Aias: from a world of kaijus to a world of fantasy and magic

Chapter 55

Early the next morning, Clare gently woke me up. My body was still sore from yesterday, so I told Clare to let me stay in bed for five more minutes.

"Mistress, please, you must maintain a proper sleep schedule."

"But I don't want to."

Clare looked at me with exasperation as I was hugging a pillow, acting like a kid, as if this was the first time she had seen this side of me, which it was.

"Lady Rita, please."

I slightly opened my eyes and looked at Clare. I thought to myself, I did worry Clare a lot yesterday; I should listen to her because I still feel really guilty about making her worry.

"Fine."

Reluctantly, I got out of bed.

"Thank you, my lady. Please come downstairs after you've changed; I made breakfast."

Once Clare closed the door to my room, I did just that since I was still uncomfortable letting someone change my clothes for me.

Going downstairs, I saw Clare prepare me breakfast, which was a plate of bacon, eggs, pancakes, and a fruit bowl.

Clare poured me a cup of tea and started combing my hair as I began eating. Once I was done, I put on my gear to go dungeon diving again since I had nothing better to do, and I wanted to train with the owlbear again.

I said goodbye to Clare and told her I would return before sunset since I really made her worried yesterday. I don't plan to overdo it this time, so I'm fighting the Owlbear five times instead of sixteen times like yesterday.

Going to the guild to enter into a quest, I saw Iris was not there; I guess she must really be sick or something because I didn't see her last time I came by, two days ago. I didn't put too much thought into it and went to the dungeon to start diving.

Going straight to the 20th-floor boss room, with a slight smile starting to form on my face, I entered the boss room.

Iris Perspective

Early in the morning at the Adventurer Guild, Iris was busy entering the names of adventurers and quests into the quest logs.

Clare looked at the line of experienced, strong-looking adventurers, who would make a normal person quiver in their boots, by her counter to call the next person with a customer service-like smile.

Iris thought it was like every other busy day: hectic but nothing out of the ordinary.

However, as she was entering a quest and the name of the next adventurer into the quest log, one of her co-workers pulled her away and told her.

"The guild master is calling for you, Iris. He said it was urgent."

Iris wondered why Skis was calling for her, and then she turned to look at the adventurers waiting in line.

"Could you cover for me?"

"Mr. Skis already told me to cover for you; don't worry."

Iris nodded and went to the third floor, to the guild master's office.

Opening the door to the office, she saw that Skis, who is the adventure guild master of this city that always looks unreliable, looked visibly distressed like something really bad had happened.

Seeing Iris, he asks her to close the door.

With a serious and hardened expression, she asks.

"How bad is it?"

"Very, it's about Lady Alice."

Iris grimaced upon hearing Skis bring Alice's name up because she thought that problem was done and finished, but it apparently was not.