“Are there any good weapons or equipment here for this woman to use?” Gladio asked in his usual cold tone.That man saw Alice's face, a beautiful face that would indeed make hearts tremble.“I don't know if she is a magic caster or a warrior, all kinds of weapons depend on the person who uses them!”"How?" Gladio set his sights on Alice.Alice became confused to answer this remark. “I thought I would be pretty good at wielding a sword…”“Swords? Okay, please wait a few minutes!” He went to get some swords.In that room even though there are swords or weapons on display, but if it's like this they can't do anything.While waiting, Alice approached a display of armor and weapons.“Can I use a weapon? I'm not a fighter, but…” She looked behind her, Gladio was there watching her with her arms crossed. “Master definitely doesn't want to accept people who can only be troublesome, I have to believe! Here I have a goal to complete! If I just complain then I won't be able to get better! In a l
They continued to practice until Alice became familiar with every move Gladio used.However, this is still too heavy for her, every day her body has to feel the pain of the blow from the branch that Gladio used to train Alice.Even though Gladio's opponent was a woman, he never gave Alice an opportunity that could be used as an excuse that she was a woman.For Gladio, whatever is in front of him is the same, if the opponent is a woman, he will not hesitate to kill."Pants! Pant! What a tiring day,” were all Alice could utter, her breath drifting fast.“It's too early for you to talk like this! Remember that this practice is a process for you to get better, if you keep complaining you are just tired of practicing, I think that you should continue to learn to understand it!”"Okay, okay! Neh... can you tell me, how can you become strong like this?”“Why do you ask something like that?”"I see that you are never tense in life, I wonder if you still have fear or not?"“Of course I have so
Alice smiled widely with the river flowing so calmly.“The view of the water inside is great....”Gladio's face was still flat, he was able to see the bottom of the water so clearly. “Not bad, how long have I not felt like this? Hmm… maybe I'm being too rigid in responding to something like this!”Alice took the water on the palm of her hand, she slowly drank the water. The thirst inside her body has disappeared.“I feel like I have come back to life!”“Too much of an exaggeration!”Alice turned to Gladio. "Why not? Was what I said a mistake for Master to say so?”“No, I just feel like what you're saying is a bit of an exaggeration, in this life we can't predict what will happen! A lot of things can happen even if it seems painful, and you definitely understand that!”Her eye brows are tapered. "Yeah, I already understand that pain is something that is mandatory and can't be stopped!"Next, these two people started a little activity to eat together. Normally Gladio would catch fish
"Master, if you knew you would die today, what would you do?"“Again you give horrible sounding words! Do I have to answer those words?”"That's up to you, here I'm not forcing you!"Gladio held his chin. “If I died today… maybe doing the best thing was something I could do, and I wouldn't think that what I did today was a mistake!”Alice was silent while gazing at the stars. "I always felt like dying before, this life is really so difficult that it causes the spirit in my heart to just die!"This thought was just what Gladio wanted, he had no right to comment on this.The next day....They both returned to make a fairly long journey."How far are we actually going?" Alice asked, beads of sweat on her face popping up profusely."Don't complain too much, we'll soon be at the location point!"Gladio's words can be proven, from the top of the hill they have seen a solid building which is believed to be the location of what they are trying to visit.“Almost there!” Alice said, seeing the
Gladio and Alice spent the night in a deserted forest, the quest they did was unexpectedly taking such a long time, they had to wait until morning came."As usual, tonight it's always cold air!"“That's natural, the cold air is something that characterizes the darkness of the night! You shouldn't have a problem with this!"“T-That's right, I might be overthinking this! So what will we do if we meet the monster that will be the target of this quest?”“The possibility of skinning that monster is a good thing!”Alice got goosebumps hearing that. “M-Master, don't tell me that you…”"I'm serious!""I thought you would say that!""Why? Don't you like this?"Unable to answer Alice, her face just looked down languidly.“I understand that you will feel that what I am doing might be an outrageous act, but this is the way to survive any problems that come your way! You won't be able to survive if you only rely on other people!”“I see, it's just that this feels unacceptable to me! As an Elf who
For the first time Gladio saw Alice put on a more serious attitude, this was completely different from what usually happened."If you've made up your mind, then I have no right to stop you from acting!""Thank you very much! I will kill them with all my might!” She didn't know how to act anymore, there was only faith ingrained in her body that wanted to keep telling her that now was the time for her to do something she had never done before.They saw Alice as a weak girl who wouldn't be able to do anything, smooth white skin with a cute face couldn't be trusted to be able to put up a terrible fight."Don't push yourself, you better accept what I said earlier! You will have a comfortable life without any violence!”Alice stepped up and said, “What do you call a comfortable life? All I hear is nonsense that seems to say that life is very easy to live, and you only want to use other people for personal gain!” Her body put on a standby position. "I'd be happier to see your tongue cut off
“Give up!” said Gladio which added to Alice's sad mood.“W-What are you talking about?” Alice's eyes were glaring at Gladio.Meanwhile, Gladio also gave a serious look. “I think that you must have understood that this journey that we are going on will definitely be full of obstacles, and one of them is defeating the attitude in this body, you must be able to defeat the softness that always gets in the way! There's no way you'd think that the life you're living will find ease! You should have known that this trip was full of risks from the start! It's impossible if you find something soothing! Remember that what will happen in your life is nothing more than suffering and horror than what is about to happen!”Alice was silent hearing these words, she had just remembered what had happened. And Gladio wasn't wrong.Everything that happened had been warned by Gladio so she had to take her attitude seriously.“You've killed someone else, in other words your hands are stained! You can choose
“I am like a cloud that has no clear destination!” Alice's hand was still tightly gripping the fruit in her hand.After 1 hour Gladio was back there.“She doesn't seem to have changed at all, it can't be helped that mental problems are something that won't be easily resolved!” Gladio sighed. "Are you ready to go on a trip?"“Neh… Master!”Gladio was silent, he slowly looked at Alice's face full of curiosity."What's?"“What is your purpose in this life?”The question that instantly caused Gladio's confusion. "If you ask this question, I actually don't really understand how to deal with this life! I'm just doing what I can do, I won't force myself to do what other people say! In this life there are many things I want to find out! One of them is why the figure I just met as a master had to be killed, we haven't even had time to do any further introductions!" Gladio's eyes dropped to the ground.It was at this moment that Alice first saw the emotions inside Gladio's body, not believing w