Chapter 22

What's up with this kid and his sword. He cut all three horns plus its skin effortlessly. What the heck!

"Now what's next?"

"Your job is done. You don't have to do anything more. I'll do the remaining work. By seeing you I felt really useless and weak. Let me finish rest of the work."

"Eh, okay."

Ah, I never thought he would cut it but he really did it. How the hell was he cutting so easily? Is his sword magical? I better ask him how he really does that.

"What are you doing now?"

"I'm talking it's skin off by chopping its inner flesh."

"Oh I guess its flesh is not as hard as its skin."

"Yeah, you're right."

"By the way is it edible? Can I eat it?"

"You mean its flesh?"

"Yes."

"I guess, it is edible but I'm not really sure."

"So you had never eaten its meat?"

"Um, I don't know but I'm thinking of taking some of its flesh. I'm gonna give some to you also. You can ask your mom to cook it. By the way do you know how to cook?"

"Well, I never tried."

"You know I'm terrible at cooking. What I cook never tests good. Hahaha."

"Hahaha."

"Okay now I'm finished. It's time to go back."

"Are you going to carry it just like this?"

"No, I'm gonna fold it and I do have bag. I'm gonna put it in this bag."

"Eh…"

I always carried bag in case of finding something valuable or for no reason.

"And what about the horns?"

My partner denoted.

"Oh I completely forgot about it. Do you have any idea, kid?"

"Hm… don't know, maybe I can do something about it after we reach village or my house."

"Then I'm gonna just carry it like my sword…, let's go."

"So your name is Jason, right?"

As we walked we started to converse. My partner first began.

"Yeah."

"Do you live in the village?"

"Yes…"

His facial expressions was demanding our introduction.

"Oh, right. I'm Tilla."

"And I'm Louis nice to meet you."

"Yeah, nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too. So do you live in the city?"

"No, we are adventurer traveling around and exploring various places and locations."

I replied.

"Oh, have you been to different continent also?"

"Yeah-"

"How many continent have you visited to?"

Don't interrupt me like that, kid. I really hate it.

"There's only two continent left for us to go to. One is-"

He interrupted her also.

"One is heaven and other is?"

"Other one is continent of Labyrinth."

I replied.

"I see… Can I ask something?"

"Yeah, go on."

She continued.

"What would you had told me if I wanted to travel like you two?"

"Do you want to go on a journey around the world too?"

I asked out of curiosity.

"Yep, I want to travel around the world exploring and experiencing many things."

"I see. Which continent do you must want to visit?"

My parter continued.

"The continent of Angels."

"Eh… Why do you want to go there, Angels continent?"

I questioned.

"Well, I don't know. I just found it more interesting than rest of the continents."

"Oh. In order to travel continent to continent you've to have source of money plus knowledge."

"You can become adventurer like us or become a merchant. They both are good source of money."

My parter acknowledged.

I can see this kid starting his adventurous journey soon.

But first he is going to need money as to travel.

Traveling without money is impossible however it is not actually completely impossible. One have to be super lucky to travel with no or little money.

We've been traveling for how many years is it…? Um… I'm not sure maybe five or six.

"How adventurers earn money?"

"Either completing missions or tasks that adventurer alliance provides or eliminating monsters and selling their parts or accepting jobs from people. Adventurers can get job as long as there's a association related to it like adventurer guild. If not then they can either hunt monsters or explore dungeons in order to collect materials and sell them however dungeons are not safe places to visit because of monsters."

She explained.

"Can I also become adventurer?"

"Of course you can but not this age. You've to be at least 10 years old. If you really want to become adventurer before turning 10 you'll need special attention from higher ups plus you've to prove yourself. If you get lucky you might get accepted as an adventurer."

"Or you can become a ghost adventurer?"

I said.

"Ghost adventurer?"

"Yeah."

"What is it?"

"Simply a normal person."

"Huh? Normal person?"

"Yeah. Ghost adventurers can be anyone from any age even kid like you."

I added.

"Ohh…"

"Actually ghost adventurers are not real adventurers and they are also not associated with any guilds or alliances. They just accept jobs from real adventurers and complete them in order to earn money. Those type of adventurers are mostly blacklisted or anonymous or under age or just normal people doing their job to keep on living."

My partner explained.

"I see… um.. is there any job that I can actually do and earn allowance?"

"It depends on you. Let's say you're very good at something and someone is hiring to teach that thing to someone then you might get chance to be tutor and earn money."

"Really! Then I gotta work hard."

"Yeah, by the way what are you really good at other than your sword thing?"

I asked.

"I'm suck at swordsmanship but I'm good at magic plus my literacy is also good I think."

"Eh!, you can do magic, Really?"

My partner was surprised.

"Of course he can, he isn't lying or joking around."

I claimed.

He just slides his sword on something and it cuts like its water. He can't be lying about using magic.

"Kid you are really interesting boy. You can do magic also huh? That's very good news for you, you know. You can teach magic to the children of your age. Rich people seems to hire a very good tutor to teach their children magic or swordsmanship and other things. If you're really lucky, you might get hired by them too."

