Encounter of the Double Vance Sisters
Otter is still fighting against the Minotaur as to train the monster into becoming stronger to face against Bell, and the bull monster finally broke his sword though he doesn't seem to care about it right now for he has witness the fruit of the labor.
"Are you finish?" Otter asked.
The Minotaur just roars in response and suddenly its whole body turns red as it has evolved into a stronger monster ready to kill more humans with its mighty newfound strength.
"(Those who do not embrace adventure will never be able to hope to overcome the barrier.)" Otter thought walked away from the Minotaur.
"(You better be ready to embrace your adventure fully, Bell Cranel because I would hate to see my Goddess disappointed if were to die in this world.)" Otter thought wondered if Bell can really overcome this trial.
(Guild, with Bell)
"No way… Level 6!" Bell shocked of what Eina just told him.
"Yes, she got it on Floor 37, I believe. She managed to defeat the Floor Boss all by herself." Eina said.
"Whoa." Bell amazed that Ais keeps being amazingly strong every time.
"Defeating a foe that powerful normally acquires a full party group with high-skilled Adventurers. Do not try to compare yourself to her, Bell. I never heard of something what she can do, Lady Wallenstein is very unique." Eina stated.
After the talk, Bell is staring at the board with the picture of Ais and the information about her defeating a Floor Boss and that she has become Level 6 at such a young age, he did feel a little depress that Ais is further ahead of him but at the same time he feels a new spark of determination to such that kind of level with his own strength.
"Okay, looks like I got to work even harder than ever before." Bell said to himself.
Bell begins walking through the street thinking about heading home for the day since it's his party's day off and Leina still isn't back from her training with Echidna since he got the letter from Keltan last night.
(Flashback)
"Huh, Leina isn't coming back until the last day of our training sessions?" Bell gasped upon reading the letter as the snake is on his shoulder.
"It looks like Echidna has really taken an interest to our Leina, just hope she doesn't try anything funny even though they're alone together." Hestia grinded her teeth.
"Who's to say they haven't already done something in bed." Risty joked.
"I'm sure Echidna has something in mind for Leina, we just have to put our faith that she'll come back to us once the training is finish." Bell believed and stroked his finger under Keltan's chin.
"It's amazing that you're not scared of snakes." Lili impressed, then flinch in fear when Keltan looked at her.
"Thank you for the letter, Keltan. Tell Echidna we'll be looking forward to seeing Leina again soon." Bell said to the snake before he slithers out of the church heading back home.
"I'm not sure if it's okay to leave the snake alone in the city like that." Melpha concerned for the little snake.
"That snake has been Echinda reptile underwear for who knows how long, I'm sure he'll be fine." Risty shrugged.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH?!" A scream was heard from outside the church.
"It's the people you should be concern about." Risty laughed.
(Flashback End)
"I wonder how strong Leina has gotten? I got to be sure that to be there for her when we're back together." Bell looked forward to seeing the result of their training together.
Bell also wonders if he should bring some flowers for Leina as gift that she did a great job with the training even though he wasn't there for her in person, and wonder what kind of flowers he should get as well.
"Bell!" A familiar voice called out.
Before Bell could respond to that voice, he suddenly felt his left arm being grabbed and blush of surprise when he sees that it is Syr grabbing his arm.
"Miss Syr, what's the matter?" Bell asked.
"Oh Bell, I want you!" Syr said with her cheeks blushing, this made Bell feel shocked that Syr may have confessed her love all the sudden to him.
(Entrance of Orario City)
"Finally, we're here!" Elina cheered as she exits the carriage.
Elina is a young teenager woman. Her armor bears a feline motif like the metal cat ears on her head. Her armor is revealing with a white bow around her neck and a blue breastplate, and silver hip armor. On her arms she has lace sleeves, with her right arm unarmored, and lace thigh-highs with silver greaves. She also carries a black spear with a large white cloth wrapped around on it. Breasts sizes: E-cup.
"Calm yourself down, we just arrived." Claudette scolded her youngest sister.
Claudette is fierce-looking and beautiful young woman with long violet hair that reaches down to her waist and matching eye colors. She wears a golden armor with black under-pieces, with a long split white cape. Stripe to her back is a long black sword with three diamond shape designs that's about the same height as herself including the gold hilt. Breasts sizes: H-cup.
"But we're finally here and that means we can find Leina within this adventuring city!" Elina excited.
"I still can't believe Leina would run away from our home, she would choose to throw away living the life of luxury for some stupid reason of living the life of a stupid adventurer to go down a stupid dungeon." Elina mocked the place with some adventurers around them looking at her shock and glaring.
