Chapter 9: Fighting that Bastard

I let Dante stay in my house, but I 

didn't have that much since I have been living by myself. Dante was still giving me tips on training and even though he would complain about the lack of variety of food. This started to get annoying so I asked him to make a list of food he wants. I went after telling him that I was going to buy more food. I was probably going to have to spend at the very least 1 gold coin for the food. There was someone with a mask and cloak. I really hoped that this was the same guy from the camp. I hid behind some people and followed him until I realized that the person was George. I felt a lot of anger build up.

"Hey! George, what the hell?! That mask 

was that you before in the forest?!" I could hear my heart pounding.

"Wait, before you do anything let me 

explain. You need to just trust me. I will explain everything." He told me like I was gonna actually believe him. I pulled out my swords getting ready to kill him.

"Hey, how about a joke? You know to 

lighten up the mood or maybe we could play a game." He was still trying to get out of this.

"Use skill: Conqueror style- Rey de las 

llamas slash." One of the new skills Dante taught me which surrounded my sword with a powerful flame and I got him but something felt weird. He ended up behind me and was starting to attack. I was actually keeping up with him. I felt that the more I hit his mithril reinforced gloves. He was a martial artist and was extremely fast.

"You want to hear a joke now. You see 

Chloe told me about the incident and I was gonna use the get up to inspire you to do better in training. The thing is I forgot to tell you so surprise." After he said this I was still pissed, but a lot less than before.

"Well next time you do this try to tell 

me. I have to buy food for Dante and find Chloe so tell me where she is. Let's fight for a bit longer though." We kept fighting and afterward he told me that Chloe was in the shopping district most likely near the magical items area. I bought the food from the list and headed towards the magical items area. I saw a familiar blonde.

"Hey Chloe!" She turned and as I 

thought it was her.

"Hey Vicente so I'm guessing George 

told you about the whole mask thing to help inspire you." She was starting to chuckle a bit. I felt that she was a little nervous.

"So you just thought that it was ok to 

do this." She seemed incredibly sad or nervous.

"Ok I know that the idea was wro-"

"It was a brilliant idea. I fought 

George and kept up due to my previous training plus anger." She started to smile and gave me a punch to my stomach which I did not enjoy, but let slide.

"Thanks for the compliment. I must be 

pretty special to be getting a compliment from you." Chloe told me.

"Yeah you are special. Hahahah." I 

started to get a grin.

"Wait, you jerk I know what you are 

talking about." We joked all the way back to my house.

"Do you want to join me and Dante for 

dinner." She ate and said that it was great, but all Dante said was that he was gonna train me even harder and that the food could be better. That kinda stung, but I tried my best to make conversation. I think it went well and I slept horribly, Dante snores extremely loud even from the guest room.

Author's note: Sorry about not adding another chapter last week. A lot has been going on.