Giana split off as she wanted to do some shopping with Yvonne. Yvonne left Greg in my care. It seems that he couldn’t catch on to my thoughts anymore else he would have asked by now if I’m thinking of something rude.

  Greg and I had decided to explore the suspiciously clean sewers.

  We never figured out what the Boshi Town’s sewers were about, did we?

  Nope. I wonder what the story behind these is.

  It’s so well maintained but hardly any magic down here. Quite odd.

  The public isn't aware of the sewer system most of the time so this might be recent and nobody would know.

  Only you have an obsession with sewers to notice.

  It’s not an obsession but a fast and convenient way of escape. But this seems quite new. I can’t date it though…

  You don't think there is some mole or something that goes around replacing sewers with… this?

  I don’t know, at this point it wouldn't be that surprising. I found something that looked like a room, the majority of this system just looks the same.

  No monsters, I hope.

  Doesn't look like it although, it looks like a boss room.

  We took a turn but more pristine sewers in front of us, this investigation turned out to be extremely boring.

  Why would there be a boss room in a sewer?

  A gigantic sewer rat needs to live somewhere.

  But we haven't seen any sewer rats…

  That's because they're all chilling in the boss room, duh!

  Didn't you say that there are no monsters there?

  Correct.

  Then how?!

  They will spawn there the moment we set foot in it.

  If I wouldn't know better, I’d think that you’re making this up.

  We got to the boss's room, stepped inside and a summoning circle activated.

  I hate how correct you were!

  Oh, I was wrong…

  What do you mean you were wrong?

  Look, the circle just summoned a big… 4-winged dragon?!

  I said as I pointed at the new arrival.

  Right, this is a problem but think of the loot!

  I took out Nilah but Greg stopped me.

  You had enough action lately; I’m itching for some action myself. Go chill I will solo this.

  We don’t have all year you know.

  Ha very funny, come help me if I take longer than an hour.

  I cut some lizardmen down who tried to pass by as dragons, and sat down in a corner and started eating so popcorn. Greg took his hammer out and used [Edgecat].

  Oh, come on! I don't want to plug my ears!

  Then be prepared to get hit by this then!

  Ugh, fine.

  Snow went into my ears and Greg started putting his [Edgecat] to work. The room started to go dark because of it, and the dragon seemed to be lacking night vision. This 4-winged dragon… who put it here? They are extremely rare and… this dragon seems quite weak. I was unaware of the existence of arcane dragons which this one appeared to be, which was quite boring.

  It’s as if being promised tasty ice cream and then getting vanilla ice cream.

  The urge welled up, so I started making ice cream. I was running low on poison, as most had been used to create Secret Weapon #2. I will have to restock on that before we leave Gavin.

  Trees and vines were growing in the room and assaulting the dragon. It was a great idea for Greg to learn elvish magic as it will make him less edgy, although I have reason to believe that he studied it to counter water users. Those trees seem to suck up large volumes of water.

  The dragon was chained. Whoever placed it here wants the dragon to get defeated. So, a legendary creature has been reduced to this…

  Greg wasn’t pulling any punches and was out to kill it, which might be the correct choke. A dragon this weak will get pushed around by other dragons, and humans would be able to easily catch it as his baseline power was too weak, unfortunately…

  Greg’s hammer swing sent it flying into the wall, and it got pinned to it with [Shadow Bind].

  It took Greg 30 minutes to pin it down, talking about slow.

  Would this have been the future of the tailed beasts if we weakened to the point where humans would be able to catch us? Locked into a sewer and act as a boss?

  Bosses are designed to lose, so that’s not assuring… and why hasn’t this dragon not decided to break out of this room? Small areas are unfavorable for dragons…

  Greg hammered its head to the floor and the [Edgecat] bit its neck and tore the head off. He confirmed that the dragon was dead and canceled the shadow cat. The light returned to normal but the Oblivious Prince was still radiating darkness.

  How long?

  56 minutes.

  Quite close. Luckily it was quite a weak dragon. The loot won't be that good then, I suppose.

  Let’s see.

  I opened a cliché treasure chest and took out the ‘loot’.

  A golden plunger? All this effort for a golden plunger…

  Who is the psycho who put this as a reward? It makes me want to tear these sewers down!

  What a waste of time… Does it have any special properties?

  Let’s see. Hmm …. It can turn the shit that’s plugging your toilet into gold…

  Agnis, if you ever find the creator of this item and sewer, notify me and we’ll kick his ass .

  This guy disrespected boss fights with this shitty item! Ahh, what if this was the pun he was going for?!

  I grabbed my head in disbelief. There is no way we fell for this poor attempt at a pun.

  I need to develop some more skills with brutal debuffs for when we meet him…

  We spent our way up venting about whoever created the sewer system.

  Noelle located us after I shot a seagull out of the sky. “Hey, have you seen Raishin? Whoa, you two look pissed.”

  Someone disrespected boss battles.

  We got this as loot.

  Greg handed it over to Noelle. “What is this? A golden plunger?”

