Rebirth Online World

“What do you want, you pervert??!!” shouted Sakura to me with eyes full of disdain.

‘Ugghhh…, being called a pervert is fine, but those eyes are like looking at a disgusting insect. At this rate, my little heart will be broken sooner or later….uuuuuuu…,’ i cried in my heart.

“You know her Z?” asked Harvey.

I walked to them and nodded. ”She is a ‘daughter’ of a friend.”

‘The less people knows about her, the better, she has the Holy Sword after all…’

“Well if she is your acquaintance, then it’s nothing strange for her to just suddenly appear out of nowhere, hahaha…,” said Alex while shaking his head.

“Hahaha, everything about Z are strange after all,” Harvey nodded.

“Really, is it fine like that?” asked Bernardt.

“Hahaha…, no worries. She looks totally harmless, isn’t she? And Z already told us that she is an acquaintance of him after all,” said Harvey while tapping on Bernardt’s shoulder.

Bernardt frowned a little then said, “Well, if you guys already say so… Then i don’t have any problem with it. It just means more guards for me…”

“But i won’t pay her okay? She just showed up out of nowhere after all,” said Bernardt while grinning.

“Hahahaha… What a stingy merchant,” said Harvey jokingly,

“Well let’s go then! If we keep staying here we will attract the Magical beasts,” said Alex while climbing up into the carriage.

“Ah wait a minute! You guys wait in the carriage. I need to speak to her for a bit.”

Then i jumped onto the carriage roof and said to her, “Let’s go down a bit, i need to talk to you.”

“N-no!!” She hugged the robe and walked back to avoid me.

I frowned a little then said, “Eh? Why? We won’t go for too long, i only need to tell you about something small after all.”

“No! You will throw me to the bush and r-r-rape me, won’t you??!!! You pervert!!” she shouted to me with reddened cheeks and teary eyes.

‘EEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHH……..is my image really that low inside her mind???’ I orz-ed on the carriage roof.

“Don’t bully the little girl, Z~~” said the guys from below.

I sighed and said to her, “Haaah….if you don’t want to go, then fine…[Storage]” I took out a pair of trouser and shirt from my ‘Storage Ring’.

“Here, wear this for now, i will buy you girl’s clothes later.”

She hugged the robe tighter with an embarrased look on her face.

“I-i will kill you, if you peek, okay!!” she said that while taking the clothes from my hand.

“Don’t worry Jou-chan (AN: little princess) we will keep an eye on him,” said Harvey from below.

“Yes…yes… I will go down then.” I scratched my head then jumped down.

I walked to the front of the carriage.

“Why does she keep calling you ‘pervert’? Did you do something bad to her? You have to treat a girl on her age carefully, you know?” said Alex from the driver’s seat.

“Girl’s puberty is indeed a scary thing…,” said Harvey. The three middle aged man nodded together.

“I did nothing bad to her!! It was just a misunderstanding!” i tried to defend myself.

“She looks as old as my daughter back home, so don’t try to do something funny to her, okay? Or i will need to sacrifice myself to let her run away from you. Ahahahaha…,” said Harvey while laughing.

“Do i really look like a pervert???” i retorted to them.

Then they laughed together to mock me.

“Are you sure it’s okay for a young girl like her to go with us?” asked Bernardt.

I thought about her punch for a bit, then said, “She is as strong as me, so it’s fine i guess.”

“Oh, so there really is someone as strong as you…,” said Alex while lifting one of his eyebrows.

“Haha…, of course there is. What do you think i am? Demon Emperor?”

‘Demon Emperor is weaker than me though…’

“Is Z really that strong? His body is so thin…,” asked Bernardt.

“He is strong. He said that he is a magician, but i rarely saw him uses his magic back when we were adventuring together in Rudia city to subjugate the Magical beasts. He always kill those beasts in one stroke with his sword,” said Harvey to Bernardt.

“Are you really that strong?” said a voice from above. Sakura’s head is popping from the roof, peeping on us.

