In an open area of forest, there are three men and one girl. The men wearing iron-plated armor colored in grey, there's nothing that corresponding them beside the armors, blonde hair and the sword that hanging from their waist. As the girl, she wears an empire waist dress, that has a blue color, has a pretty face, that could be mistaken for a doll, a pink lip that looks covered in lipstick, and slender body which make her looks perfect in every aspect.

The men were grouping the girl, cornering her between a big rock behind her. The girl has despair looks on his face, but even so, that didn't make her face look ugly in the slightest.

"Stop resisting!" one of the men says with the ringing tone. He has a pencil mustaches on his face, and that makes him the most old-looking among the three.

"Someone, help!" as the men closening the distance between them. The girl makes a very loud scream.

"...!" all of the men can't help for feeling surprised by her shout.

This place is located far away from the town. Even though the girl shouted so loud, there's no way that it will reach anyone.

"It's useless, there's no way anyone will come here"

Taking a cautious step, The men proceeded to approach the girl. Their armor makes noisy noise within every step.

"N, no! Don't come any closer!"

As the distance between them shrank, the girl's scream grows louder.

It was then- that someone interrupted them.

"Um... I think you guys should stop."

The sounds neither came from the men nor the girl. It was a young combined with panting voice, it was like someone who had just done 25km marathon run. Looking at the source of voice they all see a single boy standing on a big rock while looking down at them. Because of the sun's shadow they can't see his face very well.

The boy jumped from the rock, he's now standing between them, facing off the men and revealing his figure.

The most suited words that could describe him probably would be 'beggar'. He wore black shoes and pants and a white robe that has a red plus sign on his chest, while the robe itself seems to be made from a nice piece of fabric, with the dirt that lying around all place, it makes it look like something that being picked from the grounds. He has a long jet black hair that's a bit ruffled warped in a ponytail at the back, over his head, there are some leaves which stuck on his hair. Despite having a nice face, his messy bangs that falling off on his face just make it looks pale in comparison. If It was not for the situation they are in, the men might think that the boy would say 'can you spare any change?' at any moment. The sight was too unbelievable for them to react immediately. Sadly, it was our hero, Abel.

"I don't know kind of country this is... But, I don't even think that rape is allowed here you know?" Tilting his head slightly, Abel glared at the men. It was not intimidating glare, it's more like filled with pity.

Why he was here you say? Let's look what's happening for a bit before he got here. It was around an hour ago after Abel found a town, he immediately rushed here running, flying and jumping, ignoring everything on his sight. As he almost arrived at his destination, the first thing that welcomes him was the shout that comes from the men.

"Huh?" surprised, the men trying to make a retort "w, wait a minute! I think you misunderstand something here!"

"Just what exactly did I misunderstood?"

"We're not trying to rape her! Just look at us! Do we look like someone who would like to rape someones!?" while pointed at his own armor, this time, it's turn for the other men to speak, he has a scary face with a cross slash mark on his right cheek.

Anyone aside, I think you do look like someone who would do something like that. Don't want to upset the man, Abel keeps his thought from slipping out.

"Hoh, is that so? Then are you saying you're the ones being raped!? Don't be ridiculous, like I'll believe something like that!"

You're the one who's being ridiculous. All men and possibly the girl as well thought the same thing, even they don't speak it.

"Like I said! there's no rape here, where did you get that idea anyway!?"

"Anyone who hears on the way you just conversing would probably think that is rape!"

"W, we just trying to bring her back to the town, someone asks us to... Wait a minute! Why do I need to explain this to you!? Just who are you anyway!?" realize that there's no need for him to continues the explanation, the mustache man irritatedly asked.

There's no need to answer his question. Thinking so, Abel ignored the men and facing the girl "is that true?" From behind him, He can hear a shout 'don't just ignored me!' coming from the man.

"...No, that's not true! They were just trying to pin me down just now!" it took a moment before the girl answered, it was though she trying to calculate something first before answered.

"H, hold on, what do you mean pinned you down!? We barely touched you at all, stop lying!" The cross cheeked men refuted.

