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-Do you want to go to the city with me? I'm going to sell a portion of what I got on my last few outings at the market. Kiwo said after taking a bite out of his barishfruit salad.
[ barishfruit: some kind of black berry that Kiwo found in the shadow woods when he was little, it's similar to strawberries]
Rii's eyes sparkled, "the city" Rii had never been there before, it was where society lived, now that they had a name they were at the door of society. And going to the city with Kiwo would be exciting and safe. Kiwo looked at Rii with a strange melancholy.
-But before that I want you to promise me something. He said with a serious face. If you encounter someone with bad intentions alert me, so either tell me or if you are far away, scream my name in your mind and I'll come, but if that person hurts you, you have the right to defend yourself.
Rii nodded, they agreed to what Kiwo said but remembered that the scientists probably sent people after them and that they could be watching them in the city, so Rii decided that they wouldn't hurt anyone even if they hurt them because it would attract attention to them.
They shivered as they remembered the cold, sleepless nights of running away from the guards. They did not want to go back to those times. Kiwo looked at Rii's anxious eyes and said as if he had read their mind:
-Don't worry that won't happen because I'm here! Proudly, he didn't want Rii to feel unsafe. Kiwo's words weren't empty, he was confident that he could protect Rii when the time would come.
Rii wanted to believe it too but they knew how powerful the mind controle of the 2nd boss was and he would surely send one of the powerful children that Rii took not of before. Some most likely got out but there were still a couple of subjects left on the high-danger section that Rii didn't destroy who were transferred to another facility. And all Kiwo could do was shoot a bow and use spatial magic to transport things. The person that Rii was worried about wasn't themself but Kiwo, they couldn't imagine Kiwo going through the same treatment as them.
Kiwo stopped eating and stayed silent for a moment.
-After selling my things we'll go to the information center to get info on someone who might be named Leon. Said Kiwo, finally breaking the silence.
After speaking to Kiwo the day before, they came to a conclusion that the Leon that Rii remembered was probably one of their family members and that they should find that person. Rii smiled calmly at what Kiwo said, and so they finished to breakfast quickly, Kiwo gave Rii old clothes of his to wear and an aquamarine imbued with outside transformation magic so Rii would have a human appearance, the only things that didn't look human were the pointy ears similar to the blessed or cursed ones ears
[blessed/cursed ones are people who were blessed or cursed by a god or deroïd, [if you are blessed by a deity(most powerful beings of all times) you immediately become a god or a deroïd(will be explained later on) ]
if you are blessed by a god or deroïd you will acquire an ability or power, and if you are cursed than you will lose something important in your life, the stronger the curse the more important the loss.]
and the unusually thin pupils. There was a limit to how much you could change someone's appearance, it left the question as to if Rii had never been experimented on would they have had pointy ears? Were they blessed ? Or perhaps cursed…?
They stopped thinking about it and headed to the entry of the house to grab the bags Kiwo had brought back from his outing from today and the last few others. One was full of fur, bones, animal cores[animal cores: where their soul and mana is stored, it is the same for humanoïd beings and other creatures] and the other was full of all kinds of berries.
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When they arrived at the entry of the common realm, two soldiers were on each side of the gate, babbling.
-Um, they changed the guards. Kiwo unconsciously said his thoughts out loud.
"They are usually there just to look out and don't do anything so they don't really need to change them, huh weird" Kiwo looked at the balance crest on their armour. "Bittony…"
-Geez, how come we got this position, we can't do anything! One of the guards said, before screaming a big *ugh* in anger. Rii was confused, "Why are they screaming?" The soldiers suddenly looked in their direction, they just noticed people were walking up to them and pulled out their swords.
-Who are you?! They said in unison. Kiwo didn't stop walking, no, he started to walk faster. When he arrived closer to them, he hit both of their wrists and their swords fell to the ground.
-I just came to sell my share, not to cause trouble. Said Kiwo as calmly as ever.