Beast-kin

Inside his room, Kiro is already awake, due to the chain of events that occurred within the last few days. His body and mind felt sluggish.

Going down to the pub, Kiro greeted the Inn's owner with an amiable smile.

"Greetings, Mr. Walt, what's the menu for today?" Staring at the middle-aged man, who has short brown hair, a long dark brown eyelash with his experienced eyes flashed with knowledge in life.

Walt wore casual long-sleeves made of linen, and a short made of brown wool.

Staring at Kiro, Walt returned the greetings with a pleasant smile. "Mm, Good afternoon Mr. Kiro." Placing the wooden tray on the counter, Walt added.

"Today's meal is a roasted deer! I was lucky to encounter a bulk sale early in the morning." Saying that, Walt showed Kiro the content inside the tray.

Staring at the tender meat in front of him, Kiro's appetite rose. "Okay! Please serve me three servings of roasted deer." Drooling over the meat, Kiro looked over for the nearest empty table inside the pub.

"Alright, three servings of roasted deer, coming right up!" Serving the meal to the other customer, Walt went inside the kitchen to prepare Kiro's order.

"Have you guys heard the incident inside the plainlan forest?"

Suddenly Kiro heard a gossip inside the pub.

"Yeah, to think another Goblin Nest was found near the border of the town, what the heck is happening?" Another person voiced out.

"Rumors that there was a Goblin King inside the forest... Then when the Nimrod party came back, they brought back thirty plus people along with them!" A drunk person in the middle of the afternoon boasted of his knowledge about the event.

"Hee~ What do you know! They said deep inside the forest, they discovered a demon's activity!" Hearing the man's voice. A sudden heavy atmosphere descends to the entire lodge.

"... Don't joke around, what do you mean by demons? With this town's capability, one demon is enough to swash all of us to death." The drunk person who was boasting about his knowledge uttered his disbelief.

"... It said the Invincible A-ranker went to the forest and wreaked havoc whilst nearly changing the entire landscape of the beginner's forest..."

Hearing the other man's voice, the atmosphere inside the pub eased up.

"Hahaha! Speaking of thirty plus survivors, they said there was a rare species among the group."

"... Oh, I heard about that, It's about the three silver-wolf tribes, right?" Hearing the man's voice, the drunk person responded.

"Yea... Poor fellows, I bet the underground world already marked their attention to them..."

Listening to the gossip inside the Pub, Kiro shook his head in resignation. However, the last words of those drunkards group caught his attention.

Since coming to this world, Kiro has seen none of the other races that came from the fundamental knowledge he attained since that day.

With that thought in mind, Kiro decided after his meal, he would go to the guild to check out the mentioned individuals.

Then Walt who came to get Kiro's portion saw him in deep thought. "Three servings of roasted deer!" Gently place the tray to his table, Walt said. "What's wrong?"

"Oh, it's nothing." Pausing for a bit, Kiro added. "By the way, Mr. Walt, since when did Alina quit her job?" Kiro replied while staring at the aromatic roasted meat in front of him.

"Mm, it's been quite sometime now since Alina quitted her job, after paying her debt in the guild, she rarely appeared here." Sighing slightly, Walt added.

"Didn't you guys belong to the same party?" Picking up his voice, Kiro frowned in trouble.

"Haah, we had a minor dispute inside the group, while Alina stayed at the same place as others, for me. It was quite suffocating to have a heavy atmosphere on a daily basis, so I moved out of the place and stayed here."

Noticing his troubled look, Walt wasn't a fool to not understand that he did not want to talk about the event that occurred during that time.

Ignoring the sympathetic look of Inn's owner, Kiro devoured the meat in front of him.

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Inside the Adventurer's Guild.

On the outer right corner of the lounge where the Guild's pub is located, a group of six individuals was cheerfully having a toast with the leading person raising his 18 oz mug, as he proclaimed.

"Hahaha! We've never had such an easy catch like this, so you guys keep drinking... Drink! I allow no one to go out of this pub without getting drunk! Wahaha." The man said while he gulped his mug in one go.

"Hehehe~ Leader, to think after reporting to the guild, not only did they reward us handsomely, the commission we thought as a failure would generously give us such a wealthy sum!" The person who responds has a crimson hair with his blazing red eyes flickered in happiness.

"Yup! Toa you're right! Who could have thought the failure expedition would lead us into a fortune?" The one who said it is a man who wore full-body plate armor. It was no other than Poko, the tank of their group.

"What do you mean by no one may go out of this pub without getting drunk! You dumbass leader!" Slamming her mug on the table, Hilde fiercely rebuked Gellis.

"My, my... Hilde is so energetic when getting drunk, I guess I need to stop drinking here, else, who would take care of this drunkard woman." Theeste voices out her alluring voice. That attracts not only the nearby adventurer but also the group of people who sent a commission to the guild, couldn't help to be fascinated by her fairy-like beauty.

"..." However, the herbalist on their party was already lying cold on the table, with a thick stink of alcohol around him.

"Bwahaha! How weak! Oi~ Sinon, wake up." Laughing wildly, Gellis added. "Well, one last toast for our thriving return!"

""Yeah!""

The group of people shouted in unison; however, Gellis and his group were entirely oblivious to the person who was paying attention to their group with its lidless eyes.

"... So how is it, Daren? Do you think our group is enough to take care of those pests?" The man said with his eyes flashed with hatred.

"... When It comes to a fair group battle, we may not able to bout with them. Nevertheless, with an irregular approach, we may able to succeed, Rex." Daren responded to the man with his wicked eyes flashed in delight.

"Hehehe, just like you promised, if we succeed. You'll give me that woman." Saying that, Daren's eyes darted toward Theeste.

"Alright, alright, you may have the mage. Still, tell me why you're so obsessed with her?" Following his gaze, Rex muttered in a tone only audible to the two.

"Hehehe, you'll know it once we accomplish our plan." Shifting his gaze to him, Daren wickedly laughed.

"However, this time around, the Nimrod party did something great, to think when they returned to the town, they would even bring three silver wolf-race... If we can abduct them, we could earn a lot of fortune." After he said that, Daren's beaming eyesight returned to his usual amber glow.

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On his way to the Guild, Kiro encountered an acquaintance.

Staring at the familiar figure of the woman who has blonde hair that reached up to her elbow, with her graceful emerald eyes that beaming with radiance, Kiro called out. "Missa?"

Hearing a familiar voice, Missa who was accompanied by two children looked on her side to find the source of the sounds. "... Kiro?"

"Big sister Missa, who is that man?" Suddenly one of the two children tugged her sleeve while curiously staring at Kiro.

Hearing the Child's voice, Missa responded with a gentle smile. "Mm, Gill, say hello to your Big brother Kiro."

Eventually, Kiro noticed the two children behind Missa's back. At first, he thought his eyes were playing tricks on him, as he saw the two children who have silky silver hair, but the odd thing about them is their pointed ears, similar to a wolf.

"... Beast-kin?" Kiro voiced out his astonishment upon seeing a real living person who has a similar characteristic of an animal.