chapter 38

“Hello, Ms. Mativa.”

“Oh, Tsumugi-chan.”

Ms Mativa, one of the receptionists, lightly swayed her brown hair and large breasts and replied in a soothing tone.

With her catsuit-like braids and smile, it’s no wonder she’s so popular as the guild’s signature girl.

The number engraved on her neck is ’06’. Besides, Theon, who is moaning next to me for some reason, has ’02’ on her neck. It may be the nature of people in this world to care about the difference in numbers.

“Oh, what a rare pair of flowers.”

“Don’t make fun of me.”

“Yes! I don’t want to be this gloomy flower for the rest of my life!”

“Can you shut up for a second?”

Anyway, let’s get this over with since Ouka is starving and looks like she’s about to melt.

“I’m signing up this girl for the guild today.”

“Oh, you little, pretty girl.”

“Guh.”

“Ouka, I can hear your tummy rumbling.”

“Hi. My name is Mativa. I’m the receptionist. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Ouka.”

“It’s nice to meet you. …… I see you and master are quite close.”

Ouka straightened her posture, but her eyes narrowed slightly.

“Well, I’ve been taking care of Tsumugi-chan since he became an adventurer.”

In the words of Ms Mativa.

“A lot of things! Ouka and Theon these two children who can’t take a joke.”

“So much for pleasantries, please register her as an adventurer.”

“Yes, sir. Okay, let’s start with a grade F–”

“No…. from grade E.”

At my words, the place goes quiet for a moment.

“….Tsumugi-chan? Do you understand how the adventurer ranks work?”

“Yes, it’s a meritocracy, isn’t it? The strongest ones get to move up the ranks.”

“Properly speaking, it’s about competence and experience and the number on the [Bonds-list].”

“’But F to E is for the basics of being an adventurer, and you can be promoted regardless of how many bonds you have, right?”

Mativa glances at Ouka.

Properly, the neck of Ouka.

“Tsumugi-chan’s numbers are increasing so that you can take the D-rank promotion test with her.”

“Thank you for being so quick to understand.”

Mativa exhales, “Hmmm.”

“No matter how many Tsumugi-chan’s you have, you can’t take an inexperienced girl who’s not even old enough to be …….”

I was waiting for those words.

” Is this one of them?”

I took a large burlap bag from the item box.

Unbind the strings that had been tied.

The contents of the bag filled the receptionist’s table, echoing loudly throughout the guild.

That’s 1007 of them.

“Is this …… slime magic stone?”

“She collected them. Overnight, of course.”