A Date with a little Rose

I woke up to a knock on the door. It was a light yet heavy knock. I wondered who it was.

I dragged myself to the door with my jeans and black shirt on. The knocking became more louder, but before it got too loud for my neighbours, I opened the door.

When I had opened the door, what greeted me was a beautiful dressed up Rose in casual clothes. She looked pretty and elegant at the same time.

"Hello, what it a little rose doing here at this time?" She pouted and lightly punched my shoulder.

"I'm here for you to come with me shopping!"

"Ouch! That hurt. Do I get a say in this?" I tried faking my pain to get away.

"Nope!" But I guess that not enough. She dragged me out if the room when I had put on my shoes and trench coat.

We entered the elevator and stared intensely at each other.

"You never did tell me your age" Rose slightly backed away and blushed.

"Thats for me to know and you to find out!" I chuckle at her, I guess we're not going to have another session.

*DING*

The elevator stopped at the 1st floor and the doors opened up. We got out together whilst the receptionist bid us goodbye with a red face.

"Do you know why she has a red face? Am I that handsome?" I shamelessly praised myself as I stroked my face and Rose laughed.

"Pftt, as if. It's just that...there was cameras in the elevator. They saw what we were doing it" Oh, I see.

"Do you want to put up a show for her next time as well?" I nudge her as we left the building.

"..." I was stunned at her silence. I brought her closer to me as we strode ourselves on the sidewalk.

"Don't worry, I won't force you to do it with me. I'm a patient man" I once again breathed on her ear and she yelped.

"Stop doing that!" She hit me again.

"Stop doing what?" I put a confused face on.

"Y-Y-You know what! Don't try to fake it. I can see through your facade!"

"What if I distract you, will you still see through me facade?" I brought my hand down, but another hand stopped me before it reached its destination.

"Not now..." I saw her blushing again.

"So we get to do it later?"

"Wha- UGHHHH Your impossible!" She walked faster and left me jogging after her. I smiled, I miss this feeling.

...

We arrived together at the shopping district. There was multiple shops of many kinds, some for clothes, some technology, some for services and much more. The streets were vibrant with colours and different things.

It truely felt like a date as Rose kept dragging me place to place. I was shocked at how much she was spending not that I know the currency system. What I had learnt was that a bronze is 4 copper. A silver is 10 bronze, and a gold is 150 silver. I'm not sure if there's anymore, but I couldn't keep track as I had suddenly become a butler.

My long arms had carried at least 10 bags. What is she buying?

An hour had passed. We had finally finished.

We got into a taxi and dropped off the bags at the apartment. As we went into another taxi, Rose called a place to the driver. He immediately understood and started driving the car.

The car was powered by the mana of the driver, it would then cycle the mana from the person and power the car.

I didn't know much about cars, but I'm sure that's not how that works?

The car stopped at a far away place and parked at a nearby lake. Rose got out of the car and I followed in pursuit.

"Where are we?" I was confused as the car left. I didn't see anything except a lake and some houses nearby.

"We are at the Lake's Rest. Of course you can't see it. Follow me" She stretched out her arm and I grabbed hold of it.

She led me to the lake and something magical happened. The river's water that went closer to us, was blown away. We were standing on the sand of the lake.

"Is this you?" I didn't know Rose was such a good mage.

"No...it's the owner of the land's doing" Oh, owner? Why does someone want a lake?

Rose pulled me closer to her and the water was blown away. We went further and further into the lake. Going deeper and deeper. Our trail was like a water tunnel. It just kept going down.

We walked for a bit more before I could see a faint light in the water. Rose led me to it and I could finally see a restaurant?

Rose led me inside of the air bubble that contained the restaurant. It was quite popular. Most of the people here looked like some kind of fish or shark. But I don't discriminate so I don't even bat an eye to any of them.

"Table for 2" Rose called out to the restaurant and with magic, a table and two chairs had been brought over to us. Rose sat down casually and I carefully sat.

As we sat, many of the 'fishes' greeted Rose.

"2 Salmons and 1 Chips" Rose called out again.

"I see you haven't been to one of these restaurants. They're not that popular with normal people. They tend to be quite scared of the natives of the lake. But I see your doing fine"

"I see it's also not your first time. How does someone do this?" I was quite surprised and in awe about everything about this. The ceiling showed the sun through water even though we were 20 meters under water.

"Magic" I was unsatisfied with Rose's answer.

*BING*

Three plates then suddenly appeared before us. One was a plate of chips and the others was he salmon that Rose ordered.

"Then explain this" I said to the restaurant and food.

"Automatic Restaurant. You leave it somewhere with resources and people can order anything from it as long as it has the resources"

"Oh, cool" I was hiding my excitement with a calm answer. Magic was a very weird yet unique thing.

We ate and finally finished our meal.

"Do you know about Sana's capital academy?"

"I do, I heard from my dad that you were trying to apply there"

"Yeah"

"-And also the fact that you are a supporter. How?"

"What do you mean how?"

"I mean how can you, a supporter bring back 5 adjudicators? I don't understand" My mind whirled and with my newly evolved stat, I came up with an answer.

"It wasn't actually me. Remember when the adventuring guild had sent a group of hunters to an elite monster?"

"Yeah? It was captained by Sir Ross"

"The adjudicators had appeared at the ravine where the elite had come from. So Sir Ross had sent me back with the adjudicators. I didn't really do anything" I looked down to increase my performance.

"It's fine, the achievement of being awake when you had teleported back for the first time is still a major one" We continued to talk a bit more and eventually the conversation had brought us back to the topic of 'school'

"About the academy, when is the entrance exam? I need to know how much time I have to train before I get ready"

"You have about 16 days" Oh that's heaps of time, that's technically worth 33 days.

"Oh that's good"

"Why?"

"I get to have more dates with you" I cheekily smiled and showed a toothy grin.

"Wha- this isn't a date!"

"So bringing me to shopping and a restaurant isn't a date. Alright then, what do you all it then? What's the thing that we will be calling our hanging out?"

"..." Her face became red and I swear I could see there was smoke coming off the top of her head.

"Let's go..." She stood up quickly. She was blushing uncontrollably and I could get used to it.

"Sure" Rose stood up, threw some coins at the restaurant and they magically vanished.

"Thank you for dinning at Lake's Rest"

Me and Rose walked into the water and it parted before us. I now understood why we were holding hands. Rose asked a bit to fast I was was caught up with the water.

As she had exited the lake, I was in the middle of drowning...