The Reincarnators
chapter 7: a gift to Katia

Kazuto then retreated when he found out his attack was unsuccessful even though he added magic to speed up his movements, 'my ability is not budging at all, how should I defeat him,' thought kazuto who continued to attack the knight just to be fended off easily by him.

"What's up, ? Don't tell me you've given up, let's continue this fight, you still haven't shown your ability" he explained.

"Damn, I can't win," sighed kazuto who showed his frustration, but when he realized something from the man's words, 'from the beginning of this test it wasn't to win the fight, but to test us because that's why our opponent is on a different level, ' thought kazuto who was embarrassed at the time because he only thought about winning the game after seeing his friend humiliated, the reason why this test was held was to look at the ability of the would-be adventurer in terms of ability and make a decision because of that kazuto made the horses where at that time he concentrated his mana in his body for attacks that, his opponent himself felt a different aura from kazuto and his expression became more serious.

Kazuto then launched himself faster than before and he swung his sword at him, the man smiled and used his strength to resist the kazuto attack but when that he was shocked when the attack he received was much stronger than before, he knew how big of an attack the kazuto had after their fight and he had already approximated how much power he had when adding it to the momentum from the speed of his magic use, he said, therefore he was surprised if the sword he was holding by adding his strength broke.

"There was enough of a winner from this match, kazuto yuki," said the judge who stopped the match, the man then walked towards the kazuto to congratulate him.

"Welcome you break my sword, this is my defeat" he said, to a swordsman, their sword is his life if the sword of the swordsman is broken then it is the same as losing.

"Alright, participants please come here to get class rank," he said, giving his class rank to kazuto.

After the class, Kazuto and Katia go to the reception room to receive their cards, "well, your registration is done, congratulations on being adventurous," he said that gave kazuto and katia their adventurer cards.

"Yay, we managed to kazuto," cried Katia who hugged kazuto while kazuto himself just returned his embrace.

"You can start taking your mission tomorrow morning, well good afternoon and have a good day" he said, leaving behind kazuto and katia.

After that they went to their homes to prepare themselves, then Kazuto himself saw his rank card and written if his current rank is class C it is 2 ranks from the lower class that is class E, class E, he also had time to see the rank of katia and he was not surprised if the rank was below it, from the fight that kazuto showed could conclude if katia had no combat experience at all, therefore when he fought for the first time his movements became stiff and he was unable to make the right decision, he kept thinking about it until dinner arrived.

"Kazuto, what you've daydreamed of earlier, let's eat" said Leon who ate his meal.

"Yes, uncle leon sorry, uncle may I ask you something, ?" Kazuto asked leon.

"Hm, what is it," said Leon.

"How to comfort a sad girl, ?" Kazuto asked leon.

"Hm, it's quite difficult, if you intend to entertain someone then give him something like a gift or something like that" said Leon who got the nod from kazuto.

In the morning Kazuto quickly went to the guild to do some missions alone to buy a gift to katia to make her cheerful again, he was currently on a board containing missions and was thinking about which mission he would choose, 'this mission should be completed quickly and make enough money to buy a reward,' thought kazuto who when he saw something that caught his attention, "this sheet, I think I can do that," kazuto said that handed the sheet to the receptionist and finally he went towards the house of one of the nobles in the capital.

"Sorry what's your need with earl pendradrum, ?" Asked one of the guards at the earl pendradum residence.

"I'm on a mission given by ren pendradrum" said Kazuto, who got the nod from the guard and let him in and took him to the training room where the ren pendradrum was.

"I'm sorry for interrupting your time young master, but there's an adventurous yan-" said the guard but before he finished his sentence he raised his hand, "let him in," he said.

"So you're the one who accepted my request, ?" Ren asked who looked at Kazuto's body shape, and as far as he could see he wasn't too impressed.

"Yes, I came to be your opponent" said Kazuto who looked at ren pendradrum, he had short black hair wearing a white severed suit with black trousers.

"So yeah, then let's start," he said as he tried to hit Kazuto's face only to be held back by him, "heh, good reflexes," he said that when pulling his legs back belongs to Kazuto and trying to knock him down, but before succeeding kazuto released his grip and saltoed back and hit ren only to be avoided by him, ren then kicked the kazuto where he held him by his wrist, which made him move several meters from where he was standing.

"Hm, you're not bad, not bad at all, but I think that's enough of a warm-up," said Ren who then brought up some sort of white gautlet in both hands, "now let's start the fight," said ren who shot towards kazuto, while kazuto himself raised his sword and also darted towards ren.

Slash, punch, slash, punch,

Just that the sound was heard from their fight, kazuto used reinforcement magic to accelerate and surpass ren and slash him, whereas ren himself used his gautlet to withstand every kazuto attack, instead, honestly, Kazuto quite enjoyed their battle practice, but at the moment he did not have time to play around, he had to finish this fight immediately.

"I'm sorry, but this fight will be over soon" Kazuto said to ren, whose body was fed by the blue lightning, "lightning shockwave," yelled Kazuto who when the lightning that flowed in his body moved and housed at one point that was his sword and slashed it to ren who was trying to hold it with his gautlet, but he was unable and in the end he was hit by a wave of lightning from the kazuto attack causing him to be unable to stand and kazuto came out as the winner.

