As night descended, I entered the guild and walked to the desk. Mary showed her best custor service smile. Bless her heart.
“My quest is finished!”
“You collected five green langrass?” She asked.
“Five? No, I collected way more than that.” I ntally cheered for a job well done. “Oh,” I said, “and I managed to get much more!”
“You did? Tell , Eerie—” Mary’s face beca scary. Her lips were upturned, but her eyes weren’t smiling. “Did you do anything else while you were out? Don’t worry, I won’t be mad.”
“N-no, in fact, I was just joking about collecting more langrass!”
“Of course you were!”
“Of course I was!”
“Hahaha!”
“Hahahaha!”
“Oh, Eerie,” she said, “you are such a jokester. Really, don’t scare like that. I thought I was going to have to leave here sooner.”
“Leave?” I asked.
“I am transferring to the capital’s branch next week. Before then, please don’t make my workload unreasonable.”
“I would never dream of it!” I pulled the five langrass from my inventory and placed them on her desk. “Here.”
Mary picked them up and began inspecting them. She twirled them around by the stems as she looked at the leaves.
“These are in perfect condition. I am surprised you knew—” Mary cleared her throat. “Thanks, as promised,” she said and handed five silver coins. “One silver for each.”
“Oh, pretty.” I turned the coins over in my hand. They had a face on one side, but the other was a weird-looking candle. “What’s with the candle?”
“Obviously, that’s because we are in the Candlewax Kingdom.”
Even I had to laugh awkwardly at that. There was definitely no place called Candlewax. I pocketed the coins in my inventory. As I finally turned to leave, I almost bumped into Wood Beach again. The traveling circus really had a knack for running into .
“H-hey, Eerie,” he said. He must have been embarrassed about having to heal him from his last act. Wood moved past swiftly to the receptionist's desk. “Marcy, are you putting in an escort request?”
“No, why would I?”
“You are going to the capital alone?” He asked. “I know you are strong, but…”
Mary sighed and pointed at the quest board. “Gee, between you and the guild master, I don’t know what’s worse. If you really want to co, I will put a quest up tomorrow.”
Wood’s face went red. “It’s not like I want to co. I just want you to feel safe.”
What the heck? Was this the legendary tsundere act? The acting troupe was really upping their ga. I decided it was the perfect ti to pull a bag of popcorn from my inventory and started eating while the free theatre continued.
“Wood, you know I can’t stay here in this small town anymore,” Mary said.
“I know, it’s just—”
What? What is it? A love confession? I was desperate to know where the rom-com would lead.
““Will you stop eating that!?””
“Huh? But you two were just getting to the good—”
““We’re not an acting troupe!””
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