"So… these people started harassing the young daughter of the inn owner first, asked her mother how much she would sell her for, then when the owner asked them to get out, but they started causing trouble and breaking the chairs?"
"That is correct, sir."
The guard captain who had now arrived at the crime scene was a little stunned, a little confused, but he also had the same disgusted expression on his face as she did after beating them up.
"You happen to sense some commotion so you came downstairs and saw the situation, and dealt with all these bastards yourself? Just by yourself? Alone?"
The guard captain looked at the person she was standing with. And Elio only looked back at the guard captain with a helpless smile.
"Why would I need help to deal with these little thugs, sir? They are trash that belong to trash and those with the strength to take out trash should always do so at every chance they get."
The guard captain was glaring at Elio but her words caught his attention all of a sudden and he looked back at her with a new surprised expression.
The guard captain was a two meter tall muscular man in a formal guard uniform that looked intimidating on him.
His toned muscles were all visible on his shirt while his clear intimidating face and deep green eyes seemed like they could see through everything, even their truths and lies.
"Taking out trash…"
There was a distinct smirk on his face when he heard those words, and after looking up and down at both of them, he nodded with a new smile.
"Certainly. It is the duty of the strong to take out the trash… however, doing it while not making this kind of mess and property destruction would be better."
He took out a piece of paper and a pen– not a feather pen, but a pretty looking fountain pen, and wrote down some things on it.
"You will receive a warning for the extreme actions as well, so come and meet me tomorrow evening in the guard office.
You will have to pay for the damages you have caused, but you will be compensated for dealing with these Trash.
The inn owner is extremely grateful to you as according to her, this was not the first time these people had done something like this. So, she will be seeing you after she gives her statement.
She is a nice lady so make sure you fix what you broke… the guards will take care of the trash from here."
He gave her the piece of paper and she nodded at him with a smile.
-Thump.
"Thank you for the great work as always, sir."
Then she tapped her right foot on the ground, and got into the attention position while saluting the guard captain.
"May the eternal order be maintained."
Her actions surprised the guard captain a little since he wasn't expecting this salute.
-Thump.
"May the eternal order be maintained."
However, he saluted her back as any guard of this great town would, looked at her with a surprised expression one last time, looked at Elio, looked at the slime in his hands, and then.. He walked away to the rest of his party.
"Did you just get a quest?" That last look on the guard captain surprised him a little.
"Not yet, but we are gonna surely get one tomorrow."
She looked at him, and smirked ear to ear as if saying she was amazing.
"Being a veteran surely has a lot of perks, hun?"
Now that both of them were here, together with one another, they surely were surprised.
"It's just the basic things. Quests in this game generally originate from those holding authoritative positions."
"That so?"
After they met, the first thing they did was to add each other in their friend list.
Then, they shared their status information with one another so they knew exactly at what level the two of them were at.
[Ding.]
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ID: #### (Level-21)
Race: Human (####)
T-T (Physical stats)
Strength: 33
Agility: 24
Endurance: 18
T-T (System stats)
Intelligence: 6
Luck: 0
Charm: 2
T-T (Functional stats)
Energy: 24/30
Stamina: 24/30
Fatigue: 3/30
(Stat points: 0)
{Skills: Sword intent, Energy infusion, Blink.}
[Titles: <####>,
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There surely were some things that he was still confused about, things like her censored 'immortal' name, the thing beside her race that indicated one's social standing on the world level, or the first title she possessed.
It was all strange, but as she had said, she was not a high level player anymore.
She was pretty low leveled even though she was higher level than him and from the title one only gets after single handedly wiping out all the creatures of a beginner forest at least once, Elio already knew that she got bored and did a massacre in the forest when he was stuck with his tutorial.
He knew her level drop and loss of all the skills and titles she might have possessed had something to do with that hidden title, but he did not mind all that.
He knew she would tell him about all that if she wanted to, or if she did not tell him, then it would mean she did not want him to know all that.
"You were right. You surely are special," facing him and looking down at the unique slime in his hands, she blushed a little and looked away in an attempt to not stare at the little creature.
He already knew that she was going to like this little fellow. She liked cute things generally anyway so a cute little blob that made funny sounds was undoubtedly going to be something she adores.
But, the fight that they had a while back after he joked with how he was special made her a little hesitant.
He had not told her all the things that happened in the last few days and how they cleared the tutorial and the rewards that he received, but after seeing his absurd status window all those stats that certainly did not suit someone who had just come out of the tutorial, she knew he had achieved extraordinary results himself.
She knew taking the slimes that he had tamed, slimes that could only live in water would be impossible for him, and yet, he was holding a slime– one that she actually recognized as a (Mana slime), one of the rarest kinds of slimes one could ever obtain after an evolution.
These creatures weren't natural. Among the people who knew enough about them, they were considered one of the anomalies that seldom comes from a slime's will to deny their inherent nature.
"Haaa… Alex. I'll apologize again if you want but can we let that one go already?" looking at her with a desire to get back together with her, he held to slime in his hands before him.
"Muuu?"
And she accepted it with another blush on her face.
"If you give this one to me, I might consider-."
"Yeah, no. That's not happening. Az is mine."
They had not been together for long but this one evolved just to come with him. There was no way he was going to hand over his precious friend to her just because she liked it.
"You can be friends, but he is mine."
He was determined, she could see it in his eyes that he was serious this time.
"We will see about that."
But she was also not going to back down either.
She liked this little, cool, clean, pretty, soft, jiggly little slime.
It was the perfect pillow for a peaceful night's sleep.
"Muuu?"
She wasn't just going to let him have such a fun pet all by himself…