"Watch out for the steps."
"Hmph, I will most definitely after today's incide...."
*crack*
"FUCK! again?" thought Nazar as he lunged again to catch her hand.
"KYAAAh"
The grease on his hand was long gone, so he managed to grab him, but the fresh bandaged wounds opened instantly, dying the bandages red.
"Ouch"
"Are you okay?" asked Taara with a worried look on her face, not like she was about to crack his skull open just a moment ago again. She really is a shining gem, he thought to herself.
"Yeah, no worries, just let me hold your hand."
"Okay," she muttered silently with a blank face.
They descended the stairs carefully, finally touching the ground of the side alley.
"Oh, thank God, dear mother earth, I am so happy I could kiss you." Her usual whinings began again.
"Nah, if you ever get used to it, it's better. My little, lovely shop is like my little eagle nest," GAWK. Nazar was remarking calmly, but in an instant he started gawking and flapping like an eagle. This absurd gesture made Taara giggle a little bit.
"Aahha, you are such a weirdo, Mister Nazar," she reluctantly squeezed in his name to her sentence, maybe hoping to have a closer relationship with him in the back of her subconscious.
"Haa yippe, I am glad. I hoped it would relax you and make you laugh a little. Since then, you have been whining, cursing, and shouting. Man, it would suck being near you really. Was that the real reason behind your lack of companion?" stated blankly, Nazar does not have a shred or drop of capability in intersex relations or relations in general at all.
*THWACK*
"ACK!"
A sledgehammer-like fist landed right on the back of his head, and he rolled like a ragdoll on the ground.
"YOU...deserved it,she shouted angrily at first, but as she bit her lips, she just controlled herself and
continued
"What if I had some weak spots, huh?? Would it be worth hurting me for nothing—no, just for your fun?" Huh,she asked genuinely. She grimaced and thought about the possibility of the man he asked for help being a complete insensitive bastard, her least favorite type of person...
"Aah, now you feel more alive."
"huh?"
"Calm down; I am just teasing you. and I know, of course, you have no weakness about your friends. I could smell your goodness and naivety from a mile away. So let me tell you something. You didn't do anything wrong; you better remember that."
"You say so?" She replied with eyes staring blankly at—not in this time but way past in time.
"Yes, I say so. Let me tell you one last time: brighten up. And don't think about the past if you want to save those lives. Focus. A distracted hunter will be the prey's hunt, Miss Taara."
"Haah, yes, you are right, Mister Nazar", she said with a resolution as she slapped her cheeks to concentrate.
"Just Nazar would suffice, and I don't think your cheeks deserved that beating."
"Call me Taara then."
Last few weeks, I was really off from myself, which is true, but even recognizing my anxiety and fear that normal people would toss aside as the simple whims of a young girl? He is really a good observer, dangerously good, even guessing its origins in my past.
"OoOoOOOooOwİEE,what do we have here?"
"oh no"
"You know him??"
"OF COURSE HE DOES HE IS MY LOVELY BOSS, MR. CHARMER, DIDNT YOU SEE ME SPINNING THAT SIGN OW YEAH? said the hippie-looking blonde man wearing a red beanie and shorts and rocking a goatie and dreadlocks. One couldn't grasp his age or ethnicity or anything about him at all; he looked completely unique and out of this world.
"Yeah, Vie, she is not really the smartest tool in the shed; she has like some sort of dementia or something."
"OW MY Q FOR QUEEN THATS BAD THIS G IS REAL SORRY,AND DID YOU DİTCH THE MR G TO HANG OUT WİTH THE DIM BADDIE"
"Mr Green went for a stroll to collect some materials and this is my sidechickmedic"
"WHAT?? WHAT THE HELL YOU..."
"Didn't you forget, like, the name of the shop? you even stepped on the broken stairs not only once, but twice. I thought you were a very special girl", Nazar explained innocently.
"Aaah, so funny, Nazar really,who really is the mister G that I replaced",replied Taara, while rubbing his eyes as she was fed up already.
"Ahh, Nothing Important dont you worry"
"ANYWAYSIE BOSS, I DIDNT THINK I SAW YOU TALKING WITH A GIRL BEFORE,OH MY RUDENESS WHATS THE NAME TAG LITTLE GIRL MY Q MINE İS VIE"shouted joyfully man.
"Oh, my ears work fine so no need to shout like im somebodys grandma; thank you, hah. The name tag of this "little girl" is Taara. Be careful, this little girl. can bisect and stitch you backwards", she replied in tease with a big smile.
"OOh, Femme Fatale, I like her already", he said as he tried to lower his voice down to normal human levels.
"Ahh Vie I am leaving for today, so let me give you your medicine."
"ALL GLAD BIG G HURRAY HUZZAH BANZAI BANZAI!" he shouted and waved his hands joyfully. It seems like he reverted to factory high volume settings again.
Nazar rummaged through his blue, green, white, tricolored, striped, and ragged coat, and after a short moment, he found what he was looking for a nightmare repellant it was a small glass pill with a dark and blue haze. Before giving it to him, he asked with a serious face.