"Hmm..." Looking between the two, Abel pondered a little. Listening to their conversation, it was enough to someone could possibly understand what's happening here. However to him, it really doesn't matter. Between the rough men and the cute girl desperately looking for aid, there's no need to thinking through this. The answer is clear.

"I just need to help you escape, right?" gazed at the girl, Abel said with assured tone. Because of the high difference in them, he lowered his head a little when stared at her.

"Eh" looked back with her alluring blue eyes, the girl yelped softly, it seems she was not expecting that the boy would agree to help her.

'it's alright now' just for a second, the girl thought she could hear those lines from him.

It was that moment, the man who have been quiet all this time, begin to noticed something, he had a feeling that the boy in front of him will do something. Gripping at the hilt of his sword, the man trying to trust his intuition, this was to prepare if the boy started to do something foolish.

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"Smoke screen" muttered those words, all of sudden there was white smoke coming from Abel direction, it's spreading so fast until it began to swallow everyone present inside in.

"He used magic! Pull your sword!" The voice was coming from the men, it was a hoarse voice which completely different from the previous two. After comprehending their comrade words, the rest of them pulled out their sword as being told.

"Excuse me for a bit" amidst the mist, Abel who has the most composure among all, without waiting for a reply, started to lift the girl with a princess carry.

"A, eh..." The girl who still shocked at what's happening can only mutter a word that doesn't have meaning.

"Dammit!" like a madman, the mustache man swinging his sword blindly to remove the smokes that illuminated his surrounding. Even so, the smokes just keep regenerating without end.

The cross cheeked man and the hoarse-voiced man stayed still as they raised their sword for a guard, this was just in case if the boy suddenly launched an attack at them. Even they decided to charge toward the boy, the smokes were thick enough to disturb their views, there's also a chance that the boy planted some trap on the ground without them knowing, confirmed this was the safest course of action, they resolved to stand still, waiting for the fogs to disappear.

It takes a while before the smoke dissipate. After their visions returned, they immediately began to observe the sight that encircling them. The first thing that they recognize was the boy and the girl has gone.

"They're escaped huh." The mustache man said as he sheathed his sword.

While the rest tried to mimic him- "But who's that guy anyway? He did use 'short chant' just now, wasn't he?" The cross cheeked man threw a question.

Short chant was one of four ways to activate magic. By shouted the name of the magic spell and pouring out mana, It will trigger the magic spell.

Next is long chant, which only can be activated by fully saying the incantation of magic, it took the longest time to chant magic with it, depending on the spell, it can even take more 10 minutes for just chanted the incantation. Granted, most of the magic user used this type of chant.

There's also a magic circle, which can be activated by drawing a magical circle, it can be drawn physically or even spiritually using mana. There certain magic that only could be done with a magic circle, one example of that would be random teleportation magic. Even though it can be used by anyone as long they have enough mana, It's very rare for someone to uses this with how complicated a magic circle can be, even the simplest mistake can get the magic to be jammed.

The last and the rarest one would be chantless, by controlling the flow of mana inside the body, it certainly possible to use magic without chanting, and that's making It the most advantageous among all. Without chanting, they are no way of knowing what kind of spell that the user would use. However, even if someone capable to use this, that doesn't mean it can be used for any spell, they need to go throughout full training for each spell in order to do it.

Within of all magic user, there are only 10% that can use short chant whereas chantless are only 1% in total. That's mean even being a short chant itself was quite an accomplishment.

"You're right, he must not be an ordinary person then"

"More importantly, are we sure we can just standing here? Don't you think captain will get angry at us, since we let the girl escapes?" The hoarse-voiced man inquired with a suggestive tone.

They had given the order to bring back the girl who was running away from home without hurting her. Apparently, the girl seems to come from royalty or some sort. It supposed to be an easy task, if not for that boy who helped the girl escape.

"Kuh..! That would be suck, I can imagine Captain will hit us if he knows that we let the girl escapes." The cross cheeked man began to rub his stomach with a pained expression. "Tch! This is your fault for talking nonsense since the beginning! If not, there's no way those two would run!" He then suddenly glared at mustache man.

"Are you blaming me now!? The reason they'd run was probably because you have a shitty face! Stop suspect other!"

