Volume 2 - CH 2
Act 2-2: A Small Incident in the Alley
My registration procedure of becoming a hunter smoothly advanced.
The person in charge of the test instructed me to place my right hand on the pale-blue rectangular stone with a handprint on it.
I placed my right palm on the handprint. Then, numerous green lines appeared on the stone.
The person in charge touched the small red sphere beside the pale-blue stone and pressed her left palm on a piece of paper.
One after another, letters and numbers started appearing on the paper.
Hou, combining magic with appraisal, huh! Converting the thought with appraisal skill, then transcribing the result on paper with magic. They have developed quite an interesting tool, huh!
Two people looked shocked when they saw the result written on the paper. They sent sidelong glances toward me with curious expressions.
「L-Lie! Strength value 12…」
Hearing Mia’s squeezed voice, the people inside the guild raised a stir.
It seemed the average value of my appraisal’s result was equal to my strength value. Well, the result was unexpectedly the same as my appraisal. Well, I guess that result is just right.
Nevertheless, what’s up with this surprised look on everyone’s face?
Ah! It seems I messed up! My gift was “the most incompetent in this world.” On top of that, I was nothing more than a newcomer, a rookie hunter. It was only natural for them to be this shocked if a newcomer’s stat was already that high. In fact, the result of my first appraisal had been 0.1, more than hundreds of times lower than this value.
Since that’s the case, should I just set it back to 0.1 again? But wait, that sounds like a bad idea. Setting the value that low might automatically rob me of the right to become a hunter. Just to be safe, let’s set it to 1 and ask the staff to appraise me again.
I immediately lowered the average value of my stats to one.
「Sorry, that result is a mistake. The truth is that I have an item that can boost my abilities.」
I manifested an ordinary ring from my item box and set it on my left index finger, then I took off my left glove and showed my left index finger in front of everyone.
「Please appraise me again.」
I urged the staff member for another appraisal after taking the ring off my finger and putting on my glove again.
「B-Boosting abilities…」
Mia’s lips twitched as she spoke. The fuss inside the guild became even louder than before. Just what in the hell is wrong with these people?
「Quickly please. I’m not as free as it seems.」
「U-Understood.」
The appraiser, a man clad in a black robe, immediately agreed and used appraisal on me again. He acknowledged that the average value of my stats was one.
After that, I only needed to fill the necessary form and receive a brief explanation about hunters. Well, most of it was things I was already familiar with.
The only thing I heard for the first time was the hunter class system.
Hunters were divided into six class, Ｅ〈Rookie〉, Ｄ〈Majority〉, Ｃ〈Veteran〉, Ｂ〈Professional〉, Ａ〈Expert〉, Ｓ〈Superhuman〉. A hunter’s evaluation points would increase with the number of monsters they killed every day or the number of commissions they cleared. When the evaluation points cross a minimum requirement, the hunter would receive a request from the guild to upgrade their class. Moreover, when it comes to raising the hunter class to C-class, Veteran, and above, one had to fulfill a special condition.
Well, I asked the guild what was that special condition, but the guild didn’t seem to have any intention to tell me about it. Information gathering was the most basic skill of a hunter after all. It seemed that factor was also one of the evaluation points for raising the hunter class.
Although all those special requirements made it even more difficult for a hunter to raise their class beyond C-class, anyone who achieved that would receive many benefits. To be specific, the benefit involved discounts at those inns or shops in the entire country that had hunter guild signatures, free access to various public facilities, and even opening their own martial arts dojo.
Moreover, a hunter with special achievements such as subjugating unique monsters, exploring ruins, finding new ingredients, and various others in different fields would receive awards, privileges, and special privileges.
Well, all of those things were pretty much useless in my opinion though. Rather, the more privilege one received, the more obligation one had to take. That was why the E-class was already good enough for me.
