Published: March 21, 2026
Ur's Adventurer Guild, despite being a tavern converted for use, gave the impression of being kept clean.
Uruk Adventurer Guild was the opposite: dim and grubby.
Here and there on the walls were dark reddish stains; you could tell drunken adventurers had probably made a mess before. In a bad way, it was exactly the kind of adventurer guild you'd imagine.
Am I the only one who feels the guildmaster's personality is written all over the guild itself?
Inside the guild was a large counter, with staff busily working behind it.
There were fewer staff than at Ur, and no notices of requests posted.
They probably handled buying monster parts, accepting requests, and ranking them all from behind the counter. Clearly inefficient, not at all rational.
Meanwhile, adventurers were downing booze in what looked like the guild’s resting area.
Adventurers are the same everywhere. Don’t drink in the morning.
When I opened the door and stepped inside, all eyes first landed on me, then moved to Amelia.
It’s always like this when we walk together; I should be used to it by now.
“Welcome to Uruk Adventurer Guild. What can we help you with today?”
A staff member, his face blanching when he saw Amelia, hurried out from the counter.
Amelia’s face is widely known thanks to that contest. Whenever we go out, everyone stares nonstop. She doesn’t care in the slightest, but it makes me very uncomfortable.
“Isn’t that princess Amelia...?”
“...Why hasn’t she been kidnapped yet? The contest winners always vanish.”
“Probably a fake.”
Drunken voices echoed through the guild. They were probably saying those things loud on purpose.
Why are drunks always so troublesome?
Night didn’t hear the insults — probably because of where he was standing. If someone insulted Night, I wouldn’t stay quiet either.
“That dark-skinned guy who looks like a guard — he looks weak. If someone hits him, won’t he just fly away?”
When a red-haired man at a nearby table said that, Amelia’s brows twitched.
I don’t care much, but apparently it offended her. Though she answered the guild staff, her gaze was fixed on that adventurer.
“We don’t have any real business here. I just wanted to see what the adventurer guild in the greatest beastmen nation looks like. But it seems the adventurers here are all effeminate. The guild being noisy from morning is really annoying.”
When Amelia speaks like this, it’s like absolute zero. Her anger could drop the room’s temperature — only she could pull off something like that.
A nearby staff member gave a small cry and took a step back.
“What!?” the lion adventurer shouted, kicking his chair as he stood. “I’m Raul, a silver rank adventurer! Raul the Whirlwind!! Who are you calling effeminate, huh!!”
If I could speak to the lion adventurer, I’d say: so what.
Watching him with a cold look, Amelia squinted as if thinking the same thing.
“And? Does being a silver rank adventurer with a title mean you can do whatever you want? Say whatever you want? Get over yourself.”
Her words were like a mother scolding a naughty child, but they carried a chilling pressure that was honestly frightening.
I would have apologized immediately, but this adventurer wasn’t like that.
“Shut up shut up shut up!!”
The lion adventurer yelled like a child and swung a fist at Amelia. Other adventurers shouted for him to stop, but his hand didn’t falter.
“...I can’t let that pass.”
I pulled Amelia behind me from behind and caught that punch with a slap of my hand.
Instead of being sent flying, my body didn’t move an inch. The punch felt about as much as an infant’s blow.
Raul—if that was his name—looked at me as if he couldn’t believe it.
“Amelia, you provoke too much. ...Sorry for the noise. But don’t say things you don’t mean; your head might literally get taken off. Amelia is a real princess of the Elf race, after all.”
I said that to the Amelia in my arms, then turned my gaze to the drunks. With that warning, the drunken ones went pale as they remembered what they’d said. The guild staff who’d been looking at Amelia with suspicious eyes averted their gaze too.