Chapter 22: Chapter 22-Celyne Is a Little Different Than Usual
I am now near the carriage, I will return to the manor today. Trecia looked at me with a lonely face, while Nola looked at me with a death stare.
'How can they be an older sister and younger sister, they both have completely different traits'
Reynold came up to me and grabbed my shoulder.
"I'm sorry Lute, but I can't drive you back, I still have a lot of work to do, I need to do," Reynold had an apologetic expression.
"It's okay uncle, I know you are very busy,"
I smiled at Reynolds, not long after that Trecia came towards me. She held my hand shyly.
"Lute, I hope you stay safe during the journey,"
"Don't worry Trecia, I'll take good care of myself,"
After letting go of my hand, I turned to look at Nola. Tried to see if she said anything while I was leaving, but instead, she glared at me, it gave me goosebumps.
I didn't linger any longer, straight into the carriage. The carriage moved to escort me back to the manor.
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Arriving at the manor I got off the carriage, as usual, the door opened and Celyne came out there with Silvie. Celyne would jump at me and I would hug her. Silvie looked like she wanted to hug me too but she held it back.
"You like to hug me when I come back, Celyne," I laugh.
"Um, I like hugging Lute, I don't feel like letting go,"
Celyne wrapped her head in my chest, and maybe I feel her sniffing at me a little. I feel a little weird.
During these few days, I prepared my things. Starting from battle equipment, food, cooking utensils, anything related to outdoor survival.
During these few days too, I'll be spending my day with Celyne and Silvie. I now feel like Celyne is trying to get closer to me all the time. This makes me wonder what happened? unable to contain my curiosity, I looked at the status window.
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Name: [Celyne Corne]
Race: [Human]
Gender: [Female]
Age: [9 Years]
Innate Skills: [Magic Painting]
Skills: [Explosive Painting], [Sea Water Push], [Flying Knife Painting]
Love Meter: [105%] (What are you doing now? she is now on her way to, the first step of becoming a yandere!!)
Rank: [E+]
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Looking at the status window that Celyne has, I feel a little scared. The first step towards the yandere? This is a step towards something bad. I just hope, she doesn't become a woman with a desire for exclusivity in relationships.
'How did it end like this? Is it because I massaged her back then?'
I couldn't think of anything else, because since I massaged her that time, Celyne started to have a different attitude than usual. She started trying to get close to me a lot, even sniffing at my smell.
'As I thought, I shouldn't have massaged a child,'
I feel sorry for Celyne for making her like this, but I will take responsibility, for making her like this. Seeing Celyne's abilities makes me a little uncomfortable.
'Knife? Seriously??, would she stab me with a knife, if I hurt her?' I couldn't help but get goosebumps, imagining this.
Unknowingly everything was ready, and now I'm going out of town. For the past few days, Celyne even dared to try to peek at me taking a shower, this made me a little uncomfortable, but since she wanted to see her, I immediately came out of the bathroom and showed her.
"What is it Celyne? Do you want to see me take a shower? if you want, we might be able to take a shower together, "I came out of the bathroom without a towel.
"Th-that, I was just trying to call you, breakfast is ready,"
Celyne said that but occasionally looked at me with a blush on her face. Maybe she will hold this memory deep in her memory, after that she quickly left the room. I just stared at her with wide eyes even after she left.
'Celyne who used to be embarrassed when she saw me like this, now she even dares to turn her head,'
Holding my head with one hand, I was speechless. I left the room and went to the dining room. When I got there, everyone was already there except Braine, it seemed he had other things to do.
After breakfast, I will now depart to go to Robis Town. There are already carriages outside, this carriage will only take me inside Sailos City. After that, I will take another carriage to go to Robis Town.
"Silvie, Celyne I'm leaving now, I hope you guys can take good care of yourself without me," I hugged Celyne, then hugged Silvie.
"Yeah, don't worry about us, you should also take good care of yourself," Silvie spoke.
"I hope you come back soon, Lute,"
Celyne looked at me with a longing expression. I just replied to Celyne with a smile, I myself will try to return as soon as possible.
"Aunt, I am going now, give my regards to uncle," I said to Sina.
"Alright, be careful," Sina smiled.
Getting into the carriage, the carriage headed straight for the city. To get to Robis Town from Sailos City would take about 11 days. it's far enough because it was close to the territory of the human kingdom.
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11 days passed--
I'm now in Robis Town, this town seems to be mostly inhabited by humans. I saw a few Beastments but they were very seedy like they weren't eating enough.
As for something like a bondage necklace, it's a thing that's forbidden in any kingdom. So I don't see any slaves here, although I know that some people violate this and make other races their slaves.
If it's found out by those above, that person will be punished. But I know, the punishment must not be heavy, because this is their own kingdom. They are free to give punishment or not. But mostly no one dares to do that, because afraid of punishment.
