Kazma opened his eyes and enjoyed the feeling of the hot sun on his face, he had learned a lot in his recent journey.
For one traveling alone wasn't just dangerous it was boring if there wasn't an animal that wanted to eat him, it was a plant that wanted to eat him, and if it wasn't either of those it was the endless silence.
He never knew how much he would miss Aqua's laud, no that was it, aqua was laud, no matter where she went there was noise.
There was noise here, but it was the kind of noise that put a person to sleep.
Sometimes while he was walking or forced to jump from one tree branch onto another, he found himself imagining her humming to herself carelessly.
If she wasn't doing that, she would stray away from the path they were on to look at something that caught her interest.
It was at those times that he realized that he had ended up yelling at someone that wasn't there.
"Would you look at that, if it isn't the person we've been looking for." a man says to him as he shows Kazuma a headband.
"Yeah, I don't know what that means, so bye." Kazuma says to the man who stares at him as he walks past him.
'Hold it there little guy, your mom paid us to bring you back to the village." the man says to him as he shows Kazuma a picture of the blond woman that left him in the village.
'Yeah, that's not my mom." Kazuma says to the ma who looks at him for a long moment.
"Waite, stop walking. I mean we were already paid, so how about you tell us your side of the story and maybe we can just say that we didn't find you." the man says to him as he takes out a small notebook that he opens and looks at Kazuma.
"Okay, I only met her, you know what I don't know when it was, but it wasn't long." Kazuma says to the man as he tells him everything except that he fell from the sky through a hole in reality.
"So it's one of those situations." the man says to him as he puts the notebook away and scratches his head.
"So what do we do now!?" the man says to someone that Kazuma can't see, but he can sense.
With a loud thump, a woman lands behind him and Kazuma turns to see a woman with long red hair who looked at him with cold eyes.
"What do you mean, we were hired to bring him back." the woman says to the man before she turns her eye back to Kazuma.
'Listen, kid, this is our job, so how I'll make you a deal."
"We were hired to bring you back, but we weren't hired to keep you there. So this is the deal, you can stay with me and if you want to leave I'll get you out of there."
"That way we don't have to give the money back and you can go wherever you were planning to go." she says to him.
"You know I could just run away." Kazuma says to the woman, as he prepares to teleport.
"And we would follow you, tie you up and bring you back, even if it takes us months or years."
"Do you want that?" she says to him as she lowers herself to his height, Kazuma can feel the woman's eyes as she looks into his.
"Two conditions, I want to learn some of your magic and even if you are paid to keep me there you have to help me escape because this is our deal." he says to her as he lifts his hand and waits for her to shake it with hers.
The woman grins and grabs his hand before she shakes it.
She quickly picks him up and before Kazuma even has a chance to say or think of anything he finds himself moving at a speed that would have broken his bones.
The woman that was carrying him must have been able to use some kind of skill or spell that made it possible for him not to feel the pressure placed on his body and before he knew it, he was looking at the edge of the forest.
As he looked at the desert that was on the other side of the forest Kazuma knew that the man had lied to him.
"You lied to me man." he said to the man that told him that the blond woman had hired him and the red-haired woman that was carrying him at the moment.
"I guess you will try to escape now?" the redhead says to him.
"No, you said that you were hired, but not who hired you. So you didn't lie." Kazuma answers the woman and he can see her lips make a smile.
"Don't forget we made a deal." Kazuma says to her as she jumps into the desert and begins to move faster than she moved while in the forest.
