Chapter 17

I paid thorough attention to her.

"Thank you."

"Yeah, thank you too."

"So, Are you going to stay here a little longer or are you going to go home now?

"We can go together, you know."

"Since I am here I will accompany you."

"Um… okay."

We talked as we walked.

I asked her about the thing she was doing earlier with her sword.

She seemed to like doing research.

We were getting near to the intersection.

"I'll be waiting for you so… make sure to come."

"Come? Where? What are you talking about? And who is this kid?"

"Oh dad."

My father suddenly appeared. It seemed that he was behind us walking and was waiting for the perfect opportunity to show up.

"Look at my beautiful girl, you are looking really happy, don't you? Did something happen to you?

And who is he?

"Yes, she is my first friend."

She introduced himself.

"Oh, you really are as your father talked about you."

"You know my father?"

"Yeah we're good friends. Your father is really good at sword. I think his skills surpasses anyone in this village or even in this the continent or world. By the way are you getting trained from him?"

"Yeah, he trains me in his free time."

"Oh, no wonder why you're with sword. By the way did you two meet each other today?"

"Yes."

"Yes."

We both said same thing in a sync.

"Oh. Who reached first? Did you or did you?"

"I reached first."

She answered.

"Ivy, can you give us some time to talk?"

"Okay."

I think my father wanted to talk to her in private that's why he told me to give some space.

Anyway I went ahead a bit further then them near the small stream of river.

She really is an amazing girl. I'm glad that I met her.

I'm glad that I became friends with her.

If I had never met her I would never know anything about magic.

She even taught me how to use magic and she said he would teach me more about it.

I wonder when tomorrow will come.

I want to be with her, I want to talk with her even though I'm not good at it but if it's for her I'll definitely improve myself.

I hope she continues to befriend even after she founds about my literacy.

If that happens she might starts teaching me how to read and write. She is nice.

I wonder what this feeling is I'm feeling in my heart.

Later I moved closer to them after confirming if they completed their discussion.

Afterwards me and my dad said farewell to him…

My dad made me unsure about her gender while we talked as we walked.

She did look like girl, her hair was long.. why my father thinks him as a boy?

I wonder if she's really girl or boy.

Dad did say 'who is he' instead of saying 'who is she' so is she really a girl or she is a boy?

I don't care if she's girl or boy, she's my friend and I'll always be her and she'll be mine.

<<<Mark's point of view>>>

I was returning back to home after work.

While I was walking along the grassy path I saw someone that looked like my daughter from back walking with someone.

I continued walking behind him quietly.

I didn't get closer to them due to the fact that I hated getting disturbed by someone or disturbing others while they were talking.

At the intersection they stopped and I got sure about the girl being my one and one cute and beautiful daughter.

I got closer as they remained there.

She is happy, she is really happy. What did happen to her?

And who is the boy with my daughter?

My daughter is happy, and there's a boy who is with her, hm…, I guess she found someone to spend her time with. Maybe a boyfriend or something. A girl needs someone to protect her if her parents weren't present and by looking at him, he'll definitely protect her. I'm sure about that.

I showed up in front of them.

The boy got vigilant and was on his guard as he heard me.

I found out that he was my daughter's first friend.

After hearing my daughter he introduced himself.

"Hello, I'm Jason Eylvis."

Eylvis… oh, I know his father. He keeps talking about him time to time when we were working together.

But I heard my daughter addressing him as her. They better clear their misunderstanding.

It seemed that they met today and he first approached my daughter.

I told my daughter to give us some time to talk.

"You know, I was so worried about her being lonely forever but I guess you'll be there for her and she won't be alone anymore. Because she has you. Thank you for being her friend. Please take care of my daughter."

"Yes, I'll."

"She is my first friend. I'll cherish our friendship and her too."

"Yeah, that's what I want to hear from you."

"And don't you dear to hurt my daughter, you'll never know what a father would do to the person who hurt his daughter or family."

"Well, don't worry about it. I'll never do such things like hurting her."

"Actually you've to do something like hurting a person as to make that person stronger."

"Right, I got it. I'll not hurt her ever if it's not going to benefit her in any way."

He understands quickly and talks like fully grown adult just like how his father talked about him.

"She might hate you and be rude to you or stop talking to you but please befriended with her and never stop talking with her. That'll make this old man happy."

Wait, I'm not old, why I am saying myself old.

"Yeah, I'll stay by her side always. I promise you that. By the way you really don't look old, how old really are you? You look like beautiful adult man, don't you?"

"Yeah, our race lives more than human but if I compared with human age calling myself old is suitable, you know."

"Oh, I heard that elves lifespan is more than five hundred years, is that true?"

"Yeah but only if they maintain healthy relationships with one's body otherwise they might die before even reaching four hundred years mark."

"Oh, I guess I'll die before you, hahaha."

"Well, who knows what might happen in the future?"

"By the way are you half human and half elf?"

"Yeah, I'm half elf and I look like human too. I don't have ears like the elves have."

"Why is that? Your daughter doesn't have long pointed ears too."

"I don't know kid, maybe I'm not elf to begin with."

"Oh… you don't know what is your race."

"My wife has elf like years and she believes that I'm one of the elves races but as you can see, I don't have such characteristics to be called elf."

"I see so how long does half elf live?"

"As long as two hundred years I think. By the way I'm Mark. It is nice to meet you."

"It's nice to meet you too."

We kept talking.

"Dad, are you done?"

I heard my daughter.

She was coming towards us while at the same time waving at us.

I carried her on my shoulder when she reached.

"Maybe someday you can come to our home. I'll introduce you to her mom. She'll definitely be happy to see you. My daughter will definitely be really happy when you came. Oh wait, I guess you don't know the way. In that case my daughter will accompany you and show you the way."

"Yeah, someday."

"See you again then."

"Yeah."

"Bye-bye, Jason."

"Yeah, bye-bye."

My daughter said farewell to him.

We headed our way and he headed his way.

She said farewell for the one last time.

"Do you like him?"

"Him?"

"Wait is that kid is girl or boy?"

I better make her doubtful about his gender.

"She's a girl."

"Oh… so do you like her?"

They better correct their misunderstanding.

"Yeah."

She seems to like him. I wonder what made my angel to think about him being a girl.

Probably his long hair.

His long hairs can cause misunderstandings between people if their eyes are sharp like my daughter.

"Did you feel your heart pounding faster or something like that when you're with him- I mean her?"

"Yes."

I guess, my daughter has fallen for her.

I wonder if he'll ever fall for her.

"Great. Bye the way do you know the reason why you felt like that?"

"Um…, no. Can you tell me about it?"

"Well, I felt like you when I first meet your mom."

"Oh… and?"

"And the rest… you're going to find it by yourself."

"Oh, okay."

He really is absorbing boy. Even though he is a child he behaves and talks like an adult plus he is really glamorous. He will definitely get popular around girls not only of his age but girls who are younger or even adults.

His hair is icy blue white in color. His eyes certainly looks like glacier. He has white skin. He looks confident and vigorous.

I wonder what kind of person he'll be in the future…