Secret Talk of a Hunter Guild Overseer – Observation
ハンターギールド監督(かんとく)の内緒話(ないしょばなし)・観察(かんさつ)
The party was lively, Hunters and civilians alike are seen chatting and drinking in every corner of the streets, you would not even think that this was one of the dark recesses of the magnificent capital of the Galvaland, the southern slums. I have only started coming here two weeks ago and it already feels like home. The people although somewhat unsavory, they have this strong familial bond with one another which remind me of how my village was like.
Why are they so merry, you might ask? Well this stem from the heroic deed of one of the Hunters associated with the Southern Hunter Guild Outpost, which I am affiliated with. His name is…
“Elfreid, you have a visitor.” said the lovely girl who has guided me through the crowd to the main reason for this festivity. Yes his name is Elfreid Redmoon an amnesiac youth with the strength of the Hero written in the tales of old, this was the cause for his rising to popularity and yet his true strength lies elsewhere…
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I was shocked when this youth entered the Southern Guild Outpost one day, you’d think he was just your average run of a mill guy wanting for some glory, but he was modest to a fault. But what shock me the most was not his superior STATs but one of the titles that comes with it.
Appraisal is a rare and valuable skill here in the world of Resmere, anyone who has this skill is said to be close to richness. You can get employed anywhere, and I mean anywhere even inside the castle.
I happen to possess a rarer appraisal skill a ‘Divine Appraisal’ if asked why I am in the Hunters Guild rather than in the Castle walls with higher pay. Well that is because of my ELVEN ORIGIN.
HYUMAs and ELVENs have been at war for many centuries, and these wars have no sign of ever stopping. There have been many reasons for these wars, but none of those matter as no one really have been trying to mend the bond of these two ORGINs. Thankfully, the Hunters Guild is an organization that does not pry too much of these ORIGIN wars and I was able to successfully hide my identity.
Wait, I have digressed quite a bit, let’s get back to why I have continued to come to this slums that would risk exposing my identity. Thanks to the perks of my Divine Appraisal I can mask my own identity, but let’s let that one slide since that is a secret known only to two others.
Getting back at the topic at hand, the Divine Appraisal I possess is actually superior in a way that I can appraise anything and anyone even if they are trying to mask it with their magic or magic items, and so I got to peek to the secret of this youths’s strength since day one.
He is actually a Demon Lord, a True one at that and his ORIGIN a Summoned Demon, just as the word emphasize, he is a demon summoned from another world. I had alerted the kingdom, as an ELVEN despite being an enemy with HYUMAS we have one common enemy, Demon Lords, and their demonic armies.
The palace had sent us word that our information was received, and they would look into things on their end and yet I could not see any actions implying that. At first, I thought that they had placed some guards secretly but, I have seen or sensed none of them within the vicinity, even now where he has been exalted by his heroic act.
It was for this reason that I decided to become his observer, it is for this reason also that I had assigned the Gold Rank Hunter -Antonio as his trainer who might have a good chance of beating him while he has yet to awaken.
But, for some reason I get the feeling that this boy is not a threat to humanity at least not with the action he had undertaken in the battle that happened just a few bells ago. He really might be just playing us, but it might also be because he really has lost his memories. If so, then…
“Altrea, you seem spaced out” The boy in question seem genuinely worried about me, is this guy really a demon lord? “Maybe you are way past your bedtime?”
“Don’t treat me like a kid!” this guy, just because I look like a kid that does not mean I am one, I am much older than you… “How rude of you, did no one tell you not to pry on a woman’s age!”
*smack
Ah! I hit the Demon Lord.
“Elfreid, you should not tease, Altrea like that.” The girl, Aisha if I am not mistaken seem to have a thing for Elfried, but as a girl herself readily took to my side.
Far from being angry, Elfreid just laughed heartily and instantly joined the street festivity.
I still cannot believe that this boy is a Demon Lord, maybe that is a guise, and he really is the True Hero.
And so I, Alrea Elfimina an ELVEN in this HYUMA civilization, serving as one of the 6 Hunter Guild Outpost Overseer of Crystal City, capital of the Kingdom of Galvaland will continue to oversee this boy’s fate.