The rules for Adventures
The rules for Adventures are simple and easy for anyone to understand.
1; We hold no loyalty to anyone except our Party and our Guild.
Unlike everyone else we work for whoever pays us with what we find valuable, for some of us it's money, for others it's entertainment, and even for some of us, it's the fact that we can be useful.
But one thing always brings us together Our Guild.
There can be infighting, and there can be all sorts of problems, but one thing always holds, from the weakest to the strongest of us, no one outside of our guild touches a single one of us without starting a war with all of us.
The same goes for our Party, Our Team, it's because we rely on each other to be able to do the jobs that we learn to trust each other and grow to want to keep each other safe.
2; An adventurer never does anything for free. [ Unless it's for something personal ]
We don't have the luxury of being good people, we have armor- weapons and ourselves to keep in good condition.
Hell, there are times that we don't know if we are even going to have a roof over our heads at night or if we're going to live on the streets because we haven't been able to find any work or because we failed so many jobs that we don't get the money that we were offered.
How could we, we didn't do the job.
So we have to get something every time we do anything for anyone, because we aren't just taking care of what we need now, but were also saving for the future.
3; Our lives are Temporary
Hey, it comes with the job, one day a person is there, and the next they're gone.
This is something that we all have to accept, because either we ran into something that we couldn't deal with, or someone we wronged in the past finally found us and got their revenge.
Just enjoy the time that you have with one another and the alone time that you get.
[[][][][[]
The sound of the bell ringing once again told everyone to leave and yet Masaki couldn't help but notice the extra hop in Kazuma's footsteps.
The boy was happy, there was something about the appearance of the dragon that must have reminded him of where he was before coming here, but if that was true then that meant that Kazuma had a connection to the...
No, that wasn't for her to worry about, the boy was her partner and so she would make sure that he didn't put himself in any meaningless danger.
"So where are we going?" Masaki asks Kazuma as they aimlessly walk around town.
'Don't know, but I'm looking for a place where no one will see me using my skills." Kazuma answers her.
"I think I know a place, but it's a little far, so your teleporting skill won't work because." she says to Kazuma but he stops her from saying anything else.
"Just point in the direction and I'll jump there." he says to her.
Masaki smirks even if Kazuma used a skill that allowed him to move at high speed, his body would need to rest and as a result, he would have no choice but to go back home and get some sleep.
Unfortunately for him, that meant that he wouldn't be able to make himself something to eat, and that meant that he would miss tomorrow's lunch too.
It wouldn't be her fault if he decided that going through some trouble wasn't something he wanted to deal with, so he would stay away from anything that had to deal with the.
Her mind stopped working as her none existent breath was sucked out of her.
She realized that she had forgotten to vanish so that no one could see her if they could see spirits.
Her eyes widened as she walked down an alley and desperately tried to vanish but she found herself unable to when two pairs of hands grabbed both of her hands.
"Mom." both Yuzu and Karin her daughters say to her as they start to cry.
Masaki wants to vanish but finds that she's unable to, she doesn't know if it's, because her daughters are holding on to her or because she knows that she wanted to see them ever since she woke up next to Kazuma.
Masaki doesn't know what to do, she wants to embrace her daughters, but she's already dead, before this moment, her daughters had already moved on, and now she was making them feel the same pain that they felt all those years ago.
"Okay, we're causing a scene," Kazuma says to them as he puts a hand on each of the girl's heads.
Masaki begins to look around and finds that several people are staring at her daughters, who from their point of view are crying while holding onto thin air.
"How about we walk you girl's home, that way you can talk with her all you want." Kazuma says to her daughters who only nod.
As they silently walk Masaki can't help but want to cry as the feelings of joy and sadness wash over her, on one side she wants to hug both girls and tell them that she loves them.
And yet she knows that the moment that she does this whatever walls she has managed to put up will shatter and she won't be able to stay away from them anymore and she will drag them into a world that they aren't ready for.
"Who are you?" Karin asks Kazuma.
"Me I'm no one, just someone that never existed before," Kazuma answers Karin, before stopping in front of the window of a small shop that sells sweets and buying four sodas from it.
He hands a soda to the girls before they start walking again.
'Mom, we missed you." Yuzu says to her.
Mo...mom why didn't you come back?"
"Didn't you want to come back?" Karin asks her,
Masaki looks at Karin and he wants to answer her, but she's unable to accept that Karin's words can be filled with so much pain, and worse her daughter doesn't dare look at her anymore.
Even if her daughter is still holding her hand tightly, her voice is painfully low and her head is down and she's only looking at the soda that Kazuma gave her.
"Your mom was asleep, and somehow I'm connected to her." Kazuma says to Karin.
'The give her back!" Karin yells at Kazuma, as she lifts her head violently and her eyes are filled with tears that haven't stopped flowing.
"I can't because I don't know how." Kazuma answers Karin.
'Liar!" Yuzu says to Kazuma before letting go of her hand and running towards him and hitting him on his chest.
"Give her back!" Karin yells at Kazuma as she joins Yuzyu.
Both girls beat Kazuma until they were unable to cry anymore and they were completely exhausted, but Kazuma never tried to push them away, nor did he put up any defense, instead when they were both tired he just patted them on the head.
"How about if I visit you, girls, that way you can pass the time with your mom?" Kazuma says to them.
"Why?" Yuzu pleads to Kazuma.
"I don't know." Kazuma says to Yuzu, but Masaki notices that he's answering more than one question, maybe he's answering something that he hadn't asked himself until now.
"Hey there's a park over there, so how about I lie down over there and you three can catch up?" Kazuma says to the girls who only nod before turning to look at her.
Masaki watches as Kazuma walks towards one of the trees and lies down before her daughters hold her hands again and eagerly begin to tell her everything that she has missed.
It took every ounce of her will to not breakdown into tears, she had missed so much and her girls were right here next to her, but for their own good, she had to stay away.
The howl of a Hollow reached her ears but it vanished under the familiar light that could only come from the arrow of a Quincy.
"It's time for you girls to go home, is the bouses phone number the same one or did your father change it?" Masaki asks her daughters who tell her that the landline is still the same.
She signals to Kazuma to walk them home, but they both keep their distance when they reach the street where the house is.
They wave goodbye to each other and when both Yuzu and Karin close the door, Masaki can't help but fall onto her knees and break down crying