12 Flowers || Abyss! Aether

││9TH FLOWER۞

Because you promise to help out lumine with the situation of the inazuma.

Even through You dont want be included in the mess of the region but you don't want to be rude to the sister of the prince. It felt like your betraying Aether if you aren't helping out his sister.

But you only did push to agree as the situation don't have connection with the abyss plans. So you aren't blocking the plans of the prince.

"Lumine... Do I really need to meet your new friends?" You ask the traveler who is holding your hand to drag you to a meeting spot with alias of the resistance. You dont want to talk to new people. You still have bad communicating with people of the upper world.

They are different class of people, than you. unless they really gain some trust to be able to take you out of your shell, you refuse to start an awkward chatter.

"Your kinda of a loner. You need some friends. Paimon suggested this." The flying child says as the three of you arrive in a tea house.

You froze when you hear paimon called you a loner.

She don't have ill intension but want to have you communicate with other people since she and lumine notice how you always stayed away from the crowed and just stare from the distance when there's something is being chatted.

Yet it felt like it's a sting on your heart. It's not like you disliked having friends or talk to people.

You can't start or continue the conversation because you don't know anything worth talking about.

The words of the flying child bothers you for a while, as your introduce to the noble girl Ayaka, you only stared at her in silent.

She awkwardly tap lumine and question what's wrong with you, but the traveler don't even know what's up with you. Since there's a topic about the resistance that the group have began to chat about and you just seat in the corner listening to what they are to say. The day ended with paimon falling her plan of making you communicate with someone, you went on your way to a domain to rest for the night even so, lumine invite you to stay at her pot.

You seat in the corner, questioning about stuff. You don't even notice someone is approaching you till it's blocked by purple shield, an ability of your electro vision. It's something you learn how to use since you always have to deal with a certain annoying abyss mage all the time.

"What....oh it's you.." you felt a sigh of relief since you can at least chat to an annoying simp than normal people.

"You wanna tell me what's up with abyss? Any news of the prince?" You slowly approach the abyss mage who curse to themselve of not able to land a hit on you.

"Silly human, of course not! Hmmp. That stupid shield of yours always in the way...!" The simp swing his wand around. Summoning fire to blast you but you just stood there with a shield on.

"... Do you have food on you?" You hear your stomach grumble for food. You take out a water bottle and is about to spray some to the simp if he were to have some food on him, you will result to violence to get it. Since you discovered his bad with water.

"GAHHHHHH STUPID HUMAN, STAY AWAY FROM MEEEEE!!!" seeing that you are holding a weapon that is his weakness, the abyss mage run away from you. But you still want to extort him.

You chase the simp around and manage to get the lunch box meant for you and a crying abyss mage tied in the wall Seats a few step away from you. His surrounded with water, so he can't move either way.

While eating the food, you thought about what paimon says again and can't help but ask the only person you communicate at least more than other people from the upper world, through it's haft bullying the weaker one (spoiler: it's him who's weak)