Chapter 14

We arrived at Floor 2, Our characters materialized from the ground up as we looked around at the town. Kamdet City The town was called, It did really look more like a city rather than a town as I explored it thoroughly. "Oh Hey Kirin!!" A voice shouted from behind me as I turned around to see it was Rina.

"Oh hey Rina, how are you?"

I told her as she smiled and said "I'm doing great! I heard that you lead the second group". I looked away a bit, awkward about it still stuttering "Y-yeah, who would have thought" trying to laugh it off like how I usually did with Toru. Rina kept her smile as she held onto my wrist, I looked down at her hand and asked "Is there something I should know?" confused as she had blanked out for a second and letting go of my wrist. "E-Eh?! I-I mean yeah, There's a restaurant just over there" she pointed out as I turned my attention to the restaurant, "Oh, yeah you're right" I said as I felt a menacing glare from somewhere.

"I should have told you this earlier but there are guilds starting to form around here"

Rina said as she pointed to a group that was nearby, I looked over to see a group of four. They were all heavily decked out in red and white armor, most of them wore white while one of them wore the opposite, wearing red. "He seems to be the leader I'm guessing..." I thought to myself as the group walked past us, The mysterious man in red knight armor had passed me and we both gave each other a glare before we continued on with what we were doing.

"I don't like the look he has..."

I thought as I felt a chill down my spine, I then walked over to the restaurant with Rina following shortly after. Toru was nearby, the person who gave Kirin the menacing glare as she was leaning on a pillar and thought to herself "Who's that woman..." as she gripped onto her jacket.

We walked into the restaurant as I was amazed at the amount of detail the inside was, "Woah..." I said as I looked over and saw The Tavern Owner (Who is definitely not Agil) back on floor one running the place. "Hey, you're the Tavern owner!" I said as he looked over and chuckled saying "Well if it isn't Kirin! The man who commanded the second group of the front liners!" as I was beginning to get a little annoyed by it. "Y-Yeah sure, anyways, What are you doing here? Don't you have a Tavern to run?" I said to him as he replied "Nah, since the second floor opened most players moved up here, I need something else rather than a Tavern to run".

I smiled as I fist bumped him saying "Don't screw it up man, Goodluck on the restaurant!" as he replied "Don't mess up at the fields man! Come anytime to get food!" as I left the restaurant.

I looked at Rina who was still following behind me and I asked her "Is something on your mind?" as she blinked and looked at me with a confused face, saying "Did you say something Kirin?" as I sighed. "Rina if there's something you need to say just spit it out alright?" I told her in the nicest way possible as she looked and smiled, nodding and hugged me.

My brain shut down for a second as I looked at her hugging me, she seemed genuinely in bliss as her face had lit up a little red a bit. I felt like I was being stared at from a distance and daggers being stabbed into my back for this as I heard footsteps coming our way. I turned around as Rina looked over confused and saw Toru running our way.

"Toru?"

I said as she ran over and swept Rina off to the side saying "Me and her are gonna talk okay! Be back in a bit!" as I understood her broken English a bit as I put a thumbs up. "Hey Who are-" Rina said as Toru covered her mouth and spoke in fluent Japanese to Rina,

"Listen here... If you wanna get close to him, you're gonna have to get past me, And if you don't get past me you're not gonna get even close to him... got it..?"

Rina's fear shot up to a maximum as she nodded repeatedly, scared for her life as Toru then told her in broken English "Okay, You and me walk back, act like we were having a friendly chat, ok Rina?". Rina shedded some tears from her fear as she didn't even tell Toru her name, Toru then added on "My name is Toru, remember that..." as Toru uncovers her mouth and walks back to me with Rina.

I was waiting by the Restaurant still as I saw Toru and Rina walking back, noticing that Toru was in a really happy mood and Rina's mood seemed like it was shot down. "What happened?" I asked as Toru immediately replied "Nothing! We had a friendly talk, right?" as Toru had an innocent smile with a menacing aura behind it. Toru looked at Rina as Rina clenched her hands into a fist and ran out towards Darkwood Forest, in tears.

"Rina, wait!"

I shouted as I ran after her, Toru looked as she realized what she messed up on her little threat towards Rina. I kept running as I ran into the middle of Darkwood forest, looking around and shouting her name, "Rina!! Where are you!!" as I kept looking around. "Why would she blitz off like that.." I thought as I heard sobbing nearby, "Rina? Rina!!" I shouted as I ran towards the sobbing sounds, ending up at a tree.

"Go away..."

Rina said as she was sitting and had her face buried into her knees, I stood there and said "What did Toru say?" as Rina replied "I...I don't think...you'll understand.." as she began wiping her tears. "It's okay Rina.. What did she tell you?" I told her to try to sympathize with Rina and calm her down. She then told me about her "conversation" with Toru as I was a bit dumbfounded at the idea that she'd use a verbal threat.

"We should head back Rina, it's going to get dark soon"

I told her as she sat there, I then walked around the tree and kneeled down to her. I put my hand out to her and said "C'mon, I can't have you dying on me out here now can I?" as she looked at my hand with her tearful eyes, she wiped her tears that lifted up her glasses as she said "J-Just this once..." as she grabbed onto my hand and I lifted her back onto her feet.