A time later, we were walking around the city again, trying to find something to do or better, eat.
I walked with my hands behind my head, not very excited anymore.
"Wahhhhh... I am so hungry... i need to eat..."
Amari was walking on my front.
"Well, get used to it, your life will be like this from now on."
Those words hit my mind like a stone.
No, i cant live like that, there is no way!
I quickly ran over and grabbed her from behind, with my arms around her neck.
"WAHHHH! NO!! AMARI PLEASE YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING!!"
She was caught of caught, getting blushed and quickly trying to let me go.
"W-WHAT?! L-LET ME GO!!"
She kept trying to get me to let go, but I held on with all my strength!
"NO AMARI!! PLEASE HELP ME!!!"
"THEN, HELP ME TO FIND OUT WHAT IS THAT SANKALPA THING!!!"
Hearing that, I let go of her, landing on my feet behind her (she probably thought she managed to get me to let go, but it was actually intentional haha)
She became absolutely embarrassed, thinking that everyone would be looking at us.
But before she could do anything.
"Hey sir, you know what Sankalpa is?"
Amari quickly turned to me.
"Oh wait, that may actually work..."
As soon as he heard my words, the man looked at me with a huge look of disgust.
"You... Get out..."
He simply kept walking forward.
"HEY! I I JUST ASKED FOR SOMETHING NOTHING MUCH!! YOU STUPID BALDY-"
Amari quickly covered my mouth with her hands, not letting me talk.
"SHUT UP YOU IDIOT!!, lord why are you such a kid..."
Then, i stopped being impulsive, and I calmed down, with that she took her hand off my mouth.
"Hey, Amari... You've been here for a week, right?..."
"Hm, yeah?..."
"AND YOU YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNEW ABOUT THE GUILD?"
She blushed deeply, feeling both guilty and embarrassed.
"A-AH, N-NO I-I-I... KNEW ABOUT IT!"
"SO WHY DID YOU NEVER GO THERE?!"
She looked at me red, clasping her hands, giving an embarrassed smile, and speaking very quietly, with a mixture of guilt and shame.
"I-I was scared..."
"AND I AM THE KID-... Wait a goddamn second... WHAT IS THAT?!"
Far way, buying something at a tent, I noticed something terrible in the distance.
No, that couldn't be real, it was the worst thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
Amari, already knowing what was going to happen, gave me a nervous smile.
"H-Hey Kai... Just let it g-"
I quickly started to run at the direction of that person.
It was outrageous!
Someone was wearing, THE SAME BLACK NECK GAITER AS ME!!!
Amari ran after me, desperately trying to stop me from getting into trouble.
"K-KAI!! WAIT!! STOP!"
"AS IF I COULD! I CAN'T LET THIS HAPPEN!!!"
Then, after a brief angry run, I arrived at the tent where that person was buying meat.
I pointed at the person, extremely person.
"HEY YOU STUPID COPYCAT!! YOU'RE NOT ALLIWED TO WEAR THAT!! THAT IS ONLY MINE!!!"
The person slowly looked at me.
It was a woman, a young woman, looks like she is 10 or something.
She has short dark brown hair with long bangs parted in several parts and brown eyes. A petite body looking like a doll, with small breasts.
She was wearing a very wild outfit, it seemed like it was made to attract attention: a dark brown cape, with a weird white wizard hat, a dark yellow dress/shirt with light yellow details, which also covers her arms with wide sleeves, in addition to serving as a skirt. Dark yellow long socks (or pantyhouse, i have no ideia) and extremely wide light yellow boots. She has several bandages and wounds on her body. And, my black neck gaiter on her neck...
Even before she even said a word, I couldn't contain myself, and unfortunately I said.
"WOW!! THAT OUTFIT IS REALLY COOL!!"
Sorry.
But when she looked at me, i was able to see that she was also holding a dark brown staff.
After hearing my words, she didn't even though, and immediately gave a proud smile, also putting her small hand on her chest.
"Ha! I know that!! I am-"
"Loli."
