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As the two continued their journey back towards the surface, the two faced numerous monsters… numerous is an underestimation… it's more likely… a fucking ton of monsters.

Cathy… the cat woman was shocked about the volume of monsters…

"Is… this real?"

Bjorn smiled at her, and said.

"What? This is just a regular day for me."

"What the hell is regular with that?!! That's at least 5… no… 10 times greater than what an adventurer normally faces."

"Hmm, this is just average for me."

"AVERAGE?! WHAT THE HELL IS AVERAGE WITH THIS?!!!"

Bjorn just laughed at her, while he continued to slash the monsters, more specifically, the lizards away.

After a while, Bjorn had already finished cutting up the monsters. On the other hand, Cathy started cutting them up.

It really was rapid… the way she elegantly moved her knife was amazingly beautiful… 

"What? Are you falling for me now?"

Bjorn smirked.

"You wish."

Cathy continued cutting the monsters up, while Bjorn sat down to rest. It really was nice resting, while the other person cut out the monsters you had slain…

Realizing that waiting was boring, Bjorn attempted to talk with his new supporter.

"So… you still find your 10% annoying?"

Cathy, who was still cutting up monsters, with blood on her face, answered.

"At first yeah… but now? With this volume? I'll be happy if you just give me 5%."

"So, shall we put it at 5%?"

Cathy immediately faced Bjorn and stopped cutting the monsters…

"NO!!!!!"

She then opened up another monster, whilst looking at Bjorn, as an attempt to scare him. She stabbed it multiple times, purposely missing the core, as an attempt to shake Bjorn….

Instead of being scared, Bjorn just found her cute. Looking at the small cat, cutting up monster corpses, for Bjorn… is cute.... Weird… so Bjorn just laughed at her.

"W-w-why are you laughing!!!! Can you not see this corpse that I am mutilating?!! Look!"

Bjorn continued to laugh, until his eyes turned teary…

"Alright, alright. I'll stop laughing now."

Bjorn continued to gaze at the orange cat who was cutting corpses rapidly…

Seriously, the cat was a nice addition for Bjorn… You see, diving dungeons in the past week was… boring… He was like a machine who continuously did the things that he was programmed to do… Slashing monsters… loot… slashing monsters… loot…. Slashing monsters… loot…

It was… boring... and lonely… More so, on the lonely side… He wanted someone to talk to, someone to joke with…

This time, since he has a supporter… he would not feel alone anymore.. 

Having someone to talk to is definitely a boon… even if he has to forgo some of his earnings…

"Hey Cathy. Do well, after all, I will add some percentages depending on how well you do."

Cathy's eyes immediately shine. She stood up and with her bloodied hands from the mutilated corpses, she raised it to her eyebrow and said.

"Sir yes sir!!!!"

Bjorn smiled at this. It remembered him of his past life, making the newcomers their mules…. 

Damn… it brings up memories.

After a few moments, noticing that there were few corpses left, Bjorn stood up and went towards Cathy. He then patted her head… however… he felt a softness that was never felt before… Like a cat's belly...…..

He continued patting Cathy's head, to the point that her hair was now disheveled… Strangely, the orange cat didn't try to stop Bjorn… For her, the warmth of Bjorn's hand is appealing enough to the point that she wanted him to continue for a longtime… 

Belatedly, Bjorn noticed what he was doing, so he stopped and lightly coughed.

"Ehem Ehem… So… shall we continue climbing?"

Cathy, her blush apparent, just nodded.

Soon, after combing through the continually appearing monsters, killing them and gathering their cores, the duo had reached the surface…

Bjorn and Cathy immediately breathed the fresh air off of the surface… The air was not murky nor dry, but rather, it was filled with life, as opposed to the dead and cavey dungeon..

After a while, together with their bags full of cores and their items, they went towards the Adventurer's Guild.

Once they arrived there, they both lined up towards Rose's line… 

After a while of waiting, they were now face-to-face with Rose.

Rose, upon noticing Bjorn, asked him in her usual nonchalant way.

"Ah, Mr. Bjorn, you're here… Is the dungeon diving done?"

Bjorn nodded and brought out the harvested cores. He also signalled Cathy to put the cores on the counter. Bjorn then smiled towards Rose.

"Yes, Rose. I also wanted to sell these."

Rose raised one of her eyebrows… she was definitely shocked… Although she didn't show it outwardly, she was still amazed.

Normally, Bjorn always presented her with at least 3 bags full of monster cores and loot… However, this time… it was 6 bags…

"This… How?"

Due to Cathy's small height, her orange head was being covered by the bags… So, Bjorn lifted Cathy through her collar.

"Due to her… and in line with that, I will want an exclusive contract for my supporter here."

Rose looked at the lifted orange cat… Seriously, the cat is really just like a cat…

"So… you have a supporter now, huh? Alright. Do you also want me to attach her name to your file as your exclusive supporter?"

Bjorn looked at Cathy, to which she also looked at him… Then… At the same time, they both nodded to each other.

"Please."

