It's been a couple of weeks since that conversation.
Gerald sent a letter out to Prusha about me and Lilith's situation. And he's already made contact with one of his group members.
I thought it was going to be Lauren, but Gerald said that she had already headed back in Bubelc, and that she had business there.
Bulbec was on the east side of our town, it was about a week long journey there. Not sure why Lauren was staying there. But it must be important. Maybe she actually lives there?
In these couple of weeks, Lilith's mom, Sarah, had woken up and helped around the house. She was still ill due to her mana strain, so she did simple tasks with Synthia and also tended to gardening with her. Though when she would come back, she would meditate on the couch. At first glance, it seemed like she was just sleeping. But as more days passed, I could see just a bit of her hair going back to its natural color black.
Gerald and Synthia have already talked with her about me and Lilith going to Prusha for studying, which at first, she declined due to worrying about Lilith's safety. But when Gerald said that he'd have one of his group members assisting in the trip and insisting that we could take care of ourselves, she eventually folded in.
I've just woken up today, me and Lilith still share a bed. Which I didn't mind, Sarah kept the extra room on the second floor to herself.
Anyways. When I woke up, I heard a carriage of some sort outside our home. When I went to look out my window, I saw that Gerald was talking with two people.
One was wearing a hat, though to be more specific it almost looked like a ushanka hat. He was smaller than Gerald as well, I'd say he was like 5'2? He was talking it up with Gerald, who seemed annoyed with him.
The other person was a more bulky man, he had a red vest on, but no shirt under it. He also wore sunglasses, or what I think were sunglasses. They had the normal shape of glasses and a black gloss on them. And he was bald too. This guy was significantly larger than Gerald, he looked to be about 6'7.
I'm going to assume these guys are part of Gerald's old group. They don't seem like they mean harm.
Wait, shit. I didn't even pack up for this. What the hell am I going to bring?
I scurried to the clean clothes basket and rummaged through it. What kind of clothes should I bring to a kingdom? Something formal? Maybe I should look like an adventurer…
I heard a knock on the door and then the door opened.
It was Synthia, who seemed to have already packed a backpack for me.
"Kota…are you ready?" She asked, she gave a sad smile when saying that.
I was not, not physically or mentally. I thought this would be like a year, not a couple of weeks!
"Uh..erm, not yet.." I answered quietly.
"Lilith is already ready downstairs, so once you finish up here, just head down…" she trailed off.
She placed the backpack down in the middle of the room before heading out the door downstairs. She must be really sad to see me go. I am her only kid, as of right now.
Those visions still flicker in my head every now and then.
A baby girl.
A prince.
Lilith training.
I shook my head, I gotta focus on right now before I get those things. Now let's see what's inside this backpack…
Inside this backpack were already clothes that Synthia had packed for me. When did she do this? Maybe when I was sleeping probably. There was also a cloak in this backpack, it was worn. It had a green look to it, But it also shimmered in a weird way, but it was like there was another coating on it. It was the same as the shield in their room. This could possibly be Synthia's. I know from my knowledge from JRPG's that this is probably one of those magical cloaks they wear. Other than that, everything else seemed to be essential. Hold on, There was a pendant in here as well, it was hidden at the bottom.
I picked it up and examined it. It was a silver looking pendant that had "Gerald Detrut" etched into the back of it. It looked like Synthia's handwriting. Looking at the front of it, it had a symbol on it, a hand that was being cooled by two snakes.
This has got to be important to both of them.
I put the pendant on and rested it on my chest.
I then went on to put on the cloak, which funnily enough, was a little too big for me.
Hm.
I thought putting this cloak one would make me feel different, but nothing changed. Does this world not have a stat boost going on? Wait, this isn't a game world. This is literally another world like my old one. It just defies…some stuff that wouldn't make sense..
We'll have to see what this cloak can really do.
I went on and headed to the bathroom to check myself out. I just wanted to see how I looked for this mighty adventure.
There I stood, my black hair has grown quite a lot. Pretty good looking for my age…well for a eleven year old. I wore that green cloak over my white shirt that I had, and I had on something that was akin to jogger, but these were made out of leather. I had on black boots as well, they kind of looked like hiking shoes, but these actually were comfortable as fuck.
Looking at myself now, I felt like I had Gerald's taste in clothing while sharing Synthia's physical looks. Which I didn't mind. I feel like I was in a good mix between those two.
Once I was done giving myself a confidence boost with the mirror, I headed back to my room and picked up the backpack and slung it around my back.
Time to head out, huh?
I headed downstairs, where I heard a commotion from multiple people.
Synthia greeted the two men, smiling and shaking their hands.
"Synthia, you've grown! Can't believe you caught the playboy with a kid, haha!" The bulky man laughed.
"And you're as loud as I remember, Derrick." Synthia chuckled.
"Now, where is the little boy? Is he upstairs? Let old Derrick meet him. I wanna see what he's capable of!" He bellowed.
Uh, hold on. What am I capable of? What does he mean? Does he want to fight me? Luckily he can't see me up these stairs.
"Where is THA KOTA? '' he asked, looking around.
For some god unknown reason. Whatever my eighteen year old mind was thinking, I laughed.
"Which state?" I thought. Haha
All that from a stupid ass state name joke. Goddamn it.
I heard Derrick gasp and he stormed to the front of the stairs and found me crouched.
"There he is, come here!"
He reached for my feet and managed to yank me down the stairs.
Jesus Christ this man was strong, it felt like he was pulling my leg off.
"Oh, be easy on him. please." Gerald said, a smile on his face.
I was hanging upside down as I was basically carried out the door, where I was thrown onto the grass.
I landed face first into the dirt, still dazed. I tried getting up, but I ended up wobbling around at first before composing myself.
I turned around to face Derrick and saw everyone outside as well, watching.
Ok…no one's going to stop this giant man from doing what he's doing?
Lilith was standing next to Synthia, she looked confused as well. I guess she wasn't told what was happening as well. Everyone else had a smile on their face.
"See Kota, the route we're taking to Prusha has some creatures out there. Maybe even some bad people. It was your father that decided well…to test you." Derrick flexed his arms, and then he reached for his back and pulled a hammer from a holster.
Oh shit. Really Gerald??
I looked at Gerald and saw he had a huge grin on his face. and when he noticed I was looking at him, he gave me a thumbs up.
There's no way in hell Synthia w-
Ah, she giving me a thumbs up too.
Fuck. Everyone is on board with this?
I thought this was going to be an easy ride, but…
Thinking about it now, This is a dangerous world. It wouldn't be normal if I actually didn't use my magic in an offensive way.
But you didn't need to match me up with this ginormous man.
"What'll it be, young man? Are you ready? Or do you want to stay home?" Derrick sneered.
Come on, Travis. It's a fantasy world. You've used magic before. Now it's time to start acting like a fucking magic user like you wanted to!
Just think like a magic user from those games.
I breathed in and looked at Derrick.
"I'm ready."