"wait for a second Sir Alcott, did you just say we hire them?"
Irvin asked Alcott confirming Alcot's desire.
"yes, I want to hire them as our bodyguard for our expedition, is that wrong?"
He innocently asks Irvin.
"Of course is that wrong, absolutely no way, you remember what king said are you? there's even a reason why the kingdom only sends 8 people to become your bodyguard!"
Irvin trying to reject Alcot's proposal. they got some mission from the king, we don't know what it is, but I and jade should reject it, It will be a problem if we accept his proposal there will be pros and cons.
"ehhh... but they are S rank Adventure you know maybe it's okay if we hire them"
to Alcott, he said that I was in the same category as jade, an S rank too. maybe is it because I'm Jade's partner, that's why he assumes that I was an S rank Adventure too.
"no, I can't, if we hire them the kingdom would scold me and...."
Alcott then cut out before Irvin finished the talk
"I'm the one who takes full burnt of responsibility you don't need to worry, about the secret? it's fine I can pay the shut up money to them after all"
The power of money is scary...
"even so..."
Irvin still trying to persuade Alcott
"No worry okay, just trust me for this one"
"..."
while making a face of exhausted Irvin surrender on Alcott stubbornness, he can't even control Alcot, he is too carefree
the discussion is won by Alcot, but unfortunately for him, I don't want to accept his proposal, because I just feel restless in this place I don't like this ruin for some reason even though this place is my old capital city. I give a glance to Jade made a signal to her to reject it, and now the decision is in Jade's hand I only hope she rejects it like I instruct her on my signal.
"you heard it right Jade? if I can, I want to hire you for this bodyguard mission, you don't need to worry about the payment I will give you some hefty sums and if we succeed, I will give the proposal to my kingdom to pay you more, how about that? do you want to accept it, Mrs. Jade?" Alcott talks elegantly to Jade and raises his right hand initiating her to handshake to seal the deal. so this is the power of connection huh? we can even get recommended instantly well, I'm sure every nation want S rank adventure as their power, so maybe this deal is not so bad for them, and it was a win-win solution for both of us if jade accepts it.
Jade then immediately answers Alcott she doesn't grab Alcot's hand she just shook her head.
"I'm sorry Sir Alcott we can't accept your proposal this time. your offer is really interesting but we have another objective and besides we come here for our curiosity, we don't want to get into any trouble with the country. my intention when I become an S rank, is I don't affiliate to any countries, so I'm sorry but I will reject your proposal Sir Alcot"
Jade and I slightly bowing to Alcot because he is a noble we can't make him dissatisfied it's gonna be a problem after all if we make him dissatisfied. the reason jade said was the truth he doesn't want to have any affiliation with other countries because 'the village' elder didn't command her too.
"that's right Sir Alcott, we can't force her to accept. I'm sorry about our Lord Mrs. Jade he is the type of person to force his way after all"
Irvin apologize to us while scolding Alcott
"is that so Mrs. Jade? that's too bad, but well I can't do anything if you refuse it"
Alcott is disappointed, but he doesn't look so down instead he accepts it.
"yes we are very sorry Sir Alcott"
Now, the one who apologizes is me, I feel bad for Jade who always said sorry this time I'm the one who said it.
"Nah it's okay you know hmmm... Galen, yes it's okay Galen you don't need to apologize, that request is my selfish offer after all hahaha"
We rejected Alcot's proposal Jade looks like realized my signal to turn down his offer, finally we can leave this place.
"well, then Sir Alcott and Mr. Irvin we will go thank you for your offer and I'm sorry about the spying earlier"
"I'm sorry about that too, Sir Alcott and Mr. Irvin, I'm sorry for our rudeness too, we will take our leave for now"
I and Jade apologize to the two of them.
"we too sorry for suspect you too, it's really unfortunate that you refuse my offer, but good luck and have a safe trip Mrs. Jade and Mr. Galen"
it's the first time Alcott call me with Mister.
the two of us then took our leave we get out of the cliff, we can fly from the cliff easily but we try to not expose our power to them so get out from the cliff with climbing after we get to the top we continue our journey and soon after that the cliff is can't be seen by us, Jade then asked me something.
"Hey, Len Len, why did you reject that offer? Isn't that your opportunity to make your name if we succeed? and from what he said the reward is really great you know, is there something you don't like in there?"
Jade sure is sharp she knows after I give a glance at her that I don't like that place. what jade said is true, maybe I can get more faster become an SS rank adventure if I made a connection to some countries, having a connection with some countries there will be so many benefits in it, but the price is my freedom is being limited, and I feel like I will become like a royal dog, I don't want that.
"what you said maybe is true. If we succeed in the mission that Alcot's offer we can rose up to get promoted by the kingdom who vouching for us, but I already told you right? I'm not in hurry to rose up to SS class. in the first place, I just want to become SS rank Adventure because I want to go to the abyss continent, abyss continent will not run to anywhere anyway so maybe I will take my pace to become SS rank, and besides..."
Jade already has been told by the Elder of our village about the reason for my journey. so she should understand the goal of these journeys. I stop before I finished the last word,
"Besides?"
Jade asked me making a puzzled face
"besides for some reason at that place I don't know why but I feel really restless, I don't know the source of my feeling, to be honest, I don't know if it's about that place or what, but for some reason, I just feel really restless!"
I told Jade the reason why I order her to reject Alcot's offer. maybe I'm just overacting, but I can't ignore it no matter what.
"you feel restless? is that so? so the reason we don't accept his offer because of your mood Len Len?"
"well... you can say like that"
"Len Len let me ask you first, are you a moody person?"
"hahaha there's no way, it's just that it's the first time I feel like that, I don't like it, and more importantly I'm more excited to see a city in this Era maybe we can move faster to the city"
I tried to change the subject, because like I said I don't feel like it.
"well the city is 5 days from here so you must endure it for now"
well, we took a detour to the ruin after all. For Jade, we already wasted our time in that ruins, and in the end, we got nothing. for makeup for our wasted time, there's some interesting idea crossing my head, and maybe jade will like it.
"hey, Jade how about we have a race, who gets to the city first?"
"heeee, this is interesting let's do it then, but it's it gonna be boring if the winner of the race doesn't get anything?"
what an interesting idea, Jade looks really confident of her speed, to think that she would talk about the prize.
"you really confident aren't you? that you gonna be a winner? how about I break that confident"
I provoke her more, to get this race to become more interesting.
"ooooh I want to see you try Len Len, then how about the rule? and the prize for the winner?"
she is really confident of her winning, I really like her confidence.
"the rule is simple we can't attack each other with magic, we just try to overwhelm the opponent speed with speed, about the prize .... how about the loser need to buy one item that the winner wins no matter what that item, how's that sound?"
Jade really really excited about the race
"oooo sounds good, game on then, by the way, Len Len because the rule is only to overwhelm the speed then we can use anything right?
Jade asked me it looks like she already understands what I mean
"it looks like you understand, good, let race then I will be the one who counting in"
we prepared ourselves we take a stance I can feel the magic from Jade is rising she is serious, this gonna be fun.
"ready Jade?"
"ready!!"
"3..., 2..., 1... Go"
with our best speed, we run as fast as we can.