Chapter 32 – Silk Blonde (2)

0.

At that time, I should have just told everyone to turn it off and go to sleep without anyone knowing.

One.

“······Ha.”

“······Guildmaster, are you okay?”

“Do I look okay in your eyes now?”

“No. You look like someone who has embraced all the cares in the world.”

“Then why are you asking if I’m okay?”

“It’s just awkward for no reason to call you and just sigh without saying anything.”

“Heh heh… Even if you look at it like this, I’m an S-class Awakener. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a guy who talks like this in front of me.”

“It’s the mindset that it doesn’t matter what happens in the future. It’s also the new century that got kicked out of the guild.”

“Ah, yes, fuck off. Aaaaa! Why did you do that? “

“Guild leader, why are you shouting like someone who says that you have no responsibility and that someone below you did it on their own? To be honest, the guild leader had no interest in me until the incident happened yesterday.”

“Ah… De, did you get caught? The young guy is very quick-witted. Anyway, did you see that the guild building was reduced to ashes yesterday because you disappeared? It is said that the Leight family pays for all the restoration costs, but I think you are the most important thing in the safety of the guild. So, come back to the liars trap. Understand?”

“Why are you telling me not to come in as if patronizing? In the current situation, isn’t the hilt on me? Guild leader, you seem to be taking it lightly, saying that I’m only a 23-year-old kid. I am a guy who has had a lot of ups and downs in his life. Don’t take it lightly, and try again.”

Haha! Yes, you have to be a bully like this to fall in love with a girl with a ska rate. Yes, I was wondering in what way he was crazy. I think you know roughly.”

“What do you fall in love with? Scar is just a bitch. The reason he set fire to the guild building yesterday was because he was angry that the attendant he used well was gone. Anyway, so what are you going to do if I return to the guild?”

“I will give you a lot of money. According to the A-class battle awakener class. Instead, it is a secret from others.”

“Then roughly how much?”

“Come here. Now, this is roughly the salary and incentives for each guild level. Because you will have to deal with the monster called Scar Rate every day. Assuming you go into a B-class dungeon every day… About this?”

“You know how to manipulate people, guild leader. I will.”

“Yeah, thank you. But there is one problem. No matter how much the Leight family is looking after you, what Scar Leight has done is too exciting to cover up everything this time. So, I have to punish them at the guild level, right? Even so, it would be about a month probation.”

“Wow. Isn’t it honey? Not having to meet Scar for a month is really like a dream.”

“By the way, that ska rate kept calling your name while setting fire to the guild yesterday? So everyone in the guild thinks that the cause of yesterday’s incident was your resignation. You won’t be able to get angry at Scar Rait for setting the fire, so that anger will naturally return to you.”

“Yes? Why does that happen?”

“It is human psychology. Anyway, that’s why there’s no one in the guild to protect you while Scar Rate is on probation.”

“Can’t the guild leader cover me?”

“I’m going to be fucking busy dealing with this case, so I’m sorry about that…”

“No. It’s Scar’s fault. Why is this the guild leader’s fault? So what, can I stay at home for a month while Scar returns? Is it paid vacation?”

“In my heart, I want to do that, too, but it’s because I’ve noticed that giving an F-class Awakener with no ability a month of paid vacation. The most dangerous thing in a group is favoritism. There’s already a lot of talk about kicking out Scar Rate or firing him, but if he gives you preferential treatment here, the whole family will really fall apart.”

“······So what? Are you asking me to survive the liars trap? When I met Scar yesterday, the eyes of the guild members around me were unusual. I could really die.”

“No, no. I know what will happen when you disappear, but am I going to let you die? I’ve thought of everything, so just trust me, Paster.”

“Whoa… So what can I do?”

“For a month, go to Team 3. I go there and just stamp my face on the team leader, do nothing, and stay stuck for a month. Team 3 is not interested in people anyway, so he won’t do anything to you. ······Maybe.”

“I’m anxious, but… I get it right now. It is a fact that all Awakened people know that the 3 team leader is not interested in people. What’s the matter? Right?”

“Yeah, yes dude! I just think I am air~ and get stuck somewhere and play on the phone before leaving work. What a great thing it would be if you could get an A-class battle Awakener-level salary! Haha.Haha! First of all, I’ll contact the 3 team leader. I can go right now.”

“It’s good to take out the horns with sweet seaweed, right? I see. Then let’s go first.”

“Okay. Well. That… Take care of yourself. Really! Never go downstairs in the 3-team annex! There are a lot of high-ranking monsters that the 3 team leaders have tamed! I can’t even find a body! Well, I won’t be able to go in anyway unless team leader 3 opens it!”

“Yeah, I understand.”

2.

“Whoa… I’m nervous.”

In front of the guild leader, nothing good would come of being looked down on, so I deliberately pretended to be relaxed.
However, I couldn’t help but feel my heart tremble at the thought that if I opened this door, I would meet Liar’s Trap’s 3rd team leader, Taming Master Silk Blonde.

“I never thought I would meet a silk blonde like this. Maybe I’ll be lucky after a long time?”

It was a liars trap that was forcibly brought to Scar, but as an Awakener, the guild members of the riars trap had no choice but to be idols to me.
Among them, Silk Blonde, who maintains mysticism, uses the rare ability of taming, and does not appear on TV except for dungeon raids, is also an Awakener that I really want to see at least once.

“Sup, whoa. Sup. Whoa. Great. Let’s go in. Say hello and make a good first impression. If I’m good, maybe I can get an autograph.”

I took a deep breath, calmed my chest, and opened the door to the team leader’s office. When she opened the door, she saw a golden bob-cut woman watching the fish swimming in the aquarium from behind the desk.
She was the silk blonde, an S-class Awakener that I had always wanted to meet once in Liar’s Trap, as I only saw on TV.

