Chapter 3

I flipped my sword around to get into a fighting stance, waiting for the boar to attack. Hearing a little whimpering from the girl, I turned my attention to her as she was shaking from fear. "She might be red if she's this scared..." I thought as I turned my attention back to the boars and barely dodged a slam attack.

I then swung my sword and killed the boar in three hits, Getting caught off guard by the second boar. I fell to the ground with my health dropping down to red, I got back up on my feet and gripped my sword. I then heard something drop, turning my attention to the girl who was shaking moments before. She had fainted from a possible panic attack or something that would cause her to fall so abruptly.

"Great..." I thought to myself again as I dodged and slain the second wild boar quite easily this time. Healing up from the battle using my only potion left, I looked at the girl and walked over to her, patting her cheek lightly.

"Hey, Hey!"

I shouted a little trying to get her to wake up from it, seeing no progress on it. I carried her thinking to myself "think of this as the time you carried your little sister from scraping her knee..." as I carried her back to the Town of Beginnings.

I stopped by the Inn to lay the girl on a bed and headed over to the Tavern that was a street down. I stopped by the Tavern to spot Rina there, sitting at a table by herself. I looked at her as she seemed a bit saddened by something, I walked over to her and pulled a chair as she looked at me.

"Oh... It's just you Kirin..."

Rina said to me in a sad tone, looking back at the table with her head close to the table as well. "Did something happen, Rina?" I asked her curiously, to my surprise she gave an answer I wasn't expecting.

"Yeah... A good friend of mine jumped off the end of the map...He...He...-"

Rina tried to continue her sentence as she began to break down into tears, a couple of people looked at us as it was common to see people breaking down on the first day. "Collect your thoughts Rina.. how about we get some fresh air?" I suggested it to her as she looked at me with sorrowful tears in her eyes.

I stood up as I tried to comfort Rina out into the front of the tavern outside. I looked up at the sky as It was already night, the stars in the sky were out alive on a mournful night. I was amazed by the stars in the skies, as I looked at Rina. I took her to a bench nearby as we sat there, where Rina would continue her chat from earlier.

"He was a good and close friend, he was like a brother to me...I tried to stop him but he insisted...He wanted to leave...and I let him after he said he'll come back for me..."

I sat there listening to her story, mortified by her explanation and understood her reasonings for breaking down into tears earlier. I looked up at the starry sky then back to Rina, sitting up right. "Rina.." I said to her as she looked at me with her eyes still a bit watery, I then told her "Your friend must have done it with a good intention.." as she looked down at the floor.

"Maybe..."

Rina said as I got up from the bench, she turned her attention to me as I said to her "You should stay here in the Town... I don't think you'll be fit to fight out there..". She looked at me as she looked down again saying in her saddened tone, "Yeah... I think you're right..." as she held her hands together and gripped her hands a bit.

I then put a small knife onto her head as she looked at me, putting her hands onto the knife and looking at the sheathed knife. "Don't listen to what I have to say about you, Go if you want, your choices are your own.. Like your friend" I said trying to cheer her up.

She smiled a bit as she looked at me and smiled through her sad vibes saying "Thank you...Thank you so much Kirin..." as I smiled slightly and turned away, heading back out into the wilderness of the first floor. "I shouldn't decide what people should and shouldn't do... They can choose who they want to be.. But I'll have to intervene once every while..." I thought to myself as I stopped at the front of the gate.

I swiped my hand down to open my menu, clicking on the bag icon as it opened my inventory, I clicked onto an Item named Celestial Coat. Equipping a white coat with a few black line patterns and a large black star on the back of the coat.