“Kid, why did you approach me?” he will be a fool not to know that the kid being here was just a pure coincidence.

“I follow you,” she said

“Why?”

“I want to learn to be a witcher”

Geralt gawk and look at her upside down.

“Do you know what you are asking for?”

She just shakes her head. Of course, she knows, that’s why she followed him. But it will be more suspicious to tell him the truth about her motives.

She rather tells him she wants to be a witcher because they are strong and people paid them a lot of gold coins.

“If you become a witcher you will never see your family again,” he said grimly

“I know”

“You know?” Geralt frown when he heard that.

“I’m not like other kids…I feel very different from others”

“Well…you are different”

“I saw those monsters you know…they were in our rooftop yesterday. I was so scared that they will find me and eat me, but they suddenly ran away, leaving our home.”

Geralt pinch his fist just thinking if he didn’t arrive on time and slay those monsters, the chance of her family surviving is nil.

Just thinking of it gives him a cold sweat on his back. Thankfully he solves those evil beasts before they kill any more innocent people.

He sighs and kneels to see her eye to eye.

“You want to come with me to be a witcher?”

“Yes”

“Do you trust me?”

The little girl shakes her head

Geralt was surprised was evident on his face

“Why?”

“You’re a stranger”

Geralt smile

“That’s right, I am a stranger, and you should not go to a stranger you don’t even know.”

“But I want to be like you”

Geralt smile vanishes replace by a serious face.

“If you come with me…there’s a chance you may die on the road.”

She looks at the village direction and back to Geralt

“I like to see the world, I don’t want to be stuck in the village and grew up only to be married and have kids.”

“You’re a smart one little fella” Geralt rub her hair like a kid.

She just twirls her hair like and embarrasses girl, but deep inside, her fangirl mode was going out of control.

Geralt then stood up.

“Although you want to come with me, but you need to tell your parents about your condition. It’s the proper thing to do.”

She just silently nods.

-

To the surprise of everyone in the village, the witcher came back making them confused. The bounty was already killed, what else is he here for?

When they look at Geralt riding a horse, they were surprised to find a little girl riding with him.

“Hey that’s- “

“Shh, be quiet, he might hear us.”

Geralt ignore them and look down at the little girl

“Where's your home?”

“That way” She pointed a shack in the village. She can see her mother doing laundry work and her siblings playing games.

Her mother suddenly felt the change in the atmosphere when she looks up, she almost drops her laundry and staggers backward

“W-witcher…”

Geralt frown and look at the woman's situation, he can see the woman was currently pregnant and tired.

He drops the girl down the horse first before he slid down.

The little girl hesitated but still approach her supposed to be her mother, Her mother look at her stricken.

“M-mother?”

Instead of answering her…

“Kids go inside!” her mother urge them inside the house. After making sure they are safe, she faces the witcher.

“What do you want?”

Geralt looks at the situation and frowns.

“I want to talk to you for a second”

“There’s nothing to talk about,” her mother said firmly

Geralt just sigh and scratch his chin

“It’s about your daughter- “

“Do you want her? Then take her, but please leave us alone!”

Geralt opens his mouth then closes. He looks at the little girl with a complex look.

Joan just sighs and turns around and faces Geralt.

“Let’s go”

Geralt just nods helplessly as he helps the little girl mounts the horse, then he climbs after her. He looks at the woman who still looking at him vigilantly, then he turns the horse and gallops.

-

It was night and they sit in the front of the bonfire.

Geralt sharpening his sword using whetstone while looking at the silent kid. He sighs and scratches his beard.

“Sorry about that”

She just shakes her head

“It’s okay, it’s not your fault”

“You’re a good kid,” Geralt said

She just chuckles and didn’t comment.

Soon wolfs starts to howling in the distance. Geralt stops sharpening his sword and looks at some directions.

“Go to sleep, tomorrow we will leave in the morning.”

“Where are we going?”

Gerald scratches his chin and ponders.

“Are you interested in magic or fighting?”

“Can be both?”

“Can, but that will take a lot of time to learn”

“Then I choose both, I want to learn magic, and I also want to defend myself.”

Geralt chuckled, suddenly he remember someone. It makes his heart warm just thinking of the little girl Ciri, she must be bored now training at the school.

Geralt didn’t say anything and throw dirt at the bonfire extinguishing the flames. Only the ember in the earth was evident that it been lit.

“Good night then. I’ll be guarding, you don’t need to worry.”

