It was daytime where the sun is shining and everyone is busy as usual, on the other side of things we have Ito sleeping next to Iris who seemed to had changed drastically after Ito gave her a name.
Iris: "wake up Ito it's time to leave" as she called to him.
No response...
Iris: "if you don't wake up soon, I'll have my way with you..."
As Iris was trying to shake Ito's shoulder to wake him up, he groans and shoves her away in which she smacks him on the face.
Ito: "who.... hm?"
Iris smacks him again.
Ito: "ugh.." he shoved once more.
Iris smacks Ito a third time which fully wakes him up.
Ito: "ouch... ugh Iris would it be nice of you to stop? I'm trying to sleep" he says while putting his hand on the swollen cheek.
Iris: "if you woken up the first time I wouldn't have smacked you; we have to go now before the guild gets full and we'd have to wait quite awhile, which I'm sure you don't want to be impatient the same as me, so get up and get dressed after you take a shower"
Ito: "shower? dressed? wait where are we? I don't remember us getting a place to stay once we was at the village, even clothing for that matter"
Iris: "I got earnings yesterday for helping the townspeople"
Ito: "if they gave you a large portion of that money for helping I wouldn't be surprised"
Iris: "only enough to cover expenses for this inn and food along with clothing"
Ito: "that so? well I'm awake now so I'll get ready for you"
Iris: "flattering doesn't get you anywhere, but thank you for listening" she smiled.
Ito: "uh your welcome, although I didn't listen before and I would like to apologize"
Iris: "there's nothing to apologize about, just make sure to wake up earlier next time okay?"
Ito: "oh, alright sure" he agreed.
Iris: "better hurry now as we have no time left"
Ito: "I got you, I'll be out in a bit!"
as Ito zoomed into the bathroom Iris opens the window for breeze to come in.
Iris: "aw, guess he didn't notice any of my changes once I gotten a name..." she sighed.
(A few moments later...)
Ito: "ah now that was refreshing." he said walking out with a raggedy robe"
Iris: "you almost took long, but we have time before the guild gets full"
Ito: "oh right let's go, also since I was in a rush I'll let you know that you look absolutely beautiful compared to from before, but I liked the original you better but this is fine by itself"
Iris: "hmph so you had realized just now, idiot!" as she said being flustered.
With that they both walk out the inn and went to a guild.
(some time later...)
Ito: "it's crowded!" as he shouted.
Having arrived late the guild was full of people, the guild was even enough to fit a few thousand in and Iris began complaining.
Iris: "Ito this is the reason I wanted to go early, but since we have this long line it'll take until the afternoon!"
Ito: "uh I'll just take a sit and-"
[Pinch]
Iris: "no I'll take a sit you'll have to stay right here in a line until then" as she said pulling Ito's ear.
Ito: "my earlobe is important so don't pull! I'll be deaf one of these days"
Iris: "I'll stop if you stay in this line"
Ito: "why could've woken up earlier if this would happen." he thought.
Iris: "you'll agree to stay in this line right?" she smiled intimidatingly.
Ito: "yes ma'am" he said with a frown.
standing in line Ito was mumbling intensively about recollections in which he can't hear nor remember himself.
Guild employee: "Next!"
Ito: "oh I'm next? this was not a long wait it seems!" he thought when it's already the evening.
Guild employee: "welcome to [Furai] how may I help?"
Ito: "uh so that's the guilds name? weird."
Guild employee: "sir... after that long of a wait, are you really here to complain or become an adventurer?" they looked at Ito.
Ito: "uh no, but yes you are correct but can I ask where someone can be a merchant"
Guild employee: "oh! you must register elsewhere in another guild for that since we only take in adventurers"
Ito: "is that so? if it's okay can I and that girl over there do a high earning quest so we can get a few coins for transportation?"
Guild employee: "it doesn't say you have to be an adventurer to do a quest but you can only do it once, I'll have to check you and your girlfriend levels first and give you guys an implanted status"
Ito: "what? status? is this a game?" he questioned.
Guild employee: "I assure you it's not whatever this word 'game' means, but this is a normal procedure for everyone" they answered.
Ito: "oh.. I understand but it's strange..."
Ito said as he became confused between reality and virtual stimulation.
Guild employee: "sir I'm not here to stay for long so can we get to checking your levels?"
Ito: "eh? I've got one more question though, these people staring at my direction, are they perhaps curious?"
Guild employee: "hahaha... no but let's say if your level is low, they'll pick on the small pray" she answered with a serious tone.
Ito: "what the monsters? or these weird looking adventurers"
[Slam]
Adventurer: "Ku...kuhaha! what a funny lad ye' are!" the random person in the back sit said while bursting into laughter.
