After overwhelming Kyouya and the others, Ethan brought Eris and Yunyun back to the Adventurer's Guild.
Not long before, Ethan had spent a lot of money on expensive or problematic magic equipment, so his wallet was no longer flat, but it wasn't in great shape either.
Thus, he had to return to being a Giant Toad hunter!
"Hmm?" As Ethan stood in front of the Adventurer's Guild quest board, ready to accept a Giant Toad hunting quest, a rough yet pale hand reached out and grabbed the same quest sheet!
It was a high school boy who looked ordinary but had a gaze similar to Ethan's!
His name, Ethan knew!
He was said to have incredibly high luck like himself, and he also had two beautiful girls with him, even recently adding one more—Satou Kazuma!
They stared at each other without words. Though they had never met before, at this moment, they understood each other!
'So, he's the same kind of person as me!' Ethan thought.
'Seems like he's the same as me, then...' Kazuma narrowed his eyes and began to think.
Then...?
"Rock, paper, scissors!"
To compete for the quest, Ethan and Kazuma ended up playing a game of rock-paper-scissors, shocking the adventurers around them!
"No way! How did I lose!? This can't be!? This is the first time I've ever lost at rock-paper-scissors!" Kazuma knelt on the ground with a blank stare, making the surrounding adventurers feel pity for him.
Because Kazuma had luck that was almost at the limit of human capability, he had never lost a game involving luck since childhood, including rock-paper-scissors. He always won, not even once tying!
"Forget it, kid! This is the choice of the Gate of Stone Destiny!" Ethan proudly tore up the quest sheet. His initial luck stat was almost the same as Kazuma's, but after leveling up multiple times, his luck stat had far surpassed Kazuma's.
Moreover, beside Ethan was the Goddess of Luck, Eris. If he still lost, Ethan might as well swallow the Demon King's castle! Living in this world would only bring shame to the Goddess of Luck, Eris!
"Hmm...?" Just as Ethan was about to accept the quest and leave, he suddenly felt his body grow heavier! Oh, someone was clinging to him!
"Bro! I'll call you bro, okay!? Please give me that quest!" Kazuma seemed to have completely let go of his dignity as a man, crying and tightly hugging Ethan's leg.
"Hey! I know you're also a reincarnated person, and I know life's tough for you. I feel sorry for you too, but you don't have to throw away your dignity as a man just for a quest, right?" Ethan, with a look of disdain, tried to kick Kazuma away and walk toward Luna, the counter clerk.
"I don't want to do this either! But I have no choice! Please don't rush to accept the quest, give me five minutes to tell my sad story! Just five minutes!" Kazuma used all his strength to cling to Ethan's leg, so much so that Ethan couldn't even kick him off.
Seeing the pitying gazes of the surrounding adventurers and Luna's resigned expression, Ethan finally gave in and sighed.
"Fine, five minutes. Start your performance. If it's not good, I'll kick you to death!"
'What can you do in five minutes? Maybe enough to brush your teeth, or even breakfast usually takes more than five minutes.'
However, these five minutes turned Ethan's disdainful gaze into one full of sympathy and pity.
Kazuma, like Ethan, was a Reincarnator.
This was mentioned earlier, but the rest of the story was even more interesting!
As someone who chose a foolish goddess as his 'cheat', Kazuma had to work hard from scratch, just like Ethan, to make ends meet. In fact, at the beginning, he couldn't even afford the registration fee to become an adventurer!
However, unlike Ethan, Kazuma, who was weak and often sick, couldn't be a good 'construction worker' like Ethan. Thus, he could only barely meet his basic needs and lived in a smelly horse stable.
Even though he had a few beautiful girls around him, he had no romantic feelings for them and could only play by himself in the smelly horse stable every night.
If that was all, it would be fine, but his companions were too troublesome! Every time they took on a quest, they almost destroyed the team, and often because of the explosion magic from the chuunibyou Crimson Demon girl, they not only didn't get paid but also had to compensate for the damages they caused.
This left Kazuma, who had been reincarnated in this world for a month, with no savings at all, and his debt kept growing!
And this was just the beginning of his sorrows. For some reason, this morning while Ethan was still fighting Kyouya on the street, the Adventurer's Guild suddenly made an announcement.
Due to unknown reasons, the monsters around had either fled or gone into hiding, so the Guild's quests for the day were not only reduced, but there was also bad news that there might not be any new quests or difficult hunting quests in the near future!
Yet, the main income of adventurers came from hunting monsters! If there were no monster-hunting quests, adventurers without savings might starve to death on the streets!
And Kazuma was one of those adventurers who would starve to death. So, when Ethan was about to accept the toad-hunting quest, Kazuma clung tightly to Ethan and begged him to hand over the quest, so he wouldn't starve to death on the streets and become the most pitiful Reincarnator in history!
And just as Kazuma said, when Ethan looked back at the quest board, almost all the hunting quests had been taken, except for the difficult ones!
At that moment, Luna seemed to receive a notification and stood in the middle of the Adventurer's Guild.
"Attention everyone, the Adventurer's Guild has received a new notification. We have discovered the reason why the monsters have disappeared or gone into hiding!"