Shin was surprised by what he just heard. "What?! Me? Fight you?! No way!"

Crimson smiled and said, "Your father told me about you. You might be a 5 year old kid but I can feel something different about you."

"So I've been found out huh? Father might really trust you a lot."

"So what's your call?"

"I humbly decline your offer." Shin stood up and opened his mouth, "I've already relayed you father's message so everything's well now."

"Are you sure? You might learn something from me."

Shin looked at Crimson with a serious face, "I won't fight you for now. Since I am not yet ready to fight you, I still need to become stronger, until I'k worthy of fighting you. By the next time we meet, I'll beat you just like my father did to you. Now then, goodbye."

Shin left the cafe.

Crimson smirked and opened his mouth, "He really took after his father. Quite an amusing kid."

As Shin is walking around the town, he found an inn and went inside there.

As he entered the inn, a beautiful girl talked to Shin. "Hello! You must be an adventurer. Then you are in the right place! Welcome to Danaya's Inn, where you can find the beat place to rest, the best food and best hospitality among the Town of Luyie. I am Leonore, glad to make you an acquaintance!"

"I see. You can call me Crimson. Can I have a room for me?"

"Yes, Mr. Crimson. It will be 20 Silver coins per night."

"It's kinda expensive. But since you told me the food and the room is good then all is well, I guess?"

"Yes. It's getting dark, I'll prepare the dinner. I'll just call you when the dinner is ready, sir."

"Yes, I appreciate it."

Leonore gave Shin the key to his room and Shin hurriedly went to his room to take a rest.

