Harem Reborn

Chapter 293: Ch 3: Whenever Never Happened

"So, you need a room then? For just one?" The large Innkeeper asked eyeing Dave but jumped back as Tequila merged from his body.

"Do I count as one person if I am inside of him most of the time?" She asked as she toyed with her black hair.

Tequila had come out in a cute yellow dress. She had a small round face with a perfect tanned complexion and stubby legs.

"You're not a demon? Why are you living in one?" The Innkeeper asked in surprise.

"This is my husband, and he is not a demon, but I am not here to argue if a tomato is a fruit. We just want a room and a meal, and a bath would be nice, Ma'am," Tequila told the Innkeeper.

The Innkeeper looked the two of them up and down and then frowned. She then turned and yelled to the back for Pa to come up.

"The name is Ma, and you can't just buy your way into a room around here. You need to be a qualified Adventure, and Pa will get you your card. After you touch the Class Rod you will be given a class and then Arsehole will show you to the basement," Ma explained.

"The basement? I was hoping to get a room on the upper floor. Are you sure you don't have another place?" Dave asked, dreading a cold and damp basement.

"No, This will be your first bounty. We have a problem with the local demon rat crime lord, Bargus. No matter how many times we get adventures to clear them out, Bargus just sends more. We don't bother using the place, but if you can get rid of them that should get you enough experience," Ma explained.

Dave looked over at Tequila, but she just shrugged and then walked over to slip under his arm. Ma bent down behind the counter to grab a half-meter twisted wooden rod.

"This is the Class Rod, and once that cantankerous old windbag gets out here, PA! COME ON! Then you can hold this rod and it will transfer your skills, GODDAMMIT PA!" Ma yelled interrupting herself mid-speech.

"I am coming! I had to get the tickets. I put them down on the counter and you moved them back in the cupboard again!" The man known as Pa said entering the room from the back area.

Pa was a large man with no hair on the top of his head but had a salt and pepper mustache and bread. The man was large, but not fat, just big, and he had a dirty white apron on.

"That is where they belong! If you would just put them in there each time, you wouldn't have to look where I put them away! Come, we have two new adventures looking for a room," Ma said, pointing to Dave and Tequila.

"A demon and a human, huh? Something new all the time. Well, give them the rod, and let's get this over with, lunch rush is starting soon and I got shit cooking!" Pa said with a spinning finger motion.

Ma handed Dave the stick and Pa placed a paper on the counter in front of him. The paper was completely blank, and Dave wondered briefly if the man had maybe grabbed the wrong pile of papers.

Then, the crystal on the end of the rod lit up in sparkling green, and a message appeared in Dave's HUD.

[Healer Class]

Dave shook his head, not a chance was he going to take that and be a support. Dave quickly opened his menu and activated his new skill.

[Advantage] Activated!

The crystal on the Class Rod changed from green to blue, and both Ma and Pa gasped. The paper in front of Dave began to fill out, and soon there was Dave and his class name on it.

[Tamer Class]

Dave smiled to himself. This would be a good class if he could find some good monsters. Now the question was what the limits of the skills were, but first, he turned to Tequila and handed her the rod.

"Are we not going to talk about what just happened?" Pa asked as the rod was handed over to Tequila, but It promptly exploded into a shower of splinters and flying crystal bits. 

Remarkable, Tequila wasn't hurt and neither was anyone else, but it did make two of the three patrons pack up and leave. There was still a cloaked man in the corner watching them.

The man had started to pay attention right after the color had changed to blue on the rod. This wasn't something that never happened, and whenever something like this did happen, it meant change.

This man was Xeros, Demon Rabbit lord, and one of the lowest-ranked. Not all demons were lords, but the ones that were needed to provide for the other demons below them.

Times had been rough for Xeros with the Dragon Lords now taking sixty percent of all bounties. When the Class Rod exploded, Xeros knew he would need to watch these two and get to know them.

Back over with the other group, Dave was laughing at Tequila who was trying to apologize to Ma and Pa. The two were both slack-jawed and had no words for what had just happened.

Dave stepped forward and grabbed up the two cards that had their names and classes on them. Dave looked over him, but it was nothing but his name and class.

Dave then switched cards and grinned, handing Tquila her Class card. She took it in from him and looked down at it with a frown.

"What Kind of class is Changeist? Why did you get a cool one?" Tequila complained to Dave, but Pa had finally snuck out of his stunned dazed and reached over to grab the cards.

"What the hell is this? I have never heard of either of these classes, what are they? Why did you make the rod explode?" Pa questioned the two, but they both put up their hands to ward off the barrage of questions.

"We are the ones that should be asking you this! We just got here and now you the people giving out their classes don't even know what we got?" Dave returned with his own questions.

"Can't spin in a circle and see the entire world," Pa said, rubbing a hand over his bald head.

That was true enough and Dave knew it, so going back and forth about it wouldn't get anyone anywhere. Pa handed back the papers and then called out for Arsehole to come out.

Very shortly, the same kid came out with a lopsided grin and went over to stand by Ma. The boy was about fifteen, but heavy set with short black hair and an infectious smile.

"This is Arsehole and he will show you to the cellar around back, and he will introduce you to our older boy, Bro. He runs the stable and can help you get a horse if you are interested, but they ain't cheap and you need to get something before even buying one," Ma explained.

The boy came around the counter and led Dave and Tequila outside through the front door. After they left the cloaked man in the corner came over to the bar, and sat down.

"Pa, what do you think of them?" Bargus asked, pulling off the face mask he used to cover his face.

In the town of Then End, Non-human Demons had to remain covered at all times or they would be reported. If this happened, the Demon would be hunted down, and then sent off to a work camp until they died and could be reborn again.

"Hard to say, but this pair is different. Did you see the way the Class Rod just shattered? Never seen that before," Pa said, taking a glass and filling it with a bright blue liquid, and passing it to Bargus.

"I have, there have been a few groups that have come through here, but never so few. When this kind of thing happens, they usually have a large party of warriors. So, I am not sure what will happen this time," Bargus said before taking a drink from the glass he had just accepted.

"You Demons sure do like a long time," Pa joked.

Bargus laughed, if this human only knew how many generations that he had seen run this place. Bargus had met other heroes, Hyde, Kiada, and Bhan, but they always had girls with them, or even the last time they had been together.

Bargus finished his drink and got up, coving his face back up. He thanked Pa and headed out of the Inn.

It was time for Bargus to go back and visit his people. He would need to explain what he had just learned. 

There were new players in the game, again. Would this hero actually complete the game or just leave when they got why they needed it like the rest?