Ironwood looked at Whitley as they are driven to Kazuma's house, neither of them say anything but before long Whitley began to talk.

"You know I didn't like you for a long time, my older sister left because of you," Whitley said to Ironwood, but as the man was about to say something Whitley raised his hand and stopped him from saying anything.

'You know I later learned that it was Winters choice, so just like she left me, I left her" Whitley said to ironwood.

Ironwood looked at the young man in front of him, he wasn't the boy he had gotten used to seeing whenever he visited his father anymore, no his experiences as an adventurer had changed him and no doubt being around a maiden had helped shape him in some ways neither of them could ever truly understand.

'Whitley your sister,...Winter didn't abandon you' ironwood said to Whitley, but before he could say anything else Whitley cut him off

'Yes she did, whenever she went to visit our house, she visited grandfather and Weiss, that was it."

'She never said hello to me or mother she...It was like if I never existed in her life" Whitley said to Ironwood as his voice lost all of its strength

Ironwood understood that the man Whitley pretended to be was gone now and all that remained was the boy he truly is.

"Can you tell me about" Ironwood began to ask but he didn't get too far

"I remember walking into Kzumas house\ shop and finding him working on the satellites or antennas" Whitley began to tell Ironwood

[Sometime in the past ]

It had been over a month since his first real mission, he hadn't seen any of the fights but he had heard it when it was all over and the townspeople exited their house they had found that all of the Faunus were gone.

When they asked Kazuma about them, he had simply said that they needed help fighting so they let them go.

At first, the townspeople were angry at him, but after a moment they realized that Kazuma had made the right decision.

After delivering the medicine and getting the mayor or representative of the town they said their goodbyes to the townspeople and headed back home.

Kazuma and Aqua stayed behind to help repair all of the houses that were destroyed during their fight with the members of the White Fang.

So after showing the bartender that they had completed their first job as a team the bartender said that Silver was an Adventurer now.

Whitley briefly noticed that Silver had a faint smile when the man said that before showing them several papers that had jobs that needed to be done.

These were different than the ones they had seen before, one was helping to train a group of children and adults another was to help repair a bunch of old airships that had been discontinued and get them back in working condition.

It was the last two jobs that caught their attention, on was to help explore the surrounding area, but they wouldn't be looking for dust, no they would be looking for coal.

The last one was to help build a fan that wouldn't just freeze over when left outside away from Mantle.

"Do you have any more beginner jobs, we aren't ready for any of these" Silver said to the bartender who just smirked at her.

"People are usually in a rush to move up, but yeah I have a few' he answered her.

So for a month, after he was done with school, they would run around doing simple deliveries to shops or people's houses, their clothes made them stick out and they did have people staring at them but for the most part, people just ignored them and went about their day.

When they were done Rud and Silver would train him and each other.

["Looking back now, I think that's why people started to trust us, We started from the bottom just like everyone else," Whitley said to Ironwood who listened to his every word ]

Then one day they noticed that the lights in Kazuma's house were on and without thinking Whitley immediately walked in.

'Kayuma Aqua I saw your lights on and I came to visit" Whitley said to them but no one answered

"Greate your here kid" Kazuma said to him before throwing him an empty backpack.

[Winter ]

"I met them during an investigation"

"We were told about a possible threat to Mantle"

"We now know that they were just adventurers training each other" Winter said to everyone

"Can anyone of you tell me what existed before Huntsmen? you don't need to answer because Adventurers are just that a group of people that operate within their group"

'Sorry, let me explain it to you in a simpler way, a guild is a group where several adventurers gather, but each one of those adventurers has their own teams, regardless of the size each team has certain skills that they want to keep to themselves"

"The problem is that it doesn't stop with kills alone, weapons, medicins, technology and so on is unique within every team"

'So dealing with a guild is extremely difficult"

"To them, Huntsmen are just another rival group one that has everything they were denied"

'I was infiltrating the Bar at the time and it was there that I saw Whitley and his two guards walk in with the maiden and her partner."