Life In Another World - 11 Ralph

Coming back to his senses, Kiro finally understood what was happening.

The summoned person is the one who introduced the goods from his former world. Kiro could not believe that he wasn’t the first person who has even been summoned to another world even though Kiro himself was transmigrated here by an unknown being. He still could not help to think why such a coincidence happened multiple occurrences. It was as if his former world and this world were connected somehow.

Biding his farewell to the clerk, Kiro went back to the Inn.

In the Wooden Hatch Pub

Alina, who is foolishly standing at the entrance hall of Inn, saw a small figure walking closer to her direction. The person has unusual Inky hair and pitch-black eyes.

It was no other than Kiro, after buying all the necessities he needed Kiro wanted to go back to the Inn and have an early rest.

Seeing Kiro is getting closer, Alina greeted him with her alluring smile.

“How is it Mr. Kiro did you perhaps manage to obtain what you are looking for?”

“Thanks to Alina, I did manage to acquire what I wanted,” Kiro said while giving her thanks to Alina.

“I am glad I could help Mr. Kiro if there’s anything else you could always ask, Alina.” Said as she gives a courteous bow to Kiro.

Looking at the beauty who is so polite at him, Kiro could only give an awkward smile. He still wasn’t used to it. Even if in his former world etiquette were being practiced, Kiro wasn’t used to seeing such a beautiful woman like Alina being polite to him. If It were his previous world, such a woman wouldn’t even bat an eye at him.

Staring at Alina, Kiro gives a slight pleasantry as he goes inside the Inn.

***

Inside his room.

Kiro asked the Inn’s owner for two buckets of hot water. Kiro was dying to clean his oily body. He badly needs to rub every inch and corner of his body frame, grabbing a rag towel Kiro scrubbing his figure from up to bottom, even if the soap might destroy his hair, Kiro didn’t bother and use the soap as a shampoo while rinsing his body with hot water.

After cleansing, Kiro went downstairs to grab lunch.

Inside the pub.

Kiro ordered a light meal, a single serving of tomato soup, and a slice of brown bread. While eating, Kiro couldn’t help to recall the tale of the clerk. He decided that after everything settled down, he would visit the Empire that the summoned person built. Glancing around the pub, Kiro saw Alina’s figure, she was serving food to the customer at this busy hour, but he saw the hand of a thug trying to touch Alina’s butt.

“Please don’t touch Alina so casually,” Alina said as she grabbed the hand of the thug. “Ugh! What are you doing?!” The thug shouted.

Hearing a commotion inside the pub, the Inn owner rushes forward and sees Alina is fiercely grabbing the customer’s arm, with his long experience of running a business. The Inn’s owner immediately understood what was happening, going to their direction to mend the dispute between the two.

“Please, dear customer, the serving girl is still new from this kind of work. Alina is still not used for being touched by the customer.” The Inner owner said.” She is still young and pure. I hope the customer wouldn’t mind her rude behavior.”

“What? Do you know how rude your serving girl is? If she doesn’t want to get touched, then she should not accept this kind of job!” The thug shouted hysterically.

“Please, customer calm your anger, you are disturbing the other regulars here.”

“Who cares about them! How will you settle the account for me, huh? If a word comes out that your Inn has a poor serving, do you know how much your business will be affected?” This time the thug is trying to dig deeper. The reputation of the Inn was one of the keyways of surviving in the hospitality industry. Once their reputation has been tarnished, it will be hard to attract more customers.

Usually, In the regular cheap Inn like the Wooden Hatch Pub, any serving girl on that kind of low-class Inn is giving free service for their customers, but the owner of this Inn does not follow the traditional ways. He wanted to run his business respectably.

Hearing those words, the Inn owner flinched for a bit, but he recovered from his fright after seeing the usual glint in the thug’s eyes. It was clear that the thug did it on purpose to create a commotion to his Inn.

The Inn owner’s eyes could not help to darted, gazing at the thug coldly. “Please, customer, although my Inn is small and humble, my Inn still has a policy that has to be followed. If you are looking for trouble you have come to the wrong place, please leave this place imminently.”

“… You, do you know that by doing this, your Inn reputation will be tarnished?” The thug tried to intimidate the Inn’s owner, but it did not work. “If my Inn reputation will be tarnished Is not because we neglect our duties, but it was because if we did not protect our employees, It was the same as stepping down to our Inn’s policy!”

Kiro, who is silently watching the scene, could not help to give a slight sigh, getting up on the table Kiro heads toward their direction.

“Hey, ~ Buddy, what are you doing? Come on, stop making such a ruckus. You are disturbing the other customers here.” Kiro said while tapping his shoulder. “Who-” The thug cut-offed his words, he couldn’t finish what he was about to say. A solid object was poking at his back. “Hehehe, sorry about that owner, my friend is dead drunk, he does not know what he was saying,” Kiro said. “Right, buddy?” The thug could only swallow his dry saliva as he nervously nods to Kiro’s statement.

