Chapter 13 - Childhood Flashback (Part 1) (1/2)

— Oukiwa City, Ten Years Ago. —

Five children were climbing the immense wall of a dead-end street.

”Can you climb Sarah?” A child with short brown hair asked almost from the top of this wall. This was Matthew, The Fearless One.

”Y-yes, I guess so.” The thin little girl with pink hair shouted. She was still on the ground and internally, she was afraid to try to climb. This was Sarah, The Nice One.

Luke, The Dark One, was also almost at the top of this wall. Meredith, The Shrewd, was also very close. However, Shiro was worried about whether Sarah would be able to climb alone, so he was waiting for her to start.

With Shiro's help, The Nice One was able to scale the wall that was supposed to be just over four meters high.

”Do you think this is really going to work?” Shiro, who was big and strong, asked Matthew, the leader of the gang at the time.

”Yes, I followed him. We're not very far away.”

The quintet was now on top of a building, near the Central Palace, a place where the great families gathered and formed a council to set laws, punish criminals, and approve projects.

However, the Central Palace was not the target of a bunch of kids. Matthew, a week before, followed an old trinket market, which had a warehouse full of stuff.

For kids, who were not yet brave enough or strong enough to do big robberies, this was a good opportunity, because the warehouse was big, and they were small, which gave them an advantage.

It was a little difficult for them to walk across the roofs, whose aluminum tiles were hot from the burning summer sun, and also because their old shoes slipped easily on the metal.

”Sarah, I know you wanted to come, just don't delay us,” Matthew said, as he balanced on a steel rail. If he hadn't been a skinny child, the rail would have given way on the first step.

The pink-haired girl looked at Fearless with anger, because she knew he was only acting this way. After all, she went against this plan. Sarah believed that robbing merchant depots were a mistake because they could pay dozens of strong mercenaries.

Boomp! Matthew who was going ahead jumped under a small alley. ”Come quick...” After the jump, he hid behind a wind exhaust fan.

Luke and Meredith jumped as well and hid. ”What did you see?” The half-breed asked.

Boomp! Shiro threw Sarah, who barely made a sound as she landed.

”I thought I saw someone.” Matthew peered around but saw nothing that looked strange.

People on the streets were walking with normality. The guards, who were wearing cadet uniforms, were chatting and laughing loudly as usual. This was just another peaceful day in the wealthy part of Oukiwa.

The quintet kept walking along the rooftops until they spotted a roof with windows to let in the sun. Without having to look through the windows, Luke warned, ”There are five guards.”

”Sigh...” Matthew huffed in stress. There wasn't supposed to be anyone there. ”Are we going to try anyway?”

In response to the boy's question, Meredith began trying to open the window.

”Have you guys heard? The Landfords want to challenge Strogueher on the purchase of that new Dungeon, can you believe it?”

”The Landford have a good leader, who is experienced and a Class-B adventurer, no doubt about it they are trying to gain even more power.”

”Huph... Class-B? The Strogueher has much more firepower. After all, they've bought two Dungeons in these six months, so they're certainly swimming in the money.”