instant the atmosphere of the crowd changed.
Because the appearance of a weapon had already greatly changed the nature of the incident.
If the previous was a little scrap, then now it had already seriously crossed the line.
“You stinking brat… I’ll kill you…!”
Alcohol’s paralysis of reason, the crowd’s laughter and the damage to pride, all made this uncle start to lose control.
Most of the beyond-saving group also hurriedly distanced themselves from him.
Only a small portion seemed to be watching the development of things with schadenfreude.
“Let me through. I’m going to slaughter her!”
“Tch, talking to him is useless. Who’s going to get a bucket of cold water to splash him awake!”
The good-person group immediately surrounded to protect me, but they hadn’t taken out weapons yet, seeming to still want to calm the out-of-control situation.
Miss Huamo directly stood in front of me wanting to protect me.
To be honest looking at that uncle’s skill, even if he drew his sword he couldn’t injure me.
But this also let me see that this group of good-person humans was still pretty decent.
But staying in a stalemate here would only be wasting time, so I still decided to act on my own.
“Rest assured, Miss Huamo.”
“Eh, Miss Shihua…?!”