chapter 44: old man

In a certain hotel in that bustling city within a room were Yuujiro Mikumo and Flare, although the little girl was now sleeping, leaving Yuujiro and Mikumo alone awake and planning what they were going to do next.

Since they were in a distant kingdom they would take their time to be able to visit the different places that are here, since when they arrived they saw different things that in Fiore could not be found either magic or ítems that were sold in the streets.

"So the first thing to do is gather information and find the whereabouts of the person we are looking for." Yuujiro said as he stood in the window hidden behind the curtains looking out of the hotel where they were staying.

Yuujiro was seeing some people who had been following him since they entered. From the way they acted you could see that they were the guards who had been at the entrance of the kingdom. They were the same who were looking at him with a calculating look.

Perhaps the guards had found Yuujiro and his company very suspicious, although it was normal for Yuujiro to draw attention wherever he went. An intimidating appearance, a well-worked body and the scariest thing about him were his eyes, those eyes that could look directly to the soul of a person. That in his eyes they were naked before him and that they could not hide anything from those terrifying eyes, or that was the impression that the Yuujiro people had when they met him.

Yujiro: "There are some people who have been following us since we entered the city, we must be careful because they may have warned us of some superior and are watching us so that we do not escape and do nothing suspicious."

Mikumo:"It's true, I also realized, but as long as we don't do anything, they wouldn't have to bother us, in the eyes of other people, we're just a happy family visiting this kingdom for the first time."

"haha it is true, tomorrow we will have to act discreetly as a family so that we do not receive attention while collecting information." Yuujiro said moving away from the window and then lying on his bed next to the sparkler.

Mikumo:"Fufufu, a happy family, I like the sound of that."

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"Hey, you've informed superiors about the people we're watching." Asked the guard who was stalking Yuujiro while turning to look at his companion who was accompanying him in his surveillance.

"If I already report them, they said we would keep watching for a while, and then if they don't do anything suspicious, they said we would just leave them alone."

"Okay, but that guy scared me when he stood in front of me, seeing only his eyes. I was paralyzed with fear and I could not move until I lost sight of them. That guy is certainly someone dangerous, and as our duty is to protect citizens from danger, I made the decision to follow them while leaving my post."

"Thank you for joining me. The truth is that I was a little scared of doing it alone, but since you are here with me, my comrade, I am calmer."

"Of course I will accompany you. It was you who saved my daughter after all. It is obvious that you will have all my support."

"Oh, thanks."

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The next morning when the sun just came out radiating heat to people, Yuujiro and company left the hotel to walk around the city.

"So what will we do now?" Mikumo asked as they walked down the street and slowly approached where all the food stalls were on a busy street with music playing everywhere.

"Well, if you want you can go to have fun after we will meet in that square at a certain time, you can take Flare because from what I see she wants to play and tour the place" Yuujiro said while watching how the little Flare was going through staring at all the food in front of his eyes with Baba coming out of his mouth.

Mikumo: "It's fine, but what will you do Yuujiro-sama."

Yuujiro:"I will also tour the place and try to gather some information."

"Oh, okay, then we'll meet at the agreed time. Bye." Said Mikumo and it was behind Flare that little by little he was lost in the crowd

YuUjiro watched as they left, he also went in another direction looking at the sides. Observing the different business of magic they had, he was thinking that maybe a celestial key can be obtained to try new magic.

Slowly he was losing himself through people moving towards where his feet would take him, while listening to everything around him.

Behind him the guards who watched them stood watching how people had separated following different paths.

"Hey, what will we do, they just left on separate sides." The guard asked his partner as he watched as they moved away more and more looking alternately at the two.

"Quiet, you follow that man while I follow the woman and the girl."

"It is well cared and good luck, saying they two followed their respective people while trying to seem unnoticed, but without them knowing Yuuiro and Mikumo had already felt it since yesterday, but they did not care and let them to what they did. they want

They could easily lose them with their speed and leave them behind, but if they did that, they would only be attracting more attention since they would be acting in a very suspicious way.

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Yuujiro walked the noisy streets while he was receiving invitations from the food stall employees to enter his premises.

"ohhh young man you look very strong, surely you eat a lot because you don't enter my shop, we have the best meat and fish in the kingdom."

"What are you talking about, young man, don't believe in his lies, look here, we have the most delicious food you can try."

"ohhh your young man I see that today you will have bad luck in your day." An old man intervened sitting on the street with a blanket on the floor while rubbing a crystal ball.

The old man caught Yuujiro's attention and proceeded to approach him, but the people who had previously tried to attract him to his place intervened by telling him.

"Young man, you better not pay attention to that old man, he is just a charlatan." The man who owns the food shop said.

"Yes, if you better not pay attention to him, that old man has been here for a long time doing that, whenever he sees a new face he tries to get his attention doing that." The other man said as he nodded with his arms crossed in front of his chest.

"Hey, but if you were trying to do the same with my client now." The flesh man said with a mocking face.

"Which bald old customer if you were doing the same with the young man too? He rebuked the good-food man back to the bald old man by lifting his sleeves and making a threatening gesture.

Yuujiro ignored the two and walked to the old man who sat on his old dusty blanket along with his crystal ball.

He approached him and stared at him when he crouched down in front of him, he was studying him carefully with his hand on his chin looking at him from head to toe.

This man was an old man who had a hat that covered his white hair, had a wrinkled face and closed eyes, had wrinkled hands and long, sharp ones that looked like the hands of a reptile rather than a human , covering his body he had a black blanket that covered everything but his hands since his hands were placed on his crystal ball.

The old man could look a little shaky as if he were on a winter day and had his body numb while looking at Yuujiro who was staring at him with his terrifying eyes as people described him.

The people who were walking around had stopped watching what was happening while whispering among themselves.

"Hey, what's going on."

"I don't know, maybe that young man is intimidating the old sorcerer."

"Maybe, you know that old man has already scammed a lot of people after all."

"This had to happen sooner or later, the old man is very cheeky when trying to cheat people in broad daylight."

All kinds of conversations arose from what Yuujiro was doing, while he himself was ignoring everyone and focused only on the old man in front of him.

When it was a few minutes later, the man opened his mouth to talk to him, the people watching as that young man was going to speak immediately shut up to know what the young man who had a dangerous and wild aura was going to do with the naked eye.