A.N

I'm sorry for this very-long update. I am facing some king of writer's block, and a huge pile of laziness. Well, sorry. I really am. But, never mind that. I want to tell you guys that the college is hitting me know, and I get a never ending task day by day that drive me crazy.

Enough with the useless chit-chat. I represent you the very first chapter of THE MELODY OF THE WORLD. You guys will know what will Nico do in this story. And, sorry for a very bad grammars, guessed I can't help it, even though I tried my best to fix my grammar in my entire fics.

Well, enjoy it while you can, and please review it. It helps me a lot ^^

The Melody of The World 01

The party that contains Maki, Eli, and Rin took their first step to start their adventure. They wanted to reclaim the first part of the melody on the north. But, they suddenly stop after hearing something approach their foot.

"Hold your feet, Maki. There's something approaching us from there." Eli is holding her sword to protect the redhead.

From the place that Eli pointed, there's a huge horde of troll heading to their place. A huge pile of three-meter mountain troll, holding their huge bat and a huge shield to protect their left hand heading to the party.

"We're currently out from the city, and here we face the horde of troll on our first step. What a fortune." Eli's grip on her sword is getting stronger as the troll shorted their distance.

"On your position, guys. We will face a huge danger." After saying that, Eli rushed her step forwards, facing the troll by herself.

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Nico is toying around her hair as she lies on the top of the hill. She is bored, and she can't even get rid of it.

"Heck, I'm in a total bored." She yelled, pulling some grass and put it in her mouth. She's in a total boredom. Not far from her place, Maki and her party is facing some mountain troll. Nico hears the sound of the troll, and she took her time to see the troll.

"Well, I didn't notice a huge mountain troll can go this far from the mountain. I guessed I could use it to heal my boredom." Nico wields her sword and move her foot to the evidence, wanted to help the party.

Maki and her party notice someone's coming from the hill, wielding a sword and some kind of hand shield. Eli took her time to move and protecting her friend.

"Excuse me, Miss Raven-haired. What is your business here?" Eli is pointing her sword to the shorter girl.

"Wow, what a rude reaction you got there. Well, I'm a merchant soldier who apparently near from here. I see a huge horde of mountain troll who attacked you and willing to help you. Or so I say it, I wanted you to pay me some gold to help you out of here." Nico is explaining her motive, but nor her overall motives. She can't say that she wanted to help them to just clear her boredom.

"Hoo, you wanted us to hire you? I'm sorry, but I myself can clear this troll alone. Let alone, I can get rid this horde of troll as soon as possible." Eli's grip is getting stronger as she speaks to the shorter girl.

Nico laughed. "From what I see, you're having a hard time dealing with this troll. I can help you out, with a great amount of gold, of course." Nico smirk.

After hearing that word, Eli can't hold herself anymore. She wanted to swing her sword to stab the petite girl, but none other than the princess herself held her action.

"You can help us, right? Then, I will pay you as much as you want, as long as you promise to protect us." Maki is holding a pouch of gold and hand it over to Nico.

"P—Princess, you can't do that. That gold is our stock for the adventure." Eli refuses the princess reaction, showing her dislike towards Nico.

"But Eli, we're not capable of facing this horde of troll alone. I'm willing to get as many soldiers as I could to help us in this journey. We're going to have all the lyric of the melody of the world. I will never leave my ambition of getting know the truth of this world." The Princess says something that makes Eli hold her words, understand the situation.

"But, Maki-chan. Eli is right. We can't trust this girl yet. If you ever betrayed us, then I myself will cut off your head and handing it to the Orcs." Rin pulling her sword to make her words hold by the petite girl.

"You have my word." After saying that, Nico pulled her sword and move her feet to kill the remaining troll. It didn't take long before she killed the entire troll by herself. Troll's blood is filling her clothes and her face. Maki is amazed by how skilled Nico could be. She killed the entire troll by minutes.

"A—Amazing." Rin cannot hold her amazing look. Maki nodded, acknowledge the girl's technique.

"Now, can you trust me? I'm not a girl with the most amazing skill in the entire merchant soldier. But, I can guarantee you my protection. I will protect you until you fulfilled your duty." Nico is smiling to the redhead and her entire party.

"What a relieved, now I can take this adventure with ease. Now, named your name, soldier. Since we will be working on the same team from now on." Maki is raising her hand to shake the raven-haired hand.

"The name is Nico, Yazawa Nico to be exact. I'm a merchant soldier, well you already know that part. Here, I will give you my soul to protect you until you fulfilled your duty. Now, named your duty so for me to protect you." Nico asked the redhead in return.

"The name is Nishikino Maki. I'm the only heir of Nishikino Kingdom not far from here. My greatest goal is to get all the part of the melody of the world. I wanted to know the secret of this world, this is the first step for me to learn about this world, and ruled them someday."

"What a great motivation you have there," Nico smile, but she wipes her smile as soon as possible. "Wait, you said that you want to search the part of the melody of the world? I know one place where this part held. If you want, I will escort you there." Nico offers her help.

"Wait, Yazawa-san. We have our plan for this journey. We will go to the north to search the first part of the melody. We will never ruin our entire plan for one part of the melody." Eli says something to reject Nico's offer.

"The place is near from here. Besides, this place is certain. The princess will get another piece with ease, and going north is not the fastest and certain answer. I can escort you to this place, princess. We will get the piece and after that we can go to the north."

"Well, heading north after this piece is not a problem, Eli. We will get a piece of this song with ease, and I want that. Nico-san, escort us to the place you know. We will claim that piece." Maki decide.

"As you wish, princess." Nico smile before took her step to lead the party. They didn't know there's something wait for them in that place.

Well, what do you think about this first chapter? Is it good? Is it bad? I really want to know. So, please review it guys. Also, thanks for all the follows and favorites even though I didn't update this story. Meet you on the next chapter ^^