Yawn.

It was a good sleep and I had good dreams. I kind of had a patch on my trousers but who cared. A good dream was a good dream.

Knock*

"We're ready-" Mom walked in, saw the patch instantly. What was she, a hawk? "Do take a shower first." She left while suppressing her giggles.

My face twitched.

Embarrassment was in the air.

***

It was around eleven and most of the stores were jam-packed. I guess this was natural since today was a holiday after all.

The roads however wasn't that crowded and since we were walking, we didn't really care.

"This weather doesn't seem that great though. Maybe we should have brought an umbrella?" Mom was talking to herself.

"No need. I can make barriers if I need to."

Both of them looked at me with curiosity. And that curiosity turned to excitement just seconds later. "Since when!?" And they even spoke in unison!

I guess I never told them about the powers of my scythe. I guess it wasn't a scythe anymore though, as I could shape it to whatever I wanted. Actually, I didn't check the saber all that much. I didn't have time and my hands were kind of burned. It only got healed yesterday, and yesterday was definitely busy for me.

"I'd rather not get into all that but my saber can do that."

Mom looked at me with a bit of frown. "Dad's dream was to have barriers as a superpower. Who'd have thought-?"

She stopped and turned around, I turned my head sideways. Elsa was gone.

I kind of let my guard down as mom was here but I guess that was just stupidity.

It took me roughly three seconds to realize that Elsa was being kidnapped by a middle-aged man who was carrying her like a princess to a nearby truck.

"Why isn't she drowning them?" Actually, she wasn't even fighting back.

Mom sighed. "Go, save her, I guess."

Well, she sure was calm about this.

I turned on the saber and ran fast.

"Oi- stay back!" Hardcore British accent. There were three of them.

One driving, one carrying Elsa and one pointing a gun at me.

I didn't know if they knew who we were or not, but poor guys.

It took me three seconds to catch up and two seconds to beat them up. These morons didn't have anything other than plain guns. They did fire at me but unfortunately for them, I had a barrier.

With all three men down, Elsa got up and smiled. "Thanks."

My cheeks twitched. "We could have avoided this-"

"Let's go." She skipped towards mom.

What was wrong with this girl?

We didn't have time to wait for the police to show up so I moved on.

It was early morning and already life was full of sighs.

Mom didn't say a word about this and just moved as well.

"So, where are we going first?"

"To get you a Holo."

I guess she knew I was skipping all these things. So I didn't argue and just followed her.

Eventually, we reached a store, I picked something and waited an hour to buy it. Why the wait? Bargaining of course. The price of the Holo was ten gold. But after an hour of unnecessary debate, it was reduced to four gold. I wish I had that superpower, I certainly didn't want to waste all this much time though.

But yeah, now after a whole hour of mindless grinding of words, I now had a Holo. Of course, I had to pay. I didn't have any idea how this thing worked though.

I still had about a gold and a half left. Meaning, I had enough for chocolate milk and bread.

Next, we went to a clothes store and I got some clothes. Of course, I had to stand by and watch mom bargain for half an hour and then that was it. I was done. It was fairly easy till now.

And I still had one gold left too.

But now came the most grueling part. The actual shopping part of the shopping. Mom and Elsa both were going to buy clothes and some other necessities.

We were going to be out here forever. And I was going to be dragged into stores I didn't want anything to do with. There was no choice.

I had to shove embarrassment out of my system for today. Otherwise, I'd have ended up dead from the sheer amount of shame my eyes were accumulating.

Well, it did end roughly four hours later just before the afternoon. I was spent and my mind was filled with frills. At least it was over.

Finally. I sipped on the KitKat shake and looked at the sky. 'Finally.'

"Oh yeah, I wanna buy some shoes," And then Elsa had to open her big mouth.

I could almost sniff, and I really wanted to cry right now. This was supposed to be my holiday and yet, here I was, carrying bags and going around forever in this endless shopping spree.

It did feel nice to see both mom and Elsa smile like this though. It was rare.

But seriously, someone end my suffering already!

***

With the break over, we walked to a shoe store.

It started raining.

'What is wrong with this weather?' I turned my saber on. And then, realized there were two more people inside.

And I knew both of them, I even fought them. They were the ones who offered me 10k gold for being employed with them. Obviously, I'd declined.

"Can I help you?" It started raining rather haphazardly so I couldn't kick them out without getting drenched myself.

People ran around us desperately trying to get some shelter. Well, that was UK weather for ya.

"Pardon me, but I seem to have forgotten to bring the umbrella." The girl spoke but the guy didn't. Both were in their suits.

But now that I watched carefully, the guy was actually looking behind me, towards mom.

"You know these two?" Mom asked.

"Remember that job offer?"

"Oh yeah." I could tell, mom was a bit irritated.

But this guy, this guy just took small steps and right before mom's feet bowed- or so I thought at first. He was on one leg like he was proposing or something. "Wo-would you go out with me?"

'Heh? Huh?'