Heheung~ Heungheung~ Pitsy. Today, I’ll give you meat cubes made from the legs of a North Elk. Grow up.”

The silky blonde, dripping pure white flesh that looked expensive to the rainbow-colored fish, looked like a saint who had descended from the sky thanks to the iridescent light of the fish.

Wow, the dog is really pretty. I never thought there would be a person as pretty as Scar in the world. It looks ten times prettier than what I saw on TV.

Seeing the beauty that transcended the limits of silk blonde, I forgot what to say for a moment.
But even if he stood there without saying anything, he would only look suspicious, so he quickly shook his head and threw out the prepared greeting.

“Hello! I’m Paster, and I’m starting to work for the Liar’s Trap Team 3 as of today! Thank you, chief!”

He bent his back 90 degrees and finished a brief self-introduction in a confident voice. Then, the silk blonde dropped all the meat he was holding into the tank and looked at me.

“Yes?”

She tilted her head for a moment, holding me in her two lazy-looking amber eyes, then opened her mouth slightly as if remembering something about her and nodded her head.

“Ah… Come to think of it, the guild leader asked me to take care of just one troublemaker.”

It’s a nuisance. Honestly, from the guild leader’s point of view, I might be a troublemaker, but it was an unfair word for me. The one who sent me away was Team 1, and the one who set the fire was Scar. I was just unfairly fired.

“Are you the trouble that you burnt down that guild building? You look too weak for such a thing…”
“It wasn’t me who burned the building, it was Scar Rate. I am just a victim.”
“Okay? Then why did the guild leader call you a troublemaker?”

The silky blonde looked at me curiously as he poked his cheeks with his fingers.
For some reason it was difficult for him to remain silent as those two amber eyes met. The space itself was demanding answers to questions from me.

“Uh… That’s right?”
“That can’t be the answer.”
“Oh. Ahh…”

Recalling that her S-class is a being above the sky even for awakened people who have surpassed human limits, she could not stand the sense of intimidation she radiated, so she had no choice but to open her mouth.

“It’s not that I started the fire, but it’s true that the fire started because I was expelled from the guild. The culprit behind this incident, Scar, no, Scar Rait, is obsessed with me. That’s why they set fire to me because I disappeared. From the point of view of the guild leader, I have no choice but to be a troublemaker. Yes.”
“That famous ska rate… Is obsessed with you?”

When I’m facing an S-class Awakener, I feel like I’m getting smaller and smaller just by that.

In the conversation with the guild leader, I was able to be confident because I had the upper hand, but silk blonde didn’t have that, so I had no choice but to be small. That’s how I became a Pasterwiki that only spews out the information she wants.

“Ah, that’s… You might find it hard to believe, but you’re right. It’s not that he likes me or is obsessed with me. The dog you’ve raised since I was a child? Livestock? I’m thinking of it that way. He’s not possessive, so he tends to explode right away when his stuff disappears. So that’s what happened yesterday. Haha······.”
“Huh huh… Is that so?”

When I heard the story, the eyes of the silk blonde looking at me were different.
If a moment ago they had just seemed uninterested, now they had eyes like a cat finding an interesting toy.

What. The guild leader said he wouldn’t be interested in people. Have you been unnecessarily rude? No, an S-class Awakener asks, how can you keep quiet? Honestly, this is embarrassing.

Her anxiety gradually turned to certainty as she saw the silk blonde rise from her seat and approach me.
Her eyes were still fixed on me, and I froze like a mouse in front of a cat.

No, I’m not interested in people! That’s all you’re interested in!

Bruise. Bruise. Bruise. Little bit

As I watched her walk up to me, slightly sticking out her tongue to moisten her lips, the survival alerts forged from her academy days began to resonate in her head.

Will it just bounce? No, there is no way you can escape from an S-class Awakener…

“I thought it was okay even when I saw it from afar. Does it look better up close? I don’t have much power… So at least I can’t think of stabbing myself in the back.”

My thoughts were interrupted by the muttering of a silk blonde who came right in front of me before I knew it.
She looked over my whole body with eyes as if she were choosing a pretty animal at a pet shop, and I froze even thinking at that snake-like gaze.

“If you have a physique like this, well… It doesn’t look bad on the outside. I guess you’ve trained yourself?”
“Yes? Ah yes.”
“Great. Pass. Welcome to my third team.”

The silk blonde smiled and offered me a handshake after observing. It was a very reluctant and dangerous-looking invitation to shake hands, but I did not have the option of refusing the handshake.

······Would it be a big deal with just one handshake?

As I rationalized myself in that way, I held the white hand of the silk blonde.
Her palms were soft and warm. How nice it would be to be stroked with a hand like this. To the point where I can’t help thinking.

Come to think of it, it’s been a long time since I’ve held hands with a girl other than Scar. Isn’t this your first time coming out of an orphanage?

She relaxed as we shook her soft, beautiful hand. It seems that all the worries I had were for nothing.

Maybe it’s because he’s so used to Scar, who doesn’t know where he’ll always go, that he worries unnecessarily when dealing with other pretty girls. I feel sorry for the 3rd team leader.

When nothing happened even after shaking hands, the wariness I had for the silk blonde temporarily changed to sorry.
Should I say I’m sorry for misunderstanding? As I was thinking about it, suddenly, a silk blonde came out with both hands and covered the hand that was shaking hands.

“Oh, isn’t that it? Our 3 teams can only enter the family I choose.”
“Yes? What is that…”
“That means you are my family starting today. Don’t be nervous You’ll feel better soon…”

After those words, the brilliant golden light that emerged from the silk blonde’s hand filled his vision. It was a light similar to the one I had seen on TV the other day, when trying to taming.