My second go at life // Orsted x oc (Mushoku Tensei)

Chapter 10

"Well!" The girl yelled at us after she had just smacked Rudeus. How do you respond to slaps? Give them a slap? But that would make them suffer.

"Why did you hit me?" Rudeus questioned her as he held his cheek.

"You're younger and talk back!" She explained.

"You like belling." I hummed, I meant yelling leave me alone.

Rudeus then slapped her back shocking everyone else. "Now, do you understand-" He's getting his face beat into the floor now.

She is the word violent.

"You will regret hitting me!" She yelled, and I pushed her off Rudeus as she only got a second punch in.

Rudeus got up and pulled me with him as he ran. I was able to hear very little of what the girl was yelling. "Mash?" I mumbled. "I like mash."

'Shush!' Rudeus yelled in his mind as we hid under a table. 'That's no young lady! She's the protagonist of a delinquent manga!'

'She's cool.' I hummed and grinned.

He looked at me horrified. 'No boyfriend or girlfriend or anything.' He demanded of me.

She appeared making Rudeus scream so loud I could actually hear him. He went running alone and she looked at me and I waved.

She tossed her hair confusing me as she walked off. 'Is she trying to be cool? She is.' I admired her as she seems to have quite a strong personality wise unlike me.

At some point, I found her complaining to Philip then she glared at me when I walked inside.

I used my wind magic since I wanted to talk to her. "I heard you can use a sword." I grinned at her.

She just flicked my forehead. "Why do you care? Are you here to look down on me to?"

"Nope. I'm looking up, but I'm trying...my best to talk and bear." I explained and she looked confused. "I'm still messing up."

"What do you mean? It's not hard to talk." She sighed. "Everyone can do it."

"I'm deaf." I explained and she froze.

"Then, how can you hear me?" She smirked thinking I'm lying.

I closed my eyes and did my best to control my wind magic around us making things move a little up. I opened my eyes to see everyone looking around amazed at how everything in the room was slightly floating. "My wind magic carries sound to me since I have very little hearing. I can still hear, but only a very tiny bit. It's kind of hard to control."

She looked to be in awe, and I tried my best to let things down, but I heard some smash and I just pretended to be deaf again.

"She's hired, he isn't." She walked off, and I think I did well.

I went with Philip to find a traumatised Rudeus. "Rude! Rude! I named the Skarlet!" I informed him.

"I know you nicknamed her." He sighed.

"Bamed!..." I just pulled his ear to make him look at me, and I signed to him the word tame.

"....Woah, well done! We did it!" Rudeus exclaimed.

"Actually..." Philip grinned. "Only Ceres is hired."

"Hawah! No." I rejected and invented a new word. "Both, package." I put my hands on my hips.

Rudeus laughed. 'Are you sure?' He asked me in his mind. 'I will hold-'

I covered his mouth. 'I will find a way to cover your mouth brain.' I informed him in my mind, and he nodded seeing I'm not going to back down.