Shin laid down to his bed, "Ahh, it's been a while since I slept in a nice bed." Shin then fell asleep.

~~~~~

"Hey! Wake up! Shin! Wake up! Not going to wake up huh? Here comes the meteor!" The girl jumped high and fell on Shin's stomach.

"Guwooh! Why do you always jump on me every morning, Elfie?"

"Hahahahaha. Good morning Shin."

"Good morning, don't do that again okay?"

"I wouldn't do it if you're not always sleeping like a log."

"Let's go downstairs."

[TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE WAR WITH THE DEMON ARMY]

"Shin you're finally awake, don't trouble Elfie waking you up everyday okay?"

"Sure. But I'd rather mother to wake me up than this brute girl."

"Brute girl!? You should be overjoyed because a beautiful girl is always waking you up!"

"Nahh! You look so ugly like someone who hasn't eaten for years."

"You.. You.. You look like.. You look like.. Sob, sob sob" Elfie cried.

"Uwaah! Auntie Ariel Shin is so mean! Uwahh!"

Ariel looked at Shin and said, "You shouldn't say something like that! You should be nice to Elfie, or everyone. You'll never have a girlfriend if you're like that."

"Mom, I'm still 5."

Shin sighed and said, "Let's eat breakfast. Anyway, where's Zeff and Father?"

Elfie replied while sobbing, "T-they went to the plaza."

They ate their breakfast.

After that, Shin and Elfie went to the plaza together. Elfie is still sulking at Shin.

"Arghh!" Shin grabbed Elfie's shoulders and opened his mouth. "Look Elfie, I'm sorry I was mean to you, but y-you're p-p-pretty so don't sulk too much okay?"

Elfie's face turned red like a tomato and opened her mouth, "T-thank you, Shin."

Shin let Elfie go and turned back while blushing.

"A-anyway, let's go to the plaza."

Ariel who is watching them said, "Ahh, It's so nice to be young. No! No! No! They're still 5 years old. But I wonder what those two will look like in the future?"

Shin and Elfie has arrived at the Plaza, Roger was training Zeff on his swordsmanship. All of the adventurers that wants to participate in the war was also training. Some of them are sparring and some of them are meditating to further enhance their magic power.

Roger saw Shin and Elfie and he approached them.

Roger waved his hand, "Son, you're finally awake. You wanna train?"

Shin looked at Roger with an annoyed face, "Nahh, I'll pass today. Mother asked us to get some foods in the farm."

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Elfie opened her mouth, "Good morning uncle Roger, we just stopped by here because Shin wants to see everyone train."

"Hey! I never said that."

"But that's you've been thinking."

"Well... I was just curious by how are they training. But with this pace... They'll just die in the war without even putting up a fight."

Roger looked amused by the words that came out from Shin's mouth. "How do you say that?"

"Well, I'be fought a demon before. With that half assed training they won't even lift a fist on the demons. The only one that should be able to fight against a demon is Uncle, Giryu."

"I'm amazed by your observation. However, you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Well, you go to what your mother has ordered you to, and after that come back here. I'll show you something."

Elfie opened her mouth, "Well, we'll be going then, Unle Roger. See you later."

Shin and Elfie left the plaza, as they left Shin raised his hand to Roger.

As Shin and Elfie are walking around the village, Elfie saw a jewelry store. "To think that they haven't closed their stores yet is kind of worry some."

"Why?"

"Well, the war is coming and they should be preparing to leave now."

"As long as they can still squeeze money, they will still do it no matter the circumstances are. Anyway, do you want to check that out?"

"Let's see."

Shin and Elfie approached the Jewelry Store. "Hello Shin and Little Elfie, what do you like? I will give one for free just for today."

Elfie was excited after hearing this, "A-are you sure? Really?" As she looked at the store owner with a sparkling eyes.

"Well..."

As Elfie is choosing for what she wants, Shin saw a bracelet. The bracelet is made of a stone that looks like a crystal, they are called magistone.

*A magistone is a material that used to create weapons, artifacts, and magic items. Technically, this stone can store mana, the amount of mana it can store is dependant on what type of magistone it is. There are four types of magistone, the purple magistone which can be found on caves that has a lot of magicules. It can be used to store mana and put it in weapons. The blue magistone, which can only be found on dungeons, they can be used in an artifacts, the red magistone, which is the densest and has the largest amount of mana it can store, which can be used to create magic items, and can only be acquired by killing a mythical beasts, in other words, it is the core of mythical beasts, and the last type of magistone, the white magistone, they are an exclusive type of magistone, they are not very useful but is the rarest. The full potential of this magistone is still unknown.

Shin noticed that it is not just a normal bracelet so he grabbed it. The bracelet has a combination of colors, green and white. Shin looked at Elfie who is excited and choosing a jewelry.

Shin grabbed Elfie's arm and opened his mouth, "Well, this is what I choose. It might be free but this bracelet resembles you the first time I see it."

"How? This is practically white. I'm blonde and..." Just before Elfie finished talking, Shin spoke.

"It is not the color that resembles you... It is the beauty of the bracelet." Shin isn't flustered by what he has just said, he hasn't realized what he just said and was very serious.

Elfie on the other hand is blushing like a riped tomato, "I-idiot, you don't have to say that with a straight face!"

The lady owner of the jewelry store was amazed by what Shin has just said and opened her mouth, "Wow Shin, I never thought that you are such a charmer."

Shin was puzzled by he has just heard and after realizing what he just said, he suddenly fell silent and walked away very fast.

The owner spoke, "To think that he's still 5 years old, he's kinda troubling me.

Elfie was looking at the bracelet Shin has just picked. "How is this beautiful?"

The owner replied, "Well, there are different definitions of 'beautiful', it depends on the people. That bracelet looks like a pale bracelet, but when you wear it, it'll look good."

"R-really? He chose this for me though." Elfie looked at the owner, "Can I really keep this?"

"Yes!"

"Thank you, Miss Owner."

Elfie left the shop and caught up to Shin who was standing in front of the Adventurer's guild.

Elfie looked at the building in front of her, that has a logo of two swords crossed together.

"Wow, so this is what an Adventurer's guild looks like."

"Yes, let's enter." Shin replied.

"Can we really enter?"

"Yes, I have permission to enter the guild."

Before entering the guild, Shin looked at Elfie's right arm and he saw the bracelet he just picked, he smiled.

As they enter the adventurer's guild, no one was inside except the receptionist, Allysa.

"Good morning, Miss Allyssa. Everyone's busy huh?"

Allysa is cleaning the tables saw saw Shin, "Oh, hey there Shin, and Little Elfie."

"Is the guild master here?"

"No, he went out for a meeting."

"I see. Mother told me to give this to the guild master, but since he isn't present, then I'll just hand it to you."

"Oh, thank you Shin."

"Yes, we'll be coming later Ms. Allyssa."

Elfie and Shin left the guild. As they got out, Elfie opened her mouth, "You two seemed pretty close huh?"

"Well, she's like my older sister. My brother is not here so I want to have a sibling relationship or something. Haha"

"Well, I can be your sister then."

"No! I don't like that."

"Why?"

"Just because..."

"Just because what?"

"Nothing."

"Just tell me, come on tell me."

'It's nothing."

Elfie kept on nagging Shin until they reached the farm.

An old man is watching the farm, he saw Shin and Elfie approaching him.

"Oh my, what are you doing here Shin and Elfie?"

Shin opened his mouth, "Good morning Grandpa Ferdinand, mother told us to harvest some food for today."

"Ohh, I see. Well, let me help you with that. Let's go."

They all went to harvest the vegetables and fruits that was planted on the farm. The farm was owned by Ferdinand, the crops are free as long as they are the one to harvest them. There are only a few people in the village so he has made them free.

"Thank you, Granda Ferdinand." Shin said. Then they bid farewell.

While they were walking, Elfie opened her mouth, "I just came here yesterday and everyone already knows me."

"Well, there are only few residents in this village so words are easily spread. And the fact that you look cute that's why they easily recognized you."

"Wha-" Elfie was flustered by the sudden words of Shin.

"Is there something wrong?"

"N-nothing." Elfie then whispered, "Idiot."

They have arrived at Shin's house and Ariel is waiting for them outside.

Shin saw Ariel and ran towards her, "Mom, I've got what you told us to get."

"Ohh, thank you Shin and Elfie, do you want to help me cook?"

"Nahh, father told me to go to the plaza after this so I'll be going now."

Elfie raised her hand, "Auntie, I want to help cook."

Ariel smiled and said, "Ehh, you want to learn how to cook?"

Elfie is blushing, "Well, y-yes. Please help me."

"Well then. Shin, go to the plaza now. I'm going to teach Eflie how to become a proper woman."

Shin was confused, "What?"

"Just go. Let's go inside Elfie."

Shin left the house and went to the plaza.

As he was approaching the plaza, he saw a figure of two person fighting. It was Giryu and an adventurer. Giryu has cornered the adventurer, Giryu was about to deal the final blow, when the adventurer created an explosion around his body. Giryu was thrown away and the adventurer puts his sword on Giryu's neck. The adventurer won the duel.

Shin was confused by what has just happened, he has always believed that Giryu is the second strongest in the village but was defeated by an adventurer that he doesn't even know.

~~~~~

Father saw me and approached me. "Shin, did you see that? That's why you shouldn't judge a book by its cover."

Uncle Giryu was definitely not holding back and was still defeated. That adventurer, no.. These people, they're all strong. I may have made a mistake. These people has fought a lot of monsters and people, they have gained a lot of fighting experience. But, nothing will change. The fate will still happen.

Father opened his mouth, "That's why you can't hold your ground kid."

"What?"

"You think too much. When you are fighting, do not think, become water. Because if you think your movements will become dull."

"How can I not think?"

"That's what you're going to train."

"Train to not to think?"

"Exactly."