Danmachi: Magic Meister

Reincarnate's Begining Part 3

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I yawned as I woke up the next morning as the sun rose lazily in the sky. I glanced out my window and saw that it was barely peeking over the walls of the city. I rose out of bed and stretched as was my morning routine. Once I was done stretching, I started doing burpees to help train my body more. A routine I had kept from my last life. As I finished my morning 50 burpees, I grabbed a towel out of my dresser and headed down to the public baths, something that wasn't in the light novel or manga. As I exited my room, Hecate came out rubbing her eyes and a towel wrapped around her neck. We greeted each other before walking downstairs and heading to the public baths together.

While it was a hundred Valis per person, god or not, we entered in and separated ways. I headed over to the men's side while Hecate headed off to the women's side. I didn't know what she did over there, but for me, I started by stripping all of my clothes and handing them off to a Pallum while giving him another hundred Valis to wash and dry them. I wasn't afraid to do this because Hecate vouched for this person and because he was a part of the Ganesha Familia. While they were seen as the city's police force, they had over three hundred non-adventurers who acted as a public service force. They did all the basic maintenance and cleaning of the city. Plus, who better to learn some gossip about than the ones who people tend to forget?

Once I was done with my bath, almost thirty minutes went by. I walked out in just a towel and the same Pallum brought me my now clean clothes. I made sure I brought nothing but my towel with me and made sure there were no rips in my clothes. I gave the Pallum fifty more Valis as a thank you and we began to talk after I got dressed and I was waiting for my goddess.

The Pallum, a retired adventurer who lost his leg to a Killer Ant, was a good place for advice as well as gossip as I said before. While Bigger familias had their own private services of just someone to do basic necessities for them, the rest of us had to make do with the public services. We chatted for a bit and he gave me some pointers on my fighting style which was non-existent since I had yet to find a weapon that suited me, I took everything, even the nasty comments, as creative advice.

Soon enough, Hecate came out with her towel wrapped around her hair and her purple robes freshly cleaned; her skin glistened in the light. I bid the Pallum goodbye and we headed back to our home. Along the way, we window-shopped and made notes about the things we needed. While magic was commonplace here, Magic-tech wasn't. Most, if not, all magic was used for combat. There were very few magics that were purely for everyday things and the gods were fine with this as long as they had someone to do their chores for them.

But, alas, we were just a new familia so we had to make do with the ones open to the public.

As we made our way back to our house, we bought some apples for breakfast and some honey treats. Soon, we got home and found Demeter waiting for us at the front door. Her hand raised to knock but saw us instead. Demeter greeted us and asked us how we were. Now this was normal as she came by once a week to make sure we didn't bring the house down after she heard one of my experiments go awry. That hole I made cost over a hundred thousand Valis which we were still paying back.

But this morning was anything but normal. We noticed that she was followed by someone. I recognized the uniform she wore as the one belonging to the Hostess of Fertility. She had brown eyes, and medium-length brown hair while standing about 5 foot three. Going through my memory, I recalled her name as something Faust.

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"Hecate and Edward!" Demeter called us by name as we approached, "I was just coming by to see how you were doing and to get the rent. However, I found a member of my familia walking by and asked her to meet you guys." Demeter spoke happily and introduced her company, "Meet Lunoire Faust!"