Reincarnated as an affinity-less hero, the quest to become the strongest!

Chapter 10: The Guild Receptionist

"Ah. There it is!"

I cheerfully said as I managed to spot the adventurer's guild. This branch of the guild looked just a bit smaller than the one at the Everidian Kingdom, however, it was still impressive. It was made out of a dull looking, yet it was decorated masterfully with marble and what seemed to be a white wood.

"Time to register as an adventurer... again."

I said as I made my way into the guild. But as I was entering a small bulletin caught my eye. It read as such:

"In order to keep track of our deployed adventurers. The return of a guild card from a diseased adventurer will be rewarded with 50 copper coins."

'Well, I guess I can make some extra money while I am at it' I thought as I clenched the adventurer's guild card in my pocket.

Focusing, once more on my current task, I started gazing at the counter. All of the receptionists were currently busy helping someone except a familiar looking receptionist. 'I can't quite point out where I have met her before...' But I brushed it off as a delusion since I hadn't been to the Litherm Kingdom before. The receptionist has brown curly shoulder-length hair and pretty brown eyes. I didn't have much time to waste, so without making attracting any more attention to me, I made my way to the unoccupied receptionist.

"Hello! I'd like to register as an adventurer please."

She was probably distracted because the moment I spoke up, she finally reacted to my presence. 'This is familiar? Have I met her before?' As it seemed she hadn't heard me before I repeated my statement and I finally got a response.

"Alright! All you must do is a pay a fee of 1 silver coin as well as be appraised by these 2 crystals over here〜"

Once again I was hit with a strange feeling of deja vu. 'Hmm, this might not be a delusion...?' This was starting to feel less and less like a coincidence. But, I guess I was probably thinking for too long because the girl then uncomfortably said:

"Ummm, would you pay the fee so we can appraise you, ahhhh..."

"Ah, Yes, sorry. It's Reika"

She seemed to be taken aback with my name but despite this, she continued.

"Very well Reika-san, please pay the fee so we can proceed with the process" She said with my warm smile

In response, I reached into my pocket to take out a silver coin. But as I grabbed the silver coin, I remembered I could also give my old self's guild card for 50 bronze. 'Hmm, guess I'll do it now.' Were my thoughts as I pulled out the silver coin along with my old guild card. The girl seemed puzzled as to what I was holding was so I started to explain with a saddened look.

"Umm, actually, I was attacked along with my carriage when coming to the Litherm Kingdom. There was a brave adventurer who died protecting us... I felt thankful to him, so I accepted when he told me to deliver this back here..."

"Oh no! We're so sorry, you see that accident was probably caused by the A-ranked adventurers who went rogue some days ago... We're terribly sorry..."

'WHAT?! Those were A-ranked adventurers? That's why they must've been so annoying to defeat. They were equivalent to my threat level now that I think about it. But I managed to defeat them all single-handedly...' As I was submerged in thought once again, the girl pulled on the sleeve of my jacket and indicated me to hand the fee and card over to her.

So I did. I handed my old guild card along with the silver coin...

But that was a grave mistake...