‘Hooo…so she was listening to us…is my image already better in her head now?’ i felt a little happy in my heart.

“Well, maybe, who knows? But that’s not important, are you done changing? Come down into the carriage, we will resume the journey,” i said to her while smiling.

“No. I don’t want to go near a pervert,” she said while looking at me with those disdainful eyes.

‘Ughhh…, Goddess…! This ‘daughter’ of yours is really hard to take care of…,’ i cried again in my head.

“But i really like to take a nap up there…,” i said to her.

“From now on the roof is mine! You may not come up!” She glared at me with an A shaped mouth.

“Uuuuu….” I orz-ed on the ground.

“Just sit at the back of the carriage Z, the front is already full. And we don’t want to get mistaken as a pervert like you,” said Harvey while grinning. Alex and Bernardt grinned from ear to ear too.

“Y-you guys!!”

I was shocked, it’s not even 10 minutes after she arrived, and my friends already sided with her to mock me. ‘Uuuuuu…i should have wished for something when Astraea asked me about my second wish…this job is really hard….,’ i cried while going to the back of the carriage.

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-Sakura’s POV-

I sat on top of the carriage while looking around the forest.

‘What a strange world, no asphalt roads, no electrical poles, no stores, is it really safe here? W-what will i do if they want to assault me?? Is there police box around here??’ I looked around hysterically.

‘A-astraea-sama lent me a Holy Sword but i don’t know how to use it…..’. I furrowed my brows, then start to think about a sword, ‘I don’t even know how that thing looks like… Hmmmm…, like a katana maybe?’ Then my right hand lit up and a katana suddenly appeared over it. ‘Uaaahhh…! That scared me! Well at least i can defend myself with this, for now. But where should i put it now?? It’s pretty dangerous carrying a thing this sharp…, or…can i just make it disappear like when i made it appear?’ Then i think about the Holy Sword gone from my hand, then it flashed and gone. ‘How convenient~~ let’s try it again~~~ can it take another shape??’ Then i started to imagine a kitchen knife, and it appeared in my right hand after my hand lit up. ‘Waaa…, it looks really sharp… Let’s see what else it can change into…’

I made it disappear and re-appear time and time again with different shapes.

Then a sound was heard from behind me, “Looks like you are having fun right now, am i disturbing you?” His head popped up from below the carriage, while looking at me playing with the sword.

I lifted my bat-shapped sword and slammed it to his head. Sadly, he jumped away before the bat could hit him, then he fell down from the carriage.

“Uwaaah…that was dangerous!” he fell down on his butt, then shouted at me.

“I told you, that the roof is off limit….i will kill you if you peek again….,” i said to him with a glare from my eyes.

He looked dissastified, but then ran back into the carriage. I waited for a while and he didn’t pop up again.

‘Did Astraea-sama really sent me to this weak-looking pervert?’ I furrowed my brows.

‘Hmmm…, i can’t think of anything… Maybe i should just ask him…? If he is lying then i will just smack his head…’ Then i walked into the back edge of the carriage roof, while holding the bat on my right hand.

-Zed’s POV-

“Hey pervert!” a sound was heard from above me. Sakura’s head popped from the roof and started to glare at me with her eyes.

I was startled, ‘Did i do something wrong again? I am just sitting here trying to sleep….or is she going to tell me to go away now….but that’s really mean….’

“Don’t ignore me!” she shouted while swinging the strange shaped Holy Sword at me.

I avoided it while saying, “Y-yes? I won’t ignore you again, so stop trying to hit my head.”

“I will hit whoever i want with this ‘bat’!”

‘Oh so it’s called a ‘bat’, why though? It doesn’t look like a bat at all, it has no wings and it’s not black… Hmmm…whatever…, it’s not important…’

“Do you want anything from me?” i asked her.

“Did Astraea-sama really asked you to help me?”

I gazed at her and said, “You don’t trust me?”

