Sorry about the garbled mess earlier i had to figure out why i t was doing this i figured out if any of you ever have this problem when copy and pasting try and paste as plain text instead of a strait paste. Okay with that out of the way i hope you enjoy the new non garbled chapter.
She was currently talking to someone quietly on her scroll "Yes, there is someone here who might be who you were looking for Roman, talks strange, is unfamiliar with Vale, do you want me to follow him more closely?" She nodded her head in response, "Of course I'll leave it to you I have far more important things to do than follow some nobody to prove some wild ideas and theories of that crazy girl." She then quickly got back to work.
He finished everything and left a random green lien card on the table looked at the direction on the piece of paper and walked away toward the library. When he arrived, he was a bit surprised at the size of the place, it was a bit small by his standards, but considering the state of the world he wasn't to surprised. He walked inside and began to look around for any books pertaining to huntsman and the worlds history. After being directed by a librarian toward the books he was looking for he got to reading, and before he knew it was almost ten at night. He then placed the books back into their places and walked out of the library. "I really lost track of time, dammit." He said out loud. He looked at the directions to the grocery store and hoped they were still open at this time as he began heading toward it. Only he felt like he was being watched, he began casually looking around seeing if he could spot anyone.
He didn't spot anyone but still couldn't shake the feeling, during the war he had learned to trust his feelings, on more than one occasion it had saved his life, but he had to remind himself that he wasn't in a warzone anymore, he was in a place that for all of its strange rules and hostile creatures, was relatively peaceful. He couldn't help but smile as he looked up and saw more stars than he had seen in so long. It actually made him stop and look around to find a place to sit, he couldn't find one so he decided on leaning against a wall instead. He remembered when he was very young, he would often walk outside at night and look at the stars to clear his head, they always seemed to be able to make him think more clearly. After a few minutes of looking up he returned to his walk toward the store, when he finally arrived, he found them to be open to his surprise. He walked inside and retrieved the items he needed, when he paid, he realized he had very little Lien left. He sighed, as he began walking back towards the gate.
As he was walking, he looked down the alley from earlier and saw the same faunus in the alleyway, she must have been there for hours unable to really move and no one even did anything. He stopped as he looked at her barely moving form, after a bit of hesitation he walked down the alleyway after setting down he bags of groceries. When he came close to the girl, he could see all of the bruises all over her face and arms, and he was sure there were far more under her old and tattered shirt. He pulled out a blue colored lien note after careful magical examination of the note he placed it back in his satchel and grabbed some dirt from the ground and took a breath, faint swirling blue light surrounded the pile of dirt in his hand and soon the dirt began to change shape. After about a minute of the dirt changing shapes and form it finally formed into a stack of the blue lien from before. He then kneeled down in front of the girl, when he reached out, she reacted violently by punching him and scrambling further away. He rubbed his chin where the haphazard punch connected, He then approached slowly and whispered calmly "I'm not going to hurt you okay? I just wanted to give you something." He held up the blue lien, she looked at him, distrusting, her eye furrowed into a scowl, and he could see it, the hate, fear, and desperation in her eyes. He was all too familiar with the look, "Here," He placed the lien on the ground and took a few large steps back. "I'm sorry." It was all he could say as he walked out of the alleyway.
Waitress P.O.V.
After she had left work saying she was sick, she followed the man for several hours, he was an interesting fellow, especially when he had stayed in the library for more hours than she thought someone was capable of. After he had exited, he walked to the grocery store she had given him directions to. She took note of everything he did along the way, at one point she almost panicked when he stiffened up as he walked and kept looking around as if looking for something. "There is no way he could see me or hear me, right?" She thought to herself, that is until he looked directly at her, but he shrugged and seemed to just shake his head and keep moving. When he got his groceries, he began walking down the same path he left, when he walked past an alleyway with a badly beaten faunus he stopped, she could see his furrow into scowl, but then the scowl eased up and all she saw were tired piercing blue eyes. After what happened earlier, she didn't dare get to close in fear of him hearing or seeing her.
He set his groceries down and walked down the alleyway, she was prepared to lash out to defend her fellow faunus, but after the girl punched him and he didn't really seem to be angry, she narrowed her eyes, people who were truly kind to faunus were few and far between. "What are his motives?" She thought, and she dared to get a bit closer, when she was just peeking around the corner of the alley way, she saw something that should not have been possible. He had a handful of dirt and from that dirt several blue lien cards appeared were where the dirt once was after a fait blue light covered them. "I need to report this." She thought as she took off down the street.