Going to the inn, I plan to stay one day before entering the Sorca Forest. In front of me right now, at the reception desk a woman is guarding there, she has brown hair with an ordinary face, neither beautiful nor ugly.
"Can I help you? You look like new here, are you not with your parents?" The woman asked me.
"My name is Lute, I'm new here, and there are no parents to look after me because I live alone,"
"Is that so? I am the daughter of the owner of this inn, my name is Morana," Morana looks a little sad, hearing that a 10-year-old child lives alone.
"I want to stay one day, how many coins are needed to stay one day?" I asked.
"For one day's stay will take 1 Silver Coin, this includes breakfast, and warm water to cleanse the body, if you want other food it will be charged an additional fee," explained Morana.
"I want to stay one day, here's the payment," I gave one Silver Coin to Morana.
"Thank you, this is the key to room number 103 which is upstairs, you can call me if you need anything," Morana smiled.
Morana gave me the key, I took it and went up the stairs to the room above.
Arriving at the door, I opened it. This room looks ordinary for an inn. A table with a place to store things, above it, there is a night lamp.
There's a bed, only enough for one person to sleep on it. I immediately put my bag on the table. Actually, I don't need a bag at all, but if I go with nothing, and took things out of the inventory just like that. That would make people probably suspect I was the son of a rich man for having spatial storage items and trying to rob me.
I don't want to cause much trouble, especially when I just got here. Lying on the bed, it's quite comfortable even though it's not as comfortable as my previous bed.
I will plan tomorrow morning, go straight to the forest. I don't want to delay my time too long, I also don't know the exact location of the ruins I mean. Because in the game only a rough location is explained.
If I can't find it, at all during this time. That must have been a waste of my time. Getting out of bed, I took out the chains I'd been training for so long.
I can only make this chain move for 20 seconds now, and I can only take out one chain. I hope that in the future I will be able to make many chains.
Practice again with the chain until my mana runs out, my head is getting dizzy from running out of mana. I sleep on the bed, waiting for my mana to replenish and continue my training.
[A/N: Author
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Chapter 23: Chapter 23-Becoming Strong Gradually
Now I'm right in front of the Sorca forest. This forest looks so big, I can't even see the end, the trees look big, the grass is lush, the sounds of animals that sound unpleasant. No wonder not many people want to enter the forest. At this point, the atmosphere from the outside was already giving off an intimidating aura.
"Huft.... haah...."
Eliminating the tension I had I entered the forest. Just a few minutes after I entered, I was immediately attacked by a black bear.
I jumped up the tree to dodge and looked down where the bear was, but suddenly on top of the tree, a green snake was moving towards me.
Since this place was dangerous I didn't linger here any longer and moved to find a place to take refuge from wild animals, such as a cave.
After finding the cave, I tried to enter it, and it turned out to be a nest of a giant spider.
'What's with this forest? Wherever it is, there are always monsters,'
Since I couldn't take it anymore, plus I needed a place to shelter, I was going to kill this giant spider.
The spider noticed my presence in its nest and made an incomprehensible sound towards me. Holding the dagger in my hand, I attacked the spider.
The spider got angry and shot its web at me. I dodged it easily. A fierce battle ensued, and I ended up winning it without any problems.
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1 year passed.
I'm currently sneaking in the forest. During this 1 year, I learned a lot about how to survive in the forest.
There are times when I will have trouble finding food, especially when winter comes. it was one of my worst memories. The cold in the cave, when I started the bonfire, the fire would suddenly go out at night, without realizing it the next day I was already very cold.
Luckily I have a System, I can see various foodstuffs without fear of poisoning. If I can't see the status of the groceries, I'm probably dead from poisoning.
During this time I also started to learn to cook properly, the first time I cooked food, it was really bad.It tasted terrible, so I felt like throwing up, since then I started to learn how to cook properly.
But the strange thing is that during this 1 year I didn't find any traces of the ruins at all, so I just wandered in the forest inexplicably.
And right now I'm focusing my eyes on the wolf's den in front. The last few days the wolves have been attacking me a lot which irritates me because I can't take it anymore, I came here to attack the wolf's den.
My fighting ability improved greatly, I can now make two chains and can last for 5 minutes. Even if it's only five minutes this is a good thing.
I'm currently tying my dagger with a chain, this will probably look like a weapon in a video game, with the main character named Scorpion.
Jumping straight into the crowd of wolves, I swung the chain tied with my dagger, and slashed at all the wolves in front of me, the other wolves saw this angry and many more wolves came out of their dens.
[+500 Battle Point]
[+500 Battle Point]
[+500 Battle Point]
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Slashing my chains in various directions, all the wolves died in just two minutes, finally, the leader of the wolves came. It was a two-meter wolf with horns on its head. It growled at me angrily, saw all his wolf pack dead.
