11 – A Deal 02

I walked towards the west gate. Then, as I saw in my dream, there were several people sitting down near the door. Rather than sleeping, their faces had such an absent look. They were breathing without any injury to any of them.

All of them looked like puppets that had their strings cut.

"This is…" Aisha commented when she saw people from the guild and Ganesha Familia who were lying down.

"Well, I guess they've been charmed by someone." I replied with a racing heartbeat.

In the end, this was another proof that what I saw in my dream was happening before my eyes. Then, unlike before, I had the intention of changing things. I couldn't help feeling nervous.

"Aisha, it's good for you to wait for a while. If there's something wrong with me, immediately go and report it to the guild or anything…" I told her before I went inside to the storage room.

In the middle of the storage room, there stood a goddess. She had a beauty that was superior and outstanding, as if she were literally beauty itself. Her appearance, like in my dream, was that she had long silver hair, silver eyes, and white skin like that of fresh snow. She had a perfect golden ratio that charmed any beings in the room.

"Hm…" Freya, who had already lowered her hood, and the beauty of her ensnared all of the monsters in cages, who just silently and passively looked at her as if they had been hypnotized into a passive state. She finally realized that someone had entered the room

Her beautiful silver eyes were reflecting my face.

"What are you…" She said in a rather weak voice, but still her beautiful eyes looked at me, and widening from shock, her hand moved toward her chin as she pondered something.

Well, I think she might be wondering why her charm didn't work, and just like Bell, it looked like my skill made me immune to her charm or that my skill wouldn't make any sense if I got charm.

"This is quite something else… who're you?" Freya floated a good natured smile, but somehow, a feeling like it would break started to emerge. It was rather like having a cold shiver all over my body.

"I'm Arvadica." I replied shortly. I don't know, but as far as I know, children from the lower world like me can't lie in front of Goddesses. That's why I never had any intention to lie to her at all.

"So what are you doing here?"

"Me? Ah, I actually saw something like this happen in my dream?"

"Dream?"

"Yeah, I see what you're doing in my dream. I know that you're going to tease somebody that you find interesting."

"He~~" Freya didn't show any surprise like before, but she smiled as if she found this interesting. "Hm… Interesting. So what are you going to do?"

"To be honest, I prefer you didn't do anything. But I doubt it." Most of God came down to this world because they wanted to have fun after all. So I don't think she will change her plan, and if I do something wrong. I may have made her hold a grudge against me. Which is something I don't want to do.

My purpose at this moment, to make something good for me in this situation. I may not make Freya's plan change, and by defeating Silverback, I feel like Bell will grow.

"I will not report anything or say anything, but… I want something for you?"

"Oh… What is that."

"Well, I'm thinking that I will be happy to get your attention like the person who took your interest… but I like something more real. I want a grimoire?"

"Grimoire?"

"Yes, the book that forces the reader to learn magic. I want that… Are you thinking this is too much? I don't think so. I swear that in the near future you will give the white boy for free after all…"

Freya's beautiful eyes were opened and shaken for a moment, before regaining their shine. The Goddess smiled sweetly before laughing a little, as if she had her own fun.

"Hahaha, I see. That may be true. I may do that in the future. You're even describing the boy that I think I never told anyone about. I'm curious what kind of skill you had..." Freya takes a look at me with sparkly eyes. It looked like I caught her attention, something I honestly wanted to happen. Since one of my reasons to do this is to divide her interest to not solely focus on Bell, but me too. With the hope of making Bell's growth get some hits.

"Okay… then I will give you a grimoire." Freya said as if the book was worth a penny.

"Really, that's good. I will wait in the pub."

"Pub… Ah… You know about that too?"

"I don't know how you do that? But I think you'll be in that pub."

"Un… Yes. When will you get the grimoire?"

"I hope I will get that as fast as possible. Either tomorrow or days after that…"

"Well, okay then…"

In the end, Freya and I had a friendly conversation. Just like that, I chose to get away from the storage room. I don't want to get caught by the guild or Ganesha familia and the monster too.

I think Freya didn't have much time before people realized something wrong was happening in this storage. She might let the monster go soon.

If something wrong happens, at least at this moment, I have Aisha nearby, so she really—really will help me in a dire situation.

Anyway, I left the storage room and met with Aisha, who was leaning against the wall and standing guard near the storage door.

"Are you done?" She asked me.

"Yeah. Thank you for not just listening to me, but helping me too." I replied to her. I said that while moving away from the storage room, followed by Aisha, who, just like before, put her arms around my neck.

"Nah… That's something interesting to hear. Grimoire? Huh… That's maybe nice." Aisha smiled, and she looked in a great mood. But my body was shivering for a bit. Since I can see in her eyes that she's pretty much locked on to me. Like a predator, find a delicious meal.

"Gulp… Yeah… I want magic after all." I said that while I can imagine tonight… I will get eaten by this lady, and I doubt I can do anything about that.

Anyway, I'm very happy to get magic in just one or two days.