[Later]
Marco and Yao were sitting over another building, leaving the Shark Girl in the floor of the shop with the rod in her asshole.
Yao: Weren't you a bit too violent with her?
Marco: Hah, I could have done worse!
Marco was laughing a bit at her question, but she ignored it and put an hand over her fox ear, as if hearing a message.
Yao: Sorry Kurama, I need to go to my Lady.
Marco: It's alright, I know the place enough to not get lost.
Yao: Good, bye.
Marco: Bye Yao.
Then she jumped away, leaving Marco alone, he looked around, when his eyes fell in a dark alley, where there were a pair of 4 tailed kitsunes bullying a 2 tailed kitsune. Even if Marco was pretty away from them, he could hear their voices.
And from the discussion and situation, it looks like the two 4 tailed kitsunes were jealous of the 2 tailed one because Nanabi, the seven tailed kitsune, was friendly with her.
Marco: Wait… Is that…?
The 2 tailed kitsune was a flat chested loli, she had short grey hair and was wearing a short pink yukata without sleeves and black tight shorts. It was Kitsu, the same two tailed kitsune he encountered at the Treasure Cove.
Suddenly, he seen a kid around 12 or 13 years running towards the dark alley with a wooden sword, and stood between the two kitsunes and Kitsu.
Boy: Stop hurting Kitsu!
Kitsu: Paul!
Marco raised an eyebrow at the boy's bravery to challenge monsters, but something shocked him some instants later…
*Ding*
*Plot Armor detected*
Marco: 'Plot Armor!? Oi, don't tell me that… System, explain.'
*Ding*
*People that possess the Plot Armor are called Protagonists, the Host possess a weaker version of Plot Armor called Author's Blessing, it will protect you from certain situations, but there will not be miracles every time something bad happens, and makes you immune to Plot Armor.*
*The moment when Host died was only thanks to Sylph begging Undine, if Host possessed Plot Armor, the chances of Host dying are 0.01%, and the 0.01% will only kill temporarily the Host, since in future he could return back from death through strange methods.*
Marco: 'Well, god be damned, I would never expect to see a protagonist since I took Luka's place…'
Meanwhile, in the dark alley, Paul was getting beaten down from the two kitsunes, but someone else interrupted the one sided beating, it was Nanabi.
Nanabi: What are you doing, girls?
The kitsunes immediately ran away completely frightened from Nanabi, while she sighed and picked up Paul and healed him.
Nanabi: Oi, are you still alive?
Kitsu, with a worried face, came beside Paul and held his hand.
Kitsu: Are you alright!?
Paul: *Cough* *Cough* Y-Yeah… I am… Sorry if I wasn't able to protect you like I should…
Kitsu: Don't worry about that! You got beaten down like a sack of potatoes! I don't know what to do if you aren't with me!
Marco: Oh my god this is getting cringy to levels that shouldn't be possible…
Marco turned around to leave, but he caught Nanabi looking at him, and sighed before waiting on the building.
Soon, Paul and Kitsu left together while holding their hands and Nanabi came to Marco.
Nanabi: I heard from Lady Tamamo that she encountered a nine tailed fox, is it you?
Marco: Yep, my name is Kurama.
Nanabi bowed down and introduced herself.
Nanabi: My name is Nanabi, I am Lady Tamamo's right hand together with Yao.
Marco: Yeah, I heard from her.
Nanabi: Oh? She was here, too?
Marco: Eeeyup, she took me in a shop to eat something when a Shark Girl came and I taught her a lesson to not point weapons at me…
Nanabi: I heard about that… Wasn't that a bit too violent?
Marco: Pffft, that's nothing compared to what I can do. So… You came here only to greet me?
Nanabi: No, I hope you can forgive me for the question, but I would ask you why you didn't helped the boy, you were clearly watching, so…
Marco: Yeah, I know. I just didn't want to help, first of all, I am not connected in any shape and form with this incident, they were all strangers to me…
Nanabi: Yes, I got it… And what do you think about him?
Marco: Honestly? He's a bomb ready to explode.
Nanabi was surprised from his words, and asked curiously.
Nanabi: What do you mean?
Marco: Well, I have a certain power… I can sense a special aura that I personally called Plot Armor, the people who possess this intangible, formless, and abstract aura are people who can do great things, you can call them "Protagonists".
For them the destiny is like a fairy tale, no matter how hard it is, they are able to overcome the obstacle through some methods, many people will try to stop them, but only a special group of them could really accomplish it, and they are called "Outsiders".
Nanabi: Outsiders?
Marco: Yes, you can't recognize them because they look just like normal people, they can't be separated from the normal group, and only the outsiders know about what they are.
This is why I said that the boy is like a bomb, no one normal could really stop him, but only special peoples could do it, people who already know about how to do it.
Nanabi bowed and told him.
Marco: Thank you for your teachings, Kurama.
Marco: Don't worry, but things will not change anyways, he will get hurt, almost die, but he will be able to surpass it. So… Does he have any dream?
Nanabi smiled and said.
Nanabi: Yes, he wanted to be the strongest swordsman in the world.
Marco: Heeeh? And what do you think would happen if he meets Granberia?
Nanabi: Probably he would kneel down and ask for training...
Marco: Ok, what do you think about him?
Nanabi: Right now he is my student, I am personally teaching him how to use the sword, but he is a sweet boy, despise his habitude to sneak out, and he is really dense when it comes to love.
The two tailed kitsune, Kitsu, has a crush for Paul, the boy, but it doesn't matter what she does, he ignores her love message. And Kitsu was saddened when she heard from him that he would travel the world.
Marco: 'Wishing to be the strongest, dense man, plot armor, possibility of harem… Classic Harem Protagonist. Who gives a fuck, if he touches Alice he's dead…'
When he thought about Alice and the boy being together, his muscles tensed a bit and gritted his teeth, when he realized what he was doing, he started laughing.
Nanabi: What happened?
Marco: Nothing, just a dark joke I heard some time ago… 'Well, who expected it, I fell in love with Alice…'
Nanabi: Dark joke?
Marco: It's a type of joke that touches a sensitive or disgusting subject, but could manage to make laugh someone…
Nanabi: An example?
Marco: What is "Dream"?
Nanabi: ...It's something that people wish to achieve.
Marco: No, it's the first thing people abandon when they understand how this world works.
Nanabi had a frown from the joke, and Marco told her.
Marco: This is a dark joke, and I know many other dark jokes many times worse than this. Now I'll take my leave, bye.
Nanabi didn't spoke, and Marco jumped away, he was really bored and didn't want to find Alice, so he walked back at the port to watch the scenery in the sea and closed his eyes to rest there.
[BONUS DARK HUMOR]
Today my best friend got mad at me for sniffing his sister's panties.
…
I don't know if it was because she was still wearing them.
…
Maybe it was because she was only 6-years old.
…
Or that the whole family was there.
…
Either way, it made the rest of that child's funeral really awkward.
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[SPECIAL QUESTS]
1st. Kick Gabriel's ass
2nd. Achieve coexistence between Monsters and Humans
3rd. Kill Illias
4th. Return to Lucifina's grave
5th. Visit every places in Illias Continent, Sentora and Hellgondo
6th. Turn back to Sabasa Kingdom