I left the compound grinning like a man who just won the lottery—except my prize wasn't money. It was ten promising recruits and a golden ticket to build my own guild packed with A Rank right off the bat.
Master Tang had been true to his word in the end—he agreed to every condition I set. He even laughed when I insisted on the "female and good-looking" part, though he slipped in one final jab before I left.
"You can flirt all you want," he uttered while stroking that ridiculous beard of his, "but don't expect them to fall for your charm so easily. I'm sending women from the orphanage."
At the time, I just chuckled. "I'm very respectful to women. I would never lay a hand on anyone who didn't want me to."
But the more I heard about the place, the more I realized he wasn't joking. The orphanage wasn't just some random charity—it was the same place Alexa came from.
It's basically a training ground. The orphanage raises children strictly and pushes them hard from a young age.
