Chapter 77: "No Originality at All."
"Hm?"
When Shien came down from the Guild's third floor with a book in hand and returned to the first-floor hall, a strange feeling made him stop.
Shien raised his eyes and glanced around.
With that glance, Shien saw numerous adventurers casting either covert or blatant looks in his direction.
"That's him, right?"
"That's right."
"He doesn't look like anything special."
"He doesn't even have any decent equipment. Just a weapon hidden in the bag slung over his shoulder."
"No matter how you look at him, he's a rookie, isn't he?"
"Yeah."
"I really don't know what's going on."
"I thought this newcomer would be like the previous ones—either stay in Miss Vivian's party for a month before getting kicked out, or do something stupid halfway through and get dealt with by Miss Tier."
"Exactly."
Whispers like those drifted faintly into Shien's ears.
Perhaps they were deliberately letting him hear them?
At the very least, Shien could see that quite a few of the people having this conversation were glaring directly at him, their eyes filled with displeasure and mockery.
Shien raised an eyebrow.
After giving some thought to the content of their conversation and the change in their attitude, Shien could easily understand what had happened.
Because of Vivian and the others?
It seemed that Vivian pulling Shien upstairs in the Guild's first-floor hall earlier had provoked these adventurers.
This development...
Don't tell me it was about to get cliché again?
Shien narrowed his eyes, feeling rather speechless.
Such a classic setup completely failed to interest him.
Was someone going to jump out next so I could show off and humiliate them?
Shien wore an expression of utter refusal.
Compared to this utterly boring, formulaic plot that he could come up with dozens