8 The Clothing Store!

As Keane and a recovered Finna, along with the new addition of Nero, walked back to a more populated area, Keane started to feel a little sluggish. He then thought of his mana which should have been depleted through the summoning. As his assessment appeared to be true, he ordered the system to advance his job.

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<Sub jobs:

- Intermediate Air

- Intermediate Earth

- Intermediate Fire

- Intermediate Water

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Feeling more refreshed and invigorated Keane continued on walking with a spring in his step. He was thinking about how he should have more mana now and couldn't wait to get home to control it (as his mana is basically resting in his body until he decides to use it, he isn't losing control right now).

While Finna understood what he did and carried on as usual, Nero did not. While her Master's mana wasn't exceptional compared to her, she was surprised by the sudden spike. Only Keane and Finna could see the system, so it was understandable that Nero was confused. That is why she asked, "Umu, Praetor? Your mana should've been depleted through the summoning... Why do you suddenly have so much?"

Keane then looked to her and answered, "Well.... We should probably talk about that after we return. Remember that we are in a world where magic does not exist, I prefer that people do not see us as crazy, instead as simply beautiful."

"Umu! As expected of Praetor!" Nero is glad that her master is paying attention to even the smallest things when considering beauty.

"Enough about that, I suppose I should tell you why I initially summoned you." Trying to move the conversation somewhere else, Keane simply stated this.

Understanding his intention, Nero responded happily as she was also curious of his reasons for summoning her, "Umu!"

"The initial plan to summon a heroic spirt, was to simply gain a powerful ally and companion. Since I knew that heroic spirits were the most beautiful and talented, I decided them to be the base of my summons. However..."

"However?"

"However, the reason ended up changing over time." Keane then went into his situation surrounding the bodyguard and how it totally ruined the atmosphere he was trying to obtain.

While he was explaining, Finna kept silent as, simply put, the conversation was stupid in her eyes. But, while she seemed uninterested, Nero was beginning to feel disgust for the Akagi's action. She couldn't allow the fact that someone beautiful was forced to endure the tragedy of being surrounded by an ugly man for four years. However, she didn't say anything as Keane didn't seem to blame them and it also led to her summoning.

"And thus, due to the desire to only be surrounded by beauty, I then summoned my heroic spirit, in other words, you. Luckily, I planned to summon one soon anyways so this works out." Keane then finished his story of the beautiful boy and the mob-styled bodyguard (a/n: By mob, i don't mean as in mafia, but as in a mob character... one of those cliche baddies who always get defeated w one punch).

Nero thought for a few more seconds and then responded, "Umu! As your servant I will do my best to appear more beautiful then ever before! I will not let you down Praetor!"

Seeing the beauty in her resolution, Keane said, "I am expecting a lot from you, don't let me down Nero! I will become the number one beauty of this world!"

"Umu! That is only a given! As a saber class servant, it is my duty to preform my duties to the fullest! I will show you that I am the best!" Saber then flamboyantly skipped around Keane in a very good mood.

Finna on the other hand, sighs and says, "I am surrounded by beauty crazed idiots." The irony is that while she cares the least about beauty, she without a doubt has the best looks.

"Anyways, Finna, where are we? We need to go somewhere to get Nero modern clothes. Do you have a place in mind? I haven't check out women's shops in a few years, so I wouldn't know." As he didn't want to attract as many bad gazes as the time with his family's bodyguard, he wanted to get Nero's clothes straightened out right away.

Looking at Nero for a short second, Finna asked her, "Well... Nero what would you prefer to wear?"

"I suppose something that would be easy to move around in so I can show Praetor my beautiful moves!"

Ignoring how she phrased it, Finna guessed that Nero would probably prefer something fashionable and practical. While Nero didn't really say anything, Finna simply made the assumption based off the servant's personality. "I suppose we can just go to a high end store that sells some casual wear, will that do Keane?"

"Yeah, let's go with that." Keane actually preferred to hurry this up as he still wanted to get back and control his new found mana.

"Alright then, I will lead the way." With that Finna directed them to one of the stores that she knows about. While she has been dressing in maid attire as it is her duty, she is still a women. Even she likes to have some fashion in her life.

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Once they got to the shopping district, Nero was in awe at the numerous amount of skyscrapers along the street. She could never imagine such a thing in her empire. Not only that, all of the people seemed to be happy as they went in and out of the buildings. However, that wasn't all. She was also fascinated by the cars that continued driving down the street. As rush hour has yet to come around there wasn't much traffic, so they were moving pretty fast.

"Hey! Hey! Praetor!!! I wanna ride that! Please let my tame that ride! It looks fun!!! It will only be for a short time! So come on! Ohhhhh! Master! What's that???" She then began to point to a motorcycle that just passed by.

"Those are cars and thats a motorcycle, now stop behaving like a child. Remember that we still need to get clothes for you, have you not noticed the stares on you?" Finna then reprimanded her as Keane smiled at Nero's excitement.

"Umu... I just want to show Praetor my beautiful skills! I will show him that I am even strong enough to tame such a veracious object! Wouldn't Praetor want to see such beauty?" Nero was thinking about how fun it would be to ride such a thing, as well as a great show of strength and beauty. However, when she payed attention to the next part of Finna's comment, she begun to look at the people again, ".....Eh? Isn't it obvious that they are admiring my beauty? Ohhhhhhh!!!!"

