OldBegginings:[Howdy. Now, you may not have heard, but I have a new series. It's a story called 'High school life in a world where everyone has superpowers' . Now, I know what your probably thinking, 'what's that title meant to mean?' Right? Well, I don't really see a reason to bore you with the extremely convoluted plot in this chapter, so if you're interested, please try reading it. You never know, you may like it or not. I know personal preferences are a thing, I just felt a shameless plug would be fun. 

Now I should state, this series is a higher priority to the new series, so don't worry about my schedule for this getting screwed up for it, I want to update it every monday, but may release more chapters this week, since I have the first four almost done at this point. But at a point where I have to decide to work on this or Myth of Men, I'll be doing this series over that one.

Anyway, check it out if you want to, if you don't, here's a new chapter of Myth of Men. Thanks for reading and enjoy either or, better yet, both.]

*Nio*

LOD, Jeehan and I all met up at a cafe. Doki was apparently still in his room, according to LOD this is. This was our last meet up before we split up, it was to have breakfast and discuss things.

The meal lasted for about half an hour, ending with our goodbyes to LOD, and the absent Doki, we left. At about eleven Me and Jeehan stepped into a carriage, we purchased a ride to Skimmington, not wanting to walk, and took a relaxing ride out of the town.

The same path we had painstakingly walked down before was gone in a blur, the scenery outside was awe inspiring, fields and forests stretching for miles all around us. Whilst before, this path had seemed treacherous and plain annoying, it now had a melancholic serenity to it.

Encapsulated by the scene, both of us were in silence. Nature surely was a magnificent beauty, and without the bashful LOD and the apathetic Doki, me and Jeehan could now view such sights in peace.

Eventually an ice-breaker came from Jeehan, "so, want to talk about things? This trip will last about an hour, and with all that just happened, it's a good chance to unwind ourselves. Now, I expect we'll be talking about our recent actions alot at home, so I feel a more casual conversation would be better for now."

"Why not? Well then, who should go first?" I answered relatively preoccupied glaring out of the window.

A relatively eager Jeehan responded with a question of his own almost instantly, "If you don't mind, I was wondering what this world's like to you so far?"

"Well it's true I've only been here for, about a week? Well I think it's been a week. I don't really know how to sum up my feelings though. The best I've got is that this world is more peaceful than my own." My reply was delayed, since I had put alot of though into such a lack-luster answer.

Jeehan tilted his head. "Peaceful? Did you regularly join others to fight massive monsters in your previous world?"

It appears some explanation is in order, "I mean in the social aspect. In my world, parents force their ideologies, religion and name onto their offspring. Some parents more than others, in fact mine were really pressuring. Any freedom I had was very limited, the people I talked to were all of similar mind too. So I felt compelled to keep up a farce of believing them." I took a deep breath before continuing, "here though, I feel much more free. Especially with the group of people we have so far, I feel I can disagree and argue with people, which would be a death sentence in my old world."

Jeehan watched me with sparks of inspiration in his eyes, when I finished he appeared to be in a trance.

Trying to get him out of it, I prompted his response "So what about you? How's the adventurer's life style with us like?"

"It's fun!" blurted from Jeehan quickly in response. 

He paused, probably thinking about why before continuing, "Well, I just haven't had a boring time I guess. The combat, although anti-climactic due to Doki, was still fun to be apart of and even when we're relaxing, we're in an unknown area I've never seen before which makes it still interesting. I mean, we've only just received our IDs, but even that was an adventure in of it's self..."

Jeehan dazed for a while, probably thinking back to the little time we spent like it went on forever. It lead to me doing it with him whilst looking out of the window. The trees became blurs as I payed less and less attention to sight, absorbing myself in thought.

It felt like the last week was a month to me. Being forced out of my old life which was the epitome of grey into this vibrant, unknown game world. Meeting Jeehan, LOD and Doki, going into the dungeon, slaying the boss. This one week had way more highlights in than my old life had in it's total... Although that wasn't that big of a deal in this world, pain both physically and mentally would still follow. 

Thinking back to each day of the last week, the corners of my mouth continuing to curl. This lasted for minutes, until I came to the end of my summation, and looked to the vast forest forgetting my dull old world.

-

After about thirty minutes Jeehan was finally done recapping too, proceeding to re-spark the now dead conversation once again, "So, what do you think the others are doing right now?"

I thought about his question, and realized I didn't really have an answer. LOD was probably following Doki's call, but for Doki's...

I shook my head in frustration before giving a resigned answer, "LOD's probably following Doki, or hitting on girls. But I have no idea about Doki..."

I paused, contemplating him once more. In my view Doki was an apathetic jack-ass who had a variety of plans in his head, juggling the abilities of his comrades, others and knowing what each plan needed for them to be a success. I saw his research being him start future plans, but for which, none came to mind... Damn! I feel like I should know him better than this.

Eventually I looked back to Jeehan who seemed to be waiting for me to continue, I gave up again, asking Jeehan for his input. "I believe he's planning on what to do next, hence the research, but what for I have no idea... What about you? Any ideas?"

After a similar amount of time I pondered for, Jeehan responded "I have no idea. But I think it's going to be crazy and/ or fun. For him to grab more than the 30 books already, and for them to be history books, it seems like something big is in the works. If nothing else it'll not be a dull plan." I nodded, understanding and believing what he said.

By now we started to see the farms we had left, Simpson was about 10 minutes away. 

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I thought it would be fun to use this time talking about pointless things, and asked "By the way, Jeehan. If you could sum up our groups personalities by mobs, which would you use?" 

