Chapter 9 : Ghost
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I found the metal works pretty easily, despite the fact it was kinda wedged in between two buildings that were much flashier.
Stepping inside I looked around at the works on display.
[Steel Katana]
[A simple steel katana, nice and sharp, good weight, and no evil curses... Unless you slap one on it.]
I smiled at that and noticed the price was fairly affordable for me, 15,800 Yen may be a bit of a dent in my wallet, but at least I can fight with Melee now and not have to draw blood that could result in me having to kill someone.
Buying it I left the metal works, hiding the sword in my inventory as a small distracted crowd passed me and walked back toward my house...
"No, I should probably hit up a bookstore first." I said to myself, "Knowledge is power after all."
I could gain skills from books or perhaps even increase my stats, considering they go up by themselves on occasion.
[You deductions of what you can do with books has increased your WIS by one... Point Proven]
'Yeah like that.' I thought dismissing the screen.
It was then I heard the barking... no, yipping dogs coming from an alleyway. And that pissed me straight off.
Now let me make something clear, I don't hate dogs in general, but the small dogs with high pitched barks that bark at every little thing I find annoying as all hell.
Despite him being a comedian, Jeff Dunham has a point, the size of the dogs is roughly correspondent to how smart a dog is. Which is why I prefer being around larger dogs instead of smaller ones.
"Okay, what is making these midget mutts yip their throats out?" I grumbled walking into the alley.
Sure enough I saw three small dogs barking at a small cardboard box in the edge of the alleyway.
"Okay, what are these brain dead pups barking at in the box?"
I mumbled walking up behind the dogs and pushed them aside with my foot, which actually caused the dog that I touched first to jump and tumble over my foot, "Shoo mutts." I snapped at the dogs.
Instead they stood and barked at me, so in turn I picked up two trashcan lids and slammed them together, causing them to jump and scatter.
"So... what were they barking at?" I asked aloud turning back to the cardboard box and getting onto my belly to look into the box.
And was met by a clawed swat to the face.
"Ow." I said blinking at the sudden attack to my face.
I was apparently attacked by a little black cat that was hiding in the box, naturally I observed her.
[Kuroka Lvl 62]
[Race: Nekosu-Devil]
[Piece: Bishop]
[HP: 1,520/1,520]
[MP: 2,390/2,390]
'It's amazing how I can so easily be killed by everyone around me.' I thought looking at Kuroka's stats, 'With how many people I've seen close to or passing the 50th level mark it makes me wonder what the level limit is.'
"Well... aren't you a feisty little one." I said softly and held out my hand to the Nekosu.
Slowly but surely I managed to pet the disguised devil with a single finger.
'I always did consider myself good with cats.' I thought, "Come on little one, you're safe. Are you hungry?"
Slowly but surely the small cat stepped out of the box and I picked her up and held her into my arms, "Well, this was easier than getting Ghost out of a bush." I said mostly to myself.
"Mreow?" Kuroka meowed.
"Don't you worry about it you little fluffball." I said smiling, "Let's just get you to my place, I'm pretty sure I've got something you'd like there and if I don't I can sprint to a pet store if I need to."
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Turns out, I has some fish in my fridge from my shopping trip a while back... maybe I should have actually paid a bit more attention to what I bought.
I cut it up for the devil and served it to her on a small plate I had and sat on a couch and flicked on the T.V. to the news channel while I drifted into my thought land.
'So... I've found Kuroka before canon even starts, but the question is whether or not she's with Vali at the moment or not.'
I thought pulling out my Revolver and checking it's ammo, fully loaded, and thankfully I had infinite regular ammo, which I was really thankful for because I have no idea where I would buy more bullets... Well at least in Japan.
I looked back to Kuroka, who was still digging her face into the fish, so I reached toward my shadow and waved my hand at it, alerting one of my Shades that I wanted it's attention, I then pointed to Kurkoa, then to my shadow, my way of telling the Shade to go into her shadow and watch her.
The Shade nodded it's hood before slinking out of my shadow and into Kuroka's, causing her to briefly notice it's presence and look around, only to fail to see the floating robe fly into her shadow.
I barely held back my chuckle at the success of my Shade's abilities. I really need to find one of those Spirit Books to boost their abilities.
Standing up I walked over to Kuroka and pet her head, causing her to look at me in surprise,
"I'mma head out and pick up some more fish for you okay? I don't know how much I have and I'm pretty sure it's tastier than cat food." I said.
"Mreow." Kuroka replied before returning to her fish.
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"Well then... Should I return straight home or should I look around a bit more?" I muttered to myself.
The answer was decided for me when I noticed I was passing by a bookstore.
"May as well pick up something to read." I muttered, 'And see what skill books I can find.' I thought afterwards.
Stepping into the bookstore the first thing I noticed was... the shopkeeper was completely hidden behind the books...
Oh, and Sona's here as well browsing the books, beautiful.
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