Another world, Celeste

Thirty Five, pt 2

"The Adventurers' Guild," Mint answers with a mouthful of pie.

I think first with a spoon in my mouth before giving Mint an answer.

"I can go tomorrow."

Syl looks unsure at my response while Mint pouts when she finishes the slice of pie too quickly. Erissa moves her arm above her eyes and turns her head slightly to look at me. Her complexion looks much better than yesterday.

"She thinks you're still recovering from mana exhaustion. Two days is too short for that," says Erissa.

Mint is telling Serafina and the adventurers who saw me in the forest that my energy and mana are almost completely drained because I strained myself with the barriers and that I'm currently resting to avoid suspicion of my real capability as a mage. Basically, they think I'm suffering like how Erissa is suffering which is half true.

"You were out for three days, Erissa," Mint corrects her then point her spoon at me. 

"But she's right. Any other normal mage that did what you did would've fainted less than twenty minutes after casting just one barrier and you lasted three times as long without the support of mana stones."

"Okay. How long should I pretend to recover then?"

Mint put her hand under her chin to think but Syl is quicker with an answer.

"Let's give it four more days to make it believable for the humans."

I nod lightly.

"Mint, remember to spare a slice for Erissa," Syl says to Mint whose hand is about to reach for the remaining pie.

Four days go by quick especially when I busied myself with a small craft project since I'm stuck at the inn and there's no television to pass the time. The last two days, Jilko kindly keeps me company and we managed to make more progress on the gnome sign language book. At some point, Archie starts waving his two front paws to mimic the hand gestures which is incredibly adorable.

Anyways, the moment Mint and I walk into the Adventurers' Guild, the atmosphere is quite tense even with a few adventurers around. We approach the counter and speak with a guild employee.

"We're here to see the guild master. He's expecting us."

Mint states our purpose to the guild employee with her usual bright personality.It takes a few seconds for the guild employee to recover from the surprise of suddenly meeting an elf the first thing in the morning.

"Y-yes, please wait a moment."

The guild employee stumbles while rushing off to the back, forgetting to ask our names.

"Hey Mint, didn't you tell Serafina that we're meeting the guild master today?" I whisper from under the hood of my robe.