Upon waking up with the sunshine pulling me out of my bed, I made my breakfast for me and Marco, just by looking at his face, my urge to wake him is gradually arising.
"Hey Marco, wake up."
...
After we ate our breakfast that is only bread and coffee, I took out my book to write something on it.
"A Lurious' Furious Adventures. Good name doesn't, Marco?"
"Yup, have you wrote our trip yesterday in it?"
"Yes, and now I'm on it's 2nd chapter..."
"... Hey Marco... What would you say if I were to say we're leaving Branch right now?"
A Lurious' Furious Adventures, Chapter 2:
Tobacco
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"Hurah! This is the last one of them!"
"Good, keep it up."
To advance our progress for the 2nd day, me and Vlera took our way out of Branch for the next recipe. 10 minutes since we left the country, and things are already messed up.
"By this obstacles around us, I can ensure you'll learn alot after this trip."
"How?! Did you trained yourself by this way as well?!"
"No, I was raised and trained purely inside Kallen's place, you should consider yourself lucky for experiencing a training such as this."
"Lucky?! Aren't you the one who's lucky here?!"
While Vlera was jumping trees to another, I was suffering in the ground trying to catch her, with these, we entered the forest even deeper. Every moment the scene changes is an enemy waiting for us, we've killed tenths to hundreds of them until I felt the tiredness between me, an hour went by, and we took a break.
"S-sit... Comfort... Fwah! I can't move...!"
Just when we finally found a large tree to climb and rest with, I immediately laid down while Vlera took her notes.
"Your strength growth improved compared to what it is when we're at Kallen's, but your stamina have shown signal that you need to improve it. Marco, what would you choose? To run until our destination or take the longer path instead?"
Huh? Really? Right after when we finally took a break?
"What? Where are you getting those options?"
"I checked up our route before we departed, and turned out... We have more routes to take, there's the dangerous one, the long one, the dead-end one, and the route that takes us back to the Branch. This is a good opportunity for you to train your stamina, so tell me, what's your choice?"
"Hm..."
To run 'till our destination or to take the longer way? Sure, running all the way non stop is a choice because it would probably be the shortest way since Vlera chose it, but to take the longer path? Hm... It's not even the middle of the day to rush, so...
As I get my hopes up to take the choice, Vlera looked all the way up to see how far my confidence have gotten, longer path means more time, and more time means more enemies to face!
"Vlera...
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I'll run."
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30 minutes later...
"I'll say it one more time, it's your choice."
"I know, but you didn't told me how far it is!"
"Well, have you asked me something about it?"
"No, but isn't that your job to tell me as my trainor?!"
Not only did she made herself strict to it, she even put a gadget behind me that will explode once I stopped running! Ever since we left the tree 35 minutes ago, I haven't taken a break once! If you'd ever question me how far left until our destination, I'd say an hour of me running at full speed!
"Hurry up, Marco. Once the meter have dropped to 10 km/h, I'm afraid I'll just take my bird to inform Kallen that her student have died."
"Vlera... PLEASE! I'LL ALLOW YOU TO BE STRICT ABOUT IT, BUT PLEASE! TAKE THE BOMB AWAAY!"
"I refuse, you once broke my trust last month when you lied about your hundredth push-up, and this time, I'll never let you go away."
"Please... I can't.... feel my legs any longer...!"
"Want some inspirational words? Why don't you try to hit 50 km/h? I programmed it to be detached when it reaches the speed. There's an enemy near us so I'll take it while you continue your run so, goodluck!"
As Vlera went the other way, I'm never bothered and continued to run. Second by second, every step I made is how numb my feet and legs get. Half a minute later and I started to hear some fightings in the distance. I was trying to hit 50 km/h... It was when I realized... I was about to fall into a giant... Bird's nest.
"AHHHHHHHHH!"
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*Shing*
*Gwak!*
"Now that serves you... Huh? Is that Marco's voice?"
...
"Hurry... I need to... Run!"
Because of how deep the nest was, I fell in it with a severe back pain. I rushed over my phase to try and run again until I saw what I don't want to see.
"No... My day's already fucked up to be this fucked up..."
A giant bird estimated to be a 3-story building tall and 2 school buses connected together in wide ā gazed upon in my tiny existence. (I'm the biggest bird, I'm the biggest bird.šļø)
"No... I'm not a worm... I'm not a worm..."
