Chapter 45: See you there! (1/2)

Novis was currently on his way to VSW internet café. He was actually hoping that he might run into someone he was familiar with, Lucas. After hearing the from Arthur about how great Lucas was, Novis wanted to find out himself.

Now that Novis knew a bit more about fighting, he was hoping he could learn a thing or two. Perhaps even beat Lucas and prove Arthur wrong.

He entered the VSW café and saw Sophie standing at the counter. As soon as Sophie saw Novis enter, she straightened her back and her eyes lit up.

”You're here? I thought you'd never come back again. It's been so long.”

”Hi there” Novis replied. ”do you know if that Lucas kid is here?”

Sophie started to laugh.

”Figures, the second Lucas stops coming here to find you, you come here to try to find him.”

”Lucas was trying to find me?”

Novis had no idea why Lucas was looking for him. The last time they had seen each other Arthur had beaten him pretty bad. Novis felt horrible about the whole situation. At the time he didn't know how strong Arthur or Lucas was and didn't have a clue what was going on.

Novis didn't go look for him in case Lucas wanted another rematch. Novis was afraid that if the two of them fought and Novis was, well a complete novice, then Lucas would think he wasn't trying and going easy on him.

Where as if he fought him now, he could blame it on the fact that he was trying out a new Warrior and didn't know the warrior had no skills.

”He hasn't been in here for a while now, but the last time he came here he told me that if I saw you, he wanted me to pass on a message.”

”What was his message?”

”That he would be waiting for you at the local VSW school tournament.”

Novis heart sank a bit. Lucas obviously saw Novis as a rival of his, but it wasn't actually Novis he wanted to fight. It was Arthur. It made Novis have complex feelings.

Novis was wondering why he felt this way. Then he realised, the attention that Lucas was giving Arthur, he wanted it. He wanted someone to one day think that he too was a person they wanted to beat.

Arthur was a great swordsman who had been long forgotten by the people. It was sad to think that someone as great as Arthur could be forgotten about. But what did this mean for everyone esle?

people were forgotten about nearly every day once they had died. After meeting Arthur, Novis thought about this a lot. During his short life span, he now wanted to do something that everyone remembered him by.

Originally, he just wanted to get stronger. Now that he was strong, just how much stronger would he have to get to achieve his goal, he thought.

As Novis started to walk back out of the shop, Sophie called out to him.

”Hey, didn't you come here to play?”

”I'm kinda not in the mood anymore.”

”Come on, you came all this way, didn't you? I'll even let you play for the first hour for free.”