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Chapter 5

Steve was sitting across Hajime, with a grim expression as Hajime blinked with a deadpan.

"Come on, what's the matter?" asked Hajime, annoyed.

"Your hand... I'm sorry for being late..." Steve muttered as Hajime punched him with his right hand.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP BASTARD! IT'S NOT YOUR FUCKING FAULT, SO STOP SULKING!" yelled Hajime as Steve nursed his wound of Hajime's punch.

"Damn, you fucking hit like a truck..." he said as Hajime shrugged.

"The effects of holy water I guess... so now you're this God's champion? The Chosen One? Harry Potter?" Hajime asked while Steve's eyes twitched at the joke.

"Yeah," he replied expecting a bad joke incoming.

"Hmm... You're a wizard, Harry," Hajime said doing his best Hagrid impression, which sucked ass.

"That was shit. You tried Hagrid, you ended up sounding like Gollum. Anyways, that's the gist of it," Steve said taking a bite of the Bear meat.

A few hours earlier, Steve had just entered Hajime's cave, where he was lying on the ground. After getting him out, Hajime took it upon himself to first hunt a wolf-like monster, which then he and Steve proceeded to eat, and nearly die, surviving thanks to the Holy Water, getting his hair turn white, and earning shit tons of stats.

For some reason, Hajime gained the monster's skills, but Steve didn't, as he remembered Gabriel telling him she gave Hajime some buffs too.

Hajime then proceeded to appraise things in the surroundings and discovered Combustion Stone.

"WE CAN MAKE GUNS WITH THESE!" both Steve and Hajime yelled at the same time. They looked at each other for a moment, before yelling "Jinx" at the same time too.

"STOP COPYING ME!" they yelled, well, again.

"SERIOUSLY! STOP!"

They then burst out laughing, before Hajime started to focus on his Synergy skill.

On the fourth attempt, he was able to make a gun that worked pretty well.

"I guess all that training you made me go through came in handy," Hajime said, examining the weapon, before turning to Steve, who had a small smile and a proud look.

"Geez, you look like an old geezer teacher," he muttered with a small blush.

"Eh, I mean as your trainer, I am allowed to feel proud of my student's achievements, aren't I?" Steve said with a smug grin.

"We don't even know if it works well," Hajime muttered, though smiling.

Steve picked a bullet as a magic circle appeared on his hand.

"Enchant: Pierce 1. Enchant: Explode 0.5," he said as the circle glowed before disappearing.

He then gave the bullet to Hajime who stared at it with intrigue.

"Shall we test it out on the thing that did that to your arm?"

Long story short, it worked pretty well. A little too well. The bear had a large hole, with a quarter of his head missing, including his right eye.

And now here they were, barbequing its meat.

"So... I'm gonna have to stay..." Steve told Hajime who sighed.

" I know"

"And you want to go back home as soon as possible. So I guess... we gotta part ways..." Steve said with a little sadness in his voice as Hajime sighed in annoyance.