Chapter 16: New Adventurer Bern (14). Assigning Meaning
Though he’d received what could be called an unreasonable scolding from Lucidra, Bern didn’t mind.
Demons, by nature, were beings who wagged their cunning tongues to tempt and deceive humans.
Placing too much meaning on every single word from such a demon was the perfect way to fall into a trap.
[No, I’m telling you, this isn’t even that kind of situation? Wow. Just—wow!]
Leaving behind Lucidra, who was pounding her chest like she was suffocating (a scene visually harmful enough to scar any minor), the group once again gathered at the adventurers' guild.
“Can’t you lot just behave for one single day...?”
The branch manager, who looked like he’d aged a year in just one day, had called them in directly to speak—but it wasn’t as if they were heavily reprimanded or anything.
After all, the adventurers’ guild didn’t involve itself in conflicts between adventurers.
The guild’s nature was that of a brokerage, and the relationship between adventurers and the guild was closer to that of business partners than superiors and subordinates.
It was similar to how a convenience store owner wouldn’t take sides or punish someone just because two regulars got into a fistfight outside.
Of course, if they caused a disturbance inside the guild resulting in personal or property damage, or if they betrayed each other in the middle of a quest and tarnished the guild’s reputation, that would be a different matter entirely—but Bern’s incident was far from such things.
Granted, the fact that Karina’s party—one of the ace teams in the eastern branch—was now out of commission for a while was a considerable loss. But they were the ones who picked the fight and ended up getting wrecked. It’d be ridiculous to blame Bern or Blanca for that.