Chapter 72: Hero eting (IV).
Kein's POV
"Can I have more coffee please?" (Avery) asks , holding her cup out again.
This ti she takes Rose's warning and advice, once I poured the hot drink into her cup and poured a decent amount of grinded coffee powder before she stirred it with her spoon.
"I haven't tasted coffee in so long so sorry for the sudden outburst... especially the expensive kind I always get once I'm out of school." she tells us while blowing on the coffee waiting for it to cool down. I could see her casually fiddling with the rim of the cup with her fingers, looking nostalgic about the mories of her past.
"I'm actually still taking my studies in communication." (Avery) reveals that she was summoned in the middle of her studies.
"Y-You're still a student in your world?" (Rose) asks, a little shocked because seeing Avery William's figure you wouldn't think she was one.
At best you would think she's your local personal gym trainer with a cheery attitude helping you work out those muscles.
"Yes, I'm actually in my first year in college. I might look mature here but ntally my brain is blooping." She sticks out her tongue and laughs. "Haha! I just took on communication because I was really introverted back ho." her voice beca a little more uncertain and trembling.
"I couldn't leave my room because I've had this growing anxiety whenever I would talk with people. I had a certain fear of being well... ignored or being seen as irritating if I got too close." (Avery) smiles sadly looking at the reflection of herself in the drink she was holding.
"And I was actually very- very erm... chubby even when I ca into this world. Too much gaming and unhealthy snacks can really put you on so weight." she scratches the back of her neck laughing awkwardly and I continued to listen.
Rose on the other hand seems like there were a few little versions of her running around the top of her head looking confused having no idea what we were talking about.
"Gaming... college... what are they if I may ask? Are you also familiar with these words, Kein?"
Rose looked at not knowing these terms, she honestly looked a little cute when she asked.
"Well you see we actually ca from the sa world, but in just different tis. She was living her life in the year 2020 while I lived my life in 2045." I explained carefully by taking my sketchbook and pencil for her to draw a tiline. "Twenty-five years of difference, in my case if Avery were still alive we'd most likely be at the sa age by the ti she lives in my zone."
"The terms she said were still existing."
I also drew for her so of the things that I still rember.
The vehicle that we used for transportation all improved, cellphones, virtual reality and gaming all in high details. I gave her my sketchbook as she looked through all the sketches with amazent in her eyes.
"You live in this kind of world, it's so different... your sketches are wonderful." (Rose) moves each page and her fingers wander through several sketches she wishes she could've seen. "Amazing, with these kind of materials and inventions the life you've had must have been rather a convenient one."
I nod. I couldn't lie that everything in my ti made my life really convenient compared to the old years that I've lived here.
While magic mixed with adventure would be soone's dream, it wasn't mine. I wanted to live a normal life and die a normal life back then with my daughter.
I've never thought I would die getting hit by a truck and then getting in here.
"Oh! Oh! You should also introduce to her what guns are. Geez if those are in here plus being enchanted with magic imagine the chaos it will bring." (Avery) suggested that I draw the gun and I glared at her.
If I dare introduce this to anyone it'll be the death of , literally guns are sothing that I don't want to see in this world.
If it's sohow replicated especially by the [Winshern] kingdom, oh how will it turn the tides of war and it's not like I can find a gunsmith around here, I wouldn't even know how to build one anyways. "Avery I know you see guns as re toys now because you think you can be easily healed by magic here but those things hurt like a bitch-"
"I know how to make one though, I just need the parts and materials."
"Don't you dare make one you gun addict-" I almost grabbed her collar because she was sticking her tongue out at again being a brat! Guns are not sothing to be taken easily!
"What are these guns you speak of?" (Rose) asks and Avery goes into full detail on what they are. Excitedly pouring every information on the girl's head, and I couldn't even save her at this point because Rose was getting invested learning what world we ca from together.
"Guns are basically these things that go pew pew-" (Avery) holds out her hands to make gun fingers and begins making low quality budget gun shooting sounds. "But with tal bullets filled with gunpowder and so other stuff but it's not a toy! In my world these things were used to defend people now it's err... not in a good light much anymore."
I sigh, shaking my head not even wondering what I should have even expected from this girl.
