Chapter 8 - "The start of a journey"

We continued to walk hand in hand through the forest, Mysty was speaking non stop as if trying to make me think of something else, but I wasn't able to think of something else but what happened to my family I wonder what's going to happen to my mother and sister. I appreciate what Mysty doing for me but I'm sorry for her, since that I really can't answer her joyously for the moment...

"Oh! I know you must be hungry! Wait a minute!" (Mysty)

It seem that hunger is the biggest problem a man can have in Mysty head, but suddenly a smaller version of her sword form appeared in her hand and she ran in a different direction in the the woods.

"What the?!"(Shun)

After two minute passed she came back while holding a headless rabbit look alike creature.

"Uuhhh... Sorry I made a mess, the head is even the best part..." (Mysty)

"No well... I'm sorry to say I'm not even hungry and either way we don't have camping equipment to cook it... But more importantly, what was this small version of you cursed blade form?" (Shun)

"It's okay! You can eat it using my curse! As for the sword I simply summoned my cursed blade soul, I can't use it at is full power but I can at least summon something of this size."

"... First of all even if I eat this Rhobik (Rabbit look alike, it's a harmless monster) using your curse it won't fill my stomach... Also how can you use your two form at the same time?"

"Ah! I forgot! Damn I just did something useless... Anyway, it's seem you are misunderstanding about us cursed blades. We are not a weapon that have the ability to turn human, but a weapon who had a mindless soul in whom was inserted a new human soul by mother after she forged them. That make us a cursed blade and a human at the same time, if not for the effect of our cursed blade soul we would be mortal like any other human." (Mysty)

"... I see..." (Shun)

"Yup, and it was our human soul who was cursed by the monster whom birthed our cursed blade form, if even our cursed blade form had received the same curse the monster form you seen when our mind was linked would have been my real form. But my dear husband finally released me from the monster curse and I'm now able to bear his child's! I even started to think about their names!" (Mysty)

"PPFFFFTTT... *cough* *cough* *cough*... What...?" (Shun)

The water I was drinking from my water bottle flew in a arc in the air making a beautiful rainbow...

"What are you surprised about? Isn't it obvious that since we are husband and wife I need to do my duty as a wife?!" (Mysty)

Or so she said like it was an obvious thing...

"Wait! Wait! Wait! That strange! Let say you do get pregnant for argument's sake what would happen when you turn into your sword form? And what the child would be?! A cursed sword?!" (Shun)

If I start to give birth to cursed blades won't this world be doomed?!

"Ooohh! That a good point! I guess we should ask mother when we have the time!" (Mysty)

"Yes let's do that..." (Shun)

At least we won't go back to the baby making subject in the meanwhile...

As Mysty was starting to tell me the name she thought of for our child's we finally seen the village a distance away. But as we entered the village we were far from being welcome.

"Go away! Don't involve us in your mess!" (Village elder)

"Please calm down! I'm just here to buy what I need to travel, then I will then go away!" (Shun)

"Shut up! You don't have any authority anymore here! We don't have to obey you, just go away!" (Village elder)

*Krrr*

"Please I swear I go away as soon as I have what I need! I will even pay even more than the normal price!" (Shun)

"I don't want to hear any of that! Go away or we will use force!" (Village elder)

*Krrrrr* Those fucker, my father always helped them when they were in need and that how they repay my family when the tide change?

"Yeah, he's right go away! We don't want you here! Those knights gonna come at us!" (Villagers)

*KKKRRRRR* My teeth were seriously starting to make a lot of noise...

"WILL YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU FUCKING LOT?!" (Shun)

All the villagers had their mouth hang open looking in a daze unable to believe what they just heard, the only part they knew of me was the naive and gentle little noble who would never show any anger.

"DON'T YOU HAVE ANY SHAME?! WHO'S FAMILY DIDN'T TOOK ANY TAX FROM YOU WHEN YOU HAD A BAD HARVEST AND HAD TO PAY WITH HIS OWN MONEY THE KING?!"