Finna was stupefied by her reaction. Wherever Nero went, she always thought people would simply look at her beauty and be entranced. So when she turned to look at them and saw their gaze, she felt uncomfortable inside, but switched gears in almost a millisecond, putting the problem out of her mind. This was because of being amazed by their clothing. Throughout the whole time, Finna was simply wearing a maid outfit, while Keane wore something similar to when he died, however more suited to his size and looks (as he is 10). Nero was used to the maid attire, but Keane's wear was unknown to her. She wanted to ask him, but there were more important things to talk about. Now that things have calmed down a little and Nero was paying more attention to the surroundings (not just the general amount of people and buildings), she was stunned by the many different types of clothing people wore, she felt as if a whole new world had opened up to her. She immediately forgot about the cars and motorcycles around her, as well as, the peoples looks towards her, and thought only of clothes.

As Finna was still shocked by her attitude, and Keane simply happy to see someone else so intoxicated in beauty, Nero turned to them and told them, "Let's hurry to the store! Come now! I wanna see what I can wear! This is fun! Praetor I am once again grateful for you to allow me to see this beauty!" Nero was looking at them as if it was Christmas. Keane was happily dragged along and Finna sighed as they were rushed to the store by their newest addition.

Once arriving at the store, Nero immediately ran inside. She had designed her own clothes many times, while she wasn't popular, she thought it was only because her perspective of beauty was simply above her time. When she saw the clothes people wore in her surroundings, she kept on thinking of all the things she wanted to do with her free time. It seemed to her that if it were the people of this time, surely they could see the beauty in her work.

She started to pick out some clothes and rushed to the changing room directed by Finna who was still sighing by her attitude thinking it useless to ruin her supposed happiness.

While Nero was inside the changing room, Finna gazed over to Keane who was staring at the mirror. She then heard him say to himself, "Man, it's taken all day, but I finally get to see myself again. Aren't I just too stunning! My, I am simply blessed beyond words."

Seeing him act as usual, Finna moved on and decided to ignore him for a while. It seemed like it was taking too long for Nero to come out of the changing room, so she went to go check on her. However, when Finna arrived and looked inside, she saw Keane.... or at least that's what she thought for a few seconds as Nero said, "Umu! I simply look great! This is beauty! It's nigh impossible to find someone more perfect than I! Such an appearance is definitely worthy of being the Flower of Olympia!" Similar to Keane, Nero was stunned by her looks. She was currently wearing tight blue jeans with a white top and a red jacket over it, along with similarly red converse sneakers.

Finna lost all light in her eyes as she saw this. She once again thought of killing herself to get to Heaven. However, even if she did so, she would probably be sent back anyway, so she sighed again.

Deciding that trying to reform one was enough for her angel-self, she started to leave Nero who appeared to be hopelessly captivated with herself. Sadly for Finna though, Nero was able to see her who just turned her back and grabbed her.

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Keane who was looking around for the two after being lost in his own beauty, was walking around the store. It was only a few minutes later that he was able to find them as they just came out of the changing room.

"So? How do we look Praetor?" Nero then twisted and turned to give her master a view of her new style at every angle.

"You look great! Very well done, it appears that your supposed talents are true. You will are beautiful servant capable of being by my side." Keane felt her choice of style suited her. Even though she was a little (very) petite, she would not ruin his atmosphere with her looks.

"Umu!" She was very happy with the compliment.

What was unexpected to Keane though was that Finna was also with Nero. He was confused as she never did something like this. Finna was wearing a simple white spring dress with a floppy white hat. Nero gave Finna this design as she thought that it suited her angelic look. It also suited the season they were in as it was beginning to go into summer. Finna looked slightly uncomfortable showing off clothes to Keane. It was different with her angel outfit and maid clothes as they were basically work attire, but she never showed him something like this. As she was slightly curious of what Keane thought of it so she asked him, "Well, are you going to keep staring or tell me how I look?" She seemed slightly annoyed by his stare.

Keane snapped out of it and with a slightly red face, pointed at her and said, "Don't think you won just yet! I will be number one! Just give me a second I will be right back!"

Saying that, Keane ran away from the two, leaving them in a bit of shock for what seemed to be a little tsundere act. It was after a minute of silence that they both bursted out laughing, "Hahaha! My my to think that Keane could be so engrossed with someone else's beauty. Hilarious..." Finna was first to make a comment.

Nero also followed, "Haha! It seems that I have to try even harder when show off my beauty to Praetor, umu!" She initially dressed up Finna cause she simply couldn't resist. While she regretted it since Finna got a better reaction, Nero couldn't help but feel the drive to beat her. Thus, as per usual, took her negative attitude and changed it into a positive.

By the time Keane got back, his attire was as if he was some stud going into his twenties. But being only half the age, while very handsome, did not look at all mature. So seeing him like this, both of them let out another round laughter much to Keane's embarrassment. He felt he did something out of character as he should've been paying more attention to himself when choosing his outfit.

With that, Keane bought the clothes that the two women were currently wearing and went back to his estate where he would have to introduce his new servant to his family. He was also worried as he has been out for a while, so they must be searching for him.

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