Otherworld Adventure

Forest Hill Town

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, jumps down 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?"

Silver barks in response.

"Really? Yay!"

Silver gave his consent. The people on the wagon, especially the woman who had the same features as the kid, looked a bit worried at first, but after the bark from Silver, their expressions eased up.

The kid immediately approaches Silver and starts stroking the fur on this foreleg. Silver stared at the kid and from Cecil's perspective, Silver looked at him as if an elder looking at a child.

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

After the child got his fill of stroking, he looks up at Silver, giggles, and runs back towards the wagon.

After getting onto the wagon again, the child sits by the woman who was probably his mother and starts chatting with the woman. The woman looks at us and gives us a gently smile while bowing her head a little.

Cecil smiles back and nods. After that, the line starts to move up again.

Cecil glances up at the sky and sees that it looks to be about 8 o'clock or so. He thought that it would probably take a while so after moving up a bit, Cecil takes out some snacks from his backpack and splits 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 takes out the recommendation letter from his bag and hands it over to the guard that was inspecting them.

It wasn't really a guard, but more like an inspection officer. The person who was inspecting the line was a female beastkin with droopy dog ears that 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 stabbing him with her fingers.

"Cel..."

"W-what's wrong Lulu?"

"Nothing..."

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

"..."

Lucia stops– okay, maybe not. Instead she starts stabbing him even harder.

"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.

"Like. I. Said. ITS NOTHING!"

Cecil flinched at Lucia suddenly flaring up out of nowhere. With a huff, she walks past him and starts 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 head towards a house by the ranch and talks to the ranch master. After putting on a necklace-s***h-collar on Silver, they got a corresponding token that identifies Cecil as Silver's owner.

Cecil looks around and sees other huge animals or monsters idling around the ranch. Some were eating and others were sleeping. He looks around and sees that there were no monsters in conflict and relaxed. 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."

Silver barks back in response and heads deeper into the ranch. After walking over to a huge tree, he lies down and starts napping.

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

"Okay."

Carefully, Cecil asks Lucia about 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 walks toward the guard and I follow after.

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

"Hmph."

Cecil quickly tries to pacify Lucia while they were returning to the gate. The guard in front looks back at them quarrelling.

Cecil and he met eyes and the guard gave Cecil a wry smile and shakes his head. Cecil looks back at him with a confused look, but he quickly turns back his attention to the fussy Lucia and continues to pacify her.

'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 thinks back at what his father did and tries to do what he did.

They finally arrive back at the gate and 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 catches a glimpse of the female inspections officer from before.

After looking at her, he looks towards the line and sees that it's still as long as before. When Cecil turned around and starts walking forward.

He somehow... sees a fuming Lucia glaring back at me. Thinking back to earlier, he hesitated a bit, but still carefully walks up to her.

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

"L-Lulu, what's wrong?"

"..."

Hearing that, Lucia glared even more harshly at him and turned around and starts walking into the town. Seeing that, Cecil could only helplessly follow after.

As they head in, 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, but this town acted as a hub for the surrounding area, since you would have to go through the Mesta forest 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 they head towards the center of town, the duo sees a variety of stalls selling foods and equipment.

They also pass 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.

They were most likely going to sell 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?!"

Hearing Lucia, Cecil looks up ahead and sees that the town square was really lively with all sorts of props and decorations set up around the area.

"Uhh, maybe something important?"

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 sleeves.

"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 sees a stand with a huge banner over it.

There were letters that were hard for him to make out right away. Cecil took another glance at it and read.

"M, monster hun, ting."

"Monster hunting!"

Lucia finished 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 sees a middle aged gruff looking man who was behind a stall.

Apparently he was the one who answered earlier. 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."

Lucia quickly asks,

"Can anyone participate?"

"As long ya got ID, ye."

"Thanks, mister!"

"No prob, lil lady."

After Lucia said their thanks, the duo head towards the western road that leads to the adventurer's guild.

Walking down the road, the two finally see a large 3 story building that was practically screaming 'Here, me! I'm adventurer guild!'

Cecil looked towards the entrance and see people who look like guild staff. There was the main door to the guild where people who he believes to be adventurer's coming and going from.

The people, who Cecil believes were guild staff, considering their uniform, were manning a booth where they received younger looking people.

When Lucia sees this, she turns back towards Cecil.

"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?'

They walk towards the booth and lineup. The line wasn't so long so they didn't have to wait for long. When it was their turn, the two finally see the staff behind the booth. It was a male and female lizard beastkin.

They enthusiastically greet the duo.

"Welcome to the Adventurer's Guild!"