“Good Morning Players and Non-Players, in todays News, a large group of Pixie children have gone missing, if you have seen any suspicious Pixie children please report it to your local guild.”

We were walking through the market, I had spent 23 days in this new world, I was becoming more accustomed with the different species walking around along with the unique looking food.

“Find anything yet Vnaa?” We were looking for a material to make Vnaa’s gloves for her claws

“No, not yet, but I will keep looking” She looked so cute, her determination

“Sir Udon, is that a smile” Damn it Umi, you’re getting as bad as Miko, speaking of which. I turned to see Miko looking away from me, she seemed upset

“You didn’t have to join us if you didn’t want to Miko, no one forced you to you know”

“Huh, no I wanted to” Her response seemed a little strange

“Stop saying mean things to Rival Miko Sir Udon”

“Yeah Papa Udon, stop being mean” This is exactly what I meant, obedient my ass, as much as I want Vnaa to stay with me, she’ll be happier with the other two, and her attitude was drastically changing from a quiet shy girl into a spoiled little brat, Umi and Miko can do whatever they want, I really don’t care.

“Found it!” Vnaa shouted out, I walked over to a stall she was looking at, it had already pre made gloves, Vnaa of course was pointing to the green pair

“Do you have a thicker glove, almost like a gauntlet?” The ones Vnaa wanted were to thin

“Yes Sir, I’ll be back in a second” The dog demi-human young man went into the tent behind his stall and came back with a thicker glove

“Ahh, that’s better, how much?” It’s design wasn’t bad either, it had a green four leafed clover as its base design in the middle, the wrist of the glove was dark green with the fingers and hand being silver, it also had small emerald gems imbued into the knuckles.

“These are expensive gloves, the emerald gems hold the mana of the user and it increase the attack power by +10” they sound expensive.

“One Golden Tigre Coin will do” Whoa! That is expensive

“I can get another pair Papa Udon” Vnaa turned to me, I could hear the disappointment in her tone

“What if we traded some items, would it cut down the price”

“It would depend what you have to offer Sir” The stall owner gave me a smirk, he was more experienced then that other young man on the lower floor

“3 scales from the Ancient Monster Siren any good”

“That is certainly quite the first offer, I’ll have to make sure they are authentic, but if they are and you have some dragon materials, I will be willing to bring the price down to 5 Silver Shark coins” Quite the drop, 75% off the original price

“What about 3 baby water dragon scales” I almost forgot we had them

“You have a deal Sir” I gave the scales over to the young man along with 5 Silver Shark coins and in return he gave me the two gloves.

“Now shall we make your claws Vnaa” I passed the gloves to Vnaa, her eyes lit up, she looked so excited

“Yep” So cute, we headed back to the inn, Umi and Miko decided to look around the market more.

“All done”

Weapon Armour Created: Gloves of Silent Hope

Gloves of Silent Hope: 0/10 Mastery, Attack: +35, Special Effects: Forsaken Pact Enchantments: Blast Protection, Fire Protection, Projectile Protection, Earth Affinity, Emerald Boost Magic Attribute: Earth

“They came our pretty good, my Basic Enchanting, Weapon Smith, Leather Armourer, Leather work, armour manipulation and Tailoring also increased by a Mastery Point”

“So coolllll” Vnaa put the gloves on and started posing like she was fighting

“Papa Udon what are all these enchantments and special effects”

“The Special Effect Forsaken Pact will increase your attack power by 75% when your health drops below 25%, the earth affinity will increase your attack power when your fight on land and the Emerald Boost is what the demi-human dog was talking about, increasing your attack power by +10, I adjusted it so your mana increases by +10 when you store your mana in the emeralds.”

“So cool” Vnaa wasn’t even listening

“Make sure you’re careful with those claws, I made them retractable, but the blades are what have the special effects in them” I ended up combing the two blades we had, the one from the store and the dragon blade from Yuki, I ended up erasing their special effects by accident, I was pretty annoyed when I did that, but I’ll get better.

“We’re back” Umi opened the door to my room with Miko following her

“Umi, Big Sister Miko, look at my cool gloves” Vnaa wasted no time running over to them and showing off her new weapon armour

“Whoa, these are insane, did you make this Sir Udon” Umi looked rather impressed with my creation, ha, I have a talent for this sort of thing

“Pretty cool isn’t it Big Sister Miko” Vnaa tried to show them off to Miko, Miko gave a faint smiled but seemed out of it

“Big Sister Miko?”

“I know Vnaa, how about we get some lunch, come on” Umi grabbed two Bronze Brown coins and pushed Vnaa out of the room

“What was that?” I watched Umi quickly leave the room with Vnaa

“Umm, Master Udon, do you mind if we talk” Huh? She sounded like one of those annoying girlfriends I’ve heard of

“What could we possibly have to talk about Miko, you didn’t stand with me against Yuki, you finally showed your true colours” I dismissed Miko, packing up the mess I made from creating those gloves

“It’s not about that, I’ve apologised for that already”

“Then what is it”

“I want to know why you’re like this” Huh?

“Like what?” I had heard this before, the many psychiatrist that’s have asked me that exact same question, like something is wrong with me, that I’m a problem that needs to be fixed.

“Why don’t you trust people? Your first thought is always the worst possible scenario, you always think the worse of people, I want to know why” Was she serious, I’m not going to tell her, she’ll just use it against me, and besides, it’s the safest way to live, the only way to live, never let your guard down.

“Why should I tell you”

“Because I want to help, I see the pain you’re in and I can’t help but want to ease it for you, let me in, I want to help you” I looked up and stared at Miko, she looked genuine, her words sounded genuine…I had heard this type of crap before though, from that pathetic school therapist

“Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends and family, I trust on actions not words” my stare turned into a glare, I wasn’t going to be fooled again by mere words

“Master Udon, please”

“Enough! You’re only here because I need party numbers, if that rule didn’t exist you would still be stuck in that cave! Remember, once we past the twelfth floor you can do what you want, how lonely can you be to just join a random person, just because you’re thirsty doesn’t mean you drink poison.”

“Fine! If you don’t want me to help you then I won’t, if you’re only using me to get to the twelfth floor then I’ll make sure you get there, but after that you can tear up our contract!” Miko shouted at me and ran out the door slamming it behind

“Rival Miko?” Umi was out in the hall, Miko ran past her, the door she slammed didn’t properly close and swang back open

“Big Sister Miko!” Vnaa shouted out, Miko had run off down the stairs and out of the inn

“What did you do Sir Udon”

“Huh? Why do you assume I did something, I didn’t do anything”

“You made Big Sister Miko cry, boo” Vnaa stuck her tongue out at me and ran after Miko

“Go follow Vnaa” I told Umi, she just looked at me, an expression of disappointment or was it disgust

“Leave!” I shouted, everything was going back to the way it was on earth, getting looked down on by people that swore they would be there for me! It’s all the same no matter where you are! Damn it! I just want to be left alone, I don’t need to be betrayed and framed again!