Listening to my angry speech a lot of villagers started looking down with a face full of shame.

"AS FOR THE KNIGHTS YOU FEAR! I KILLED THEM! ALL OF THEM!"

Their eyes widened even more that before it looked like their eyes would pop out any second.

"Uh... Is that a joke sir?" (village elder)

The village elder asked me with a weak voice, unable to believe I killed by myself that much knights... I looked back at him with a cold glare and answered him with a low voice and giving off an amazing amount of bloodlust.

"No... I ripped them apart, and if you don't bring me what I asked in the next ten minute you gonna follow after them..." (Shun)

"Kyaaa! Your so cool when angry!" Said Mysty who seemed to lack the ability to read the mood, while hugging my back.

"Yes sir! We will do as you say so please! Please don't hurt us!" Said the village elder who completely changed attitude and even started to shake in fear after being exposed to my bloodlust.

While I was waiting and observed the villagers who where running everywhere as to gather the items I asked them to bring me, a little girl started to approach me while looking furious.

"Where is Eva?!" (Clara)

It was Clara who like always started to talk to me rudely while looking angry.

"She was kidnapped by the king..." (Shun)

"What?! What are you even doing here and not going after her?! Fucking useless bastard!" (Clara)

"... Enough, it's the last time you talk to me like that..." (Shun)

"Oh?! Can I eat her?!" (Mysty)

Hearing what I said and Mysty absurd question, Clara legs started to shake, unable to understand what was happening but clearly sensing that she was in danger.

"Maybe you should... Is what a like to say, but as much of a little annoying bitch she his, she's still my little sister best friend so we are going to do this my way." (Shun)

Finishing my line I grabbed her by neck and brought her close to my face.

"Hey! Are you really going to kiss someone else in front of your wife?!" (Mysty)

Hell no I won't... It seem I clearly underestimated the level of airheadness of this stupid sword... Well that make her somewhat even more cute...

"Listen here you stupid cunt... If you ever even as much as look at me in an annoying way, I will break every bones in your body in the most painful way... understood?" (Shun)

After I released her she just fell on her bottom and trace of piss started to show on her one-piece, she just stayed there unable to look at me and shaking like a leaf. Oops seem I've gone to far and showed a little to much blood lust there, oh well, she deserved it. After mentioning my sister and hit where it hurt, I think she's even got away with not much.

Finally, just before ten minute passed, the villagers brought me a backpack who looked full with a frying pan attached to the side, yup look good.

"Here sir, we brought you everything you asked and packed it..." (village elder)

A lot of villagers clearly showed fears on their faces hoping, that I would just take it already and leave them alone.

"Thanks... Here your payment for it..." Saying that I handed him twenty medium sized gold coins who was worth 1000. Sol each, and put the sack on my back before turning around and leave the village. Our journey could finally start, and so we walked on the road to the south to search for the second cursed blade.

But I forgot something, the nature of the beast who walked alongside me, it happened the very night our journey started. After making camp and ate our fill with a new Rhobik, then came time to sleep, and even though I was going to sleep in the same tent, since I had only one, as the girl I had a crush on, because of all happened today I really wasn't in the mood to have naughty thought. But as I simply lay down on the floor under the tent and tried to sleep , I suddenly felt something crawl to my side.

"Hehehe, it's time to enjoy ourselves husband..."

Saying that Mysty mounted me on my stomach making me unable to run away. She had a lot more of strength than a normal human, not as much as me but she not far from it.

"Wait a minute! Didn't we say we wait to ask for answer Ymylfana before getting to it?" (Shun)

"We don't have to make baby for enjoying ourselves no? I really want to eat you..." (Mysty)

Now that what you call a miscalculation... I didn't expect that her 'hunger' wasn't only involving food, but also night time fun... Urg... Calm down mini me that would be really wrong to do something like that right now, and if I have an 'accident' I could really doom this world by giving birth to something really dangerous!

