Guild Boss's Ambition

Many customers around looked over at me because of my overly loud shout, so I stuck out my tongue and forced out a silly smile that I was best at. Perhaps because my behavior was funny enough, everyone chuckled in support, and my other beloved signboard ladies also gave me their smiles.

"Gu Shan worked very hard today."

At this time, the catwoman Tina at the table winked at me. She is an active member of our guild and likes to accept various challenges. Her boyfriend is the lion man Odo who sits next to her. Odo is a very strong warrior. The two of them standing side by side look like a perfect match. I believe they will definitely have a happy relationship.

"Hehe, Sister Tina really loves to joke around. I'm just a worker, how can I be lazy?"

"Uh-really? Then why couldn't I find you just now?"

I said without blinking, "Oh! I was just in the lounge arranging shifts for the other mascots."

Tina grabbed my nose and scolded me, "You little rascal, you have learned to lie~~"

Like most catgirls, Sister Tina is also very clingy, and she likes to play tricks on us poster girls in a very evil way. Moreover, she does not care about the consequences at all. Several times, I was almost exposed in public and lost my face. Just when I was thinking about how to find an excuse to get away, a young man with fringe hair came over angrily!

"Odo! I want to duel you! If you lose, Tina will be mine!"

"Oh my! He's asking for death! There's an idiot trying to commit suicide, who can stop him──"

Tina clapped her hands on her cheeks, her bright eyes were filled with shock, but the slightly raised corners of her mouth clearly betrayed her mischievous intention. As a bystander, I couldn't help but feel sad for this young man who looked like a weakling. You know, Tina's lion boyfriend Oddur is the champion of Group D of the Windmill Arena for many times, and he is famous for his ruthlessness.

"Since you've come to my door so arrogantly, I have no choice but to teach you a lesson!"

The burly lion man stood up suddenly, and his nearly two-meter-tall figure immediately brought a huge sense of oppression to the people around him.

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24. The Battle of Cat Lovers (Ehard)

(Mener-Ehard)

The wind is biting, the sunset glows for thousands of miles, and it seems that strong winds and heavy rain are coming.

I spent most of this morning efficiently losing over twenty games at the Windmill Arena.

After three consecutive days, I had lost so many games that almost all my opponents who had heard of me knew that I was bent on losing. And according to the data in that plan book, it would take at least another month or two for me to meet the conditions for unlocking the skill of writing a thousand wins and a thousand losses.

If I am not mistaken, I should have completed the conditions for a thousand victories long ago when I was in military school. During that period, my opponents were mainly my seniors and juniors. Since I had outstanding performance since childhood, I rarely had the chance to lose. However, in the adventurer society of Mopolis City, there are many people like Bai Ye who can easily defeat me.

Therefore, I still have a lot to learn.

I need to learn to be okay with failure.

I need to hone my tolerance and make it more tolerant.

When bad things keep happening and when the sail is sailing upstream, I must not be discouraged. My heart can be sad and my heart can be worried, but at the same time, I must expand the limits of my heart so that my heart can accommodate other ideas that can help in adversity, like the sea, even if there are undercurrents in one place, there can be calm in another place. I can put one thing at a time.

This idea is simple to say, but extremely painful to put into practice.

In just one morning, I thought about Xiaolan's safety countless times. My heart felt like it was split in half by an axe. On the one hand, I told myself that worrying would not help, but on the other hand, I wanted to give up all the competitions immediately, throw away my tightly grasped weapons, and return to the stone house, spending time staying by Xiaolan's side, waiting for her to wake up.

But I finally stayed and played all the games.

Even though I was carried to the pastor thirteen times in one day, my heart was obviously more tired than my body.

And when I was walking home alone, something interesting seemed to happen at the door of the stone house.

A crowd of people, almost four layers thick, formed a circle that blocked half of the road.

"Is that ViVi causing trouble again?"

"No! Even she wouldn't be so blind as to hinder merchants from doing business!"

"Go away, go away...Excuse me, excuse me..."

I put on the airs of a Stone House guild leader, shouted in a stern voice, pushed through the crowd, and stepped forward to take a look. I saw a lion man and a human in the open space surrounded by people. They were both adventurers from our guild. One was Catwoman Tina's boyfriend Odo, and the other was Seaweed Head Luke, who I had persuaded to learn from Tina before...

“Wa ...

“Luke-kun, please don’t commit suicide. Your labor force is an important asset to our Stone House!”

I was thinking about how to rush out to stop the two people who were about to fight, but a playful and slim figure sneaked up behind me and patted my butt. I immediately grabbed the paw that was taking advantage of me, turned my head and stretched out my arms, wanting to give the owner of the paw a big panda eye, but fortunately, I still had some strength left in this punch.

When I saw the man's face, I hurriedly retracted my fist.

