Two hours ter
“Where finally here, so Sparrow you stop puking.”
In respoo what I say, he tinues puking. He has thrown up so much over these st two hours that a hole must have burnt through his oesophagus. Though the vomit has gradually decreased over time, his stomach is running out of ammunition. But regardless, “Let’s get going to Deno,” I say to Cyrus as we begin to walk forward.
Wheer, we see an incredibly bustling city which has the highest amount of people I have ever seen. No matter where I look; there is someone doing something different than all the rest. Uo trol myself at the site of this all, I run up and start speaking to random people.
“How are you today.”
“I didn’t know it ossible to have a stomach this big.”
“What a cute child.”
“What is this vegetable? I haven’t ever seen anything like this.”
“Is that a ship I see over there?”
“That Building in the distance is like nine Willow the 2nd tall.”
This is Deno, the port city. I am pletely enraptured by what I see until Cyrus taps me on the shoulder and says, “S-S-S-Sparrow is vomiting again.”
Instantly I say, “Who cares” while still overtaken by the sights.
“B-B-But Orb, everyone is staring at us.”
Looking around, I see the eyes of the tless people around us staring directly at us while whispering to each. Realising the situation, I calmed dowhough we have cs over our heads and Cyrus’s tail. If anyone finds out Cyrus is a dragon or that we are legacies, it will only cause problems for us, so I should keep a low profile.
“Sorry, you're right. Let us get out of here and find something for Sparrow to drink, if he burns a hole through his oesophagus we are screwed.” After I say this, we start moving through the alleys of Deno. Walking around without trying to draw attention to ourselves, we eventually make our way into a bar.
Stepping in, I am about to freak out due to excitement. But I restrain myself and then sit down with Cyrus and Sparrow. First, I order some water for Sparrow then some meat for Cyrus and me.
While sitting down, I ask Cyrus “Dons have any s when it es to eatiain foods.”
“No such things. The weak should be killed aen,” Cyrus says with a smile.
Sometimes Cyrus says some scary things. “Sorry about all the questions I ask you. I am just curious. If you have anything, you want to ask me go ahead.”
“Well, I have one.”
“Tell me then.”
“I as just wonder-e-e-ering why you seem not to know everything.”
“Huh, I don’t uand.”
“Sorry, it is just that you told m-m-m-me that you read lo-o-o-lots of books about the world, yet you seem to be sur-r-r-prized a lot.”
“I see where you are ing from. Well, Capti only wrote down things he had read or written, so I won’t know about what he experienced.
But thinking ba it, the knowledge I had read has lots of gaps in it, like I was only ever given knowledge of important locations like the port cities of Deno and and the fact that they are both ral zones.
Even the animals and pnts I learned about, other than the basies, were poisonous or dangerous. Some of the books had gaps like pages number skipped it was almost as if certain information was taken from them.”
“ould that be?”
“I believe Capti only gave me knowledge important to my survival. The rest to me to find out. I guess he didn’t want to ruin my advehough this ruins his whole idea about me knowing him the best, I guess I have to fill that gap with my own experiences.”
In the middle of our versations, our food es, which puts a giant smile on my face. As I am about to start eating, Cyrus says “You are strong Orb”, with a sombre look.
“Are you making fun of me, Cyrus? If you were to punch me in the face, my head would e off.”
“No, not in that ay,” but as Cyrus is about to speak, a hand suddenly es down oable. Looking over who did this, I see a rather ruff-looking man and his friends behind him.
“ you please tell me why your hand is on my table?”
“SPARROW, YOU BASTARD, I FINALLY FOUND YOU. Did you think you could rob me a away with your life?”
Looking over at sparrow, I hear his heart rate increase—that bastard. “Sorry about whatever he did to you, but I promise he will receive a punishment equal to his crime at my hands.
“I don’t remember talking to you brat,” the man says as he swings his hand at my face. I move my head out of the way quickly, but his hand knocks the cloak off my head.
As the man stared at my face, he said, “Well, it is my lucky day to think that you would have a legacy with you. It seems I am going to get reimbursed.”
“Hey, did you know adult males have two hundred and six bones.”
“Do you think I care.”
“Oh well, I just wao tell you that if you don’t calm down a me finish my food, a hundred and three of those bones in your body might shatter.”
The man smirks and then knocks my food away, saying, “Do think I would give a shit about the words that e out of a little girl's mouth. Maybe I should teach you some manners.” Moments after he says this, his fist es towards my face.
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Throwing sparrow out of the bar, I break one of his fingers, which causes him to scream like all the battered men ihe bar. “I expected to have a nice meal Sparrow, but it seems like you just had to ruin that for me, but still we better get a move on.”
