[ Sometime in the past [what Kazuma and Aqua were doing] ]
Kazuma and Aqua were drinking a cup of hot milk mixed with just the right amount of honey.
The two of them had just gotten off work and were glad to see that more orders...quests had come in.
The world of Remnant was a combination of Earth and the world Eris ruled over, meaning that it had both technology and monsters that tried to kill people.
The truth was that when they first came to this neither of them knew what to do, they felt as if they were at the beginning of the story again.
No money, weapons, and the only things they had on them were the clothes and tools they had brought from Eris world.
That feeling of helplessness lasted about as long as it took for them to realize that Adventurers existed in this world too.
The problem is that in Mantle and Atlas the government controls the Adventurers because it was the government or specifically the school in Atlas that trained the Huntsmen, \ Adventurers.
Then there was the issue that neither Kazuman nor Aqua were willing to listen to anyone that just wanted to order them around, so they decided to do something that might just get them in trouble.
So they found the cleanest bar they could find and Kauma worked his charm.
"Hey, look I can I put this sign here?" Kazuma asked the bartender who just looked at him and stretched out his hand signaling to Kazuma that he wanted to see what Kazuma wanted to put on his window first.
The man immediately raised an eyebrow before he began to spoke.
"I want more," he said to Kazuma
'What do you mean you want more, I already made sure to give you your cut, plus any expenses" the man lifted the piece of paper and showed Kazuma his mistake.
"You forgot the license bill, when word gets out about your business I will get in trouble" he said to Kazuma
the two of them immediately began to argue with one another and somehow Kazuma managed to get the man to agree to start an adventurers guild in his bar.
That first night both Aqua and Kazuma spent the time just looking at the stars and listening to all of the machines that kept Mantle warm.
The poster Kazuma placed on the window of the bar was an ad that said that if people needed him to fix something for them, he could do it, but he needed them to find the parts first.
There was a reason he placed that advertisement on the bar because he knew that eventually, someone would ask him to do something that they thought was impossible.
During the day Aqua would make water portraits using her magic to melt the snow around her, change it into different colors and make it so that it didn't just evaporate when people took the things home.
At first, people brought them heaters things everyone used like heaters, old washing machines, or asked the two to fix an old car for them.
It helped pay the bills and kept the two of them fed and they both soon found themselves living in a garage, one big enough for them both to work in.
It wasn't anything near the mansion they once lived in but it was home, it was their home.
Hell, that night both Aqua and Kazuma drank themselves to sleep, they were happy to have a place to call their own and not have to pay the bartender for letting them sleep in the bar at night after he closed.
So with a place to call their own, they both knew that with what little they earned wasn't going to be enough to pay the bills and the rent.
So they began to explore both the inside and the outside of the city to see what they could do and neither of them liked what they found.
Mantle was the place where everyone left behind lived in other words it was the place where no one rich lived, while atlas was the place everyone that was anyone lived in.
But they didn't care about that after all neither Aqua nor Kazuma had ever seen Atlas before at least not up close so they didn't care about it or the people that lived in it.
No the things they found were things that could easily make them money, unfortunately, they were also things that were dangerous and would make people's heads turn in their direction.
In the main streets, the cities heaters were working perfectly, unfortunately in the back alleys, they were breaking down, some had already broken down after being forgotten for so long.
That was just one problem.
Another problem was the cold spreading amongst the people, in the worse areas of the city.
Then there were all of the old buildings that needed to be repaired, just fixing one would have taken a normal group of people months.
It was a good thing that the two of them didn't have a problem with charging people for fixing their problems.
n the outside of the city they found a cold place that had barely any plants in it, at best they could find some grass here and there if they followed any animal tracks they found.
So Aqua decided to o something no one else could do, she reached into her sleave and pulled out a couple of pf plants that could survive in the cold climate.
According to her, if the plants were taken anywhere else on the planet and it wasn't a cold place they would die, but the cold snow-covered lands were perfect for them.
So Kazuma began to go door to door asking people if they had things that needed to be fixed or if their houses needed some repairs, some people thought about it and looked at him before showing him a machine they were going to throw away.
Others just closed the door on his face, some showed him the cracks that their house had and others told him that he needed to their landlord.
Oddly enough with all of the experience aqua and Kazuma had fixed all of the walls around Axel and a couple of other walls and cities that were destroyed in the other world, fixing people's houses was the easiest thing they did.
After a couple of weeks, the plants Aqua had planted had covered a large patch of land and she began to make home remedies, she sold them cheap, and soon enough the plague that had started as a common cold was nothing more than a memory.
So for a time, things were good and neither of them had to worry about paying for anything.
Then word started spreading about how the two of them made their living and all of a sudden the bar had a lot more customers.
At first, it was okay just a couple of kids that were looking for a way to make money showed up at the bar and the bartender did everything Kazuma had taught him, he took the kids names and checked to see if any of them knew how to fight, they didn't, so he gave them an extremely low-level job.
Then a couple of Huntsmen that had decided they didn't want to work under Atlas control showed up and because both Kazuma and Aqua had ignored the quests \ jobs to kill monsters because they didn't want to attract too much attention yet, there were a lot of those quests\ jobs.
It didn't take long for men and women that just needed to find work to find their way to the bar, and some of them joined the huntsmen despite not having any experience in killing monsters.
A lot of them returned to Mantle either shaken by their experience and either gave up trying to accompany the adventurers\ huntsmen or bought themselves something to defend themselves with and began to train themselves.
All of a sudden another divide between Atlas and Mantle had happened, while Atlas trained their Huntsmen in a school, Mantle bred its Adventurers on the field.
During all of this, both Kazuma and Aqua had been so busy working in the city that they never knew about the divide that had happened despite being the ones to set things in motion.
So as the weeks turned to months Aqua began to perform at the bar, she also began to perform in the streets, Kazuma accompanied her for a while just to make sure she didn't get into too much trouble.
It was a slow life, but not a bad life, after all this time they didn't have a demon king to defeat or any major story to play, no this time they get to enjoy their lives.
After a while a boy began to follow Aqua around, a rich kid from Atlas, the boy didn't say anything, he just followed Aqua and sometimes Kazuma.
Neither of them had any reason to make the kid go away, but if he wanted to follow them around, then they would test him to see what he was made of.
Before they knew it, Whitley stood inside their garage\ house and said to them.
"I want to be a huntsman"
"Okay so why are you telling me" Kazuma answered him