"So where are you going now?" Mira asked, placing another plate of her delicious food on the table.

"Well.. I shink.. itsh time.. Phor My firsht Mission.." I couldn’t get the words out clearly since my face was currently stuffed.

After a lengthy discussion with the three girls, well, it wasn’t much of a discussion, more like me trying to explain something I thought was clear enough to people who were adamant about refusing to believe their eyes and ears.

We’d made our way to the living room, well, me and Mira, since I was currently starving and I’d requested her to help me out..

"Don’t talk while eating, that’s disgusting." Khalifa stepped out in a loose fitting shirt.

"Is that mine?" I paused, looking at her strangely..

"Don’t.. don’t get any funny ideas, I just felt like trying it on cause it looked good.." she stuttered..

I just stared, my expression blank..

"Hey! Don’t give me that look, you bastard!" She snapped after noticing the looks she was getting from both myself and Mira.

"I don’t think I have enough shirts for all of you in this house." I sighed, as my gaze turned towards Kaila, who was currently splaying herself on the sofa, another one of my shirts having been confiscated..

"Hehehe.. don’t be stingy, you should be glad pretty women like us want to wear your stuff." Kaila’s teasing voice came from the living room.

"Haaa... forget it. You ladies are a lost cause, at least Mira’s still normal." I sighed, going back to my eating..

"Heh. Of course she is, you don’t want her "future partner" thinking she’s unfaithful right?" Kaila snickered.

"HEY!! I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again, I’m just testing the waters!" Mira stomped her foot angrily..

"Yea!" I echoed, her expression turning grateful, but before she could express that, "I mean, she’s already living with another man, that’s totally not suspicious at all, I’m sure Darius will be plenty glad to find out someone’s taking care of her." I nodded in satisfaction..

Crash!!!

A plate of food connected unceremoniously with my face.

"Haa.. try to defend a woman’s honor, and this is the thanks I get, I miss Melissa, she’s so nice to me.." I sighed in mock sadness..

"Pft.." Khalifa snickered, trying to hold back her laughter..

"Man... you know you’re very shameless right?"

"Me? That’s weird coming from an elf that detests wearing clothes and gets off of plundering people’s wardrobes."

Her smile immediately turned into a scowl..

"Really? You couldn’t let her have this one?" Mira.

"What? I’m right am I not?"

"YOU BASTARD!!!!!"

"Well, time to bail out, see you guys later." I blinked out of there immediately, Instant pulled Transmission doing its job, meanwhile,

"DANTEEEEEE!!!!!!!" A furious Khalifa was having murderous desires..

....

"Now where should I start?" I had appeared right in the middle of the outer court plaza, ready to begin my quest for adventure...

"Alright, the mission hall it is." I decided swiftly, pulling out my card and activating the map feature.

It has come to my understanding that I’m apparently really bad with directions, good thing this map came with an arrow pointer, or who knows where I’d end up..

"HI THERE!!!"

"GAHHH!!! What the.... Motherfucker!!! Why are you everywhere???" I screamed in frustration, annoyance coloring my features as I stared daggers at the intruder that had just made me jump like a freaked out little girl..

"Hey, hey, hey.. why do you look like you’re about to kill someone?" Malachi chuckled nervously as he backed up slowly.

"Because I’m waiting to hear your response, and if it’s not satisfactory, then I might just live up to that thought of yours."

"Gulp~ you don’t mean that, my friend.."

"Try me."

Before I could snap any further..

"Hahahaha... a little bitch from some puny eastern domain of the human continent dares tell me no?" The sounds of a commotion reached our ears..

"Hmm? What’s going on over there?" The monkey flashed to my side as he cranked his neck over.

"I don’t care, I’m leaving." I turned to leave, but before I could take a few steps.

"I might not hold the same status here as I did back home, but a swordsman’s pride is something that will not be tarnished, no matter the vast gap in strength!" I stopped..

"That voice.." it sounded familiar, but where I could’ve heard it, I couldn’t recall..

"Oho? Is that so? Then let me perhaps, remind you of exactly where it is you are!" Following the obnoxiously loud voice, an explosion went off, followed by the sounds of bones breaking and a body slamming into something..

"Pheeewww~, that girl got launched like a missile!" The monkey exclaimed, not really making any moves to get involved.

What? You thought we’d be rushing to save someone from being bullied? They’d already made it clear, the weak deserve to be bullied, who was I to stop such a tradition?

"MICHELL!!" Was what I thought until the call from the person’s friends reached me..

"Michell?" Why did that name sound familiar?

"Wait a minute?" I turned to the monkey, "did that lady just call herself a swordsman just now?"

"Hmm? Yea? I think so? Also, did you know she’s from the same eastern region as you and that violent mate of yours? I honestly thought the place would be chuck full of freaks like you, but seems I was wrong." The monkey sighed in disappointment, but I’d tuned out almost everything else, locking onto the words, "eastern region" and "swordsman".

Didn’t I meet a swordsman with the exact same name during the trials? The one that refused to retreat despite all her instincts telling her too?

The one that I’d gotten the [Unique]<Sword Intent> from?

I looked over properly, eyes finding the unconscious figure, "it really is her." Who would’ve thought? Finding someone I was acquainted with, and this time not in a bad light..

"Alright then, let me be a hero for once." I muttered under my breath as I watched the brawny youth that had sent her flying walk ominously towards her..

"Heh. Tell me, swordsman, how’s that pride working out for you?" The youth sneered as he lifted her limp form off the ground, hands gripping her neck tightly..

"I could cripple you, right here, right now, and nobody would dare say a thing!" The youth smiled..

CRACK!!

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" A wailing screech, not unlike those of a banshee resounded as the youths outstretched arm had all its bones shattered the moment I’d exerted a bit of strength, my figure manifesting like a phantom..

"Sorry, but, I’ll have to disagree with you on that one."

I stepped towards the unconscious girl, a green glow covering my arm, "consider this me being appreciative of weird things.. hehe" I laughed quietly, remembering our last conversation, before standing up, giving the youth with his shattered arm an expressionless look..

"I’ll say it once, and only because this is starting to look a bit cliché."

"LEAVE or SUFFER"

"Your choice!"

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A/N: this bastard was really ready to just ignore a lady getting beat up? Talk about heartless, then again, he’d turned a lady into a bracelet before, so I guess it pans out..

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Last for today, see you tomorrow!

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