Recruiting me...Part 1 Chapter 25

As the footsteps echoed through each wet Alley way with each trash bin rushedly pushed to the sides....a certain boy was running for his life.

Yeah…this is me, I'm sure your wondering what the hell is happening right now? Why an old butler is constantly chasing me through this alleyway, and why he keeps yelling the same thing over and over again to me.

"Sign!!"

The butler was shouting carelessly as he pulls the piece of paper in front while chasing me.

"No! I already told you I won't!"

"Sign!"

This guy is crazy. Despite his age of almost being 50, his was able to keep up with me even when I was running a 40km/h. This was a cliche feature in a nobility genre written in isekai novels where Old butler people were strong as heck, given that their back story is either a past super strong hunter or a gravely insightful assassin. so I kinda saw this as being awesome too in some way but that wasn't the case....

"Sign!" he continues to shout like a madman.

"Shut up! Geez, I already told you I won't!"

"Sign!"

Talk about paying me back by putting me under a contract…this sucks.

This all started after I saved her yesterday.

1 day ago, right as she got out of her treatment, she came to pay me back.

"I wanted to pay you back for saving me." said Ranzy

"Pay me back?...you don't really have to though..." I said, employing that it was pointless to do this.

" But I must, a noble must always repay his debt."

"Okay then, How much can you offer me?"

I asked this because I wanted to get a clear estimate of what she could give me.

Money would be the only thing to be well received right now and the amount mattered on how much I was given, but the question lied within how much she could give me.

"Here…" she gave me an envelope. Curious as to what it was, I hesitantly opened it.

"...!" I was shocked to see what it was.

"A blank check?" my expression was clear as day by how unexpected this was.

"Yeah, my family is somewhat affluent. I was thinking of what I could give to you in saving my life, but since I don't know you at all, Money was the only thing I could offer…"she said, with our train of thought being somewhat similar, I couldn't disagree with her.

"This is fine actually, but how much can you give me though?"

"Well, how much do you want?"

"How much can you give me...sigh...you don't know how much you can give... do you?"

"....."

She dodged the question or more the less, just completely ignored it. At this rate, it'll just be a passing of the same question and offer back and forth. So I needed to end this.

"Okay…since I get to decide how much I can get, I just need to pass this on a bank right?"

"You can, but you can also exchange it in the counter at this building. They can accept a check, like this anytime." she said proudly showing that I accepted her gift.

"...Okay, I'll do just that. So thank you for the gift."

"No, thank you for saving me. I wouldn't be here right now if it wasn't for you." She said with a smile.

"Hmm, your welcome but in all honesty, anyone one would have saved you back there if they had the chance." I said while bearing the humble act of a character

As we aid our thanks, an old who was walking in the hallway, wearing a black suit and tie approached Ranzy from behind and greeted her. I assumed this was a servant of her family, knowing they were a noble.

"Miss Ranzy, I'm here to pick you up." said the old man.

"Ah Henry, you're here. Let me introduce you to my savior, Hamil. Hamil this is Henry, my personal butler."

"It's nice meeting you." I said while greeting him.

"And to you too, I am thankful for you saving our young lady here. It's a pleasure to meet you, my name is Henry." he said while bowing in front of me.

"Well, since you're butler is here and everything is finally settled, I'll go to the counter now and exchange this paycheck you've given me."

".…" She just looked at me with her cute smile and raised her hand, showing that she wanted a handshake for our farewell.

".…" I look to her hand and back at her face…I couldn't help but smile back.

In response, I raised my right hand and received her hand in return. We gave each other a firm handshake.

"You're a nice person Mr. Hamil, I hope we can meet again." she said, while curiously putting a Mr. Into my name. It was the first time she added a formality to my name.

"...I'm sure we will."

Our farewells were met. It wasn't a long encounter but It felt nice having to meet this person. It was an encounter I didn't plan for it to happen but since this was a new world entirely, anything could happen. If this were a novel and if I was a character in that said novel, then fate will somehow bring us together, either as enemies or as friends. Either way she was nice person and I'm glad I got to meet her.