"Oh, it's you! Tina! Next time, can you please not run behind me without saying anything?"

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Who told President Meng'er to have such a big and round butt? I just want to touch it when I see it~~"

"If you have a boyfriend, be serious, you bastard!"

Hearing this, Catwoman Tina stuck out her tongue and acted cute, then turned her eyes to the two people being watched and said with a smile, "President Meng'er, please don't stop them. With Luke's current strength, our Oddo can definitely beat him up without any sequelae, and for Luke, it is necessary to teach him a lesson."

Looking at Tina who was already peeling peanuts and preparing to watch the show, I couldn't help but smile bitterly for Luke: "I handed him over to you for teaching, is this how you teach him? If he turns his love into hatred, I wonder how you are going to deal with it?"

Tina munched on peanuts and shrugged nonchalantly.

"Don't worry, Luke is just a stupid cat lover. If he gets into trouble, I'll introduce him to some cute young cat girls. Wouldn't he thank us stupidly? And in this case, I didn't seduce him with all my heart. He just came to me and confessed his love to me. It's not my fault. By the way, President, would you like some peanuts?"

"Thanks, but no thanks."

From Tina's tone, Luke probably had no chance. However, this was not a surprising situation. The beastmen themselves tended to look for spouses from the same race, because children born from the same race generally had a more stable bloodline, while the hybrids of humans and beastmen sometimes caused some ridiculous situations.

I once heard of a tragic family, in which the father was a powerful leopard swordsman and the mother was a human. Before conception, the couple prayed day and night that their child would be a beastman. In that case, their child would be able to learn the unique skills of his father and become another dangerous swordsman.

It seemed as if God had heard their prayers, and their son did inherit the leopard man's body shape.

Unfortunately, after a detailed examination, it was discovered that the child had no spiritual talent at all. Instead, he was a genius with an excellent source of wind magic. As a result, the Leopard Swordsman's peerless swordsmanship could only be passed on to outsiders, and their son was sent to a magic school far away from home to attend classes and practice, which left a grudge between father and son.

In addition to the above examples, children born to interracial couples may have a variety of problems.

However, it is fortunate that even though humans and beastmen are two completely different races, the children born from their union will not be deformed babies with three hands and eight legs. To use the professional terminology of those university scholars, our two races have a history of co-evolution for tens of millions of years, and for the sake of racial inheritance and continuation, this mutually beneficial complex reproduction method has emerged.

While I was thinking about the issue of bloodline, Luke also started fighting with the burly Lion Man. The result was just as Tina predicted. The iron-like Luke was knocked to the ground without any suspense. During the fight, the Lion Man Otto didn't even pull out the two short axes on his back. He just used his two fierce heads to beat Luke and made him roll around. It was a very cruel scene.

"Well - it's exactly the scene where I was slaughtered by those platinum-levels this morning."

"It must be very unpleasant to be defeated so easily by your opponent, right?"

As usual, after the beating ended, the crowd of spectators gradually dispersed.

Tina and Oddo chatted for a while and then left the scene.

In contrast to Catwoman's ruthless behavior, there were a few sympathetic passers-by around the guild entrance who began to hesitate whether to pick up the idiot on the ground and take him to the temple for treatment. However, since half of Luke's death could be said to be caused by me, I had to take the initiative to take responsibility, brought this green seaweed head back to the guild, and helped him find a priest.

After being bathed in the holy light, the unconscious Luke also woke up.

He looked at me in surprise and then started crying.

He is a man with self-esteem and ideals.

If he wasn't really hurt, I don't think he would shed tears in front of others.

"Do you really like Tina that much?" I asked him.

Luke didn't answer.

"Tina doesn't seem to have any interest in you," I told him.

"Even if you don't tell me, I know this myself."

Luke looked up and glared at me.

In order to prevent him from being accidentally killed by Odo, I persuaded him: "There are so many beautiful cat women in the world. Do you really need to risk your life to duel with Odo? Although it is possible for a Black Iron rank to defeat a Silver rank, Odo has already stepped half a foot into the Gold rank. If you want to defeat him, it will be a dream sooner."

I thought Luke would give up soon, but his eyes suddenly became firm, and his whole body was once again filled with fighting spirit: "No! It won't work if it's not Miss Tina! Even if there is an obstacle as strong as Oddo ahead, I must get Miss Tina's promise to make her the poster girl of my coffee shop!"

"Wait! Why do I feel like something is wrong?"

I asked with a little embarrassment, "You just said you don't want lover, lover, wife, or other such terms, but you just want Tina to be the poster girl of your coffee shop, right?"

Luke nodded in astonishment and asked, "Yes, what's wrong?"

What's the matter?

Is he an idiot?

