A noise of the crowds are like suddenly disappeared in their awkwardness state.
They didn't even say a word, just looking at each other.
One looking with an anxious expression in the face, cold sweat ran down his cheeks and neck. While the other one look curious but his face doesn't show that if he was curious, he just went with a normal expression.
'I don't know what is he planning to do after that tall guy whispered him something. I do curious what would be that man told to Lurk, but, i can't asked that to him directly ....', thought Ando when he sighed.
"Well, okay ... i'll take care of Nana for your sake. But, would you mind to tell me what's that man told you?"
Lurk swallowed. Ando's eyes widened suddenly.
"He said, that the prize of this tournament is around 500 gold coins, i can't let this chance pass after i heard it. So ...."
'His voice is shakened ....', said Ando, his eyes looked questioning.
".... So, I ... must to join that tournament so i can get the prize for us. With 500 gold coins, we can buy a big mansion, and better equipments. What you think?"
Lurk gave a tense smile before he turns his head sideway to avoid contact with Ando.
'... Well, he's bad when it come to lying, eh?'
Ando sighed.
"That's great indeed! Well then, you can leave Nana to me, while you focus to aim for the tournament prize!"
'Yeah, let's just play along ... it's not like i'll loss, but the opposite. This is a big advantage for me', thought Ando, deep in his heart he was laughing evilly.
Gasp— Ando quickly cover his mouth with hands, his evil laugh was about to come from his mouth.
'That was close, i almost lost my control ....'
"Thank you!"
Lurk gave his thanks while lowering his body a bit. He did it long enough ....
'Why ...? why do i feel if there's will be something bad to be happen to Nana if i go?', thought Lurk when he lowered his body to gave out a thank.
He straightened up, then he nodded to Ando before went to the crowds. While in his walk to the crowds, he glanced back while thinking about something.
'Is it the right choice to leave Nana to his care? i feel uneasy about him just now', he murmured in his heart which then disappeared into the crowd.
"He he ...."
Ando chuckled, but he tried to hold it on. His hand blocking his mouth, then he moved it to block his vision. When looking to the sky, but with the vision is blocked, he laughing in his heart.
'Hahahaha!! How is that?! i'm sure i doing my best to act like i was a villain whose had a bad intention to the person. Yeah, i'm always want to act like this, but—', thought he, then moved his hand that block his vision.
He looked to the front. In front of him, he saw a message tab there. But, it's more like a quest tab than a message.
It says, 「Received a quest!」
'What the hell is that, now?', thought he asked to himself.
Then the message disappeared for a moment then appeared again with a new message, or maybe quest.
「"Protect Nana" (Absolute Quest!)
Lurk asked you to protect Nana, and you without any choice have to protect her no matter what.
Quest: Protect Nana until she attend to the princess's party (0/1)
Reward: Life Potion 2x
If you fail to finish the quest, you will receive a punishment.」
'Yeah, what the f*cking is this thing??'
A quest will appear after a certain someone asked for his help, be it an adventurer, children, king, and any other subject of the good. Sometime, a quest to eliminate the bad or dark forces will appear too if he meet the requirement.
So, it is like he is a player but in another world, he still receiving a quest from people or directly from the guild or so whatever.
There's 3 type of the quest. Normal quest, absolute quest, and hidden quest.
Normal quest, it's a normal quest, like you finish the quest then you get the reward, no punishment from the system, this quest usually got from the guild and so. Then absolute quest, this quest will make and force you to finish the quest, if not you will get punishment from the system for not clearing the quest. Last is hidden quest, this quest usually appears at the dungeon if you accidentally found or meet something that is not belongs to the dungeon.
Ando got an absolute quest after talking with Lurk. Actually, he can to not got this quest if he reject Lurk's request to take care of Nana.
This quest appears after Lurk asking him to take care of Nana while he need to join and got the prize from the tournament, and Ando accept his request to take care of Nana that the system then gave him an absolute quest.
"...."
Ando didn't say a word, his mind went blank after thinking so hard. Then, was heard a feminim voice and awoken him.
「Hello! Are you there, player?」
Ando got his mind back to his body, he then turns around to look for the voice owner.
「No need to look for me, you can said that i was same as the system from the game but i'm actually not, te-he!」
'What? this voice is different with the voice when i'm at the tutorial ....'
「Of course, i'm different! I'm senior of the other a— uhum system voice that guide you in the tutorial」
'Oh ... So, there's more of the system voice than you two?'
「Humu humu! You're right, ten points! Me and my junior is your guide here! So, listen to what we said, okay?」
'....'
「Hey! Answer me!!」
'This system is so annoying ....'
「I can heard that you dumb, trash, idiot, barbaric player! Hah ... just listen to what we said, okay? I'll guide you, so you can back to become a strongest player— No! Strongest human in the world!!」
'O-okay ... then, i'll be in your care'
「Good little puppy!」
'What you just call me before?'
「Little puppy, why? Is there a problem?」
Ando suddenly can felt a pair of eyes looking at him with a cute looking, but also he felt a dangerous aura from his back.
'N-no, there's no problem'
After all this time, Ando just stood in the road when he kept talking with the system. He noticed that peoples looking at him with eyes full of question, they thought that he's crazy or so.
Ando decided to walking to side of the road and leans againts the wall of the clothes shop building.
「Then, don't talk much! Now, first, you must finish this quest that given to you if you want to be a strongest! Take a note if it is an absolute quest, so you must finish it no matter what, or if you fail then was sent to the punishment dimension, we can't help you」
'Oh, why?'
「Arrghh, don't ask me to much question you bad little puppy. Just do this quest and clear it, understand? Then, go! i have something else to do, bye-bye!」
Ando is speechless, he can't said a word to the system or his guide behaviours.
He looked to left then right, then he was walked along the road looking for a place he can stay for a rest.