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Chapter 2 - Volume 1 - Chapter 1.1 - I don't want work, I want to venture

"Part 1"

Hi, my name is Waka, I'm a very pessimistic guy about my life, especially now with the low salaries that this world has, three weeks have passed since Fiebe found me in the forest of divisions and I've been trying very hard to help with our expenses, while she arranges some missions i work on the renovation of the walls outside the city, it is quite difficult indeed, especially for a skinny guy like me who is only 16 years old, he was probably a bum in the other world and this is not the adventurer life I was supposed to go on missions and get a bunch of admirers, but instead I spend my day breaking rocks and plastering walls and it sucks.

Finally the payday, I went to settle the accounts with the boss for my working days, I received five thousand beus for the working days, it wasn't much but it was the minimum wage in that world and it was enough for us to spend the month without worrying since now the debts were debts between her and me, I said goodbye to my superiors and went to a public bath which by the way was very cheap and that helps me a lot, since I couldn't get out of the habit of taking at least 3 baths every day, which was strange in the eyes of the residents of Kira as the people there only took a bath a day or two if the adventurers were smelling bad. I entered the public bath and reserved my time, 5 beus for 10 minutes bath that were marked by a sundial that was in the middle of the city at the highest point, I entered the bath room, I sat on one of the chairs because it was necessary to clean before getting in the tub, I took a light shower and threw myself into the warm water of the pool to enjoy the rest of my time there. when my time was up I headed towards the house and found Fiebe sitting by a fountain.

-Fiebe! I am here!

She was smeared with dirt and there were some scratches on her cheek, her white clothes were a little grimy, and she was visibly sad, but soon broke into a smile when she saw it. Drako, in turn, went flying and headbutted me in the belly, I went rolling on the ground like the wheels of a cart.

-Oh no Draco!

-Why does this dragon hate me so much? I never did anything bad to him! ahhh my back!

-Oh forgive me Waka, I promise I'll ground him when we get home, but anyway how was his day?

-Oh don't even tell me, I worked too much on the construction today I had to take a shower to replenish my energy, but what about you? looks a little down, what happened?

-A-I'm down? no! no! you're wrong young man I just had a long day at work and I'm tired too, but anyway, I'm going to take a shower too, see you at home!

She told me that while she smiled to hide her sadness and closed her eyes to hide her tears, she never seemed to be sad but whoever is with her knows what's going on, it's been a few days since she hasn't done well in the missions since magic teleport is not that effective in combat, so in the end she didn't earn that much money, and that was bad since besides Drako there was me for her to worry about besides her family.

I followed the path towards the house, before I went downtown and did some shopping, I'm sure she didn't know what we were going to eat today, she always made a soup that I was already sick of since she literally made it every day, I bought it some potatoes and a little lizard meat accompanied by a liqueur  and some flowers that in all gave a thousand and one hundred beus, the price of things in this world was scary, it seems that my world is not the only consumerist here. I ran to the house, I wanted to prepare dinner soon and thank God she hadn't arrived yet, I peeled the potatoes like this while I was roasting the lizard meat, I set the dishes on our table with a little farofa that was left over from the other day and prepared some vase with the flowers, I don't remember having a girlfriend in the other world, but they sure were a very romantic guy.

I sat there waiting for her, I didn't have much to do, my only way to kill time was working or talking to her, I got up, entered the hallway and raised my hand towards the knob until.

WHAM! BAM!

~Oh! she arrived

I ran towards the living room, my heart was about to burst she would definitely love it since I had made it exclusively for her, maybe even reach her heart-

BOIMMMM

That dragon miserably came to my face with a torpedo, -Aaai!, I felt my head spinning and I ended up falling right there, before I fainted I could hear Fiebe fighting with Drako

...

It had been a while since I had been knocked out by the dragon, I opened my eyes slowly as I saw Fiebe's face being drawn before me.

-Aaah! How nice! Are you alright.

I was lying on the floor my head was on the thighs of fiebe my face had a few drops that were probably her own tears, she expressed great relief to see that she was ok, slowly i got up and stayed beside her as she takes my left hand to her back of neck

-Whoops! how long have i been unconscious?

-One hour

-ONE HOUR! B-BUT THAT MEANS THAT

I looked at the table, the food was cold and the vases with the flowers had fallen wetting the floor, Ungh! I chose my legs and crouched down I took my head between them and grabbed them with my arms.

-I'm sorry Fiebe, I wanted to see you happy but in the end I ruined everything, the food is cold, let's prepare something else... I'm sorry-

She stretched out her arms and hugged me tight as she laid her head on my back, we were silent for a while, she let go of me and walked around the table in front of me, she sat down and smiled.

-Well! Let's eat! we can't waste anything! thanks for the food!

With the fork she speared the meat and corned it with the knife and then brought it to her mouth, Hn! -It's very good, I've never eaten anything this good before! Aaah! you cook really well.

I opened a slight smile and sat down at the table with her, I opened the liqueur I had bought and put the glasses that had fallen on the table, I filled mine with some of the liqueur and then extended the bottle to her glass,

-No! no! what am i thinking? you're 14 so you can't drink yet, I didn't look at it that way when I bought it, give it back

I took the cup from her hand and drank it in one gulp.

-Which?! how can you do that?! When did you start bossing me around?! ahhhhhhh!

Said that as she stretched out her hand trying to take the glass in my hand

After eating we washed the dishes and cutlery and went to sleep as there was nothing else to do, I went first, my room was next to Fiebe's room, there were no big things in it, just a lamp and a small dresser where clothes were kept. I had bought another hour and a futon in the middle of the room, I usually lay there and thought about life and how things were until I fell asleep

Shortly after I heard Fiebe's bedroom door close, she spent a little more time in the living room probably thinking about her family and the money to help them. I turned on the futon towards his wall, the insulation was pretty bad due to the woods so we could talk quietly.

-Hey! Fiebe! Do you think I can go on missions with you?

- Are you tired of working in construction? the city needs workers too, you know?

-I know! I know! It's just that going on adventures seems way cooler than breaking rocks all day, I could go with you next time.

She was silent for a minute, then I could hear a sigh.

-All right! tomorrow we will train!