She answered straightforwardly, “No.”

I smiled at her and said, “Good, that’s your first lesson, ‘Never trust someone you only met!’”

“He is right! You never know who will cheat on you!” said Harvey.

“I don’t even trust my own secretary, if i do, i won’t be a succesfull merchant!” said Bernardt while twisting his moustache.

“And that’s your second lesson, ‘Always keep your ear open, you never know what things you will hear from people around you.’”

“Isn’t that eavesdropping?” said Sakura while furrowing her brows.

“Nope, we call it ‘Information Gathering’!” said Alex from the driver seat.

“The third lesson is, ‘Don’t talk too much about yourself and the people you know to someone else, it can be used against you’.”

She nodded, and began to ponder about something.

I smiled to her and said, “The fourth lesson is, ‘Never look to the back while sitting on the top of a carriage’.”

She stared at me and asked, “Wh-”

DUAAAK

I jumped and catched her in princess carry style, before she fell to the ground.

I smiled at her and said, “Because you will get hit on the back of your head by wild branches like that.”

She jumped down from my arm, then stepped on my toes. “Hmmph…i don’t need your help!!” she said to me while rubbing the back of her head.

We ran to the carriage that stopped not far from us.

“Don’t just jump down from the carriage like that… If i didn’t realize, then you will get left behind and have to walk far away by yourself… I am too lazy to turn back the carriage.” said Alex to us.

“Sorry about that Alex-san!” I clasped my hand in apology to him.

Then i walked to the back of the carriage again, there i saw Sakura jumping up and down trying to get up onto the carriage roof.

“Do you need any help?” i asked her.

“…..” she threw her face away from me and said nothing.

I jumped up to the carriage roof then stuck my hand down to her. “Come, take my hand.”

“….” she stared at my hand and still said nothing.

“I won’t do anything, come on!” i smiled at her.

She grasped my hand, then i pulled her in one breath onto the carriage roof. She looked surprised, “How did you do that?”

“Remember the third lesson?” i grinned at her.

“Never talk too much about yourself…tsk…, so, what’s your plan? I will follow you for now, but if you try to trick me then i will beat you up…,” she said to me while tapping her hand with her Holy Bat.

“Come sit down, or you will get hit by branches again,” i said to her while i myself lay down on the carriage roof.

She sat down and looked at me.

“For now we will go to finish my job of escorting Bernardt-san, and on the way i will teach you the common sense of this world, there is still 6-7 days till the destination, so you can take it easy.”

She furrowed her brows, then said, “Hmmm…okay…”

“So, do you have any question before i explain anything to you? Just ask.”

“i have a lot of questions in my mind, but i don’t know which one i should ask first.”

I sat up and smiled at her. “Ask anyhing, we still have enough times for some questions before it gets dark anyway.”

“Hmphh… Okay, let me think a bit… Oh, right! Where am i? This is not Earth is it?”

“Good question! No, this is not earth. I myself don’t know what name this world has, but this continent is called Holy Goddess Continent.”

“Holy Goddess Continent?” she tilted her head, then said, ”you mean As-”

Before she finished her word, i put my index finger in front of her mouth to silence her.

“W-what are you doing?!” She backed away from my finger and lifted her Holy Bat.

“Wait!! It’s important so listen closely!” She frowned then put her bat back down. I whispered to her, “Normal people doesn’t know her real name, so don’t speak of it so casually…”

She nodded then pushed me away from her.

“This Holy Goddes Continent is a big continent that is split into two parts, the Human Continent on the east and the Demon Continent on the west.” i said to her as i drew a circle on top of the carriage roof with a knife from my belt.

In the middle of the circle i drew a line to sperate the circle into two. “The two continent is being split by a really long mountain range, the mountain range is full of magical beasts, so people call it Beast mountain range. Simple right?”.

She wrinkled her brows, then said, “So un-imaginative…, what’s with that lame naming sense…”

“Hahahaha…i agree with Jou-chan!” said Alex from below.