I Informed.

"Oh."

"Do you really can use magic?"

My parter seemed curious about it.

"Yeah, I guess."

"Then, show it to me."

"Oh, ok."

Ice crystal spherical in shape just appeared on his hand. He did it instantly without speaking anything. I never seen anyone doing it without saying anything. My partner always chant some phrases while using magic. I got amazed earlier but now she is astonished.

"You are unbelievable."

My parter showed surprise.

"Sure he is."

"You don't even use chanting. That's really incredibly incredible. You know must of the sorcerer i or we met never used magic without chanting. Do you know why?"

He showed curious expression to my partner.

"It's because they don't know and-"

"They can't just use magic like that that's why every sorcerer say something with their mouth as to activate or use magical spell."

I interpreted her.

"Oh, but my Master informed me that there are only few sorcerers who are capable of casting magic without chanting."

"Yeah, we have heard about it."

I said.

"But we never encountered anyone using magic without completing chanting so even if we had met those sorcerers we wouldn't know if he's the one."

"Yep."

I agreed with my partner.

"Oh."

"Talking of which was your master too chant less sorcerer?"

"Nope, she's just like others however I told her to practice and that she would succeed eventually."

"Oh, by the way where is she?"

My partner asked.

"She's already gone on her new journey to learn new magic skills."

"Oh, I guess she's also an adventurer."

I added.

"Yeah, her name is Iris and she's great tutor. If you ever met her in your journey, would it be too much to ask to tell her that I love her?"

"Oh, you love her?"

"Yes, I love her."

Love her? He probably got so attached to her like how parents get attached with their children.

"Guess we can do that for you."

I said.

"Really! Thank you."

"Yeah so what phrases should we say to her if we met her by chance?"

"Phrases… let me think."

"Take your time."

"Tell her this 'a kid named Jason says he loves you and will say same thing after he becomes an adult.' "

"Ohh…! So you are going to propose her once you became an adult?"

I questioned.

"Yes."

Damn, his looks tells me that he's serious about it.

"Really?"

"Yeah so… are you gonna tell her what I just said?"

"Of course we will but there's no saying that we'll really meet her in the future."

My partner said.

"Yes, I know that."

"But don't let your hopes to get down."

I added.

"Yeah."

"I hope to be present there the day you say your thing to her."

"Why?"

"Well, for no real reason. I or we just want to be there to be your supporter."

"Oh, thank you."

"Yeah."

"I thought you wanted to see me getting dumped."

"Well, it's fifty-fifty. If you get dumped we'll help you to recover and if your proposal gets accepted then we'll have a acceptance party for you."

"I see, thank you."

I'm thinking about it for a minute now, if he really happened to meet and say his thing to his master then how old will she be? Thirty…? Thirty-five?

Nope, I don't think she's going to wait for that long for him. He does love her but I don't know if she really loves him too. And there's no saying that he'll never lose his interest on her. Maybe he'll find someone else and propose her or maybe not.

I'm just getting more curious about it.

I got interested in his future events.

"Kid, we're definitely going to get in touch with you time to time so remember us."

I said.

"Got that."

3

We reached an intersection.

"Ok, I'm going this way. Thank you for your company. See you again."

"Hey kid, wait you almost forgot this."

I gave him piece of flesh.

"Oh, thank you. Bye-Bye."

"Yeah, see you again."

He hastened to his way and we to our way.

4

"What do you think about him?"

My partner began.

"He can use magic plus his sword cuts everything smoothly and he looked quite confident when he said his literacy is good."

She continued.

"Yeah, and it didn't feel like talking with kid while talking to him."

"Yeah, same. But don't you think it's strange."

"Strange…, yeah he is strange."

"No I mean his sudden appearance. Back then there's no one on the road as far as I could see. Then afterwards he showed up and began talking with us. Then he cut that monster effortlessly with a wooden sword plus later we found out that he could also use magic. How come he can just showed up from the path?"

"Maybe he was in the woods and searching for the road."

"No…"

She completely disagreed with me.

"We were injured by monster back then. Next we found ourselves fine and the monster was killed."

"You mean he killed it and saved us?"

"Yeah."

"Well, I can't agree with you. He is kid and even his sword cuts everything smoothly how come he could have killed the monster? He can't just jump or run around him and strike it with his sword. Plus there's only one big cut through its neck and remaining cuts were made my me, I'm sure of it. The cuts around its neck doesn't match with his sword at all. Plus it looked like a single blow was landed to separate its head from it. He can't land a blow like that with his little sword, can he?"

I claimed.

"Hm…"

"Let's just be grateful to be alive."

"Yeah…"

"So Tilla, do you want to bet on his future events?"

"What event? …oh you mean that?"

"Yes, he's gonna find someone else."

"You think so?"

"Yes. What about you?"

"Um, by the way he talked and looked I don't think he'll change his mind about his master."

"Oh, so you're betting on his success?"

"Yes, of course."

We kept talking about his future events on our way to the city.

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