As Cecil and Lucia were waiting, the people from the wagon ahead of them sent curious glances at their group. One of the passengers, a cute kid with dog ears, jumped down from the wagon and approached the group. He seemed to be around 8 years old.

"Hey, big bro! What's his name?"

"Silver."

"Silver~ Woah! He's soooo big!"

"Haha, yeah, he's pretty big."

"Can I touch him?"

"Uhh, Silver?"

At his question, Silver only barked in response. From the kid's reaction, Silver seemed to have given him his consent.

"Really? Yay!"

Seeing Silver acting so friendly, the people on the wagon, especially the woman who had the same features as the kid, who looked a bit worried at first, had their expressions ease up. The kid immediately approached Silver and started stroking the fur on this large foreleg. Silver stared at the kid and from Cecil's perspective, Silver looked at him as if an elder was looking at a child.

'What the heck? Just how old are you Silver?! You're just the same age as me! Younger even!'

He gave the large wolf a nudge on his side and this prompted Silver to look at him and shake his head. After the child got his fill of stroking, he looked up at Silver, giggled, and ran back towards the wagon. After getting onto the wagon again, the child sat by the woman who was likely his mother and started chatting with the woman. The woman gave Cecil and his group a gently smile while bowing her head a little.

Cecil smiled back and nodded at her. After that brief interaction, the line started moving again as the disturbance from Silver's sudden appearance had been resolved. Cecil glanced up at the sky and saw that it looked to be about 8 o'clock or so. He thought that it would probably take a while so after moving up a bit, he took out some snacks from his backpack and began eating them with Lucia. After another hour or so, it was finally their turn to be inspected.

"ID?"

"We have a recommendation letter from Fauxe Village."

Cecil took out the recommendation letter from his bag and handed it over to the inspection officer. The person inspecting the line was a female beastkin with droopy dog ears who was wearing a uniform that looked somewhat like a police uniform from back on Earth.

'Wow, so uniform's a thing here too, huh.'

As Cecil was staring and thinking about something irrelevant, Lucia started to nudge at him, actually, it was more like she was stabbing him with her fingers.

"Cel..."

"W-what's wrong Lulu?"

"Nothing..."

"If it's nothing, then can you stop stabbing me?"

"..."

Instead of stopping, Lucia started stabbing him even harder with her fingers.

"Purpose of visit?"

"W-we're here, t-to register as, a-adventure-ERS!"

"Is something wrong?"

"N-nothing, ma'am!"

With Lucia stabbing him from behind, it was really hard to answer the lady.

"Okay, everything's good. I would recommend quickly heading to the adventurer's guild to get an ID issued."

"Y-yes, of course."

"The adventurer's guild is on the west road after you reach the town square center."

"Th-thank you, ma'am."

"Also, your pet will be escorted to the ranch at the... west side of this town gate. You should accompany the guiding officer to the ranch."

"Yes, ma'am."

"Okay, next please!"

After their group was finished, another guard came over to escort them to the ranch. After leaving for the ranch, Lucia finally stopped stabbing Cecil.

"Ow, ow... hey, what gives Lulu?"

"Nothing..."

"How can that be nothing!"

"...you were ogling at her..."

"What?"

He couldn't quite catch what Lucia just said, so he leaned in and asked again. His face was a little too close this time and Lucia pushed him away while saying, "Like. I. Said. ITS NOTHING!"

Cecil flinched at Lucia suddenly flaring up out of nowhere. With a huff, she walked past him and started talking to Silver who was ahead. Cecil could only scratch his head in confusion and follow after them.

"Alright, this is where you leave him. Please get a monster token from the ranch master."

"Okay."

Cecil went towards the house by the ranch and talked to the ranch master. After putting a collar around Silver's neck, they got a corresponding token that identified Cecil as Silver's owner. He then looked around and saw other huge animals or monsters idling around the ranch, some were eating and others were sleeping, but there were none in conflict with each other and this made him relax. Since all the monsters were so tame and peaceful, this put his mind at ease.

'At least there won't be any problems on Silver's end.'

"Okay, Silv. Now that you're here, we'll head in. After registering, we'll try and figure out how the guild works before coming back over to get you. Make sure you don't get yourself into any trouble, you hear me?"

Silver barked in response and went deeper into the ranch. After walking over to a huge tree, he laid down and started napping.

"Okay, since Silver's all settled, let's head in Lulu!"

"Okay."

Carefully, Cecil asked Lucia about what happened earlier.

"Hey, you're still not mad about... whatever it is you were mad about, right?"

"Tch, figure it out yourself, stupid!"

"Hey, come on! I didn't do anything!"

"See, that's why your stupid, stupid!"

Lucia quickly walked towards the guard and Cecil chased after her in a hurry.

"Hey, just stop being mad okay? I don't even know what I did!"

"Hmph."