“So where are we at right now?” She looked at the circle i drew.

“We are on our way to Nevs city, the Capital city of Nevs Kingdom. It should be around here,” i said to her while pointing on the south east part of the circle.

“Okay, so we are currently at the Human Continent, and what’s with the Demon Continent?” She tilted her head and pointed at the west side of the circle.

“Demon Continent is where the Demons live, of course!”

“Demons?” she asked me.

I gazed to the west and said to her, “Yes, the Demons, the Humanity’s biggest enemies. They control thousands magical beasts, ravage our fields, burn our homes, kill our men, enslave the women, eat our children, and…”

Sakura’s face turned more and more scared as i told her about what the Demons do.

“But, it has been more peaceful lately, since the Demon Emperor was killed by the Hero and his Companions,” said Harvey.

“Oooooooh… Good then, so there is no more danger…,” a hint of relieve was shown on her face when she said that.

“Not really” I shook my head.

“The Demons have retreated back to the Demon Continent. But who knows what they are planning? And there is tons of magical beasts that live in the wilderness, so we still have to be careful.”

“Magical beasts? Wha are they? Are they cute?” her eyes glittered as he asked me that.

“Hmmm…there maybe some that was cute…, but because they were weak, they usually get eaten by the stronger Magical beasts.”

“You can find the weak magical beasts near the city and try to tame them though. My daughter tamed a Rabbit beast and is keeping her home ‘til now,” said Harvey.

“Ooh, Rabbit beast is indeed a rare one,” i said to him.

“Why?” asked Sakura.

“Hmm, to make it simple, a Magical beast, is a wild animal, that has lived long enough, and absorbed lots of mana from the nature. And then it will evolve into Magical beast, their evolution depended from what kind of mana they absorbed from the nature, and that mana will crystallize in their body into a Magical core. So a weak rabbit, will naturally have it hard to become a Magical beast, because many predator will try to eat it before it changes into a magical beast. And a tamed animal can’t become a Magical beast, they need to absorb the mana from the wilderness to become a Magical beast.”

“Hmm…so complicated…,” she furrowed her brows.

“Don’t think too much about it, when a magical beast attacks you, then kill it and take its magical core. You can use it for alchemy, or sell it at adventurer guild, or sell it to a merchant like me! Ahahaha,” said Bernardt from below while laughing.

“Hmmm…i got it…” She nodded again and again.

“Or you can try to tame them. Like the companion of the Hero, the ‘Dragon Master’!” said Alex.

“Oh, you can tame a dragon??? How?” she asked with shining eyes.

“Dragon is really hard to tame, only one person has succedeed on taming it, and that is the ‘Dragon Master’! She was the legend in the Beastmaster world.” said Harvey enthusiastically.

“Woooow….” Sakura’s mouth made a big O to show her amazement.

I suddenly felt nostalgic and remembered about her. ‘Back then the five of us beat a dragon half dead, but before we want to take his Magical core, Riria stopped us, she said that she wanted to take care of him, because he looked like a dog she had back home, i don’t know which part of that dragon looked like a dog though. At first we were unable to agree with her decision, but she insisted to save him while crying. In the end, we gave up, and then i asked him, if he want to come with us or to die here. High level Magical beasts are smart so they can understand human’s speech. At first he rejected and growled madly at us, but then Riria slowly walked up close to him and hugged his dying head while crying, and said, “Please, come with me, i won’t hurt you…”. The dragon fell silent, then he opened his mouth, at first i thought that he was going to eat her, but then he licked her tears, bowed his giant head to her and growled softly. He acknowledged Riria as his master, and then she named him ‘Dora’.’

“There is three ways of taming a magical beast,” i said to her.

She stared at me with sparkly eyes, then listened seriously.

“First, if the Magical Beasts is weak, like a Dog beast, Cat beast, or Horse beast, you can try feeding them food. If you showed them affection, maybe they will like you and acknowledged you as their ‘friend’.”