  It turns shit that clogs your toilet into gold…

  “What a shitty item…”

  Agreed.

  We looked for Raishin and discovered he was with Giana and Yvonne. “Ah right, the auction!”

  We joined the others as we went toward the auction area. “What’s up Agnis? You look pissed.” Giana asked after she read my expression.

  I explained why. The auction ended shortly after we arrived to our disapointment as we hardly could get anything.

  “Wait, everyone! We have organized a very exciting event!“

  “Ugh, what is she doing here.”

  “This bitch again?” Giana and Noelle didn’t seem to be happy to see Mel2 appear again.

  “You might not know, but we renovated the sewers with your tax money to create an exciting event! If you can best the maze an exciting and worthwhile battle will await you, of course it will have an amazing prize!”

  “You mean this?!” Noelle held up the golden plunger.

  “You! What? How did you get that?! Return it, crystal brat!”

  “You want to make these people to work their ass off in something that you wasted their tax money on to fight a dangerous dragon for what? To turn their shit into gold?!” Noelle said as her stomp made the wooden floorboards groan.

  “Shut up crystal pup! The sewers will stay clean, and I can earn something to the side because you bitches decided to ditch me and now, I need to find an actual real job!”

  “Mel2, do you want to upgrade from hair smelling like fish to hair smelling like shit?!” Noelle yelled, activating her [Venomous Tongue].

  “Who are you calling Mel2? My name is Melinda! Have some respect, crystal pup! Now how did you get it there is no way your weak-ass could beat that dragon within the 1-hour time limit.” Mel2 yelled as she started to become red like tomato goddess.

  Uhm what would have happened if the battle would take longer than an hour?

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  “The boss would evolve and the loot would disappear, of course!”

  I had enough, let’s kick her ass!

  I understand but this is not our fight, unfortunately.

  Noelle and Giana assessed how we felt about this and went up to Mel2. Giana slapped her and Noelle punched her. “Stop wasting people hard-earned money and precious time!”

  “Shut up! What do you idols know about hardships? You lost your home when you were young, so what?! I lost my life! I worked so hard to get this job!”

  “You mean leeching off your papa!”

  Oh, you might like the vice president's son!

  He has a daughter, not a son, you even met her several times how could you forget…

  The crowd got uncomfortable and left, only some people stayed behind to see how this would turn out.

  “Everything is your fault! You vixen!”

  “I will gladly take the credit for putting you in your place!” Giana said as she puffed up her chest.

  Yvonne tried to stop Giana and Noelle and I turned to the sky as I noticed something worrying.

  Swarms of seagulls flew over the city and bombarded a closeby area with their droppings. They were a bit too organized for this to look liek a random occurrence.

  Had the seagulls enough and are the taking over the city?

  Something soft pressed into me and a pleasant aroma tickled my nose.

  “Heya, did you find something interesting?” Giana said as her blue eyes stared into mine.

  I looked over at oelle who was still holding verbal warfare against Meltwo and nodded.

  I just need to…

  I then noticed a seagull that had kidnapped a baby.

  Gully 3.0? Really? Come!

  Departure

  Gully got saved again from her kidnappers.

  “Oooh it’s you again! Thank you for saving Katherine!” The parents thanked me again.

  Better strap her in again, we’re leaving soon, you’ll be on your own then.

  “We will. You two seem closer than the last time we met.” Gully’s mother remarked.

  Giana clung to me. “I finally conquered his heart after 17 years!”

  “Oh congratulations!”

  Hey, Deca, there was no way it took so long! We only first met like 4 years ago!

  “That’s not true! We met first in Hourai! I realized my feelings on that party of your sister!”

  Are you sure that’s right?

  Giana blasted me with charm mana. “Ugh, can you stop forgetting about me?!”

  “Uhm, it seems you’re quite close indeed, we’ll leave you guys alone so you can have your couple’s quarrel…” The family abandoned me and left.

  My memory is bad, but not that bad!

  “It is that bad… Just don’t forget me from now on, you mean a lot to me.”

  So bright! So, dazzling! My eyes!

  I got hit by the familiar headlock. Giana had mastered the technique of transporting me while keeping me in a headlock. It looked strange but 9t aren’t heavy so she had an easy time to carry me.

  She released me in the lobby of the hotel. ” So how long do you think it would take for the others to get together?”

  Uhm, for Raishin it might not take long, for Greg… I hope it will happen.

  We went to clear out our room. We were done in no time, as we only had to suck up all our stuff in our dimensional pockets.

  Raishin and Noelle arrived first. Raishin kept talking and talking and Noelle was just listening. Greg and Yvonne joined shortly after.

  “Hey, Deca can you teach me that swap you keep using?”

  Sure.

  Who is Deca?

  Remember how Agnis asked her to be his 10th tail? This automatically also means he's her 10th and the nine tail spirit foxes sometimes refer to each other as Deca, a kind of pet name.

  Ohh how cute, so envious!

  Just git gud Raishin!