I couldn't help but be amazed at Luke's slowness. I patted his shoulder in annoyance and told him the truth: "Although I don't know how you talked to Tina and the others, I must tell you that in Oddo's eyes, you are not trying to recruit his girlfriend to be the poster girl of your cafe, but to steal his girlfriend!"

Luke stroked his chin and thought for a while, then suddenly realized something and shouted, "No wonder he was so ruthless just now! It turns out that he thought I was his love rival! Damn it! How could they maliciously judge me like this! Do I look like the kind of man who would steal someone's love? Even if Miss Tina's breed is a rare Old French Shorthair cat, I will not abandon my inherent principles!"

Looking at the excited Seaweed Head, I frankly expressed my feelings as a bystander.

"No, who cares what your principles are, you just look like a perverted cat lover."

"I'm not a pervert! I'm just a normal guy who likes cats!"

I squinted and questioned, "But is there any normal person who likes cat beastmen so easily that he can tell their breeds?"

Luke protested, "It just means I'm more knowledgeable!"

"Yes, yes! Mr. Erudite Perverted Cat Lover."

"President, let me tell you one last time! I'm not a pervert!"

"Okay, pervert."

"Ah! I won't continue talking nonsense with you! You don't listen to me at all!"

After my repeated teasing, the young boy Luke was finally pissed off and ran away.

And my depression that had been going on for the whole day was slightly relieved because of his funny behavior.

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25. Unsolvable Hatred (Ehard)

(Mener-Ehard)

"Good afternoon, President Ehard!"

"Hello, President!"

Amid the sporadic greetings from employees and adventurers, I walked through the first floor corridor and went up to the second floor.

After a long time, we always inadvertently remember some special numbers, for example, Blanny's birthday is December 444th, and Lian'er's school time is half past twelve. At this time, I am heading to Room where Bai Ye lives. It is an ominous number. A large number of adventurers will be disgusted by it and will ask to change dormitories.

Cluck, cluck, cluck!

I knocked on Bai Ye's door without any hesitation. I was very sure that Bai Ye was in the room. Considering that Xiao Lan was still unconscious, I had no reason to worry about disturbing the people inside.

giggle!

Cackling!

cluck cluck!

"Strange, why didn't Bai Ye answer the door after such a long time?"

"Could there be another accident?"

Thinking of the high elves they mentioned earlier, my heart sank and I searched for the key to Bai Ye's room in the space ring.

Unlike the spare key placed in the president's room, this key was originally made to guard against Bai Ye. But after several months of secret observation, even I have to admit that Bai Ye not only has no aggression towards Xiao Lan, she even inadvertently shows an obvious desire to protect her, which gives me goose bumps and makes me feel sick.

Scratch──

I unlocked the door and pushed it open. I used the wall as cover and stuck half of my head out to look inside the room.

There were only two beautiful ladies sitting in the room, each holding a cup of hot tea. They seemed to be chatting happily, but I didn't know what topic they were talking about. Miss Mafiluna's face was flushed, and Miss Bai Ye had a smug look on her face. The atmosphere between the two of them was not at all sad, as it should be when staying in the room of a seriously ill person. Instead, they were chatting and laughing.

"President Ehard, it's not very polite for you to break into my room without permission, don't you think, Mafiluna?"

Glancing at me, Bai Ye giggled and complained in a soft voice. At this moment, Miss Mafeluna, who was being questioned, suddenly stood up. She hurriedly said something, walked past me and left the room: "I'm sorry, I suddenly remembered that I have something to do in the store. Master Bai Ye, you guys can chat slowly, I'll go back first──"

"Don't forget what I told you!"

Bai Ye called out to her back, but Miss Mafiluna left without responding.

I couldn't help but wonder about this strange scene: "Did I do something wrong?"

Bai Ye licked his lower lip and replied with a smile on his face: "No, no, you came at the right time, and you showed me a very interesting scene. However, I hope that next time when no one answers the door, please don't use the key to open the door without permission, otherwise I can't guarantee that I will not use some defensive forbidden magic to blast you out next time~~"

"Tsk, if I wasn't afraid that you would be killed by the high elves, would I have opened your door?"

I sat down dejectedly in the seat that Mafeluna had just occupied, but as soon as I sat down, I was frightened by the coolness coming from the chair. I touched the chair with my fingers and found some wet water stains. I smelled them on my fingers and licked them, but still couldn't be sure what the hell these wet liquids were?

So I asked Bai Ye, "Why is the chair wet?"

Bai Ye forced out an expression of trying not to smile, and explained, "Mafeluna accidentally knocked over the kettle when she was making tea just now. Although I simply wiped it, it might still be a little wet, right? By the way, you'd better not taste things with your mouth like a primitive man in my room. If you accidentally drink something poisonous, I may not be able to help you in time."