"I won," said Kazuto to ren who lay on the ground and looked at the kazuto who was still standing, "can you get up, ?" It was her question that reached out her hand, whereas ren himself just smiled and grabbed her hand.

"Sure, after all for that reason I came here," said Kazuto who was happy and shook ren's hand, now he just had to buy the gift and give it to katia so that she would cheer up again.

"Well this is your reward this time, just think of it as a bonus," said ren who gave a gold coin to kazuto, "by the way I have not introduced myself my name is ren pendradrum happy to meet you," he said he stuck his hand out to Kazuto.

"Kazuto yuki is happy to meet you," said Kazuto who shook hands with ren and after that he came out of the earl residence and oergi to the store where he would buy a teddy bear that might be able to entertain katia, until he saw something that caught his attention.

"We don't sell drugs for free, get out of here, you interrupt my shop" he said, kicking a child out of his shop.

"Please uncle, my mother needs the medicine, please sell it to me," she whispered as she pleaded with the store owner.

"Do you want to lose huh, get out of my shop quickly" said he who finally took a broom and kicked the little girl out of her shop.

Kazuto himself saw the scene doing something and he walked into the store, asking the uncle who sold the medicine the girl was looking for, "excuse me but may I ask you something, ?" Kazuto said to the shop owner.

"Oh, welcome, sorry for the inconvenience, then what do you want to ask" said the store owner.

"How much medicine did the child want to buy, ?" Asked Kazuto who was still a little angry with what he saw earlier, to be honest if he was given a choice then he would not be willing to set foot in this kind of shop, a shop that does not want to help people who need help.

"Do you intend to buy the medicine, yes well it's worth 1 piece of gold coin," the seller told kazuto, he himself was surprised because it was the amount of money he had now, after all, this money was supposed to be used to buy a gift for katia, but still Kazuto gave his money to buy the medicine and look for the running child, he said, until he heard the sound of a child crying in a hallway.

"Sorry mom, I can't get the cure ma'am" said she, crying on her mother's lap, while her mother simply stroked her son to try to comfort her, but it failed when her mother started coughing and bleeding from her mouth, "mom don't die," she said, growing weeping unaware of the figure of the person approaching her and stroking her head.

"Sister," said he who saw Kazuto giving him something in a box, he opened it and was surprised to see the medicine he wanted to buy was bought by kazuto.

"Hurry give it to your mother" said Kazuto who patted the little girl's back to immediately give the medicine to his mother, his own mother took the medicine and instantly his body improved, her originally pale skin had now turned normal, and at that moment the mother tried to stand up and thank Kazuto, after that, Kazuto left the mother and child until the little boy came to Kazuto and gave him an origami in the form of a rose, kazuto accepted it and waved goodbye to the couple's son and mother.

And finally he had nothing to give to Katia as a gift, he saw the origami rose he got from the girl he helped, and he felt that if Katia was in the same place as leon then he was sure that he would do the same, "hey kazuto what are you doing there, ?" ask a woman with a voice she knows well.

"k-katia what are you doing here, ?" ask Kazuto who tried to make excuses and hide the origami flowers he got from the girl earlier.

"it's not like we've promised to gather in the guild to do our first mission" said Katia, who felt sad that Kazuto had forgotten his promise, but when he realized something strange about kazuto, "kazuto is there something you're hiding, ?" tanya katia who refers to something that kazuto hid behind his back.

"yes, this is not something interesting really, you don't have to worry about it" said kazuto in an unlikely tone to make katia believe and then Katia looked at kazuto with a creepy look.

"kazuto show me what you're hiding" Katia told kazuto, who was still trying to resist, "now," katia orders and with it kazuto also shows the rose origami he got from the girl he saved.

"oh, origami flowers yes," said katia who saw the origami flower held by the kazuto, kazuto is honest with Katia and tells her the truth from the beginning he searches for a mission until his meeting with the girl who gave him the origami flower.

"pffh, hahahahahah, geez kazuto, hahahah" said Katia who held her stomach while laughing at what her friend was doing, to be honest he found it quite funny when his friend actually tried to console him to the point of fighting against an earl's son.

"hm, by the way you intend to give it to me yes, you are very sweet," said Katia who tried to disturb kazuto.

"yes, I can't be silent if I know my friend is sad, right" replied Kazuto, who made Katia red and turned her face away.

"yes you know kazuto, about the gift you said earlier, you can do it for me," asked Katia who pointed towards the origami flower that Kazuto was holding.

"uh, this is but this," said Kazuto, "doesn't it matter, ?" asked the embarrassed Kazuto to give a present like this to the daughter of a duke.

"it's okay, the most important thing is your intention and for that I'm very happy," said Katia who was smiling and the wind blew and exhaled their hair.

"i think we're doing our first mission tomorrow, after all you've been fighting someone and you've managed to give a present to a girl you're worried about, too," said Katia who was then running towards her house, "then until tomorrow kazuto," said Katia who waved her hand and ran immediately to return to her residence, kazuto goes to Leon's house to rest and learn more about magic.

"hehe, a gift from leon, lucky me," said Katia who lay on her bed holding an origami rose from leon.