A few notes:

• I'll admit that I never played any Rance games. I only watched a few playthroughs, and read the fandom.

• GOLD: Coins made from Golden Haniwa.

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[ Current Year: GI 1014 ]

"Hmmm..." Arios stared at the Machpiyos standing on several tree branches, they are round, yellow birds. However...

"... There is actually only one Machpiyo moving at the branches, based on the several blurred lines I can see. Great, but not great enough. I need more power if I need to survive." Arios muttered, his eyes quickly moving at one tree branch to another to notice and predict the movements of the Machpiyo.

"Kuu..." Lisbeth squeaked out, confused at the current act of the one who saved her.

"Ah, that's right. I have to get back to the town of Ice, it seems like Guild Master Keith was calling for me over something important." Arios reminded himself, turning his back towards the Machpiyo that was always moving around.

Cola didn't want to think about what Arios was going to do, by Ludo-Rathowm's sake, he's too unpredictable!

And he's supposed to be "guiding" the Guardian Hero!

Maybe he could"guide" him to be led to a path that is ideal for him to fully suffer and of course, make the entirety of humanity suffer too, though Cola needs to pull a lot of strings outside of Arios's sight, he's been collecting a few useless items lately.

Cola grumbled due to the reason that out of the hundreds of thousands of Guardian Heroes that all failed, Arios was the most unique out of all of them, even if he doesn't want to admit it.

He was quite neutral and passive to almost everything else, doing whatever that seemed to benefit him and all that shit he tried to explain to his guide.

"That boy...! He's returned!" One of the members of the Keith Guild exclaimed, looking at where the red haired, brown eyed teenager was when the doors were heard to open.

"Who was he again? Arios Theoman? That one person who wielded the Legendary Sword Escudo?" A rookie member of the Keith Guild spoke in awe.

"He rarely ever uses it. Unless a Dark Lord is involved." A high ranked member replied to the rookie, making him nod.

"I heard he took a few of the most hardest quests given to this guild and earned some of the greatest rewards and a bit of rest afterwards. He's really cool and handsome, you know?" A female member spoke to her red haired partner, who only looked pretty annoyed.

So, while Arios moved forwards to report, a brown haired person quickly approached him.

"Arios-kun!!! You're back!" She shouted, immediately jumping towards him with the intention to tackle him to the ground.

Arios sidestepped to avoid the girl's tackle, which made the girl almost have her face planted on the wooden ground

"Good morning to you too, Rance." He greeted the girl, who was revealed to now be Rance. The teenage girl, like her original counterpart, was pretty damn horny almost all the time. She's wearing a bikini armor that's showing most of her skin, elbow-length green gloves, and steel boots.

"Damn it, Arios. At least have sex with me or my big sister before you eventually leave..." She grumbled, before being helped up by the same person, and betting smacked on the head for that.

"Rance-chan, we're too young for that." Arios kindly said to her, raising one hand and waving it in front of her.

She rubbed her head which was .

"Well then, hear me first! I'll definitely take your virginity before any other woman could, ya hear me, Arios!?" Rance declared with a really confident grin and with a pumped up fist.

"..." The red haired teenager sighed, he'd rather have change for the better or for worse. But he does know that she wouldn't change as her eyes were completely focused on him.

It probably started at the time when he came across Rance and the Female Warrior whose name he'll never know, when the latter was trying to defend herself and Rance from a large group of bandits which had Monster Tamers on their ranks.

He wanted to turn his back towards them that time, but the bandits noticed him and immediately called him out. They knew he was strong so they asked him to trade Lisbeth for the girls.

He "politely" declined by cutting them all down. He had an interest to the opposite sex, but he would rather do it the casual, gentlemanly way than other ways around. Well unless his hand is forced. Oh, the other reason was that if he did, he'd lose a powerful partner that would certainly evolve to it's strongest form.

For now, he has a report to give to Keith Gold before he turns his attention to Zeth.

[ ~ Chapter • End ~ ]