As far as I knew, they were fighting over some request. The other group had the necessary amount of members to take that request, but Julia blocked their way. So the one at fault was Julia.

"See! I told you my party member is here!"

And she dragged me into her mess.

"So what? It is only one person, you still lacking members"

"IT doesn't matter! I can do better than anyone of you combined! Hey! Nashi, tell them to stay away!". Woah, Julia, you were adding fuel to the fire and since when we were calling each other with our first name?

"Hmph! Is that so? Aren't you just a rich kid? an E-rank uses wyvern scale as her armor, does your daddy buy it for you?" ... No good, this looked like a battle of pride. Hm? One of them turned red? I searched carefully and found the one turned red was Julia. She clenched her teeth. Her eyes narrowed, with a cold stare.

I walked toward her and gently touched her shoulder "Give it up. Come on, let's take another one". I said it wrong, from the way I said it, it looked like I wanted to help her. She turned her face toward me, and In an instant, her expression turned normal. 

"Okay~, Fufu~ looks like you guys get saved because of this man." She had a big mouth huh. Thank god the other group ignored her word.

"Now what kind of request should we take? I recommend we take Dire Rat extermination, these vermin lives inside the sewer, and no matter how much we kill them, they keep coming back, oh how about goblin?. Lately, their number has increased a lot. OH! how about-"

"Since this is the first time we are working together how about an easy one?" I cut her word, I felt like she can go on for forever

"Ah, good idea, then we take Dire Rat extermination." 

She did all the procedure, there was some problem because I didn't have my ID card yet, but besides that everything was okay. We took a bus and walked a little bit. There we saw a bunch of adventurer coming in and out of the sewer gate, both of golden and white dot combined into one group, some were going in alone. I changed into my uniform, only put the jacket though. I wonder what was the reason for us to change into our uniform when we were on duty.

"Wait!! you're a C-rank!?" 

"no, I'm not... I tell you later" Oh I only realized the others looking at us right now.

"Is that okay for you to come to do this low-level mission!? I mean! This is basically a training place for F-rank! Jeez~ you should've said that you're a C-rank, no wonder you're coming here without any kind of equipment!" She didn't listen to me, *sigh* why was nobody listening to me...

"Ahaha... Let's just go in" I had a complicated feeling, yeah my Rank wasn't something that I achieved, I believe in term of skill and experience everyone in here was better than me. 

Hah... The request was "Exterminate 35 Dire Rat" for proof we only need their tail, but we still need to bring the body out from the sewer.

Anyhow, we walked in with some other adventurers.

"So... Kamiya-san is there a reason for you to come to the dungeon like this?"

"What are you talking about, there must be some kind of high-level monster in here"

"no... I'm not a C-rank"

"Yer a modest one huh, ya can't fool us, just look at yer uniform and yer emblem, ah we go this way"

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One group left, only five people left including me and Julia

"What kind of weapon do you use?"

"Hmph! no matter how you look at it, he must be a fist fighter like me! just looks at his arm!"

"No... I am weak"

"Nooooo~, I believe Nashi is a spellcaster, right!? by the way is it fine if I call you Nashi?" 

I nodded at Julia. I mean she already called me that since the beginning.

"Really? He looks like an agile one rather than spellcaster at least for me, oi! blondy, don't be a burden to him, we split here!"

"I won't~, all right Nashi, please guide me!"

Anyhow, this was a good time, I explained everything to Julia from my Ability to this matter.

"Whaaaaat, so there is a case like that, and here I am can't even pass the D rank qualification even after 2 years working." 

It's pretty dark, but I vaguely saw her pouting.

"hahaha... sorry, anyhow if I'm a burden you could leave me"

Julia stopped for a moment, she put her index on her chin and said "It's fine! everybody needs to start at the bottom! But to be able to survive a hellhound, even most of the D rank can't do that"

" No... It is because of luck, " 

"Well~ survive is survive, anyway~ since it is clear you never have fighting experience, how about making this a training? I'm only a rank E, but I can teach a thing or two! Still, you should've told something like that sooner"

"I have, none of you listening"

"Really~?" Said Julia, while she pretending to be dumb. "although you make the right decision, just imagine the chaos that will happen if you tell everybody about that" 

"Yeah that's the reason why I didn't tell anyone about this matter, well some people know it though, ah... there're 4 monsters at the next corner" 

As soon as she heard this, she took out one of the sticks that had been hanging around at her belt, she clicked it and it became a pole with pointy head.

"What is that?" 

"A new kind of weapon that my family creates~, here use this one, this is modeled after a javelin."

She gave me one stick, I followed her and clicked the button, a spear shorter than the previous one emerged. Next, she said "Alright Nashi~ try to beat these four, the Dire Rat basically just a big rat" and pushed me to the corner. In instant, the four green dot changed into a red one.

yes, they were a big rat, but the size was almost the same as a toddler.

The sewer smell combined with the Dire Rat smell created a putrefying stench. Under a dimly light, two of the red dot coming to me with a rapid acceleration, every step they took echoed through this tunnel, my body didn't listen to my brain. I knew for real that I used javelin, I knew that I should have stabbed them, but I swung the javelin.

"haaaaaaa!!" I swung it while yelling, I didn't know why I did that. The sound of metal clashed against flesh accompanied by a squealing sound can be heard. I tried to catch a breath for a second and the other Dire Rat jumped at me.

Against all odds, I closed my eyes, I can't hear anything. Next thing I knew there were only 3 red dots remained, then one and zero. When I opened my eyes, I saw Julia playing around with her spear and she said "Not bad for the first timer~, but you must not close your eyes, and tips, you're using a javelin, not a club."

"Sorry..." I said in a low voice.

"It's fine~ there is 31 Dire Rat left" We walked in for a bit, this time there was another 4 Dire Rats. "Go Nashi!!" She pushed me again!

I embraced myself while remembering everything she taught me (Stab, open eyes, don't stop moving, watch the surrounding). This time I managed to stab the Dire Rat in his head. "Ugh... It stuck!!" before I knew it, I already surrounded by the others."[Jump]!"

She dropped from the sky and stood next to me. "[Sonic Stab]!" A whitish aura covered the pointed head of her spear, she thrust the Dire Rat like a butter met hot skewer. next, she did a well-calculated wide-swing, only the tip of her spear met the Dire Rat body, she spun her body and did another wide-swing, the second one was a little miscalculated, rather than the spearhead some of its pole parts hit the Dire Rat body, the swung got stopped midway and didn't reach the last Dire Rat.

I threw my javelin clunkily, it didn't fly straight like I thought. the Dire Rat evaded it, Julia without hesitation followed its path and slammed down her spear.

I watched in amazement, she looked at me and smiled "Hee~ you already do better! I guess you're a natural fighter"

We did this quite a few times, each time I got better, at least I managed to throw straight, though sometimes I still made the same mistake like stopped moving or closed my eyes and to my surprise weapon was easily break, I changed mine once while Julia changed her thrice. At the twentieth Dire Rat, I managed to kill one without any trouble. When she killed the other four, I heard another sound of a bell.