The Knight Wants To Be in a Relationship

1. What to do

“I’m going to kill the fortune teller… ….”

The fortuneteller ran away.

It was the day I cut the sky.

Originally, fortune tellers say they can’t predict their future, but the fortune teller in the village was very brave, or he had been cheating with his eyesight instead of his supernatural powers.

In the end, I had no choice but to swallow the absurdity of not having a lover even though I had become stronger with anger.

‘I heard that it happens when you get stronger. They say it happens when you get stronger!’

It is said that strength is relative, but am I not the type to be objectively strong? Did he cut the sky? A knight of the kingdom? You can’t cut the sky Come on, that’s trash.

“Why can’t I have a boyfriend… ….”

“If a girlfriend wants that much, shouldn’t she talk to the girl rather than learn the sword?”

Lightning struck in my head at the words of my childhood friend who lived in the same village. Yeah, if she wanted a girlfriend, she had to talk to the girls, not ignorantly wield her sword.

To do that, I had to head to a place where there were many women. If I go to a place where there are many women and show off my sword skills, I will be recognized for my strength and I will be able to make a girlfriend.

“Okay. Go to the city.”

“What? Why does the story turn out like that!?”

“Thanks, Eri! See you next!”

I waved my thanks to my childhood friend for the advice and headed straight home.

Following the family motto of doing it right away when I made up my mind, I got permission from my parents and left the village right away.

Watching me leave the village with a sword on my waist, my childhood friend waved at me with a hopeless expression.

‘Why are you like that?’

I couldn’t figure out why my childhood friend was making such a face.

* * *

Looking at the back of Evan leaving the village, his childhood friend Eri was in tears.

‘I liked it…… Stupid, stupid, asshole…….’

Does she have time to swing her sword and no time to look around?

Eri clasped her hands tightly, stamped her feet and trampled the ground, and let out the resentment that had accumulated in her heart. In my mind, I wanted to run right away and grab him.

She wanted to grab him by the sleeve and tell him not to go, not to leave. There are people who like you here too. I wanted to shout that.

But even for a moment, Eri gave up trying to hold on to Evan and sighed heavily.

“Yeah- someone has to watch the house.”

If he fails to save her girlfriend, if she comes back whining that she couldn’t get her lover in the end – then give him a gentle hug.

Until you realize that your arms are the most cozy and comfortable in the world, and you don’t have to leave.

Forever.

Forever.

***

“Next!”

“Please submit your ID. If not, go over there…….”

The city was not too far away. I’ve come and gone a few times with my father.

But it was the first time I came to the city alone. That fact made my heart pound. It looks nothing different from the city at the time I’ve heard of it a few times, but why does my heart tremble so much?

After pounding my chest a few times, I took a deep breath and looked around. Unlike villages with almost no floating population, this city had hundreds of thousands of people walking the streets every moment.

‘It’s pretty… ….’

And if enough people gather, so do beauties. I peeped at the faces of aristocratic ladies wandering the streets, adventurers dressed in leather armor, and warriors dressed in uniforms that were only worn in the East, and exclaimed in admiration.

As expected of a city, there are many beauties. It was incomparable to a village where there was only one childhood friend of a girl of the same age.

‘…… But what do I do now?’

It was good until I reached the city, but I didn’t know what to do now. Talk to women? It was very difficult for me, who had never held a woman’s hand in my life. It was best to peek at the haggard woman’s face.

It took a while for me to stand in the middle of the city and block the road, but I followed the procession of people.

‘I have to show off my strength.’

As I had just moved to the city, it was next to impossible for me to seduce a woman. There was no such thing as charm for a man who had just come from the countryside, and he lacked the courage to do so in the first place.

In that case, you just need to be a man that others talk to first. Even if I don’t approach him first, a man who is so attractive that women will approach him first.

And I, who only knew how to use a knife, had only a few ways to become an attractive man.

Become a soldier, a knight, or an adventurer.

‘I’m not a soldier.’

I couldn’t think of an army full of men’s sweat. It didn’t seem like they would pick a country boy who had just come up from the countryside as a knight.

There is only one thing left. I was just an adventurer.

The strategy king who retired with dozens of wives after conquering seven dungeons and making a fortune was still my spiritual mentor.

‘Let’s go as an adventurer.’

I immediately headed to the adventurer’s guild. Contrary to the idea that big bald heads would be gathered together sweating, in the guild there were flimsy elven archers, pretty priests, and female knights in heavy armor, gathering and chatting noisily.

Of course, it wasn’t that there weren’t guys with big muscles, but the fact that there were women like that in the guild was shocking enough.

Even spying on the women in the guild for a while- I approached the reception desk and met the receptionist’s eyes with a tired expression on his face.

“What are you doing….”

“I’m here to register.”

“Yes, 10 elso.”

I put the money on the counter, and the tired receptionist collected it at an incredible speed. The receptionist who counted the money immediately looked at me blankly and nodded.

“Your name?”

“This is Evan. Evan Carlster.”