Ito: "huh?! who was that!"
Adventurer: "come on, go process yer' levels and get an assigned assistant that ye' can contact if ye' are having trouble" said the weird looking pirate that spoke to Ito, as he came close to Ito in a blink of an eye.
Ito: "woah! how did you get here from over there? but that doesn't matter right now and okay I'll go see my level, if you insist that it'll even help me become a-"
Ito didn't finish what he said due to Iris cutting him off halfway through.
Iris: "Imperial mage, that's what he wants to pursue so please help him out"
Guild employee: "but miss your boyfriend said he wanted help on becoming a-"
Iris cuts what the employee was about to say also with an agitated expression.
Iris: "An. Imperial. Mage, got that?" she glared at the both of them"
Ito: "the crowd heard me the first time didn't they?"
Iris zips Ito's mouth up with her own mouth.
Ito: "mmfph!?"
Guild employee: "oh my!" they said in surprise.
Everyone: "sly moves"
Iris pushes away and holds Ito's arm and whispered.
Iris: "the guild members here are people that hate merchant's. they've been betrayed before by this country's rotting decline in rapid money loss due to services and trade"
Ito: "are you kidding me? that pirate looking guy seems to be nice, like nice as a person in honesty" he whispered back.
Iris: "take caution at least Ito, I understand you want to become a merchant, but take account that in this town, one mistake could lead to your death"
Ito: "they're all weak though, couldn't we just blast them off if we wanted?"
Iris: "do you want to be caught by a guard who's stronger than you and be imprisoned?"
Ito: "ah good point... well guess I'll be an adventurer for the time being" he decided.
Iris: "and you keep quiet, they didn't hear Ito the first time since I made an invisible barrier around you and him, which blocks out sound and makes a reflection of you two talking about something else" she whispered to the guild employee.
the guild employee ignored her and lead Ito to a room.
Guild employee: "uh I'm sorry for the wait, sir can you head this way to the room that is at the end of that corridor and turn left and walk into a room with a mirror to check your level?" they said wanting to get this over with.
as Ito was heading towards the end of the corridor to the room towards the left, someone was watching him...
Ito: "Is this the room?" he questioned.
Guild employee: "yes it most certainly is" they answered.
Ito "well I'm not taking any chances, hurry this up okay?" he said wanting to go find a high paying quest as fast.
Guild employee: "now please go ahead in" they said with a smile.
Ito: "I'm already in, now what should I do to check my status?"
Guild employee: "I'll show you right now mister..."
Ito: "it's Ito, remember that when you can"
Guild employee: "then I'll need you to make a small cut on you and pour some on this crystal ball"
Ito: "huh I need to do that?"
Guild employee: "if you won't, I will"
Ito: "oh no that'd be fine, I'll just do it myself"
Guild employee: "go ahead"
I brought out a knife and made a small cut to my fingers, and dropped small amounts of blood on the crystal, which reacted and gave me a pop-up screen.
Ito: "What the hell? ugh I don't even want to know but I'm level 20 huh? that's unexpected!"
Guild employee: "most people apply at the level of 15 but you're the first to break that record, it's quite fascinating!"
Ito: "so am I already signed in as an adventurer?"
Guild employee: "the crystal automatically adds you into our systems as a member, so I don't think you should worry..."
after becoming an adventurer and obtaining a hologram of my own to check levels, I felt a shock and strange energy stalking vanish completely without any trails left.
Ito: "uh so are we finished here?"
Guild employee: "you most certainly are, now get out and back to the main hall"
Ito: "that's harsh but okay, can I ask if we can pick quests right now?"
Guild employee: "look at the billboard in the main hall which is on the right of the walls, and you can bring up your system to scan that quest and it'll be signed with accepted on it, will that be all?"
Ito: "yeah that'll be all, thanks again!"
Ito then went out and told Iris about the news in which she was very happy about and hugs him.
Ito: "oh yeah let's see what quests that board has and accept it!"
Iris: "oh! okay that sounds good to me~"
then they proceeded to the board and Iris instantly found what she wanted to do.
Iris: "this quest is one million aluminum coins! this will cover us don't you think?"
Ito didn't like where this was going but he agreed without a second thought as not to make her angry.
Ito: "so we're going to do this? let's see... defeat the puppet?"
Iris: "shall we do it?"
Ito: "I'm always up for improving my skills, let's do it!"
Ito then scans the quest with his own system and added Iris to the party so they'll level up faster, since Iris had her own system as Ito suspected.
with that the two went right ahead and walked out the guild to do the quest, how hard will it be? they'll find out just what awaits them soon enough.