Chapter 3: The Human World
Two weeks has passed since Aito and Thoru decided to move to the human world, at this time, everything is still new for them, at every corner of the lively and colorful city, they could discover numerous things they never saw, which of course fascinated Thoru. However, Aito seemed not to appreciate too much, or maybe more appropriately was more on his guard. Thoru noticed it naturally.
"What's wrong?" She asked to Aito.
"I don't trust humans anymore, I know you took my hand and took me here to protect me, but I never asked for it." Aito seemed to be sorrowful while replying.
"I… I know, you never asked, but tell me, would you have wanted to stay in our world and die there all alone!?" We could felt the frustration on her tone.
"No!! I never said that!" Replied Aito with a sad expression.
He then added:
"YOU know that this was those humans who destroyed our village and killed all the people we loved, DON'T YOU?"
Thoru paused for a moment as she heard Aito's words, then replied:
"I know it's them, but, I refuse to think that all of them are like this, I saw how cruel they can be, I saw this before my very eyes Aito"
You could feel the sadness of Thoru as she pronounced those words.
"I…i-i'm sorry, Thoru, i-i did not mean to hurt your feelings."
Said Aito while looking down with a bit of regrets.
After that chat, the two of them walked silently. In the glacial temperature of the night, they were both thinking at what they said to each others. They wanted to talk, but none of them could find a right moment or a way of stating it. They ended to walk into a forest where the humans would not be able to saw their incredible abilities of dragons, and took their original forms. When suddenly a woman, could be heard from afar singing. Naturally, the curiosity of Aito and Thoru went up, and could not resist waiting and see who was going to get out of the bush. It appeared to be somehow a drunken young Lady. She had a bottle of Sake in her hand and was singing loudly, even Aito and Thoru couldn't understand a single word, they were so curious that they forgot to change back to their human form.
As the young lady finished her song, bottle in hand, ready to drink, she bumped into Thoru. Aito was speechless, but Thoru could be seen happy, but she was too scared to start the conversation. The young lady looked up at Thoru, she doesn't seem to be afraid of what she was seeing, probably the effect of the alcohol, she was instead somehow super happy, and excited, which excited Thoru too, Aito was still watching to check any suspicious movement from the young lady. Instead, the young lady finally talked, and asked Thoru something very unusual.
"Would….would…would you lik…eeek…like to have a drink with me, dragon?"
With difficulty, the young lady finally completed her phrase.
Thoru immediately changed into her human form, and said with a very looking happy tone:
"YESSS, I want some, hahaha!"
Aito immediately replied:
"THORU!! DON'T DRINK THAT, It can be poisoned."
"What are you saying, look, she's drunk, if she drunk that bottle too, don't you think she should have already died?" Replied thoru with excitement.
"Umm, yea, y…you got a point." Replied Aito with a non-confident tone.
The young lady got out of her bag two cups where we put Sake in, pour some Sake in it and offered one to Thoru and then add:
"LET'S DRINK AND HAVE FUN!! HAHAHAHIHIHI!!"
Thoru replied with amusement:
"YEAAAAA!!!"
And both gave a toast to their respective drinking partner.
Aito, who was looking at them both, finally decided to change himself into a human and sat near Thoru, but still near the young lady to check her every move.
While drinking, the young lady asked something to them both with a large smile:
"Let's continue to drink at my place, what do you think, sounds good nahh? You can even stay as long as you want"
At that précised moment you could saw the face of Thoru highlighting more the sun itself, and immediately said yes, without asking Aito. Which of course Aito asked Thoru a bit frustrated:
"Ehh…you did not ask me what was my decision, do I count?"
Thoru replied while making fun of him:
"Since when your opinion counts, HAHAHAHAHA."
At her look, Aito guessed that Thoru was drunk too, and ended up following both of the ladies.
"Arggghhhhh. Women…sometimes. Guess I have no other choice. I still don't trust that human" Aito said with a facepalm.
And this how Thoru and Aito ended up living in the young lady's house.
At least they had a place where they will be able to sleep, to bathe, to eat, to discover, and who knows, Aito will ending up to accept that human and trust her, only the future knows.