30. A pair of Twinkle and Rice
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Ynnihlas left after introducing himself and I was alone once again, I looked around and the gazes of the people disappeared, Ynnihlas was certainly slightly interesting, but I wouldn’t have pegged him so popular. I shrugged, even as a former human, I realized that everyone could be different. Their walk, fashion sense, their attitude, all of them varied from the environment they were in.
The son of a delinquent would like rock music and would gradually start to drink beer.
The daughter of a teacher would grow up to be educated and would only loose their virginity after the age of 21.
And so on and so on. So I couldn’t control that people would look at me with admiration or disgust or even get ignored.
Leaving my thoughts behind, I went to the counter.
I planned to take a monster annihilation quest before leaving to the next city.
So I went to the counter and a young brunette girl was standing there.
“Hello!” I said.
“Hello what can I do for you?”
“Are there any monster annihilation quests?”
The young brunette pondered for a bit, “Right now most of the quests are with helping people with sickness and bodyguarding quests, but there is a quest about hyenas which need to be taken care of.”
“I’ll take it.”
“Sure just show me your adventurer’s card.”
I complied and took the golden card out of my [ Dimensional Storage ].
“A golden ranker?, aah I’m sorry but the quest can only be taken by either silver or below. I thought you were at most a silver ranker, I’m sorry.” She said apologetically.
I asked, “why is there a limit, if a higher rank takes care of lower ranked missions, doesn’t it mean that it will be done faster?”
She nodded, “indeed that’s true, but monster annihilation is different, if a higher leveled person takes the lower level quests, then the lower leveled people won’t have chances to level up. If it was a bodyguarding quest then you would be allowed but the adventurer will still get the same rewards as a silver ranked or below would get.”
I finally understood and then nodded, “thank you for the information.”
She smiled brightly, “happy to be of help!”
These guilds really take advantage of the young girls and put them on the front.
[ Name - Orianne ]
[ Level - 6 ]
[ Class - Receptionist ]
But then again, they indeed have the right class for the job. The thing with classes is always amusing to me.
I still can’t figure out if humans get a class depending on the work they do. Or whether they get a class and then do work that entails that class. I tried searching through the old man’s books but I found nothing. Most of the books in the old man’s possession are rather high quality and have difficult subjects written on it.
Like ‘how to calculate the speed of time with the help of runes’
And the likes of that.
I left the guild with an unsatisfied expression. I didn’t get what I wanted. So I pushed my plans and decided that I would leave tomorrow. Right now I just wanted a comfy bed to take a nap. After all the traveling I did, I thought I deserved a good nap. So I looked for an inn to stay.
You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.
I found an inn. It was slightly bigger than the previous one in Silesia.
One day later.
I woke up and started to head out. I left the inn. The room was quite comfortable, it was expensive but I didn’t care. I’m rich.
I headed towards a restaurant. < Ricedom >. That was the name of the restaurant. Rice? I was fairly interested in this restaurant. Exited about the though of rice, I entered.
The place felt like an asian restaurant. The waiters moving around were wearing kimonos. It felt ..nice. I sat down on one of the tables and opened the menu on the top of the table.
White Rice
Yellow Rice
Chicken Rice
Special Sauce Rice
I looked at the menu. All I could say was ..they surely know how to make rice.
The waiter came. “What would you like to order.”
“I’ll have chicken rice and some water.” I said and put the menu down.
The waiter wrote it down on his little notepad, “it’ll be done in 10 minutes sir, you can enjoy the music while you wait.” After he said those words he left.
Leaving me behind pondering about what he meant, “music? I can’t hear anything..”
Suddenly music entered my ears…
🎶 🎶 Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! 🎶
When the blazing sun is gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show your little light, Twinkle, twinkle, all the night. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! 🎶 🎶
Then the traveller in the dark, Thanks you for your tiny spark, He could not see which way to go, If you did not twinkle so. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, 🎶 🎶
How I wonder what you are! 🎵
🎶 In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep, For you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky. 🎶
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, 🎵
How I wonder what you are! 🎶
As your bright and tiny spark, Lights the traveller in the dark,— Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! 🎶 🎵
WTF! I ….just can’t believe it……….
Why?
Why?
WHY?!
Why would you leave the world such a shitty song? Is this a prank? If it’s a prank from those heroes, I swear I am going to pull them out from their grave and cut their head off, just to kill them again…..
Those were just my inner thoughts though. My facial expression wasn’t that dark, only my eyes twitched a little..or a lot.
*Huff*
I sighed, the claps from around pulled me out of my thoughts, which mainly consisted of cursing the damned heroes.
I mean jazz, rock, rap even k-pop would have been fine. Why music for putting children to sleep?.
I couldn’t comprehend what the heroes where thinking, did they not remember any other songs?
“Heres your chicken rice sir.” The waiter shook me off my thoughts.
“Thank you , oh! And by the way, where did you get that song from?” I asked him with a forced smile.
The waiter smiled and replied, “It’s a song that is inherited from the owner’s family. Apparently they were great songwriters.”
“Hoo!” I was amused, “then what about the rice? Were they also great recipe makers too?”
The waiter had an awkward expression, “eem, I don’t know.”
I pulled out two silver coins, “what do you know?”
The waiter gulped seeing the silver coins, “I really don’t know anything, t-the owner is awfully secretive about the rice recipes, so I don’t know much.”
“I see” I nodded and gave him the coins.
“Thank you for the tip sir, enjoy the food” The waiter left.
I started to taste the food. It wasn’t exactly what I expected rice to taste like. It wasn’t exactly bad, but it didn’t feel right. In my memories rice reminded me a comfy home. While this rice gave me the impression of a newly bought house that didn’t work out.
The chicken was nice though.
I slowly ate and when I was done with it I chugged the last mouthfuls of water. The waiter came and removed the dishes. And left me with cake.
“Tsk” at least the hero could have told them that there isn’t supposed to be dessert after rice. Was the hero braindead?.
I picked my teeth and looked at the cake.
“I might as well help myself.”
I indulged in the cake. After I was done with it, I cleaned myself with a napkin and held myself from burping.
“Check please” I said to the waiter who was serving the people on the table next to me.
“Just a sec sir.”
He came and said, “that’ll be 2 silver coins sir”
I gave the coins to him and said.
“You should know lullaby songs don’t go well with food, especially rice.” That’s right, they played the damn song even when I was eating. I had to hold myself back from strangling the one who came up with the shitty idea
“A-ah, I’ll make sure the manager knows.” The waiter left, and so did I.
As I left through the door, I heard the song play again for the fifth time since I came here. Yeah, I definitely won’t come here again in this lifetime.
I guess I’ll just look forward only to the nice surprises the heroes left me. I stretched my back and groaned.
After finishing stretching I pulled the map out of the [ Dimensional Storage ] and looked at it.
“Who is going to walk for days again.”
“That’s right… It’s going to be me.”
End of Volume - 2: Bonds of Ice