"So Blue, Green what are you two doing with Black and White or is it White and Black," the bartender said to Kazuma and Aqua but his last words were directed to Whitley and his team

"We need a lot of people, both to fight and to help us dig," Kazuma said to the bartender

The bartender raised his eyebrows at Kazuma's words.

"If you're looking for dust forget it, all of the duat left around here belongs to Atlas and the Schnee family," the bartender said to Kazuma

"Good, because we're looking for coal," Kazuma said to the bartender

As Winter listened to the men talk she couldn't help but shake her head, it was true that coal could burn and it could be used to keep people's houses warm, but it also let out too much smoke.

The smoke itself was dangerous to people's health not to mention that just a single ember could start a house fire that would quickly spread throughout Mantle.

"Okay just fill out the paperwork and I'll put the word out, but without a good reward don't expect anyone to join you and those friends of yours in this little trip," the bartender said to Kazuma as Kazuma wrote down what he needed.

[Pesent}

Winter placed her hand on her head as she remembered seeing the bartender make copies of the information Kazuma had given him.

"The man just wrote down that he needed people to help him mine coal and their reward would be half of the coal that they dug up"

"Considering the appliances they started to sell when they came back I think they got a better deal than most people do these days," Willow said as she looked at the barbeque rill that was outside of her house

"What do you mean?" Weiss asked her mother

"You see because Kazuma and Aqua aren't citizens of Mantle or Atlas they couldn't exactly sell things legally, so your brother offered to do it for them"

"I don't know what happened out there" "Mam if I may" Wilow began but one of the Turks stopped her

"We hadn't met the boss yet and like the rest of the adventurers in Mantle, we considered him nothing more than another Atlas dog"

"Ah no offense maam," he said to Willow who just wave it off

"No one took the poster seriously, I mean think about it, we would have to leave the city and risk our lives for something as useless as coal," the Turk said as he let out a regretful breath

"Well by then we all knew that if Blue and Green were involved then they were planning something, so most of us sighed up hoping to be a part of what they were planning"

The boss used an old airship to get us as close as he could to that mountain over there" The Turk as he pointed at a mountain in the distance

"So we avoided a lot of the dangers along the way"

[Past]

As they walked they could feel the cold wind on their faces it felt like razors cutting their skin, every time the wind blew, but they couldn't stop walking their destination was just up ahead.

They found themselves standing at the entrance of a cave and as everyone walked Whiteley shared the bottles of whisky he had with everyone.

One by one everyone took a drink and passed the bottle to the next person.

"o how are we going to get to the stuff, I mean isn't coal supposed to be deep underground" Reno said to Aqua and Kazuma

"Normally yes but this cave was once a mine for dust, they threw out all of the coal because they thought it was useless and they took all of the dust," Kazuma said to Rude

Aqua began to walk around the cave and she soon stood in front of a large pile of snow, her arms began to glow and soon all of the snow had melted off the rocks around them.

"Kazuma look!" Aqua said to Kazuma

"And it looks like the only thing that we have to do is break it ad take it home," Kazuma said to Rude before walking up to Aqua and patting her on the head.

"Hehehe" Aqua immediately began to laugh

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[Present]

"We worked for weeks and because we didn't have any more airships we had to leave most of the coal behind, either way, the job was done," he said to them

"I know it doesn't seem like much but trust me as seeing how the boss struggled to pike up the pick and break those roks apart only to end up with a brand new black suit for his trouble"

"Everyone including Rude and Silver laughed at him and anyone else that ended up doing something dumb like that."

"I can't put it into words, but back then he wasn't the boss. Back then he was one of us"

"An adventurer," he said to them with a regretful voice