Chapter 24 Smile

(Anti's Pov)

Two days, it's been two days, since the winter begins about 3 weeks straight. And there are no signs of someone trying to seek shelter in this have, because this place is peaceful after the invasion, of course, it's all thanks to Leland, Atlin, and the people of this village work together in this harsh winter.

I was impressed that everyone is happy during a hard winter, they laughed in the inns and taverns, I saw adventurers sharing ale to their comrades, and as for the villagers, they were like a 'family?'

'Family.' That word feels something to me, but I don't even know, I just felt this empty void in my heart.

There's no trace of fire in my soul, I don't have a soul, I think what I'm missing is a soul?

It's starting to make me ask the question to myself, a kid came over. "Excuse me, are you alright?" I turned and saw this girl who appeared and asked with curiosity. "Do you have any problems?" The girl asks innocently. I replied. "No need for you to be a concern for me, just join the others."

"Why? Everyone is having their fun except you, there are kids of course but I want to play with you since your alone." Said with a worried face.

"Alright, I'll play with you..." The girl got fired up and she became alive since I accept her request. "Really!? You will!? I'm glad!" Replied with a loud happy tone.

"Then, how about we play tag?" The girl asked. "Sure..." Replied with no expression or changes on my face. "I'll go get the others." The girl ran by getting some friends of hers.

After she left getting friends, there were two boys and three girls. They were the kids that want to participate in the plan but were backfired by Atlin.

They introduce themselves to me, the girl said their names one by one. "I am Calla." The girl is Calla, who is the girl with dark orange hair, her skin is smooth, and her face is attractive. She wears a renaissance dress. "This boy with the spiky red hair is Bamadis, he is a good seeker and very strong of the group." Bamadis smiled and said. "Yeah, you better watch out newbie, I'm not going to go easy on you!" Bamadis said with a confident tone.

"This is Gaur, he's the brains of the group and he can really be the strategist in the future." The boy name Gaur wears a hat and formal noble clothes, his face is quite attractive to girls despite being smart and all, perhaps he's a son of the Baron.

"I don't mind the formalities from you, it's alright." "Sure." The group stared at us and said. "Wow, you guys sure do look alike when it comes to the same speaking of everyone you met." The girl that said with a surprised face, had a tomboyish tone and light blue braids.

"This is Kesteria, she is the fastest of the group, she can even run far away a mile per hour." The girl who is hiding in the group has a cute appearance and pink hair. "Last and not least Krisia, she is shy and has a good amount of mana, which is not part of the game, but has good magic skills, which will be useful in the future,"  Calla whispered and said. "She's the easiest one to catch since she is very weak and all, I wouldn't mind letting her catch me if she is a tagger."

I can see that she is really easy to be defeated if she were on the battlefield, but when it comes to the amount of mana and such things like that, I would highly doubt that she will cause calamities.

"Now then, let's start the tag!" Calla shouted and declared with the excitement of the group,

After we played, we were tired and I'm the one who wins the game, and my strikes are thirty, and I basically always won. "What the hell, you were too good at this you know that?" Bamadis said with a confused look.

"Maybe cause you didn't have any fighting spirit in you?" "I have a fighting spirit!" Bamadis replied with an annoyed look. "I feel so sad, the strongest of the group was defeated by the new kid," Kesteria said with a sarcastic tone and smiled at him. "Come on, it's not like I'm going to expect this to happen you know!?!"

Bamadis kinda looks angry at least. "What, you pissed?" "Of course I would be like this!" I said with a smile. "Well, sucks to be you then." Wait, did I just feel happy, how is that possible? I just felt emotion for the first time and I smile, did I almost felt alive? "Ehh! You smiled didn't you?" Calla said with a funny look on her face.

"Oh, this is a wonderful day to see, how much you can be normal for once after all." Calla is happy when I smile, it's really ridiculous to me but, I want to experience it again. Enough that, let's ask them something.

"Do you as a team have something instead of playing?" "We are basically the voice of reason of this village, we help them, we gave them methods that could predict our enemies' move, Leland trained us, and it's time to repay his training to what we as a team learned from him," Gaur replied bluntly.

"So, do you want to join our group?" Kesteria gave me a question, whether I join or not.

"No thanks, I'm fine, if there's anything you need in the future, don't hesitate to ask me," I replied. Bamadis said with an unimpressed face. "Well, I guess there's nothing we can do about it, let's go guys." They walk past me and gave a wave of farewell.

"I guess, making someone close to you isn't bad after all." I teleported to a mountain and decided to watch the sunset.