JULY 7. 3567
𝗛𝘂𝗴𝗼 𝗔𝘂𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗿
I hear a familiar yet noise from my side, when I looked at that direction, I saw my alarm clock ringing loudly.
I stared at it quietly then after some time I stopped the alarm with way more force than needed.
I turned around to see Cynthia freshly out of the shower, casually putting her underwear on
"Morning"
"...Good Morning"
She had a annoyed look but it was not as worst as the first time I reacted this way.
Beside me I saw Caroline sleeping peacefully.
I decided to make breakfast for all of us, I took a look at my almost empty fridge.
There was a couple of eggs and some bacon and so I decided to make a classic eggs and bacon with rice breakfast.
Although I'm in a city that doesn't eat a lot of rice, I quite enjoy eating everything with rice in it.
While I was cooking, Caroline woke up from the smell of my cooking
"Morning"
"Good morning"
I prepared the plates and we ate our breakfast and after a quick shower we left my apartment.
"I'll be leaving Hugo to you Mrs. Cynthia since I have to go to work"
"Huh? oh...yes...I will take...care of him..."
She was quite confuse on why she was being called Mrs. Cynthia but she seemed to have realized something that I have not.
I didn't really know anything about it so I didn't really care and focused my attention to Caroline
"So your not going to follow me?"
"I know for a fact that you don't plan on going to the other side until you get your new weapon so I might as well do finish some of my unfinished work"
"Why are you even following us in the first place?"
"Can't I spend some time with my brother before he goes off to another dangerous journey?"
"And who knows maybe this might be the last time we may ever meet"
'That self deprecating look again'
"Fine, only for this week"
A slight smile appeared in her face
"Great, I'll see you tomorrow then"
"Yeah yeah"
After a wave, she left us to our own devices
"So what do you want to do Cynthia?"
"Huh? oh...well I don't really know what I can do here so I just plan to follow you to wherever you want"
"Hmm...then let's explore the city first then tomorrow we can do some request from the hunters guild about hunting some demonic creatures, will that be ok?"
"Sure"
"Then let's go, try not to be too faraway from me so you don't get lost in large crowds but if we do, let's rendezvous in my apartment
okay?"
"Yes"
"let's go then"
I decided to lead her to the mall first to see if she wants anything.
On the way there I saw many couples walking around with their partners who was probably on a date
'I wish I had a lover too, although I have the skills and knowledge to make someone fall for me, I don't really have any courage to do so'
After a sigh, we reached the mall.
I plan to go around the store trying to see if Cynthia would like to buy something.
I decided to go to the clothing stores first, although I have no idea about anything in fashion, I thought Cynthia might like some clothes that's just for combat but something that might look good on her.
I slowed my footsteps for a bit and ask Cynthia about anything she wants to know
"Well...I noticed that most of the buildings here are made mostly of glass which serve no protection at so how do you deal with the monsters that appear here?"
"You saw the small lines in the roads right? the city is made out of small square lines and one of those square lines covers an entire block"
"Under those small square lines is a machine that has a has gigantic mana stone which can use barrier magic which is connected to every block and the concept was to isolate the creature into a block and wait for a hunter to show up and kill it"
"Although the civilians gets trapped there too, its the best we've got to control the damages"
"I see..."
When I looked around, I saw Cynthia looking at one of the dresses in the display
"You want to try it"
"There's no need for such complex dresses since were going to be traveling anyway"
"It's fine we can just leave it in my apartment or leave it in your mother's care"
"Oh! that reminds me I wanted a souvenir for my mother before we go back"
"Then I could buy two of the dresses then"
"But the cost-"
"It's fine we'll only be here for a week and besides we can just go to the hunters guild to make some money"
"If your okay with it then let's go inside"
We entered the store and we were greeted by some females who work there
"Welcome to our store! What would you like for to day?"
Although the store displays only displayed dresses for women, you can also but men's clothes here.
I originally planned to just buy clothes for Cynthia but when I look at myself, It was obvious that I looked like an edge lord because of my black coat combined with grey t-shirt and black jeans.
So I decided to buy clothes for myself as well so I could atleast look good while also making Cynthia feel less bad for buying her clothes
"She wants to try the dress on the display and as for me, I'd like to browse the men's section for now"
"I see, please call us if you want to buy something, now then please follow us ma'am"
"Oh! um alright"
After Cynthia was lead to the women changing room I decided to try on one of the recommend clothes that was on display.
I decided try wearing a black button up shirt with black jeans
'I really like the color black huh?'
I actually thought that I looked decent for once, although my black boots and black hair that still doesn't have any hairstyle made it lose some points, it was not bad overall.
Happy with what I'm wearing, I decided to buy it.
When I got out, Cynthia seems to be in the dressing room still so I decided to buy my clothes first.
"Ah! would you like to buy that sir"
"Yes, please use this card to pay for my clothes and dresses"
"Of course, thank you for buying in our store"
After some time, she came out wearing a beautiful sleeveless dress
"W-what do you think?"
"Hmm...you look refreshing in it, most of the time I only see you in your hunting clothes and cloak so seeing you wear that dress makes you look really good...I guess"
'Also for some reason you wearing that dress shyly makes you really cute since most of the time you don't act girlish at all'
"Oh...um thank you..."
"Your welcome, Is there anything you to buy for your mother?"
"Then let me browse first"
After some time, she brought back a summer dress and I paid for all of it.
We left and decided to eat at a nearby restaurant.
We didn't talk much while eating our meals, I preferred not talking during meals but when I look at Cynthia, she was eating silently not looking at me
'She's looking a little red in a face, did she realize that we kinda looked like a couple in a date? well...for some reason I don't really mind that'
After finishing our meals, I decided to go to a arcade since in her world, there was probably any good entertainment.
The arcade was not as crowded as I expected, Everyone was playing the arcade games but no one was waiting to play some particular game and was just either watching or just talking to someone
"What is this?"
While walking around trying to see what games Cynthia might take interest in, she saw a particular machine
"That? I believe that's a rhythm game where you use your feet to tap those arrows at the right time"
"I don't get it"
"Trust me, it gets way too hard"
"Really? Can we try"
"Sure"
We both got on the machine and chose a fairly hard song.
Although both of us were newbies but I wanted to show her that it was hard.
The song starts and immediately we were bombarded with a lot of arrows and soon we got confuse and lost
"What the hell was that? Is that even possible?"
"Trust me, That's nowhere close to the hardest one"
"Then let's try again!"
"Eh? are you sure?"
"Can't we?"
"Hey, I didn't say that"
I also wanted to try again partly because of my pride as a gamer, most of the time I only take on requests that give me enough money to feed myself while also having a money left, so most of the time I play video games to pass the time but eventually I got really good in it.
I took a a lot of tries but we managed to beat the song and got a B for it but we decided to play a "bit more"
The next song was more harder and took us atleast a hundred or more tries to beat.
When I look at the time, It was already 7 pm and the arcade was a starting to get empty so we decided to go home for today.
On our way, we decided to buy some ingredients for our dinner.
While I was getting ready to sleep
"Hugo"
"What?"
"Thank you for today, I had fun"
"Your welcome, I had fun too"
"Oh and thank you for the clothes and um... good night"
"Good night"
After some time I fell asleep with a slight smile on my face.