Chapter 8 - Clan Leader

Before me, stood a girl who looked like an elementary school student at glance with her pink hair and small stature, but she’s renown as the bearer of the grand title, ‘God Of Commerce.’

“Clan leader?”

“Hey-hey! Long time no see, right?”

“Indeed, but what are you doing here?”

“I sense your presence while I was hunting a pest.”

[You… So you’re that bitch who's been killing my men.]

“Oh my, it seems the pest is here, let’s continue our happy reunion after I remove the pest.”

The little girl, Miru, innocently turns towards the earth dragon. Miru isn’t very suited for combat especially with her levels halved due to the end of beta, she was a professional merchant who had the highest net worth in the game using many tricks and she was the clan leader of the clan ‘Golden Eyes.’ The clan ‘Golden eye’ was considered one of the top 3 clans in the server, it lacked overall combat abilities since most of the players in the clan had production jobs but it was a force to be reckoned with since it controls 30% of the server’s economy.

“Clan leader, that’s a level 220 dragon!”

“I know, just relax and watch with your boyfriend over there.”

“Wha-?!”

“Relax, and just call me Nee-san since the clan disbanded, alright?”

I obediently retreated to where Jack laid and watched the stand-off, ignoring the remark made by Miru.

[Done chatting yet? Your level is merely 144, do you think you can beat me? I'd recommend you surrender.]

“Thank you for the advice but, I have to, unfortunately, decline that offer.”

[How unfortunate, I suppose you will die here then.]

“Are you sure about that?”

With a slight smirk on her face, Miru reached her hands to a pouch on that was her waist and pulled out a talisman looking piece of paper with a magic circle drawn on it.

“Die.”

Miru whispered, and responding to Miru's word, the talisman burned to ashes and flew in the direction of the wind, the earth dragon before her, stood still unresponsive. Several seconds past and the dragon moved an inch letting loose a roar.

“ROAR!!!”

The dragon ran away…

“Wha…”

I looked at the anti-climatic scene before me, Miru turned around and looked at me with a smug look on her face.

“Kuro-Kuro!”

“Just call me Kuro, and- Wait! What are you-!”

Miru rushed towards me and hugged my body pushing me into the ground. Where have I seen this before? Is this yuri? I looked up and stared at Miru’s face, which was filled with tears, unlike the happy expression she had before.

“H-hey! What’s wrong? Why are you crying!!?”

I slowly hugged the crying Miru as the sun sets in the distant horizon, and by the time night came, Miru finally calmed down and stopped crying.

“I’m sorry about that.”

“It’s fine, but why were you crying?”

“I’ve finally found someone I know after so long, of course, I’m crying.”

“I thought the beta was only released a few days ago. It seems it’s been a month.”

“No… It has been 7 years since I came here. You seem pretty calm if you just came here, don’t you miss your family or friends?”

“Family and friends…”

Upon Miru's remark, the air turned gloomy quickly. Realising her mistake, Miru quickly tries to apologise.

“Oh! I’m sorry, I didn’t-”

“Hey, what did you use to make the dragon run away, back then?”

“E-eh?…uh, I used the ‘Scroll Of Exorcism,’ it’s popularly used in a daily quest called ‘Exorcising Of The Church. The dragon was possessed as a kin of the sinner of gluttony’”

Miru was quite surprised at the sudden change in Kurogami, it was as if she never asked anything in the first place.

The two continue to chat about their reunion and Miru’s experiences. Miru first came to this world 7 years ago in a country called Nanau, it was an unknown place to her, who read all the update logs and official forums.

Miru tried opening the menu but it didn’t open, which made Miru worry but she thought it was just a bug and searched for a town. Miru quickly realised something was wrong when she could taste the soup served to her at an inn.

Miru ran out of the inn with tears filling her eyes and slept in a nearby forest by herself using her portable base after tasting the soup. Several days of weeping passed and Miru finally calmed down after isolating herself, believing it was all a dream and she would wake up to her parents. When Miru woke up, nobody was there and nobody comforted her.

Miru travelled the country and arrived at a port town after several months of travelling, she registered as an adventurer and she’s now well known as a top S rank adventurer.

The appearance of the kin of one of the 7 deadly sins was reported to be on the island, Miru was sent to subjugate it before it regained its immense power. The 7 deadly sins are known to be the closest to the demon lord, they got sealed away in a war 10 years ago alongside the demon king. Demons became more inactive since then but recently, demons have become more active in several areas and the seal is breaking off.

Demons had many wars with other races and the dominant species of human was the biggest contender. Humans and demons go a long way back, they are said to have fought long before the lost ages, 3000 years ago, when almost everything died out due to an unknown force. The lost ages was a time when all records of history disappeared and the art of speech was lost, it took several centuries to recover from it and nobody knew what happened, the only traces of civilisation before the lost ages were ancient ruins which are now preserved by every nation as a holy site.

“So... have you met any other players?”

“No... But records have it that the first King of Japra had otherworldly knowledge which helped the nation prosper.”

“So, we aren’t alone.”

“Probably not. We should probably rest now, we’ll head back to the biggest town on this island tomorrow morning.”

“Alright, I’m too tired to think right now anyways. Can you set up the portable base?”

“Don’t you have it as well?”

“I only have 1 try left, you have like 10 so it’s fine. Right?”

“Sigh… Whatever. Inventory select- Portable Base!”

Kurogami and Miru ended their conversation and headed into the portable base. Forgetting about Jack outside, they slept peacefully after locking the doors and eating…

Omelettes.