JULY 6. 3567
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A woman dressed in a full suit was in front of me, surprised
"Caroline..."
"Hugo..."
I couldn't look her in the eye.
She was hated my job more than anyone, when my mother and father gave up convincing me to stop becoming a hunter, she tried everything to stop me.
"Umm...Hugo..."
Cynthia awkwardly called me aware of the situation
"Ah... Cynthia, this is Caroline, my big sister and Caroline, this is Cynthia, an important companion of mine"
"H-hello"
"H-hi"
Cynthia greeted her a bit awkwardly while Caroline was looking at her as if trying to investigate everything about her
"An elf?"
"Ahem, Me and Cynthia will be going to the guild to sell all of the souls be got, so we'll get going now"
"I'm coming with you"
"Don't you have your job to attend to?"
"You know I always arrive there 30 minute early and even if I'm late, my assistant can do everything for me"
I sigh in defeat
"Fine, only for this day, let's go Cynthia"
I grabbed her hands and started walking pass her then ahead of her and we went to the guild which was near the portal stone.
When I opened the door to the guild, it became silent.
Well I expected this already so I ignored them and went in to the receptionist posted there.
When I reached the receptionist, she was a bit intimidated by me
'She's new huh?'
The middle aged receptionist that was here as long as I can remember was nowhere to be seen.
"I'd like to sell these"
"U-um then I will be right back!"
She took the pouch that witchtaker Hanz gave me and immediately headed to the back of the building to transmute it into money.
When I looked back at them, Caroline was just looking around not caring about the attention she was getting while Cynthia was a bit embarrassed from the attention she's getting
'I guess she's not used to humans looking at her'
"Umm...Hugo, your hand..."
I realized that I've been holding her hand so we can be ahead of my sister but I was still holding her hand so I immediately let go of it when I realized that she was embarrassed of the attention she's getting not because she's an elf but because people are misunderstanding something.
"Oh... sorry"
"It's fine"
She immediately returned to normal the moment I let go of her hand when I looked back at the receptionist desk, the receptionist was returning with a card
"Um...this card contains the money from the souls you've given us...and um this card could also be used again when you are selling a high value soul"
"I see, thank you"
"Oh! and I need to see you hunter card since you have been promoted to a gold-rank hunter"
I took out my silver colored metallic plate and gave it to the young receptionist
"Oh and I also need you to register her to the hunters guild"
"Can I assume that she also contributed to the souls you've given us?"
"Yes"
"Then please fill this form"
She took out a pen and a form for me to write in.
I fill the form with Cynthia's basic information like name, gender, birthday and race
"Cynthia put your age here and then your place of birth here"
"You can just write 'The other side' on the place of birth part and they'll accept it"
"Got it"
She starts writing the rest of the form and while she's doing that, the receptionist returned with a gold colored card, wooden card and a mulcurt soul.
When Cynthia finished, the receptionist took it and started using a heated blade to easily write her information into the card then she use the mulcurt's soul and transmutated the wooden card to a black metallic card
'She's a transmutater?'
"Congratulations, Mrs. Galeward, you...are now a part of the hunters guild"
"Your rank is currently obsidian so you will be able to take on request obsidian rank or below...but you are able to take on silver ranked request as long as a silver ranked hunter tells us your with his party"
"This handbook will tell you the basic information about the guild"
"I see, thank you"
"Your welcome"
We left the guild after getting paid and went to 'The Forge' which is a branch from the hunters guild where they make weapons like blood iron blades.
The big two-story building looked like it was not something you can call a blacksmith, there was no big forge that should fit a big building like this.
If I remembered correctly the forge is located on the bottom floor and after making an ingot made from any material that can be use to make a good weapon, they will take it to the second floor which is just filled with small rooms where they put the blood of the user of the weapon into the ingot.
And the first floor is just a big room and a receptionist on the very back.
When we entered the building, the first floor was full of people waiting for their ingots of their choice to be made so they can put their blood on it and make it a blood iron.
We went and meet receptionist who was an old man sitting there
"Say what your business"
"I want two mythril ingot as my metal of choice to make an blood iron weapon"
I heard mythril was an import from the other side and no one in our side has any idea how these were made
"Alright, I'm guessing you already know the price of it so hand it over"
I took out the card the I was given and handed it over to the old man.
'That's like 75% of the money in that card but I'm sure Cynthia would be okay about us taking on request since she also might want to see why our world considered demonic creatures to be a common monster'
"Alright since theres no one who bought any mythril ingots lately, we have some in stock so follow me"
The old man then guide us to the big elevator beside the receptionist desk and we went a floor below.
The old man told us to wait and after some time he came back and we went to the second floor where there was someone waiting for us.
We followed the middle aged lady to an empty room and started telling us the procedure on how to make a blood iron weapon.
After both me and Cynthia put our blood into the ingot, we were told to come back after a week and then we left the building
"Hugo, how much did those mythril cost?"
"About 75% of what's on that card"
"You... didn't have to buy me a mythril weapon you know"
"Why not? Its quite hard to destroy and it wont rust"
"Because those are way too expensive, a single mythril ingot can cost you 80 gold at least or 10 platinum at most"
"It will be fine, We'll be here at most 8 days before we go back to the other side"
"But...alright"
Caroline was quite displeased when she heard that I will be going back to that side but I ignore it and went to the clothing which is another branch from the hunters guild where they specialize on making clothing for us hunters to wear.
I bought the same black coat and grey t-shirt but I also bought these blade resistant gloves for some protection when my blade couldn't block it.
When I asked Cynthia if she needs any things, she said that everything here looked like it will hinder her mobility and politely decline the offer
"Your not buying any gear to protect you?"
Caroline ask worried
"I prefer being faster than being heavy and immobile"
"But even a little bit should..."
"I'll be fine"
We left the store and made our way to my apartment.
The reason I could still go back to it even after abandoning it for a week was because I paid enough to cover 5 years of my rent and I explained why my situation.
The middle aged lady who was my landlord was nice enough to be alright with it.
After greeting her, We made our way to my apartment.
When I entered it my apartment, it was quite dusty so I had to do some cleaning before we can have dinner cooked by my sister and went to sleep but before I could sleep
"Hugo...are you really going back to that side"
"Yes"
"But you could die there you know"
"I will be fine"
"..."
"Something happened there"
"What do you mean?"
"In the past you would say nothing when I said your job was dangerous, but now your less worried about it"
"Is it because you found someone you love?"
"Cynthia and I are not lovers yet"
When I looked at Caroline, for some reason she seemed to have noticed something but tried to not show it
"Then why?"
"I guess you could say I'm getting closer to finding my purpose when I'm in that side"
"What do you mean by that?"
"I don't know but I do notice that I was less emotionless when I'm in there"
"And besides, me and Cynthia are going to be journeying together so we'll be able to protect each other"
"But...I...alright"
She sighs in defeat
"I'll go to sleep then"
She then turns around to where Cynthia was sleeping in.
When I looked at Cynthia, I could see her ears twitching for a bit
'She heard huh?'
'Well its not like I said something that I didn't want her to hear so I dont really care'
I turn around to the to the other side and went to sleep