Alex decided to wait until Vincent went back to his house. It has been more than half an hour and Vincent has not showed up.
“Alex, should we look around and ask people about Vincent?” Stella requested her idea. She looked bored of waiting.“Let’s just wait for some more minutes.” Alex suggested.“Alright, then.” Stella nodded.Saliery sang a song about a person waiting for beloved one. Saliery’s song made the situation felt comfortable. The tones of the music instrument blended with Saliery’s voices were perfect. The deep meaning of the song also made Alex remember about Remina.Alex began to drowned in his mind. He remembered well how in the past life he left his wife and his child. He got a duty to attend a meeting with other kingdom. He stayed for some days in that kingdom while waiting for the time until he could return to his kingdom again. The feeling of missing someone dear to him, it was so sad. Alex missed the time he could sha“Hey! What is happening?” Alex asked a random person close to him.“It is that crazy guy again being beaten up by the thugs,” answered the young man next to Alex.From distance Alex could only see that it was really Vincent being beaten up by four thugs. In Alex’s previous life, the appearance of Vincent was older than now. However one thing that became Vincent’s main characteristic was his shaved right eyebrows. Vincent got his eyebrows shaved when he was still a little kid and got bullied by his friends.“Aren’t you guys helping him? Why are you only watching?” Alex looked irritated because no one tried to help the poor Vincent.“Well, the thugs were not doing something wrong I guess. It was that crazy guy who provoked them first.” The young man explained the root of the problem.Alex was surprised to know the truth about Vincent who started the fight. Well, Vincent was really crazy most of the time and Alex should have understand that.
After helping the villagers to clean up the mess done by Vincent, Alex said his apology to the villagers. The villagers were very grateful because Alex and his friends would help them. Learning that Alex was a hero the villagers started bombing Alex with many questions. Alex could not help but to give his answers for each questions. After having such an intense interview, the villagers gave Alex and his friends some food as a token of their gratitude.“Sir Hero Alex, you should not go near that crazy guy. You know it yourself how rude he is!”One villager gave his advice to Alex. He gave a bag of apples.“Thank you, sir!” Alex accepted the offer. “Well, yeah I will be careful.” Alex smiled.“So, what are we gonna do now?” Stella asked Alex. She fed Mephisto with some raw fishes.“I’m tired. I think we should find an inn to take a rest for now.” Alex answered looking tired. Many things have happened in a short time starting from fighting, chasing, c
At first there was no respond from the inside but, after waiting for about a minute, the door slowly chuckled and opened.Vincent peeked from the half-open door trying to scan his guests.“Good evening, sir! We want to buy your artifacts.” Alex greeted Vincent and he wanted to make an excuse to buy something.Vincent quickly opened the door wide with his face full of enthusiasm. He looked so happy because he got customers.“You really want to buy?” Vincent looked doubtful. As he started to examine again the appearance of Alex, he began to remember. “Oh, wait! You are the hero who chased me, right!?” All of a sudden Vincent looked scared.“Ah well, as you can see. I want to have a business with you actually.” Alex slowly tried to move inside while holding the door. Alex knew that Vincent would spontaneously slammed the door as soon as he realized who the person he was facing right now.Vincent who was still scared tried to close t
Alex and his friends eventually went back to the inn. They bought artifacts from Vincent that allow them communicate when they were away from each others. Vincent named the artifact, the Vint Mirror. Alex brought three mirrors in different frame colors. Green color for Stella, Yellow color for Saliery, and blue color for Alex.They wanted to test the mirrors but it was already this late at night. So, they decided to call it a day. They took a peaceful sleep.When morning came, Alex and his friend woke up and had breakfast first. After having breakfast, they started to discuss about how to use the Vint Mirrors.“Basically the button behind is the switch to turn on the device.” Alex pressed the button. The mirror started to shine with blurry image on the glass. Alex could feel that his mana is being absorbed very slowly.“Let me try.” Stella pressed the button too. The device emitted a dim light and blurry image on the glass. “Wow, I could feel my m
On the other side in Vincent’s house, Vincent looked busy fixing his gun artifact. He liked the idea Alex given him before about upgrading the reload time of the bullets. In order to do that, Vincent already got an idea to add more bars for the bullets. He needed to make his artifact bigger too. In addition, he wanted to upgrade the maximum capacity of the capsule. This way could be useful to store more mana. He used the remaining jade crystals he had.Jade crystal was kind of a mineral stone that could absorb mana from surrounding. It also got the ability to trap the mana in it. Jade crystal was quite a rare stone.Vincent tried his best to upgrade his new gun artifact. He was so eager to do it. Since no one has never gave him critics before, he did purely only due to his mood and intention. Now that Alex has given him challenger, it was the time for him to worth himself.Hours by hours has passed. He began to get more serious. As he got more serious he s
Alex together with his team and Vincent enjoyed their meal time. Before going out for a new mission, Alex did not forget to request Vincent to do something.“By the way, Vin. I realized that your Vint mirrors are very useful.” Alex praised.“Hehehe. Really? I’m glad!” Vincent looked satisfied.“Since we are going to have an important business currently. I would like you to use the mirror to so we can share information when we are not around. What do you say?” Alex requested his idea. This way could be better in case something happened.“Hoo, I see. Alright then. I am going to take the red one.” Vincent agreed to Alex’s idea.“Thanks, Vin!” Alex thanked.After having some delicious meals, Alex and his team excused themselves.Alex and his team went to the forest near the village just like what Vincent told them. In that forest they might find the necessary items to create the artifact requested by Alex, the jade crystal.
As soon as Saliery and Stella arrived in the inn, both of them take rest. Saliery enjoyed his time by sitting on a bench outside the inn. He began to humming with soothing voice. Mephisto joined Saliery while listening to him. For Stella, she took a nap inside the inn.“Mephy, what do you think about your mother?” Saliery asked.Mephisto could not really understand what Saliery was trying to say. Mephy could only look at him dumbfounded.“You know, I have been keeping up this feeling until now. But I don’t want to make it bloom yet. I need to be a worthy man first. Just like the Hero Alex.” Saliery started to daydream about something. He wished that one day when the time has come, he could show his worthy side so that Stella could really fall for him.CAWCAW! Mephisto seemed like it supported Saliery.“Thanks, child! Let’s do our best to protect her!” Saliery looked optimistic.Some hours have passed and Stella woke up feeling a
Since Alex and his friends were still near the market area, they bought some more food. They added more kind of food to their shopping list and began to walk around to buy various kind of food. Alex bought a lot until some of the shops were about to run out their stocks. Some of the food sellers looked so happy because their products were about to sold out soon and they could get lots of money. However, there were also some sellers who thought differently.“Excuse me, sir Hero. Please pardon my rudeness.” One of the seller approached Alex. It seemed like he got something bothering in his mind.“Yes, sir. What can I help you?” Alex stopped his shopping tour.“I’m sorry I overheard your conversation before with your bard friend and elf girl. Are you really planning to give all of those food to that crazy guy?” The seller looked dissatisfied.“Well, yeah. Is there something wrong?” Alex frowned.“Hmm. Sir Hero, I don’t want to stop you doing anything you want but to give excessive care t