I left the adventurer who'd come to fetch me behind and headed straight to the adventurers' guild.
He said he had "a premonition that he'd absolutely get dragged into trouble," so he refused to follow along.
The moment I stepped into the guild, every gaze in the room locked onto me at once.
But the instant they realized it was me, they all averted their eyes.
Yet among them, one massive figure came charging straight toward me.
"So you're the one called Alan? Because of you, our Gold-rank members have become completely useless."
"Is that right? What happened to them?"
"Whenever they try to enter the guild, they start having seizures—they can't get in, and they can't even hold their weapons anymore. At this rate, we're the ones being made a fool of. So how exactly are you planning to make this right, huh?"
"I heard disputes between adventurers are each person's own responsibility."
"Oh, listen to you talk, you little brat! Then die right now!"
With that, the man swung his axe down at me.
I dodged the blow, drew my sword in a iai slash, and sheathed it.
"Tch—stop squirming around! I'm coming at you next! Huh—wait?"
Blood sprayed from the man's right arm.
With a heavy thud, his right arm hit the ground.
Then his scream echoed through the guild.
"My—my right arm! Aaaargh!"
"Hey—someone get a top-grade potion! It might still reattach if we hurry!"
Oh, I don't know who that was, but that was solid advice.
It was just freshly cut, so a top-grade potion could put it right back on.
"Slicing Cut!"
He'd gone ahead and sliced the man's thick, log-like right arm into twelve round pieces.
After all, if it healed right away, the whole punishment would be pointless.
"Hey — seriously? There's no reattaching that thing now..."
Someone murmured in a stunned voice.
"Adventurers shouldn't let people push them around, right? That guy over there was saying the same thing. So I made sure to take his right arm so he could never kill me again. Oh, and I'll need compensation paid to the guild for the trouble."
He then stripped the magic bag off the man clutching his right shoulder and groaning, and carried it over to the reception desk.
"Ah, miss receptionist — here's compensation for today's commotion. If it's not enough, please collect the rest from that man. Now, onto the real business — I hear the Guild Master wants to see me? Could you show me the way?"
And so Alan was led by the wide-eyed, trembling receptionist and disappeared into the depths of the building.
"That guy's insane... even a dark guild wouldn't go that far, right?"
"The kid with the golden left eye and black steel — don't lay a hand on him. You'll be ruined."
"That terrifyingly fast slash — even my eyes couldn't track it..."
The adventurers, who should have been well accustomed to violence, whispered among themselves.
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Ugh, wasn't this a bit too on the nose with the tropes?
A rookie adventurer gets confronted at the adventurer's guild and defeats the roughnecks one after another.
Reading it in a light novel, it sounds cool and satisfying — but actually being the one in that position, it was nothing but a hassle.
He wanted to believe that having already demonstrated his strength twice, things would settle down from here.
With that thought, he stepped into the Guild Master's room.
"So you're the bastard who laid hands on our cute Mitea?! You know what's gonna happen to you!!"
Things were not going well.
The one coming at him with a menacing attitude was definitely not some ordinary old man.
"Wait, hold on — it was Mitea who tried to fleece me on the registration fee, wasn't it? And you knew about it but just looked the other way."
"You've got quite the mouth on you, brat. You understand what's about to happen to you?"
"What's going to happen?"
The future of this Guild Master would hinge on the answer to that question.
"You don't deserve to be killed. I'll make you a slave and work you to the bone for the rest of your life while beating you senseless."
"How exactly do you plan to make me a slave?"
"I'll get you a slave collar from the Commercial Guild!"
Got it.
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Skills: [Reverse] [Divine Eye] [Sword God]
Thank you as always for reading!