Perfected Tempest

79. Returning Memories Pt. 2

Kirara Mizutani's POV

After I started to live in Tempest I finally realized that this is an actual real place and not some dream like I originally thought. I then remembered that I had killed people when I first came to this world and it stuck with me for quite some time. I started to even think I should eventually drink myself to death if possible.

I even almost did till Fluffy came and started to talk to me. No, even before that with his weekly comedy shows he did for everyone at the bar. His jokes kept me going strong once I was out of prison as a war criminal of Tempest. They are a pretty popular place for people to go, especially otherworlders like me. I wish that Shogo and that slit eyed pervert could have survived so they could have scene all this. But their personalities would have never meshed well with everyone else here.

They were too violent to be willing to work with monsters especially. I however was shown mercy and given the choice to live here or go back to Falmuth. I obviously chose here since it more closely resembles my old world I came from. It still doesn't have everything but from what I've heard we'll be getting there eventually. At least that's what Fluffy has told me. I still remember my first meeting with him I ever had.

I had just been recently been released from my cell and give the chance to decide what I wanted to do now that I wasn't forced to fight. I first tried walking around Tempest and some of the Hobgoblins still showed some fear of me, after all I did try to kill them but not as many as I thought. Eventually I realized that this was reality and sat in an alleyway to process all I had done till then.

A minute turned to an hour which turned into almost a full day. Only when my stomach started to hurt of hunger did I realize how long it had been. I then looked around only to find him sitting next to me with a clear jar in his hand. He didn't even seem to care I was there at all.

Turning to him I try to decide how to start a conversation but couldn't get any words out. Instead he started it for me.

Fluffy- "Glug glug. Hah. Want something to drink then? You've been sitting next to me all day after all and don't seem certain of anything right now."

Kirara- "Um. Uh. What is it?"

Fluffy- "Oh this stuff is my home made Sprite. You know like the soda. Ah who am I kidding, no one here gets my reference usually anymore."

Kirara- "Wait you know how to make soda?! C-can I perhaps try some of it."

Fluffy- "You sure? You seem oddly trusting of someone you've just meet. Especially since you clearly didn't even know I was here when you first sat here."

Kirara- "Well not the one you're currently drinking of course but a different one if you don't mind?"

Soda from home is something I dearly missed. I doubt it will be as good or even taste similar but even if it's a small amount I'll prefer it over nothing.

Fluffy- "Well alright then. Since you're so trusting I'll even show you how to make it yourself. Then you can have it anytime you want to. Though you'll still need to get the materials or money to buy the materials in question."

Kirara- "I-I have nothing. No money. No skills. Not even good looks. Not here at least. I realize that recently after all. Sorry, it seems I can't have that soda of yours then."

Fluffy- "What? No skills at all? What kind of people raised you then. Surely you can at the very least handle picking rocks up and moving them somewhere else. Something at the very least. Maybe even possibly know how to read and write? Those are valuable skills here. After all most monsters can't do such a simple thing or don't want to."