Humanity Return

Ch. 124 – Mission Board

“Kyuu?”

“...”

The girl smiled faintly as she looked forward, successfully stopping herself from touching the transparent blob that was vibrating on her desk.

Clear who was unaware of it began to notice the group of four people who were looking at him, then to the rest of the clean room, then to the other receptionist who was looking at him while writing something in his little book.

“Kyuu..”.

Almost all of the publicly accessible parts of the academy are already Clear explored, but this does not include some of the existing buildings. This happened because he was not allowed to enter the foreign building without Leinn or Aura's company, and the two of them had no business in the Mission Center for the past month.

So this is the first time he has seen one of the most important places for students who use Merit as one of their currencies and measure their value here, the Red Dawn Academy Mission Center.

On the other side of the building was Leinn who was looking at the first large board with a row of papers containing the details of the mission, with a number that was not small.

“H... Help reduce the number of Beasts around the village or city, look for some Precious Plants, teach Magic Theory.”.

Several low-difficult missions can be seen at the bottom of the row, with other similar missions filling the rest of the large board.

“Have you had trouble finding a mission that suits your taste?”

A soft voice with a friendly tone suddenly sounded from beside him, making Leinn turn to his source. There stood the receptionist girl who answered her question earlier with a professional smile on her face.

This time Leinn could clearly see the girl unobstructed by the high table between them.

The girl was about 165 centimeters tall, with long straight green hair and an above-average level. The uniform he wore also looked a little different to a regular student uniform, and looked more formal.

“Ya.. but I did not find any suitable..”.

Leinn's gaze began to move to the other two boards to the right of the board, then realized some missions that looked more interesting.

“Maybe the missions on this Ordinary Mission Board are too...usual for someone like you.?”.

This receptionist girl of course knew Leinn's identity from her striking black hair, but the atmosphere the young man was currently producing was far too different to the one he had shown in the final fight back then, especially what he saw in the last moments before he fled with all the other spectators of the nearly collapsed stadium.

This made him a little confused as to how to behave in front of him.

Leinn seemed oblivious to that and realized something else, that the large board in front of him and the board next to him, did have a different kind of mission.

“Huh... this is much neater than where I used to be”.

Cleaning up the dangerous Beast Nest that appeared near the resident settlement, inspecting a mysterious Beast that appeared at night, checking for the existence of the evil organization in the city...

Besides being more difficult, the written rewards are also much different than the missions on the previous board.

“Oh, it is an Advanced Mission Board and...” the voice of the girl suddenly weakened followed by her realization, “....you are a Hunter?”

The preparation of the Mission Paper at the Mission Center was indeed much neater, when compared to the Hunter Guild. This information could only be known to those who checked the Mission Board there, which could only be accessed by a Hunter.

“Yes? When did I tell you?”

“...Ah, no! I only draw my own conclusions, please forgive my sassness.”.

The girl lowered her head, thinking she was making a mistake.

Leinn did not immediately reply and looked at the girl's head for a moment, then smiled.

“What's your name?”

“...eh?”

The girl raised her face from feeling misheard, then found the young man in front of her smiling at her.

“I'm Leinn, who are you?”

“S-me... Isla Garcia, Senior Receptionist at this Mission Center-”

“Greetings, Isla!”

“-eh?”

Leinn immediately let go of that greeting of his hand and walked to the front of that Advanced Mission Board, to be able to see it more comfortably.

Isla finally came to her surprise and realized Leinn was not paying attention to her, making her walk up to her once more.

“Um... This mission board can only be taken by Experienced Hunter, maybe you can start from-”

“Hunter experienced?”

Isla was slightly surprised when she saw Leinn who raised one eyebrow after hearing that remark.

“M-I mean.. You at least need to reach Hunter Rank B to take the mission from this board, so-“

This time Isla stopped her speech abruptly not because it was cut off again, but she was reminded of one thing.

“Eh... I have to repeat from the beginning again..?” leinn said with a bit of disappointment.

And that sentence proved the truth, that the young man before him was a Hunter even before he entered the Academy. Coupled with his abilities, it shouldn't be difficult to reach Hunter Rank B.

“Do you... May I know what your achievements as a Hunter were before coming to this academy?”

“Hm? Could you?”

Leinn was seen extending his hand to his shoulder like he wanted to grab something, then realized that he was not carrying anything at the moment.

“Huh, I'm not carrying that thing”

“Um... you can use your Linker to show it”.

Leinn instantly turned his head to the side once more, looking at Isla's face with a surprised expression. His right hand also grabbed into his pants pocket.

“Really?

“Yes, your Rank Hunter should be the same as the academy's special Rank Hunter. Although Contributions and Merits will not be connected at all.”.

Isla's eyes began to move to Linker in the young man's hands, who began to show various reactions due to being pressed repeatedly by her.

After a while of doing that, Leinn finally lifted her face and showed her a smile.

“This”

“Hya-?!”

Then pass the Linker to Isla, who almost fails to catch him.

Isla then began to grab the device in her arms and finally saw the light screen...

“...?”

Which shows the main page, which looks still unchanged from the standard Linker settings.

Isla raised her face and found Leinn who was looking at Linker in her hand as well.

And as if he had read his mind, Leinn replied without lifting his gaze.

“I can't find it, please find it for me”