Brooke Village

It had been some time since they left the sea of trees and they were on their way to the nearest town that doubled as an outpost to watch Reisen Gorge. "Aren't you very popular Haji hehe." Selena was leading while throwing an ice dagger at what few enemies that got the idea to try to attack them. 

"Sigh, I don't even know how I trigger this girls flag" referring to Shea. "I mean I haven't been very nice to her since we met."

"You did stop her people from being killed off." She patted his hand all the while. 

"You do have that saving damsel in distress look." Snicker all the while. 

"He looked very cool while he was threatening war."

"Please stop. I just want to end the pointless conversion since they were getting nowhere." As Selena was about to say something she heard Shea yelling at them to be heard over the rushing wind. 

Hey, why are you guys so quiet!! Selena look back since the monster attack stopped. Guessing it was due to all the dead monster bodies being fought over since it was much easier prey than their group. Shea was talk to Hajime and Yue but since she was hear rush of wind all she picked up was 'stop calling me worthless". 

When they finally saw the big wall of the outpost city, Selena stop and Hajime also stop pulling the two bikes into the storage ring and walked the rest of the way. 

"Why are we just not using your artifact to make all the way to the city?" She was busy trying to pull off a choker that had been newly placed on her. 

"Did you ever know something like that was possible?"

"No, that was my first time and I haven't been outside the sea of trees till we were kicked out." Not seeing the point. 

"Are they common to this world?"

"No but.."

"That's my point. If we go on and show off every single artifact we're going to attract a lot of attention and get asked a lot of questions I'd rather avoid. We're trying to keep a low profile for as much time as possible."

"Yea three hot girl one male it going go over well Haji"

"What can you do?"

"Dress like…" shot was fire at her and she dodged it. "I was just trying to help you know."

"Mmm Hajime in dress" Yue was looking at him trying to see what color would be best. 

"If going to wear women's clothing it should be something in blue so that way he matches with me." As she finished that statement another shot was fired, but this time was at Shea's forehead.

"Shut up rabbit."

"Why not Yue too!! And also I'm the only one who got hit too"

"It is not from the lack of not wanting to hit Selena, but it's hard when you're at our level of power. As for Yue," he turned to her and saw that her eyes were shining as if she was lost in thought. "I can't do it," get lost in her eyes and both start emitting a pink aura. 

"Hey let me in please I want to join!!!" Try to break them up. "Uh Selena how do you do it?"

"Me? Umm it doesn't bother me. I'm happy he got a girlfriend. I was betting he going try to be a wizard if Yue didn't catch him, hehe." She tilted her head to the side letting bullets pass by. 

"You got to calm down Haji. You're going to get wrinkles on your face if you keep scrunching your face like that hehe." 

"Quit messing with Hajime. We're about to get to the gate, Selena" Yue glared at Selena in warning. She put hands up. 

"Got it. I'll stop now, it's too much fun though."

"Can take this off already," Shea was distracted and began to pull the choker once again. 

"Hey did you fix your stats Hajime?"

"Mmm oh shit" he began to alter his status plate to look more common and give himself thirty points on all stats. Selena had also given herself points ranging from twenty five to thirty at random since having all of them being the same would be stupid. 

"Halt there why have you come here?" One of the guards stops the party. "We need to see your status plates."

"Sure that's no problem." he from pocket when it was in the storage ring but didn't want to spawn right in front of them. Selena had also started to rifle through the small fanny bag she had Yue make to keep some stuff so as to not keep asking Hajime to pull something out. And she handed her plate and the guard finally noticed the group of hot girls traveling with the single male. "Aa why are you here again?" He looked down and saw flat thirties on Hajime's plate. "I don't think I've ever seen all stats equal before." \

"He's a train nut" Selena jumped in before they could linger on it for too long. "He spends so much time working on single stats. He doesn't like to see different numbers; it's his ocd."

"Ocd?" Both guards looked in confusion at each other. 

