Finally after taking one night's rest, restoring his HT and catching up to the much-needed rest, Yuta was feeling like he was reborn again.
"So, where are we supposed to go from here on ?" Yuta asked to Amai who was still unwilling to go out leaving the safety of the shop.
"By the way, you're not the owner of this shop are you," Yuta asked, to which once again Amai had no idea why he was asking something so pointless.
"No, I just came here to hide from those curse spirits and sorcerers."
"Cool." Yuta smiled and went back inside instead of going out.
"Huh, what are you doing ?"
"Paying for the food. We got much from the shelves last night didn't we." He said as he conjured money from somewhere to Amai's amazement and put it in the counter.
'More like you got much food from the counter.' Amai rolled his eyes. Besides the fact that the boy was leaving money behind when people's lives had no security, Amai didn't know how to explain this boy in front of him.
Yuta to can't help but. He didn't only eat but took much food to restock his travel rations. It felt bad taking so much food and stuff without paying money. He wasn't sure why but he had a feeling that this might come back to him later on. No idea how and why but this gut feeling of him was telling him to pay up and he believe his gut feeling. So he did just that.
"Wait a minute, why did you ask whether it was my shop." Amai suddenly asked, he had a damning suspicion that the boy wouldn't have paid if this was truly his shop.
"Well in that case the food would have been a treat from your side right..."
'I knew it...' Amai's left eye twitched.
"So, tell me where I could find those strong deadly and bloodthirsty sorcerers with 12 meters long legs with 4 eyes and no arms..." Yuta smiled, clearly knowing that the boy was faking it.
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Yuta stood between the panicked civilians and the sorcerer who had been hunting them. The man smirked, cracking his knuckles.
"You think you can stop me, do you dont understand that there exists a gap between those who can use curse energy and non-sorcerers like you?" the sorcerer sneered. And of course since Yuta leaked no Curse Energy the man mistook him a Non-Sorcerer.
It was half of Yuta's fault as well, though his HT recovered completely but the hoarding bastard wasn't using HT to fight from the beginning.
He simply tightened his grip on playful Cloud now much more powerful since he use the weapon upgrade card on it.
The sorcerer charged forward, throwing a powerful punch infused with Curse Energy. Yuta dodged effortlessly, twisting his body and bringing playful Cloud down on the man's wrist. A loud crack echoed as the sorcerer's arm bent unnaturally.
"Gah!" the sorcerer cried out, but he wasn't done yet. He swung his other fist, trying to land a hit, but Yuta sidestepped and slammed the end of playful Cloud into his ribs. The force sent him tumbling backward.
The sorcerer growled and used his cursed technique, launching a wave of energy toward Yuta.
Yuta didn't flinch, if the small amount of Curse energy didn't gave away how weak the sorcerer was then the lack of any innate curse technique did almost instantly.
Not like all sorcerers who won't have a curse technique are weak, there are those who are pretty strong even after not having an innate curse technique.
He leapt forward, dodging the attack with pure reflexes, closing the distance in an instant. Before the sorcerer could react, Yuta grabbed his collar and headbutted him with full force.
'Ouch...' he shouldn't have done that, right now he was mostly an ordinary teenager without using any of his powers, despite being train in close combat, while the other guy had strengthen his body with curse energy.
The man didn't suffer much damage and was ready to attack Yuta but that's when a loud sound of gunshot was heard and pain rang in his abdomen.
The man's legs gave out. He tried to stand, but Yuta spun playful Cloud and struck his temple with a sharp blow, knocking him unconscious.
Yuta exhaled, looking back at the lightheaded boy who took the shot just now. "Thanks for the assist. See I told you, you'll do great." Yuta grinned at Amai who was holding onto an ancient-looking musket which Yuta stole from One Piece World.
Amai on the other hand was still couldn't believe that he actually shot the man. His heart rate was running 70 miles a minute.
"You guys are safe now, but I suggest hiding inside a building until the rescue comes," Yuta said while looking at the civilians.
They nodded in gratitude, their fear slowly fading. Yuta smiled and was ready to get out of there, he hadn't received any quests from his system and this meant that he was away from the main cannon. At least that much he had understood that his system is kind of tied of with the main story of a particular world.
Though he had no idea of the Culling games arc but he knew that his friends from Tokyo Jujutsu Tech would be somewhere out there, fighting.
"Hey, mister." Just as he was about to leave someone call him. Looking back he saw a boy who would be only 12 or so called him.
"Yeah..."
"hmm my parents, they were captured...c...could you." The boy asked with a muffled voice. Clearly having a hard time saying this.
"Hmm, do you know where they were taken ?" Asked Yuta.
"No."
"Do you have a photo of them ?"
"Hmm no."
"I see..." Yuta pursed his lips, in this case finding his parents would be hard.
The boy pursed his lips hard, and he kept looking at Yuta while holding back tears. Yuta can't help but remember how he was also the same age when he lost his grandmother. From then on he was all alone.
"Sigh... Don't worry. I Am Here..." Yuta can't help but just say this line, a line which brougth solem to him when he needed it.
He had no idea whether he could find them but he will try nonetheless, becuase that what Heroes do...
The boy nodded hearing this and thanks Yuta.
"Hmm mister..."
"huh ?"
"Are..you..are you the golden boy from Shibuya ?" He asked, and this brought all the attention from everyone to Yuta. Even Amai was now staring at him with narrowed eyes like trying to remember the face of that boy.
There were recordings of that fight in which the face of the boy was shown, however, the was mostly blurry since he everything near the fight was destroyed, leaving only those recordings done by further away.
"No, you are mistaken. I'm just a Hero For Fun, and with Benefits..."
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