Recruiting Reika Solienne had ended in failure.
Not surprising.
On paper, the offer was excellent—a competitive salary, stability, and a future in a growing guild that would one day shake the world. But to someone like Reika, who had spent her entire life dodging disappointments, it was just another too-good-to-be-true story.
From her perspective, Ouroboros was barely even a guild yet. A newly minted Bronze-rank guild, lacking reputation, lacking security and hadn't even gotten permanent status yet. And I? Some mysterious, masked figure throwing contracts around like a desperate recruiter for an already very suspicious guild.
So naturally, I was also very suspicious.
She had no reason to trust me. No reason to believe that, of all people, I had chosen her for a reason she couldn't yet see.
So, I let it go. For now.
I'd try again after Rachel's birthday.
Rachel's birthday was on the 15th of July, a full-blown continental event in the North.
