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Over the Infinite – Chapter 13 (2)

Translator: mii

With that, since we came to the Labyrinth City, we had only been going to around five places: the set meal shop, this guild hall, dormitory, dungeon, and hospital. Ahz no, there was also the convenience store in front of the hall.

Our schedule was too tight. Although we had a little more free time than the first day, I would like to relax for a day and look around the city.

「Ahh, so sleepy. Won’t they have some kind of exercise as the training?」

「From what I see on the program, well only have to watch two more videos and listen to the instructor. It seems like they have free coffee, do you want me to bring you some?」

「Ah, that sounds great. Thanks.」

We were still going to watch videos?

It would be nice if the content was a little more interesting, but they were really training videos. Even at the previous video, the interesting things was Rofl, who suddenly appeared on the screen.

No matter how much the video was based on the true story, I wanted them to make an effort so that it was interesting. No, not like those quick one-liner of Dullahan, okay.

「But I never thought that I would take the debut class with you guys. They told us that we were pretty fast too.」

In the middle of the video, Filos said that to us.

Filos and Gawain seemed to have reached this course after capturing the trial dungeon at a far above the average rate, but we were even faster than them.

On the contrary, it was almost impossible to shorten it any more, since we cleared it on the day of our registration.

In our original world, it wouldn’t be strange if people accused us for speedrunning while assisted by tool. The real speedrunner without any quick saves or loads. But then, the content was unrefined, far from the clean play of a speedrunner. 

This capture seemed to have already become the talk of the town within the adventurers, and before this course started, the guild discussed about the release of our video. Just a while ago.

In the Labyrinth City, all of the dungeon capture videos were stored as videos. They could be edited and sold for money, but it was quite rare for the guild to ask for the video.

This case was the first in history, and it seemed like a lot of people inquired for the video since it was a record that would be impossible to break in the future.

This was the manifestation of the expectations to us. I felt somewhat embarrassed.

In this case, we sold our right on the sales, getting a large amount of money rather than revenue per video like those royalties.

I hadn’t understood the item price in the Labyrinth City well, but at least both of us should be able to live leisurely for a month. I suddenly became a little rich. 

By the way, although our companion, that cat ears, appeared in our video, she wouldn’t have any share on the money. 

It seemed like the money for this kind of case was usually transferred to the receiver’s deposit account, but we were paid in cash since we hadn’t created our account yet. 

Apparently, it was possible to open a bank account using our status card as the ATM card.  

Well, I felt like I would probably still take real cash even if I had bank account. I had never seen this city’s unique currency, and cash had its own charm too.

In Labyrinth City, coins used in the royal capital were usable, but when I knew that the actual unit of money in this city was “yen”, I almost laughed out loud. 

「They told us that we’ll receive a lot of clan invitations, you know.」

「It’s really enviable. At this rate, people will keep an eye on us even if we only do things sufficiently.

Even so, I think we should sell our name before we can join a clan.」

Clan was made by a group of adventurers who were registered in the guild. 

It’s fine to think of it as a multi-party structure organized by several people with a lot of added value. My image of this clan was a large fixed party.

By joining a clan, an adventurer could use a facility called as the Clan House, which couldn’t be owned by individual adventurer, and they would be able to use services such as personal training room.

Of course, there were differences in the services available depending on the clans. Basically, the bigger clans could afford more things, making the benefits to the clan members greater.

Therefore, if possible, joining a big clan was the standard way to become a top adventurer. Even so, the clan wouldn’t just accept everyone mindlessly.

After determining whether the candidate had appropriate personality and whether they would benefit the clan, they would then accept members. It seemed like there were many clans which held examinations and interviews for the candidates. 

I heard that they would ask you something like,『What benefits do you think we will have by employing you?』

And if a newcomer had promising future, the clan would also invite them to become their member.

Although “baseball’s draft” didn’t happen here at all, we were now in the position of easily receiving invitations since we set a record for the shortest time in the trial.

「Well, joining a clan is still the story far in the future, though.」

However, we currently couldn’t join a clan yet.

It seemed like the rank we would get after debut, rank G to E, were called the lower class. It was necessary to become the top rank or the lower class, meaning, getting higher rank than E, to be able to join a clan.

Well, there were some loopholes, such as having a negotiation with the promising player… adventurer before others could stake a claim on them, so it seemed like invitations battle behind the scene was happening soon. With such a provisional contract, there seemed to be clans who would provide support without violating the rules.

「Hey, those guys behind us look amazing, but do you know them? I keep seeing that really big guy and that blonde man recently.」

「Eh, you don’t know? It’s the hot topic in the bulletin board. Those guys next to them are the record holder for the shortest capture in the trial dungeon.」

「Hee, that’s amazing. The previous one was a week, right? I already thought that it was crazy, though. 」

「…Those guys are even more impressive. They registered as an adventurer two days ago. I’ve never seen something like that.」

「Hah? Haaahh!? The heck is that, they cleared the dungeon in two days?」

「Your voice is loud. They can hear us. …I heard that they cleared it in a day.」

「Haaahhh!?」

「As I said, your voice is loud… Ah, sorry for the disturbance, I’ll quiet him down.」

The people in front of us who gossiped about us were another rookie who debuted at the same time as us, even if our beginner course was different.

I could hear what they were saying clearly, but they didn’t have to worry since they weren’t talking about some bad rumours anyway. They could even talk about us more. Come on, come on.

「Rather, what do they mean with bulletin board?」

Did this town have some kind of large bulletin board somewhere?

「I don’t really understand too. Is it different from the one pasted at the entrance of the hall?」

「Yuki, you know?」

「I haven’t used it yet, but there’s a BBS[1. Bulletin Board System] for adventurers. Maybe it’s the same as what Tsuna is imagining[2. 2chan].」

When I asked Yuki who just came back while holding a cup of coffee, he replied me with that answer.

Seriously? I wonder if there was a picture of a pot[3. Referencing 2chan.] at the entrance? 

「No way, are we exposed?」

「I haven’t seen it yet, so I don’t know. The registered adventurer’s name seems to be displayed, so since it’s not anonymous, it won’t be that terrible, right?」

Well, I didn’t really mind, but then, I didn’t want them to plant an improper image of me in everyone’s mind. Like how the newcomer’s Tsuna is a [Primitive Man].

Also, even if they were using their real name, there would still be trolls, I’m sure of it.

Drinking the coffee I received from Yuki, my mouth was filled with nostalgic smell and taste.

Hmm, since this coffee was offered free of charge in this kind of place, it was definitely some cheap coffee (in the Labyrinth City), but for me now, this was very delicious.

Caffeine, which I was completely unfamiliar with in this world, seemed to work well for my sleepiness.