Chapter 14: Meeting in the road.
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I've bought the Minerals that I needed... I also brought extra Mithril. Because I need to make a necklace out of it... It's going to be a waste if I don't make a Necklace from the Sea Dragon Mana Stone...
And now that the Minerals is all in Rhea Absolut. I have a lot of free time before I need to fly away... I have one goal. To meet whoever have been appearing in my dream... It disturb me to the point that I want to meet her...
Childhood Friend... That's the only clue that I have... Along with Praying... So, if I want to search for her. I need to go to where the place I started praying... The Orphanage.
The Burned out Orphanage... Way on the West side of Engineas... In the Forest of Engineas... It's a thirty minutes walk from the west gate of Engineas...
And after Twenty minutes of walks... You enter the remains of the Forest. The Burned out tree that is on the ground... The ground that has no grass even after all of this years...
Eventually... The burned out building of the Orphanage can be seen... It's still standing. The remains of the Once my Home...
"... What am I doing here? There's no way that I can find anything useful in here..."
The reason why I survived this fire... I think is because at that time... I'm on the back garden of the Orphanage... Planting food...
While suddenly, the kitchen was caught on fire... The Orphanage... Is overgrown with weed and vines... So it's fast to catch...
During that time... The Nurses of the Orphanage scream to me to run away as far as I could... So I did. I run even deeper to the west side of the forest... I don't know how long I Run... But the moment I realize that I have no way back to the City... That's when I'm fucked... The forest was burning bright for three weeks before enough manpower stop the fire...
"Nothing really left other than the remains of this Orphanage huh..."
Well, I thought so... There ain't no way that anything would survive that fire... It's three weeks long... Never once do I come back here... After running... I eventually go to the Village near far away from the City... In there... I do everything I could to get money... Attending livestock. Cleaning Houses.
Haaah... It brings back a lot of Painful memories that I buried away...
But... One thing for sure... When I was little... This Girl with me... She's really caring... I WANT to meet her once again... I don't care about anything other than that...
Please God... Let me meet her once more... At least... Let me remember her name. She's my savior when I'm thrown to the Orphanage... Even before that...
I go to the backyard of the Orphanage and spend about fifteen minutes sitting there...
And then... After a bit more time... I go back to the front of the Orphanage... And there... I see a bag of flowers, and also... A Plate of Noodles and meat.
And then... A bit of memories come back...
"Hey Hey Alfredo!!! Try this dish that I make!"
"Eh? W-What is this! It looks expensive!"
"Nyehehe~ This is Mashura Specials! Sweet Noodles and Spicy Chicken!"
!!! H-Huh?! W-Why am I crying?!
N-No... There's no way... S-She? M-Mashura?!
I wipe my tears off as soon as possible and then run down the road back toward Engineas... Fifteen minutes ago, there's nothing there... If... IF Mashura... Really come... She shouldn't have gone that far!
Please... Please God... Let me catch up to her!!! I'm sorry... I'm Sorry Mashura! I'm Sorry to leave you alone all this time! I'm sorry to make you think I'm gone for good! I'm sorry!!! PLEASE!!! LET ME SEE YOUR FACE ONCE AGAIN!!!
I run as fast as I could... And finally... I see a figure of Lady that look... Pretty cool and calm and collected... Sitting beneath a lush tree while eating the same dish that I saw on the Orphanage...
She notice my present and then stare at me... She wonders who I am and where did I came from... And then... I immediately muttered.
"Mashura?"
"... Yes? That's my name... Who are you and how do you know my Name?"
That cool voice stab my heart... You've changed a lot huh... I'm sorry that I forget about you and left you alone...
"Thank god you're still in this City... It's me... Alfredo Hagane..."
The moment I say my name... Mashura stopped slurping her noodles... She cut it off, which is not something someone like her would do... Knowing that she likes to eat a lot... It seems like nothing was different...
"Alfredo... Hagane you say?"
"Yup. How have you been? I'm sorry that I never reach out to you again."
She tears up and then leap toward me... She hug me tight using all her limbs... Her tears flows down like a river straight to my neck...
"You're alive still..."
"Yup... I'm still alive... Thank the Nurses for that..."
"H-How you never contacted me? I've been thinking all this time that you're dead! I'm always hoping that you're alive!"
"W-Well... The reason being... Uuuh... Etto..."
Mashura stopped crying or talking... Her hug becomes more tight... I can feel all of her body... Oh no.... My face is heating up... She's grown to this beautiful lady!!! And an Older Lady is my type!!! What the hell Mashura!!!
"Don't tell me... You forget your own Childhood Friend? Alfredo. I've been there for you ever since you're born. How can you forget me? Even in the Orphanage. I always visit you and bring you out to play."
"It's a shame to say Mashura... But I did forget you... If you want to punish me... Please do it... I'm fully ashamed that I forget about the single most valuable person in my life..."
Mashura look at me straight eyes to eyes... She pouted cutely... Her cool face is definitely improved her cute attitude...
"i***t!!!"
She slam her forehead to mine and then we both fall down to the ground...
"Well... I'm truly sorry... But lately... I've been having a dream about someone... A Little Girl... I figure that it was you... But I have no idea until just now... Because when I come out of the Orphanage... I see a Plate of Noodles... And the memories flows back in... I remember your Name because you usually call your noodles Mashura Specials."
I tell her the honest answer.... She smiled softly toward me and then lay down on my chest...
Mashura... Has grown so beautifully... She hit her Growth Spurts really hard huh... Well, she's older than me though... She's at least 180 Centimeters because I'm 180 Centimeters. And we're standing shoulder to Shoulder....
"You know Alfredo... I still... Have nightmares about you burning in the Orphanage... It haunts me till this day knowing the fact... I'm not there dying in the fire with you..."
I pat her head... Trying to calm her down... And it's working... I put my hand on her back and then said...
"Hey Mashura... You want to go with me?"
"... Eh?"
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