Sumay put her left hand under Yumiko's left arm to help, with her sword in her right and Yumiko put her other arm over Sumay's shoulder for support.
"Sorry if I'm overstepping, master"
I get it, I mean, I am amazingly beautiful… Ah-uh, but you're touching sensitive areas. Yumiko thought to herself, for Sumay's hand was holding the area slightly above her waist.
Sometime later, they finally made it to the village. It wasn't huge but relatively big for a village, it was surrounded by stone walls with two main entrances, two guards were at each entrance, they were wearing iron armour and had steel spears in hand.
There was a line of merchants, their wagons with goods they were planning to sell, lizardmen and beast-men, adventures maybe? They walked up to join the line.
Whoa, are those lizardmen?! And beast people, way cool!- They look geared up, adventures?
The line moved up and one of the guards searched the merchant's wagons for what they were bringing into the village.
"Ma'am, are you alright?" The guard asked Yumiko, putting his spear in the way of the entrance
"Yeah, just a little monster fight but I'm fine" she replied with a smile.
"Oh, you're an adventurer?"
"No, but we ran into some trouble"
"Did you bring anything else with you? Need help with anything?"
"No, we're good"
"Ok, you can go right in," the guard said with a smile, moving his spear out the way of the entrance.
"Thank you," she said with that heart-warming smile as they made their way into the village.
As they walked in, there was a big market, with a lot of stalls and vendors with fruit, vegetables and meat. Some stalls with fresh meat strapped to string, hanging from the top of the stall, and others cooking the meat. But not all the stalls were for food, some had golden and silver jewellery with gems in them, artefacts and more.
Wow, this place is nice! I mean there are trash and bugs everywhere but still. This is so cool, I've been to a market before but not a fantasy market, so much better! Yumiko thought.
At the entrance of the village, she stopped to take in the sights. She began to walk through the market, looking around, with Sumay following behind.
"Master, would you like me to buy you something?"
"We have money?- Do these people use gold as payment!" Yumiko said excitedly with her hands clapped together.
"Yes, master. We don't have gold but we can get some"
"Great! Oh, where's the guild?" Yumiko asked, putting her hands down.
"Right here, master," Sumay replied.
Yumiko stopped walking and turned to see what Sumay was talking about and saw a big wooden building. It had a wooden hanging sign by the door. The sign had a symbol of two swords crossing with a shield on top and a crown above. They walked in and it was loud.
There were two stories, on the first story were wooden tables with humans and beast people around them talking and drinking boar in a big wooden cup. At the back, there was a big table, like a receipts desk, with a young man standing behind it and a board with paper notices pinned to it, beside the table. They went to the table.
"Hello and good afternoon. Welcome to the Adventures guild, I'm Xavier Tayler" said the man in a soft voice.
Xavier Tayler is tall and has dirty blonde hair, light brown eyes and light freckles, he's wearing an old western sleeveless suit vest with a white undershirt and brown pants without a bow or tie and round glasses. He is soft-spoken and is a member of the guild.
Xavier? That's his first name, so I should introduce myself with my first name too.
"Afternoon, Xavier. I am Yumiko Yahk- Shiwoka, Yumiko Shiwoka and this is Sumay"
"How may I help you?" Xavier asked, politely and with a smile.
"We'd like to sell the monster parts and gems we gathered," Sumay replied for Yumiko, "Master"
"Huh?" Yumiko asked, distracted by the decor of the adventures guild, "Oh, yeah" Infinite Space, she thought, putting her hand out to the right, then the white circle appeared once again.
Everyone in the guild stopped, most looked curious wondering what the white thing was, others got serious, ready to attack it.
"You know spaceshall magic?" Xavier asked with a curious look.
"Hm? Yeah, why?"
"Spaceshall magic is very rare"
That's why all these insects are looking at us… I mean they were looking anyway, I am gorgeous. But now they were looking less in wonder and awe and more in fear and curiosity.
"Sumay you can take the stuff out- but not the snack gem"
"Yes, master"
Sumay then went to the infinite space and took out the monsters they killed, the wolves or what's left, the snack that was cut down the middle, the slimes and goblins and put them on the floor in front of the desk.
