"Um... I'm sorry."
Albeit resting weakly on the bed, Mio couldn't help but smile. Unlike her time on Earth, this time someone was accompanying her, not because of duty or money, they just accompanying her.
"...What are you smiling for?" Said the rude and aggressive young man as he was carefully nursing Mio. While the quite and sarcastic wood elf, Clorevica was searching a fever potion.
"Ehehe... nothing..."
There were too many things going on today. First, they reached their first city. Second, not only they got a class, for Mio, she also got her leg. Third, even though they should be disbanding, they still travelling together. Fourth, Mio should be expecting this but knowing the fact that her friend was a murderer, really shocked her mind and body.
Frantically, maybe this was the best time for Mio to talk about it. Now Mio was making a serious face. "U..um... Yuu, I'm not planning to talk behind Clorevica's back, but... e..erm... it's just I heard a gossip about her being a cold blood murderer."
"So?" Yuu answered as Mio nervously watching him.
After a few minutes of awkward silence. "U...urm...is that all? no reaction?!"
Shrugging his shoulder, Yuu drained the wet towel and put it into her forehead. "Well, what do you expect? just go to sleep."
"E..eh... you're no fun."
Though much to her surprise, as Yuu's rough hand was gently wiping her forehead. A cheerful voice echoed from outside of the hall. "Ah! Clorevica~ What are you doing over there? Are they locking the door?"
Just as Delice's face began to show as the door slowly opened, Clorevica's figure could be seen, standing right behind her back. "There you go~ Next time please be more careful~ ." Said Delice as she skipped her way to another room.
Clorevica only walked through the door without saying a single word. "...Do I interrupting something?" Clorevica said as she threw a bottle of transparent blue liquid to Yuu.
Raising Mio's back and opening the cork, without even asking whether or not she would drink it by herself, Yuu nonchalantly poured the fever potion into her mouth. "Not really, just talking about you." Said Yuu.
Hearing Yuu's sentence, Mio coughed. Spilling the rest of the fever potion.
"Oh, about what? and Mio, that potion is expensive." Clorevica spoke like she wasn't bothered at all.
"Eh, some gossip about you being a murderer or something like that." Replied Yuu.
The wood elf only tilted her head. "...Is that all? Thought you have some new gossip about me." Said Clorevica, followed by a big yawn coming from her mouth.
As Mio curiously looking at Clorevica. "E...erm...is that true?" She asked while covering half of her face in a blanket.
Opening her boots and laying on the bed. "Yep." She answered.
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Yuu clearly showed he wasn't interested in this topic, though Mio kept staring at her; dumbfoundedly. "Just create a bonfire and sit in a circle then I'll tell you about my story." Said Clorevica. Though Yuu got another useless information about Epsilon, it seemed their bonfire tradition was the same as Earth.
Soon, no one was interested in this topic and as they slowly feel into their own dream.
*****
As the fourteen-year-old Clorevica, just recently became a Hunter. Near her leg, there were corpses of a Warrior dark elf and a Cleric dwarf, on her back there was a human Magician, breathing weakly while cowering in fear. And right on her face, there was a mass of tangled limbs along with a human Paladin.
While the monster was devouring the Paladin, showing its soft spot. "C! Shoot it!" The Paladin commanded her.
Choosing between the life of many other Adventurers or the life of one person. Clorevica chose the former. As she released her arrow, letting it pierced the Paladin chest along with the monster soft meat. This was her first killing.
Her second was another tragic one, at 15, as she already had enough experience to lead her own party, her first party had been annihilated as they finished their fight with the Goritulla, the newbie on her team, another Archer, laying with a big hole on her stomach. "...Please... It's hurt..."
Couldn't let her own companion to suffer more pain, slowly Clorevica slid her throat, only to find one minute later, that another group, full of Cleric and Paladin reached their destination.
at 16, as she began living in the wilderness. She found a group of adventurers, eating more than they could chew. As she watched the group of adventurers slowly devoured by the group of Constrictor snakes. Too much for her to handle, the best action she could take was shooting the adventurers right in their head, ending their suffering.
But unknowingly to her, one of them was survived, A Magician that recently became Pyromancer, hiding while watching from afar as Clorevica sniping all of his friends.
*****
Under the summer sun, Yuu felt the warmth of those brilliant rays of light. As he was sleeping on the wooden floor, with a half-eaten watermelon laying right next to him. "Yuu, how long do you planning to keep lazying around?! your friend is here." As the familiar voice from his mother pierced through his ears, Yuu slowly awoke.
Right in front of him, a big fat muscular almost bald guy, a foreigner with his slick black dreadlock hair, a medium build pink haired guy with his yellow sunglasses, and a pompadour haired guy that had seven pairs of the same jacket were looking at Yuu, with a shadow right on their faces.
"Jeez... summer is almost over and we didn't even go to the beach, not even once." Said the slick black dreadlock one.
"*Sigh* If only someone didn't force us to go to the mountain." Said the pink haired guy.
"What?! don't blame me! blame the TV! That place looks incredibly insane on that show!" Said the pompadour haired guy.
Yuu, gathering his though and staring at his friends. "....So.... are you guys going all the way to my house just to say this?"
Completely forgot about their plan. the big fat muscular guy spoke. "Told ya dat dis guy forgets about it."
Scratching his head while remembering their plan. "....Fuck!! The blind date!" Yuu shouted as he ran into his room and changed his shirt.
*******
As Mio slowly opened her eyes, she found a young woman, waving her hand towards her. "Hey~ Mio~ Come here~ Let's talk."
What happened?
The last thing she could remember, she was sleeping with Yuu sitting right next to her side. And now, she was in a place where there was nothing except white.
Though, she slowly walked toward the young woman. The young woman smiled and implored Mio to take a seat,
Seat? Mio couldn't find any seat as she looked around, and much to her surprise she realized her leg was in her normal human form.
"Oops~ sorry, I forget!" The young woman clapped her hand, and all of the sudden, a tea table appeared, atop which were cups filled with tea and pillows to sit on along the sides.
"C'mon take a seat."
"E...erm...Thank you."
When they had taken their seats, they took a sip of their tea.
"U..urm...May I ask what happened?"
"Hm, how should I put this. Right, first thing first, let me introduce myself. I'm Esma, You might not know this, but you win the today lottery~ Yay!!"
"...Huh? I beg your pardon." Mio tilting her head and replying with a big question mark floating on her head.
"Ah! Let me make this simple, you have won the lottery and gained the blessing from Goddes of luck, that's me by the way!"
As Esma clapped her hand, a light shone from behind of Mio's chair, The light gradually grew stronger until it covered Mio's vision. After that, the light swallowed Mio, when the light vanished, she was gone and so was Esma.