Mercenary Systems: The Eternal Life
Chapter 20 Free Lunch

A lot of things are done over and over again, but when doing it in a place with a different atmosphere, it doesn't make this date feel boring. Sometimes just looking at the rushing stream without coming out a word from the two of us, which occasionally there will be freshwater fish jumping on the surface of the river, holding hands, while holding each other, this can make the date feel satisfying.

That's according.

To this day, I have not been able to understand Bianca. That's natural. My meeting with him hasn't even been a month, even though we've been sleeping in the same room.

Many couples who attend Valentine's Day celebrations experience significant relationship development.

He said there would be the appointment of the best couple to be awarded by the City Lord. I'm not sure how the judging system is, there might be a large group of experts who are observers of the celebration secretly.

It's not something I care about, neither is Bianca. The reason I'm with Bianca being a couple to join this celebration is just for fun. We don't do things that stand out, like dancing in a city square that can attract people or anything like that.

Since it was my first time dating, even dating ideas were just mimicking the ideas of others. Bianca once asked me to dance, but I refused without thinking.

Dance in this world, attaching the front body of the couple to do a calm movement following the music while holding each other's palms. Such is. I'm not ready to do it yet. Moreover, Bianca's body had been at the peak of its development.

The culture I know will be very different from the world. It's just that it's going to be very difficult to be able to adapt to a completely new culture. Whether even men and women who are legal to marry can sleep in the same room when neither has a marriage bond is anything but ordinary or natural, I do not yet know. I still follow the groove, observing and digesting everything that I experience does take a short time.

This is the last day of the celebration, the couples are getting more and more excited to show their bond of love. People of course have learned that tonight it will be announced who the most compatible, suitable, and have a strong relationship, to receive the award later.

Walking on the streets filled with couples who were also busy traveling to various places, I joined hands with Bianca. I have felt quite used to doing this after dating her a lot.

Midday, it's lunch time.

No need to think about the cost of paying for food bills. In the restaurant that has a sign that the place is a celebration facility, we enter it.

On the ground floor, there was no empty table. So, we went to the second floor, where there was an empty table by the window that happened to have just been left by a couple. They had finished lunch early.

Then, a servant came to us as soon as we both sat down.

"We order the best dishes here, please."

"Good, Sir. Please wait for."

I don't know what dishes are available here, there's no list either, so that's what I can tell the waitress of the diner. Bianca, on the other hand, has said that she will follow the decision I made during the first date.

When I tested her words, that I could have asked her to do something more intimate than a true lover, she did not reject it.

It was a surprising response, but I didn't take advantage of the opportunity.

Bianca, however, is eager to enjoy this celebration. Valentine's Day, where this celebration involves many couples in Lopentine City, is, there should be not a few couples who do adult activities to fill the list of activities that need to be done during the celebration even though the relationship has not been tied by the rope of marriage. By doing so, their love affair will deepen.

Order has been served, time for a meal.

As usual, Bianca moves gracefully even while eating. Until this second, I should still feel admiration for her, even I had time to think that she might just be a noble princess in disguise.

Two days ago, I was worried that these days would end, the day I would go back to living alone. After all, I had gotten used to living alone even though there was still family around me before being in this world, isolating myself from the outside world. I don't know why, I'm reluctant to end Valentine's Day.

That feeling of anxiety should be what bothers me. But, today, since I woke up from sleep, the tightness in the chest was still felt. Could this be due to Valentine's Day coming to an end?

It could be an excuse. Surprisingly, I felt that something else was bothering me.

"Why you?" bianca asked, looking at me with both of her eyebrows raised. He touched my forehead, before continuing to say, "You're sick, huh? I think we better end this early. You better get some rest."

I flinched a little because of the gentle touch of his hand.

"What's wrong. I'm fine" I smiled.

"What?"

"Your face is pale. You force yourself to smile. Look at your eyes not focusing. Your body temperature is a little higher. You're obviously sick."

This is clearly unfair. How could I be calm when Bianca looked at me gently, while both her hands held my face? Besides, his face was so close to me, that our noses would touch. And, of course, I'm not sick. I want to deny it again, but my tongue feels muddy.

After the dishes ran out, Bianca who grasped my hand, led the way towards the inn.

I walked around behind his right side. It's not bad, to feel the attention of someone other than the family. If I could return to my world, I would definitely not ignore the attention they gave me. I feel so stupid for wasting the love of my family.

During my time in this foreign place, before meeting Bianca, I could only rely on myself. It was fun, but I felt a little depressed.

Bianca's existence can make me feel more relaxed.

Staring at the chestnut brown hair covering her slender back in front of me, I felt grateful for having been reunited with her. Although, this meeting, might soon be met with a farewell.

Walking in the crowd, my gaze accidentally met a hooded man who was staring at Bianca. He smiled strangely. Also, he was not alone, there were some people with him who wore robes like the ones he wore.

Ah, it is not strange that Bianca can make anyone fascinated.

***

In the suburban section, there were many alleys filled with trash. The walls of many buildings have been cracked, some have even collapsed as well. Almost along the street corner will be found people dressed in shabbiness lying helpless.

Regardless of the stinging air and the sight wearing no eyes, a group of people were gathering. They wore shabby holes that ran up the calves or up to the ankles hanging from their height, there was a hood that covered the heads of each of them.

"I think you feel it too" said one of them, starting a conversation.

"true."

"It's not wrong, even the aura is more gripping than we usually find."

"Yes. This will be the most impressive hunt. This one is supposed to be very strong, we need to prepare a lot of things."

"But, you don't need to worry," the first person to start the conversation reached out, which on his palm was a kind of golden translucent rock. There is a carving that forms a symbol in it, which when viewed from various angles, the carving will look like you see the carving from the front. "Elder Penthaury entrusted the Rune of Angel's Touch to me before we sailed to this continent. If he's that strong, this could be the last option to conquer him."

"You surprised us, Chief."

"Who would have thought, it turns out you kept such a great item all this time without us knowing."

"Hmph! It was because Elder Penthaury knew that I was leading a group of weaklings. If you're reliable, he won't waste the Rune of Angel's Touch just hunting vampires."

"Come, Chief. Isn't that nice? We have managed to subdue some of them without using the Rune of Angel's Touch. If until the end we don't use it, we can sell it at a very high price on the black market - Gahk!"

The person who was summoned with the Chief immediately struck the upper abdomen of one of his subordinates over the words he had just heard without hesitation, making the person who received the blow strangle backward. He groaned in pain and curled up on the ground while holding his stomach that was hit hard.

His other subordinates looked stunned. Clearly, they had not expected the Chairman to go that far.

"Do you think the Rune of Angel's Touch is worth the money?!" The chairman looked at one by one his subordinates sharply. "Listen to me! If you still behave like this, you will never step forward. I'm saying this because we were once comrades in arms."

The leader sighed softly, before looking up at the sky. "After all, the Rune of Angel's Touch will soon be sure to force us to use."

At the same time, Bianca had just arrived with me at the inn. We had no idea he had been targeted by these people. Especially with the end of the date, is the breakup really going to happen?