"Here hope, have some milk"
"…"
I put the cup of milk on the face of my baby sister.
By the way, I named her hope, I found the name cute, what's more…
Hope took her cup of milk and looked at me with an uneasy expression.
"I am sorry, I don't have more, however, big brother will work hard, tomorrow I will give you more food"
Hope hug me and had some tears on her eyes.
"Ata, come here" I hugged her back and sat down on the, somehow house-like place that I made in this past year, I made it with material that people throw to the garbage, is wasn't that bad if I must say it myself, what's more, I managed to get used to the awful smell. It doesn't bother me that much anymore.
"Now the question is, where do I get the money from" I murmured.
A few days ago, my boss fire me, the reason?
Well, I could only laugh bitterly when he told me.
"Sorry kid, you smell too bad"
What can I say, I can't take a bath, it's too expensive, what's more, there are no rivers nearby.
I also don't have the strength either way.
I looked at myself, I have gotten skinnier this past year.
"I look like a ghost" I laughed.
Well, its not a surprise really, not having anything to eat was already something common, at least for me, my sister however, had to eat, no matter the cost.
"That's why, I can't be depressed, I have to feed her"
"Begging doesn't work, and nobody wants to give me work, what do I do?" I thought.
"Let's go know some doors tomorrow, maybe someone would take pity of a small child" I smiled bitterly.
I hugged Hope and prepared to sleep.
However, before sleeping I always take a look at the tattoo that was on my chest.
"Well, I already lost hope of ever using this power"
I asked for a month if someone has ever heard of the acolyte of the lost arts, however, all people looked at me with a strange face.
"What the hell is that?"
Almost everyone answered that.
"I have other priorities right now, I don't have time to look for something that god knows where the hell is it, what's more something like should on a heavy like prison when everything is guarded with more than one thousand mages"
Right now, I only have to focus on surviving, that's all.
I closed my eyes and slept.
.....................….
"Ugh… the hell is a child doing here?"
Mmm?
"Don't know, don't care, just throw the trash already, this place stinks like hell"
Voices entered my ears.
Suddenly…
"Wuah! Hey!"
They throw a huge amount of trash on my house!
"Shut up, this is a dumpster, of course we are going to throw the trash here" Said one of the guys who throw the trash
"There is plenty of space over there, why do you have to throw it here!?" I asked.
*PUM*
"Ugh!?"
I felt an intense pain coming from my stomach…
All I could see is one of the guys with his leg lifted.
"Shut up, trash! How dare you talk back to me!?"
"Wuahh!"
It seems that the noise has woke Hope up.
"Who is making that fucking noise!?" Said the other guy.
"I-I am sorry, please, forgive me, just don't hurt her" I said while I hide Hope behind me.
"Fucking trash, If I don't beat the shit out of you is because I don't want to dirt my shoes, let's go!" Said the man.
The two men left the place, I contend the urge to puke.
"I almost passed out just from that kick"
I looked back at my already destroyed house.
"…"
I clenched my fist so hard that I almost bleed.
I had the urge to cry…
However, I looked back at Hope, who was also crying.
I contain the tears and smiled back at Hope.
"Don't worry, I will just have to construct another house, look they even give us more materials"
I put hope on the ground with delicacy while I separated the trash from the things that could be used.
"Wow! Lucky! Those guys were big fishes, look Hope! There are some blankets here!"
"Ugh! It seems that were also some bad food here, a shame, I thought that we could get a least a little bit of food"
There were a lot of things here, there were some cups and kitchen utensils.
"Maybe I could sell this? Let's keep them"
"There is also some clothes! Great! Look Hope, there is even clothes for you! It's a little boyish, however, it can protect you from cold!"
This a huge bounty indeed.
It passed almost an hour before I separated the trash from the goods.
"Now, I will look at my biggest bounty" I said while I grabbed a brown book.
'Famous mysteries in magic'
That's right, this was a magic book!
Looking at the book, I already knew where the trash came from.
"No wonder they throw such good stuff, being rich is certainly good"
"However, why would they throw this book" I though.
I opened and a small introduction was made.
This book is a small collection of the ten most mysterious books in the world of magic and a small part of them, however, take in account that a few of them can't be read because is ancient language that was lost a long time ago.
When I read the introduction, I knew why they throw this book.
"It seems that is like a magazine, it doesn't have anything to do with magic" I though.
However, what grabbed my attention was that some of them can't be read.
My heartbeat accelerated.
"Maybe!"
I opened the book and saw the titles on the head.
"I… I can't read them!"
I didn't understand a single word on the first head, much less the words that described the book.
"Let's keep going!"
The first, the second, the third…the ten, the twenty… the fifty…
I passed the pages of the book one by one and, with every page I turned, my hope of finding a clue for the Acolyte become smaller and smaller.
Finally, I reached the last page.
"Well, at least I can sell it for something good" I console myself.
I turned the page and saw the title of it.
INTRODUCTION TO TWO OF THE THIRD ELEMENTS THAT DOMAIN OUR WORLD, QUAS AND WEX
When I reached that part, a tremor occurred in my head.
[You have learned a part of the Acolyte of the lost arts, you gained access to some of the powers and knowledge of Karl!]