The wolf attacked me with very fast movements, leaving me stunned. I dodged all of its attacks with great difficulty. One of its attacks hit my chest.
"Kuh.."
I hissed in pain, the wolf saw an opportunity, tried to attack me again, this time it let out a black magic ball from its mouth.
I dodged jumping up, tying the wolf's neck with chains, I pulled myself straight at the wolf and stabbed it with a dagger in its head, making the wolf scream in pain.
Seeing that he wasn't dead and still struggling I stabbed him repeatedly, after a few stabs the wolf finally stopped moving. I breathed a sigh of relief seeing this.
[+3,000 Battle Points]
I went back into the cave to rest afterwards.
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A few days later inside Robis Town.
Several people in town were discussing something inside an inn.
"What did you say?? You saw the Horned Wolf's Lair, all wiped out??" A brown-haired man said in surprise.
"That's right, I saw it with my own eyes, the wolf's lair was destroyed, even the corpse of the wolf torn apart was terrible." A black-haired man said in fear.
"W-what happened in the forest? Are there monsters running amok??"
"You ask me, I don't know myself either, the Sorca Forest is a dangerous place, many things can happen,"
I didn't know that what I did just now caused an uproar within the town.
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--PoV Silvie--
Three years since Lute's departure, I've been training to get stronger. I've learned a lot of magic, but I'm still not satisfied, especially after seeing Celyne's abilities.
Her ability is very strong she can draw anything and make it real, it makes me jealous because she has a very strong innate skill. Meanwhile, all I can do is make ice and fire.
I'm currently resting with Celyne in a park. Sitting on a chair with a table in front of us, on the table, there are sweets and cakes. I'm sipping tea leisurely. Celyne is also happily eating the sweets and cakes in front of her.
'Aah.. I'm bored, Lute when are you coming back,'
Thinking of Lute who smiles, sometimes teases me, and even has a stupid face. Unknowingly the corners of my lips lift.
Celyne saw me suddenly smile, looking curious.
"Silvie what are you thinking?"
"Nothing, I was just thinking about Lute," I replied smiling.
"You're thinking about Lute? I miss him a lot too."
After talking about Lute, Celyne's face lit up, I might even be able to see the heart symbol in her eyes. I feel a little weird seeing this.
'Lute, what have you done to Celyne??'
I'm starting to wonder, since Lute's departure, Celyne is acting weirder and weirder, when talking about Lute, she's like a fanatic who talks about the man she loves. It makes me uncomfortable because I love Lute too.
'Haahh... Lute I hope you come back soon, Celyne is acting weirder every day,'
Thinking of Lute's stupid face, I started to think 'does he even understand?'
Rather than thinking this, I started to look to Celyne to ask something.
"Celyne, since when have you been able to use your innate skills?"
"Hmm? I can use it after I learn to paint, it just happens," Celyne replied with an innocent expression.
"Hah? Isn't that too easy?" I looked at her with an expression of disbelief.
"I don't know either, because that's all I do," Celyne shrugged.
Judging from Celyne's words, it doesn't seem like she's lying. I'm also curious if I have an innate skill.
After the break, Celyne and I returned to the practice room. There was nothing special about this training room. It was white in color with walls made of a material that could withstand attacks to a certain extent.
I started to think about what to do now.
'Since I have fire and ice magic, why don't I just try to combine them,'
I started thinking about this after hearing Celyne's explanation earlier. Because it's possible that innate skills will be unlocked when doing simple things, like Celyne who can use them after she learns to paint.
Casting fire magic in the right hand and magic with ice aura in the left, I tried to combine them. Suddenly I felt a new insight open and flooded my head. I got information about combining these two elements together.
This surprised me, in my hand, there is now a small light blue flame. Even though it looks weak, I can feel how strong it is.
"Celyne, I-I got an innate skill,"
I turned to Celyne happily. Celyne heard me also surprised and came towards me.
"You really did it? congratulations Silvie I didn't expect you to have an innate skill too."
Celyne looks happy when I get the innate skill, she also seems to be worried about me, seeing that I'm depressed from day to day.
'Lute, this way I will step up to be a woman who suits you'
I feel very happy now.
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--PoV Lute—
"Achoo..."
I felt shivers and sneezed unintentionally. Right now I was being chased by a lot of monsters. I jumped from tree to tree, trying to escape.
But the problem is, now more and more monsters are chasing me. And suddenly I sneeze when I'm about to run away, because of a sneeze that suddenly my vision darkens and hits a tree so I fall to the ground.
'W-what? is anyone talking about me,'
I looked around trying to find out, but all I saw now all around me were monsters.
"Oh shit, looks like I have to fight them all,"
The battle took place in the fierce forest, making terrible noises. A group of people heard the screams of the monsters, were horrified. They fled quickly back to the town to tell what they had heard earlier.
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[A/N: Author
I want to ask, is the time skip too fast or not?
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