Standing before us is three individuals, a red-haired seemingly adolescent man (The guy that shouted at us earlier), a blonde-haired girl the same age as the other guy, and a person dressed head to toe in black, most or all of their skin obscured by clothing, couldn't even see their face, mysterious, huh?
I stared for a bit before responding, "... Yes?"
"I want you to join our party!"
...
Eh?
"A-Ashin! You can't just go up to them and--" The woman stuttered, obviously flustered by apparently 'Ashin's' actions. Although, she didn't get to finish her sentence.
"Eh?! Who the hell says I can't, huh, Quen? Those two are obviously strong. Hell, the one in the hood even beat Seralt! An' if that beastman is with 'em, she's obviously strong too!" Ashin blurted, nearly bursting my eardrums.
'Quen' looked particularly irritated by this, clenching her teeth. She looked like she was about to speak, but the guy in all black spoke out first.
"Ashin, you fail to understand what Quenilla meant. Do think, if you were to be approached by three suspicious individuals and one of them yelled out something about joining your party, wouldn't you be quite startled?" The guy in all black had an especially calm voice, one higher-pitched, yet still obviously of a male's. Or, well, I assume. Honestly, I'm still a bit confused by this.
"Ah--" Ashin's eye's widened a small bit, realizing his rude behaviour. He let out a sigh, "Damn, you're right... Sorry about that! Name's Ashin Dest, I'm an adventurer like you! These guys are Quenilla Fenra and Theca Webb, I'm the leader of our little party!" Hearing this, Quenilla crossed her arms.
So... He's the leader of these guys? He doesn't exactly seem like the sorta guy to be good at leadership, considering his manner of speaking, but you know what they say, never judge a book by its cover... You know, that line is actually pretty stupid, I mean, the purpose of a book's cover is to entice you into reading it! Kinda bad phrase, huh? But I've gotten off track.
"And you want us to join said party, eh?" I questioned, though I already knew the answer.
"Yep! We've actually been thinking about asking you for a bit now, since that fight with Seralt, but you got your adventurer's card a while ago, right? That's why I decided to go up and ask you here and now! So, what do you say?" Since then, huh? That was a couple of days ago, wasn't it? They must have been in that crowd when that happened... Well, that's obvious, of course.
I thought for a couple of seconds, wondering as to if I should accept or not... I mean, it would help me blend in and stuff, so...
They're all looking at me expectingly, stop putting me on the spot! I'm terrible with decisions!
"Ai! What do you think?" Great idea me! Shifting the attention onto Ai, how genius of me.
"I don't care."
...
God damn it.
"Fine, fine, sure. But we're busy today, so we can't do any requests right now!"
"Great!" A wide grin appeared on Ashin's face, "Then we'll see you tomorrow!" And then they all walked off.
That... was weird. But I guess we're in a sort of party now, Though, I'm more confused than excited about it. I mean, how else am I supposed to react? However, I'll take this as an overall plus for me! Not only will this make taking requests easier, but this will also help me blend in with the other adventurers... Though, those are all pretty selfish reasons, huh? Well, who cares! They're the ones who came up to me, so why shouldn't I use them for my own cause? I'm not a bad person, I promise! Really, they're the bad people for intruding on my life.
Okayyy, enough of that, There are things that must be done! By which I mean I wanna get at least one request done today. So, it's time to look for a request to fulfill, and by that, I mean make Ai look for one. Hey, I can't read and Ai can, what else am I supposed to do?
So, while Ai's looking for a request for us, I should... probably do something...? I mean, what's the point in just standing still? Hm... What to do in the meantime, though? Can't exactly leave...
You know, I've been wondering this for a while, but there might be other people reincarnated into this world. I don't exactly have much proof for this claim, but it'd be good to at least humour the idea.
Other people from Earth, huh? I mean, I'm not homesick or anything, but it's an interesting thought nonetheless. Though, would I want to really meet them? Honestly, my last life isn't really one I hold with too much fondness, and who's to say how they'd react considering I'm actually a monster, I'm assuming they would be human or other Demi-Human race in this scenario, by the way.
My thoughts are cut off by Ai holding a piece of paper up to my face, a request, I assume.
"Found one," She spoke quickly, staring at me in the eyes.
"Huh? That was fast... What do we gotta do for it?"
To save some time, I'll just tell you the gist of what she said. Sooo, basically, this lady who makes potions and stuff is running low on a certain kind of herb that is vital in the potion making process. So, she wants someone to go and get her some of those herbs. Though, for some reason, she put in that we must go see her at her shop to see her first, strange.
"Well, no use just waiting around here forever, let's go."
[Chapter 27, end]