Kiro dragged him outside the pub, throwing the thug on the ground. “Stop pestering that Inn, If I ever saw you again or hear that you create another commotion… I won’t let you go that easily as I did right now.” Kiro said while gazing fiercely at the thug. He knew the best solution is to intimidate the thug because the more you back down to the person like him, the haughtier the person will be. Still, Kiro forgot about the fact that he is now living in a different world, walking away from the thug Kiro suddenly felt a trace of murderous intent.

Looking behind his back, Kiro saw the thug charges forward, holding a small dagger, but he wasn’t rattled at all. His mind is full of clarity. Kiro felt that he could easily read the movement of the thug, dodging sideways. Kiro grabbed the thug’s arm that’s holding the dagger and twisted it behind his back, throwing the thug down on the ground Kiro grabbed the small dagger from his hands.”Do you still want to continue?” Kiro said while pointing the dagger on the thug’s neck.

“I-i give u, please spare m-me…” The thug uttered those words in shock to his surprise. He never thought the frail-looking Kiro had some skills. “Never show yourself in front of me ever again,” Kiro said as he dislocated the thug’s shoulder. “Argh!” The thug shouted in pain.

Glancing to the thug once more, throwing the small dagger on the other side of the road, leaving behind the thug lying on the muddy ground.

***

Inside his room, Kiro was lying on the crude wooden bed. There wasn’t any straw mattress. He was staying at a much lower class Inn. Kiro was pondering at the event that happened earlier If it was past him. Kiro wouldn’t mercilessly dislocate someone’s shoulder like that.

“Haa~ since the event from the forest, I don’t know myself anymore… Is it the right thing to do? Did I overdid it?” Kiro mumbles. “Master! Don’t be discouraged! Fixie knows Master did the right thing. Master is only protecting himself. Plus, Master should already know a person like that thug will only pester you near in the future if Master did not teach him a good lesson.”

“I know, a person like him will come back and seek more trouble. If I wasn’t cruel enough.” Kiro said, ” In this world, the morals and ethics of the person here are way a lot different than my former world, I could feel that guy’s bloodlust. He was meant to kill If I were just an average person like I used to…” Kiro stopped thinking at this point. He knows the answer from his question.

If he were the same person as before without the System Upgrade, the event from the forest might repeat itself.

As he was in deep thought, Kiro fell asleep. It was already morning after he woke up.

***

Waking up from his bed, Kiro got up, and he was planning to go to the Adventurer’s Guild early in the morning.

Signing the checkout log, Kiro walks away from the Inn. Heading straight to the Guild’s location.

Inside the Guild.

Another receptionist received Kiro. He didn’t see Rosie here inside the Guild early in the morning. He was led to the training ground, upon entering the training area. It was wide. The length of the field is twice the size of a basketball court. There he saw at the edge of the training ground was the archery area, even in the morning there was already someone shooting with a bow and arrow, on the other side was a humanoid dummy figure lining up a row. In the middle of the training ground, there was a broad platform in the middle.

‘Clack, ‘Clack, ‘Clack.

The sounds of woods crashing to each other. Kiro saw there was an ongoing mock battle between the middle-aged man and a youthful boy on the platform.

“Haah!” The youth shouted while he slashed upward using his wooden sword, but the middle-aged person quickly blocked it. “Hahaha! Come on! put more power into It!”

“Hah… hah… hah… Instructor Ralph, can we rest for a bit? I can’t feel my wrist anymore.” The youth said while stabilizing his breathing. “What are you talking about? Do you think your enemy will wait for you to recover? Move it!” While saying that the middle-aged man swung his wooden sword hard, sending the youth flying out of the platform.

The Instructor finally saw that there was a new guest. It was Kiro who was left behind by the receptionist standing at the entrance of the training ground.

Kiro saw that the Instructor was looking at him. “Good morning, I am called Kiro. I applied to the basic training course from the Guild.” Kiro said.”Is the person in charge here is you Mr-”

“It is Ralph, the name is Ralph, you can call me Old Ralph or Instructor Ralph I’m your instructor, so It is fine if you want to talk to me casually,” Ralph said, cutting Kiro’s question. “Okay Instructor Ralph, nice to meet you, until the basic training course is done, please take care of me,” Kiro said politely while taking a slight bow.

“Ohh, I will take care of you alright, but first fix that attitude of yours, I already told you I hate pleasantries, you can talk to me with ease!” Ralph said while picking up the wooden sword on the ground, “Come show me what you got, at your first lesson, let’s fix that attitude of yours.”

Glancing at the Instructor, Kiro was confused. He did not know how he offended the Instructor. He could only nod in approval as he headed toward their direction.