Chapter 143: Rest
"Thank you sir!"
"We won’t disappoint you!"
At the door of my store, Mia and Mike bowed sharply with wide smiles plastered across their faces.
I gave them only a simple nod because I really couldn’t do anything more than that right now. Creating artifacts was really exhausting, I was still standing on my feet only because Selene was supporting me.
We immediately moved away, but as we were leaving, I gave the dwarf Mike one last glance.
He had the same name as the man with Fate affinity, I couldn’t know if that was a coincidence or not.
I mean, it wasn’t my fault when almost all the novels never gave 2 characters the same name. Now as I was living inside a novel, I couldn’t know if that strange logic still applied or not.
Come to think of it, I had never seen 2 people with the same name since I was born! That was a bad sign, I could only hope that the dwarf wouldn’t be the Fate affinity man from my dream.
After a few minutes, we arrived at a big garden and lay down on the grass to rest.
I could feel my mental power slowly return as the headache started to be less painful.
Selene suddenly turned to the side, looking directly at me and asked: "Do you have any plans for today?"
I endured my headache as I began to think for an answer.
It was 12pm now, which meant I had 12 hours before sleeping and meeting Isaac.
In that time we could train at home, visit the library, go into another traumatic dungeon, or visit Zephyr and annoy him if he lost against Arthur.
But I felt that other than annoying Zephyr, everything else was... boring.
Don’t get me wrong, I still wanted to get stronger quickly and I wasn’t lazy. Unfortunately, I also wasn’t like the training maniacs in the novels.
My trait was making my emotions stable, not null. It was also giving pain resistance, not immunity. I still felt pain and had emotions, so I was getting exhausted too like any person.
I had never skipped a day without training or studying, I had never stopped thinking and making theories about this world, and I had never thought seriously about resting.
Now, after all I had seen with Isaac, I wanted... a day off. Just one single day to forget that I and Aria were probably getting followed by someone from the Dark Order.
I also wanted to clear my mind for the next meeting. Whatever Isaac was going to reveal today might be worse than all what he had shown before. I wanted to be in my best condition.
"I just want to rest and have fun today..." I finally responded to Selene, closing my eyes firmly as I continued: "I’m... tired of everything."
"Oh... you are tired?"
Selene put her hand at her chin as if thinking deeply.
She was also looking at me with some sadness and empathy, which I didn’t like at all.
Maybe she was thinking that I was tired of my nightmares, but I couldn’t tell her the truth yet, it might even harm her.
I really felt like a piece of shit for hiding that, but it was necessary.
[Not only you. I also think you are a piece of shit.]
Before I could respond to Glutton, Selene snapped her fingers as her eyes lit up. "What about hanging out with me and my friends? This will definitely help you relax. They will find a way to entertain you."
I barely stopped myself from yelling at her.
Her friends? Why would I accept that?!
Obviously, I knew who those friends were. They were Morgana, Cel, Thalia, Liora and Elara.
I didn’t mind being with them, some of them were even my friends, the problem was something else.
Imagine a handsome man like me surrounded by 6 beautiful girls, I myself didn’t want to imagine that!
Yes, I didn’t care about the others’ opinions, but that wasn’t about others, even if we were alone on an island, that situation would still be awkward!
"....Is there anything else? Any other option?" I asked, hoping that she would say yes.
Unfortunately, Selene shook her head. "Come on, it will be fun. Don’t you trust me?"
"...."
You didn’t have to add the last part...
For a moment, I had the urge to just ignore her and teleport away, hoping that she wouldn’t get hurt by this, but I decided to not do that.
It was because I cared for her feelings, definitely not because I was mentally exhausted.
I sighed. "Can’t you make another man join us at least?"
At my demand, she tilted her head and raised an eyebrow. "Why would I do that? They may become mad for letting you alone join, adding another man would make it worse."
I sighed again in surrender and looked at the sky. ’I don’t care anymore. She can do whatever she wants.’
Selene opened her bracelet and began to call them one by one, telling them about me and my exhaustion.
But what surprised me was their response.
They didn’t even argue, every one of them gave an instant okay!
Something felt off about that, but I couldn’t put my finger on it.
I knew for sure that Morgana and Thalia were scared of me after accidentally seeing my bloodlust, so how did they accept that fast?
Did she plan for this day and convince them yesterday, knowing that I’d want to rest? Or was there another reason for that?
After she called Cel — who obviously accepted too — Selene closed her bracelet and said: "I’ll go meet them first to make a plan for this day and come back. Don’t worry, you won’t regret it!"
Before I could argue, she quickly ran away, so fast that she disappeared from my sight after only a minute.
I kept looking at the sky before letting out a sigh. "Haa... who cares."
Selene was doing her best to entertain me, so why would I refuse? I trusted her enough to know that she only wanted the best for me.
A day with some girls couldn’t be that bad, right?