New Fantasy

Chapter 5 : The Grand

Hey, hey, hang on," I said to Angel. "Chill, what's going on?" I asked Chill.

"I don’t understand. After she recited the spell, she then passed out", Chill replied.

"I'm afraid something bad happens, so we should hurry", I put the item down to Strag.

There are 'Ivy Bracer', ether, and 500 gill. Then me and Chill went on the way, while Angel was taken by Chill who turned into a horse.

"Her condition doesn’t look too bad," Chill told me on the sidelines.

"What do you mean?" I asked.
"From what I feel, it didn’t seem that she was physically wounded anywhere," Chill replied. "And she feels healthy", he continued.

After that, we ran faster with silence.

Some time passed, not felt we finally arrived at the end of this pretty thick forest. Out of the forest, there was a fairly large savanna field. On one side of it looks a collection of trees that are quite suspicious.

The tree collection looks quite wide. Strange in this savannas there is forest again. Suspicious, I took Chill there.

We run around in this field as fast as we can. Chill said that Angel is getting lonely. I'm hoping that something suspicious is going to work.

Upon our arrival at the place, I felt a magical thing coming from within this place. The trees look very solid. There is no room for humans or animals.

"Hey, Sam. Looks like this doesn’t fit your expectations", Chill told me.

I tried to stare at the surface of one of the trees. 'It's weird ', I thought. I hold another tree.

"What's the matter?" Chill asked. "We'd better look for a village, Angel gets weak".

"Look at it. When the tree I touch, there is a distance between my hands and the surface of the tree ", I showed it to Chill.

"Well, you're right", he said in amazement.

"Hmm ...", I’m thinking. Maybe this is something that only some people can do. I want to try something.

I grabbed Angel's hand.
"What are you doing?" Chill asked.

"Just look," I replied.
After that I put his hand on one of the trees. At first nothing happened. But after a while, there was something hollow.

Over time the tree turned into a pillar. Written over 'Welcome'. But between the pillars stands a brown iron gate.

'As I expected', I thought pleased.
 Knock, knock, knock. I knocked on the gate. After a short wait, the gate opened itself and there were people in the cloak. Some are black, white, red, gray, blue, and others. They all looked surprised at our arrival.

"Ha-How is it possible !!", someone speaks loudly enough.
"Hmm? What is it possible? ", I wondered at their behavior.

"Oh yes," I remembered Angel's weakening presence.

"Hey! Can you cure this girl? "I asked them again.

There was a pause ... It was as if they were still surprised by our arrival.

"Hey .. come on" I pleaded.
Having said that, a woman from the crowd approached us near the gate. She was in her forties with dark pink hair tied to a horse. She was wearing a red robe that covered her formal dress.

"Hmph, come with me", the woman spoke to us. Me and Chill followed the woman from behind. While people let us pass without any protests.

"Never mind this ! Do your activity!", The woman shouted. Surprisingly, the people around him even obeyed.

"Don’t care about them," the woman said. "Looks like you guys are in trouble", she continued.

"Well, you're very kind to take us," I said.

 "Don’t take it wrong. I hate humans. I'm just interested in your ability to enter this place ", she said.

"Huh, what is this place?" I asked.
"You ask a lot. I'll explain it in my house , let's go in ", without realizing we were in front of a wooden fence with a large yard. We stepped inside.

"Whoa", I'm quite amazed at what I see. The shelf rack is full of books that seem to be about magic and magic potions. In other places there are also cabinets containing herb concoction equipment.

"Put her here", after she had told him, Chill put Angel on the bed.
"Hey, can you cure it?" I asked.
"Huh? Cure what? She even looks healthy ".

"So-", I said cut.
"She just lost a lot of mana. You may not know, which is an energy that is in every human being. But almost all humans can’t use it well. Only witches can use it effectively and this girl seems to be a wizard, "she explained at length.

"Whatever you say, which is important for Angel back to health", I don’t really care about the explanation.

"All right, all right. She only needs one-no, maybe three ether bottles for the whole thing, "she said.

"Ether?", As usual, I don’t know anything.

"I'm the one who will buy it. Get your money out of strag, Sam! ", Chill seems to know what an ether is and I give him 800 gill and he goes straight away.

"Now we just have to wait for that creature," the woman said.
"Oh yeah, I haven’t introduced myself, my name is Samuel Dragonheart. And this girl named Angel Drecken, how about you? ", I spoke.

"W-What ?!", she looked surprised and dawdled for a moment. Then she seemed to regain consciousness, "E-Ehem, y-you don’t need to know my name, kid. Just call me Grand".

"Okay then Grand," I said.
"Oh yeah, do you know about dra-", somehow my words are always cut off. From the direction of the door appeared, Chill looked tired and held two ether bottles.

"Whoa, you're so fast", I say in amazement.

"Hey, I asked for three bottles of ether instead of two," Grand said.
"Damn it! A bottle of ether cost 300 gill and Sam only gave 800, so I just bought two bottles ", Chill explains.

"Then this girl will only get two-thirds of her full cost," Grand said.

I picked up one of the bottles Chill was holding, "Looks like I've seen it before. Hmm ".

"Oh!", I was reminded of the item being dropped by a spiraling monster. Then I call the ether of the strag, "Plus with this, we have three ether".

"Then I'll give it to this kid," Grand said.

"Hey, her name is Angel", I reminded her.
"Whatever."

After that, Grand poured the three ether liquid into Angel's mouth in turn. The effect comes after waiting for a minute, Angel's face bright again and her skin is not pale anymore.

Then Angel opened her eyes and said, "W-Why do you all see me like that?".