"Can you guys be quiet? I think it's too late for talking about that now" scratching behind his ears, the hoarse-voiced man started to comes out with an idea "Can we just tell him, that she's being taken by a strong magic user? Then I'm sure Captain will not punish us"

"..." Glanced at each other, the mustache man and the cross cheeked man hesitantly consider at their friend suggestion.

"L, let's do that, it's not like we're lying or anything, right?"

"Y, yeah, let's do so"

Agreeing with themselves, the men determined to come back to the town.

...

Carrying the girl in his arms, Abel has been running away from the men. His left arm placed between her back of knee while the other supported her back. Slipping his hand into her armpit, he can feel a soft sensation at the tip of his fingers. This whole time, he could not help himself for making a small grin, not because he can barely touch the girl's chest, it was for another reason. Since coming outsides, he thought he was running out of luck when being teleported in the middle of a forest far away from the town. But now everything seems going well.

Looked below, he can clearly see the girl he saved before. Her pretty face looked up forward the roads they passing while her dark blue hair gracefully flowed over her right shoulder. Because of that, he doesn't really know what kind of expression she's making. Suddenly, he was reminded of the books he ever read. It was books full of cliches, about a girl who gets saved by a guy from bad men and began to fell in love with him. To think something like this happened to him.

Well, a cliche is not bad at all, rather, I like it more this way!

After a short wait, he can hear the plea coming beneath him "C, can you put me down right now?" There, he saw the girl making a worried expression as she stared at him.

Confirmed that the distance was safe from the armored men, Abel does as he told.

Looking her staring at him intently, Abel curiously asked: "What's the problem?"

What she gonna do? Is she trying to thank me or something? Well, she might as well start to give me a kiss or tried to use her body to repay me maybe.

As he drowned in his own thought, the words that come from her was:

"YOU STINK!"

"WHAT!?"

"Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you? You smelled so bad uughg" pinched her nose, the girl wrinkled her eyebrows in displeasure.

Being told so, Abel pulled up the collar of his robe with both hands and lowered his head in order to smell it. It's smell bad indeed. It's not that he doesn't take a bath, with magic he can easily create water and washed his body with ease, but what about his clothes? While he can wash it, he doesn't necessarily have the time to dry it, since he was hastily searching for the town, that's leaving the clothes became damp and filled with a sweaty musty smell. But still, he can't accept it.

"Well, I admit that my robe smells bad, but don't you think that it's rude to say that to someones who helped you?"

Faced with aggravated Abel, the girl crossed her arms in a majestic way "Hah, what are you talking about? Is that normal to help someone in need? Are you saying you're hoping to get something in return? Or what, you're not imagining I'm gonna use my body to repay you, are you?" at the end, she didn't forget to add some half-joking words.

"H, how did you know!?"

"Y, you were thinking that all along?! P, pervert! D, don't get close to me!" the girl taking a step back in disgust.

Oh, crap! I dig my own grave, didn't I?

"A, anyway! I don't have time for this, sorry but, I gotta go now"

"Wait! Can you at least tell me your name!?" Extending his hand, Abel raised his voice as the girl about to move away.

"Why are..." 'Why are you asking that?' Is what she gonna says, but when she thinks about it, she hasn't thanked the boy yet. Even though the boy in front of her was the worse kind of pervert in the world, it would be still very rude for just leaving him like that. it should be fine at least to telling him a name, so she thought. "En... I, it's Ameli" stumble upon her words, she adverted his eyes as she continues to speak.

Why this girl always stuttering whenever she talks?

"Now we're even, right"

Even what!? He doesn't really remember getting anything from her besides rudeness and name. However he refused to says that, he thought it would pointless to continue this conversation any further. Saying that, Ameli take off to the forest, leaving the respond less Abel.

What.. the heck was that...?

He could not help for feeling disappointed. He's not expecting anything actually, he was just imagining it! Even so, this treatment was beyond his expectation. Watched in loneliness, he saw Ameli runs away hurriedly distancing herself. Gazing firmly at the sky, he takes a long sigh, making a little commitment, he decided to let it go instead. The town he's been waiting for was not far away, there's no reason for getting worked up over this.

"Kyaahh-!!"

As soon he taking a small step, he can hear a very loud scream coming from Ameli way.