I’m a humiliated, incompetent person, but I alone can talk to dragons, so I can choose all the SSS skills and loophole items I want to. I’m going to become famous and respected, so, to the people who humiliated me – Go die in a ditch - Chapter 10

Translator: Jasper Kadowaki | Editor: NovelMultiverse

The next day, I went to work with Louise.

We took a mission from the government office where we had to walk around the city and make sure there wasn’t anything fishy going on. 

Since it was basically just a patrolling job, we wouldn’t be making much money off of it, but since we were working for the city, it would work towards building a good reputation. 

After making two full rounds through the city while carefully making sure there wasn’t anything out of the ordinary happening, we returned to the government office and reported to Rose-san. 

“Nothing out of the ordinary,” I said.

“Is that so,” said Rose, “All right. Here’s your pay for the day. Twenty reals as promised.”

Since the government was the one who requested the mission, we were paid right away, then and there.

Colette would be making 50 reals on her own, and we were adding 20 to that. It was quite a scant income for the day. 

Well, I had already taken the low pay for the day into consideration, so it wasn’t that disappointing.

We still had time to kill, though, so I thought we might take on one more job.

“By the way, Cyril – I’ve been meaning to ask you. What are you going to do about your guild situation?” asked Rose.

“Guild?” I asked.

Why’s she bring that up, out of the blue? I thought, confusedly. I tilted my head to the side and gazed back at Rose. 

“Well, I’ve already been banished from the Lindworm Guild… For now, I’m trying to just make it as a freelancer,” I said.

Well… Maybe not just for now. It might be forever.

After becoming a freelancer, I kept my ear to the streets, but it sounded like Lindworm was just the worst of the guilds. Most of the other ones, or rather, most dragon knights themselves held pretty much the same beliefs. 

They basically just thought of dragons as items.

That was the general opinion, and so to think I would just join a new guild… It hadn’t even crossed my mind.

“Do you have any interest in making your own one-person guild?” asked Rose.

“A one-person guild? What’s that?” I asked.

“It’s just as the name says. It’s a guild consisting of just one person,” said Rose, bluntly.

“And why would anyone do that?” I asked.

“Do you understand the benefit of being in a guild?” she asked.

“The benefit of being in a guild?” I asked.

I thought about it for a second. 

I couldn’t really think of what she specifically meant by “the benefit of being in a guild”. 

I slowly shook my head and said, “No, not really. I have no idea.”

“Ah, okay. Well, first of all, guilds are a type of association officially recognized by national governments,” said Rose.

“Oh,” I said.

“They fall under the category of ‘dragon knight associations’, and since dragon knights and dragons are so important to governments right now, they’re treated especially well.”

“Like, what do you mean?” I asked.

“Well, the main thing is taxes,” said Rose, “It’ll affect your income tax, but also just your dragon tax. If you establish a one-person guild, you’ll end up paying a lot less in taxes, every year.”

“Hmm, really?” I asked.

I didn’t know about any of this.

Taxes, eh?…

When it came to dragons… Yes, well, I did mean to take one more of them if I met any good ones. 

If it would lessen my dragon taxes, it might actually be a very good idea to establish my own guild.

“Another thing is that your dragons’ abilities might improve a bit, according to how successful your guild is,” said Rose.

“Seriously?!” I asked, surprised. This was the first time I was hearing about anything like this.

“Well, it’s a very small amount, but if your guild reaches a really high level, your dragons’ abilities might go up by about ten percent,” said Rose.

“That’s still pretty good,” I said.

I hadn’t ever even thought that such a thing was possible.

If what Rose was saying was true… I would have to seriously consider establishing my own one-person guild.

“By the way, what would someone have to do to create their own guild?” I asked.

“Well, first of all, you’d need money,” said Rose.

“Money?” I asked.

“Yes. You need to pay a deposit to the government.”

“Ah, okay.”

“You also need a backer,” said Rose, “But, I mean, if you really want to make a guild, Cyril, I could back you.”

“Thank you so much,” I said. I honestly felt thankful to her, from the bottom of my heart. 

A guarantor or a backer was much harder to come across than money itself. 

At the end of the day, though, money was money – and it was the key to having the means to an end. It was the ultimate goal for me, and what I was having the most trouble with. 

“How much is that deposit I would have to make, by the way?” I asked. 

“It’s 10,000 reals…” said Rose. 

“Ah, all right…” I said.

10,000 reals… Now that was a hefty sum. 

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I got back to the house. 

I sprawled out on the couch in the living room and looked up at the ceiling, thinking. 

Ten thousand reals was a truly huge amount of money.

Depending on the person, it could be about a years’ salary. 

Of course, I didn’t have that kind of money. 

It wasn’t an impossible amount of money to acquire, though. 

After all, at the end of the day, the average person could make that much money in a year’s time. 

It was a lot of money for a one-person guild, but if ten people formed a group and decided they would make a guild… It would only be 1000 reals each, and as soon as they had that money, they could establish themselves. 

I was alone, though.

It would be difficult to raise 10,000 reals on my own. That was a fact. 

When I thought about the advantages of being in a guild would bring, though, I came to the conclusion that it would be worth the trouble, if I could somehow manage it. 

Now, now – What should I do? 10,000 reals…

Just as my mind was racing with these thoughts, I heard a voice outside the house. 

“I’m back.”

It was Colette’s voice. I stood up, left the living room, and went out to the yard outside. 

