Chapter19

"Come on," the blonde haired guy grabbed her hand as he stood up in front of her. She raised her head slowly to look at him with a tired look.

"J-Just let me… rest for a while." She said as she rested her head back at her seat.

"No, we have to leave before the train leave once again." Hearing this sentence made her stronger to leave this huge metal thing and get out of it. She was feeling horrible already and she can't bear another trip of this train. She stood up grabbing in Lucas's hand as she started walking with him. "Are you alright in walking?"

"It's alright, I can walk." She said while trying to balance herself in walking while holding the blonde's hand.

"You can sit on the chair and I push you if you want." He said as he looked at her tired eyes. She stopped and looked at the blonde who was holding the chair next to her. This invention was really a great thing because she was really tired of walking. She took a step and sat down on the chair as he started pushing her with it.

"I'm really sorry Lucas but I feel like I have aged 100 years already." She said and took her bag on her lap and Lucas's bag was on his back.

"It's alright; I'm going to let you push me when I get sick too." The blonde laughed as he pushed her to reach the train's exit. They returned to the silence again after talking a small talk that wasn't any important.

The blonde started to push the girl out from the station as they became lucky to not see someone they know. But they believed that when they get out of the station they will see so many people who will ask them of what happened to the dear girl.

"Do you want to run away?" the blonde asked the pink haired girl who was scanning Magnolia that they have been living in for years already.

"Hmm?" she moved her head to the back to look at him.

"I mean that many people will ask out what happened to you and I'm sure you will get annoyed of them."

The girl looked down at the ground thinking of what she should do to escape the eyes of these people and their questions. Unfortunately she didn't find any other way to reach the guild except their current way.

"Well there is no other way. It won't be that bad, they have adapted with me like that." She smiled softly making the blonde to push her forward.

"Then, it's up to you."

Both of them took the way they were planning to go from and it felt like it was really long enough to reach the guild. All the question were about how did she end up like that and some of them said that she was fighting as usual. While others said that, she was just surprising them with her answer that she had fallen of the valley because she was sick. They thought that she was lying because no matter what she said they will never believe that the mighty salamander could get sick or even break an arm and a leg without going in fight.

The blonde felt uneasy around these things but when he looked at Natsumi, he realized that she was still smiling to show how fine she was. He ignored it and tried to think of another thing because he didn't want to speak with them.

"Natsumi, come on." He said slowly as he pushed the chair slowly forward.

"Okay, see you later. I have to get back to the guild." She waved them her hand with a smile.

The both of them moved in silence and Lucas waited until he got out from this crowd to talk freely to her. "Were you really fine with their talking?"

"It's not like they said something wrong." The pink haired answered while looking down on the ground. "The year I spent in jobs made me covered always in blood and my body was breaking for real." Lucas got frozen of what she said like she was telling him to shut up because he doesn't know anything about what happened this year but she never really meant it and he knows that she didn't mean it.

"… I was the reason, wasn't I?" he heard her take a breath and then smiled lightly.

"It's a year ago. It's past now." She said while looking back at him and smiling. Lucas smiled at her face and pushed her determined.

"And the past is gone now; we have to think about our future together." He said while pushing then looked at her pink hair with a determine look. "I'm going to make you happy, I promise." He whispered the last sentence with low voice but because Natsumi's sensitive hearing, she heard him. And without him seeing her, she lowered her face and smiled with a blush on her cheeks.

They were so cute together.

"Ah, I don't know anything about Natsumi." The little blue cat lied down on the table as he whined. He was so depressed because Lucas didn't take him a week ago to Natsumi and now, he doesn't even know anything about Lucas too. He doesn't even know what to do with the both of them.

"Calm down, Happy." The blue haired girl patted his head as she tried to calm him down.

"I want to see Natsumi and hug her and after that I'm going to yell at her." The blue cat whined making Wendy whine as an answer of how much he loved her without a comeback.

"It's alright, I believe she is fine." She tried to calm him down until she snapped her head towards the door and smiled. "Natsumi-san and Lucas-san are here." She stood up as she patted the cat's head. Happy snapped his head towards the door to realize that the pink haired was sitting in a chair in front of the door and looking at the front of the guild.

"Hi everyone." The girl looked at everyone and waved her hand to them. She couldn't say anything else and was surprised by the sudden hug from the blue cat that came flying to her.

"Natsumi!" he hugged her and sat down on her lap. She was surprised at first to see him like that but realized that she had left him without saying anything to him before she leaves and he has the right to be this worried on her. She raised her right arm and started to pat his head with her small hand.

"It's alright, Happy. I'm sorry to make you worried." The blue cat sniffed as he started to move his head slowly to look at the pink haired girl who was smiling to him, he frowned. She moved her hand along his cheek to wipe away his tears then she patted his head again. After being treated this way, he immediately forgot what was making him angry and stopped crying. He wanted to yell at her in what she did to him but he ignored it as she treated him this softly.

Natsumi raised her head to look at the rest of the people that were looking at her and surprised to see her in this state. Immediately, she realized who went to the s-class exam and who stayed.

"What happened to you?" the blue haired girl asked while looking worriedly at her older friend. Natsumi smiled lightly and was about to talk but the blonde talked instead.

"She had fallen off a valley and had a high fever this whole week." Everyone became shocked of what they heard and then just realized that Lucas was standing behind Natsumi and actually brought her back.

"I didn't realize you were here Lucas." He heard someone in the crowd say as his sweat dropped.

"You actually brought her back like you said. Or did he just push you off the valley to force her come with you?" Charle the white cat said as she looked at him from the corner of her eyes. Lucas laughed as an answer with dropping sweat.

"Of course he wouldn't do something like that Charle!" Wendy yelled.

"Without him I would have died in a young age." Natsumi sighed as she grabbed the chair's wheels and started to move forward to the bar to meet with Kinana the barmaid.

"Kinana, I'm really tired and hungry. Would you just bring me anything to eat?"