She nodded and said, “And the second?”

“The second is harder, you have to steal a baby of two Magical beasts. A child between two magical beasts will become a magical beats as well, they have magical cores, but only with small amount of mana inside. You can be their ‘parent’ if you take care of them, but it’s still stealing a child from their parent, so….”

She looked sad then said, “I don’t want to do something like that….”

“The third one is the easiest yet also the hardest, you beat them up, then ask them to submit to you. If they acknowledge your strength, then you will become their master. But some magical beasts prefer to die than to submit to a human, so it all depends on luck as well.”

“Hooo…, so if i can beat up a dragon, i will become their master…” Then she gazed at the sky with gliterring eyes.

“Hahahaha… Dragons are hard to find though…and not every one of them can fly like you imagine…”

“Eeeh?” she frowned and gazed down in disappointment.

“Dragon comes from lizards. They evolves to become a dragon through countless years, maybe a thousand or even ten thousands years. And the only lizard that can fly is the one that can absorb wind type mana, but the lizards that can evolve into dragons usually can absorb two or more type of mana from the nature. Only talented lizards can become a dragon,” i explained to her.

‘I can just take her to meet Dora-chan’s children later though, he was a Fire-Wind dragon, so his children should be able to fly.’

“Hey Z, it’s almost dark outside, come down and help us to set the camp,” said Alex while stopping the carriage on a small open field in the middle of the forest.

“Got it!” i answered him, then jumped down.

I got into the carriage and picked up the camp equipments. When i went down, a popped up head showed from above, “I-i want to help too, what should i do?” asked her.

“Hmm….let me put this down first then i will ask Alex-san.”

“Ok.” she said.

I put down the equipments on the open field then asked Alex. After that i went back to the carriage and saw her above the carriage.

“He said that i should set the equipments. He and Harvey-san will go hunt some animals for dinner. Normally, Bernardt-san will collect some branches for the camp fire, and we take turns to cook. Today is supposed to be my turn, but i suck at cooking. So, do you want to help me?” i asked her with a smile.

“Hmm…okay. I like cooking anyway. I will go help Bernardt-san to find some branches too, maybe i can find some wild vegetables to cook.” She nodded and smiled happily to me.

‘Ughhhh…..that smile is so bright and deadly.’ My heart almost jumped out when seeing it.

“Okay then, i will set the camp site, be careful when you collect the branches, just shout if something happened.” I turned back and started to go back to the camp site. My heart was beating so fast, so i was afraid that she would find out.

“U-um….per-pervert-san! …wait!”

I turned back and said, “I’m not a pervert you know….”

“B-but you never tell me your name!!”

“Oh, right…i forgot…, i thought she told you about me already…”

“No… She said nothing about you…, did she tell you anything about me?” she flustered a little.

I shook my head and said, “She told me that i should ask you about it myself when you are ready. And people usually calls me Z, you can call me that for now, i will tell you more about myself when i feel like it, too.” I grinned then turned back again.

“W-wait ‘Zet’!!”

I turned my head back and looked at her. “Do you need anything else?”

She looked at me with a reddened cheeks and trembling lips. “C-can you help me down? It’s pretty high…”

“!@#$%^, How can someone who tried to kill me, looked so cute like this now… Is this what the people in the capital called ‘Gap-Moe’???’

I put both my arms up and said with a poker face, “Jump down. I will catch you.”

“O-okay…,” she said, then she jumped into my hands.

I catched her with my hands under her armpits and then sneakily hugged her.

Before she can even react, i released my hands from her. “Ok, down you go…, look Bernardt-san is already going to leave to pick some branches… Don’t you need to go with him?”

With a reddened face, she gazed down, then nodded, “Un…okay”

Then she ran away from me.

I furrowed my brows, while rubbing my chin and scratching the back of my head. Then i gazed at her direction.

‘Is this…what they call love…?’

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