"Sorry Mysty but I'm really not in the mood right now... Let's sleep okay?" I said hoping it would be enough to calm this beast. I was wrong...

"Don't wanna! It's okay let big sister please you!" Saying that Mysty started french kiss me, and goddamn she's good! Even though she should have never kissed before our first kiss today, since she couldn't turn in her human form before, where the hell did she learn to do that?!

Okay let's try to use the fact she is a real airhead who hold dear our relationship husband/wife.

"Wait! Since it's would be our first time, wouldn't it be more romantic to wait to be in a bed? Right?" (Shun)

Seriously she had the eyes of a predator, I'm not sure I'm going to live through this if she really assault me...

"Mumumumu... Okay... If you say so I won't do anything until we are at a better place, but you have to call me honey from now on!" (Honey?...)

What the hell?! I can't call her that! Talk about embarrassing... But then again my life and the peace of earth is on the line here...

"Uuurrgg... Okay... Honey..." (Shun)

"YAY! Now that it's decided let's sleep dear!" (Honey)

SO EMBARRASSING?! What with this sensation of playing house?! How can she say things like that with a straight face?! Oh... I forgot she a complete airhead.

We finally started to sleep while being in quite a dangerous position for a healthy young man but since I was exhausted from the day I was able to sleep, but right before really felt asleep I heard Mysty talking to herself in a whisper.

"Hihihihi, I win! From now on I'm the first wife even if he obtain Setsuna or the others!"

Quite the ominous premonition of what will come in the future, but what man can really not enjoy the fact that he's loved this much by the one he have a crush on?

Since we started our journey a week have passed, now that I think about it today was supposed to be Eva eighths birthday... That made me think I never told you how the calendar in this world work did I? In this world a year is 360 days whom is separated in 10 months of 36 days, whom in turn have 4 weeks of 9 days. Also this world don't have a sense of season since the climate don't change through the year. As for what the months weeks and days are called they don't have names and are simply called by their numbers, like that the date of today and Eva birthday is the 16th day of the 3rd month, and mine is in a month by the way, the 3rd day of the 4th month.

This week we passed through a lot of villages but thanks the god they neither had church dedicated to Ymylfana or a Inn. And it seem information about me didn't circulated for now, I guess the king still didn't hear what happened or the messengers still didn't pass through those villages. And three days later we finally arrived to a big city, it was a strange city where a lot of ruffians and adventurers looking men and women were walking the street, could it be it's one of those labyrinth city I heard about?

Labyrinth city are city who where build around a labyrinth like you most likely guessed from the name, since labyrinth mean good business, when a new one is found a lot of opportunist business men and adventurers group together there and it rapidly become a city as the business men build shops and inns for the adventurers.

"Mysty is Setsuna still far from here?" (Shun)

"Mumumumumu... Nope we're here! She's under us, I guess that unlike me she is still sealed by her return seal." (Mysty)

"Wait what? Under us? You don't mean..." (Shun)

"Yes she's in a labyrinth, or to be more precise the labyrinth was build here to seal her, I didn't know that she was still bind to it, since I was freed from my one." (Mysty)

"I see... So we gonna have to dive inside the dungeon, that really bad it's gonna take a lot of time. And what is the return seal you mentioned?" (Shun)

"Ah yes, the return seal is a seal that force us to come back to where we were first sealed when we lost the host we posses. I think it was around three thousands years ago? Seeing as we were rampaging by possessing human after we fall to the earth when killing Enoth. A group of powerful mages created five dungeons that would bind us since there were no way to destroy us. And since there would always be a fool who would destroy the seal to take us in search of power, the mages decided to bind us to the last floor of the dungeons and would be forced to return when losing our host. I myself was in a dungeon until a genius mage, the master of the manor you found me, who loved and collected cursed items, unbound me from my dungeon and sealed me directly in his home without touching me as to not get possessed. And I always thought that my sisters were also able to be freed form their dungeons like that, but maybe that was only me?" (Mysty the lecturer)

Well seem this man was quite a nutcase too... But wait that mean I have a three thousands years old wife? Well who would have guessed... Not that I care, mind you...