Nevertheless, that was a tempting offer. You can clear a quest just by selling the demon stone, the core of a monster, and exploring the unknown. The freedom to do almost anything was intriguing. Okay, let’s find a suitable royal guard replacement for Rose as soon as possible, dump all the royal guard jobs to that replacement, and leave for a journey to explore the world as a hunter.
When I received my card, Mia brought her face closer to my ears with a meek expression and whispered,
（Kai-kun, I think you shouldn’t show your ring in the public anymore.）
（Why though? It’s not like all hunters around the world will do something as lowly as trying to steal it from me, right?）
Mia bit her lips as if she had a hard time telling me about the next part, but…
（Recently, there has been an influx of people registering as hunters to avoid being dispatched as soldiers in the war against the demon race, famine, and drought. So, the possibility of you being robbed of your ring is quite high.）
I see! She wants me to immediately realize the gravity of my current situation. Well, that’s reality for ya. I had enough of that in my long hundred-thousand-year stay in that dungeon. That was why I had become aware of my current situation much before.
（I’ll keep your warning in mind.）
I thanked Mia for her warning, then left the hunter guild.
Yup, it seems they really are tailing after me. But, they’re way too obvious. Their tailing method is even lower than an amateur’s. I mean, they didn’t even try to hide their presence.
Since that was the case, I decided to create a situation where I had no choice but to beat them. Therefore, I entered a dim, narrow alley. This place was spacious enough for me to go wild against them and teach a bitter lesson to those youngsters. This was the best stage for me to fight.
「Do you need something from me?」
The men with sturdy-looking armor surrounded me with grins plastered all over their faces. If this was the first time they had committed such a crime, they should’ve looked a bit tenser. But, these people didn’t look that way to me. In short, they were used to doing this to someone they considered a sitting duck like me. Yup, I guess a slightly extreme education is needed to fix their rotten personality.
Eh, painful you say? Don’t worry about it! They wouldn’t die from this level of pain. I mean, someone was peeping at us, so I couldn’t kill them even if I wanted to.
「Now hand over the ring that can boost your abilities!」
「Ah, you mean this!」
I took out the ring from my right pocket and showed it to those men.
「G-Give it to us!」
When I waved the ring in front of him, the man with short black hair leaped at me with undisguised greed in his eyes.
I moved my center of gravity a little to dodge his charge and tripped him with cropped black hair by his feet. The man turned a few times in the air before crashing back face-first on the ground. Then, I looked around at the men who had surrounded me while trampling on the back of the head of the man with cropped black hair.
「Well then, youngsters, the ring you’re looking for is right there. Do your best to snatch it from me.」
I declared so with a big smile on my face.
「Be careful! This guy has already activated his magic item’s boost!」
Everyone’s expression finally changed from the easy-going one to a serious one. They drew their swords and pointed at me.
「Na~y, my current stat is still one. It’s definitely lower than yours. But, you know, martial arts isn’t something as simple as the value of your physical abilities.」
I slowly walked forward, closing in toward the man with cropped blond hair who stood in front of me.
「Eh?」
The next moment, the man was already thrown in the air with a dumbfounded expression. After landing on the ground head first, having failed to fix his landing posture, he passed out.
「SHI*TY BRAAT—」
The man who stood behind me rushed in while swinging his sword, aiming for my left shoulder. I parried his sword with my left hand without even wasting my time to turn around. Closing in the distance between us, I hit him till he turned around like a spinning top.
「HIIIII!?」
When I flicked the jaw of the bald man who let out a scream, he immediately fainted with open eyes. Froth came out of his mouth.
「W-WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!! You! Aren’t you supposed to be an incompetent!!」
Seeing how easily I dispatched the other three in mere seconds, the blue-haired man with an unshaved beard, who was apparently their leader, shouted and pointed his sword toward me.
「Exactly! My gift is 【The Most Incompetent in this World】. There’s no mistake in that regard.Now then, come at me, youngster! I’ll fix that rotten guts of yours.」
Naturally, I easily knocked out the blue-haired man with an unshaved beard when he mindlessly charged toward me.