***RANZY'S POV:

As she walked out of the hunter's association, she was greeted by a black car and a butler who opened the door for her.

"Thank you Henry." she said as she entered the car.

As she finally settled in the vehicle and made her way back home, she called out to her butler.

"Henry, Where did you put my laptop?"

"It right here miss." The butler said as he pulled out a laptop from a secret compartment inside the car.

"Is this connected to the official records of the Hunter's Association?" asked Ranzy.

"Yes Miss."

"Okay then." As she opened her laptop and went to a certain search engine. She slowly typed in the name of a certain hunter.

[HAMIL CRUX]

"And search." she said while pressing the ENTER button.

As the laptop processes out the information of that certain hunter, the butler glanced back at the misses and spoke his opinion.

"Young miss, if I may incur. Why are you searching for his information?"

"People are never to nice in this world Henry, especially hunters. But nonetheless, I can tell that Mr. Hamil was a good person. I am just curious of his background is all." She honestly stated her answer to the Butler.

"This might be last time you'll ever see him again, so why bother?"

"I'm just curious…He was there at that moment and at that time no less. The coincidence was to perfect. It must have been fate that brought him to me." said Ranzy.

"Maybe it is just coincidence." said the butler.

"Maybe…Ah here we go. The profile of Hamil Crux, the boy who coincidentally saved my life. Okay, lets see what we have here….Hmm, Okay…okay…okay…wait is this for real?" at the end of her reading, her reaction towards the end was unexpected.

"Is there a problem miss?" asked the butler.

"...Yes, it says here that he just started hunting…like just this day he started hunting. Can you believe this?"

"Hmm, is there something wrong with that?"

"What's wrong!? did you know what happened inside that Gate? four Robin wolves were at my base. Four! Yet he was able to takeout three wolves all on his own, no beginner is able to do that. It takes at least two people back to back to survive a pack of Robin wolves. And Although I was quite incapacitated at that time he arrived, he clearly showed me the results of his hunt…he rooted out the Three corpses of those damn wolves!"

"Language Miss…maybe he was evaluated to a higher rank than yours."

"No, the input here says that he's an F rank, just like me."

"What about his points on the Exams?"

"It says here that he has a capacity of One circle mana, his Dummy tank score is over a hundred and he's speed is basic yet substantial."

"Then he must be at least at the peak of Rank F." said the butler. His eyes were sharp as the lady spoke out the results of that persons exams…The old butler evaluated well on his character.

"Maybe, can I ask you how fast a robin wolf is?"

"A Robin wolf can run up to 60km/h but there has been cases that they have been rode on with goblins on their backs. With Goblins it can run up to 45km/h. since they are light creatures, their jumps are quite intimidating to handle especially in the woods. But their bite force can easily bend of iron like it is nothing." explained the butler.

"Its a vicious enemy to deal with…yet he was able to handle them." Ranzy was in deep thought of the information about the boy.

"Can I ask something miss?" the butler inferred a question.

"What is it?"

"Does it matter why you are interest yourself in this boy? I don't see in any value for him to be of use to you."

"I know…but a certain information about him caught me off guard."

"And that is?"

"He's going to attend the Royal academy…or well at least he's in the waiting list of it."

"Hmm, I see. So you need him." The Butler finally understands why..

"Yes…He needs to be my partner the moment I enter the academy."

"Are referring to the social groups inside the Academy?"

"Yes, noble students tend to bring in with them partners that can aid them inside the academy. It doesn't matter if its ten's or hundreds in their company but all that matter's is their ability that can aid the Noble students to a higher ranking in the academy. Say for example Licia Von Roseivolt, she is paired with the most talented student of all, Arthur Rhodenfield. With him by her side, those two were the Ace's of the Royal Academy. Their influence is known throughout the school."

"Is this Arthur Student comparable to Hamil?" asked the butler in pure curiosity.

