“Next I’ll explain the guild ranking. The ranks start with F, and you rise to E, D, C, B, A, and S. You increase in rank based on your successes and failures while fulfilling quests. If you have a lot of failures, you won’t advance, so please accept quests that are within your skill level. Also, if you continue to accept quests of the same rank as yourself, you won’t increase in rank.”
“Why’s that?”
“You can accept quests up to a rank above yours. Because of that, no matter how many hundreds of F-rank quests you accept, as someone in F-rank, you won’t rise up.”
“In other words, if I complete a quest a rank above mine, then I’ll go up a rank?”
“The standard criteria is to complete more than ten quests a rank above yours. Then, the guild makes the final call.”
“What happens if I accomplish a quest by teaming up with people a rank higher than mine?”
“That’s a very specific situation to explain, but when you take on a quest, everyone must present their guild card. If someone with a high rank is in the group, your inspection rank goes up.”
“Which means?”
“The number of quests you need to complete increases. For example, if someone from D-rank were to complete quests with the aid of an adventurer of C-rank, then they would need to complete over twenty quests to rise to C-rank. If they get the help of an S-rank, they won’t rise in rank no matter how many times they complete quests.”
“What happens if they secretly do that?”
“The guild can’t do anything about that. But it’s true that there are aristocrats who use the method you spoke of to rise in rank.”
In other words, they would hire a high-ranking adventurer to help them to rise in rank. I figured hiring someone with a high rank would take more money than a normal adventurer could spare.
“And lastly, only you can use this card. If you lose it, reissuing the card will require a ten-silver coin handling fee.”
She handed me the finished silver card, and I looked it over.
Name: Yuna
Age: 15 years old
Class: Bear
Adventurer Rank: F
That was all the information on it. This receptionist lady actually wrote “Bear” in for my class. I noticed Helen was grinning.
“The quests are put up on that board. If you see a quest there that you’d like to accept, please bring the written quest to the front desk.”
The board she pointed out was surrounded by a small crowd, but there were other boards that went completely ignored.
“What about that one?”
“That board has high-ranking quests.”
“I see.”
Fina was standing outside when I left, looking concerned.
“What’s wrong, Fina?”
“I was worried about you.”
“Oh, sorry for making you worry. I got registered, so everything’s fine. Did you find any work?”
“There wasn’t any. Most of the adventurers brought their things in already butchered. They get more money that way. There aren’t a lot of monsters that get brought in intact.”
“Really?” I didn’t want to get my hands dirty butchering monsters, and I didn’t care whether they were cheaper, so I was planning to bring them in unharvested. It wasn’t like a modern-day hermit like me could butcher an animal or a monster in the first place, anyway.
I gave Fina a pat on the head and was just thinking about parting ways with her to search the town when I stopped. “Oh, right. Fina, you don’t have anything to do, right?”
“I don’t. There isn’t any work anywhere else today, either.”
“How about you show me around the town today? I don’t know how much you make in a day normally, but how does a silver coin and lunch sound for compensation?”
“You already paid me too much yesterday, so that’s too generous. A ten-year-old can’t make a silver coin in just a day.”
“Then today is special. And once I figure out the town, this job will be gone.”
I gave her a second, gentle pat on the head. I never had a younger sister, but I wondered whether it would have been like this.
“Thanks, Yuna.”
“Let’s go. Could you start by showing me the best place I can go to buy a weapon?”
Chapter 7:
The Bear Goes to the Weapons Shop
BEFORE FINA led me along, I checked my status. My bear punch was stronger, and I definitely felt like I’d grown a level.
Name: Yuna
Age: 15 years old
Level: 8
Skills: Fantasy World Language, Fantasy World Literacy, Bear Extradimensional Storage, Bear Identification
GEAR
Right Hand: Black Bear Glove (Nontransferable)
Left Hand: White Bear Glove (Nontransferable)
Right Foot: Black Bear Shoe (Nontransferable)
Left Foot: White Bear Shoe (Nontransferable)
Clothing: Black and White Bear Clothes (Nontransferable)
Underwear: Bear Underwear (Nontransferable)
I really had leveled up, and I’d gotten another weird new skill.
Bear Identification
By looking through the bear eyes on the Bear Clothes’ hood, one can see the effects of a weapon or tool.
Doesn’t work without wearing the hood.
That’s a suuuuuuper useful skill, I thought, but why’d my bear gear get skills when I was the one who leveled up?!
If I was going to live in this world, I might have to do it dressed as a bear for my whole life.
Fina led us towards the weapons shop. “What kind of weapon are you going to buy, Yuna?”
“Umm, I haven’t decided yet, but I think I want a sword and knife at least.”
“Actually, do you not have a weapon, Yuna?”
“I do.” A cypress stick totally counted.
“Right. There’s no way anyone would walk around the woods without a weapon. In that case, why are you going to the weapons shop?”
“W-well, that’s because I might find a real gem there, right? There might be a weapon that really strikes my fancy. So, what kind of weapons shop are we headed to?”
My “secret technique!” When I’m in hot water, I deflect the conversation!
“It’s a shop that Mr. Gold runs.”
“Mr. Gold?”
“He’s in charge of the weapons that the guild has. I got my knife from Mr. Gold, too.”
“He gave it to you? He must be nice.”
“He told me, ‘This one’s meant for the scrap pile, so I’ll let