"Whoa!" Xavier said.
"Yeah, we killed an ogre too but we couldn't bring it and a troll but… I burned it, haaa" Yumiko said with an awkward laugh.
"Where are you coming from?" He asked, slamming his hands on the desk.
"The forest in front of this village"
"Monster Trial?!"
Why is this insect being so loud? Yumiko thought, feeling a litte annoyed.
"Yeah, I guess if that's what you all call it"
Xavier and everyone in the guild were either looking shocked, sceptical and or impressed.
"What?" Yumiko asked with her eyebrow slightly raised and her hands behind her, confused.
"That forest is Monster Trial. It was named that because of its large amounts of monsters," Xavier said in a soft tone, calming down, "it's a D-level area. Are you adventures?"
Oh! I know what this is. It's like when the MC of the light novel or manga gets recanted for their amazing abilities. Make sense, make sense, I am amazing, after all! And if anyone was the protagonist, it would be me. I mean everyone else is all vermin.
"No, we're not," Yumiko said modestly while her ego was growing.
"But then how did you?- Never mind, for now, that's not important. You can get 3 gold coins for each wolf and you would be able to get 5 but they're cut out, it would be 2 but the cuts are clean," Xavier said with a smile, "2 silver for each goblin and 8 copper per slime piece"
"Sumay, is that good?" Yumiko leaned over to Sumay and whispered in her ear.
"Yes, master," she whispered back.
"And for the snack… this is a Venomous King Snake! They're treasured, you can get 11 gold coins, altogether it's 49 gold, 2 silver and 8 copper" Xavier said.
He put the money in a brown bag with a piece of string and pushed it across the desk to Yumiko.
"Thank you," Yumiko said with a heartwarming smile, picked up the bag and gave it to Sumay, "We'd also like to apply to the adventures guild"
"... Huh?- Oh yeah, come with me" Xavier said flustered, blushing but still in a soft voice.
I know, my smile is just heart-stopping, Yumiko thought to herself.
Xavier brought them to a room with big statues of people, there were 7 statues. 3 females and 4 males, they were all wearing robes and looking down at the floor. It was a small room with a high roof and in the centre, there was a stand with an orb. Xavier walked to the stand and got behind it.
"Come in front of the orb and put your hand in front of it"
Yumiko went to the stand and put her right hand out. The orb started to glow, then an image appeared on it. It had Yumiko's name, level and class, and Xavier looked surprised.
"You're a summoner?" He asked while looking at the orb and then looked at her.
"Yeah?"
"Sumay is a summon?"
"Yeah, she's a spirit maid summon"
"That makes more sense," Xavier said, "But are you sure you want to be an adventurer? You can't use your summon in the test," He looked worried.
"I can fight just fine on my own," Yumiko said, smiling but was annoyed. What does this insect take me for? Does he think I need Sumay to win a fight? The level of disrespect!
Xavier brought them to the back of the Adventures Guild building. There was a small open field with a fence around it. A big man was training with a sword in the field. They walked to the outside of the fences.
"Laon," Xavier said, calling out to the man.
Laon Toyah is a buff middle-aged man wearing a dark red open button-up shirt and black pants with a buckle belt, he has long dark brownish red hair put in a ponytail with grey eyes. Laon is a B-rank adventurer, he always carries his sword and is often training.
"Xavier!" Laon replied loudly.
He stopped swinging his sword. He then went to the fence and leaned on it, putting his hands on it.
"Yumiko, this is Laon Toyah, the test holder. Laon this is Yumiko Shiwoka and her summon, Sumay"
"Hello, Mr. Toyah, pleasure" Yumiko said with a smile
"A summoner? You have an interesting hair colour… You have manners at least," he said, after standing up straight with his hand touching his chin, then smiled, "Ok, come in the field" Laon walked to the centre of the field.
What does the bug mean by at least I have manners? Of course, I have manners, I'm perfect. You'd think even a bug could see perfection at its finest and by interesting he must mean absolutely gorgeous, she thought.