"[Notice. The bomb have detected the speed required for the self-destruct feature to be set. To stop the countdown, please fill the speed requirement of 10 km/h. Countdown: 10 seconds.]"
"What?! Aren't we living in the old days?! How could this thing speak?!"
*SCREEEEECH*
"AHHHGHH! This bird is a noisy one, huh?"
"[9,8,7...]"
"Oh no..."
Not only did the bird is threatening me, this bomb behind me is threatening me as well! Is it to run to stop the bomb and get chased by the bird? Or to stand, detonating the bomb but the bird wont harm me? THINK LOGICALLY, MARCO! THE 2ND OPTION WASN'T A CHOICE, JUST RUN!
Without hesitation, I started to run and successfully provoked the bird. I ran faster and faster, so is the bird who's beak is a few meters left behind me.
"[6,5,4...]"
Considering that I'm running with my leg's capacity left, I still cannot get the required speed.
"[3,2...]"
Before the bomb even detonated, the bird catched me, shaked me a few times, and threw me high in the sky. I was expecting for my life to be disintegrated but as soon as the bomb said One...
"[1... Bomb activated. Goodbye, cruel world.]"
A strong explosion occured...
Behind me...
Where the bird is...
At the ground...
*BOOOOOOM!*
I was expecting for me to be dead for the next few seconds, but what happened shocked me...
Because of how fast the bird shaked me, it accidentally met the 50 km/h requirement for the bomb to be detached, because of it, the detachment of the bomb became the reason of why I was sent in the sky, in terms of why did it still explode, maybe it was Vlera's fault.
...
"Hey... I'm alive!"
I was happy to realize that I survived two close calls at the same time... Wait?
"I'M FALLING!"
Because of my joy, I forget that I literally have no ways to withstand a fall damage. As I get closer and closer to the ground, I could feel my balls getting numb once again, this feeling... from when I committed suicide by jumping down from a cliff... felt no difference to what I'm feeling this time...
"A falling Marco... Quite nostalgic if you ask me."
Yet once again...
Vlera saved me from falling high above. If you think this is your normal romance novel, then trash that out because the tables have turned.
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Few minutes later...
"That's a big bird!"
"If you'd like to know, that's the kind of bird that just threatened my life along with your bomb a while ago."
"Hehehe, sorry..."
"A SORRY WON'T BE ENOUGH! IF NOT FOR THAT BIRD, I WOULD BE DEAD EVEN IF I RAN SO FAST!"
"Huh? Why?"
"Because once it was on countdown, THERE WON'T BE ANY MORE WAYS TO STOP IT! YOU BOMB IS BROKEN!"
"Uh... I see. Well then, take portions from the bird's meat and I'll process it to be preserved."
"WHAT?!"
From there, we left the giant bird with a missing piece in its body. Because of Vlera's fault about the bomb, she let me to get easy for the rest of the trip, it may take several more hours, but atleast we were able to reach our destination before the sun sets.
Many things happened today, from venturing deep in the forests outside the Branch, to finally leaving the last forest sending us to a small village.
We went into the Village and saw residents over the place, each of them welcomed us in which we're thankful, we entered a shop and Vlera talked with the cashier.
"One pack of Tobacco, please."
"Hold on, Lady, aren't you too young for that order?"
After the sentence, a nerve popped out of Vlera's head in which I tried to cover.
"Ahhh, no! Actually, she's above 18."
"Really? My apologies then."
After the apology, the man went inside a room and came back with a bag of a thing called Tobacco.
"May I ask? What's your purpose of buying large amount of this thing?"
"It's for medical purposes."
"Ah, I see, you must be a doctor!"
After lending the payment, we left without Vlera's reply being heard.
After renting a hotel, both me and Vlera did the same fall as we fell asleep in seconds due to tiredness of the trip today.
And as they were tired, I, the Author was also tired as well... Goodnight everyone.
"Nicotiana Tabacum, acquired..."
ā End of Chapter 11
Nicotiana Tabacum is a genus of herbaceous plants and shrubs in the family Solanaceae, that is indigenous to the Americas, Australia, Southwestern Africa and the South Pacific. Various Nicotiana species, commonly referred to as tobacco plants, are cultivated as ornamental garden plants. N. tabacum is grown worldwide for the cultivation of tobacco leaves used for manufacturing and producing tobacco products, including cigars, cigarillos, cigarettes, chewing tobacco, dipping tobacco, snuff, and snus.
"This was bought to you by Marco's stocked knowledge about Tobacco when he's still at Earth"