I felt this was a random enough question to make Jeehan think, his answers would either be entertainingly comical, or interesting.

The curve-ball made Jeehan pause for a second, and after repeating the question he soon understood and answered after a bit more thought.

"Well, I don't know about myself, maybe a goblin? Useless by myself, but with a good group I can make my way. You would probably be a um... a bandit maybe? You have your own ethics disregarding those who you grew up with, and given no resilience would be a pain in the neck for those wanting to live a different way to yours."He put a hand over his mouth, with his eyes almost tearing. He was laughing... I decided to make his just as ludicrous. 

Thinking about it, I'd actually agree with a bandit, but the reason is way off!

Still laughing, he fakes apologies then continued. "For LOD, probably a... What was it again, a 'sob-goblin'? More confident with others around him, but still strong compared to those his level alone. And for Doki, probably a 'mimic'. As long as you don't get in his way, or too close for comfort, he'll ignore your existence, otherwise he'll bite your face off without a second doubt."

"Reasonable choices... I disagree with mine though," I replied bitterly. I continued to add my own opinion to his own, "also, I was thinking a bat for LOD, since he avoids confrontation until he feels his position is good, hiding in the background until the time comes. But yeah, I'd agree with your choices for yourself and Doki, your as harmless as a goblin anyway."

The person controlling the carriage interrupted, asking for where we wanted to be dropped off. Now on the outskirts of the town, only a few farm houses and fields of crops were visible at this point. We asked to be dropped off there, asking to be picked up tomorrow at a similar time. As the carriage went off, we started the trek to Jeehan's home.

-

It was about one pm, the scorching heat getting countered by the strong winds, Jeehan and I continued on foot to the Jeehan residence, continuing our little conversation.

Jeehan started off where we had left off, asking me "So, what would you consider yourself then?" 

"To be honest, I'm not sure... I probably agree with your bandit idea, it's just the reason makes me feel like a dick," I answered casually.

We walked for ten minutes or so, bringing up small snippets of conversation as we walked. Eventually we got to the familiar mansion of a house Jeehan called home, Thorborg was outside. Noticing us, she beaconed us to go to her.

She slapped Jeehan, then gave a rather deathly glare in my direction, tears forming in her eyes.

"That's for making me worried sick, I heard from Adam that you went to Skimmington. Didn't Hiiro say there was a battle going on there? I feared that you'd die or get seriously hurt..." she explained, tears now gushing down her face as a smile emerged. Considering her brother just went away without so much as a goodbye, going to a potential war-zone for the sole reason of getting an ID, her reaction didn't surprise me.

"Sorry... I forgot you weren't there when we said our fair wells." He hugged her as she cried.

I stood with relative jealousy, my family were never this close...

-

I eventually left them be, going inside to tell whoever was in that we were back. I met an Alice, who seemed to be a mixture of annoyed and grateful that we had returned. She probably managed to hear of our deeds through her clan or something.

"You guys seemed to have fun... Wait, where are the others?" Alice initially spoke in spite, but noticing I was the only one, this turned into confusion.

I took the liberty of explaining upon myself, "the carriage only had two seats, since Doki wanted to read a couple hundred books anyway, we felt like we should split to meet up later. They express their condolences. Only me and Jeehan are here, Jeehan's currently making up with Thorborg. By the way, you heard about our actions?"

"How could I not? Your actions are buzzing across the entirety of Forth Island at this point. With the fight that happened, and the idol like Doki grabbing the girl's attention, it's not hard to see why." She explained with relative annoyance. Wait, what was that about Doki?

I tilted my head in response, "What about Doki, are you sure you don't mean LOD?"

She returned an equally confused look, and replied "No, I mean the cutie in the healer robes, Doki. Have you not noticed the girls squealing around him?" 

"If it's not clear enough, the answer to that's no. I'd assume such squealing was about the flirtatious LOD instead, Doki is relatively cute, but idol levels? I have my doubts," I said in explanation to my initial confusion.

At this point Jeehan and Thorborg had joined us, the latter joining in the conversation.

"Wait, they were talking about you four!?" she screeched shocked, turning around and slapping Jeehan again. "You guys did something that reckless!?"

"Okay, okay. Calm down little sis." She got up to pat her on the head, and explained to her. "It seems like they planned it out pretty well, my sources state they didn't even get hit in the fight."

Reassured, the fumes coming out of Thorborg ceased.

"So wait, does this mean Skimmington is open again?" Sparkles appeared covering her aura, "Yay, I can go to get my ID certified too."

Jeehan was surprised at the words coming out of his sisters words, bombarding her with questions. "Wait, what? You have an ID?"

With Alice proudly petting her head harder, she flinched before replying, "Yeah! I finally got over 10k with all my jobs, and brought one yesterday from Alice's guild."

Alice added, still petting her sister, "She was a very diligent, good girl. I'm proud to see her hard work finally pay off." She finally let Thorborg go, sighing in awe of her little sister. "I was about fifteen when I finally got one, to see you get yours at thirteen makes me so proud." Attempting to hug her sister she leaped towards her. She ended up missing and became a little bit depressed with tears in her eyes.

"Well congratulations. But how will you get to Skimmington to certify it?" I asked confused. She could use a carriage like we did, but I don't think there are any here. She could risk walking it, but I feel like Alice would never let her do that, so that left...

"Actually, we wanted to ask you guys to escort her." Alice got up by herself, replying before I could finish my thought.