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Is it wrong to seek for answers?

Chapter 4: Son of the beach

BEACH - MELEN - NOON

The area where they went for was as full as they thought. No wonder, feeling the hot temperature right now.

Noctis was the last one to change. Since he had purely black underpants, it shouldn't be a problem to go only like that.

(OPENING: HIROYUKI SAWANO feat: Eliana – S_TEAM)

After coming out of the changing room, He saw the group waiting, but they seem to pay attention to Hestia and the Pallum girl Lily, who were arguing with each other while Bell tried to calm them down.

„ I said I will take care of Master Bell, so you and everyone else can enjoy, don't worry, I won't let Master Bell be reckless with me like with miss Tulle yesterday, " said an angry Lily while holding Bell's right arm, pressing it on her chest. Noctis thought he was seeing things.

„well thank you for that offer, miss supporter but I will take are of bell, because they will believe him to be with his little sister, which won't make other women look away either." Hestia retorted while holding Bell's other arm, also pressing on her visible chest.

„Lily, Goddess, I'm sorry for yesterday but I didn't want Eina to suffer by that curse anymore, so could you please stop that fight, otherwise we will lose all the good spots." Bell said.

Ryuu also looked rather worried about the Situation. She heard about the incident with the Guild Stuff and the Cursed Book, but for some reason, she felt hurt, seeing those two girls fighting for Bell.

Noctis went straight on to the group. He looked at Welf, who was also staring mainly at the situation.

„What's going on?" Noctis asked while looking at Bell and the two girls.

„Well they both are arguing who's walking out with Bell" Welf answered bluntly

„you mean ...", Noctis still couldn't believe that those two girls were still fighting over Bell. What's more, Bell himself doesn't seem to realize the whole picture, thinking they're probably just randomly worried.

„yes, but since today there are many people on the beach, compare to yesterday and the day before yesterday, they're also worried that many other girls and women will give Bell 'too much attention' " Welf answered while chuckling.

Noctis chuckled too after hearing this. He never heard or saw 2 girls doing that over a guy, or rather a boy, he already knew Prompto would be very jealous of Bell.

Hearing Noctis chuckle made everyone looking at him. At first, he wondered why then he realized.

Now they could see his whole, well trained, upper body. But they paid more attention to his face, his eyes and that spiky black hair. It was like he was blessed by heaven itself.

„well, I guess you would also receive much attention I see" Welf answered very amused after his thought.

„well thank you" Noctis answered in a rather sarcastic tone to Welf.

Bell's jaw fell slightly, feeling astonishing while looking at Noct. He wondered how strong he is.

Hestia, Ryuu, Mikoto, and Astraea were also impressed and started blushing.

Lily also started to blush, which was immediately noticed by Hestia. That was her chance, another handsome boy capable of seducing the annoying supporter.

„well miss supporter, how about you go with Mr. Gar while I go with Bell".

„what, why I have to go, why don't you go with Master Gar while I go with Master Bell" Lily responded. She was impressed by Noct, but that didn't mean she would abandon Bell.

They continued their argument.

Bell, getting a little bit tired of the situation, made a suggestion.

„Goddess, Lily, How about I go with Mr. Gar, while you go both together, " he asked loudly but politely while smiling, thinking he could finally end this discord between his goddess and his supporter, who were now seeing his eyes.

Lily and Hestia looked at each other again. They were about to agree until a horrifying vision appears on their minds:

They saw Bell and Noct in front of the sea, small waves could be heard.

They were seeing Bell, handsomely smiling, holding Noct's whole left arm with both hands.

„Goddess, Lily, thank you for agreeing that I can go with Mr. Gar"

Noct, also handsomely smiling, answered

„Don't worry, I'll take care of him, " he said.

„do you trust me, " Noct asked Bell while both looked deep into each other's eyes.

„I do" Bell answered. Their gap between their lips was getting shorter, until ...

„ „ NOOOOOOO ABSOLUTELY NOT „ „ Lily and Hestia shouted at Bell, what's more, they were also bleeding from their Noses for some reason, which confused Bell even more.

„Welf will accomplish you both" Hestia suggested, still nosebleeding.

„Lily agrees too, Master Welf will be in the middle, " she said, also still nosebleeding.

So Bell, Welf, and Noct started out walking at the bright sun and hot weather towards a fitting spot on the beach.

As Welf predicted, the people, especially young girls, were staring. Many of them seem to recognize Bell Cranel as the record holder. Some of them also recognized himself, he also had a trained body. Noct, on the other hand, wasn't recognized, but nevertheless, they stared at him the most. He heard some giggling by the female visitors.

Hestia and Lily immediately stared angrily at said females, who in turn got very terrified.

Mikoto, Ryuu, and Astraea followed along, also stared by some guys.

„There's a good spot, " said Bell.

As the others walked, Noct saw the beautiful, blue sea. It immediately reminds him of the Galdin Quay resort back home, along the Fishing he did then, the reporter Dino Ghiranze and the Chef Coctura Arlund, who he met there frequently, even the cat he remembered.

He immediately came back to the present. He continued following the others.