"Obsessive-compulsive, it is a disorder where he has to have everything perfect."

Hajime had grown angry at being called ocd since his room was always a mess. "Well that's some dedication to balance your stats boy, good job." He didn't really look at him, their eyes were getting sucked into Shea's very revealing chest. She jumped behind Hajime without saying anything and felt very uncomfortable. "Well, can we go in?"

"What about her?" Point at Yue 

"Ah well we were attacked and she lost your status plate and we hope to get a replacement. As for her, well you know what she is right." Wiggling his eyebrows. 

"You should hear her. I never knew rabbit-men could be so loud and the room was shaking." Selena added on. The guards were squirming, imagining such a scene and getting very uncomfortable boners. 

"You can pass, just make sure you get plates for two of them. It makes it easy in future cities."

"Will do boss," she smiled and waved and guards ran into the nearby room. 

"Did you really have to do that Selena?" Get exasperated at the fact he knew what they were about to do. 

"It help get them not to look too deep."

"If that is what you want to do to me Hajime I wouldn't mind" Shea cheek grew very red just thinking about the scene Selena described. 

"Pervert" Yue slapped Selena butt since they are so close due since enter the city. 

"Wait, you let her hit you but not me?" 

"You do realize that your bullet hurt way more than a slap to my butt." 

"Oh I can fix that" her head start sparking as fix lighting was in imbued 

"Hey wait, why am I your Slave!!! get this thing off of me" Shea once tried hard to pull off choker.

Selena let out a deep sigh. "Look Shea, you might not notice this, but you know that you're a VERY beautiful girl, right? Heck, look at those guards from before. Just a little idea of what you could do made them run to take care of themselves." As she gestures towards the guardhouse to make her point. 

Hajime slaps his forehead in annoyance, "Despite what she is saying, if you don't have that on, people will try to catch you and make you their slave. It would be easier if they thought you were a slave to one of us instead."

"We don't want to waste any more time chasing a worthless rabbit." Yue smirked.

Shea ended up cupping her cheeks in her hands and squirming in embarrassment. "Selena, it is flattering that you would say such things, but you know that my heart is for Hajime. I mean, he even uses me fo- Bugaah!?" Yue's fist prevented Shea from delving into her delusions. The sudden hit caught her by surprise, leaving a big red welt on her cheek.

Yue starts to emit a dark aura, and growls out, "Mine."

"I'b shorry, Yue." She says as her ears droop for a while, before perking right back up.

As they walked through the city, they could see what looks like the adventurer building in the distance with the sign that has crossed swords. They've gotten a lot of looks from nearly everyone, causing Shea to stick close to Hajime.

"This is one thing I don't miss, nosey people" Selena glared at some people to get them to turn away. 

"I'm sure it's not for you," Yue said, taking in the city before her since it had been a long time since she's been in one. 

"Let's just trade in some monster parts for gold and see where we spend the night." Letting out his intimidation to spook people. 

"No need to worry, we have Hajime here to protect us." Shea was in a chipper mood until they heard something come from behind them.

An old man in white priest robes was running at them. "Make way please!!!"

Not wanting to get entangled in anything with the old priest, Hajime moves to the side to allow him to pass right through. "Thank you lad, I remember this kindness."

Hajime nodded his head. And another noise was coming from behind him yelling at him.

"Get back here old man!!!" A beautiful lady in white robes seemed to be chasing him. And both parties quickly disappeared after turning down an alley.

"Well that was something," Hajime cracked a smile. 

"For old man he was fast" Yue hummed 

"They seem very nice." Shea said with a smile.

"I feel as though I should know that pair.' Selena thought, before turning to Shea, "Be careful, Shea. The holy church is what we are trying to avoid at the moment."

"Yes," she nodded her head like a duckling. 

As Hajime enter with girl on each arm and one follow just behind a lot the other adventurers got jealous since they would kill to have any of the knockout beauties 

"Oh young master be careful, hehe."

