The night finally grew old, telling rleen and to end the day. I handled the laborious stuff, including picking the logs and watching out for the bonfire.
rleen had sothing planned in mind. She was the one brewing the dicines and making a decent al for our dinner. Since we could not function with an empty stomach, the two of us dug in and filled our bellies with the grubs found elsewhere.
After finishing our als, the two of us went back to sleep. Well, that was our original plan, if it were not for rleen staring at my figure for half an hour.
"I thought we're going to sleep?" I asked.
But the adorable rleen couldn't take the hint. She maintained her position for as long as she could before falling to her strained chest on the make-shift bed.
With a grunt, she raised her head back and opened her mouth. "Nope. rleen is not sleepy and rleen couldn't sleep."
I faced in her direction, tilted my head, and asked. "What do you an you couldn't sleep? How can your body move tomorrow?"
rleen was an outstanding wizard who even knew how to make an astral space using a ring! However, I did not want to push herself to the fullest, especially after knowing what she had experienced.
"Is sothing wrong?" I asked, leaning closer to her face.
rleen abruptly retreated while covering herself with gigantic leaves ant for a blanket. However, after a few seconds, she returned in front of and shuffled her pinkish cheeks.
"Are you going to leave rleen?" Her soft voice escaped her mouth as rleen asked a question.
Those words alone pressed on top of , with her eyes locked on my figure. Sweat flowed down onto my skin, basking with salty rivers that ca from . However, I maintained my posture and cleared my throat.
"What do you want to do after this?" I returned the question to the odd girl.
rleen did not have anywhere to go, while I had an impossible mission to fulfil. We were two peas in a pond, floating where the current would take us.
The wizard girl shook her head and replied, "rleen doesn't know"
It was what I had expected. rleen had a hopeless look in her eyes, screaming about getting out of her cage. However, those chains kept latching her to the ground, pinning her with every movent.
Her magic beca a double-edged sword she could not use, not until earlier.
After the brief silence that we experienced, rleen finally had the guts to say sothing out of her mind. "rleen wants to join you, Arthur!"
I stood from my temporary bed with widened and disbelieving eyes. I thought at first that the wizard girl was pulling my leg. It turned out my leg was not the only one that got hauled into the abyss.
Instead of chuckling up a storm, I returned rleen's stern look. "Do you even know what I want to do?"
rleen shuffled her head from left to right and answered with a smile. "Not a single clue!"
"Then why would yo-,"
"Because rleen wants to be with you rleen doesn't know what to do or where to go" A sniffing sound reverberated throughout the campsite, with her tears forming a puddle on the ground.
But before I could even give her my answer, rleen cut off with her sentence. "But rleen will slow you down rleen could not use magic yet rleen feels scared every ti rleen uses magic rleen is a worthle-."
"You can co."
I did not know what had gone into my body, but it felt perfect. My arms found themselves wrapped around rleen's back, squeezing her as tight as my muscles could go. Three words were enough to silence the wailing rleen.
I did not want to hear her complete that sentence I forbade rleen from describing herself as a useless girl. She was more than a capable mage, even the strongest if I had to be blunt.
Within a few seconds, rleen lifted her head and t my eye. She caught staring into her crying soul. My experience with won ca from virtual novels and fantasy gas, so I did not know what comforting words I had to say.
But I only knew one thing. I did not want rleen to leave my side. It would be a waste if this dazzling girl slipped out of my hands. And regardless of her outside appearance, rleen was the one who saved .
"Do you an it?" rleen asked for the nth ti.
I did not get mad at her. My face continued smiling, praying that rleen would believe my words. If there was one thing that I was sure about in my life, it was rleen.
There was no way in hell I would leave her side.
"I an it, rleen. You can co if you want to."
"Yes!!!"
rleen's vibrant reply stole my heart for good. Her smile nded the scars left inside my body. I knew I was still an immature boy, learning about the ways of life. I was still a boy that wanted to play the hero in this world. Now that fate gave a chance, I wanted to fulfil that promise.
"We're going to a lot of places you've never seen before, okay? I need your legs to walk as you've never walked in your life!"
"Yes!" rleen answered.
"We're going to fight a lot of monsters along the way. So of them would be weak as mobs, while others could be boss-like creatures! We might die, but we still need to level up, rleen."
"rleen doesn't know what bosses and level up ans, but yes!" rleen replied.
"And rleen."
"Yeah?"
I paused for a second, wondering if she planned on fighting the demon lord with . Even the NPCs knew about the demon lord's existence. It was a myth that could terrorise the world, after all.
However, upon seeing rleen's face, I gathered my courage and told her everything I knew, including my past life.
"rleen, my job is to kill the demon lord. You might not believe , but I ca from another world"
....
I told rleen about my past and where I ca from. She did not know that planets resided in outer space. Although she had a hunch, she had a surprised look on her face upon learning it from .
rleen even thought of as soone smart. But it was the other way around. She, who had no scientific books to rely on, had a hunch of the entire universe.
"Tell rleen more about your world!" rleen said, with glittering stars in her eyes.
It was a lengthy tale, and I knew it would take the two of us until morning. But I shrugged it off and continued narrating my story.
Every ti I talked about automobiles and communication devices, rleen's face giggled like a ball falling from the sky. When I ntioned gravity, she imdiately pestered about it.
It was as if my Science teacher asked a pop-quiz, with rleen being the dumb professor.
But that was not the end. rleen's surprised expression doubled when rleen heard about the absence of magic on Earth.
"Aren't you supposed to be a knight in shining armour?" rleen asked, with her face drooling with saliva. A feminine scent fluttered in the air, but I paid it no mind.
However, what the wizard girl said had a point. If I were an NPC living in this world and knew about other world's existence, I would have asked the sa thing.
"I don't know," I plainly answered, since it was the truth, after all.
rleen believed every word I ntioned. She was just like a little child, confiding her faith in a fairy tale.
But the fun part had only begun when I ntioned the presence of systems in this world. rleen tilted her head and asked what a system does to soone. rleen even guessed that a system was sothing like a portion of food.
"A magical system is a set of laws that govern how supernatural powers are utilised and created within a setting," I explained.
rleen had her shock tripled when she heard that the world ca out from a ga.
"Magique?" she murmured.
I gave her a nod. "Yes, Magique. That's the na of the ga."
After telling her about the surface of my past life, I stood up and opened up a window. No, it was not the window inside the house, but my system's window. rleen sat still and continued watching from point-blank range, wondering what was happening at my fore.
"Watch."
Within a few seconds, the transparent window appeared before us, with the statistical power I had. I was slightly conscious about my power at first. But rleen was not like those players I t. She did not care if I had low numbers in that area.
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