My registration procedure of becoming a hunter smoothly advanced.
The person in charge of the test instructed me to place my right hand on the pale-blue rectangular stone with a handprint on it.
I placed my right palm on the handprint. Then, numerous green lines appeared on the stone.
The person in charge touched the small red sphere beside the pale-blue stone and pressed her left palm on a piece of paper.
One after another, letters and numbers started appearing on the paper.
Hou, combining magic with appraisal, huh! Converting the thought with appraisal skill, then transcribing the result on paper with magic. They have developed quite an interesting tool, huh!
Two people looked shocked when they saw the result written on the paper. They sent sidelong glances toward me with curious expressions.
「L-Lie! Strength value 12…」
Hearing Mia’s squeezed voice, the people inside the guild raised a stir.
It seemed the average value of my appraisal’s result was equal to my strength value. Well, the result was unexpectedly the same as my appraisal. Well, I guess that result is just right.
Nevertheless, what’s up with this surprised look on everyone’s face?
Ah! It seems I messed up! My gift was “the most incompetent in this world.” On top of that, I was nothing more than a newcomer, a rookie hunter. It was only natural for them to be this shocked if a newcomer’s stat was already that high. In fact, the result of my first appraisal had been 0.1, more than hundreds of times lower than this value.
Since that’s the case, should I just set it back to 0.1 again? But wait, that sounds like a bad idea. Setting the value that low might automatically rob me of the right to become a hunter. Just to be safe, let’s set it to 1 and ask the staff to appraise me again.
I immediately lowered the average value of my stats to one.
「Sorry, that result is a mistake. The truth is that I have an item that can boost my abilities.」
I manifested an ordinary ring from my item box and set it on my left index finger, then I took off my left glove and showed my left index finger in front of everyone.
「Please appraise me again.」
I urged the staff member for another appraisal after taking the ring off my finger and putting on my glove again.
「B-Boosting abilities…」
Mia’s lips twitched as she spoke. The fuss inside the guild became even louder than before. Just what in the hell is wrong with these people?
「Quickly please. I’m not as free as it seems.」
「U-Understood.」
The appraiser, a man clad in a black robe, immediately agreed and used appraisal on me again. He acknowledged that the average value of my stats was one.
After that, I only needed to fill the necessary form and receive a brief explanation about hunters. Well, most of it was things I was already familiar with.
The only thing I heard for the first time was the hunter class system.
Hunters were divided into six class, Ｅ〈Rookie〉, Ｄ〈Majority〉, Ｃ〈Veteran〉, Ｂ〈Professional〉, Ａ〈Expert〉, Ｓ〈Superhuman〉. A hunter’s evaluation points would increase with the number of monsters they killed every day or the number of commissions they cleared. When the evaluation points cross a minimum requirement, the hunter would receive a request from the guild to upgrade their class. Moreover, when it comes to raising the hunter class to C-class, Veteran, and above, one had to fulfill a special condition.
Well, I asked the guild what was that special condition, but the guild didn’t seem to have any intention to tell me about it. Information gathering was the most basic skill of a hunter after all. It seemed that factor was also one of the evaluation points for raising the hunter class.
Although all those special requirements made it even more difficult for a hunter to raise their class beyond C-class, anyone who achieved that would receive many benefits. To be specific, the benefit involved discounts at those inns or shops in the entire country that had hunter guild signatures, free access to various public facilities, and even opening their own martial arts dojo.
Moreover, a hunter with special achievements such as subjugating unique monsters, exploring ruins, finding new ingredients, and various others in different fields would receive awards, privileges, and special privileges.
Well, all of those things were pretty much useless in my opinion though. Rather, the more privilege one received, the more obligation one had to take. That was why the E-class was already good enough for me.
