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The man introduced himself as Ryan as he speaks to the woman and the said woman looked at him once again and nodded to acknowledge the other person's presence.
After that, she went back once more to look at the mission board for the third time and ignore him once again.
Ryan, now being acknowledged by the woman he didn't even know its name yet, looked happy even though the woman didn't pay attention to him.
But it seems that the woman accepts his company then.
'She might be cold and quiet as she tends to ignore me from time to time but it looks like this is her personality. It makes me want to befriend her because she is different from any women that I had met before.'
Ryan thought as he looked as well at the mission board to looked around since the black hooded woman is still looking for a job that seems like it would take forever.
He wants to help the woman to suggest something, but he doesn't want to meddle in her decision so he could only wait.
On the other hand, many adventurers inside the guild saw the whole scenario between the black hooded woman and Ryan as they started to whisper with one another once again.
"Who is that guy? He had some guts to approach that woman."
"I heard he introduced himself as Ryan Wayne and this is the first time that I saw him here."
"Maybe, a new adventurer?"
"Seems like he is an outlander because I didn't remember seeing that kind of face around here."
"Well, from his appearance alone…. Is he a noble perhaps?"
"Are you an idiot or what? The Adventurers Guild never accepted nobles as their members since this guild isn't under the Empire's Law!"
"Also, the Guildmaster wouldn't let a noble origin infiltrate this guild. You should know the history of this guild since most members had orientated about this."
"Well, that aside… that outlander happens to approach HER."
"Yeah, right. Indeed. HER."
"Why are you guys speaking like that as if she is a bad person…"
"We're not interpreting like that! What we mean to say is… that guy happen to approach that woman that seems to ignore him from the start, but it looks like this guy is bold enough to his advances and speak to her!"
"W-wait a second! That sounds weird coming from you! You speak as if that guy is harassing her in a wrong way!"
"W-well… what if that were the case then?"
"Excuse me? Are you truly an idiot or what? That woman is not an ordinary woman at all! Also, she wouldn't acknowledge that guy if she were being harassed in some ways!"
"Are you guys forgetting something? Did all of you forgot who's that woman?"
Ryan's ear twitched as he heard those whispers coming from these people and to be honest, the reason why he approached this woman is that he is curious as to what makes these people are gossiping her about.
'Well, I can tell by the looks at it. At first, I though this woman is just some average adventurer but when I approach her closely, I felt an overwhelming aura that she is hiding, and it seems that I misjudge her then.'
Ryan thought as he face-palmed mentally and reflected his mindset about this woman.
"Rank status?"
Ryan snapped from his thoughts as he got startled when he heard the woman speaks once again out of the blue and the said woman is still not looking at him as her eyes glued at the mission board.
For that moment, Ryan calmed himself as he managed to catch up with her sentence (If that is what you called a sentence then), and he immediately replied back.
"Er… Only an E-Rank adventurer and I specialized in swordsmanship."
Ryan said as he scratches his head because of embarrassment. He felt that being with this woman who is hiding her true aura makes him felt inferior to himself.
Not that he is not strong, but he admits that he is still lacking when it comes to his own strength.
He might look bright and naïve sometimes, just like how those people perceive him way back to his homeland but Ryan believes that he can protect himself from danger as he learned how to protect himself and not only that, but he also believes that he could be at any help and wouldn't be a burden to someone else.
After Ryan said those words, the black hooded woman looked at him once more and she looked at Ryan from head to toe as she gave a nod in acknowledgment.
"Not bad. Accepted."
The black hooded woman said in a few words and Ryan looked at the woman with a questioning gaze as he listens at the woman's way of speaking.
He only concluded that the woman wasn't fond of speaking that much.
'Wow! A cold and quiet person indeed. Sometimes I would think that she hates me because she didn't even look at me for that long and only speak for a few words. Does speaking that much would cost her some gold or something?'
Ryan thought comically as he chuckled but stopped as he cleared his throat to compose himself.
He saw that the black hooded woman is still looking at the mission board and Ryan didn't know what he would feel right now.
'I don't know what the woman wants for a mission, but it seems that she is looking at it seriously.'
Ryan thought as he also looked at the leaflets that the woman is looking right now, and he frowns upon looking at the information that is posted.
"What do you think?"
For the third time or so, Ryan was startled when the woman speaks once more out of the blue, and for the first time since he arrived here, he couldn't help but felt irritated because of this surprise conversation.
"What the?! Can you please give me a signal when you're about to speak?! I am about to have a heart attack because of that!"
Ryan exclaimed and when he realized his mistakes, he immediately covered his mouth, and then looked around as he saw all the adventurers inside the guild look at them.
However, he had a perplexed look when he saw that most of the adventurers were looking at them, no, more specifically, were looking at him and Ryan could tell that there was a sense of fear or something in the way they looked at him.
'O-okay? What is happening? Why do they have the face as if they saw someone would die today?'
Ryan thought and before his mind wonder even further, he heard a chuckle coming from the black hooded woman beside him and he immediately snapped from his thoughts as he looked at her.
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