David P.O.V
After retrieving his groceries he quickly began making his way to the gate, he decided as soon as he was out of sight and earshot he would use teleportation magic to get back home, even as strong as he was he had no interest in fighting Grimm the entire way home for a handful of groceries. As he was about to turn a corner, he heard the distinct sound of gunfire and combat, he froze. This was the only way he knew how to get out of the city, he could try wandering but despite its small size compared to other cities he had seen it was densely packed and the street layout wasn't in a grid format or anything like that so following a street wasn't a guarantee he'd end up somewhere actually useful, he didn't know how to call the authorities on his scroll, as he now learned it was called, that Interloper gave him. He took a deep breath and carefully peeked around the corner to see what he could only describe as a small girl wielding a scythe that was at least a couple feet taller than she was, he could only assume she was a huntsman or at least one in training. He sighed "Great," He whispered "Now I'm stuck, won't interfere, she looks like she has got it under control." Just as those words came out of her mouth the girl was assailed by a man in a white suit and a bowler hat throwing her into the ground with a cane dazing her, he took a breath. "Dammit"
Roman P.O.V
As he was about hit her with his cane a frost covered chain wrapped around his arm and began to squeeze, his Arura mostly mitigated the damage, but he could feel the strength behind it, if he didn't have a very strong aura his bones would be in several pieces at the moment, then he heard a voice. "Is that any way to be treating a lady?" He turned to see a man who looked to be in his late thirties to early forties with deep blue eyes, the chain that had latched onto him was coming from somewhere behind him. This made him want to leave immediately, this guy was probably a hunter, and an experienced one by the looks of it, he could see it in the way he held himself, loosely but not casually almost like he was tensing up, ready to immediately jump into action, his hands were behind his back striking an almost regal figure. The chains were most likely his semblance, and a pretty nasty one at that, but he had to do something, so he lifted his cane and pulled the trigger firing the large fire dust round at the man's face, another chain sprang out and blocked the round but the fire dust in the round exploded in his face making him cover his eyes and he felt the chains titan like grip loosen he quickly removed his hand. He pulled out his scroll "Cinder I need to be picked up it seems we might have bit off more than we can chew, I got a hunter here who doesn't look pleased in the slightest at our little show."
A womans silky voice that made him squirm came from the scroll, "Roman at least tell me you have the Dust, because if not we are going to need to have a talk."
Roman deftly dodged a chain attempting to warp around his leg, "Well considering we have a bloke here who is putting me on the back foot I would say no, but you know me, so yes I got some of it anyway, but I could really use a bit of assistance." Another chain came from a seemingly impossible angle and tried to grab him, but he deftly dodged it. "Not very good at catching people are you, old man?"
The man cocked his head to the right. "When did I ever say I was trying to catch you, believe me if I wasn't retired, had a long day and didn't have to much of a desire to deal with the authorities you would have been caught, but think of this as courtesy, leave and I won't mention this to anyone, or that you have a partner named Cinder."
Roman froze, "How the hell did he hear that in the middle of a freaking fight?" He thought.
"Continue trying assail me and the young lady and you'll find out just how strong this old man is." His voice didn't hesitate or fluctuate which to Roman meant two things. One, This guy was one of the best liars he had ever met, or two, he was very confident in being able to beat him, he leaned towards more of the latter when one of the chains lashed out faster than he could react and hit him right in the chest slamming him against a wall his aura becoming dangerously weak. He hadn't even been able to react properly, he looked to his left and saw the girl stirring, rubbing her head then looked back at the older man. His voice once again calm, cool and collected "Choose wisely." His eyes are what really made Roman flinch he'd seen those eyes before on people who had killed before, and he was pretty sure this guy wouldn't hesitate to kill him, he didn't think himself some hero he would eliminate whatever he saw as a threat. Roman quickly jumped onto the roof and onto the bullhead that was coming in.
David POV
He didn't make an attempt to stop him, he just calmly stood there waiting to see if anything else would occur. He did see a woman at the helm of the bullhead, and briefly they locked eyes, they were the eyes of someone furious about something. When the bullhead was out of sight he looked to see the girl from earlier actually getting up, he quickly took off down the street and left, he exited the city just as quickly, he only slowed down when he made it back to the trail he had used earlier to get to the road. When he finally teleported back home, he deactivated all of the security measures and after putting all of the groceries away he slumped down into an arm chair in the living room. He took a deep breath, and sighed, "I think that's enough excitement for one day." As he drifted off, he wondered when was the last time he fell asleep so easily.