"No new symptoms, right?"
"Yes, big g, I sleep like a baby again; no matter how much I thank, I feel like it wasn't enough", he commented with an unexpectedly shy look at him.
Taara, who was listening for their word exchange with a smile, was not expecting this side of Him. She surprised him and took a few steps back, like she was just interrupting a special moment between them.
"Ahah, I don't need anything, Vie. You can keep spinning the sign; that's enough. Now see you then", Nazar glossed over while smiling.
As they kept walking, a voice was heard from their backs.
"YOU GOT ME BOSS.I GONNA KEEP UP THE STREETS SAFE IN YOUR STEAD,YEAH,WHOOO" He was back to his crazy old self.
"Hah, when did I have that kind of mission? Just keep yourself safe, thats enough", replied Nazar as he waved his hand behind.
...
After some time, they were still walking through the bazaar although close to the exit. The various races were selling their various stuff; most of them were traveling merchants. The area they were in was bustling with people shopping, coming in and out, buying and selling...
Even the afternoon sun wasn't enough to stop the inevitable pilgrimage of gold coins from one purse to another.
"So what's his problem i guess not normal insomnia?"
"he is a War veteran,PTSD it is one of the most severe ones I have seen."
"Oh, that is worse."
"Definitly, the Campaign on Jungle Races that the previous king made was a disaster.Countless have died, and even more came home missing limbs. His situation may be even worse than them his mind is broken."
Taara was all ears, listening attentively.
"He is a manaphobic and magicophobic, with an extreme fear of magic and mana..."
after a moment he continued talking
"Especially as you know, mana is the source of, well, not everything, yes, but many things. Most things have mana as a life source. Ahh, he was a brilliant soldier, not just some poor boy that threw himself onto the battlefield, a proper one...but life does not go in a straight line. His line was so full of potential, yet it got cut in half. He was assigned to the Forest God subjugation duty. such a shame"
"A-A Forest God??" She asked, as she couldn't curb his curiosity.
"Yes, normally I wouldn't advise speaking a god's name out loud, but it's in a slumber, so no worries if you want to make a new tongue twister out of his name."
Even if he wasn't in slumber, not that he would or could go after me at all, he thought to herself after he closed his eyes, smiling and trying to remember something.
"I will definitely not do it."
"Hah." Ahua Yascha" the forest god of spirits, annihilated a whole battalion; only four people made it out alive, including me and Vie. To summarize, the mana was so dense, and the magic the god was casting was so eldritch. Well, now you have the reason for the disease."
"So how did you heal him?" she asked with the thought of asking about him itching in the back of his head. Even though it was hard, she surmounted the urge.
"I didn't , he destroyed his own mana eyes and magic core; I only helped him with the nightmares; that's the least I could do."
"It is a miracle that he didnt just die from the pain; I have seen patients with damaged cores and intact bodies die from the pain alone."
"Miracle, huh? I wish they existed, but no, that wasn't it..."
"Soooo, all of that wasn't even enough for you to have conscience and not make that poor guy work under the sun. You monster, no wonder seeing you exploit your friends; there isn't anyone you can count on, she said as she faked a face of disapproval.
"What? Didn't you understand that he spins the sign because he feels ashamed? Sometimes I can't even fathom how thickheaded you are. I mean, how did you even be a doctor? *GASP* haaa, I didn't even ask for your license. God damnit, I am fooled by a con artist, an extremely dumb one."
"AARghh, let me tease you just for a bit. You are impossible to guess chaotic bastard; it was a joke,and you even turned it against me... FUCK!" He replied now, genuinely frustrated.
"Ooh, what if I had a weak spot about that?"
"I know you did nothing wrong, Nazar. You are several times younger than you think and even more naive than me, heheh." She stated this as she smiled childishly.
"Ahh, if you say so," replied Nazar. as he thought a bit
young and naive maybe that suits me well
...
at the same moment in the still same dark alleyway which they have been waiting for several chapt...*ehem* several hours
"Hmpschc whach chall we doo then myahahahhah,now your bosch isch gone your so called weaponsch are oursch to take"said the toothy man gazing from the darkness
the passerbys of the street glanced at these weird short man but he simply ignored them because...
he thought they didnt see him??? oh god...
"Oi,whats with them?"said a man crossing in front of the side alley
"Beats me they must be some kind of weirdos"replied the other
after some time Godfather finally spoke to his underlings,tried his best to at least
"now that we finally found our rivals supplier,we are gonna be the only rulers in this city isnt that right boss? these dumb motherfuckers really pulled the pin on themselves by exposing that they were selling weapons MuahahHAh...
"...Yesch Butsh Donth laugch More Schinischter Tchan mhe"
"what??,I really dont understand you at all boss" stated the underling while opening arms like there wasnt something he can do
"...Egschechute hcim bouysch!!"boss ordered furiously
"Aaah??,do we buy some eggs boss."replied the other one
"ooH,boss is gonna make us omelettes"
"Dchumb MothcerhFuchskersh"
...