Capítulo 13: This is too expensive.
"Um... Thanks," Darius said, taking her hand. She yanked him onto his feet, then took out a small cloth from her pouch around her waist to stop the bleeding.
The wound was only a little deep, and blood was flowing quite a bit. She wrapped a cloth around it, all the while lamenting, "Now I'll have to sew this dress too. It was the only undamaged one. Damn it."
Darius, upon seeing her injury immediately, took out a potion from the system inventory. The shop inventory could only be used once, and that too for system shop-bought items.
He extended his arm, holding the potion, and said, "Drink this. This works better."
Fiona looked at the potion in his hand, astonished to see one. Healing potions were costly, from what she remembered; even the lowest quality ones were sold for quite a bit of money.
She had only purchased a healing potion once in her life. It was before the drought struck the village. At that time, she had just kept it, not daring to use it for herself.
And now, here was Darius, offering her one, and that too for only a small scratch on her arm. To say the least, it was touching, while also thinking that this boy was too naive. "Darius, dear... I don't need this for a small scratch like this. Moreover, this potion is too precious. It is better to save it for critical times."
She explained gently to him while giggling. He must have misunderstood that her wound was too deep and life-threatening.
Well, from the way it bled, it was not surprising. However, instead of listening to her, he insisted.
"No." He said, firmly, "You are bleeding too much. Drink this."
"But--"
"I'm not listening until you drink this." He shook his head, forcefully giving her the potion.
"...This potion costs nothing compared to your life." He grinned sideways, making himself look seductive and hot.
And as he expected, she was touched to the core and wanted to throw herself at him. Patting himself on the back, in his mind. He thought, 'I'm a genius--'
Fiona howled in laughter. Her laughter was like the jingling of bells; beautiful and melodic. However, much it might be tuneful that laugh had managed to irk him.
"What's so funny?" Blankly, he asked. Here he was worrying about her and she was laughing.
"You're..." She guffawed, "You look--"
She again laughed out loud, her finger raising and pointing at his face; which was beginning to morph with annoyance.
After some time, she calmed a little.
"Is it out of your system now?" He said, his eyes blank.
"Yes. Sorry. It's just that," An occasional giggle, "Your face looked really funny, like that of an idiot. You're really funny."
Her words gave him mixed feelings; not knowing whether to be happy that she called him funny or that he looked like an idiot. He decided to ignore her words lest he attract further humiliation, "Now drink the potion."
"Okay." She nodded smiling at the care he showed. Her fingers pulled the cork on the vial and in one go gulped the green liquid.
She felt the pain lessening. The wound closed at a visible rate, shocking her further. She looked at him with wide eyes, exclaiming, "Did you see that!?"
"Yes?" He was confused.
"It healed! The wound healed!" She exclaimed again.
"Of course, it healed." He remained confused, "You just drank a potion."
"But, but this is a Rank: E Healing Potion. They are not supposed to heal a wound so fast." She explained her surprise.
And now it was Darius' turn to be surprised, "What?!"
"Yes, a Rank: E Healing Potion takes five minutes to heal a small wound like mine. But this one healed it in seconds which makes it a higher-rank potion, this is at least a Rank: D or even C potion." She explained the reason for her astonishment.
This was reasonable as she had said, even the lowest ranking potions were sold for a high price. So for him to have a potion of such high rank, he would have to be either a noble or an alchemist.
She ruled out the possibility of him being an alchemist; for the reason was that he was too weak. So, she assumed that he must be a noble or the son of a noble, who left his territory for adventure.
This assumption of hers also explained, why he would waste such a precious potion on her; a commoner. She presumed that he must be a kind noble, unlike the ones she had heard about.
And his actions thus far had only bolstered her presumption.
Poor Darius remained unaware of her thoughts. Nevertheless, this thought process of hers would be the catalyst for the change in her bleak future.
Capítulo 14: Like Mother Like Daughter.
The twilight had settled in when they reached home. Along the path, he had to spend considerable brain power to answer her subsequent questions. The question was such that he had anticipated but had not readied an answer to.
The question was, "Where did you get a Healing Potion from? When I washed your clothes, I didn't find anything in the pockets and you didn't have anything else to store your belongings."
And his improvised answer was, "Um... Yes... You're right." Clearing his throat, he continued, "You see... I have a... magic...?"
"What magic?" a quizzical tilt, trying to make sense of his words.
"A magic called..." He searched in his memories; for anything, then his eyes lit up, "Spatial Magic!"