As we are about to walk away, I take out some lupas and throw them at the unscious bodies of the men inside.
In respoo my as, Sparrow asks, “Why are you giving them money.”
“Because if you robbed them, it is my job to return that moo them. I would have given them more if they sat down and talked, but I guess stupidity had overtakeoday, and anyway they probably hat moo get someoo patch them up after the beatdown they were just given. So, Sparrow, since you our able to talk, tell me which building is the church.”
“It is the giant one in the distance.”
“The us head over there,” As we start our walk towards the rge church, I ask Sparrow, “Isn’t Deno a ral zone? I thought violence didn’t happen here.”
“Well, publicly Deno is a ral zone because all the big tries have agreed that the value of Deno and its sister city, value is too great to be lost, so violence of any sainst Deno is tantamount to deg war against said nations. But in actual practice, it essentially means that as long as you don’t specifically harm a citizen of the try, they won’t step in.
Due to this being a signifit port city, there are people from all over the world, which is like a treasure trove to bandits. And as long as they only target non-citizens, they get away free with their as.”
Hearing a scream, I ruo see a young boy getting a beating by a massive woman. But more shogly, everyone around is not doing anything. Some are just watg. “Why is everyone just watg.”
“Remember, only citizens of this city are protected, but the people with actual citizenship are the vast minority. Most people travel pletely unprotected by the ws, so attrag attention is bad. And sihis city has no peacekeeping force all the outsiders have to miheir own busio stay safe, that’s just how it is.”
When the boy starts to scream, I move my body about to jump in but holding me back Sparrow says, “Lots of people are watg if you expose the fact you’re a legacy here, it will get a bunch of people after us.”
“I have to do something because that boy will get killed if I don’t.”
But as I pull away from him, an adult man es up behind the woman iion and tapping her on her shoulder he says, “Could you stop?”
As she swings her arm at him, he dodges and then puts his shoe on her face. “Early, I stepped in poop, and I guess this is why god allowed such a thing to happen.”
The woman screams in disgust while rubbing the shit off of her face. The man then lifts the boy off the ground while saying to the woman behind him, “Why would you do such a thing?”
“That brat stole my new sword. It is one of a kind. That brat couldn’t even afford that sword if he spent the en years w.”
Pig up the sword, the man says, “Well this craftsmanship is top-notch.”
“So, as you see, I was just disciplining the child.”
“Discipline is done from the point of love to give someone pain equal to the pain they caused. What you did was simply out of anger. Utterly shameful”
The woman goes in for a pun the man, but he dodges effortlessly. When the woman starts huffing and puffing, she brings out the sword she has attached to her waist. “I am going to cut you and the other brat.”
Sighing, the man says, “Those that live by the sword will die by it. So, I have no iion of fighting here”
“Well, let’s see how you get out of this without fighting me,” she says as she swings her sword at the man and the boy.
In an instant, the man picks up the boy and dodges all her sword strikes. As he tio escape, he moves to her side and sticks his foot out, makirip and fall. “Watch your step, madam.”
She gets up and goes at him with a thrust, but he jumps up and nds his butt on her head. “Your breathing is heavy. You tired? because I go all day.”
Looking around, I notice people ughing at the fight they see right in front of them. The woman realising what is happenis progressively angrier as they tihis exge; the woman reaches for her pocket and throws a dagger which causes him to dodge left, though when he moves there, he notices she has already swung her sword in the dire he escaped. But he turns his body and dodges under her swing with his ass fag her. A moment ter, he uses the heel of his foot to knock the sword out of her hand.
“So, as you see, violence has given you a zero in value, both spiritual and physical.”
“How the hell did you dodge all my attacks like that?”
Fmboyantly the man says, “It is because I am beyond prehension” immediately after he says this, a bird flies into his temple and knocks him to the ground. Right before he nded, I hear him say, “Sod, I was tant.”
As the mao the ground, the kid on his back said, “Wake up, please.”
The woman seeing this, gets up and picks up her sword. The boy who was helped by the man also uhes his sword which is too big for him as in a defensive position, but his hands shake the eime.
As the woman swings her sword down at the boy, I rush over beside them and freeze the woman solid, saying, “You really could have just walked away.”
After I do, I hear Sparrow scream, “You idiot!” Looking up at my head, I see my c is gone. I moved so fast that it fell off.
“Praise god,” the man on the floor says as he jumps up.
Spooked by this, I scream. “It bad for a legacy like you to be out in the open like this,” so grabbing my hand and the boys, the man runs off with us. Cyrus and Sparrow follow close behind.