"Behave yourself, Elina. Don't forget this is the Adventurers home and the place perhaps where our mother once lived." Claudette reminded her as she shows the travel papers to a guard of the gate.
"Well, I will admit the city does look guard with the walls so tall and strong and I do wonder what the inside looks like." Elina said looking at the city wall.
"Well, now it's the time we find that out for ourselves." Claudette walked past Elina into the city as the younger sister follows her.
The two Vance sisters look around seeing the big city to be as they expected with so many people of all kinds like humans, elves, dwarfs, and other things they have that looks special and amazing to any tourist that comes to this city. But to Elina, while she does see that some of them are good, she only has one thing in mind, and she is going to demand the whereabout of her sister Leina even if she has to ask every person in the city to do so.
"Hey, you!" Elina shouted a random woman.
"Huh, me?" The woman pointed herself, and suddenly she is thrown to a wall and pinned there by Elina.
"Where is Leina Vance?" Elina asked.
"Who?" The woman confused then got punch in the face.
"Leina Vance, my older sister and the most wonderful woman in the whole universe who should be cuddling with me in bed, and she is somewhere here in this city!" Elina glared at the woman scaring her.
"I'm sorry! I don't know anything!" The woman scared.
Elina was about to ask the woman again about where Leina is, but Claudetter stopped her by punching the back of her head and pulls her younger sister away from the woman.
"I am very sorry for my sister's behavior. She is just very worried of our sister as much as I am, please accept our most humble apologize and hope you have a nice day." Claudette apologizes and forces Elian to bow to the woman.
"Well, I guess it's natural for family members to be worrying for each other. I wish you luck for finding your sister." The woman said before walking away to continue her day.
"Elina, you need to behave more while in a new city away from home." Claudette scolded.
"It's not liked these little pests could ever earn my respect and it's not like there's anything here worthwhile besides finding Leina." Elina proclaimed.
"Except you forgotten the most important thing in this city. There are Gods here, the real ones." Claudette mentioned making Elina tense up a little.
"While the Gods may have sealed away their Godly powers to live with us mortals here in this city, they can still hold power over others such as forming powerful groups known as Familia. Gathering and nurturing young warriors to become powerful fighters." Claudette explained about this city.
"So what, you're the strongest warrior I know, the Thunder General. No one can stop you once you unleash your lightning strike with your Thunderclap sword." Elina bragged.
"I maybe the strongest at our home, but out here there are other warriors who can fight on par with me or even stronger. The world is bigger than we can imagine." Claudette pointed out as she decided to ask a man with cat ears the questions.
"Mom used to say those words, didn't she?" Elina asked feeling a bit sad.
"She did, and she knew how much we all loved her as she loved us back." Claudette answered.
Elina looks around some more thinking about her late mother, Maria Vance, wondering how she used to like this city and adventuring with others before meeting their father and settling down. Her thoughts are interrupted by something tug on her left gauntlet getting her attention, she turns around not seeing anyone until she looks down seeing a little boy holding a flower basket in his right arm and with a cute smile.
"Hello, are you new in Orario?" The boy asked.
"Yeah, me and my big sister just arrived here." Elina answered, hoping this kid doesn't waste her time.
"Cool! I never knew anyone outside the city and most say it can be just as dangerous as what goes on in the Dungeon." The boy said.
"Really, and where exactly is this Dungeon?" Elina asked curiously.
"That's easy, it's that really, really tall tower over there." The boy pointed at the Babel tower.
When Elina saw this tower, she became shocked of seeing the tower she heard stories from her late mother that it is so high that it can reach right through the clouds and straight to the Heaven and seeing the tower now that her mom wasn't entirely exaggeration. She couldn't even see the top as the tower just kept on going higher and higher.
"Wow, that is a tall tower." Elina surprised.
"Yep, at the higher floors. You'll find some fancy stores that sells weapons, special items, and other things a party needs before going down to the lower floors where the Dungeon is." The boy explained.
"You seem to know a lot about the tower for such a little boy." Claudette commented.
"Yep, I also sell flowers that goes with people's hairs and ribbons for their eyes." The boy pulled out a yellow flower with a blue ribbon tied to it.
"Aw, that's so sweet." Elina smiled taking the flower.
"Don't worry, since you two are new here. Consider today on the house." The boy smiled.
"That's very kind of you, but I think I'll give you a little tip." Elina gave the boy three gold coins.
"Wow, you have Valis where you're from?" The boy surprised.
"We do. My name is Elina Vance, and this one here is my older sister, Claudette." Elina introduced herself and Claudette.
