Meeting Roland

'It's been a week and a half and we are just passing through the mountains along the edge of the plains. We are moving a little slower because I didn't want to have Juna carrying people as she isn't a pack mule. She is also a hidden trump card for me, although there isn't anyone who can contest me in this world at my peak. Passing into this world weakened me and I can only use about 10% of my original strength. This means that if I get into a sticky situation I could die so it's best if Juna stays hidden for now just in case.'

'That seems like a plan, so would you like to see those rewards you got a week and a half ago?' Ayame said after listening to me narrate the past week.

'Yeah sure, show me.'

"You have defeated 2 Mad Demons and obtained

"Lightning Element (broken down from lightning magic stone)

"Bone spear (when combined with Juna it will become All Killing Ash Bones)

" +37 Magic Energy (combined with chakra it becomes Internal Energy while Nature chakra turns to External Energy)

"You can choose between gaining 50 stats of all types or converting the energy to heal yourself and regain 10% of your stats

'Let me guess, now that I'm traveling worlds the energy I use has been categorized to make it easier?'

'Yes, Internal energy is the energy stored in your body while external energy is the energy that you can use that surrounds your body.'

'Ok, so why did I get the lightning element from the magic stone?' I questioned.

'The magic stone was broken down to become the lightning element. I assumed that you didn't want a stone that you had to use and would rather have the element so I just did it by myself.'

'So it was to make things easier on me?'

'Yeah'

'Ok, well I'll take the 10% stat return.'

'Good, That will also take about 6 months off the time it will take for you to heal

'Well it looks like we are almost there.'

'Indeed, one of the witches will notice any second from now' Ayame responded before hearing a voice.

"We are nearing border town." One of the witches says to me. Still questioning to herself why they are listening to someone who doesn't even look 8 years old.

"Alright, I'll go into border town with Leaf. Also, please make sure that these two corpses are safe." I say while looking at the two stinking demon corpses we dragged through the mountains. They nod in response while leaf and I set off to enter the town.

...…

"Knock""Knock" a sound emits from the door

"Come in." Said a young, gray haired man. "Is Cornelius already back that quickly, he must have more guts than I thought."

"No, Your Highness, two people have come to the castle gate. A young boy, and a lady who claims to be a witch named leaf."

"Whoosh" the sound of wind passed through the office as it sounded like someone left in a hurry.

"Looks like someone is already going to greet them." Said the young man in amusement.

A few minutes later Nightingale returns with the witch named leaf and a young boy no older than 8 whom she is looking at with a complicated expression.

"What's wrong nightingale?" He asked, confused at the face she was giving the young boy. He then took a closer look at the kid and saw his eyes. "Uchiha" he whispered.

"Half right" I responded with a tad bit of amusement. "It's a long way from home." Were the next words out of my mouth, but this time I spoke in English. AN:(there are so many Chinese exchange students to American and vice versa. It is highly likely that when Roland was in college in his past life, He probably learned English as a second language since it was likely required to graduate and English is a very popular language around the world. Also, I said in a previous chapter that he was a Physicist, however he is actually an engineer, but if all Chinese engineers were like Roland then they would have conquered the world by now. This is why I said Physicist as it is highly likely that the character's knowledge is exaggerated to the point that he misewell be a physicist.)

He squints his eyes at the familiar language. "So we are similar." He replies.

"Somewhat"

"How'd you know? I could've been anyone." He questions (still in English btw)

"Your life was simply a story in my world, the same way that I'm likely a story in someone else's." I respond with a hint of melancholy.

"A story, like a book?" He was surprised at this revelation.

"Yeah, at this point I am starting to question whether or not I'm real. I guess it doesn't matter though, if you feel real then you are real enough, so let's set this matter behind us." I reply in a somber tone.

"True, there is no point worrying about it. I feel real enough so I'll live my second chance to its fullest."

"So what are you two talking about?" Nightingale asks when she feels like our conversation has ended.

"Best to be kept to ourselves." I say truthfully.

"Indeed" Roland responds.

"If you say so." Nightingale replies. "So how'd you two meet?"

"I happened to be out beyond the mountains when I arrived here and I ran into the 40 of them." I answered. "They happened to run into 2 devils and I saved their lives."

"Devils? I thought they were just made up by the church to pursue the witches." Roland questioned.

"They have no correlation to the witches other than being ancient enemies. However they are very much real and very much alive."

"How many of them are there?"

"Millions, however the last time the witches fought against them they only faced them in the tens of thousands."

"Why?"

"They are fighting another race called the sky-sea kingdom. Most of their troops are still at war even now."

"Well that's good and all but can you tell me why you have…. well that." Nightingale interrupts.

"Oh this, it's called chakra… speaking of which I need to do some research on this magic. It is fundamentally the same while different at the same time." I respond

"Alright so that doesn't really clear up anything." She says. "You said you saved the other witches. Where are they?"

"Outside the town, Leaf can show you where." I said while turning back to Roland. "We have a lot to talk about."