Dragon's Sin in the World of Danmachi

Chapter 26 : Crozzo

Bell with a dumb smile on his face was waiting by the fountain where they arranged his meeting with Eina. The reason why Bell is so jovial instead of being his usual shy self is because at the moment all he thought about is diving into the dungeon, testing how much he improved and finally getting his own set of gear.

Just 30 minutes before their designated meeting time, Eina showed up, the moment she appeared on Bell's line of sight, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, she was wearing a dress, one that looks like one would wear when going on a date, a complete contrast to her usual guild attire. 

Bell blushed when looking at Eina and without thinking he uttered "Beautiful" under his breath. Eina managed to hear this and giggled in response and said "I was trying to get here as early as possible and surprise you, looks like you got ahead of me, don't tell me you're that excited on getting on a date with a 'cute' girl".

Eina is usually embarrassed at the subject of romance but seeing Bell's reaction, she couldn't help but tease him for it.

Bell was flustered by this and just said "um um um um", Bell couldn't form his words because Meliodas kept teasing him earlier about the 'date' but Bell tried to keep his composure and just convinced himself that Eina was just being professional and now that Eina was doing the same thing, his brain just overloaded.

Eina was amused by this reaction and grabbed Bell's hand, the latter yelped at her actions but Eina said "Don't you have anything to say?" while she stared at Bell with a look that says 'compliment me' even though he just complimented her earlier but she wanted to push her luck. Fortunately Bell picked up on this and gave his take and complimented her appearance.

Eina was satisfied by this, then they walked together side by side, had some small conversation as Bell tried to keep his composure from all of Eina's teasing and headed towards Babel.

Bell was hesitant and surprised that they were going to the prestigious shops on the various floors of Babel and told Eina he possibly couldn't afford any of the equipment there, he had a false notion that only the elites and the richest could possibly go there. But Eina explained his misunderstanding that there are even shops that can serve regular people.

Bell was skeptical at her claims and had a face of disbelief, seeing weapons on display that costs millions of valis but he immediately discarded those thoughts when they went on an elevator to go to a different floor and saw weapons within his price range. 

"Well what do you think?" Eina says

"Hmm, I think I prefer light armor" Bell says

Right now they were perusing different shops and equipments to find the things that were suited for Bell.

It wasn't until Bell bumped into a red haired man that he snapped out of his thoughts when the various sounds of metal crashed down on the floor and the red haired man himself fell on the floor. With Bell's level 2 status, there was no way he would fall over and mostly remained unaffected and with the man being only level 1, so this was an expected result.

"Hey man, careful where you're going!" The red hair man says with a tone of frustration.

"Sorry, here let me help you" Bell says while extending his arm.

Seeing the apologetic look on his face that was sincere, the red haired man's frustration waned almost completely.

"Jeez, you adventurers" The red haired man says, while accepting Bell's hand to get back up on his feet.

Eina was off unto a different shop, they split off a while ago to assist Bell in finding some equipment, so she never got to see this event unfold.