It’s been a month since I was discharged from the hospital.

Alice has already left after getting what she needs for Mama. It was nice seeing her again but I needed to focus on my training.

I’ve gotten a lot better in the last month. The only problem I had with my training was with my new hydra’s heart, I can use the power to transform my arm for a longer period of time than I could before, plus a few more skills that are going to come in really handy.

But besides that, nothing else and I can tell there's more power locked away inside the heart.

I don’t have much longer, the finals will kickstart and there's only eight people left in this finale.I only know of three people: me, Sylvia and someone they call the Dragons lineage. He is supposedly the strongest competitor in the tournament, he has never even taken a single injury or so the rumors say.

Rumble...

My stomach makes angry rumbling noises at me... Too simple, I’m hungry.

I stand up to get something to eat.

I found a small vendor who sales burgers on a street corner. I see someone sitting on the corner of the road eating a veggie burger. He looks my age, he has snow white hair and tanned skin. He is wearing a white long sleeve with long blue pants.

Something is strange about him or maybe I’ve just gone crazy thinking everyone is strange.

“Hey you! Old hag, move it!!!”

I see some mean people harassing an old lady.

“Yeah, move your bony ass before we kick it.”

I’m about to do something when the leader goes flying 6 meters then lands on the floor with a thud.

I was stunned to see that the white haired guy had done it all with a single punch. The other assholes were stunned too.

One went in to attack him then there was a blur and the attacker went flying, the same thing happened to the last one.

“Are you alright, granny?”

“Yesh… Thank you, young man.”

He just nodded.

“Hey you, asshole!!”

It was the first one that the white haired guy sent flying.

“Who do you think you're messing with? I went to a magical academy!”

Must of been a shit one, to let this guy in.

“... Flame vortex.”

A vortex fire bursts from the ground swallowing up both the white haired teen and the old lady.

I quickly use my mana control to disperse it. Once the vortex was down, I saw inside that the white haired one using his body to protect the old lady.

The old lady had a few burns but the white haired guy was fine.

I walk over to them.

“Are you alright?”

“Yes, I’m completely fine but the granny here needs some help. If you have any healing items, please help...”

“Sure.”

I place my hand over one of the wounds and start using my blood mana to heal all of her wounds.

“You assholes, what did you do to my magic?”

The lunatic who used the flame vortex was going crazy about how his flame magic disappeared.

“Excuse me granny and mister with healing hands, I am going to talk to this noisy gentleman...”

Next thing I heard while working on the old ladies injuries was a bunch of painful sounds.

“Alright, all your wounds should be healed now.”

The old lady and stretches a few times.

“You even fixed my bad hip... Thank you, sonny.”

“That’s alright happy to help!”

“And thank you, white haired boy. You're both kind young folk...”

“It’s alright granny, happy to help.”

The old lady walks off after giving us one final thanks. I turn to the white haired boy.

“Hi, I’m Kaito.”

“I’m Kirin, Nice to meet you. Want to go eat something?”

We just met and now he’s inviting me to a meal, strange guy... But free meals are something I would be stupid to turn down.

“Okay.”

“Then follow me!”

We start walking through the streets with me follow him.

‘... Be careful, Kaito...’

‘Why?’

‘There's something strange about this mortal.’

‘Yeah, I know he survived that mage’s fire without a single burn.’

‘It’s not just that, there is also something weird about him...’

‘Do you think he could defeat me?’

‘... Not sure.’

‘Don’t worry so much okay, I’ll be fine!’

‘Fine, just don’t say I didn’t warn you, stupid mortal...’

“We’ve arrived.”

We have stopped at a noble's house. It has red tinted windows and its walls are made from white brick work.

He walks to the red front door and walks in I follow him.

Inside, everything is white... Even the tiles on the floor.

I look around it's a nice house very clean and fancy.

“Brother!”

A little girl wearing a red dress that matches her flaming red hair comes running towards us then jumps into Kirin’s arms.

“Little Elly, I didn’t know you were home from school...”

“Yeah, I came home just this morning while you were out!”

“Well then, you will need to do that later you too.”

A man with bulging muscles that escapes his formal clothes walks in he also has flaming red hair just like the little girl.

“Good evening, father...”

“Good evening son, how was your walk?”

“It was most interesting, I helped out a nice granny and met a new friend.”

“Hi, I’m Kaito ”

“Pleasure to meet you Kaito...”

“You have black hair, cool!”

“... Thanks...”

“Father, I was wondering if Kaito could stay for lunch if that’s alright with you.”

“Of course! He’s a friend of yours, son!”

“Thank you, father.”

“Woo! A guest, fun!”

“Now then, Kaito. I hope you like meat because that’s what our cook is famous for making.

“I look forward to it.”

We walk into a large dining room with a chandelier above the large wooden dining table. A maid brings me a seat.

“So Kaito where are you from?”

“The mountains.”

“So why are you here in the city? Since it is a long way to travel for someone so young”

“I’m an adventurer.”

“Wow! You're an adventurer, what kind of amazing quests have you done:”

“Nothing too amazing, only a few escort quests.”

“Cool! Hey big brother, why don’t you become an adventurer?”

“It would be an interesting life but I think a scholar would be more my path.”

“Really? I’ve seen you fight you're really good!”

“No, I’m just sub-par.”

“Kaito, have you ever watched the [Grand Combat Tournament]?”

“I hear things, why?”

“Well... My son here is competing!”

“That’s impressive since it's now reached the finals.”

“I’m one of those lucky ones who can pass on simple skills.”

“Well, since you're in it. I will try to play closer attention.”

“Well, don’t expect anything spectacular.”

The maids and brought in the meal. It was a delicious steak so it didn’t take me long to finish.

“Truly fantastic! Tell our chef he has outdone himself.”

“Well, I must be going now. Thank you for the meal ”

“Oh? You're going so soon? We haven’t even shown you around...”

“Milly, show your brother’s guest around.”

“Okay!”

The little girl grabs my hand and pulls me away with abnormal strength as she showed me around the entire house.

The house was quite gorgeous. Even the family courtyard had a collection of beautiful flowers.

When we finally stopped, it was at a painting of a beautiful women she had tanned skin and beautiful long snow white hair. She was also wearing a stunning purple dress.

“Is this your mother?”

“... Yes...”

“Where is she?”

“She died a few years ago to a disease.”

“I’m sorry...”

“Thank you, she was a great mother!”

I could hear the sadness in her voice.

“Well, that’s all there is to our house...”

“Thank you for the tour.”

Kirin and his father met me at the exit.

“It was nice meeting you, Kaito. I hope we meet again.”

“So do I Kirin, it was also nice meeting your family.”

“It was a pleasure, Kaito and when you go back to your village tell you parents they raised a fine young boy”

“I’ll tell them you said that”

“I wish I had black hair, its sooo cool!!!”

“Goodbye.”

“See ya!”

“Have a safe time in the city”

And with that, I left the interesting family house.

I'm back sorry for the wait been busy new Fiction called Elemental Online so my schedule will change to whenever I can sorry for the boring chapter it will get better from here so enjoy and nice to see you all again.

Editor:Senizal Fi Chrora