"I see... Anyway since we now know where to search I guess we need more provisions and information..." (Shun)

And so I walked in the city, but received a lot of glares as I was walking through the crowds, I guess a boy who's almost thirteen years old with a giant backpack with a beautiful girl linking his arms with a princess like appearance and dress, is a surprising sight on these part... That and we also received a lot praise from females adventurer saying how cute we looked while shrieking, well at least Mysty was quite pleased, but you can imagine how embarrassing it was...

Thinking where I should start to gather information I finally talked to a merchant who were selling accessory.

"Hello there, can I see what you'r selling?" (Shun)

"Kya! You going to buy me a gift?!" Mysty of course misinterpret the fact I was just going to buy something to gain information, but since it the end I will really give it to her I guess she wasn't that wrong.

"Ahahah, of course lad, when you have such a lovely girlfriend you need to please her!" (Old merchant)

If we were reading between the line he was saying to buy the most expansive item... A pendant made of smalls pearls with a pretty green-blue color almost those of my eyes entered my sight, I guess I go with that.

"Here I buy this" I said while handing the oldman the money and taking the pendant and gifting it to Mysty.

"It's beautiful I love it dear! I love you!" After saying that Mysty once again assaulted me with kisses and seeing my struggle a lot of passerby laugh at the scene. Is it me or she is getting better at it by the day?! What a fearsome girl...

"*cough* By the way oldman do you know where I can find information on the labyrinth?" (Shun)

"Ah I see! You also want to become an adventurer lad? For that you should go to the adventurer guild they will sell you all the information and items you need. You should find it easily two street down this path. Ah... that take me back when I was young I also were an adventure, but then I took an arrow to..."

"Ah, I see thanks!" Fearing to hear an overused meme I just walked in the direction the oldman gave me, after thanking him.

After walking for some minutes I finally found the adventurer guild sign, but still there really an adventurer guild in this world... As expected of a fantasy world... With that thought I entered the saloon like building and advanced to the counter. But as I did a lot of tough looking guy and some women all wearing armors and weapons looked at me wondering what I was even doing here even more while being followed by a frail looking girl... As I finally arrived in front of the counter a beautiful clerk came to me.

"Hello what can I do for you today?" (Clerk)

"Hello, I would like to buy as much information as you have on the labyrinth and some equipment for dungeon diving."

Hearing what I asked for, all the rough looking adventurers who where drinking or also talking to a clerk started laughing, and of course a group of thugs came to me for making fun of me, what a typical situation...

"Bwahahaha, did you hear that guys! this kid think he's an adventurers! What a joke... Hey, if a kid like you go there you only going to die, don't underestimate dungeon diving brat." (Thug #1)

His attitude really pissed me off... I wonder if I always was this irritable...

"You have my thanks for your warning... But if weak-ass joke characters like you can call themselves adventurer I don't think it will be that hard..." (Shun)

Oops did I just said my true thought out loud? Oh well...

Suddenly as I was talking the hall became silent, they couldn't believe I just openly insulted a man and his friends who looked twice my size. The clerk, face palmed, as she knew what was going to happen or so she thought...

"What was that you little fucker?!" (Thug #1)

"We're gonna slit you fucking throat!" (Thug #2)

"You gonna regret pissing us off!" (Thug #3)

As thug #1 tried to punch me in the face I simply gripped his arms who looked like in slow motion and broke it with a twist.

"AAHHHHHHH!!!" (Tugh #1) The thug started to scream as his forearm was completely broke and his bone was stabbing his skin showing a little piece of white among the blood flowing out.