".…I'm not sure. But the way Hamil showed his abilities to me inside that gate only assures me that I want him in my group." said Ranzy with a face filled with determination.

"I see…"

"Henry, I want you to do something for me."

"I can see where this is going miss, but are you sure you want me to approach him."

"Yes."

"...Wouldn't it be better for you to approach him instead of me. He already knows you as a person, even as a noble." the butler said a justifying answer but….

"I can't…"

"Can I ask why?"

"It's because…im…"

"Hmm? Come again?"

"Its because I'm shy…about it." she said with a flustered face.

".….." the only response he got was her cuteness being shown.

'my, the young missis is finally turning into a young lady…how cute.' the butler could only smile at her pure innocence.

"Mark my words miss, you can have him before the academy starts." Said the butler with promise.

"Thank you Henry. If possible can you tell him that the benefits of him joining in my group is the full support of my family."

"I will write it down in a form miss, after we arrive at you home." assured the butler.

And so the Ranzy made her decision. To fully recruit Hamil into her group…the only problem that lied in it is that…

"Young miss, how do I tell him that his the only person in your said group?"

"Eh?….I completely forgot about that…maybe try not to mention it?"

".….I'll try my best miss."

"Thank you Henry."

Suddenly an email came by her laptop, it was from the guild. In it was a message of the blank check Hamil withdraw from her account.

"...Eh?"

"Is something wrong?" asked the butler.

"Its the amount he cashed out…"

"Hmm, I can guess that it's in the hundred thousands." said the butler.

"No…its just 15,000 ences"

".…I see." The butler was amused of the boy's decision...this action added more interest to the boy's favor.

***HAMIL'S POV:

I only wrote out the 15,000 ence. It was enough to pay the loan he just got from Ranzy. With it he was finally off the loan.

He also sold the mana cores he got from hunting those five goblins and three Robin wolves.

In total he got 9,500 ences from his hunt. To him it felt like it was enough to pay the bills that were two months behind where it was at aroung 8,489 in total for both the water and electric billls.

He excitedly went home after a long day of hunting.

As he got off and walked out to the front of his room, he glanced back to the tower that was in clear view of his front apartment.

".…The tower huh…" he was in deep thought as he stared right into it. He still couldn't see the top of that tower but that was a good thing…It was still in the same condition as he left it for a month.

"HAMIL!!" Suddenly an old cranky voice came passing through his ear canal.

"!!…Ah, it's old lady Breches." said Hamil jokingly as he was greeted with a smack to the head with a paper fan.

*Smack!*

"You're already pass the bill in two months!" said the old lady.

Just as Hamil said, she was the 'Old lady Breches'.

She was the old landlord that managed the apartment Hamil was staying at…and by definition of old, it meant that she was as old as the old can see…

She was probably a 100 years old but who could tell. she was still active than a man who did steroids.

"I finally have the money to pay off the bills." said Hamil. Not giving any time to the old lady whatsoever to yell at him.

"Really? And where did you get that kind of money?"

"...I became a hunter."

"Eh?…" the lady was shocked to hear what he said.

She was always receiving all kinds of news from this kid…in a bad way.

One was that he was gone for almost a month…she tried filing a missing report to the police

Two, he came back all different like. He was healthier and masculine than the last time she saw him, which was all bags and bones.

She even sometimes worry for his condition at one point when he just stood in the middle of the rain once, it was a year back after he got his results in the Academy.

All she could do was worry for the boy…worried that he might one day off himself.

But her reaction towards the boy being a hunter was a different reaction than that of worry…it was relief…there were still worries of him being a hunter because of it being a dangerous occupation but she was also relieved that he finally gets to do something instead of moping around all day in his room.

"Eh…so you finally got a paying job. That's great, now pay up!"

"hehe…here granny." said Hamil as he handed over the 8,500 ences to the old lady. He laughed as he passed the money to Old lady breches, with now less worry in mind.

The Granny then could only show a frowning expression because of her wrinkly old face but deep down she was proud.