"Keep it up…" a small growl could be heard. 

As they walked up to the counter, they found themselves face to face with a charmingly smiling… middle-aged woman. A very well built one at that. Her torso was twice as wide as Yue's. The stereotype that all guild receptionists were beautiful woman seemed to be a false one. Just like how in reality most of the maids were actually older women. No matter which world one was in, truth was harsher than fiction.

Selena touched her own waist, hoping that her own would not become like that. Yue turns her head slightly and smirks at Selena's dilemma. She saw her smile evilly at her for her own wows and stuck out her tongue at her as they battled slightly. The party got in front of the receptionist. Selena whispered into Hajime ear "get your head out of the gutter you got two lovely ladies on both sides hehe." Hear that, both Shea's and Yue's grip tighten. A small wince was let out as quietly as possible. 

The receptionist simply continued smiling at him, acting like nothing just happened in the last few seconds.

"You've got three gorgeous girls with you already and you're still not satisfied? Well, unfortunately for you, this receptionist's no beauty. As for you, young lady, just you wait. One day it will all catch up to you." 

'... Can this lady use mind-reading magic or something?' Hajime's and Selena's expressions stiffened and they tried to casually reply.

"Oh, I wasn't thinking anything like that at all." They both said at the same time 

"Jinx !!!"

"Jinx!!"

"Ha I said first" Hajime said, "You owe me soda, but I'll take a green tea."

"Ahaha, what a lovely friendship. But please don't underestimate a woman's intuition," she glared at the two of them. "Your two ladies in your arms will not let you court someone right in front of them so easily." 

"... I'll keep that in mind." Giggling was heard from behind him.

"He suffered enough, right missy?" Her eyes boring in Selena. 

"Yes ma'am" she felt bad since her aura was like a chiding mom. And it pinch something she long forgot in this life. 

When she heard her despondent reply, though, she apologized immediately.

"Oh, look at what age does to you. I'm sorry for lecturing you two when we've just met."

Hajime, out of curiosity, glances to see the other adventures and see them given both him and Selena pitying looks as if to say "poor kids". Though Selena was expecting this, she found herself blushing in embarrassment when she also glanced towards the adventurers and saw their looks before palming her face.

 'It appeared the reason the adventurers here were all so mature was because of her.' Hajime thought to himself

"Anyway, welcome to the Brooke branch of the adventurer's guild. What business do you have with us?"

"Oh, yeah, right… I'm looking to sell some materials."

"I see. May I ask to see your status plate?"

"Huh? I need to show you my status plate just to sell things?"

The old lady gave Hajime a puzzled look.

"Are you not an adventurer?" Looking at the four of them getting head turns. "You don't need your status plate just to sell things, but if you're a registered adventurer you get a 10% bonus to your sales."

"I didn't know that."

According to the lady's explanation, there were a lot of other benefits.

And Selena kind of zoned out since she recalls that being an adventurer had a lot of benefits only to really hear things she had forgotten about. 

"A lot of inns and shops that do business with the guild will give adventurers 10-20% off for their services, and if your rank is high enough you can charter carriages for free. What do you think? Would you like to register with us?"

 The denominations came in blue, red, yellow, purple, green, white, black, silver, and gold. They were worth 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000, and 10000 Luta respectively. Interestingly enough, it was the same values Japanese bills and coins came in.

"Hmm, I see. In that case, I guess me and Selena might as well register. Unfortunately, I don't have any money on me right now. Could you just deduct it from the value of all the stuff I'm selling? I don't mind taking the base rate for however much I need to register." 

"What are you doing, walking around penniless with three beauties?"

"I'm so sorry for him. He had gambling addiction and always tried to beat the odds," Selena said, not able to hold herself back. 

The adventure looked at him with anger since he didn't treat the ladies he had with him right. 

Selena ends up getting smacked on her head with a paper roll. "Lying isn't very nice."

"Services you right." He knew it was petty because Selena was acting so childish, but he couldn't help it.

