"Riana... Hey... Do you hear me?"
The same dream.
The same thin smile with dearing exasperation.
Ah... Again, huh.
"Sigh... You got drunk again, don't you?"
"What a woman! She drink so much that even me can't be compared with, man!"
"As always, worst lady ever born indeed."
"Don't say that, guys... Riana just a bit, uh, naughty?"
Why can't I forget these memories, their smile and laugh, even after so long times passed by?
"Hey..."
Riana heard vague voice near her.
It is seems that the voice is calling me?
"Hey... Hey, um, lady!"
Another dream? Riana's still sluggish mind thought, slowly opening her eyes.
"Y-You're awake...!"
"Hmm...?"
Riana, who just awaken, frowned as she found the face of an unfamiliar boy.
The boy seemed to be relieved at the sight of she awakening.
Riana immediately tilted her head, tried to ingest the circumstances.
Slowly, she raise her body from lying position to sitting position.
She wiped her for some reason felt wet nosetrils, and found a rather dried red liquid from there.
Blood? Riana further frowned.
She glanced at her surroundings, only to found that she was now on an unknown place.
She stunned for a moment.
"What the... Heck?"
Why come I am here in a sudden?
Riana forgot about the boy for a moment and fell to a real dumbfoundment.
"U-um...!"
"Hm?"
Until the boy himself rise his voice and catch her attention.
The boy's looked anxious and excited while looking at her for some reason.
And.
After inhaled a bunch of oxygen, he muster his courage and said: "A-are you may be... My gifted... Companion?"
Silence.
A moment after the boy uttered these lines, the two of them fell silent.
Riana silent in bewilderment, while the boy silent in nervous hope.
After a while, a little dragonfly-like bug fly pass between the two, flapping its six transparent wings.
"I am... Not."
Riana rejected the boy's hope by a flat, stunned words.
"Oh..."
The boy lose his excitement and began to calmed down.
"Okay."
"... Yeah."
—30 minutes later.
Riana and the boy, Rert, walked side by side at the road to the town beside the wheat fields.
"So, your name is Miss Riana? And you are a mage?" Rert looked at Riana with rejuvenated excitement.
"Yeah, that's right," Riana answered while absentmindedly looking at the golden view of fields.
"That... That's amazing!" Rert exclaimed.
By just looking at the youth's shimmering admiring eyes for a glance Riana could understand that he seemingly is had some tendency to liking about adventure-things and magic-like stuffs.
A bit excessed from normal, but not so special for current childhood dream of youths at all.
After getting close enough to the town's gate, Riana shifted her attention back to the youth beside her.
"So, Rert, you left your village to become an Adventurer?" She asked.
"Yes!"
Rert immediately nodded his head at the question.
"Mighty Dragon, Beautiful Elf... I want to slain and meet them! I would become famous and called as a Hero like Hero Theo!"
Rert excitedly start to tell about his aspiring dream.
"Ah, Hero Theo is the one who killed the Demon King and several Evil God at the Great war 100 years ago. He put an end to the Great war! Miss Riana should at least hear about him once, right? RIGHT!? He is my dream goal, you know!"
Riana do not say any respond or comment, but Rert too drowned in his own world to noticed it at all.
"The Red Blade Hamgrade or The Giant Man Gruntby maybe not less weak from the Hero Theo, but only the Hero is the most cool for me! I really want to become like him in the future! The only downside about him is he used spear as his weapon, which not so suited his title since the Divine weapon for the Hero is a sword..."
While Rert continue to telling about his dream and vast knowledge about the story of the Humans big figures who rises at the period of times of Great war, Riana already pay the enter pay of the town and they then stepped to the town.
The last town at the south of Fathoga Continent, Harad.
"What are you planning to do in this town, Lady Riana?" Rert asked.
After walking for a while and looking at the sight of Town of Harad, the two of them stopped at the front of a two stories building with 'Adventurer Guild' written at the signboard above the double wooden door.
"I am going to join the recuitment of the Adventurer guild by the way, " He not forgot to tell his own what to do first after he asked Riana.
The beautiful, white long-haired girl on front of him finally stopped looking at the town's building hearing his words.
Her curved white eyelash looked so sacred while reflecting some of the already reflected sunlight by her shimmering hair.
Her blue eyes, in a color of pure water, strengthen her pure and unreal beauty. Truly, a maiden of purity!
That stunningly beautiful girl is now stand by his side, looked right at his eyes.
Strands of her hair leasurely dancing with the air, as if having fun with nature.
That picture is so wonderful that Rert and mans and womans walked by the road momentarily stunned and stared at her face in utter admiration by this too beautiful creature.
And that same beautiful girl...
She makes a strained smile, scratching her head, put a moron-like face, before answered him.
"I don't know... I guess I'd been teleported, but I don't really sure where is it."
She then laughed to herself. Not because she found something funny, but rather more like she laugh in surrender for the troublesome things she might found on this unknown land.
"Well, I think I would be okay, anyway!"
Disappointment...
Seeing at Riana's stupid expression, that's how Rert's state of mind was.
The same is applied to the others, too.
The blush at their faces immediately lost to the thin air, nowhere to be found.
That girl is not an angelic maiden, but rather a normal sluggish and a bit stupid girl.
She might be a real beauty and what she said is rather uncommon, but she not so special at all.
At the moment, Rert and them thought that.