We landed on the ground, behind a trash can.

"Where do we start?" I asked.

"Which team that you want to beat first?" he asked back.

"Any team is fine, but if you asked me…"

Hm… probably those two gunners? But it's too risky because they can attack from the distance. I can attack them with blaze, but Raven is still new with his dark power, and I'm still new at flying to dodge all the bullets. Forget those gunners.

If I remember correctly, there are a man and a small girl. They seem to have a good teamwork when they attacked me several times in the forest. We just met today and I don't think we can have a good teamwork without training.

Last is… I don't remember them correctly. Where they even there when I was in the forest?

Oh, I have an idea.

"Your last partner," I smirked.

He laughs. "Good choice! But their supporter's home is far from here!"

Is it really far? "How many times do we take to go there?"

"6 days!"

I facepalmed. "You're kidding me".

"1 day to the gunners' supporter and 4 days to the other team's supporter. Feel free to pick!" he smiled.

I sigh. "And why do you know this thing so well?"

"We were doing nothing for the last 6 months because I don't have a partner, so I took my time to get as many info as possible!" he shouted proudly.

"Now I don't understand why your previous partner left you," I smiled at him. I mean, he's very useful.

"I need something to write!" Raven sighed. "Anyway, the gunners' elements are water and wind, my previous partner's team's elements are thunder and light, and the last team's elements are wood and earth, so—"

"Attacking your previous partner's supporter would be risky because they have light element—which is a counter for your element," I said.

"You, are, right!" Raven grinned.

"Attacking those gunners' supporter is a bad idea because they can attack from the distance," I sighed.

"Also their supporter uses bow," he continued.

Nope.

"What about the last team?" I asked. "Wood and earth have nothing to do with fire or dark—"

"It has!" he smiled proudly. "Dark can beat earth!"

"Really?" I smiled. "Then let's go!"

"But wood can beat wind. To be honest, I'm waiting for these two to fight the gunners, so we would have easier fight or something," he crossed his arms. "Back to your choice, so let's go to their supporter!"

"6 days by flying? Can we use cart or something?" I asked. I don't want to fly 6 days long!

"6 days by cart," he smiled. "3 days by flying in full speed!"

That sounds better. "How fast is full speed?"

"Hm… something like…" he smiled again. He disappeared from my sight. "…this?"

I turned around and he's still smiling. "Did I surprise you?"

I sigh. "Yeah, you did".

"I trained many times to fly that fast!" he shouted proudly. "Should we use cart instead?"

"I can move that fast if we weren't flying," I murmured.

His eyes widened. "Really?! You're amazing!"

Aaand he's back to his usual self.

"Hey! Slash that cockroach! I want to see your action!" he looked at me with sparkling eyes.

A cockroach comes toward me. I shriek as I slash it into pieces. Go away disgusting dark brown monster! GET AWAY FROM ME!

"That's impressive!" Raven clapped his hands.

"Is there any more of them?!" I looked around. I'm so scared! I'm sweating!

He grabbed my shoulder with his human arm. "Are you really scared of it? You look pale".

"This is cruel! This place knows my only weakness!" I shouted in fear. I really hate cockroach! "It flew to my face when I was little! Get that thing away from me!"

He looks at me. "Calm down, Elesis! We can slash them!"

I don't want to slash any more of them! "Let's just go!"

"Okay, let's—"

A FLYING cockroach came to us. I summon blaze from my hand and throw it to the cockroach. "It didn't hit it!" I hid behind Raven.

"I guess element won't work at real things," he said as he sliced the cockroach with my claymore.

"LET'S GO!" I screamed.

Raven pulls my hand and flies away quickly.

We ended in a cart.

"So assassin is afraid of cockroach? That's unexpected!" he smiled.

"Anything but cockroach!" I whimpered.

Raven laughs. "You remind me of Seris! She also scared of cockroach!"

I can't believe he is NOT sad or depressed about her. Or this guy only has a "happy" feeling.

"You were pale back then! Are women scared of cockroach?" he asked. "Oh! We should bring a cockroach to battle!"

"Hell no!" I immediately disagreed. "You're not taking a goddamn cockroach!"

"What?! Why?!" he looked disappointed. "What if I put a cockroach to their supporter? Sounds cool! That way we can kill them easily!"

He has a point. "You check first whether the supporter scared of cockroach or not".

"All of the supporters are a girl, except your brother. I'm sure they are scared of it!"

I can't believe cockroach is our most effective weapon for now. "Fine. I trust you".

"Because we decided to leave our supporter, let's make cockroaches our supporter!" he smiled.

Did he jusy say cockroaches? 'Cockroahes'?!

"NO!"

"We are the leader of cockroaches!" he raised my claymore. "All enemy shall bow to us!"

"Raven, try summoning a blade," I suggested. I don't want this cockroach talk to continue.

"Blade?! Let me try it!" he smiled. He summons black magic circle with both his hands.

Something like black hole comes out from his nasod arm.

"Oh, look! I did something!" he shouted happily. He summons the black hole thing again. "Can I absorb something with this?! Like gold or something so we can give it to Elder Hospital to pay the bills?!"

"I don't think that's going to happen," I sighed. Why is he thinking like that?

Don't tell me...

"Raven, how old were you?"

"27. Why?" he looked at me confusedly. "Were you around my age?"

"8 years younger than you," I looked at him. He's like a kid.

"Oh! My previous partner had the same age as you! You two should met and love each other!" he grinned.

I glared at him. "What are you talking about?! What do you mean by 'met and love each other'?!"

"Hey! He's a direct person! So if he liked you, he would be like, 'Elesis, I like you. I love you. I want to marry you. Any questions?', like that!" he gave a thumb-up.

I facepalmed. "Raven, stop imagining things".

"And after you married him—"

"Raven, please".

"—find a client that wants him to be killed. And then you kill him while you're having sex!"

"What the hell, Raven?!"

"And you got money for that, so you can pay the bills! Isn't that an awesome idea?!" he clapped his hands, proud with his own what-did-I-just-say idea.

I laugh at it. I don't know which one is awesome—his idea or his imagination.

"Yay! You laugh!" he clapped his hands.

"I don't know how to respond that!" I giggled.

It's been a long time since I last laugh.

"Are you going to marry him?!"

"OF COURSE NOT!"

"Just try summoning a blade," I said to him. He startled. I think he forgot about it already.

He summons black magic circle. Finally he summons a blade.

"Yay! I did it!" he looked at his blade cheerfully.

"Good for you," I smiled.

"Hold this!" he put my claymore in my hands. I just stare at it confusedly. What is he trying to do?

He raised his blade and—

Crash!

—this is stupid.

The blade disappeared into thin air.

"Keep holding that! I'll try again!" he summoned another blade and does the same thing.

Crash!

Well, I have a hurtful joke. "This is why you can't protect Seris".

He laughs. "Yeah, you're right! I need a better weapon!"

I think we're going to spent 6 days doing this.

I think this story is going nowhere. I'm sorry XD

Thanks for reading!

Yeelimso

Ra: Just ignore them for better purposes.

Elesis: I didn't pay the bills because—

Ra: No spoiler.

Elesis: Well...

Raven: Hey! Take everything happily and you'll live a happy life!

Elesis: Explain your death.

Raven: I'm still happy!

Ra: 1.000 ED to smack Raven's head.