When I was 6 years old I liked to collect pretty stones. Every stone is different and finding a good one is a job for an expert like me.

I travel far and wide through mountain and forest mountains, diving into the ocean and fighting different kinds of monsters to find the one stone that keeps calling me.

It was a skyblue stone with a perfect round shape that I found near a river. That was the moment I found my one true love.

I named it 'Azure'.

We never separated because I took it everywhere with me.

Even when. father and mother scolded me for it, I didn't give up my love for azure.

So it came as a shock to me at that time. I woke up only to find azure gone.

I search all the places that I remember from my home, the forest and river near the home.

I couldn't find it. In my moment of desperation I grew angry at my mother and father, accusing them of hiding my beloved azure.

But they just ignored me, the sight made me cry and I rushed toward my room.

After many hours of ear splitting crying, mother finally gave up and came to my room.

Still crying, I stared with fury at my mother.

"What!"

"Come on sweetheart, let's find your stone"

"I did and I never found it."

"Let's just search one more time, sweet heart."

Hesitating for a moment, I calmed my anger as a glimmer of hope surfaced and so the great search began once again.

It only took a moment for mother to find azure.

At that moment, I finally realized.

Mother was actually a wizard, she just used magic to find my beloved. I thought a stroke of genius came to me.

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It took months to convince me that mother is not a wizard was also lectures about how love makes people blind and that was why I couldn't find looked azure no matter where l looked.

So, with a heavy heart I sealed azure. No matter how deep my love for azure I still love my eyes more.

...

Knock, knock

Standing in front of Kain's house I found myself thinking what should I say to get him to teach me how to hunt?

Cain is the son of a hunter in this village, still living with his parents, despite being an adult. It is a puzzling choice for me.

If I were an adult I would bolted out of my house and start my grand adventure at that very moment.

"Whose is there... oh it just you Rai is what's wrong?"

"Cain teach me how to hunt, please!" with pleading eyes and I stared at him.

"Huh? Why would you want to hunt ... in the first place, aren't you a farmer?"

"I don't want to be a farmer, I want to go out and see the world."

Confusion still in his eyes, he continued to ask

"Did your father know about this?"

"Yes, he did. I told him just yesterday!" I proudly told him.

"Being a hunter is not a safe job. Did you consider becoming a merchant, it's safer than a hunter, and you can travel more often."

"No, father would smack me in the head if I told him tell I wanted to be a merchant. Mother ran away with a merchant after all."

Cain smiled apologeticly "... yeah Ellen did that, I am sorry that.'s insensitive of me."

I waved my hand. "It's fine, and it was not your fault that mother ran away."

Cain's hand rested on his neck as he still feeling uncomfortable confronting a child whose mother ran away with another man.

Looking at Rai, he finally braced himself and asked him.

"So you want to be a hunter?"

Rai smiled "No, I want to eat meat."

Kain smacked Rai head.

"So you are just hungry!"

"Ouuch, what's that for ", both hands on his head, Rai said with a tear on his head.

Cain scolded Rai." I thought you seriously wanted to be a hunter wanted you actually just wanted to eat meat, you just ruined the mood."

"Hey, I never said I wanted to be a hunter. I want to learn how to hunt, isn't it a great skill? You can get food anywhere you go."

"That's true, but that doesn't mean you can easily get away playing with people's feeling", Kain scolded fiercely.

Tilting his head to the side, Rai asked in confusion "Why would I want to play with people's feeling?"

Kain clenched his fist and stared at the farmer's dumb son. It was stupid of him to get angry at a child, so he finally relaxed, and a tired sigh escaped his mouth.

"So you want meat, right? Wait here Wait"

Going back inside his home, Cain grabbed a rabbit skewer that he planned to eat for his lunch and give it to Rai.

"Here is the meat you requested. No go back and never come again". Cain slammed the door

Rabbit skewer in his hand, Rai took a moment to think.

"That didn't end well. What should I do now?"

With a heavy heart, Rai turned around and prepared to leave, but before that he needed to thank Kain for his rabbit skewer.

"Cain, if you continue living like that you will die a virgin!"

With another good deed done today, Rai finally prepared to leave.

"Grab"

"Huh?"

Rai looked at the hand grabbing his shoulder before moving his head toward the one holding him.

Cain shouted "WHY WOULD YOU CURSE ME LIKE THAT?"