"Sigh!!" Walking the streets of the Blacksteel shelter Guilliman couldn't help but sigh, as he stared at the tallic water bottle in his hand.
After a serious session of negotiations, the old man had finally decided to give him sothing. However it was not what he expected.
"Maybe I was the one who got scamd"
[Echo: Endless Stream (ordinary-king)
Describtion: within this water bottle lays an endless supply of drinkable water]
The tallic bottle was a beast echo, although the old man apparently swore those off, he had kept this since he was young. It held sentintal value so even getting it out of him was extrely hard.
"Whatever, this wasn't part of the plan anyway" Guilliman quickly pushed the entire thing to the back of his mind as he walked to the gate of the Silverstein house with several bags of supplies in hand.
…
Entering the compound Guilliman walked to the general area of his room, right before the pond.
As soon as he reached, he noticed two silhouettes standing right before the pavilion.
One was an incredibly tall man with an impressive physique and the other was a girl around his hight with a calm and contemplative look.
"She's back?" Guilliman asked looking directly at Victoria. She had been away for a pretty long ti after the qualifying matches, even he didn't know where she went to.
"Hm?" Turning to look at Guillimans figure, Victoria called forth, her hand waving him over with delight.
She seed to be happy to see him.
"You're back huh?" Guilliman asked smiling widely as he looked at the silver haired beauty. In their first encounter he thought of her as just another young mistress from an influential clan.
However, getting to know her, seeing her fight. Her sense of responsibility towards her cohorts and her loyalty, he couldn't help but admire her.
It was hard to be like this while having everything you can possibly have in one hand.
"Yes, my journey was fruitful" Victoria smiled, a lone mission she had brushed death several tis in the past few days. If only they knew…
"I see you're preparing for the gate" Victoria soon noticed the bags in Guillimans hand and pointed them out.
Supplies were extrely important for Gate clearly.
No one knew what awaited them on the other side nor did they know how long they would even be staying there. The more prepared you are the better.
"Ahh, yes, you can never be too ready" Guilliman nodded, a smile appearing on his face. He was such his asly preparations couldn't compare to Victorias.
"Yes, I should try and hit a market too, maybe tomorrow you'll take
there?" Victoria asked a cool expression on her face, she spoke like this was only natural for soone of her standing to go to a market to buy supplies?
Couldn't she easily get soone to do it?
"Hm? What that? Milk?" Noticing so bottles in a particular bag, Victoria stretched her hand forward to see them.
But Guilliman quickly drew his hand back, not allowing her to touch it.
This was the bag containing the bottles of milk-wine. After staying with the Silverstein family for so many weeks, Guilliman had co to understand their family dynamics.
Mr Silverstein was the reckless powerful father, who enjoyed the 'finer' things in life, and Victoria was the responsible daughter who would throw her father into a well if she found him acting like a thug.
That to say, if Victoria were to find out what the contents of that bottle were, she would imdiately blow a gasket and both of them would be in a lot of trouble.
Good thing she trusted him though.
"Uhhh, it's nothing serious, I've been having a hard ti sleeping these days so i bought them to experint." Guiliman explained the best he could, he could handle the old man's trouble, but if Victoria got angry at him he wouldn't know what to say.
"Ahhh, that happens when you work too hard sotis" Victoria nodded, she had battled with insomnia severally, this was not new, it was born from constant hardwork.
She gave him so advice on how to sort his insomnia and bid farewell to her father citing that she was extrely tired.
Before they knew it, it was only Guilliman and the old man Silverstein.
"Phewwe" the tall intimidating brute of a man sighed in relief seeing that Victoria didn't catch on. If she had, they would be in a world of trouble.
"You did good kid, now co on up" beckoning Guiliman forward, he walked up the stairs of the pavilion and sat down in the middle.
"Hmm," Guilliman nodded,
This was the first ti he would be climbing of this pavilion, clearly he had risen a tier in the old man's heart.
As he climbed up the stairs though, Guiliman noticed sothing incredibly strange. Each step felt like a leap from hell to heaven, not in the sense of difficulty though…
No, it just felt like he was moving extrely high.
It wasn't until he finished ascend and looked down that his heart gripped tightly.
It looked like he was high up on a mountain right now. The ground felt so far dispite him moving just a few steps.
"Co on kid, show
the good stuff, she can't hear what we say up here" Mr Silverstein beckoned his hand stretched out to receive the bag filled with bottles of wine.
The sooner he got it out of the kids hand the better.
"Ohh, here you go, I got you one extra even" Guilliman handed the bag to the old man and smiled. He had been able to get six from the wrinkled old man ontop the useless beast echo.
"Ahh, good thank you little man." With a glow in his eyes, he accepted the bottles and smiled, this was mostly what he cared for, even what Guilliman had gotten out from it didn't seem to concern him.
"Ohh, as for your reward, here you go" the silhouette of a small stone flew through the air and landed on Guillimans palm causing him to frown.
"A red stone?"
Guilliman froze, what was it with this old geezers and colored stones?!!
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