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The days after that, I almost didn't have any conversations with Grace, or to be specific, only the most basic of communications happened between us.
"Good morning", "breakfast is ready", "It's lunchti", "You can take a shower first", "goodnight"... our relationship was down to the freezing point.
As for the amulet I gifted her, while I cleaned up the campsite the next day, I found a charred wooden trinket decorated with cherry blossom shapes in between the leftovers of the campfire.
Because it was made of [Millennium Fairy Wood], normal fires can't burn it easily, so it wasn't really damaged apart from being smoked and appearing charred, but seeing it thrown in the fire made feel... sothing...
It's a pretty valuable material, and I spent a lot of ti on carving it.
This made rethink if I want to finish Grace's staff, if I don't, then months of my hard work will go to waste, falling unconscious and waking up repeatedly, everything I did will be for nothing; but if I did... I don't really want to see the staff all on its loneso in the dumpster a few days later.
...But this is sothing I promised Grace, that I will finish a staff and give it to her, and up until now she has only been using a normal beginner staff.
Maybe, maybe... she's waiting for to finish this staff...
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... Hah, even I feel unsure when saying that.
I held my head and lay down on the driver's seat, looking at the sunny and cloudless sky, I let out a sigh.
Rembering the past, she would always follow behind my back, letting show her the view of the mountain; or she'll learn a new magic and excitedly run over and show it to , hoping to get a complint or words of support.
...But now... why, Grace, why are you betraying ? What went wrong? Did I do sothing horrible to her?
If that was the case, why do I have no mory of it whatsoever... wait, perhaps precisely because I couldn't even rember what I did, which makes it horrible?
OMG, I'm ntally forty! Why am I so bad at things relating to relationships? If my life was made into a docuntary I bet I can feel the peanut gallery raging at . - They are probably raging right now, aren't they?
Then, should I go and apologize to Grace? Apologize and then... I don't know what cos after that, so wounds simply can't be healed.
I've said this in the past, that everything in the secret base can't be leaked to anyone. Of course, I've been constantly reminding Grace and lon, and putting my trust in them, but Grace brought a group of outsiders to conduct a carpet search.
That is basically telling to die... Thinking of it like that, even the fact that we didn't fight is a miracle, so wanting our relationship to return to what it was before, is pretty much impossible.
Whatever, why am I thinking about it so much? I just need to bring Grace to the capital, then we can part and go our separate ways.
My plans for the future are still unclear. As of now, I want to beco a rchant, as for lon... wait, lon should also be able to attend school, right?
Hmm... I think the Royal Academy isn't just training [Mages], but [Fighters] as well, so I could consider sending her to school, the money I currently have should be enough to fund her training and studies. If combat training in the academy doesn't work out, at least she gets to study reading and writing.
Although I have taught her quite a bit, lon has always been lacking in reading and writing, since we live in a rural place, she hasn't had many chances to practice either.
Ahh! Maybe have her beco an adventurer instead? She seed interested in that.
Anyways, no matter if she's going to school or becoming an adventurer, a place to settle down is a must, perhaps I have to consider finding a place to stay in the Capital.
With all these complicated feelings and thoughts swimming in my head, we arrived.
The Capital, City of Tegittan.
Tegittan, also the na of the country, and the na of the royal family, with king Tegittan XIX as the current ruler.
The capital is nad after the royal family, and the size of the entire city is at least ten tis bigger than Saddin. Apart from regular land transportation, this city also has very convenient and prospering water transport, and the canals flowing throughout has a European feel to it all.
In this city, the canals leading in all directions are the main thod of transportation, countless public water transports called "Capinoes" sails amidst them, giving the city of Teggitan the na "City of Water".
This city is said to have been built on top of the [Maze of Aqua], the water flows from the maze using so kind of thod of extraction, the minerals in the water also provides for the plentiful crops in villages near it, which in turn, has made the economy great in the Capital.
The entire Teggitan city is divided into five areas, there's the Activity district, Livelihood district, Nobility district, Castle district, and Academy district.
Apart from the various trade guilds in the activity district, institutes similar to governntal administrative departnts or Adventurer's Guilds are also set in this place, the branch office of [Eyes of the Night Cat] we'll visit later is also located there.
There are way more things in the livelihood district, other than the houses, there're markets and shops right next to the academy, and you could simply treat this as a mixed pot with a little bit of everything included.
The nobility district is ho for the nobles, while the castle is where the royal family lives
Lastly, the academy district. This country values the education of [Fighters] and [Mages], it's evident as they planned an area just for educating, and this is also Grace's destination.
Well, although I explained so much... we're still stuck outside of the city because of the wolf-drawn wagon.
Apart from being asked a lot of questions - borderline interrogation, really - there's also much explaining to do, which I admit, is my fault... I forgot that bringing Rifle would cause many problems, looks like I'll have to visit the Adventurer's Guild to register it as a work-beast.
"Hey, what's happening?" Hearing the commotion, the leader of the soldiers ca over.
It was a square-faced bald man with a stubbly chin, and after seeing the wolf wagon, his expression changed.
"Ahh! Might you be the new guy, Walson?"
"Ahh, hello senior Cadan." I helplessly stuck my tongue out.
This was ntioned before, that soone from [Eyes of the Night Cat] joined the army in the Capital, which was this guy right here.
"It's alright, Oi! These people are alright, let them in! Sorry but I'm still on duty, I won't go to the branch office until the end of this month, sorry again! New guy!"
Knowing a lot of people makes everything easier no matter where you are, networking and making connections always benefit business. It's like this in my past life, and it's the sa here too. After the four adventurers said goodbye to Cadan, we finally entered the city.
Our new life is about to begin.
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