Out of nowhere, Amari appeared and said that word with the greatest tranquility in the world.
I don't know what that means, but the girl became extremely angry and embarrassed.
"W-WHAT DID YOU J-JUST CALLED ME?! I-IM TURNING 14 NEXT WEEK!!!"
I don't know what that word means, but it made her extremely angry. Must be some wild insult.
Oh but focus, she has my black gaiter!!!
I hit myself in the face a few times.
"OH WAIT WAIT WAIT... THAT THING IS MINE!!!"
She looked a bit suprised, holding the neck gaiter.
"Oh this? Well I found it for sale somewhere, and I decided to buy it because why not... It's really cool! You can cover your nose and it looks even cooler!!"
She demonstraded to me, with a proud smile.
"AS IF I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!"
She then noticed that i also had one.
"Oh, inspired by me is it? Well I understand, a lot of people think I'm amazing and p-"
I pointed at her, extremely furious.
"YOU COPIED ME YOU STUPID!! I'VE BEEN WEARING THIS SINCE I WAS..."
Had to make some calculations.
"6!!!"
Amari spoke softly beside me.
"Hey Kai, this is not worth it... Its just a-"
The girl crossed her ams, looking at the side with a look and smile as if I were inferior.
"Ha! And what you can do about it?! I bought this one so its mine! The great-"
I interrupted her furiously.
"I CAN BE THE ONLY ONE HAVING ONE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!!!"
But then suddenly, she looked at me with just a normal face. Not looking proud or anything, just fine.
"Well, if its really important to you, i don't mind to giving it to you..."
"I WOULD RATHER IF YOU BURNED THAT!!!"
She kept her "ok" face.
"Yeah whatever, fine be me."
"AND AFTER, I WILL BURN THE SHOP OF WHO IS SELLING THOSE!!!"
Amari screamed.
"H-HE JUST MADE A PUBLIC TERRORIST ANNOUNCEMENT!!"
The girl ket her oddly calm smile.
"Fine by me kiddo-"
"WHY EVERYONE CALLS ME THAT!? IM 16!!! YOU DONT EVEN REACH MY BELLY BUTTON!!"
Amari whispered in my ear.
"Hm actually, she is short, but youre not very tall, so i think she does..."
The girl was very suprised.
"Y-YOU ARE WHAT!?"
She composed herself, putting her hands and staff behind her back, closing her eyes and speaking in a somewhat posh manner.
"Cough cough... So, let's settle this with a duel. If you win, I'll destroy this thing, but if I win..."
She opened one eye, and gave me a defiant smile.
"I will join your crew."
Amari was very suprised and shocked, definitely not expecting this.
"W-Wait what? Y-you want to join us?-"
I gave a confident smile, thrusting one fist into the other.
"Fine by me!!! If you win, I'll let you join the Kai's crew!!"
Amari yelled.
"WE NEVER DECIDED ON THAT NAME!!!"
The girl laughed a bit, and took a deep breath, speaking in an epic way, extending her staff in the air.
"Alright, I -"
"LETS GO ALREADY!"
"LET ME SAY MY NAME AT LEAST!!!"
She said, angry with me.
Then she cough cough again, and went to the same position as before.
"I, SAYURI, CHALLENGE..."
"KAI!!!"
"KAI, FOR A DUEL IN THE PRESENCE OF EVERYONE HERE AROUND US, WHO SERVED AS WITNESS SO THAT EVERYTHING-"
I was already fed up with so much nonsense.
"LETS JUST GO!!"
She again, yelled angry at me, blushed.
"Y-YOU IDIOT!! W-WE NEED TO DO THE DUEL RITUAL OBVIOUSLY!!"
Amari whispered on my ear.
"Hey uh, I would not recommend you accept the duel, since they are usually to the death and you just want to fight for a neck gaiter... Oh wait, actually if she wants to join us, she can't kill you... But well, it is in this so-called ritual that the rules and objectives of the duel are defined, so that there is no cheating later. In this case, so that she not only doesn't destroy the black thing, or you refuse her to join us."