"Ugh what are you two children?" Shea deadpans.

"You're make us look bad." Yue chimed in.

"We'll stop," they both said at the same time once again but didn't say anything else since they were walking on thin ice at the moment with the receptionist and just handed over their status plates. They both hid their stats, leaving their gender, age, and job. 

"Oh, I never heard of Shinobi before. What's it like?"

"Well I would say it's like ninja, but it's more magic oriented instead of the physical version." 

"Oh how so?" 

"Well," since she didn't really know how to show off the class since she doesn't really know what the original call stuff had she brought out her hand and an ice dagger formed. "It allows me to make small weapons like this without a spell circle."

"That's a first. I never heard of a class not needing spell circles unless they were on the pinnacle of some mage class or synergist."

"Yea.. well it's standard for me hehe," She tried to laugh off, not wanting to talk about this anymore.

Seeing how she became very uncomfortable. "I get it, young lady. I won't tell a soul and I mark your call as ninja in our book so you don't attract any more attention than your party already is." Smiling kindly at Selena. 

"Thank you so much. It helps more than you know." The party was relieved to hear their secret that they couldn't really hide was hidden by this very kind receptionist lady.

"That's no problem dearie. And please, just call me Catherine." 

'At least she doesn't have to see our whole party stats. Selena's and mine alone are ridiculous enough, but Yue and Shea are no slouches either.' Letting out a small breath of relief since they were not questioned as much as he would've thought given their odd party. Hajime was curious to see what the newest member's stats were like, but it would've caused a huge uproar. Dealing with that would've been a pain, so he decided to keep laying low instead.

When Catherine returned both plates to him, there was something new written on it. Next to the job column was an occupation column, which currently read "Adventurer." And there was a little blue mark next to it.

"That mark denotes your rank. As it rises, it will change to red, then yellow, then purple, then green, then white, then black, then silver, and finally gold." 

'…So in the eye of the world, we're worth less than garbage?' Hajime thought.

"It's the start of our adventure life. Now I wish we had marshmallows," Selena looked wistful since she liked the few times she had eaten them in her past life. She zones out once again, watching Hajime get chewed out once again for trying to hit on Catherine. 

"By the way, do you happen to have any maps of the town?" Hajime asks, trying to gets things back on track.

"Oh, yes, we do. Excuse me for just a moment… Here, found it. The inns and shops I recommend are all marked on it." The map she'd handed over was minutely detailed, and all of the most important information was easy to find. It resembled tourist pamphlets Hajime was used to. 

Selena saw the pamphlet and grabbed it from Hajime hands as she looked to see where the church was since she didn't recall being here in the original story. Low and behold there was a church near the center of the city. 'Guess we just walked near it on different block mmm'

Hajime looked at the map upside down since Selena was looking at it. "This is a really good map. Hell, I'd totally be willing to pay for something like this…"

"I don't mind. I just draw them for fun in my spare time. Actually, my job is Scribe, so something like this is easy for me."

"You sure? Well, thanks then."

"It's fine. Anyway, since you've got a decent amount of money now, I'd recommend staying somewhere nice. This town's pretty safe, but I'm sure there's at least a few guys that'll try and do something stupid since you have those three by your side."

Selena looks up at Catherine and bow, "thank you so much for all your help. We won't forget it."

"There's no need for that. I just love helping new and up and coming adventures dear.

"Heh, what an interesting bunch…" Catherine muttered to herself.

"You just couldn't keep your eyes off her. Yue and Shea were ready to kill you."

"We need to talk about those wandering eyes" Yue says

Hajime gulped, "Uh, I pledge the fifth." 

"I don't know what that is, but what about me" Shea was scream at into Hajime ear try get him to look at her since she felt left out in the adventurer's office. 

As they were bickering, they made their way to one of the recommended hotels that they decided to go to. It wasn't too far from the guild. They soon entered the inn with a bath since it was a luxury the Monsters of the Abyss wanted as they were used to it back in Japan.