  I will show you! I will get a hotter girlfriend or 10th or however, you call it!

  Noelle put her hands in her hips and didn’t seem happy. I don’t think Raishin made any progress…

  So single forever eh, good luck.

  Wow!

  “Ohh, I don’t know what to say!” Giana said embarrassed.

  “I do! Get a room you two!”

  Talking about room, we need to check out. Did you get all your stuff and clean your room?

  We all looked at Raishin because his room was always a pigsty.

  The room service cleans up right?

  Not if you need all your stuff to leave…

  Can't Agnis just suck it up in his dimensional pocket?

  Can’t you just learn how to tidy?

  “It’s ok Agnis, I got this. I’ll help you out Raishin, I might have to bend over a lot to pick up stuff.” Raishin instantly seemed to be interested and went back to the room with Noelle. “We will check you out when we’re done, so go relax until we’re done!”

  Poor Noelle…

  “She chose for it herself but… yeah…” Giana remarked.

  The scary part is we need someone like Noelle to hook up with Raishin because else he will just get lost, and whoever he ends up with would go crazy.

  If he doesn't get with Noelle, I’m afraid he will be single forever.

  Agreed. How about you Greg?

  What about me?

  What do you need in your partner? Maybe she is closer than you think.

  Yvonne whispered ‘Thank you’ to me.

  Hmm, quiet, well-mannered, preferably knowledgeable, flexible, kind but more importantly she must be able to deal with you 2 idiots.

  Yvonne was very happy, and Greg didn't realize he was quite close in describing Yvonne.

  Giana leaned in. “He is not doing this on purpose, is he?”

  No, he is just dense like a rock.

  Hey, I'm not dense!

  So, what would you do if she was quite close to you?

  I would have noticed if she was close to me.

  Giana and I were trying to hold in our laughs.

  You said you like them quiet right? How would you notice if they were quiet?

  That! Ehm, hmm you have a point.

  How about you pay more attention to the quiet people around you? Maybe you will realize something. This is the best I can do.

  I patted Yvonne on her back as Giana and I went toward the market. Greg took a pensive stance as if he was taking my words to heart.

  He needs a lot of time, Greg is the slowest in our group, not mentally, but he is embodying how slow he is now.

  “Your words seemed to have reached him, maybe he will realize soon enough.”

  I really hope so, Raishin who is mentally the slowest already caught on that Noelle is into him it’s just he got some other stupid ideas in his head that Noelle needs to slap out. I'm just worried that Noelle might develop a dislike for him before that happens.

  “Let’s support both of them until they get to that point, or they end up together and see what to do afterward.”

  Giana and I left Yvonne and Greg alone and visited Ukar.

  “Whoa lad you got quite the company there, the name is Ukar, don't listen to the lad, my name isn't ‘Old man’.”

  “Good day O… Ukar.” Giana got the preferential treatment of not getting daggers or fish thrown at her.

  “... You are perfect for the lad, are you two dating?”

  “Yes! Since this morning!”

  Hey, you don't need to tell everyone!

  “Well, everyone already knows that I like you! I announced it at the same time as my retirement!”

  Ah right…

  “Hmm, it seems the missy was the fisherman and you were the catch not vice versa hahaha! So, did you come here to brag about your catch? Oh, wait you were the catch! How can I help master fisherman, he must not have been easy to catch” The Old Man asked amused.

  “It was a lot of work, but it was worth it, I just wanted to thank you, he only mentioned you once, but he seemed to have a good impression of you.”

  “Oh, lad, why can't you just tell me you don't always have to be so cold!”

  I have no idea what you’re talking about old man.

  I dodged another knife throw and the follow-up frozen fish.

  “Not true to your feelings, eh? You must be a true champ missy; he must've been harder to catch than that spirit salmon king, hahaha. Good luck melting his heart, I wish you the best”

  Hey! I’m not cold! And can I have some Red Snappers?

  “Sure, here free of charge, go enjoy your date!”

  Way to make it awkward but thanks.

  We got our fish and continued walking through the busy streets.

  “So, our next stop is Witchaven?”

  Nah, we still need decent preparation, going there with a group is different than going alone we also need to work on our teamwork. Even more so as Witchaven has completely changed from what I know.

  “Makes sense, we went from 3 to a party of 6 and what do you mean with that?”

  The last time I was there, the council of the Misha capital came to take over the city due to Remi’s ‘Misconduct’. Remi, who was the headmaster had sealed the council members of Witchaven away as they were halting the progression of their race, the council from the capital broke them free. I don’t know what happened to Witchaven, but it will be even more hostile than when I left there.

  “I see, but you’re still confident you will be fine there?”

  I will be fine, it’s you guys I’m worrying about, especially Raishin and Yvonne.

  “Hmm, well let’s take our time to get there, we can work on our teamwork and prepare.”

  Hehe now I can finally do more reckless stuff!

  “I can finally win battles!” We smiled at each other and headed toward the northeast gate, where we would wait for the others to eventually leave the city.

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