“You smell different. Or should I say familiar?” He spoke as he looked at me cautiously. While I turned around and looked at him directly in the eyes.
“Apologies. I like women only.” I bowed politely as I then started turning around, but he appeared in front of me within a blink. Standing there with his arms crossed, he observed me once again.
And then, walking a bit closer, he started smelling me a few more times before he spoke,
“It’s familiar, but where? Hey, human. Have we met before?”
“I would surely remember someone who tried to smell me, don’t you think?” I tried to bring common sense here, wondering who he was. But to be honest, he wasn’t the only one having this familiar sensation.
“Strange. Forget it. Tell me, what did you tell that magical girl?” he demanded the same thing as the others and I narrated the whole story, hiding nothing one more time.
He nodded before asking,
“You are strong, aren’t you? It was a bit troublesome for me to break through her magic charm, but you, it didn’t have any effect whatsoever. You even fooled her.”
He was genuinely impressed with me while I chuckled lightly,
“You noticed, huh?”
“I am just… a little different,” he answered me with a deep sigh.
“I am here to meet my brother. Though for some reason, I can’t contact him anymore… It’s been a rough journey for me. What about you?” I asked as I lied. He then pondered before speaking.
“It’s… nothing,” he decided to not tell me anything before walking away from here.
“You are nice, human. I will remember not to kill you in the end,” he spoke before vanishing from here.
“Weird,” I mumbled before I waited for a few more minutes.
‘Been one strange thing after another. Won’t be surprised if another one appears,’ I thought as I scanned for more people around. Unfortunately, there were none that appeared even after waiting for 10 more minutes.
And then I walked out of the alley, one step at a time, while my eyes kept a close look on the surroundings. I pondered about the 5 visitors of the city that I had my encounter with right now.
“Let’s start by asking around first.” I thought of something. If we are going to play ‘I am searching for my brother’ anyway. Then let’s go with it for now. Who knows what we might find?
Walking out of the alley, I found myself back in the same market where I was before. And from there, I reached the closest shop with fewer customers than others. Reaching there, I began asking for my brother that I was searching for.
As for the description, obviously it was of ‘Adam’, my real appearance.
‘It is bound to bounce back at me if my guess is right. But for that, we need patience. Quite a lot of patience,’ I thought a bit of something while I kept looking around.
Since people will search for Adam because of that foresight, it should definitely pique their curiosity if Adam’s brother is searching for him too. Thinking about what the seeds planted today will bring later, it was hard to contain my smile.
-Whoosh!
‘Hmmm?’ I looked at someone running at a fast pace away from a bunch of guards. An orange haired boy with a bag of apples in his hand. He was fast for his age, enough to leave the guards in the dust behind while he vanished from their sight.
Walking towards the guards, I tried listening to their conversation. It probably wasn’t anything important, but oh well, it’s not like I lack time or anything.
“Bunch of rats! There is just no end to them,” one of the guards grumped.
“Forget it. It’s not like they are gonna live long, anyway,” another one spoke with a slightly cold smile on his face.
“A few more days, I guess?” The third one spoke and the other two nodded, before they smiled a little evilly.
I observed them from a distance, wondering what they could mean. Seems sinister, but I don’t wanna jump to conclusions.
“Hey,” a hushed voice came from my right as I saw a young lady holding my hand and speaking,” what are you doing? Come with me before they notice you.”
Not knowing what was going on, I ended up walking with her as she took me through the crowd, a bit away from those guards. Walking through the crowd, we immediately made a sharp 90-degree turn before walking a bit more towards the flower shop at a distance.
Reaching the shop, that girl helped me get behind the counter before picking up a bunch of flowers and placing them in my hands. She then looked around for a bit, before she sighed in relief as she finally wiped that sweat with her handkerchief.
“Sister Lily, who is he?” Another young girl of about 12 years old spoke as she looked at me curiously, with a bit of an enchanted look as well.
“He was looking at those guards while they were trying to chase the runaway kids. We were lucky that they didn’t notice him,” Sister Lily, the girl who dragged me all the way here, spoke as she sighed deeply again as if we had avoided a calamity or something.
“Wha-!!” The young girl was about to shout but covered her mouth immediately as she looked around. There was terror in the young girl’s eyes as she searched a bit more before it finally subsided.
“Thank you,” I spoke as I looked at them politely while they looked at me, a bit surprised while I continued,” I am new to the human nation. It seems I was about to do something that I wasn’t supposed to do. Thank you for preventing me from doing that.”
Their eyes widened again as they looked at me one more time. This time from top to bottom, wondering what species I was. While I just looked at them with a clear smile.
“The name of this one is Neptune. May I know the young lady’s name?” I asked as politely as I could.
And then I cringed inside on my own greeting.
