Chapter 8: Alchemist & Grimoire

As I walked down the unevenly paved road, sound of high heels clacking behind me become louder and faster. Sigh~. This woman, doesn't she has a job or something else to do. I turned around and saw a woman with a bright red bunny girl suit equipped with the dark red high heels running towards me.

"Wait a second there Faust! I know you are on to something! I must! Absolutely! Get involved!"

"Sigh~ Maria, can you just go back to your Witch Whisper and do some real job."

I might be sighing and complaining right now but seeing that things bouncing and swaying make my heart waver, my brain almost short circuited and something almost rising. Damn it Maria why you do this to me. I am also a healthy young man damn it. Calm down my heart, you know she always cause trouble for you. Don't get tempted. Don't get tempted!

"Fufufufufufufu I can't miss this kind of fun thing and I'm really fucking curious about what you discovered from the girls recount of the tragedy. Come on hurry up and tell me. I'm dying to know."

Ugh her eyes are glittering.

"Well..... sigh~ Fine. Come on I'll tell you while we walk to my agency"

We started walking side by side. That swaying really tempted me.

"I discovered there is a wannabe Alchemist being hired by the demoted Politician that run from his post."

"A wannabe Alchemist? Not a real Alchemist?"

"Yeah because Keysha said the guy read his Grimoire for five days. That could only mean that the guy just got his grimoire and not even one year since he become an Alchemist. A real Alchemist study their power first for five years before studying their first Grimoire for one to two years."

"That long?"

"Yeah that long. By the way it is only for the early stage. Once they have the understanding of the fundamentals, they will start expanding and increasing the number of pages in their Grimoire. That is when they can truly be called an Alchemist. Unfortunately, someone give this guy a Grimoire forcibly unlocking his potential as an Alchemist."

"Why is unfortunate if it help him unlocking his potential?"

"Do you really don't know or you are just asking for confirmation?"

"I'm seriously asking because I don't know. Not many people have knowledge about Alchemist and Grimoire. They are like petroleum, a very ancient and rare commodities only certain people know and have. The knowledge about Alchemist is only shared around Alchemist very rarely it leaks to ordinary people like us except oddballs like you Faust."

This is quite a long walk. Maybe because I tried to pace myself with her stride but sure that legs are quite short. I glance a bit at her legs covered with fishnet.

"Hmmm? Faust why are you looking at my leg? Is there something stuck there?"

"No-nothing there. Back to the topic. It is unfortunate for him because the Grimoire and his power will slowly eat away at his life. All because he awaken prematurely without any guidance from another Alchemist. So right now his Vestia must be raging inside his body."

This is weird we should have arrived by now. Wait that tree, I think I already passed that tree. Could it be? Oh shit. My eyes widen.

"Maria stop."

"What? Why?"

"I think we are trapped. I am quite sure that we are trapped inside a trap type Artifact."

"HUH!?!?!?!?"