I saw Colette, heading to the dragon shed. 

“Welcome back, Colette,” I called out. 

“Hi. Here are today’s profits,” said Colette, barfing out a coin purse. 

Three bags of coins jangled onto the ground in the yard. 

“What about the installment payment?” I asked. 

“I paid it, don’t worry,” she said. [Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

“All right. Good work… Hey,” I said. As I was picking up the leather bags full of coins, I noticed something else Colette had thrown up. 

It looked to be… some sort of rock. 

“What’s this?” I asked. 

“Oh, that?” said Colette, and grunted. 

“I swallowed that by accident,” she said, “It wasn’t the type of rock you told me to mine, so I didn’t sell it. I brought it back here, instead.”

I didn’t respond.

“What? Is there something wrong with that?” she asked.

“This… No, it couldn’t be,” I muttered.

I stared at the raw mineral Colette had brought home and coughed up. 

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“This is… Polylight,” said the merchant with a surprised tone, after appraising the mineral for a while.

I had brought the mineral over to the stand that was usually buying from Colette. 

“Polylight?” I asked. 

“Yes,” he said, “It looks white right now, doesn’t it? That’s due to the sunlight.”

“Ah. Yeah,” I said.

“If we take this, and…” The merchant got up, closed the window, and drew the curtains. 

The room got dark. 

Then, the merchant lit a lamp. 

The mineral seemed to take in the lamplight and started to glow red. 

“W-What’s with that?” I asked.

“Polylight reacts to the type of light that’s being shined on it. It takes it in, and changes color depending on what light is shined upon it.”

“Oh…” I said.

“Incidentally, there are many types of polylight. The more kinds of light it can project, the more valuable it is,” said the merchant. 

“That makes sense…” I said.

If its specialty was glowing certain colors, the larger the variety of colors a single stone could emit, the higher the demand for it… I could understand that train of thought. 

“It appears this rock has four types of light it can emit,” said the merchant. 

“Ah, I see,” I said.

“Could you sell me this rock, maybe?” he asked.

“Yeah, sure,” I said, nodding. 

I had planned to hand it over to him from the beginning, ever since I had decided to come to the merchant.  

This was a mineral that I had never even seen before, that I had come into possession of by happenstance. 

I had meant to have it appraised, and then sell it wherever I could. 

“How about I give you 10,000 reals for it?” he asked. 

“Whaaat?!” I exclaimed. 

10,000 reals. 

I stared at the mineral… The polylight. 

Just by selling this one rock, I would be able to start my own guild. 

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Just as I managed to sell the mineral and get my 10,000 reals, I headed straight to the government office building. 

I went to Rose. 

“Oh, what are you doing here?” asked Rose, “I thought you had gone home for the day.”

“Yeah, sorry to bother you again,” I said, “But I brought over 10,000 reals.”

With that said, I placed a jangling bag of silver coins onto Rose’s desk. 

Rose saw this and looked a little shocked. 

“Well, I didn’t think you’d bring me the money today!” she said. 

“Yes, sorry,” I said, “I know it’s a bit hasty of me.”

“I’m surprised you came up with the money so quickly,” she said, “What did you do? Pawn off some dragons?”

“What?” I asked.

“What?” she said. 

I fell into a blank, confused look, and Rose was a bit taken aback. 

“What do you mean, pawn off a dragon?” I asked. 

“I mean exactly what I said,” said Rose, “I thought maybe you pawned off some dragons and made some money that way.”

“I couldn’t do something like that,” I said, frowning. 

I didn’t even know you could pawn off a dragon, and even if I did know that that was a possibility, I would never be able to do such a thing. 

“No, I didn’t do that,” I continued, “I actually got my hands on a rare mineral.”

“Ah, it seems you lucked out, then,” said Rose. 

“Yeah, I guess so,” I said. 

“All right.”

“Well, anyway, can I ask you to do me that favor?” I asked. 

“Okay,” she said, “I’ll get the paperwork ready. In the meantime, fill this out.”

Rose pulled out a stack of papers and handed them over to me. 

It was an application form for the establishment of a guild. 

“So, you already had that prepared for me?” I asked Rose. 

“I thought you’d be coming by for it, sooner or later,” she said. 

“…Thank you very much,” I said. 

With my heart full of gratitude for Rose, I looked over the documents and started filling in the necessary blanks. 

I wrote in things like my name, what sort of place I lived in, and my current address. 

I supplied personal information like that, as well as things like how many dragons I had and what tools I owned to take care of them. 

“I guess there’s… No place to write their names,” I muttered. 

There were no blanks to enter any dragon names, and that made me feel a little uncomfortable, but there was not much I could do about that. 

Then, I finally came across another blank asking for a different type of information. 

“A guild name, huh?” I said. 

“Yes. That’s the most important part to fill out. I don’t think I have to tell you this, but whatever you name your guild, that’s the name you will be called by. That’s what your reputations will be staked on.”

“Okay. Yeah,” I said. 

I thought about it. Pretty quickly, a name came to me. 

It floated down into my mind like a message from the heavens.

I filled in the form with this name that came to me, and I handed over the forms to Rose. 

“There, I’m finished,” I said.

“Let me see… ‘Dragons First’, eh?” she asked. 

“Yes,” I said, nodding decisively. 

It’s said that one’s name reflects one’s true self. 

In that case, it wasn’t even up for debate. My guild’s name would be “Dragons First”.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]