I listened attentively as I stretched my legs.
"Oh thats it?... Guess i have no choice then... But Amari!"
I looked onto her eyes.
"This is not for a stupid reason, the neck gaiter is super important to me!!"
Amari gave a small smile.
"As you wish, 'captain'."
She walked away, and I gave a good confident laugh, looking at the girl. Her name is Sayuri right? Ah, who cares.
The girl then return to her speech, speaking in a very loud tone so everyone can hear.
"So, today, I Sayuri, challenge Kai to a duel, in the presence of everyone here around us, who will serve as witnesses so that the battle is clean, free and without cheating..."
10 minutes later...
"DAMN ITS FINALLY OVER!!!"
A circle of people had formed around us. It was a tremendous crowd, I think these duels are really respected here.
We were positioned quite far apart from each other, with a man in the middle who would serve as referee.
On second thought, she's probably a wizard or something, who strikes from afar, I shouldn't have accepted a battle that starts from a distance, that's an advantage for her since I only have my punches...
She just kept talking and every now and then she would say, "You, Kai, do you accept?", and I just said yes to everything because I was running out of patience... Are there any more important rules that I didn't notice? Oh, who cares.
I looked at her with a confident smile, i can win this!
She proudly showed her staff in her left hand, also confident and smiling.
In the middle, the ref said.
"Ok now, as soon as I go to the circumference of the circle and shout "GO!" you can start fighting..."
He turned back and started to walk to the edge of our battlefield. (In this case he walked towards the audience, which formed the battlefield, an open space, without the tents that had been specifically removed for this.)
...
GOD HE'S SO SLOW!!! IS HE A TURTLE OR SOMETHING!?
I even wanted to yell at him, but every time I wanted to, it seems like he's almost there, but then I realize he's still far away and it's an infinite loop!
But after what seemed like an hour, he finally made it.
"OK! ARE YOU READY!?!?!?"
I looked at her eyes and clenched my fists, the two of us looking at each other with extreme confidence.
"GO!"
Ok, I need to get closer and close the distance, because then-
"Bium."
She shot a kind of white light, laser o ray, from her staff that went towards me.
I didn't had time to react, it hitted me and I fell to the ground, unable to move.
I lost, that way...
The people around looked on, and simply went back to their normal lives as if it was nothing.
"Oh yeah, that was good." "Yeah, was a good duel to watch." "Yeah yeah, it was fun to seem"
They made comments like that as they dispersed.
No one was sad, angry or disappointed, for some reason.
"KAI!!!"
Amari came running towards me, extremely worried.
I managed to move my back, and sit on the ground, extremely hurt.
"I-Im fine... I lost it..."
suddenly, the girl appeared on my front, with a very proud smile and a hand on the hip, holding the neck gaiter on the same hand.
Oh yeah, before the battle she took it off so it wouldn't be destroyed under any circumstances... I WISH IT HAD BEEN!
"So, i win... Thus, joining your gang..."
I looked furiously at her, i couldn't believe what was goin on. This was not fair, she can't have that-
She suddenly threw the neck gaiter to the floor.
"PTCHIU!"
Out of her staff, a red beam went out and hitted the neck gaiter, making it burn.
"You wanted me to burn it right?... Oh yeah."
She turned back, and pointed her staff at a building.
"PTCHIU!"
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE ATTACK NAME-"
She shoot at the building, making it catch fire.
She looked at me with a wide smile.
"That was the store i bought this from, hehe."
Me and Amari were in shock.
Amari looked at her without understanding what was happening.
"W-Wait what, why did you-"
Before she could elaborate further, we saw a lot of what I assume to be cops, running after us in distance.
"RUN AWAY!!"
The girl yelled, kinda desperate, running on my front.
I quickly stand up and started to run too, alongside the 2 girls.
"HEY! WHAT IS YOUR NAME!?"
Think she got quite angry by my line.
"I ALREADY TOLD YOU MANY TIMES IDIOT! ITS SAYURI!"
We take a quick look back, they are quick as hell!!
"RUN!! JUST RUN!!"