Nevertheless, that was a tempting offer. You can clear a quest just by selling the demon stone, the core of a monster, and exploring the unknown. The freedom to do almost anything was intriguing. Okay, let’s find a suitable royal guard replacement for Rose as soon as possible, dump all the royal guard jobs to that replacement, and leave for a journey to explore the world as a hunter.
When I received my card, Mia brought her face closer to my ears with a meek expression and whispered,
（Kai-kun, I think you shouldn’t show your ring in the public anymore.）
（Why though? It’s not like all hunters around the world will do something as lowly as trying to steal it from me, right?）
Mia bit her lips as if she had a hard time telling me about the next part, but…
（Recently, there has been an influx of people registering as hunters to avoid being dispatched as soldiers in the war against the demon race, famine, and drought. So, the possibility of you being robbed of your ring is quite high.）
I see! She wants me to immediately realize the gravity of my current situation. Well, that’s reality for ya. I had enough of that in my long hundred-thousand-year stay in that dungeon. That was why I had become aware of my current situation much before.
（I’ll keep your warning in mind.）
I thanked Mia for her warning, then left the hunter guild.
Yup, it seems they really are tailing after me. But, they’re way too obvious. Their tailing method is even lower than an amateur’s. I mean, they didn’t even try to hide their presence.
Since that was the case, I decided to create a situation where I had no choice but to beat them. Therefore, I entered a dim, narrow alley. This place was spacious enough for me to go wild against them and teach a bitter lesson to those youngsters. This was the best stage for me to fight.
「Do you need something from me?」
The men with sturdy-looking armor surrounded me with grins plastered all over their faces. If this was the first time they had committed such a crime, they should’ve looked a bit tenser. But, these people didn’t look that way to me. In short, they were used to doing this to someone they considered a sitting duck like me. Yup, I guess a slightly extreme education is needed to fix their rotten personality.
Eh, painful you say? Don’t worry about it! They wouldn’t die from this level of pain. I mean, someone was peeping at us, so I couldn’t kill them even if I wanted to.
「Now hand over the ring that can boost your abilities!」
「Ah, you mean this!」
I took out the ring from my right pocket and showed it to those men.
「G-Give it to us!」
When I waved the ring in front of him, the man with short black hair leaped at me with undisguised greed in his eyes.
I moved my center of gravity a little to dodge his charge and tripped him with cropped black hair by his feet. The man turned a few times in the air before crashing back face-first on the ground. Then, I looked around at the men who had surrounded me while trampling on the back of the head of the man with cropped black hair.
「Well then, youngsters, the ring you’re looking for is right there. Do your best to snatch it from me.」
I declared so with a big smile on my face.
「Be careful! This guy has already activated his magic item’s boost!」
Everyone’s expression finally changed from the easy-going one to a serious one. They drew their swords and pointed at me.
「Na~y, my current stat is still one. It’s definitely lower than yours. But, you know, martial arts isn’t something as simple as the value of your physical abilities.」
I slowly walked forward, closing in toward the man with cropped blond hair who stood in front of me.
「Eh?」
The next moment, the man was already thrown in the air with a dumbfounded expression. After landing on the ground head first, having failed to fix his landing posture, he passed out.
「SHI*TY BRAAT—」
The man who stood behind me rushed in while swinging his sword, aiming for my left shoulder. I parried his sword with my left hand without even wasting my time to turn around. Closing in the distance between us, I hit him till he turned around like a spinning top.
「HIIIII!?」
When I flicked the jaw of the bald man who let out a scream, he immediately fainted with open eyes. Froth came out of his mouth.
「W-WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!! You! Aren’t you supposed to be an incompetent!!」
Seeing how easily I dispatched the other three in mere seconds, the blue-haired man with an unshaved beard, who was apparently their leader, shouted and pointed his sword toward me.
「Exactly! My gift is 【The Most Incompetent in this World】. There’s no mistake in that regard.Now then, come at me, youngster! I’ll fix that rotten guts of yours.」
Naturally, I easily knocked out the blue-haired man with an unshaved beard when he mindlessly charged toward me.
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