46 FOLLOWERS; WOW, didn't see that coming, thank you so much everyone, and sorry for the delay. Anyway, here's the new chapter.
P.S. Before you read this story,
1) I recommend everyone to watch: „Danmachi Memoria Freese – Midsummer Lover's Tale", then you'll be able to understand this story better.
2) I updated my previous chapter, only small changes.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, not even the soundtracks. Danmachi belongs to Fujino Ōmori, Final Fantasy XV belongs to Square Enix.
Is it wrong to seek for answers?
Chapter 5: Hotel Melen
STREETS – MELEN – AFTERNOON
After the whole situation calmed down and Noct's wound was fully healed thanks to some potion, everyone put their usual clothes on, the group left slowly the beach, still watched by the crowd.
(OPENING: HIROYUKI SAWANO feat: Eliana – S_TEAM)
At first, Noct didn't believe Welf's statement about some people getting unconscious, thinking it to be some sort of joke.
But later he saw many, especially young women, were blacked out, what's more, many of them had nose bleeding and smiled happily while beeing unconscious, which worried Noct.
„you didn't believe me, didn't you, " Welf asked right next on the left side of him, smirking.
„not really, because back home .. ", Noct was about to finish his sentence until he suddenly turned his head on the right side.
There was it again, that strange feeling. Someone or something dark was looking at him.
'what the f*** is that? … ' he thought.
Astraea noticed him looking away from the group.
'again' she thought.
„NOOCT" she called out.
„what, who ..." he came back to reality.
„you've dozed off again, seriously, next time you're inattentive you could lose your trousers" she declared, the whole group started to laugh again, while looking at Noct, who got slightly angry red-faced after looking back to his friends.
Ryuu, who was also looking at the same direction as Noct, as the only one didn't laugh, since she also had a strange feeling, but didn't say anything.
After the group took their supply again. They sought a hotel they once visited yesterday as Bell told them, that they were looking for a friend of them, who was recovering.
After reaching the Hotel, they went for the first floor, entering door number 5. There inside, they saw a pink haired girl, sitting on a chair while apparently another brown haired girl with pointed ears, apparently an Elf like Ryuu, was sleeping.
„good afternoon, Misha, is everything alright"
„Eina is still a little bit weak but thank heaven, yesterday the doctor said she's alright, she only needs one day, " the pink-haired girl said while still looking at her friend.
„Eina … ", Bell said. Noct realized through that voice how concerned Bell was for that girl.
Meanwhile, Misha noticed that there were 2 not familiar faces inside the room.
The first one was a woman with long brown hair and indigo eyes who stayed between Mikoto and Ryuu. 'Were they today also with them on the beach? '. Misha also saw that Ryuu was whispering something in Astraea's ear.
The other one, however, she didn't recognize, but that didn't bother her at all. Now that she thinks about it, he was quite handsome. Looking at the recovering Eina and Bell while holding a full basket and a large blue glowing Item around his arms.
Misha didn't know at first, but then she realized that she couldn't stop looking at the mysterious boy with spikey black hair.
„ms. Flott" Lily called her, but Misha didn't seem to take notice, as she was only starring at Noct, who right now was staring outside the hotel room's balcony.
It didn't take seconds for Lily and the others to realize what's wrong with Misha. 'why I'm not surprised' Lily looked at Misha dumbfounded.
Then suddenly, Astraea decided to 'wake' Misha 'up'.
„Miss Flott, " she said while obscuring her view on Noct.
„Uwaa" It was then that Misha returned from her daydream, as Lily suggested.
„oh, uh, I'm sorry, what did you want to know, goddess Astraea?"
„Ryuu told me you're both from the Guild working at the Pantheon in Orario, did you both also had a vacation?"
„well, not exactly … " Misha started to tell the reason why she and Eina were in Melen. Noct's attention also went to Misha, listening to their story.
Because of Misha unintentional laying some kind of 'divine love curse' on her half Elf-friend Eina through a magic book, They sought the help of a healer called Amid, who told them that the only way to break the curse was to follow instructions written in the book itself. The following instructions include, inter alla, 'having the lovey-dovey experience with your boyfriend on the beach in summer' as Misha quoted. Since Orario has no beaches, Melen was the only possibility.
At this point, no one had to explain to Noct, who has to be the 'boyfriend', as he looked to Bell, then to the unconscious Eina.
'poor girl' he thought with a concerned expression on his face.
'compete for sir Cranel', Ryuu thought, she also seemed concerned, but for a very different reason.
Welf, who also was only today in Melen, was at first jealous of Bell that so many beautiful girls were 'competing' for him, also disappointed that he couldn't witness the whole event. But then he slightly laughed, thinking how Bell must felt back then.
Misha continued, explaining that not only Bell had to do it, but also that they needed other girls to pretend to fight for him, only that Bell then 'chooses' Eina as a sign of Eina's 'victory'.
One of these girls was named Ais Wallenstein, the way Misha called her by the name 'sword princess' suggested, that she was one of the more famous first-class adventurers as Noct thought.
They were other instructions, but in the end, they were able to break the curse after it materialized itself, which was then destroyed by Bell and the other Girls. But as a side effect of the curse, Eina got a fever, which is why they were in the hotel right now.
Despite the 'happy ending', Noct could feel some dark energy rising out of Lily and Hestia, who was looking away from Misha.
