Bi.Yu.Ji. : DrainKore

Chapter 3 : Café Al De

"Alright! We're here!"

The priestess jumped around, skipping towards the small spring tables set on the right side of the Clock Tower. Zephyr followed Merviantedes, looking around, examining the place.

From one table, a knight with red hair raised his cup of tea while reading the Poring Daily Inquirer. Beside him was a Priest who immediately left the silent knight then teleports just in time before Merviantedes reached the table.

"Jakatta! Hey, wasn't that Mudro by any chance?"

The knight nodded as he laid the paper on the desk looking up to the priestess. From his seat he stood up in front of the priestess and kneeled in front of him reaching for her hand giving them a slightly brushed pat from his lips before standing up again.

"Good Evening my lady."

The knight graced her with his mocking yet handsome smile. Noticing the black haired person from behind he asked the priestess about him who was in a day dream mode.

"A friend of yours?"

He pointed out to the monk who was behind her. Zephyr walked towards the seat beside the priestess and just sat there staring at the knight who shot back at him. After gulping up a glass of apple juice, she turned to Zephyr and smiled at him.

"Yep! I met him back in Juno."

Jakatta held his hand onto his chin, supporting his head as he slouched a bit on his seat turning his line of vision to the priestess in front of him with a slightly amused tone. Curving his lips a little, he played a smile on his lips.

"Oh, and I wonder what we're you doing back there?"

Merviantedes almost choked on her apple juice as she faced the protruding knight smiling at her. She just etched a forced smile on her face thinking that she's in big trouble this time.

"I don't mind you exploring you know. It is a game and it's supposed to be fun."

"O.o and you're saying?"

Jakatta let out a long sigh as he covered his face with his left hand looking back at the priestess who sure looked clueless.

"No, never mind. Anyway, your friend here…is he lagging?"

They both looked upon the still-staring-blankly-at-the-knight monk as they both smiled to themselves thinking that he must be. Unknown to them that Zephyr was undergoing technical or program difficulties at that time.

"Des, I have to get going now, or would you like to come?"

The knight stood up fixing his armor and strapping back his sword. When the girl was about to stand up, one hand of the monk tugged her left hand pulling her back to her seat.

"Err, I guess that's a no…Well then, see you perhaps later?"

Jakatta fled the scene with his other hand waving goodbye to the two avatars. Merviantedes clenched her fist tight against the face of the monk who was still tugging her hand. She almost cried with joy while he was reaching out his invitation then this monk tries to make a scene.

"Just what we're you thinking!"

Zephyr glanced at her annoyed look and bowed his head.

"I'm sorry…I don't know why I did that…"

Somehow, she felt sorry for the boy. She patted him on the head, rubbing and ruining his neatly arranged ebony hair. All she could do was smile at the monk, whose hands seem to tighten its grip on her.

Was he really clueless of his actions? Or he is merely trying to ruin her life for his amusement? She got really confused but either ways grabbed the boy's other hand with a genuine smile on her face.

"Would you like to stroll around with me? Uh, let's think that this will be vacation in game."

Without hesitation the bot nodded in approval. Standing up he followed her footsteps towards some priests who were chatting with the other priestesses. Zephyr tugged on her hand again, signaling for her to stop to turn around and look at him

"Can you tell me what I am feeling right now?"

Triple dots appeared on top of the priestess' head. What is he saying? But she listened to him nonetheless.

"There is this great feeling...It's an insuppressible feeling I can't quite understand."

She blinked a few times. Thinking what could he be saying with the still, serious expression on his face.

"Are you excited? You must be feeling excitement! After all we are roaming Midgard!"

"Excited? Yes, if that insuppressible feeling is called that. If it's the feeling like I just attained something I really wanted."

"Hmm…I think I might be wrong about being excited…But what you're feeling is more of like being happy."

"Happy? Mmm, yes, I feel like it is happiness…"

Laughter came out from the priestess who patted the monk again on his head still thinking that what made him happy and excited must be their in game vacation. Gently placing her hand on his, she pulled him towards the warpers of Al de Baran.

The insuppressible feeling was something he didn't dare feel. Zephyr still thought hard about this feeling he had encountered. He can't help but ask for the priestess answer again.

"Then can you tell me what kind of feeling I was feeling when we we're with that man?"

She stopped suddenly when the picture of Jakatta appeared in her mind. She gave him a questioning look as she nodded for him to continue.

"It's as if…I want to attack the person…and whenever you smiled at him, I felt like my system was about to break down. I felt that there is something he has that I don't…can you tell me what am I feeling?"

The priestess did not answer back but continued to tug him on his hand towards the warpers. She could feel a slight blush rush to her cheeks. After talking to the Priestess, the priestess used a blue gemstone to create a warp portal in front of them as they rushed inside.

"You're angry and jealous of Jakatta?"

"I am? Maybe…I am."

Her sweat dropped while her eyes turned into semi circle that was drooping down. He rushed his hands to her, hugging her closely. The girl almost went into a mad fit. A lot of people watched the cute little scene made by the monk. A mount-full of giggles and laughter filled the air around them that made the priestess blush in embarrassment. They were warped in Prontera. Of all places the priestess could warp them to, why the crowd filled city of Prontera.

"I still don't understand…The emotion of loneliness seem to be registered and configured in my system…but I can't feel it anymore…is it a good or bad thing?"

The monk burrowed his face in her hair as his embrace tightened. Merviantedes scratched her head patting the monk with her other hand.

"From now on…you won't feel lonely anymore, I'll always be here."

She could feel him nod beside her face and the embrace became even tighter.

"Hey…I can't…breathe…"