"Who are you, state your purpose." the guard asked fiercely.
"As I have said before, we are travelers that have been lost and have returned to he human domain."
We were in a bit of a situation.
Firstly, Gura and I were not humans, I was half demon and Gura was a hybrid of all the races she has eaten, so if they blood test us, things will be problematic.
Things will also be a problem if they test our rank, I estimate that the both of us were about E-rank, that may not be much, but most children our age would be G-rank, two whole levels below us. I doubt they would let us go then.
"Sadly, we can't trust you, HEY MARK! BRING THE RACE TESTER!" the guy told Mark.
"Got you Jeff!"
'Hey system, help me out here! Can you change the results of the DNA tester?' I asked.
[No, the system doesn't have that in stock.]
'Please, I'll pay any amount!'
[...]
'Pleeeeeeee...'
[100 SP]
'Damn, one full roll, ok take it.'
[Thank you for your purchase]
DING
"Hey Mark, its says both of them are human!" the man said, showing the results.
"Run it back, they must be spies!"
"But it says..."
"RELOAD DA TING!"
"Ok Mark! Goddamn! See, they are human!"
"Oh, ok, check their rank, just to be safe." he said, determined to rat us out.
'System, change the results.'
[1000 SP]
'A 10 roll! Please lower it my guy.'
[1100 SP]
'What!'
[1200 SP]
'Forget it!'
A ten roll was too much, you probably don't know what I'm talking about. Simply put, a single roll was a roll on a gatcha, and a ten roll to change my score waisted my SP, so I ain't doing the system scam.
"AYO MARK! THIS BOY IS A E+ AND THE GIRL IS A E!" he yelled, shocked.
"-_- ---> 0-0'"
"GET JERALD!"
...
"So, you two have been lost for around a year, and have grown pretty strong, seems pretty probable." Jerald said as he glanced back at Mark and Jeff.
"Makes so much sense, I can't believe I didn't think of that." Mark said with sweat on his forehead.
"Indeed, I feel so stupid." Jeff said, sighing.
"Now you two, I have someone for you two to meet." Jerald said, I told Gura to just listen to him, his aura was not as strong as the Dragon King, but it was around A-rank, so it would be troublesome to mess with him.
"Ok." I said, signaling Gura to follow me.
"I know you guys are young, but you guys are E-rank already, which is a huge accomplishment, so I'm giving you the offer of a lifetime." Jerald said with a grin, I could tell he favored talented people.
Soon enough, me and Gura were walked up to a man sitting alone in a lounge room.
He was middle-aged man with copper brown hair. The man looked at the two of us who suddenly entered with bright shining eyes. Gura and I sat beside Jerrald.
"Hello son, let me introduce myself, my name is Dwayne Feather, I am the head of the Feather family, my family is one of the nobles who live in this city," The man introduced himself politely.
"N-my name is Gura Lapis," Gura was a little nervous
"My name is Akatsuki Carter," I answered expressionlessly.
You may ask why we changed our last names, well, use your brains dumbass.
"I won't linger any longer, the reason I came here is that I want you two to become members of my family," Dwayne spoke with a friendly smile.
The Feather family is quite an interesting noble family, they are not like other noble families who highly value their royal blood.
The Feather Family values one's talent and potentially more, so many of their soldiers were commoners who were original without achievements but now became powerful warriors. This was also the reason why the Feather Family, became one of the powerful noble families.
Another trademark is that they have acquired the soul of the SSS-class being, the Phoenix!
"Why do you want to adopt us?" I wonder what answer Dwayne had.
"I heard a lot of adventurers talk about two 10-year-old kids, one a boy and the other a girl, they talk about how great these two kids are when fighting monsters, I also started to find out who these two children are when I heard about it after I found out these two children are orphans, namely you two, I want to adopt them, finally I am here to meet you," Dwayne talked about the reason he wanted to adopt me and Gura.
If it was me, before remembering my previous life, I would gladly accept it. But now I will reject it, because I don't want to be ensnared by a great power, like a noble family.
Gura also had a disbelieving and complicated expression, hearing a noble wishing to adopt her would of course be a shock. But for me, I'll refuse now.
"I'll refuse," I said firmly.
"I'm pleased to- Huh? You refused, why?"
Dwayne had an expression of disbelief, because all this time, many people wanted to become his family's soldiers, especially if they became his adopted children.
"Firstly, I don't want to be ensnared by a great power like a noble family, and for the second reason, I don't want to call someone I just met as father, unless it's my woman's father-in-law," I said while shaking my head.
I know, amazing excuse! True, but how would they know, I'm not married in this world! Also, my father-in-law was amazing.
Dwayne heard the last part, his face twitched slightly, he started to think, how can this kid be so shameless?
Maybe not the best excuse to seal the deal.
"I'll hire you as bodyguards then! You will guard my two daughters in the academy and learn a thing or two, depending on their reviews, I'll give you a reward!" he said with mildly infuriated face.
"Deal!"
The reward was to exticing. I would be able to find my family as the reward and be under the protection of a noble family.
"How about you little girl? would you like to, become a member of my family," Dwayne now asked Gura.
"Sure, I'll take it."
"Now Uncle Dwayne, I ask for my payment upfront,"
I asked for my initial payment to Dwayne while holding out my hand. Dwayne heard me now having a twitching face.
'How can this kid be so shameless? Has he never been educated?'
Jerald saw this, looked the other way to suppress his laughter. Dwayne then took out a bag of money from his storage ring.
"Here take it, here are 5 Diamond Coins, this is only a small part of your payment, I will also take you with me to my residence to meet my two daughters, so that you and my two daughters may know each other before you become the bodyguard of my two daughters, "
Dwayne explained and handed over a bag of gold coins. I was quite surprised with how many gold coins I got, although it was still the initial payment. As expected of a noble family, they were very rich.
Taking a bag of gold coins, I put it in my inventory. Dwayne saw the bag of gold coins disappear, without any spatial items on my body, had an amazed expression.
"So you have void abilities? I don't think I chose you wrong as my daughter's guard," Dwayne looked at me with a deep gaze.
This brought back memories of that void bastard and made my face wrinkle.
"Mana manipulation, not void. Okay uncle, I want to go back first, there is something else I want to discuss with Gura."
"Ok, by son! See you at the mansion, there will be a car at the bottom!" he said as he teleported out.
Gura and I left the room, as long as the two of us walked together, Gura looked down, she didn't even speak a word.
"Was I too selfish?" I asked Gura, I felt I was too impulsive and I think she had to put in more of a word.
"Don't worry, it was the best decision in general, so I have no regrets." she said with a smile.
"I'll ask for your opinion more from now on." I said.
"Ok." she said shyly, I patted her head. She may have matured, but she was still that same Gura, the same Gura I loved.
"Lets go." I winked at her, we walked to the limousine parked outside.