I don't think it's much but I hope you like it a bit.

A piercing shot hits it's target The ghoul wailed in pain as the arrow hit its eye.

Ragnos attacked the ghoul then finished it with destructive swing before it recovers.

"Are you okay?" Ragnos asked me.
"Wait..." Then I finally thawed out. "I'm fine." I assured him then look around.

"Who's there!" I shouted.
Footsteps can be heard. Slowly a girl appeared.

She has long braided blonde hair and black eyes and obviously much older than us. She's wearing a blue long sleeved shirt, short white skirt, and blue shorts that reached to her knees and blue rubber shoes.

"Hey... Over there" she said.

We stared at her.

"What? No thank you or something?" She demanded.

We stared at each other until Ragnos spoke up.

"Thank you for saving my friend."
She looked satisfied"Don't mention it."

She took a deep breath. "Let's go before more monsters appears."

We agreed and we quickly ran out of the forest.

We returned to Calderock and went in a restaurant to talk and eat.
Ragnos is currently stuffing himself with tarts.

"We forgot to eat lunch." I told myself as I tried a slice of peach pie.
"Well that's a really dumb mistake."

I almost forgot she's here too.

He swallowed his third tart.

"What's your name." He asked
"It's rude to ask for a stranger's name without giving yours." She scolded.

I cleared my throat.
"I'm Slayvannas and he's Ragnos" I introduced.

She smiled "nice to meet you..." She stared at him "...Ragnos..." Stared at me "...Slayvannas."she finished.

"I am Leila." She introduced herself.

She took her first cupcake.

"What country do you guys live in?" She asked.

Country?

Live in?

"I live in Anu A-" "America! She live in America." He cut me.
"Right... I live in America" I face brightened up. "I live in America too." She announced.

I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

"How about you?" She turned to Ragnos.

He swallowed his food.

"I live in Japan." He answered.

"Japan?! Like where anime is?" She excitedly asked.

He smiled "yep."

Japan?

Anime?

I'll ask about that later.

"You speak good English." She remarked.

"English?"

The table is silent.

"I though you guys speak Japanese?" He said.

"Universal translation." I made a guess.

"Cool." She commented.

We ate all of the treats that we could eat.

"I'm stuffed!" Ragnos announced, visibly satisfied.

Leila stared at him "That's enough for you? I could eat another round or so excuse me!"

She raised her hand up "another round of cupcakes please!"

We stared at her wide eyed.

"Are you serious?" Ragnos asked.

"Yep."

And just like that she ate more cupcakes.

"How we gonna pay for all of this?" I whispered to Ragnos.

"We'll figure something out." He whispered back.

When we say properly again we were shocked at the sight.

An empty chair.

And an empty tray.

"Somebody has to pay for this you know?" The person told us.

We came out of the place, broke.

"We could earn more money fighting monsters." He told me, sensing my annoyance.

Suddenly he grabbed my arm "Ragnos...?" Someone else is holding him.

She looked like in her forties and she looked relieved."Thank God I saw another one before it's too late."We looked at her questionably."Come with me to the other children until this whole incident is over." Then she started pulling us.

Obviously we resisted.

"Stop it! All children must be taken care of!"

It sounded like she wants to kill us.

"We are fine on our own!" I tried pulling away. Apparently she has a strong grip and there is no way we are gonna hurt a weird stranger.

Maybe...

"I won't leave children alone unless they have a guardian!"

"I'm their guardian."We immediately stopped to look.

It was Leila.

Our eyes widened in shock and the stranger glared at her.

"If you're their guardian, then why aren't you with them?!" Leila glared back.

"I was buying new clothes for us." She defended.

"Hmph! fine..." She finally let us go and left.

I made a relifed sigh "Thank you again, Leila." Ragnos told her.

She smiled "It was nothing." slinging a gigantic bag over her shoulder. I eyed the bag "Did you actually bought clothes?" I asked. She stared at me for a while then she snapped her fingers "Oh yeah I forgot about this." Then she placed the bag in front of us. Inside was a LOT of assorted clothings. Ragnos 'wowed' at this "Seriously, you bought all of this?" He questioned her.

She chuckled "I wouldn't actually say I 'bought' all of this stuff..." we stared at her.

"Wait you stole all of these?!" I shouted. She simply nodded.

She smirked then made a deep bow.

"Leila,Thief, at your service!"

We stared at her, our mouths agape and our eyes wide. That would have made sense how she left without us noticing (With our precious cupcakes)

"I originally planned on stealing the money first and leave it on the table before actually leaving you guys, but I sort of got...distracted" She made a sheepish smile.

"Anyway due to this circumstance, I guess we have to travel together until we at least reach Saint Haven. Sounds fine to you guys?"

We looked at each other.

I sighed.

We have no intention on being taken by surprised like that again.

"Okay!, We'll be in your care." Ragnos said, lightly bowing down.
Leia smiles.

A yawn slipped my mouth.

"Sorry." I apologized.

"It's fine" Ragnos said, Picking up the bag "Let's go to back to the tent!"

"You guys sleep in a tent?" She asked, surprised.
"Yeah why?" I asked.

"Hmm...normally people would sleep in the inn..." She answered. Ragnos looked at me nervously then he looked like he got an idea. "We like to sleep outside of town better!" He replied.

She looked at us questionably "Ah...okay? so lead the way." so we walked together to Cristal Stream.

We finally arrived and entered the tent.

"So this is where you guys sleep." She thought out loud then she flopped on the floor "So spacious!" She smiled.

I sat on the floor and Ragnos placed the bag beside Leila.

I yawned again and decided to lie down.

"You can go to sleep first if you want." Ragnos suggested.

I nodded and fell asleep, not feeling any sense of danger from our guest nor anything from outside.

Opened my eyes, scanning the area.

The System.

I could see things more clearly now.

A person, maybe a guy, typing...

"Self-insert?" I asked myself.

He suddenly stopped typing. His chair moved slightly towards my direction. After few moments, He quickly went back to his position, typing as fast as he can.

My eyes widened in shock.

Elimination.

When he pressed enter, a mysterious force pushed me backwards then I could feel myself falling.

I could see different holes as I fall and the only way I could stop myself is by grabbing on of the holes.

But It's too far.

An Acrobat should have mobility while in air but I haven't trained yet. What can I do!

I readied my arrow for a piercing arrow and shot on the side of the wall below me. It successfully wedge into the wall.

Then I used multi-shot on the opposite side, hoping that the force would push me hard enough and slows my fall a bit to reach the wedged arrow.

I grabbed the arrow in panic and took out another arrow and wedged it to the other side.

My fall completely stopped.

I sighed in relief, both for not fall and for the arrows not breaking apart.

I started climbing up, stabbing the arrows on the wall as hard as I can, and reached for the nearest hole.

I collapsed on the ground, breathing quick breaths, when I entered the hole.

I never thought you can get tired in dreams.

I started to lose consciousness. My eyes started to close. At the corner of my eye, I saw a lock of blond hair.

Before I fully lost consciousness, I heard a laugh and a girl's voice.

"I hope I can meet you soon."

To be continued...