Julie watched as the catgirl left up the stairs as her brother ordered another drink before sitting down. She merely eyed Ashley a moment before sighing and putting her portion of the meals price on the table before standing.

  “ Not going to join us?”

  Julie shook her head.

  “ I think I am going to bed, I will get a room here and let you two have the room tonight.”

  This shocked her brother but Ashley pounced at the chance.

  “ Leave her be. She is a grown woman.”

  Julie then watched her brother’s eyes melt into the bimbo’s chest and knew he was a lost cause for tonight. A visit to the tavern owner and a pair of silver coins later net her a room for the night. Where she could not stop thinking about the catgirl they met. Based on what she was assuming was the catgirls stats, they were speced for perception and dexterity. As she noticed the men focusing on her as well. Her story made her truly sorry for her and take her words seriously. As she was drifting to sleep she realized she was hearing voices in the room.

  “ You were right Kline, these otherworlders have higher base stats. Good thing I used the strong stuff...”

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  The next thing Julie knows the sun was shining on her face as she sat up straight out of reflex. To her surprise three of the guards was there as well as the cat lady from before. She was talking to one of the guards as the other two bent over to pick up something off the ground. It surprised her to see it was one of the men watching her last night. What surprised her more was the fact seeing a dead body did not disturb her. The catgirl and the guard looked at her at the same time before the catlady stepped back to let the guard talk to her.

  “ Mam, I know you feel you are in a situation, but before anything I need to ask you a few questions...”

  For the next ten minutes, she spoke to the guard about meeting the catgirl last night and what they talked about in full detail. Afterward, the guard said the catgirl could go before returning his focus on her.

  “ Well, long story short, she is in the room beside you. She heard whispers from your room and knew you were alone in your room with a locked door. Your assailants, a pair of A ranks, broke into your room and knocked you out with an illegal knock-out drug. I assume I do not need to tell you why they were here.”

  Julie just nods to this realizing the severity of what just happened.

  “ Lisa, overhearing them talk about knocking you out after breaking in decided to stop them. For reasons we had to ensure she was telling the truth with your own story. And do not fear any sort of mind manipulation with your story, the guard is trained to detect that sort of thing.”

  It took an hour later and reimbursement for the hassle was given out of the deads belongings, a value of over fifty gold. It took an hour more for her brother to come along with the bimbo and it was then she realized she did not want to be an adventurer like her brother wanted. She wanted to be a guard like her class ‘sentry’ wanted her to be. So they split up.

  She used the fifty gold she got to enter guard schooling and training to level twenty and over that month she learned her brother and betrothed joined a pair of adventurers. After the month of training, she learned the two of them were dead because her brother was a rich idiot taken advantage of by greedy adventurers. Ashley was sold into black market slavery and dead a week later as a minor noble’s plaything. The irony did not escape her when she learned the champion's debts then landed on that entire nobles family because of it.

  When her training was complete, she decided to work as a caravan guard for a couple of months while she worked her way up to the new town that 88 guild was making. Surely, they needed a good sentry.