4 # 4: I Have a Job Now.

# 4: I Have a Job Now.

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"Jacob, how's your study going?" Martha comes from behind and hugs me, her chest resting on my head.

Over the years I learned that she does this to take a break from carrying them...

I had my 10th birthday the other day, and I have been studying to skip grades. I mean who has time for school? I don't.

"I am pretty sure I can skip the whole highschool." I am pretty sure I can do it, I memorized the books and have been polishing my math, geometry, etc.

"You sure you want to skip it? You don't have many friends."

"I don't have friends." I retort.

"Exactly."

"It's fine I would be bored to death in a normal school."

"Hmmm, then what do you plan to do next."

"Register to the guild, take some contracts for a while."

"Then?"

"I have yet to come up with something." I chuckle to myself, I already know that canon is going to start by the time I am high school age but I can't say that to her.

"Not planning for college? It's good to have a normal job, even I have a college degree."

"I am planning on it once I am a bit older, 10 year old college student sound ridiculous."

"I see, we're here whenever you need help okay." She leaves after kissing my head.

Geeze talk about raising flags.

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During the following months, I skipped grade after grade and got my high school diploma. I think I am going to become a teacher again in this life but I am holding that for later.

As the name "High School DxD" implies it's mainly going to take place in a school.

Since being a teacher is a better option than being a student for me, I am working on that.

But that's all for later, for now, Mary took me to the guild to get me registered, they don't let kids in unless you have someone backing you.

So, we got in Mary beat like five employees before giving me a paper to fill in afterward the only conscious employee left took it. Ten minutes later I got my card...

"Was that necessary?" I ask Mary while we're going back home.

"Those are my best friends don't worry about it." Mary waves me off looking like she just didn't beat up five workers.

"Are they all masochists?" I ask hoping for a negative reply unfortunately that reply never came confirming my suspicion.

I can't help but look to the sky and ask the creator of this world "Why?"

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I started taking contracts for newbie unaffiliated magicians who needs basic monster materials for their experiments.

But first things first I borrowed some money from Martha(She's rather good with management, so she keeps track of the money in the house) and bought myself some equipment.

Withcer gear can come later, and I will probably grow out of it rather fast.

I started from standard Direwolfs, slimes(which is as big as me), goblins, and such.

At first, I had some trouble with fighting more than one opponent. It wasn't a problem of strength but multitasking, I fixed that rather quickly, withcer sword styles have always been made to take on multiple enemies or physically stronger opponents.

By the end of my first six months, I had to move up the scale since things have been becoming easy.

So I moved up to Leshens, Orges, and such. The woods around here have all kinds of monsters and there's a contract for every monster.

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I was leaving the guild after a contract, I decided to buy something for little Beth.

She is currently five and a half years old and full of energy, looking over the shops I found a ball that made to look like a ball of yarn.

Yep, I can already imagine her playing with it. I am so buying that!

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"I am home!" Getting in I call out to the residents, Martha being the one that generally takes care of the children brought in she's always home.

Mary sometimes goes to do some small contracts to relieve boredom.

"Big brother! Welcome home!" Seeing my little sister running I threw the ball I bought in opposite direction.

I took my time to enchant it on my way home to not cause any damage so it's okay.

Seeing the ball her eyes shined and started running after it before even thanking me. Shaking my head I went and checked Martha seeing that she's cooking I helped her out.

Beth only realized she didn't thank me during dinner which brought some laughter.

Ahh, I wish there weren't so many flags raising.

[AN: They won't die but I might forget about them later... *nervous chuckle*]

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I saw a contract the other day, The Poison Salamander. It appears that not many are taking this contract. Asking around a little I learned the reason why but decided to take it anyway.

The monster in question lives in a cave near the mountain after passing the forest so I packed my gear and left.

I found an empty cottage on my journey, the front door was broken, I also need to camp tonight so I'm going to assume it's abandoned and stay the night there.

As I was making my way in I sense someone inside and there's that smell of blood that's engraved in my memories, stealthily I made my way in and saw a fallen with three pairs of black wings torturing a little girl with green fairy wings.

He seems to be enjoying himself and the fact that he's half-naked just sealed his death.

Once finished with this piece of shit I looked at the girl I noticed that she died with a small smile on her face.

Sighing to myself, I quickly get her down and bury her and I just burned the other bastard.

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(3rd POV)

While Jacob was doing all of this, he didn't notice the black raven that's been watching him ever since he got close to the cottage.

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I rummaged through the cottage, it looks like the girl that lived here was some kind of forest fairy or something like that and she was also over 300 years old.

From what I read in her notes, she worked for Asgard and looked after the deeper parts of the forest where no normal human can make it in.

Apparently, she didn't have a way to fight, just some nature magic to help the forest grow, it's not like there's anything important growing here neither it's just trees out of human reach so they don't cut it down.

Sadly, the supernatural side had to make forests surrounded by magic so humanity won't reach it.

It's one of the reasons this world doesn't have global warming since the supernatural takes care of the world.

I also found the dead Fallen's bag let's see what he has, a map with some markers pointing to this cabin, a hand-held console(Nice), and some food.

I wonder why he didn't have any weapons, did he just use magic to fight? I mean sure light spears are a thing but why not carry a knife or something just in case.

I decided to stay in the cottage since this girl worked for Asgard, it's better to be found here so I can explain it like the previous incident, I don't want any misunderstandings.

I also drew a Yrden around the cottage just in case, better be prepared just in case this guy has friends.

I also noticed the raven that's been watching me. How long has that creature been watching me?

The only raven using dude I know from Norse mythology is Odin, but I mean as if Odin would be around.