"Spatial Magic?"
"Yes. This magic allows me to form a small dimension in any item and in that dimension, I can store anything. I call it Inventory." He proudly said, as if he could really do that.
"Wow!" A radiant smile, contagious and illuminating, as if the very essence of joy had found a home on her lips, "That sounds so convenient. What else can you store inside the Inventory? Can you store a house? Is there a limit on how much can be stored? Does the size of the things matter? Are you able to store living beings inside? How much Mana does this magic require? What are the limitations of this magic? I don't know much about magic. So, can a novice like me learn it? Can you teach me?"
He looked at her with mouth opening and closing like a fish, she did not allow him to speak even a word throughout her bombardment of questions.
'Like mother like daughter.' He exhaled, shaking his head.
"No, I can't teach you this magic." He refused, 'Because I also don't know it.'
"Why?~" She whined like Tiara.
"Nope."
Her hands put the pitchers on the ground then clasped his unoccupied hand, eyes watery, she implored meekly, "Please~ teach me."
'Too cute.' She was blindingly adorable. She was so adorable that people would commit crimes for her. And he could not resist her; resistance was futile.
"Find, I'll think about it." He hesitatingly said.
"Yay~" In her exultation, she pulled his head into her breasts. Those large breasts truly felt incredible. The way she smothered him in excitement made the little Darius rise in attention.
Eventually, she composed herself allowing the tomato-red Darius to breathe. He sighed but had also wished for it to last longer.
As they continued on their path, he asked the system, 'Is there any such magic like Spatial magic that can make storage spaces in things like a ring or something?"
[Of course. You can purchase a storage ring in the System Shop after reaching Level 15 or learn Spatial Magic at Level 25 after unlocking the class Astro Mage.]
'What!? This is gonna take too long, System.' He shouted in his mind, 'What am I supposed to do until then? I won't be able to postpone the topic for that long! She'll call me a liar with no integrity.'
[You can also purchase a low-ranked Space Ring. It can only hold 10 items that are half of the user's size.]
'Why did you not tell me this before!?' He thought in irritation.
[It's fun messing with you.]
'Fuck you, System.'
[Fuck you too, Host.]
'Anyways, what's the price?'
[1000 ST.]
'That's expensive!'
[Of course it is.]
'Can you give me a discount?'
[No.]
'Pretty please?'
[No.]
'Fine.' He paused before continuing, 'Tell me how can I earn ST.'
[Completing Quests, conquering women and earning Accolades.]
'How do I earn accolades?'
[By doing something unique.]
'Like?'
[That is for you to find out.]
'Why can't you just tell me, you useless system?'
[You won't grow if I spoon-feed you information. I already gave you hints, now you have to figure it out. I have known other hosts of systems that are much more powerful than me. Those hosts died because they were over reliant on their systems. It was as if their mind had turned off after acquiring a system. Thus, I want you to grow strong without being much reliant on me, just as you had grown strong in your previous life.]
Darius was left speechless for the rest of the journey to Fiona's house. He had been fully engrossed in his thoughts.
.....
"We're home, Tia." Fiona announced. She and Darius placed the pitchers in the kitchen area. This amount of water would last them two days.
"Why are you late?" Tiara asked, cleaning her bow and dagger.
"We found Goblins near the path, after killing them we were attacked by Hell Wolves." Fiona explained, sitting down on the chair. Tiara brought two cups of water for them both, placing them in the table.
From the aroma in the room, she also seemed to have prepared dinner. She joined them on the table, curiously inquiring, "Why would Hell Wolves attack you? That path is really far from their territory."
"Well, it seemed they were looking for their lost cub who was butchered by those Goblins we killed." Fiona took large gulps from the cup, before sighing in relief.
She covered wholly in sweat. Her dress was damp. Darius himself wasn't any different, might have sweated even more than her from the way his clothes stuck to his body.
Darius and Fiona washed their hands while Tiara prepared the table. While they were having dinner, Fiona told Tiara about the bravery of Darius.
And laughed at how he forced her to drink a potion because of small scratch. In his defense, that small scratch bled like a river.
Furthermore, she even told her about his "Spatial Magic."
Tiara's attention remained undiverted throughout the story. She became more and more amazed as she listened more.
Her face completely overtaken by exhilaration, she asked, "You can use magic!?"
Darius had a very bad premonition, "Yes?"
"Teach me!" She almost climbed the table in her excitement.
He exhaled for the third time that day, 'Like mother like daughter.'
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