Chapter 40: Mercenary Guild
After walking for about thirty minutes, passing by countless wooden buildings... we have reached an area in the outer district where stone buildings replace wooden ones.
Right now, my eyes are wide open— staring at the mercenary guild building. "Whoa." I exclaim, my voice low, but tinged with excitement that I barely contain.
Jennette lets out her signature chuckle beside me as she watches me.
The building is large— it’s like a towered fortress made of stones. And there are heads of slain beasts hung on its outer walls.
Shit, they all smell rotten.
"Come on in. You won’t become a mercenary by standing there and admiring the building." Jennette says as she walks in, past the wide courtyard, and toward the front entrance.
Yeah, she’s right.
I told Jennette that I didn’t want the both of us to go together. If we’re together, what would be the use of my mask?
They’ll know. I mean, she showed up in the city with a seven-year-old child who looks like he’s sixteen or so. And now, she’s with a masked individual that coincidentally has the same name as that kid ’Ed’ and the same body stature, trying to become a mercenary?
But this woman is so stubborn... She refused to let me go alone, and she keeps insisting that she must assist me, even if she has to do it from afar.
I let out a resigned sigh, "Well, no problem."