So, after I lost all hope, I made an encounter that would change my life forever. “Hey, what are you guys doing” a cute voice said from behind the two men.
A beautiful short haired brunette, called Eisha, around the same age as me and a complete hothead.
Eisha: “You guys ignoring me? Is it because I’m a girl? You trying to dodge a fight because I’m a girl? I hate guys like you three”
Axiel: “M-me? What did I do?”
The two guys look at each other again, bursting out into laughter again, even letting me go,
???: “Yo, this might be our lucky day, first a gx-140 core and now a hot girl trying to pick up a fight”
He said in a sarcastic voice, still laughing about her.
I was completely confused, asking myself what she is thinking, trying to pick up a fight with them.
Normally, saving someone is not common here since everyone is too focused with their own survival and saving someone could lead to making yourself unnecessary enemies.
Axiel: “Leave me, you don’t have to do that, run and forget what happened here”
I shouted out, trying to safe her life, but I should have known that a complete idiot like her won’t just back down like that, back then I haven’t known her, but I instantly knew that sticking with her would bring problems.
Eisha: “Are you stupid? I am here trying to safe you and you trying to send me away? Have you lost your mind?”
???: “Have you lost your mind? You are a one girl against two
Men and clearly outnumbered”
Eisha: “So it truly is because I am a girl, I hate men like you, I hate you”
She said, revealing her metal arm, shooting out her fist that is connected to her arm with a rope, hitting the guy with the spiky hair.
I was completely amazed, not by her bravery but because of her metal arm.
It is common for people to have a metallic body part, but I never seen one shoot out it’s fist like a projectile.
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???: “You fucking bitch”
He said, wiping away the blood from his face, pulling out his machete, running towards her.
Eisha presses a button on her metal fist, letting her fist return to her arm by automatically letting the rope pull back into her arm.
She then dodges the guy's attack, hitting his face with her metal fist knocking him down, dodging the other guy's attack, also hitting him with her fist and letting him fall to the ground.
They both look at each other, both with a broken nose, standing up and running away, one of them shouted out “We won’t forget this, you will see” while running, giving me a bad feeling for the future.
Eisha turned around, looking at me who confusingly sits against the wall, progressing what just happened here.
Eisha: “Yo, Im Eisha”
She said, picking up my gx-140 core and handing it back to me,
Axiel: “Im Axiel, t-thank you for saving me, you were bad ass”
Eisha: “No problem, gotta say, you have a good nose for finding things”
Axiel: “What do you mean?”
Eisha: “A gx-140 core isn’t something you find everyday”
Axiel: “Yeah, I know right? A week ago, I found an old console from the tome even before the war”
Eisha: “For real? Did it still work?”
Axiel: “Sadly no but I got some good money out of it”
I replied, this is basically how I first met Eisha, making her my only friend after my sister of course.
While we were talking, I found out that Eisha also was a junk hunter, building her metal arm from scratch, but she had to stop because of the debts she got from her parents after they died tragically. She never told me why or how they died but I guessed back then that they simply couldn’t pay their debts and just ran away without her or maybe even killed themselves.
She had been wandering and living on the streets ever since.
She had been following me since the junk yard, she originally wanted to steal the gx core from me but after seeing me in the position I was she simply felt sorry for me.
So, both of us went to the junk dealer, selling him the core for a hundred coins, paying of the dinner for three people for at least a month, as the gentleman I am I invited Eisha to my home, giving my sister more surprises than she would have expected.
Axiel: “Im home”
I shouted after opening the door, instantly getting a reply from somewhere inside the house: “Welcome Axiel, how are you doing” my sister Ariel shouted,
We lived in a big complex, with hundreds of people living near each other in unstable high-rise building’s.
We lived around the middle etage of one of the buildings, having a small apartment.
My sister came towards us from the kitchen area, surprised of how beaten up i look and who I brought with me.
Ariel: “Axiel, what happened to you”
She asked in a worried tone, wiping the dirt and dust away from my clothes.
Axiel: “I am fine, really, Eisha saved me”
Ariel: “Saved?”
Eisha: “It is true, if it weren’t for my dominating aura and skills, who knows what had happened with Axiel”
She replied proudly, posing in front of us, confusing both of us.
Ariel looked at Eisha, analyzing her stance, looks and her clothes before taking her into her arms, thanking her for her heroic act, “Thank you for saving my brother, a friend of his is a friend of mine, you are basically family now” she said to her.
Eisha simply just smiled, laughing about it while proudly posing, saying “It was nothing, helping someone like him was just another duty someone like me has to do” she said, funny to think of since she originally wanted to rob me in the first place.
Axiel: “I’m hungry, is dinner ready?”