She just nods and closes her eyes. But secretly she activates the [Bio-Electro radar] around her. Although Geralt can be trusted, she doesn’t want to rely on him for her protection. Might as well use this to hone her skills.

-

In the morning, Geralt offers her a slice of dry meat, she bit it without complaint. But she promises to herself that she will at least learn how to cook.

-

They began to travel the road, sometimes they met bandits, she watches as he mercilessly kills them.

Although Geralt tries to minimize the bloody scene, it was a silly way to protect a child when they were in the middle of nowhere.

But she didn’t say anything and let Geralt do his job.

On the road, they met a wandering merchant, traveling with his cart. He offers Geralt a high reward just to deliver him to the nearest town.

“I’ve been rob by my guards, luckily, some monsters attack us and I managed to escape with my cart intact.”

Joan can call it bullshit, how can a merchant like him escape with his cart still intact with no damage at all. It looks all-new base on the paint and smooth wood carpentry unless it was a miracle that the bandit was stupid enough to let him go and focus on the damn monster. She looks at Geralt who she can’t see any emotion on his face.

Geralt didn’t say anything except the young merchant's request to escort him.

When they were on the crossroad they were suddenly attacked by bandits out of nowhere. Vicious men holding swords slowly get out of the woods and surrounded them.

“Hand us your money witcher!” the leader of the bandit with a slash on his face staring at them viciously.

Geralt just sigh and slid down the horse, he pats her head gently.

“This is your first lesson, never trust anybody easily.”

Suddenly, he pulls out his sword and attack and beheads the young merchant who was still don’t know what happens.

“Sorry” Geralt speaks softly and rushes to the bandits and starts slaughtering them.

She yawns and looks at those bandits being cut down like grass. She narrows her eyes when she felt someone was approaching here behind the woods.

She looks at the crossbow at the side of the horse, she pulls it out and checks the bolts. She looks at Geralt who was busy killing every single one of them.

She loaded the crossbow and suddenly she twists her body and faces the backside and shot the bandit hiding near the tree at the back. It was headshot base on the bolt sticking to his head.

Then she began loading a new one fast and aim.

At the back of Geralt, he was about to turn around and kill the man behind him when he heard the “swish” sound.

He subconsciously looks where it shot and raises his eyebrow at the dead man with a bolt at his head. He looks in the direction where the bolt was shot and surprise to see the little girl holding the crossbow.

“I borrow it for a while if you wouldn’t mind.”

-

“So how did you learn how to use the crossbow?”

“By watching.”

“You learned fast.” Geralt nod impress by her.

“Then how do you feel when you shot that man”

She looks at the dead man then shake her head

“Nothing…”

“…Nothing huh”

“I think they deserve it, they tried to rob us. Its the consequence of their action.”

Geralt pat her head and ponder.

-

They travel between town and villages, this time Geralt taught her how to use a crossbow properly.

Using [Weapon mastery] it wasn’t hard to master the crossbow as long as you know where to shoot and how to aim. With her help, she became Geralt back support sometimes when fighting monsters was too much for him.

She began using [Bio-electro enchantment], [True shot], and [Bio- Electro Brain enhancement]. Although the consumption is a little staggering; she can feel the proficiency of her skill was slowly increasing. It’s been so long since they were stuck in Rank E. She can’t wait for the day when all her skills reach as D.

There was something she discovers along the way when she tried to learn about Geralt fighting style, she felt her [Martial arts technique] was not progressing at all as if something was blocking it from moving forward. She guesses she needs to use golden points to upgrade it to C forcefully, but she doesn’t want to use it because getting them was scarce and she doesn’t know who to kill to acquire it.

She has few individuals she can find and kill to gain golden points, but she’s not sure if they are going to drop one, and besides, she needs to determine what timeline is this.

Geralt says he got an adopted daughter waiting for him in the Kaer Morhen. That means Ciri already been accepted by Geralt and currently training to become a witcher, but how old is she?

“She’s 12”

“…” Okay, scratch that, it must be the beginning of Ciri’s career as a witcher. Then it must be the time her power was about to go out of control.

“You will be good for her as a sparring partner”

So you bring me to Kaer Morhen just to be your adopted daughter’s punching bag? Okay sure, it will be awesome to be Ciri’s friend, if she needs to be a meat shield, why not, as long as the protagonist wants. I will be his little brother/sister.

As a rule to reincarnators, we must firmly hug the thigh of the protagonist because they are the child of the world, and going against them means resulting only in disaster.