The rain has not stopped yet, rather it got worse. How can it get worse than before? The rain is constantly pouring down, and now… it’s windy. Yes. The worse possible outcome. Windy and rainy. As I’m trying to walk toward the eastern gate, I’m getting pushed back by this wind. If I were to look around again, there is no way that people are walking outside. Ridiculous. 

That’s not even the worst part. You know that feeling? When you are walking in rain, and you step into a puddle of water and the water goes into your shoes. You start to walk sloppily and you already expect that your shoes, socks, and feet are going to smell terribly. Yeah. It sucks.

As I kept complained and walked, I have already reached the central of Asteralis.  There still was no one to be seen, or maybe I just can’t see anything in this terrible weather. I kept walking. I can’t stop here. If I were to stop here and take a break, I don’t think I will make it. As I walked in silence, I hear a shout and see something afar. 

“We can’t help you. Now, get out!” (Stranger)

After the shout, the stranger from afar threw something out of the door. When that thing hit the ground, it made a loud thump noise.

The distance was about 25 meters. It was hard to see but it was something different than an object. It had weird shape, and had light blue color. I waited to see if it was a person or not but it didn’t move, and it didn’t budge either. Should I go closer to it?

I have a bad feeling about this... Just incase, I will keep my gun standby. I took my bag off. I had to hurry because the bag was getting wet really fast. I took the gun out and put it in my pocket. Luckily the cloak that Aaron gave me kept dry toward my upper body. I put my bag on, then walked toward the light blue colored object.

…………….

When I got near, it was something that I had not expected. It was a girl with long light blue color hair that covered up to her chest. She looked about to be 15? 16? I wasn’t too sure. I’m not good with ages. She had no sort of proper clothing on her, rather just barely. She had cloth around her waist to cover her private parts, but her upper left part was completely exposed showing her left breasts. Another thing she had on were the shackles that I saw earlier before I entered the gate. She had it on her neck, and hands. Is she a slave? Never mind that now, I have to check her condition.

……………. 

I put my head near her mouth to hear whether if she was breathing or not.

*ha*ha*ha

She was breathing very shallow and slow. Almost as if she was being suffocated. 

“Hey! Are you alright?? Hello? Hey, Do you hear me? Are you okay?”

I touched her head and her shoulders to see her conditions. It was very cold. I was barely able to feel the heat that she was exerting. She was barely conscious. While I continued to check, I heard a small voice.

“Please, don’t hurt me… don’t take me back there.” (Girl)

After saying that she tried to crawl away from me. Back where? Hey, Hey, don’t make me look like a bad guy.

“Look, I’m trying to help you.”

“....” (Girl)

Alright. This is not good. What should I do with her? Normally, any white knights would’ve just picked her up and took her to a doctor or something but things don’t work like that. I don’t know the laws here, so I can’t just take a person with me even if my intentions were to help them. It’s even worse, since this person has shackles with them. This means they are slaves and if I were to help them, I can be in a serious trouble. But… I can’t just leave a person here. So then I took off the cloak Aaron gave me and put it on her. I took my bag off and took out my ripped adidas sweater and wore that. 

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“Look, let me help you. If you stay like that here. You are going to get sick and worse comes to worst you might die. Stay still.”

After saying that I wore the bag in front of me, and picked her up on my back.

“I’m heading to an inn. You don’t mind right? You can visit the doctors after.”

“....”

Seems like she didn’t have enough strength to say anything. After confirming that I didn’t forget anything and I was in the right direction, I continued on to get to the inn.

I had to take few breaks here and there to regain strength. I was starting to lose my temperature as well because the adidas sweater wasn’t as good as the cloak the Aaron gave me but one thing for sure she started to regain her temperature, because I can feel her heat on my back. As I kept walking while wondering how she ended up this way, I’ve reached my destination. The Inn.

I walked in quickly and ran toward the receptionist desk. I was getting the weird looks, but I didn’t have the time to care about that now.

When I reached the receptionist desk, there was a man who seemed to be about 40s taking care of the customers.

“How may I help you?” (Inn Keeper)

“Can you give me a room with 2 beds? I want to stay for a single night.”

“That would be 50 silver coins.”(Inn Keeper)

50 Silver coins? That’s already 3/4th of what I have left!!!

“Uh… Sorry, how much is room for single bed?”

“Room for 1 is 20 silvers.” (InnKeeper)

Ugh… If I get the room for two bed, I would only have 25 silvers left. I don’t know the price of weapons, and food so that would be very risky. I’ll just stick with 1 bed...

“Alright, Could I just get room for 1?”

“Sure.” (InnKeeper)

After handing the Innkeeper the money, he handed me the key to the room.

“Your room is on the second floor. The door for the room should be second door to the left side.” (InnKeeper)

“Thanks”

I followed his instructions and took the staircase that led me to the second floor. Then I walked until I saw the second door to the left, and opened the door with the key he gave me. 

The room was very tiny. The room was about 3 meters long and 4 meters wide. Just enough space to walk in and, fit the bed and a person… There was another room connected to the right and that was the bathroom? you can't even call it the bathroom because it just had bucket of water, a place where I can make fire to heat up water and a really old fashioned toilet. The ones where you squat to take a shit... 

Sigh… 

I laid the girl I carried on the bed. She still seemed to breathe very shallowly, and heavily. I placed my hand on her head to check her conditions. It was burning hot. She had a fever. Problem after problem. I should be used to this by now. Anyways, I thought about what I can do, and then ta-da! I remembered that I bought an Nyquil that I was unable to give my friend! This should help her for now.

 I took the Nyquil out of my bag, and ripped off the wrapper that was surrounding the top. I took the mini cup off and placed it on the side. I opened the bottle and poured a whole cup full. Then I placed the cup near her mouth for her to drink. She resisted to drink the medicine by closing her mouth but I have a solution for that. I grabbed her nose still so she couldn’t breathe through her nose. She eventually opened her mouth gasping for air, and that’s when I forcefully gave her the medicine. 

She made a face any kid would make when they drink Nyquil for the first time, she then wanted to say something but didn't have the strength to, which made her give me a death stare instead.