„Something wrong, Goddess Hestia, Lily, " Noct asked concerned.
„Don't play dumb, Master Gar" Lily said, „I guess you already know that we don't like to hear this story"
Everyone was now paying attention to the three.
„yeah, but it wasn't his fault, and nothing 'more serious' happened, right?" Noct asked at them, hoping to stop them.
„I already said that I didn't touch her at all" Bell suddenly said after joining the chat.
He remembered that the girls seemed to have thought something different when he said that he wanted to sleep together with Eina in a bed. He still didn't understand, but he knew it had to be something about romance, but that's it.
„B-B-But still … " Hestia remained stubborn on that subject.
„also my grandpa told me to never touch a girl or woman without her clear permission, he said that's rude"
There was no noise to be heard right now since everyone was dumbfounded by Bell's statement. 'He's without a doubt a pure soul', as Astraea thought.
At first, Hestia remained stubborn, still looking angry at Bell, but then tears fell from her eyes while she also jumped towards Bell.
„I'm so sorry that I doubted you, Beellllllll" she cried in front of Bell like a child.
While Lily got jealous at Hestia again, Noct heard a groan to his left.
Eina was slowly opening her eyes, as Astraea noticed first.
„..." Eina still groaned.
„Eina" Bell said while going to her.
„ … Bell …." Eina said weakly in a rather quiet voice.
Then suddenly she sat up quickly, „uwaaahh" she screamed, which surprised everyone.
„Wha... oh yeah I remember, it's gone, right...?" Eina asked Bell.
„yes, the curse is gone, remember, we destroyed it, then you a small fever, the doctor said one day off, so you should be alright now." Misha said.
After Eina was fully conscious again, she looked around the room, noticed that many people were present.
„where's Amid?" she questioned.
„Her god, Dian Cecht, wrote a letter, said that she needed immediately returning to orario, which she did yesterday since we succeeded"
She then noticed new faces present. The first one was Ryuu Lion, who looked at her with a concerned face. The other two near her were a woman and a young man, whom Eina thought to be not bad looking
The woman near Ryuu went straight to her.
„my dear child, you friend told me about the exertions you had to endure", Eina could see her indigo eyes, „my name is Astraea, you might have heard of me, Eina, right? … ", Eina was speechless, the famous Astraea from the once known Astraea Familia was here.
'So that explains why Ryuu is here, but why is she here, and who is this man' Eina thought.
„I know it's rude to ask this right now, but could you both do me a favor, " Astraea asked Eina and Misha.
Both looked at Astraea, who turned her towards Noct, who saw that as a sign to come closer.
„May I introduce you, this is Noct Gar, he's a truly capable warrior, who committed a feat for the good for the people of Melen." Astraea said while pointing with her hands at the blue gem Noct was wearing on his right arm.
„This is truly a large item and I never saw one like that, I think for that you could easily get 100 Million Valis, " Misha said rather quietly while being surprised that this handsome man was wearing such item.
„100 Mi … " Bell was about to say but was immediately stopped by Lily.
„Be quiet, master Bell," she said while pointing out with her eyes out of the Hotel room, signing that other people outside the room might hear it.
As for the people inside the room, nearly everyone except for the girls from the Guild was shocked by the price.
„Anyway, if possible, I would like you for him to reserve for an upcoming visit in the pantheon when he's about to register himself as an adventurer, I remember how Ryuu once told me it's common for the Guild to have longe queues, so ..." Astraea explained her suggestion.
„to register?" Noct asked at them.
Astraea just turned her head, 'smiling'. Noct got scared again, which made him quiet again.
Misha, who thought that Noct didn't understand, started to explain, „well, for everyone who wants in Orario to be an adventurer, needs to be registered, otherwise, you'll be adventuring illegal, which is forbidden in our city of course".
„I see … " Noctis said, he also noticed that Misha was smiling at him, not like Astraea's 'smiling', more a happy smiling. Eina also looked at her right now.
Misha, who was for some reason shorting the distance between her and Noct, then explained: „don't worry, when we're back in Orario, I'll try to keep a consulting room empty until you arrive, how does that sound, Noct Gar" she declared, still happy smiling for some reason Noct couldn't explain, but it started to scare him slightly. Eina, on the other side, felt dumbfounded by Misha's 'strange' behavior.
„.. thank you..." were Noct only words while feeling nervous by Misha.
„don't worry, I won't forget about you, " Misha said while looking deep into Noct's eyes, who felt somehow uncomfortable.
While everyone was looking at them, Ryuu, for some reason, also started feeling uncomfortable again, she didn't like it how that girl from the guild talked to Noct, pressing her forehead.
'I never saw Misha like that in front of a stranger, and she forgets many things quite often' Eina thought while seeing her friend interacting with that rather handsome guy, which was very likely the reason for her behavior.
They continued talking with each other for the next 2 hours.
After that, they all left the hotel, looking for a large horse-carriage enough for all of them. After finding one with 2 Waggons, they told the coachmen to drive them towards Orario.
Unbeknownst to all of them, the story of a mysterious hero fighting and defeating a large sea monster, only to lose his trunks, would not only spread in Melen and also reach Orarioa soon, but also, since many of the also leaving beachgoers were tourists, they would spread this story around the known world.
(ENDING: KARMINA - WALK YOU HOME)