When they entered the inn they saw half of it was what was expected of an inn, but the other half seemed to be a dinner hall. Selena saw the girl that looked like a barn girl with two pigtails with an accent as she addressed a pair that was heading up to their room. "She kinda reminds me of a country girl."

"Yea she does. That twang is hard to miss," Hajime said. 

"Hi there, how can I help you?" The girl said but as she noticed the party her face started to redden just a bit. 

Not wanting to call her out on her mind being in the gutter, Hajime acted like nothing was happening. "Hello there, I would like to get a room with two separate rooms." 

"Ah… yes that's no problem." 

"Oh I'm betting that one room is for Yue and Selena" Shea was on cloud nine thinking about what she would end up doing with Hajime. 

"No, me and Hajime will get one and you can bunk up with Selena."

"You hog him all the time!!!" At that point all the people start to stare at the dumpster fire that was Yue and Shea fighting for the night with Hajime. 

"That's only natural, after all we are busy at night hehe." 

"AH! I want to give Hajime my virginity!!" Selena took a few steps back since Hajime was done at the moment. He had already been teased to hell and back, and wasn't in the mood to go at it again. He hit both Yue and Shea on the head, knocking them out. "Can we also get bath time? I'd like at least 4 hours." 

"Aah.." the girl had fall to the ground when she heard what Shea had said. Luckily her mom had made her way to the front counter to throw her daughter to the back room and finish the order for them. "That will be one silver piece for the night."

"Thank you. Selena can you carry that thing" He points at Shea, already exhausted with the moment. 

"Yea sure" she hefted Shea into her shoulders while making their way up the stairs to the third floor where the room was. As they made their way to the third floor Selena couldn't help but talk.

"You're a real Harem protagonist, Haji! haha!" Selena could not to hold it in after they got to the second floor. 

"Ugh, I can't even with these girls. Yue couldn't you just wait till we were in our room to make a scene?" He asked, glancing at Yue, knowing that the blow she got wouldn't knock her out.

"Hmph, it's a girl thing you wouldn't understand." Yue replies, opening her eyes.

"Is it really?" He looks at Selena for confirmation. 

"Haha, she was just making sure Shea knew her place in the hierarchy of your heart." 

"But I'm not even into her," looking at the worthless bunny on Selena Shoulder still knocked out not pretending like Yue since he hit her with a good amount of his strength. 

"One day you'll understand Hajime. Just let the idea set in," they made it to their room and Selena set Shea into the couch in the living room. Stretching after letting Shea down, "Guess I'll go first" she says, claiming the first slot. 

"Yea, call me when it's my turn, I'll take a shower and then we'll head down to eat dinner."

"Sure no problem."

When Selena went into the medium size bathing room she took off her clothes and set a fresh set, left them in a box and grabbed a bucket. She threw the hot water over her head, let out a deep sigh as she let her muscles relax from the day of travel. Soon after she walked into the tub and just closed her eyes and set a magic timer for when it was time to leave the tub. When it was fifteen minutes before her two hours was up, she got dry and into her extra pair of clothes. The door soon opened and she saw both Yue and Shea coming in slowly to take off their stuff. "You know he wants to be alone?"

"Hmph, he doesn't know what he wants," Yue said.

"I'm not going to fall behind her," Shea's eyes were burning with passion. 

"Okay, I'll go call him for you two. hehe best of luck Shea." Selena says as she closed the door.

Yue just looked at the closed door and wondered what Selena's game was. "I'm so glad Hajime's best friend gave me the green light to chase her best friend."

"Mmm not if I have anything to say about it. I'll be the only special one to him."

"Oh yea? Bring it on!!!" The two of them spend time thinking of ways to seduce Hajime while they wait for him. 

Hajime spent the rest of the day resting to recover his sanity points since they were spent with the last three meetings. He didn't even end up eating due to just being exhausted mentally.