Journey Alone (6)

"Wha- Uwaaaaaaaaaaaa!!"

Josh's screams echoed in his room.

" Master?! "

Lance who passed through the wall looked at his master whose looking at his cut limb, Josh was stunned from the sight of it that his iris has shrunk and shook, but is still looking at it in frozen as though his eyes locked to its target, his expression was also frozen.

The capsule Josh consumed can ease the body and mind, it can hide the pain for days, but the side effect was to make the player who drank it to forget the cause of why he has consumed it. The capsule can only be given to players level 3 above, that pill was the one to come to the player that needed it, even if the players wanted it, they can't have it because it's not a selling item.

Josh, after calming down realized something.

" Huh? It . . .doesn't hurt. . .?" He was confused why, since the cut was obviously fresh yet not a single drop of blood leaked.

Lance remained silent. At the same time as Josh asks: " Where did my right hand go?" Is the time Zen walked inside the room. Lance turn his head slowly towards the guilty looking Zen who's averting its eyes from Lance.

" Yeah, where did my Master's hand go?" Lance glared intensely at Zen.

" It flew away, the arm said "I don't want to be attached to this disgusting body anymore" and boom! In a blink of an eye, it unattached itself and now living a very peaceful and meaningful life" Zen lied with a shrug, nonchalantly shifting the blame to the poor body of Josh and Josh's hand.

' I'm disgusting. . .?' Josh asked himself . " No way. . ." Josh said in a low voice dejectedly, believing Zen's nonsense.

" Zen, don't lie! You cut it off like a pork in one swing of your hand, don't take advantage of Master's temporary amnesia" Lance scolded.

" Eh?" Josh look at Zen, "Like a pork. . .?" Josh repeated.

' Urk!, Damn you Lance!' Zen cursed inside his mind before sighing," Look, Second Master, I'm sorry, okay?" Zen apologized. ' Can't believe I'm apologizing to a mere human!'

" Say it again, it sounds extremely half-assed" Lance commanded.

" Why you-!"

" It's alright, it's not like we can go back to the past to stop it anyway" Josh said lifelessly as he walk towards the door to leave.

" You made Master sad" Lance shook his head as he tsk-tsked Zen.

" Wait s-. . .second master, if I kill you, your hand will become brand new. Just let me kill you as an apology" Zen said, making Josh turn towards him with a puzzled expression.

' Kill me as an apology???'

" Don't, the line to the market of life is crazily long, it might take weeks before master could ever buy a life" Lance glared at Zen that says ' dare to kill Master and you'll suffer!'. Now, sparks that symbolize hostility are visibly seen in their eyes as they look at each other.

*Clack*(the sound of the door closing)

" Ah!, He left" Zen grinned. Lance passed through the wall and went to kitchen where Josh is brushing his teeth before eating and brushing them again.

Josh took a bath, dressed himself with a sleeveless hoodie and shorts about knee long, he then turn towards Zen and asked:

" The bread, where did you buy it?"

"There's a being that went inside then presented a window with items like weapons, food, potion, gears, foods and so on, it said that it will come every 12:00, but if they are needed that button can call them here" Zen explained and pointed at the third button near the lights button.

Josh came closer to the buttons and clicked the one Zen was talking about. An NPC in a black robe appeared, as if it's been waiting for him. The NPC that appeared before him showed him a lot of small rectangular screen with names like [FOOD], [WEAPONS],[CARDS], [SOME RANDOM THINGS] etc.

Josh clicked the [SOME RANDOM THINGS] then looked for the search button, then search for four small pouch, two mideum size bag of sand, and lastly, a ducttape.

[Is that all?] The NPC asked by the screen above its head.

" Yes, how much is it?" Josh asked because only the items are there but not its prices.

[Dear player, you need not to worry about the price] The NPC then wave its hand once and a screen appeared again.

[Small pouch | 20xen each | 4 pieces | 80xen

Bag of sand | 30xen each | 2 pieces | 60xen

Ductape | 15xen | 1 piece | 15xen

Total:155]

[Our dear player's XENcard please] The NPC drew his hands to Josh. Josh gave his XENcard. The things he bought are now floating in the air around the NPC. The NPC gave his card back with the things he bought. Josh bowed as thanks, the NPC also bowed before disappearing.

" Master, what are you doing?" Lance asked, watching Josh struggle from filling up the pouches with the sand to its right amount(about 3 kilogram). After the two pouches are filled, he struggled taping it to his feet. I mean, Josh always have difficulty in using his hands, but now, he only have a hand, which is more worst than difficult.

" Something to do with the training, since. . . I'm too poor to go to the gym, so I'm doing a life hack" Josh answered Lance, still struggling from using his only hand.

" I'll help, Do you need me to help you?" Zen asked even though the answer is quite obvious.

" Thanks" Even so, Josh didn't think about Zen ridiculing him or he's just being sarcastic.

Josh stands up to let Zen do the work. Since Josh is small compared to Zen, Zen needs to kneel.

' I can't believe it, a God is kneeling infront of another human!' Zen whined inside. He filled the pouches, tightly knot it to not let the sand leak, then use the ductape to attach it to Josh's upper ankle, and clean the sand on the floor. " Done" he said.

Lance clapped to say "Good job".

" Thank you" Josh thanked and open the door to start running when. . . a zombified player greet him. Josh immidiately went back inside, he literally forgot about the zombies.

" Master, your plan was great but . . . still lacking" Lance said while Zen can't hold his laughter. Zen gave Josh a thumbs up before laughing uncontrollably.

" Lance, can I ask you to look for a place where there are no zombies? " Josh said, still determined to level up.

Lance flew up, passing through the ceiling after ceiling until he reached outside and navigate the place for his master's safe training area. A ridiculing grin formed in his small mouth. " pfft, I'm so stupid, the place is just beneath me, how stupid of me to look for another?" Lance mocked himself. He went back to Josh and reported:

" Master, the rooftops are safe, not a single zombie are there, but the problem is that. . . there's no way up there"

" I can teleport you there" Zen said, looking at Josh who's almost giving up his hope to level up today.

" Really? Nice!" Josh said energetically. He then walk towards Daniel's room and opened the door.

" Err. . . buddy, I'll be off then, see you later" He waved goodbye with an optimistic smile to the soulless body of his friend laying on the floor-bed of the room.