Chapter 96 - Six - I catch the eye of another man (1/2)

Leon and Sun had not lingered long, the whole room had stank of piss, so best move on. Sun had rolled his eyes as Leon had staggered out, humming out of tune, a beaming smile on his half-dazed face. What a light weight! Still, it was kind of... sort of... maybe just a bit... amusing.

The alchemist landed flat upon his face after tripping over his own feet, his body splayed upon the cold stone floor. Sun held his hand over his mouth attempting not to laugh. ”O-ow!”

”Ha ha ha,” Sun laughed, grabbing his side as he tried to help Leon to his feet, but ended up falling on his own bottom. For some reason, he found this really funny and continued to laugh. Whether he realised it or not, he was actually no better than the commoners at drinking; his loving mother had been watering down the alcohol her sons and daughters had been partaking for years. Leon looked up at the giggling boy and found himself chuckling as well.

The two boys finally, after several minutes of merriment, managed to get to their feet and Sun began to lead the way back to the stands. Leon began to hum again as he followed, but a crowd of drunk youths came bounding past singing their own ditties and knocking into the smaller man. He fell again, losing his glasses in the process and as he sat there for a moment, he wondered, had such not happened before?

”Are these yours?” A shadow asked standing over him suddenly and Leon squinted hard just making out that that person held something, which he could only assume were his glasses.

”Th-thank you,” he said, reaching for them, but the man kept them out of reach, causing Leon to frown. He rose to his feet and tried to grab them again, but to no avail. ”P-p-please. If you h-have m-my g-g-glasses, m-may I have them b-back?”

”Ho, I do have them,” the man replied, leaning forward so that Leon could just make out his features and believed them to be somewhat familiar. ”But surely, I deserve a reward for finding them.”

Leon's brows furrowed further. ”A r-reward?” Leon questioned, he supposed he did have some pills, but if this person was who he thought, surely he had access to better here in the inner school. Ugh, his head felt fuzzy, it was too hard to think. So he would simply have to ask; ”W-What t-type of reward?”

The man said nothing, just grabbed his wrist and began to tug at him, dragging him in the opposite direction of in which the arena lay. Leon stumbled as the man pulled him. ”W-Wait!”

”Tch,” the man clicked his tongue and picked Leon up into his arms and over his shoulder and continued upon his intended path. From Leon's view, seeing the world turn upside down was actually not much different to right way up seeing as his glasses were in this man's possession and not in his own. However, for his dizzy head and liquor filled stomach, it was not a happy situation to be in.

”W-why?” He managed to blurt out safely.