Chapter 9: New Job?

Klein guardingly clutched the coin bag in his pockets as he walks the street of Leans.

This action may send some warning signs to thieves and pickpocketers that he was carrrying something really important in his pockets. But he didn't care.

He had learned his leasons.

Last time when he tried to appear nonchalant while walking, the pocket money that Esme's father had given him was stolen.

Worse of all, he didn't even know when it happened. He remembered that he had been bumped on more than three separate occasions on the day that he lost his money.

He doesn't want to lose this money. Especially that he, himself, had earned it after more than a week of hard work.

He eyed his sorroundings looking for someone suspicious.

There's some beggars sitting in the corner and begging for some alms. There's also some kids with snots still on their nose playing tag and horsing around. There's some rough looking guys grouped together and whispering to each other.

But what really catches Klein's attention is the hooded person that is walking towards him.

Judging from its silhouette, Klein can tell that its a woman, a very sexy woman. She has the right amount of curves in places that should have curves. She's dressed in a black robe with a hood on to block her facial features.

Klein let his imagination run wild. Surely, a woman with a sexy body like that would have a wonderful face too.

Klein smirked before he activated Weak Point. A plan formed on his head.

The plan is simple. With Weak Point active, he will look for the weakness in how she walks. Klein will bump into her, and by 'coincidence', he'll trip pulling her along with him.

Then by another 'coincidence', a waldrobe malfunction will happen, and his hands will 'coincidentaly' land on her naughty spots.

Just like Rito, the protagonist of the anime To-love-ru.

With Weak Point active, he is sure that he can make this scene appear natural.

Klein removed the hand in his pocket and pretend to seriously look at his coin purse while secretly keeping an eye at the approaching figure.

On the corner of his eyes, he saw her beautiful visage, and she smiled.

'Huh, what happened?' Klein thought to himself.

He is currently kneeling on one knee with his hands stretched to his side.

He looked at his sorroundings and notice that the hooded figure is a few meters away. She had already passed him and was walking away from him.

'What just happened?' Klein repeated.

He thought of following her but he stopped. He felt that it wouldn't please her. And he was born into this world just to please her.

And with that thought, Klein walked away to continue his original objective, finding Kruce.

This strange incident is completely forgotten.

It didn't take long before he found Kruce. Befriending the receptionist in an Adventurer Guild is always a right choice. They sure know their stuff.

"Heya, Kruce," Klein called her from behind.

Without any warning, Kruce stood up. She turned around and threw a fist toward Klein.

Klein smirked. He had anticipated this. He leaned his head to the side, and he took a step forward.

Klein opened his arms wide before closing it, effectively giving Kruce a hug.

"Good to see you too," Klein whispered to her ear. The smirk is still on his face. He had Weak Point active even before he called her.

After chatting up with Hus, Klein had learned Kruce's personality. She's extremely aggressive. She's someone who isn't afraid to throw a punch.

From what Hus Tomper had told Klein, after arriving in Leans two months ago, Kruce has been involved in many fights, going into two digits.

It's as if she was extremely bad mood, and she was just relieving her stress.

Though, she wasn't always the one to initiate the fight.

From what he gathered, there are three cases when she tend to initiate a fight.

First: Someone was bugging her refusing to leave her alone.

Second: When she saw something that's not good in her opinion.

Third: When the person she beat up called for back up.

Of course, Klein had prepared himself. He knows that he belong on the first category.

That's why he activated Weak Point. He doesn't want to get beaten up.

Though, Klein didn't consider belonging to the first category as a problem. He just needs to trigger the right flag. He might not be Keina Katsuragi but he's still confident in himself. Keina may be a God, and may have a World that he only knows but nobody can defeat Klein shamelessness.

It won't take long before he melt her agressive exterior.

As for Kruce, she briefly considered struggling from his embrace so she can continue her assault but she stopped herself after rembering where they are.

"Uhmmm... Here's your order sir," the waiter awkwardly said from her behind.

She didn't want to be blacklisted from this place. Amy's Bakery is the only shop in Leans that serves her soul food.

And while taverns are ok with some violence inside their establishment as long as you pay for damages, Bakeries are different. She will be immediately be barred from their services.

She had thrown that punch earlier without thinking.

"Will you get off of me?" Kruce asked after a few seconds.

Klein happily complied and he sat on the same table.

Kruce looked around hoping to find an empty table but she gave up after seeing none. She looked at the Caramel Pudding in the table begrudgingly and at Klein who's happily ordering from the waiter, before she sat down opposite of him.

Kruce decided to ignore him and to focus on eating her food.

And it didn't take long before she snapped.

Being stared at while eating will make oneself uncomfortable, and Kruce was not an exception.

"What do you want?!" Kruce asked. She had only taken a few bites of her Caramel Pudding. Even her favorite desert felt tasteless while this weirdo is staring at her creepily.

Klein smiled inwardly.

"I heard that this place offer the best pastry. Of course as the best gourmet in our village, I need to try it and give my critics. It's just by Tower's will that I found you here. I assume that you are a frequent costumer of Amy's Bakery. What can you tell about this place? Is it good? Is it bad? Does the staff provide good service?"

"Hmmph," Kruce grunted, ignoring his question.

She didn't believe it, that he found her by coincidence. Even though it's only her second time meeting Klein, she felt that he had been purposely following her.

Seeing that Kruce is unresponsive, Klein tried another topic.

"How about you became my apprentice in the way of gourmets? But before I teach you the way of taste testing, I think we need to improve our team work first. Luckily, I already found the right job---."

"Not interested."

"Yes, I know that you'll agree," Klein continued, pretending that he didn't hear her. "So, I already signed you up." Of course, this is a lie.

Kruce proceed to ignore Klein. She continued eating her pudding. It's better with him now talking than earlier where he watch her eat in silence.

"It is an easy job. Some kid wanted to practice his archery in the woods. Our job is to scout ahead only."

Hus has recommended this job to Klein because it has a decent pay and the risk is not that great.

A noble, who's in his teens, wanted to impress some girl by showing off his archery. Of course, in his mind showing of his archery skills in an archery range is not cool enough. He needed to hunt. And it needs to be seen by the girl.

And as a noble, he'll get what he wants. It then became a quest in the Adventurer Guild.

If Klein accept the quest, his job is simple. He needed to scout ahead for a beast that the noble will 'hunt'. Additionally, he needed to scout if there's a dangerous beast ahead.

For Klein this job is quite easy. Specially because Klein doesn't need to protect the kid. The noble kid has his own knights for that.

In fact, he can do this job on his own and he didn't need to include Kruce. But the old man won't give him the job if Klein is on his own.

Kruce hears the details before deciding,

"Still not interested."

"Haha, of course you do. Don't worry. We will split the pay 70-30. 70 for me, 30 for you."

Seeing that Kruce still did not agree, he decided to continue convincing her but something caught his attention.