186 Frozen heart II (2/2)
”Please, mom!! Just one more day!”
”Marcy, look at him! At this rate, he might get sick if we don't find out what's causing this...”
”Can't you just fix him with magic?”
”I'm an ice mage, Marcy... I don't know a thing about healing magic...”
”Fiiiiiine... Can I come to at least?”
”Of course, sweetie!”
”Mafoo!”
The three of them finally set out on their journey and brought the young man to the city, where he began to gain many sparkles at the sight of so many people in front of him.
It was the first time Natasha and Marcy ever saw him smile so much.
”Maaaaaaafoooooo!!!”
”I think he's excited!” Natasha commented.
”Oh, mom!! Can I take him to see the fountain while you check on the guild?”
”Ugh... Fine... But be quick... Remember that we have an important mission today...”
”Yay!!! Come on Mafoo!! Let's see the fountain!!”
”Mafoooo!!!”
The two youngsters began to rush towards the center of the city with Marcela dragging Mafoo by the hand. Natasha just smiled at the sight of her cute daughter laughing with so much joy.
She finally reached the guild of ice mages and spotted a new request with a very fat reward stuck on the wall.
”Oh, my heavens!! With this much money, I could buy a new house three times bigger than my own!! I could finally move out of the forest and live in the city!! Marcy could finally live closer to her schoolmates!” Natasha whispered while daydreaming about how much her life could improve if she just cleared this quest.
She picked the paper with the description and hurried to the balcony to meet with the receptionist.
”Lia!! Lia, tell me everything about this request right now!! I'm taking it!!” Natasha shouted in a hurry.
”Oh!! Good morning miss Natasha! I see that you're in a good mood today...” Lia replied.
”You bet I am!! First I rescue a cute little boy from a pack of evil bandits and have him and my daughter become best of friends, and now I come here to see this new job that might change my life forever!! I feel like lady luck is finally smiling upon me for the first time in years!!”
Lia grabbed the paper and immediately started to lose her smile upon seeing what the job was.
”Lia...? Lia, what's wrong...?”
”Miss Natasha... there is a reason the reward for this job is so big...” Lia explained. She then came closer and began to whisper to avoid being noticed, ”this is for the extermination of a demon!”
”A demon...?”
”Yes... It seems that a demon has been spotted around the city and has devoured some of the citizens every night... You haven't heard anything about it??”
”Not really, no... I've been so tired from having to take care of two kids that I barely managed to keep my eyes open during the night... When did the attacks start?”
”A couple of days ago... It seems that the demon was being kept imprisoned by a gang of bandits and was going to be sold off to the church of the goddess of the west...”
Natasha's expression became pale, ”a group of bandits...?”
”Yeah... Robert was the one who posted the request... He was involved with the gang members and they appeared to be very angry at him for some reason... The demon they lost seemed to be very important...”
Natasha began to shake a little, ”this... This demon... what does he look like...?”
”From what Robert told us, it seems he holds some kind of curse where he bears the look of the youngest person he ate... So right now... He looks like a boy between the age of eight or ten...”
Natasha felt like she was about to throw up.
”And another thing...” Lia added, ”the survivors stated that the demon always says the same words whenever he's hungry and is about to attack again...”
”... ... ... What words...?”
”Human food...”