Cecil tried to pacify Lucia while they were returning to the gate, but it was to no avail. The guard in front even looked back at them quarrelling and when their eyes met, the guard gave Cecil a wry smile and shook his head. Cecil gave the man a confused look, but his attention was immediately pulled back to the fussy Lucia.

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'Seriously, I did nothing. NOTHING. Why are you mad Lulu?!'

This never happened back at the village or back at his home on Earth, so Cecil had no idea what to do. It was like seeing his little sister throwing a tantrum at their dad for no reason at all.

'Now that I think about it, how did dad pacify Angel?'

Since the situations were similar, Cecil thought back to what his father did and tried to do what he did. When they finally arrived back at the gate, Lucia was no longer mad at him.

'Good thing dad's technique worked. Finally, something useful from the old man.'

While walking past the gate, Cecil caught a glimpse of the female inspections officer from before. After looking at her, he turned his attention towards the line and saw that it was still as long as before. This was a mistake on his part because when he turned around and started walking towards the gate, he saw a fuming Lucia glaring back at me. Thinking back to earlier, he hesitated a bit, but still carefully walked up to her.

'What's wrong? She was just fine earlier?!'

"L-Lulu, what's wrong?"

"..."

Hearing that, Lucia glared at him even more harshly than before. Without even answering, she turned around and walked into the town with an angry huff. Seeing that, Cecil could only helplessly follow after. After walking through the gate, there wasn't much to look at since nothing's really changed from the last time they've been here. Stalls littered around the road towards the city center with people hawking their wares.

It was really lively for a town that wasn't too big like Forest Hill Town, but this town acted as a hub of transportation and commerce for the surrounding area, since one would have to go through the Mesta Forest which was just ahead of this town to get to Angla City, which was the next City that was to the west of this area.

Angla City also happened to be the capital city of the kingdom Cecil was in right now. The kingdom was called the Anglaria Kingdom, run by the Arks royalty, which is a royal family clan of Lizardmen. As the duo went further into the town, they passed by a variety of stalls selling foods, equipment, and other miscellaneous trinkets. They also passed by the wagon that was just ahead of them during their queue.

The wagon's group seemed to be preparing a stall of their own and from the looks of things, they were most likely going to sell the local merchandise from their village. This was also something that the villagers from Fauxe Village did when they came to the town a while back.

"Cel! Look, is there some event going on?!"

The two had arrived at the town square and seeing how lavishly decorated the square was, there definitely seemed to be some kind of event going on. Lucia was particularly excited and the anger she had towards Cecil seemed to have disappeared as she pulled him towards the town square to see what was going on.

"Hmmm, it doesn't seem like they're having a festival though...I wonder what it could be..."

It didn't look like a festival or anything. If there was a festival then the main roads would also be decorated. As Cecil was looking around the square, Lucia stopped walking and started tugging at his sleeve.

"Cel, look over there, it looks like they're recruiting people for something!"

Lucia then started pointing at something excitedly.

'It looks like Lulu's finally not mad at me. That's good.'

Cecil let out a sigh of relief in his heart, and then he looked towards where Lucia was pointing at and saw a stand with a huge banner over it. There were letters on it that were hard for him to make out right away because of the weird way it was written, but after taking another glance at it, he was finally able to read what it said.

"M, monster hun, ting."

"Monster hunting!"

Lucia exclaimed, finishing it for him.

"The people there are recruiting for monster hunting then?"

"You got that righ'."

"Eh?"

That was obviously not Lucia, so Cecil looked towards the source and saw a middle-aged, gruff looking man who was behind a stall. The man seemed to know what was going on since he spoke up earlier, so Cecil turned and walked towards him and asked, "Uhm, we're new here. Can you explain?"

"I can see 'at. Well anyway, thi' something the town 'rranges ev'ry month. Ya kids 'er lucky!"

Lucia's eyes sparkled and she excitedly asked, "Can anyone participate?"

"As long ya got ID, ye."

"Thanks, mister!"

"No prob, lil lady."

After Lucia said their thanks, the duo quickly rushed towards the western road that led to the adventurer's guild. Walking down the road, the two finally saw a large 3-story building that was practically screaming 'Here, me! I'm the adventurer guild!'

Cecil noticed that next to the main door where adventurer-looking people were coming and going was a booth that was being manned by a few people who he assumed to be the guild's staff, because of the uniform they were wearing, dealing with people around their age. When Lucia saw this, she turned back towards Cecil and said, "Okay Cel, later I want you to just shut up and let me do the talking, okay?"

"A-alright."

'When did you become so assertive?' Cecil thought.

The two quickly made their way towards the booth and lined up behind the other teenagers that were around their age. Eavesdropping on some of the conversations in the line, Cecil was sure that this was the line for the newbies to register as prospective adventurers. The line was rather short so they didn't have to wait for too long before it was finally their turn. When it was their turn, the two finally saw the staff behind the booth. It was a male and female lizard beastkin.

Before Lucia could get a word out, the guild staff quickly greeted both her and Cecil enthusiastically, "Welcome to the Adventurer's Guild!!!"