Cease the Suffering - Etrian Odyssey II (BoyxBoy)

Chapter 13

AN: Finally, the chapter you’ve been waiting for, I’m sure :3 Thanks so much to SakuraiYoake and Irish_Moon_Dreamer for reviewing the last chapter. So glad that you liked it! Enjoy!

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Chapter 13:

Three days in the Labyrinth was a long time, by anyone’s standards. Truly an exhausting ordeal. But it offered them great experience that should carry over to their further explorations.

And from what Hamza had witnessed, the Second Stratum was going to need careful analysis to avoid not only the damaged floors, but FOEs one couldn’t sense until they were way too close. There might be a way to lessening one problem to deal with. The FOEs on the other hand needed very careful observation.

At least the items they had gathered should pay toward their new armour and accessories.

Stepping inside the Sitoth Trading, Hamza was greeted by the site of the owner’s young daughter studying a large book and scribbling something down on a piece of paper. She was humming to herself, a small smile on her face.

“Looking for more items to make more weapons, Miss Abigail?” Hamza greeted as he approached her.

“Oh, hello Mr Hamza,” Abigail returned the greeting, her smile brightening. “Yep, another request. Daddy wants to make a staff for that nice medic who helped him today.”

Hamza quirked an eyebrow as he placed the bag of items they had gathered onto the floor. “Medic?”

Finishing off the list with a quick signature, Abigail folded the paper carefully. “Yep! You see daddy hurt himself making a weapon and that nice medic came to his rescue,” she explained, a look of small discomfort on her face as if recalling the event vividly in her mind. “I don’t know where he came from, but I’m glad he was there to help. It looked painful.”

“Ah,” Hamza made a noise of understanding. “So you want to make a staff for him in thanks?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“So, what do you need?” Hamza asked. There was a possibility that he had already gathered the ingredients she might need. After all, no one had ventured as far into the labyrinth than he and his guild.

“Oh, you’re going to take the request?” Abigail asked, perking up with a hopeful look. She then released a light squeal of delight when Hamza nodded his head. “Yay, I hoped you would! Here’s the request. I guess there’s no point taking it to the bar, huh?”

“We’ll take care of it,” Hamza said as he took the piece of paper from her, flipping the folded piece open so he could scan the list. “By the way, what was that medic’s name?”

“Um,” Abigail hummed in thought for a long moment. “Lynus, I think.”

Hamza reeled his head back slightly in surprise. “…Really now?”

“Oh, do you know him?” Abigail asked him, her head cutely tilted to the side in question.

“I may have heard of him.”

Oh, he had certainly heard of a Lynus, who was supposedly aspiring to be a medic since he was a young child. He was the person that Axel had been searching for, for eight years. Was it possible that Axel’s childhood friend was here in Lagaard after all these years?

Hamza needed to inform Axel, but he felt slightly hesitant. What if it was just a coincidence?

“Oh, do you have new items to sell me?” Abigail suddenly asked, pulling him out of musings.