"Greetings." Claudette greeted.
"My name is Michel Rivaranciel, it's nice to meet you both." Michel greeted back to the two.
Michal is a little boy with short black hair and green eyes. He wears a green jacket and a white shirt, with a white cravat by his neck, dark green shorts, and brown shoes.
"So, Michel, do you by any chance know where we can find a girl named Leina Vance? She is our middle sister." Elina asked.
"Leina Vance…" Michel took a moment to remember if he heard of that name then realization came to him.
"Oh yeah, she's another rookie Adventurer in the Hestia Familia." Michel informed.
"I see, so Leina has started making herself at home here." Claudette feared.
"From what I heard, she and this other guy named Bell Cranel are becoming strong Adventurers in a short amount of time. Probably faster than anyone has ever done and there was also their rumor about her eating a really strong monster and won." Michel mentioned.
"Really? I never knew Leina would be like that." Elina shocked.
"Do you any chance know where her Familia home is?" Claudette askd.
"Yep, they live in an old, abandoned church with a small, roomed basement." Michel answered.
"WHAT?!" Elina screamed in rage and pick up Michel making drop his basket.
"How dare they force Leina to live in such a stupid home, do they also make her eat bugs because they didn't have the money or are they just making her a cleaning girl?!" Elina demanded while shaking Michel.
"Miss Kitty… Could you please put me down!" Michel begged as he becomes dizzy from the shaking.
Claudette punch Elina on the head making her stop the tantrum and dropping Michel as his eyes become spiraling.
"Sorry about that, as you just witness, Elina can be obsessive for our sister." Claudette said.
"I see…" Michel said as he got himself up.
"Anyway, I can interest you girls in getting something to eat? I know a good restaurant that is amazing!" Michel offered.
"Well, I have been feeling a bit hungry from eating those small foods we had to eat during the travel here." Elina said as her stomach made a small growl sound.
"We would like that." Claudette nodded.
"Great! Follow me!" Michel walked to the direction where the restaurant is as the two Vance sisters follow her.
(Hostess of Fertility)
"So, that's what you meant!" Bell gasped as he is standing in front of a large pile of dirty dishes.
"I'm sorry, they piled up while I was goofing off-I mean, taking a short break. So, Mamma Mia is short of punishing me. She's angry." Syr explained trying to play innocent.
"So, you're pushing it off on me!" Bell realized he was setup.
"I know, it's mean of me, but I know you can do it!" Syr smiled.
"Oh, and don't worry, I won't tell anyone how you suddenly grabbed me and touched my butt." Syr grinned causing Bell to gasp blushing of embarrassment from earlier.
Bell looks at the dishes thinking it's too late to back down now, then Ryuu took one dirty dish in her hand.
"This is too much for you, let me help." Ryuu offered.
"Thank you." Bell thanked and the two got to work on the dishes. Then Bell got curious about something.
"Were you ever an Adventurer, Miss Ryuu?" Bell asked.
"Well, I was one. Why do you ask?" Ryuu asked back.
"I was wonder what should I be doing to make my level go up? Should just keep fighting monsters?" Bell asked.
"No, that's not gonna be enough, there's more to that. And actually, you'll need to conquer one of the more powerful ones." Ryuu answered.
"Man, not sure if I'm ready for that just yet." Bell said.
"It's not gonna be easy, but you'll have better luck if you have the right skill and a proper strategy." Ryuu stated, this reminds Bell of how Ais and Irma told him the same thing.
"Although, that alone won't be enough to defeat one. You need to join up with a party and in your case, make your party bigger with those whose strength can cover your weakness." Ryuu pointed out as Bell seem to understand.
"And to answer your question, Mister Cranel, the main thing you can do is going on adventures and the journey is more meaningful with multiple people." Ryuu said.
"(I think I got that part down.)" Bell thought smiled.
"Don't' know what sort of adventure you had at this point, but please don't ever forget what you learn from them." Ryuu said with a small smile as Bell looks at her. "Because in the end, what I believe is that if you want something, the only to get is to step up and take it. But that said, I have been wrong in the past." She said.
Unknown to them, Syr is eavesdropping on their conversation then they heard the bell ring.
"Hello, I brought two new folks from outside the city." Michel called out.
"You better have some good food for the great Elina Vance!" Elina said.
"(Vance, that's Leina's last name.)" Bell thought surprised to hear that.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Claudette and Elina Vance have both arrived in Orario City and begin their search for Leina though it looks like might find out more of what she's been doing sooner than expected, let's hope Bell can have a normal conversation with Elina.
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