“Here you are. If you lose it, there is an additional charge when reissuing it.”

The receptionist finished the explanation as if he were a government official who could not be fired no matter what he did, and then handed me a wooden plaque with my name on it.

It was different from what I had imagined. There was no such process of taking a test to see the skills of a newcomer, being horrified to see a newcomer who stood out in the test, and being recognized as a top-notch adventurer from the beginning.

The reality was different from the story in the fairy tale.

“…… I am good at using swords.”

“Yes. Please.”

“No, that- there is no such thing as a test? Like taking a test and being recognized as a high-level adventurer right from the start.”

“Yes, no.”

“Why?”

As I persisted and asked questions, the receptionist began to show irritation and annoyance.

“If you want to show off your strength, go to the army. We are a guild that introduces missions to those who have the credit to carry out missions, not a place where the strong show off their strength.”

“Ah…… Then, how to raise the rating?”

Swish- The receptionist pointed to the corner of the guild. At the place she pointed to, there was a bulletin board full of papers. I trudged along and approached the bulletin board, and I could see that it was a bulletin board with a collection of requests.

From the lowest-level missions that can be received regardless of identity and rank, to ultra-high difficulty missions that cannot be received unless you are a top-level adventurer.

‘…… You mean I have to go one step at a time to raise my rank?’

I checked the missions for new adventurers at the bottom. Find an object, find a person, find some herb, take the lead in an upcoming war, etc.—Missions anyone can do, and go unnoticed.

But if you raise your head just a little bit, what kind of monster would you like me to kill? Investigate the danger zone. Ask for rare herbs, etc. There were a lot of missions where you could make a lot of money and get attention all at once.

For some reason, as I gazed at the dust-filled request documents, I felt intuition that these missions would not be too difficult.

“—Hey!”

“Uh, uh uh-!?”

After hesitating for a moment, I rushed out of the guild after grabbing the dusty requests.

I heard a voice calling me from behind, but I ignored it. I didn’t commit any crime, and all I had to do was steal the request, so the guild staff didn’t look for me so anxiously.

After running for a long time, I reached the gate, took a deep breath, and recalled what the former employee had said earlier.

‘If you don’t have credit, you can’t do the mission?’

I looked down at the mission book in my hand. Credit or not, the mission is now in my hands. Information on where the request target is, what to kill and what to bring.

“—What can I do?”

If I complete my mission, what can the guild do?

No. No matter how much I thought about it, there was nothing the guild could do.

They will have no choice but to acknowledge my achievements.

“Let’s go.”

My eyes went beyond the castle wall to the forest full of dangerous monsters.

To the land of instant fortune.

* * *

Rebecca, the receptionist at the Adventurer’s Guild, jumped to her feet when she saw the newcomer who had just registered tore up the request form on the bulletin board and ran away.

“Wait a minute!”

The rookie who opened the request book quickly left the guild. Looking at that figure, I looked at the senior employee as if what to do now, and the senior sighed and opened his mouth by giving me a piece of paper.

“Everything over there is a copy anyway. Go and check what is missing and make a new one and paste it. …… I’m busy, but I’m out of luck.”

“I’ll check it out soon!”

Seeing her annoyance at her head, Rebecca ran towards the bulletin board. She then checked her missing request.

All of these missions were extremely high-risk, requiring even high-level adventurers to risk their lives. The reward was not so great for such a subject, so adventurers who made money by selling their lives did not undertake missions.

Rebecca let out a sigh of relief and returned to her place after confirming that it was a mission without anyone shouting why there was no one right away. She then posted the newly created request forms on the bulletin board again.

Anything about the unusual recruit who ran away with the request was completely forgotten by that evening. There were not one or two people who came and went to the guild that supported adventurers, and there were people who were too unusual to be memorable to the extent that they stood out a little.

Late night when the sun has set. Rebecca finished her rough work and she waited for the next shift. She blankly looked down at her papers, pretending to be working as she pondered what to do after work.

“…… Hey, over there.”

“No, really?”

“Nonsense… ….”

While I was fooling around for a while, the inside of the guild started to get a little noisy. Rebecca, who was stealing her paycheck, turned his head away and opened his mouth, wondering what was going on.

A rookie who ran away with a request during the day. Because he came back covered in blood all over his body.

“Uh, uh uh-! Gwa, are you okay!?”

“…… I’m not hurt. Rather this.”

As Took-Evan said, he put the corpse of the monster he had brought onto the reception desk. Seeing those corpses, Rebecca blankly looked at the by-products of the monsters and recalled the request he had taken.

Elimination of Camira, Hydra, Wyvern, etc. – Super-high difficulty missions that even advanced adventurers who specialize in monster elimination may or may not succeed.

“I-I can’t believe this… ….”

“Couldn’t you accept a corpse because you don’t have trust? Then it’s a bit difficult.”

“Now, please wait a moment—!”

Rebecca forgot to leave work and went straight to the guild leader.

Right now, getting off work wasn’t the important thing.