“Congratulations! As a result of the rank review, Cain-san has been promoted to a C-Rank Adventurer!”
I spat out my drink at my sister’s words.
“No, no, no, that’s ridiculous! It’s way too fast, no matter how you look at it. Just defeating an Archdemon shouldn’t cause such a sudden rank up, right!?”
An Archdemon is a B-Rank monster, so a D-Rank Adventurer defeating one would be an incredible feat.
But even so, suddenly jumping to C-Rank is strange. If I really wanted to rank up, I’d probably need to defeat at least five Archdemons.
“Yes. The Archdemon incident was a significant factor, but more than that, it was also because you single-handedly faced off against the same number of the Demon Lord’s Army that a group of Mid-Rank Adventurers barely managed to defeat 100 of, protecting the town from danger.”
In reality, most of the monsters I defeated were E-Rank or lower, and I had the advantage of being in the forest where large monsters had difficulty moving. Besides, Ort-san had defeated the other half, so I didn’t think I had done much myself…
“Indeed…”
Looking at just the achievements, it’s quite something. Though it’s a bit weird to say it myself… Well, I guess I can think of it as shortening the path to becoming an S-Rank Adventurer…
“Then, here is your new card.”
The new card was pink.
“Ugh, how uncool.”
“Everyone says that.”
“Why is the C-Rank card this pink?”
“Actually, when the Guild was first established, the card colors were decided as follows: S-Rank was the Hero, A-Rank was the King, B-Rank was the Guild Master, C-Rank was the Queen, D-Rank and E-Rank were decided by popular vote, and F-Rank was decided by the Knight Commander. At that time, Her Majesty the Queen said she liked pink.”
“Huh, I see?”
“Well, the color of the card itself doesn’t have much significance. More importantly, did you hear? They’re forming an investigation team to thoroughly investigate the graveyard where the Archdemon appeared the other day. The Guild would like Cain-san, as the first discoverer, to participate. However, the condition for accepting this request is C-Rank or higher.”
I see, so that’s why my rank went up so quickly.
“Since you’ve just become C-Rank, why don’t you try accepting it?”
They’ve created an atmosphere that makes it hard to refuse…
Reluctantly, I accepted the request.