41 An Uneasy World

Days passed without care. I think that Jisoo has started to become lazy. She does keep working on this gig of hers. She becomes a handler, an assistant to some of the customers. She uses her comm-set to communicate. It wasn't her style, but she is lying low after she butchered an entire faction in Pacifica.

Which reminds me that although Jisoo is cold. She is quite a lady's woman. I say lady's woman since other than Leiko. She has quite the charm to attract females who find her cold professional demeanor cool and sexy. Although it is flattering to be dating a woman of her caliber. I say that it is mainly because I feel lately that she's kinda the dominant one and I was her boy.

She leaned on my shoulder. She has been wearing nothing but that tank top of hers that was quite tight around her chest. She was showing cleavage and her shorts that defined her butt. Though she typically replies that I already saw her under so she wasn't concerned about the way she dressed in front of me.

I guess the recent days have made us somewhat closer. She was really serious as well and lately has been blatant about where they stood. If anything I kinda expected it.

Our home has been rather decorated. I usually clean so it wasn't so messy. We take turns in the chores and although there are times we argue. We settled it as much as we could. She has a rooftop that she uses a lot. It was like my apartment, but was quite different. There were only a few who had access to it and we usually spar there.

Fighting her is hard. Jisoo when she fights can be tenacious. She was like a devil when fighting in a melee. She would school me when it comes to fighting with melee but I realized that I could somewhat counter. Like as if there was this imaginary button in my head telling me to counter and dodge her.

Only when she does this stupidly fast attacks that I would get them. It also helps that because of this I'm able to take devastating attacks like this.

Since we are lying low. We don't make too much ruckus. I'm also assisting her in this handler job of hers. She goes by another name when handling this job. Most of the time she is in contact with independent mercs to tell and instruct them on how to proceed.

Most of the independent mercs were a rowdy bunch. They are so unprofessional at times, but because she wasn't required to offer more than she was paid for. She was able to get these mercs to do her bidding.

The pay was good. We weren't going to do such things. Maybe because of this that the woman that was filled with vengeance was no longer around. I would be lying to myself if I think that she has let them all go. How could one easily let it go? I like to believe that she simply was doing better. It was pretty much two fools relying on others' warmth.

Still, I wonder if this was truly the path she should take? It was because of her great loss that she became someone who was considered a legend like Morgan. The Famed Swordswoman who would one day help in rescuing the world.

The passerby who would assist the two newbies. I didn't want to let go of Jisoo either. She plays a role in this world. And yet I couldn't care about a world that would make her suffer loneliness.

It is also my selfishness that makes me want to help her. She found me when she had no reason to find me. The days we spent so far were peaceful and I don't want to lose this.

Anyway, most of the time I just follow up on what Mino is doing. I also searched up the other person, Gaius. As expected he was being chased out of Paxian after getting involved with the Specters. Mino Naomi remained in the city because of said encounter. She has been careful about her jobs lately. Most of the time she would check up on the background of said person or business before conducting her job.

Because of this she has been getting jobs that are relatively safe and sometimes outright dangerous. Her performance was better and because of this that she has started becoming known.

She was not my business usually. But because of recent events that made me pay attention to her well-being. Jisoo who had noticed this had somewhat asked me about my intention. I told her that she has potential. Jisoo looked at me silently and said.

"She's pretty."

There was ice in her voice. Perhaps because of this I had to spend two days appeasing her and talking to her about the reason. She somewhat semi-accepted it as a curiosity and because I wasn't monitoring her that she had not cared about it.

When we have no business to attend to. We would travel by car near the white beach in Agua City. It is an artificial beach where they offer a membership. We got one so we usually spend time near the cabin that we had previously rented to just sit down and stare at the sea. We became customers of the beach and every other day we spent it relaxing.

I had wished that peaceful days would continue. But there is one thing that I have forgotten recently. That this world wasn't so easy to begin with. If this was after the calamity passed. Maybe I would be able to enjoy our current peaceful life.

But it was not.

I saw the hammer and the nail. The weapon that was being used to combat 'terrorists' who are hoping to get control of the region. This part of the world was always the economic center of this nation. And knowing this I knew that these rebels weren't just going to be quiet.

The nail that came from a satellite pierced the ground

And the hammer brought forth an explosion that could be seen on the horizon.