20 Cana Alberona 1 Part I (1/2)

X772

Right now I'm looking at a small hut next to a forest a short twenty-minute walk away from a small village. This is the home of my next target. The heavy drinking Fairy Tail member.

Cana Alberona.

It is January of X772 and Cana's mother has just entered the first phase of her illness. Cana has been taking care of her for the past few days as I watched her thinking of how to go about my plan. To be honest I don't really know how I can become important to her. After all she is focused on her mother which gives me very little opportunities to work something out.

Hm, first of let's have her come out of the house shall we. I emptied their water pot so that Cana would leave the house in order to refill it from the nearby lake. And then I will use space to summon a weak magic beast nearby and come in to save her. I don't know what else can be used given the circumstances. I can go back more in time where she had more time to go outside but I wouldn't know what to do then either as this is the only significant event in her younger days.

As she was refilling the pot by the lakeside after finding it empty, the magic beast made its way towards her after picking up on her scent. And as she was petrified from fear by the monster I blocked her view and took it down easily.

”You alright? Can you stand up?”

I turned around to see her trembling and tried to calm her down. Man, every time I do things like this the guilt I feel threatens to overcome me. But I will definitely make it up to every girl that I get.

After a while she calmed down and was able to form sentences that could be understood. She thanked me for saving her and we introduced ourselves to each other. She couldn't look me in the eyes as she was almost entirely focusing on keeping her head down trying to hide the blush that she was wearing.

I told her that I was just wandering around without a place to call home which is technically true and that I would escort her to her home. We started walking towards her home as we continued to chat and speak about ourselves. I found out that she still didn't know who her father was, so I'm guessing that she must have found out about it when her mother was dying.

We reached her home and entered after her invitation. She introduced me to her mother with a slight blush when she saw her mother's smile which turned into a frown as a worried look appeared when Cana told her how I saved her.

”Thank you so much for saving Cana, Ray. We don't have much to repay you for the grace you have shown. But I hope you would stay with us for a few days to express our thanks to you.”