"Even children can hold a gun in her country and I'm not joking." I took on to draw the gun, a simple one that I've seen and rembered to give to the princess.
"This is what it looks like- and it may not look much there's been bigger versions used for war but- this is already deadly." I tell Rose, taking the sketch in my hands, her head tilting slightly trying to imagine how such a thing exists that's able to kill many and one that can easily hold.
I could see Avery smiling while she takes her cup and coffee drinking it before fixing her sitting posture into the couch. "While I'm loving the gun talk- sorry we got sidetracked- I got too excited finally having people I can trust to tell about stuff from my world!"
"I don't get why we even had the gun talk, that one was completely pointless on our matter." I cross my arms feeling a little irritated.
Avery ignores chuckling a little before turning over to Rose. "Even you princess, I'm glad you're so curious about where we both ca from."
Rose holds onto the sketchbook still observing and studying the things I drew from our world. The princess takes a loose strand of her hair and tucks it behind her ear, "Well I've known Kein for all my childhood and recently she only revealed she wasn't from this world. I wanted to know everything there is about her..."
She slightly hides her face by raising the sketchbook to cover herself and mutters in a soft voice. "I an if that doesn't sound too- selfish. I just like learning more about her."
Oh for you, I will tell you everything you need just ask! You're too cute! I want to marry you but I can't say that one out loud yet! I wanna hold her hand too but this hero would tease the heck out of if she sees doing it.
"That's really nice! You two are so cute I ship it." she squeals a little giving a heart pose but oh well that was awkward. Rose stares at a little confused, "Why is she saying she ships us. There is no boat near us to be able to board us."
"Oh it's just an expression for we look good together and she approves of it."
"Your world has so peculiar expressions."
"Tell about it..."
Avery takes her hand balling it into a fist before coughing and crosses her legs.
"Well why don't we get into business? What's the job I need to get done? Anything I need to kill in a rush?" (Avery) says seriously as if she's turned into a completely different person.
The tone in her voice and the dark look in her eyes was different, "Tell what you need and I'll get it done."
"You're not the only one. I was hoping to be on the expedition. The first princess needs her cure for her sickness, mana deficiency and it's eating her at a really fast pace. I intend to leave in a few days, after settling so of my businesses left in my ho."
"Mana deficiency? Is she low on mana or sothing?" (Avery) asks and I didn't know what to say either all I know she was lacking in it.
"To be more exact, let's say she's been born with a natural curse of having sothing inside of her that's unhealable by any magic being inputted due to it being absorbed or eaten." It's such a complicated thing, a natural curse?
"Isn't like my magic?" If we talk about absorbing and as long as it's a curse I can handle it. "If that's the case I don't need to travel, we can just g back and let absorb the curse." I suggested and Avery quickly gave a look of disagreent.
"No- that's going to be such a stupid move bro. Haven't you seen ani with main characters trying to take a curse for themselves to save other people? When you absorb so curse doesn't it go through you?" (Avery) goes on to scold for not watching ani more carefully and I could feel sothing tugging on my sleeve.
Rose holds my sleeve and shakes her head with a crying look. "Don't you dare..."
"S-Sorry... but I thought of absorbing it and just putting it in my sword- and then releasing it or sothing?" I explained the idea that ran through my head but after saying it rather out loud it seems so foolish.
"A natural curse... what we an in [Puronia] is sickness not caused by magic. A natural sickness that's not easily healed, many would either perform risky surgeries and dicine but these kinds of people are rather rare." (Rose) bites her lip and rests her head on my shoulders trying not to cry.
Right, I've rarely seen a doctor or two since what we have in this world are called healers and mages that can use magic so the dicine knowledge is rather limited.
Due to the reason of [Puronia] not believing in dicine, and their ti were put into faith that soday the light goddess would bless them, heal the sick and solve all of their problems.
"Oh... I'm sorry to hear that your highness but actually in our world we had thousands of those kinds of people... Doctors is what we would call them and if you call these kind of sickness natural curse-"
Avery stops and gives us both a crazy theory.
"What if she's just- experiencing sothing else- like I'm not sure- cancer?"
"..."
Hold on- hold the hell on.
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