From Mimic to World's strongest daughter

Chapter 8

Y/n's POV

After leaving the sea of trees, we made our way to Reisen Gorge for a labyrinth where we gained gravity magic as our reward. Papa also gave Shea some new clothes and a weapon for her to use before we left for the next town. The four of us ended up being called into the Guild Master's office in Fuhren. "Head of the Fuhren Adventurer's guild, Ilwa Chang. It's nice to meet you. Hajime, Yue, Shea, and Y/n. You're not an easy group to track down. I've heard some interesting rumors. The people of Brook are talking about four powerful travels who carved a path through Reisen Gorge." Ilwa said.

"You've got the wrong group." Papa said.

"Local legends or not, I can tell you've got the skills to handle the request I would like to make of you." Ilwa started.

"Don't think so." Papa said, getting up. I got up looking at Ilwa before he spoke up again. "Look, do you mind if I just tell you what it is? It's a lot less paperwork on me if I can say I formally asked for your help." Ilwa said. Papa clicked his tongue before looking at Ilwa again. "Just as I expected from the head of a guild. You won't take 'no' for an answer." Papa said, smirking at Ilwa. Ilwa explained that the request he had for us was to track down a missing party of adventurers which had gotten lost while exploring Northern Mountains. Apparently, one adventurer was the son of a Count who wanted to find his son. Ilwa was worried about the fact that even though the son was traveling with some strong adventurers that they were still taken out. Papa declined the request at first, before Ilwa mentioned the reward for us taking the request. Ilwa mentioned that part of the reward would be him looking the other way when we bumped up against Adventurer Guild rules. Papa thought about the reward before adding two conditions. The first was that Ilwa was going to make the four of us status plates while the second was if we needed him, he'd do as papa says. Once papa settled the deal with Ilwa, we got on our bikes and started heading towards the town closest to the Northern Mountains. Mama and Papa were talking about what papa did at the guild while I just enjoyed riding my bike since papa didn't always want me riding it around whenever I wanted to. Papa mentioned we were heading to the largest rice farm in the country in the town of Ur. When we arrived, we met with the Inn's owner, who was happy to hear that we were there to deal with the Northern Mountains. After scouting the base of the mountains, we headed back to town before heading into the inn to get some lunch. "How many times do I have to ask you? Will you stop excluding me and retreating into your own little world? Do you even hear me, Hajime?" Shea asked.

"Yeah, I hear you, just don't want to see you. So separate rooms." Papa said. 

"Yue, Y/n are you hearing this? He's being so mean to me." Shea complained.

"Bad boy, Hajime." Mama scolded.

"Yeah, yeah." Papa answered. We sat down at the table waiting to get some menus from the Inn owner before a lady rushed over and said papa's name. "Nagumo?" The lady asked.

"Miss Aiko?" Papa asked. The lady gasped before smiling at papa. "It is you. It really is you, isn't it? I'm so glad, I'm so glad you're alive." Aiko said. Papa stood up, not looking at Aiko before speaking up. "Nope, you got the wrong guy, bye..." Papa said, turning to leave. Aiko grabbed onto his arm. "Wait, hold on, please. You may look a little different from you used to, but there's no hiding the fact that you just said my name." Aiko demanded.

"No, you heard me wrong. It's uh... Oh right, it's a regional word that means tiny woman. Yeah." Papa lied.

"Than you were just being incredibly rude? Nice try, but no one is that mean to a stranger immediately. You can't trick me. I'm a teacher. Please, what happened to you? Why do you look like that? Why haven't you come back to everyone? Answer me. Nagumo." Aiko demanded.