Everyone placed their things at the spot. While Astraea voluntary decided to take care of their things and enjoy the sun, the others went into the sea.

At first, Noct, Bell tried diving into the water.

Then they played with the Ball Lily took along. It seemed Noct was very liked by his new friends, which made him a little bit happy, considering that he was in another world, what's more, they were 2 hot girls with swimsuits he was playing with. He didn't look at Lily that way, because, no matter if she's a pallum, for him she looked like a small child. Watching her 'that way' would cause too many ethical concerns for him.

Meanwhile, they were more and more curious people, mostly girls and young women, watching them playing, which angered Lily and Hestia at first. But then they realized that they were mostly paying attention to Noct instead of Bell, which relieved both for a while, only to realize that Bell himself was also sometimes happily paying attention to Noct, which angered and worried both girls a little bit again.

Still, they all agreed that it was a good idea that they came.

They played around 3 hours with several breaks.

Then, out of nowhere, they heard someone scream.

„what the … ?" Noct wondered.

He turned his head, seeing one person run towards the beach, then others started to scream and immediately more people did the same.

At first, Noct didn't know why then suddenly he saw a very large Dorsal fin.

Then Noct, as his companions, made a terrifying look.

„What is that ?" Lily asked worryingly while hiding behind Bell, which angered Hestia of course, „that's too big to be a simple shark" declared Ryuu.

Then, that being emerged from the sea. It was a Monster. At first glance, it looked like a blue-gray colored sea snake, but it had also parts of a shark, like the first seen dorsal fin and two large pelvic fins.

Hestia, who still looking very afraid, asked her familia members with a wry smile:

„did someone by chance did take along their weapons?"

Mikoto, Welf, Lily, Bell, and even Ryuu shook their heads.

„You guys can't be serious" screamed Hestia, while looking at Lily for some reason, who immediately reacted:

„We came here to have fun at the beach, not looking for large sea monsters, how would we even know that one would appear right now?" Lily screams back at Hestia.

„GUYS, " Mikoto said towards the arguing pallum and goddess.

„WHAT" both angrily screamed.

„It seems we're the only one remaining in the waters, everyone else is trying to run away from the water" Ryuu said.

„Is it just my imagination or ist that thing looking right at us? " Welf asked while stepping back slowly.

They all looked again the sea monster.

It started to scream, which caused the whole beach guests to run away faster. Then the sea snake wriggled fast towards the group.

They tried to run away from it, but they saw that it was too fast.

While running, they turned their heads at the thing, seeing it opening its mouth.

Then for a second Bell thought that's it. That it is about to end. But then they saw Noct, still standing.

„Gar-dono, what are you doing, come back immediately" Mikoto called to him worryingly.

Noctis, still standing, knew that this was a good moment to test if his powers in combat, stretched his arm.

Bell, Lily, Hestia, Welf, Ryuu, and Mikoto saw a light in front of Noct's right arm.

Then an unusual looking golden sword appears on his hand.

Noctis, seeing the monster moving faster towards him, threw his sword at its forehead, which caused it to move the whole long body back at the open water.

Not only Hestia and her Familia were speechless. Other beach guests gave their attention to the occurrence that happened right now, expect for Astraea, who was still sitting on the spot she decided to take care, she started to smile.

After the others reached Astraea, Ryuu noticed something, „does anyone sees sir Gar?" she asked.

Bell and the others noticed his absence too.

„He was there a second ago, " Welf said while moving his head to spot where Noct was supposed to be.

Suddenly, afar, they saw Noct's right in front of the monster's forehead.

Everyone's eyes mouth gaped widely, even the monster's, which showed it's sharp teeth. It started to 'stand up' straight.

The sea snake, now standing straight out of the water, recovered from that attack rather fast.

Noct, painstakingly and painful for some reason, tried to reach the monster's top. He also feels a little bit pain in his right pelvic region.

After reached the top of its head, he put his sword out of the bleeding forehead.

After the monster noticed Noct, he jumped away as far as possible.

But after jumping, he noticed something.

He felt like he was flying, but he didn't activate his Arminger since he didn't test it back at Astraea's home.

What's more, the distance between him and the monster was increasing, as he noticed when he turned his head behind.

'what the hell, I didn't remember being able to jump that far' he thought, still his mind fixed on the monster, not noticing that he's falling right now.

After reaching and hurting his feets a little bit in the waters, Noct appeared out of the sea.

Now they realized what's going on, „it that some kind of magic?" Bell asked.

„It seems he can use some kind of teleport magic, " Ryu said while still looking at the fight.

„Is everyone out of the waters?" Astraea asked.

After looking around, Bell answered: „expect for Noct, everyone is outside".

„Excellent, now I think he doesn't need to be afraid for everyone"

„We should help Master Gar somehow, " Lily said while looking at Astraea.

„no, he'll be fine, trust me" Astraea explained while still looking at him again, „Hestia?".

The called goddess turned her head towards Astraea.

„can you do me a favor?"

Hestia was curious at that question.

Meanwhile, Noct was still busy with the sea snake, which now seemed got angry while gazing at Noct.

