It's been a week since Lena started following that man. They are chilling in the middle of a forest they had set up camp and are now sitting next to the campfire. The man is laying on his side while watching the campfire and Lena is trying to cook up something using the fire. After a bit, Lena pours some food into a wooden bowl and places it next to the man, he gives the bowl a quick glance then goes back to looking at the fire. Lena takes her portion of the food and slowly eats it, the man notices that and decides he might as well, he sits up and holds the bowl with both of his hands. After taking a sip he immediately starts complaining "THIS TASTES AWFUL!" he exclaims while putting the bowl down. Lena continues to eat while he has quite the angered look on him. After noticing that she's paying him no attention he calms down, finishes his bowl quickly trying to not taste anything, and goes back to laying on his side.
After a while, the man rolls up, gets his blanket, and heads to sleep. Lena then puts out the fire and gets herself into a blanket to sleep as well. they didn't say anything to each other and haven't for the last week, Lena slowly thinks back to what she figured out about the man she has been following: firstly, his name is "octan". Secondly, he tries to not associate himself with anything. Thirdly, despite his looks, he is astonishingly strong, which is one of the main reasons they can sleep in the middle of a forest without worrying about anything although Lena might not be so safe herself she doesn't care as long as he is there with her. Throughout the whole week, she did nothing but carry the luggage and buy their needs, She did enjoy watching octan fight against different types of monsters from time to time she even tries to study the different ways he uses to defeat monsters yet its still too early for her to do anything.
They live off of monster looting or doing requests for people. The reason he was even at Lena's village was that he knew about the small-time raid happening and wanted the loot for cash it doesn't explain why they weren't warned about it earlier but Lena didn't care to ask around, for now, that village is something of the past to her they are already quite far from it. Since they left the village they did nothing but move from place to place sleeping only in forests and never even thinking about renting a room, they would only spend an hour or 2 in a town before leaving for the next, and all they would do there is sell their loot or buy groceries or if there is any they might take a request for some cash. They should be arriving at a town early morning tomorrow so Lena heads to sleep quickly so she's not left behind.
It is now morning octan is just waking up to see Lena has already put away everything so that they could start moving. they both look at each other and exchange no words. After octan fully woke up, Lena puts back his blanket into the bag and starts following him since he already started moving. While moving alongside the dirt road a carriage passes by which octan pays the driver to let them ride with him too. Due to the unexpected development, they arrive earlier than expected, the moment they enter the town octan turns to Lena. "first of all give me that" he says as he points towards the loot bag that Lena is holding. She hands him the bag. "now here, have this." he says as he hands Lena a small little pocket bag "make sure to get necessities and only necessities and if any change is left bring it back." Lena nods and turns away to go shopping.
Octan looks at her as she slowly blends into the crowd then turns around to head towards his own destination. After reaching the adventurer's guild he enters and slowly approaches the receptionist. "Hello! how might I help you today sir?" the receptionist says cheerfully. "I would like to sell these monster parts." octan says while placing the bag onto the receptionist's desk. "No problem! let me see here...." she says while looking through the bag. "Ok! I've checked them and they would make up to around 124 sir!" she says cheerfully again. "JUST 124?! THIS IS GOTTA BE WORTH AT LEAST 325!" octan claims furiously. "now now sir! please calm down I can explain!" she says while raising her hands trying to calm octan. octan stops screaming and listen with a frustrated look on his face. "you see sir a while ago we got quite the huge load of the exact same monster parts and we really don't need any right now so we are buying at them at a very cheap price if someone is desperate enough to sell.". Octan's eyes widen and his face slowly goes back to his frustrated looks since this isn't the first time this has happened to him he sighs then says "...sure I will take the 124.". "wait before that sir do u have an adventurer's license?" the receptionist asks octan seemingly out of nowhere "....no?" octan replies surprised by the sudden question. "oh I'm so sorry sir, you see a new rule had been placed that the adventurer's guild would only accept parts off of adventurer's, but if u want you can still sell them to the kingdom.". Octan is once again angered by the sudden information his given "B-BUT WHY?! WHAT WOULD YOU GAIN FROM THAT?!" octan's scream had attracted attention towards him this time. "p-p-please calm down s-sir!!! I'm so very sorry but I can't do anything about it. higher up orders it really wasn't my decision.". Octan's rage slowly goes away as he realizes his situation the poor receptionist is at no fault here so he just sighs takes his back and walks away.
He walks around town frustrated while kicking the air when he hears a sudden loud sound from the other side of town he looks towards it to notice a dust cloud. Something is running rampant there. It's a common small monster attack it's probably a couple of goblins with 1 or 2 orcs, as he notices that a grin forms on octan's face and he quickly heads towards it. He notices that adventurers have already arrived which makes him act fast and dispose of the monsters almost immediately he then takes their heads and heads back towards the adventurer's guild. He approaches the receptionist with a smile on his face then places the 7 monster heads on her desk, it was 3 orcs and 4 goblins, "According to adventurer law every head of a monster that had been slain in the city counts as a 50 no matter how strong they are and that the loot is sold separately." he claims with confidence. the receptionist looks at him with quite an expressionless look as if her expectations were betrayed. the used to be cheerful receptionist is rendered speechless as she gives octan his 350 coins. He doesn't mind her cold stare as he smiles and waves leaving the building.
"Now I guess my work in this town is over I guess I will head this way next." he says while standing next to one of the town's exists. He then starts moving and after a while notices that someone is running towards him. he turns around and says "I won't be giving back the mo--" he stops himself midway when he notices that it was just Lena and says "oh it's just you...." he ruffles his hair then turns around and continues moving toward his destination. Lena follows speechless. She is kinda sad he didn't notice her change her hairstyle to a ponytail.