When I woke up it was a dead of the night. Besides me was Titania, it was pretty quiet in the house. Somehow I crawled out of bed, and departed on the quest for searching something to drink. And when I say for something to drink I mean something nonalcoholic as I won’t be able to look alcohol for at least a week.

When got down to the first floor I spotted Acino who was sleeping upside down on the sofa. Interesting, how is he even able to sleep that way? Moving my body weekly I made my way to the fox whose head was hanging down limply from the couch. Waking him up took at least 2 minutes.

“What the…”-Weakly opening his eye mumbled Acino.-“What do you want?”

“How are you?”-Slightly surprised by his rude question, I asked.-“Alive?”

“I was better when I was sleeping.”- Squinting and rubbing his eyes, he said.-“My head fucking hurts…”_Frowning from pain in his back he somehow turned and sat on the sofa.-“Is there something to drink?”

“That’s the exact question I wanted to ask you!”-Grinning I said.

“Well if Tamamo did make it to the kitchen then no.”

“Meaning?”-I didn’t understood.

You sure are stupid when suffering from a hangover.

If you could drink you would be the same.

“Last thing I remember before I passed out was Tamamo’s attempts to get to the kitchen almost on her four’s.”-He said remembering what happened.

“We should probably check on her.”-Slightly concerned I said.

“Let’s go.”

After I helped him stand up from the couch, we walked to the kitchen. What was before our eyes was Tamamo laying on the floor and holding an empty jug.

“We probably shouldn’t wake her.”-I said.

“Probably…We shouldn’t leave her here either.”-Acino replied.

“Help me move her to the sofa.”

“No thank you! You move her yourself, if Titania will know that I touched her, I’m afraid I will be forced to have a few more bruises!”-Remembering how strong Titania is despite her size.

“Heh, so you are afraid of Titania?”

“I don’t, but I don’t like bruises.”- He said.

After moving Tamamo to the couch, both of us went to the well. The well wasn’t that close to the house but we were there pretty quickly. There weren’t a single soul on the streets.

After we filled some barrels with water and already preparing to go back, I felt that someone is watching us. I did not attach any importance to this as I thought that it was just someone taking a smoke or something but I regretted it later. After we walked past two houses literally, in front of us 4 lightly dressed but armed with swords anthropomorphic foxes were blocking our way.

“You are the ones that helped Tamamo?”-Asked one of the foxes, probably their leader.

“Yes we did so what?”-I answered.

“Do you understand that you are helping a killer, a killer that committed patricide at that?”

“She told us different story.”-I answered.

“She is lying to you! All in the clan knows what she did and she will answer for it!”

While we argued Acino discreetly for everyone was already behind their backs.

And then he stabbed two of them in the backs with the daggers. The third one wanted to slice Acino but was a second to late as I already pierced him with an earth spear.

“You bastards! We wanted to make a deal with you! Now you will pay for your insolence!”-Leader shouted.

Suddenly he turns his wrist on which unfolds a wrist crossbow, which I considered was a big bracelet, ‘it WAS dark outside’. He was aiming at me but missed because Acino hit his arm with a throwing knife. With an elemental bullet I made a hole in his head.

Congratulations you gained a level! You have gained 25 stat points and 29 skill points!

“Oh come on Acino!”-I said as leaders fox body hit the ground.-“I wanted to make spill more information on their clan!”

“Well sorry, I didn’t like them from the first glance”-Was Acino’s reply.

“Also since when do you carry around weapons for the sake of taking some water from a well?”

“I don’t usually, but to the best of the recent events, I decided that it was dangerous to leave the house without a weapon, and as you can see I was right.”-With a proud face Acino told me.

“Well whatever. You suppose they have something useful on them?”-I said already searching in pockets of the closest body.

“Probably? Okay I’m gonna search these three.”-With business-like tone said Acino.

After a while, after we examined them and counted our loot. Fortunately at this time city was still asleep, therefore no one bothered us.

“So? Found anything useful?”

“No not really, a few coins, golden ring with some kind of drawing, well and the crossbow.”- With businesslike look I told.

“I got money only, by the way about that crossbow. Let me try it on, it won’t fit on you anyway .”- With obvious envy in his voice asked Acino.

“Take it, I like bows better anyway.”

Fiddling with a crossbow about five minutes Acino still managed to fix it on his wrist.

“Happy now?”- I asked sarcastically.

“I am, this is a good toy.”

“Okay, let's go home already”

“I agree, but what we will do with these?”- With concern Acino asked.

“I’ll just place them in my inventory.”- I reassured him.

When he reached home, we noticed that all the windows lights on. Well, I think girls woke up. When we opened the doors two vases flew our way. I was lucky a little more for time to dodge, but Acino was looking at his new crossbow and got hit in the forehead. After that he fell to the ground with a gaping wound on his forehead.

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