"H-How are you faring? Should I activate the silencer?" With brows crossed into a half of X, Fria asked in concern, holding on to some plushy ball of wool.
"N-No, its fine." Enix shook his head, grinning meekly while bathing under the noisy chatter he was ignorant too for a year and more in bliss, "Life," He murmured, "This is life!" His face was pale, and beads of perspiration were dripping down his chin even under the parasol.
His heart leaped as a fluffy tail waved past his eyes, "Furries!" He exclaimed, raising his hand in praise and appreciation, "Cat-girls! Wolf-girls! Beast-girls! Heck, devil and angel-girls!" He voiced sneakily, grinning so broad that his gums became visible, "All for me to taste on due time."
His face paled again, and he groaned while stumbling his steps, "But I need to train still, though I can see the improvements just from my prior session, I can stand all this stimulus now after all!" He grinned, "Albeit barely." His legs cramped, making him hiss.
"You seem better than how you used to be, young master." Gruis smiled. His eyes glowing warmly.
"Yea." Enix nodded and stretched tiredly, forcing back the weakness plaguing the strength from his legs, "So... what do you usually do, Fria?"
"Aw?"
"We visited whatever I wanted to vist the last two days. Now tell me what you do usually." Enix smiled.
"You say that but..." Fria frowned, the situation wasn't quite like what Enix had said.
"Visit blacksmith stores," Small fingers began pointing out from her fist as she thought hard while closing her eyes with a cute pout, "Mostly spectate arena matches. Or observe some newbies and professionals duke away in the forests with Shadoweds or Aberrants."
Enix shook his head hearing her prattle over things he had only read in books.
And spinning his head around the city square, he couldn't help but smile with a thrill that was foreign to him as familiar, "I can finally enjoy this new world! With all its fantastical races, environment and magic!"
It was his third day outside. He was overjoyed when his mother agreed and Fria frantically beckoned him to go out with him the very instant.
But his mother had held her back and made him wait the day.
During which he realized how he had managed to escape Houre. It was the pendant that he wore all his life, gifted by his father, that had an enchanted effect of removing external influences.
Sadly it had no effect on inner problems. But the hope for an artifact that could aid him with internal issues too had sprouted in his heart.
In the few days, he was playing along with Houre as she believed for him to have forgotten everything.
And, he decided to keep it as such until he found out more about her, as, with her actions, he had come to a sharp and obvious conclusion that she was neither an ordinary person... nor a mere maid.
And, as for his second wish to be trained, that had too been agreed upon. In fact, after Fria voiced similar desires, under Juggu's instructions, some trainers would be reaching out to them today some time, hence both of their's passived excitement for outside activity.
But, Fria, unable to let the third day of playing with her brother pass away with nothing, frowned and cried helplessly, "What should we do, Enix?"
Enix paused, and shaking off his thoughts, looked toward her with his chin between his fingers, "Um... How about trying lollipops? I have always wanted to try them." His eyes brightened, his thoughts drifting to the time he had heard the term from Fria's lips.
"Lo-Lolipops?" Gruis's face turned odd.
'S-Shit... Why's he making that face? D-Don't tell me he thought I said loli pop...' Enix cussed and shook his head toward Gruis, 'Too dirty minded... this butler is too dirty minded.'
But, as the silence continued to reign, and Enix finally realised the oddity, his eyes lifted and jammed atop Fria's face.
With her eyes quivering and mouth hanging loose, color had been blown from her cheeks, as she stepped closer and leaned her head towards him, grasping his collar with trembling hands, "W-Where... How do you know that term?"
Enix's eyelashes fluttered under the gentle wind whirling around him, and his heart began to drum heatedly. With all the thoughts running haywire in his head, he tilted his head impassively, "I think I heard that from you somewhere, Fria...
"Maybe during our last birthday?" He held his chin in thought and maintained his pose as Fria loosened her grip and backed away, "Ha-Haha!"
Enix's eyes glinted as they pardoned the ground and laid punishment on Fria, "Don't tell me I misheard? Or maybe you were just slurring?" He chuckled lightly, causing Fria to force a laugh too, "I-I guess."
"Splendid, I never dared believe my sister was capable of such a goof-up too..."
"Eh? Ha-hahaha."
Enix drapped his eyelids atop his eyes, fearful of the gaze he might lay bare atop Fria, and numbly, silently, heard her laugh along him.
'There is another reincarnator in this world...' Enix felt the words replay in J.'s tone, rooting him in his place and rendering him shivering.
"Young master!" Gruis exclaimed and hurried to support him as he fell on his bum.
"Hahaha," Enix faked a laugh before heaving a deep sigh and zooming his sight into the distance, muttered, "This world is too much for me."
"E-Enix!" Fria squatted in front of him, her eyes quivering as she squeezed the wool ball.
The ball bloated and enveloped Enix and Fria inside its thick coverings, before vanishing from sight.
As this occurred, the gentle sound of the wind sweeping by, the trilling of some flock of birds native to this world or the occasional quarrels as people bumped into each other in the crowd, and the stall-men noisily praising their products ceased to be.
And only Enix's and Fria's voices echoed out.
"S-Should we go home, Enix?" Fria, taking his hand, felt his skin burning like coal.
Enix stared into her eyes with a meek smile, and just as his lips parted, Gruis squatted beside them and smiled.
"Young master, would you like to try some gel balls?"
Fria's eyes brightened, and motioning toward her, he explained, "Young mistress likes them much."
His brow raised, and with curiosity, he smiled, "Why not."