"Wait wait wait! So... this girl in pure white clothing is 'Felicia'? And this one in royal costume is 'Elena'?"
Adin was talking to two girls in front of him on the sidewalk. He showed his confusion and anger through his fast harsh voice.
"Yes, Your High—I mean, normal archer."
"Yes, my Mas—I mean, normal archer."
"I see, but can you please stop putting 'normal' before it? That would be anything except normal if you keep repeating it like that! Also, don't call me an archer. That wouldn't be normal at all. Call close friends by names. I'm Arian now, so call me Arian!"
"All right, Your—I mean, Arian!"
"Yes, My—I mean, Arian!"
"Good! Good!" Adin stopped for a moment, frustration overshadowing his irritated face, "But... Why the hell would Felicia have white eyes, white hair, white magic, white aura, and be fully dressed in white clothes and stupid wizardry hat so it can attract everyone's attention to us in the Kingdom? Look around, people's eyes are just focused on you as if you're an ancient princess of the moon or something. How the hell would it be normal? Because you see, I thought I had told you to change your appearance to a normal-fucking-wizard. Can you please explain it to me... 'Felicia'?"
He began gasping for breath after shouting at Freya.
"I'm really sorry, Your Hi—Arian. I thought you told us to change our appearance so people can't notice our true identities. So I changed from my usual black wizardry dress to white. No one can figure out who I am now."
"Well, surely I did, and clearly no one's going to understand who you are. However, I did never ever say to dress like this to become the center of attention in the Kingdom. I told you to look normal to avoid the other's attention and thus the likely troubles."
Freya looked so ashamed and embarrassed. When Adin's continuous complaints ended, Ena started talking.
"Yeah, Mast—Arian is right, you're really reckless Felicia. You should've thought more when deciding to choose that eye-catching appearance."
The moment Adin heard her words, he turned his look from Freya to Ena, glaring at her fiercely.
"... I don't want to hear that from you, 'Elena'. Why are you dressed like this?"
"Oh... I thought you told me to stop wearing revealing clothes, right? That's what I did. Nobody's going to look at me now."
"Yeah, I did tell you that. But I also didn't tell you to wear such a majestic-looking dress with all of these different types of jewels and that conspicuous gold necklace, did I? You more look like a human princess than a normal woman I told you to be. Anyone would think you're royalty with the first glimpse at your appearance. Golden hair, golden eyes, golden jewels, golden dress, and what's that? Dragon patterns? One can only think of you to be a queen or a princess in that gorgeous, royal robe! You would attract way more attention than Felicia! Just look around, most of the pedestrians have their eyes set on you!"
Ena no longer tried to defend herself. She also took an embarrassed gesture and let the sadness appear through her countenance.
"Please forgive me! My Ma—Arian!"
"Thanks to you two, now almost every single group in the Kingdom is going to have their eyes on us, thieves, knights, royalties, adventurers, stalkers, perverts, and everyone's going to talk about us. There will be nothing but trouble!"
"Sorry, High—Arian!"
"Sorry, Mas—Arian!"
Adin sighed as his anger subsided gradually. He didn't want to engage in trouble. He himself had done a decent job of hiding his powers and identity. However, these two troublesome women had wasted all of his efforts. But there was nothing he could do about it anymore.
"Anyways, now it's too late. Let's go get a quest. We need information so we have to be patient for it. Try to make a good relation with the other adventurers and improve your reputation."
Adin took Freya and Ena to the guild. They had to first join the guild before being able to take any quests. Of course, they would be enrolled by the names of Felicia and Elena. Freya's starting rank was "1E5", a normal degree for the average wizards. But since her real power had been sealed by Adin, her true rank would be much higher than that.
Ena's rank was "0G6". It reached higher than Adin's rank, but she still did an amazing job in hiding her magical power. That starting rank would be classified in the lowest ones. As Adin had expected, he could rely on her when it comes to ability, though her hidden perverted attitude behind that vivacious gentle smile would bring a lot of trouble.
Meanwhile, he could hear many different mumbles and whispers from people in the way:
"Who are they?" "Who're those two beautiful girls over there?" "Damn, they're like angels." "The one over there is as white as Moon, and the other one is so brilliant like Sun!" "Is she royalty? What is she doing here?" "Those look so gorgeous and stunning!" "Truly they're weird." "We should keep an eye on them. They're not normal." "Where are they from?" "Are they foreigners?" "They should be adventurers though." "I've not seen them before." "Who's that archer among them?" "He looks too ordinary. Are they bringing him with themselves?" "She's wearing a lot of jewels. They look expensive." "I'm going to marry her one day." "Well... they can leave that useless archer and come to me." "I can protect them way better."
Adin rolled his eyes, sighing in frustration and tiredness.
—I knew they would bring nothing but trouble. What have I done to deserve this? It's going to be so much hard. I should find those flames or I have to live among these boring humans for a long time.
Adin helped Freya and Ena to go for their first quest, as he got another quest for himself to do. It said he had to obtain some materials in Grandwood.
Preparing for his quest, Adin left the city to search the Grandwood for both those materials and some potential information about the flames.