When it opened it's mouth, Noct could see some kind of energy accumulating there.

„Seriously … " Noct wondered while witnessing how this monster was about to cast magic.

After the energy has been fully accumulated, it shoots a blue ray towards Noct.

While Noctis could easily get out of the way, he not only noticed that the beam was freezing the water but also it was moving towards him, he could also feel the sea getting colder thanks to his lower body still being underwater.

He was running away until it stopped from itself to reaccumulate.

Noct took this opportunity to cast his magic.

After accumulating magic energy for himself, a yellow sphere with myriads of little flashes appeared in front of his left hand.

'I know that might be not a good idea, but there's no other way' he thought. „THUNDARA"

He threw the magic sphere at the beast's head.

A Collection of strong, and loud, thunders hit the large sea snake.

After the final hit, Noct saw the creature fell. Then, out of nowhere, it vanished before some kind of large blue glowing stone appeared right there, falling in the water. He wondered what that was.

„Doesn't matter, I need to go back to the others"

As he went back to the beach, still holding his Balmung sword, Noct noticed that his companions suddenly had a shocked expression.

Then suddenly, he saw them neither closing their eyes or turning away, which confused him at first. Not only his companions but also the still present crowd of beachgoers did the same, he even saw some parents close their children's eyes with their hands.

Then it hit him.

A shameful expression appeared on his face, 'please don't tell me it's not what I think it is'.

Noct slowly moved his right hand towards his pelvic area.

….

No underpants

….

….

….

He immediately put his sword in front of his pubic area, still with his shameful expression from the others.

While looking away on the right side, he noticed a small pain in his right pelvic area.

After seeing it, he noticed that there was a wound there, not too much blood thankfully. So he took his sword on his left hand while holding his right hand at the bleeding wound.

As he started to come closer to his companions, he asked after a silence

„Did someone get hurt?"

„expect for some people getting unconscious by that sight?, no, not physically at least" Welf answered while trying to suppress his laughter.

„thank you so much for cheering, " Noct said sarcastically to Welf.

„How did you lost your …, I mean how didn't you notice" asked Bell shockingly, also trying not to disgrace Noct while trying to look again at him.

„don't know, apparently they were already gone when I was finishing that thing" Noct answered while turning his head away, getting red again.

„What is that ?" Welf asked while also turning again his sight on Noct, now looking slightly right.

Noct looked to his left, noticing some black shreds swimming near him.

It didn't take a second for him to notice what it was.

His underpants were torn apart.

….

….

….

….

He looked at the open sea again, „did that thing … ", Noct didn't want to pronounce it loudly.

„I think it did" answered Welf unasked, also shocked by the fact what the monster did with his underpants,

Then Noct remembered the struggle and pain when he tried to reach the monster's top. Noct then looked at his wound and the torn-apart underpants.

'so that's what happened', Noct concluded that after the teleportation, his underpants must have entangled on the monster's teeth's

„What an exciting day, " Welf said, Noct could feel that he was about to laugh.

„no kidding, " Noctis said, „well if you excuse me, I need my trousers", he was about to go outside the waters.

„you mustn't go out, Gar-dono, " Mikoto said blushing heavily while still looking at the opposite direction of Noct.

„But I ..." Noct needed his trousers as a substitute or else he might get into trouble with the beach master.

„you can't go out only with your swords, master Gar, " said Lily.

„Listen I know it's…., wait, did you just said 'swords'?" Noct asked while his eyes are shockingly widened.

Silence again.

Everyone turned their faces now towards lily expect Bell, who looked at everyone because he didn't understand what's going on.

Lily's face, on the other hand, went deeply red while looking down at the sand, realizing her mistake.

„NO I DIDN'T" she loudly announced, even denying it to herself.

„don't try to deny it, miss supporter, you clearly said 'SWORDS' "Hestia said right into lily's ears, devilishly smiling while mocking her.

„I also heard 'SWORDS', Lil Lily", Welf answered, still looking and smiling at her.

„Umm, Why does it matter so much that she said 'SWORDS' ?" Bell asked out of curiosity.

Now the attention moved to Bell, even Noctis was surprised by Bells Question.

' I guess he's still too young to understand ' said Welf.

Lily had enough of this humiliation.

„ANYWAY, CAN WE NOW DO SOMETHING, EVERYONE IS STARING" she cried out rather loudly.

„miss Arde is right, I can also hear some people quietly laughing at us, " Ryuu said, still avoiding eye contact with Noct while looking at the stunning beachgoers.

„Before you go out, go back and take that item out of the water, " Welf asked Noct.

„the big blue glowing one? that's an item?" he asked with an annoyed tone.

„I know they're rarely that big, but we can get enough Valis for a gem as that" Welf declared. „meanwhile we'll bring you your trousers, how does that sound?"

Noct remembered how Astraea told him about this place's currency called 'Valis', then Noct also remembered that if he remains a little bit longer in seawater, the wound on his right pelvic area might heal faster,

„be right back" were his final words before going back into the water.

(ENDING: KARMINA - WALK YOU HOME)