Rose grabbed a large book from underneath her counter. There, the catalog of the numerous familia within Orario can be seen. Each Familia also has their own portion, to which the names of each member are written, with one page each.

Bjorn's page was opened. Rose grabbed a nearby pen, to which she asked the cat.

"Kitty, what's your name?"

Cathy,.. the cat, was startled… Her tail stood up like a stick…

K-K-Kitty?!! Did she just say Kitty????

She glared at Rose as an attempt to scare her but…. Rose's nonchalant and cynical eyes stared back at her… Eventually, she whimpurred down… 

"M-m-my name is K-k-kitty Aollo…"

Rose smiled faintly towards the orange cat.

"Alright, Kitty Aollo."

The orange cat was surprised… she wondered if he heard her name wrong… then she remembered what she just said..

Her cheeks blushed unnaturally…

"N-n-n-no!!!! My name is Cathy!!!! Cathy Aollo!"

Bjorn laughed at her. Rose, on the other hand, maintained her soft smile.

"Alright, Cathy. Tell me your familia name."

"I'm from the Bastet Familia!"

Rose showed a surprised expression.

"Wow… Bastet Famila…"

Rose then looked towards Bjorn.

"You are lucky. The Bastet Familia is known to be one of the best carrier/supporter services in Orario… They also have worldwide service when it comes to their deliveries…"

To continue with that, the Bastet Familia is a familia led by Bastet, the Egyptian goddess of protection. You see, they are quite renowned when it comes to their services… Also, they are also renowned for one more thing… all of the familia members are cat women…

As said by Rose, their services are known throughout the continent… They deliver within and outside of Orario, and towards other cities as well… Together with that, their services within the dungeon are also renowned. However, they rarely sign exclusive contracts with adventurers….

As Rose explains all of this to Bjorn, he was amazed… really amazed… 

To think that there are courier services here too…

He looked at the orange cat that was being lifted, through her collar, by his right hand…

Cathy noticed Bjorn stare and gave her an 'am I amazing?' look.

"Heh! Feast your eyes on me, mortal!"

Bjorn rolled his eyes. He then returned his gaze to Rose.

"Is the contact finished?"

Rose answered Bjorn and turned the large book towards their direction.

"Yes, both of you just need to finish it by signing here."

Without further ado, the two of them signed it… 

"In line with that, Can you also calculate how much all of these cores and loots are?"

"Yes, please wait for a while."

Rose signalled one of the guild members behind her to start calculating all of the cores and loots.

Meanwhile, Bjorn noticed something on the Television.

It was a news report… It entails some new happenings within the dungeon…

"Breaking News: Please be wary of the upper levels of the dungeon for now. Lately, there were reports of monsters being sighted on another floor. To give context, orcs were found recently on the 8th floor… Although all of them are now slain, please have the utmost caution…. For the lower levelled adventurers, please flee immediately upon sighting one…"

Bjorn then contemplated something. He then talked to Rose.

"Rose, recently, we also killed one of the orcs that was mentioned in that news… Do you have any idea why that was happening?"

Rose was surprised… To think that one of the people who had killed the orcs is here… however, she was more surprised by the fact that a fledgling adventurer had managed to defeat one orc…

"Did… you really defeat an orc?"

"Yes. You may confirm it with Cathy here, plus, one of the monster cores being counted is sure to be from an orc…"

Cathy nodded profusely… 

Rose breathed in deeply… She was curious on how it happened… on how Bjorn had managed to kill an orc despite being a week old adventurer… She wanted to know… however, for now, she pressed down on that curiosity…

"Hmm, unfortunately… the Guild still has no information about that issue… but the information will definitely be distributed rapidly in case of any breakthrough…"

Bjorn smiled at her.

"Thank you."

After a while, Bjorn received his money from the counter…

Bjorn received an enormous amount… The total valis he had received was 92,000… 

Bjorn then contemplated something… He grabbed one of the bags of coins that was given to him, counted it briefly, and handed it to Cathy.

Cathy was surprised… She counted the contents and it was roughly 12,000… more than the 10% that was written in the contract…

You see, although she belonged to a renowned familia… each of the members are still responsible for getting their own clients… Although some tasks, most are deliveries, are tasked by the familia itself, for the supporter part, they need to get their own clients…

Even with that, since Cathy is level 1, the most she can earn is at most 5,000 valis per day… with an average of 2,000 valis….

The bag she is currently carrying is at least double of 5 times more than that… Due to that, she bowed slightly but shyly towards Bjorn.

"T-t-thank you!"

She then ran away, towards the door of the guild… Seeing this, Bjorn shouted at her.

"Hey! Tomorrow at 9am, come to the entrance of the dungeon."

For her answer, Cathy, while still running, raised her two thumbs in the air. She then bolted out rapidly…

Looking at this, Bjorn and Rose smiled at the rapidly vanishing cat…

Afterwards, Bjorn gave Rose a farewell then headed back home…. He still needs to cook for Loki, clean his clothes, clean his equipment… etc., before he falls asleep…

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