Chapter 267 Our Date...

She had been excited all this time, the second reason she just quietly left me on the training grounds.

It was afternoon and... she was smiling right now while looking at me.

'It will be fun~!' she said while taking a bite of her brown mushroom gratin, made with grandma's special blend of spices.

And that finely fermented cheese... haaa…

I can't hold back after even seeing her enjoy this delicacy and took a bite first before answering her flirtatious voice.

And yes...

"This is amazing~."

This was the best thing I was eating made by someone else.

This was best, not in all the things I had eaten until now, but in things made by someone other than me or my master.

The texture, flavors, this amazing scent... this really was good~.

And this friend of mine was smiling warmly while seeing me like this.

'Your family is amazing~.' she complimented while keeping eating and eyes locked on me.

And I answered while continuing to eat with the same delight, 'They are amazing~. And yes... I'm excited.

My dad, your grandma... they both were adventurers. And now, we will be too~.'

The smile on her face deepened, and she nodded happily.

'It will be fun~. We can go anywhere we want and do most of the things we want with this universal ID.

You haven't seen anything outside, right? We will have a lot~ of fun while going to new places in the future~.'

She was just genuinely happy that we will have many places to go and new things to see together, and she was just purely happy.

Nothing else, not even a spark of a weird thought.

And this occasional innocent side of her was the cutest.

Mom was happy when I talked about becoming an adventurer, and no one objected to that. In fact, everyone believed it would be the best for me to go outside and see the world on my own.

And although they put some 'small' restrictions, they were mostly negligible.

And they had seen my strength already so, there was nothing for them to worry about.

I was more than strong enough to pull my own weight and having a reliable person like Rein who had seen the world more than them was just awesome.

She wasn't an adventurer and more like a mercenary in the old days, but that was a long ago.

And she couldn't go to different places with the same look, so she mostly changed her appearance many times.

And, well, as adventurers had the privilege to go to any place they wanted, at their own risk, of course, we will be able to enter any city or any other country if we wanted.

We belonged to no country and calling us the freest humans was the most appropriate.

And so, we were going on a date, and our first stop was the adventurer's association.

The strongest neutral organization which stood above other countries in terms of overall human resources and one of the strongest in the world, the strongest weapon wielder, master of one-true-sword, first seat of the house of the prism, the [Sword saint], sir Alexander, was the current master of the association.

A great person who had a similar Aura as me, the Aura of [White purity], and he also possessed an Origin skill, but little was known about that one.

And this person... was even older than the headmaster.

And the most amazing thing about him... he was a human.

A person of true respect and someone I looked up to.

And it wasn't just because I had heard about him and read in some books, no.

I have read many things about him in many books in the tower and after knowing all the things about him... I couldn't help but admire him even more.

He was amazing, someone even my grandpa admired and looked up to.

He had met him, and one day, if fate allows it, I wanted to meet him too.

But, no one ever knew his whereabouts.

He was always there when he was needed but, aside from that, no one ever knew where he was.

And, as someone who possessed a great knowledge of Origin skills, I knew his reasoning.

We origin skill possessors couldn't live among humans after reaching a certain level of Origin stage-

Haaa... well, I could talk about him for as long as I wanted, but I won't be meeting him anytime soon.

I just know I won't, so there was no way to even think about the divine plot armor and stuff.

So, we will be going to the main branch of the association and then a simple written test and a practical test.

And we both had recommendations from our guardians, who were high-ranking adventurers of their time, so we won't have to worry about the IDs at the registrations.

They were responsible for us and if the association ever needed it, they would be asking them about our identities to them.

Not that we had anything to care about here.

We will just go flex before the examiners and get the adventurer IDs… and something else, too.

Then go around the capital to some places she wanted me to see and just have fun for the day and get back by dinner.

Just a wholesome day ahead of us, and nothing much will happen. I know it won't so, I was excited too.

'An adventurer...'

Something I had only read and watched in fantasy novels and shows and in those fantastic games.

An adventurer was, in true meaning, someone who wasn't bound by anything.

No nationality, place, any great rule, or any particular obligation.

They did what they wanted and wandered the world.

But one thing was true in their line of work.

Even though anyone could become an adventurer, they had to first pass the tests of knowledge and strength to get the license and the starting rank.

And ranking meant there will be clear discrimination and stern safety rules when accepting quests.

Well, we weren't worried about those things.

We would be free to do whatever the hack we wanted there, so I was more worried about others because if my beloved friend Rein got in some difficult fight... I will be the one to clean all the mess after her.

We will be adventurers forever, and that was our decision.

Even after joining the academy, and after graduating... I wanted to see everything in this world with her and the new people I would meet during this journey.

And damn… I would be genuinely happy if there was no bad thing during this journey, but... we all know that's pretty impossible.

But, at the very least, I knew... it would be fun.

And yes. There was Rein's revenge against that evil spirit too but, I convinced her, with a greeeeeeeeat difficulty that we will do that after my birthday.

Thankfully, that restless witch agreed, and that one was solved and then… this was it.

This food was amazing. The excited smile on her face was also there and, before going out with her... there was just a teeny-tiny thing I had to take care of first.

'A diamond in rough. A pure boy with the talent of rapier... the talk will him will definitely fun~.'

I looked forward to this small chat, and the things Rein and I would do after that.

And everything... will hopefully go smoothly.