People eyes widened has they just seen me broke his arm in a nasty way like I would broke a twig. What can I say? I have a lot of confidence in my grip power... Looking at their friend rolling on the floor while screaming in pain, the two other thugs unsheathed their swords.

"Miss." I talked to the clerk as to bring her attention to me while she was gasping at the scene her mouth hang open.

"Ah? Uh yes! What is it?" (Clerk)

"Since they drawn their weapons if I kill them that would be considerate self-defense no?" (Shin)

"Uh? Yes... I guess?" (Clerk)

"Yay! Let me eat them!" (Mysty)

"Mysty think about the one who are eating and the poor clerks who would have to clean after the mess will you?" (Shun)

"Mumumumu... Too bad..." (Mysty)

As they got annoyed by the fact I was talking nonchalantly thug #2 charged me with his sword. I evaded his downward slash with a step to the side and jumped up to be in range of his face, and simply punched it with all my might making his head explode at the impact... Oops, guess I did make a mess either way, well at least it's not as much as if I attacked using Mysty...

"What the..." (Thug #1 & #3)

Thug #1 who was currently being healed by a mage healer and thug #3 couldn't believe what just happened but as thug #3 understood he was next he drooped his sword to the floor.

"Wait, I'm sorry okay, don't kill me!" (Thug #3)

"Too late, nobody point a sword at me and live to tell the tale..." (Shun)

I simply walked at him and pierced his chest using my hand as a spear. After throwing-up a crazy quantity of blood he drop down to the floor and died... I then looked at #1 in the eyes and said with a smile.

"I guess you were lucky you didn't draw your sword huh?"

And walked back to the counter where the clerk was clearly shaking but still had a smile on her face, now that what I call a pro! By seriously was I always this ruthless? Maybe that now that I'm not under the watch of my family my chains are broken? Well I'm still not as blood thirsty that the time I was Rick...

"Hey you also made a mess! If you were to splash blood everywhere you could have used me either way!" (Mysty)

"Now, now... If I used you it would have been much more than that, but I'm still sorry okay... Honey?" (Shun)

Since I didn't want to hear her bitching for hours I used the magic word that make her shut up and she started to twist her body in a weird way while saying thing such as, 'you are such a tease dear!' or 'hold me!' among others things even more embarrassing. Now that I know that I won't be interrupted again I go back to business.

"So as I was saying before, I would need as much information as I can and equipment for dungeon diving." (Shun)

This time nobody laugh and just silently keep their eyes to their glass or affair as to not cross eyes with me.

"Yes sir, of course. For information we can provide you with maps up to the 20th floors who also give you information on the monsters you can encounter on each floor. The floors after that change at every visit so no maps exist for them. As for equipment we have a beginner pack with everything you would need in a dungeon and some rations!" (Clerk)

Miss Clerk you are amazing... If it was not for her, still shaking like a leaf, you wouldn't guess anything was wrong from her voice.

"Then I guess I take all the maps from the first to the 20th floors and two beginners packs."

"Thank you for your business! I will bring you that immediately."

After waiting for a while, the clerk brought back two big sack and a stack of papers. It was really expensive but since I needed that to gain time I didn't see to the expense, good thinking from me to have stole baldy purse, not that he need it anymore... After waking Mysty from her day dreaming I asked her to help me carry at least one of the pack and we exited the guild after paying for the items... After leaving I could hear a lot of sigh of relief from behind me...

"Okay let's go Mysty!" (Shun)

"Oh are we finally going to a inn?!" (Mysty)

Look like she's already forgot why we were even here... What are you? A bird?

"Nope, were going dungeon diving!" (Shun)

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Pissed Shun is Pissed!

This chapter had a lot of trivia, it was a little boring to write and i'm sure to read but their are moment like that i suppose.

Next chapter We're going dungeon exploring and finally starting to see Shun 'Dere' side! Stay tuned!