Chapter 101 Golem war 4 (2/2)

”...hey”

Mars looked over and saw Nicole, realizing this was the first time he had looked at her properly Mars inspected her, she was a head shorter than him with short brown hair and brown eyes, she had somewhat tanned skin and a overall petty frame, she seemed more like a neighborhood teenage girl then a battle hardened soldier

”yes?”

”can you help me with lifting something, the captain said you were strong”

”sure”

Mars carefully lifted the sleeping Victoria off his chest and got up before he laid her back down on the field bed again, before he turned back to Nicole and followed her over to the armor stand

”this plate here”

”okay...”

Mars grabbed the armor plate and lifted it out its frame

”that's good, hold it there...”

Nicole grabbed a formation marker and began adjusting the formation runes under the armor plate Mars had lifted off, some minutes passed before she gave a sigh

”...that should do it”

”should I put it back now?”

”yeah, thanks for the help”

Mars put the armor plate back in place and helped Nicole tighten the bolts that kept the armor plate in place

”is there anything else you need help with?”

”hmm... no I think that was all”

”okay”

Mars turned and was about to walk back to his field bed when Nicole called out to him

”um... Mars”

”what is it?”

”...could you help me with something else?”

”...sure why not”

”okay, this way”

Nicole let the way out of the tent with Mars following after her and they eventually reached the cooking tent were Nicole walked inside with Mars following after her, the inside was busy with cooks working but Nicole agilely moved past the busy cooks without bumping into any of them until she reached what looked like the main chef and poked him on the shoulder

”oh it's you Nicole... you want the usual?”

”yeah you got some?”

the chef gave a wide smile

”just got some in with yesterday's caravan”

”great!”

the head chef walked out the cooking tent with Mars and Nicole following after him

”now where did they put it...”

they now stood inside a storage tent next door to the cooking tent where a massive amount of boxes was stacked and filled most of the tent

”oh there it is”

the chef took out a box about 50 by 50 centimeters and handed it to Nicole

”here you are Nicole”

”thanks”

”sure thing, give your captain my regards”

Nicole then handed the box to Mars that took it and found it was lighter than he expected

”let's go Mars”

”okay?”

Mars followed after Nicole out of the storage tent and out to where all the benches was lined up, Nicole stopped and looked around the crowd

”now where is she... there she is, can you see her?”

”who?”

”the captain”

”oh... there she is”

Mars found it rather easy to spot Vanessa in the crowd with her jet black hair and eyes

”now here is where it gets difficult Mars, first you walk up to her and place the box on the table then you say 'I got this for you' then you slide to box across the table to her. Got it?”

”....yeah”

Nicole showed a slime and patted Mars on the shoulder

”then go”

”okay”

Mars walked off though the crowd and eventually arrived at where Vanessa was sitting, she had the whole bench for herself and was sitting and looking into a cup with water, over all she looked rather depressed, Mars sat down across from her which woke her from her daze

”what are you doing here Ma---”

”I got this for you”

Mars slid the box across the table to Vanessa that looked a little confused, but after staring at Mars for a moment she opened the box and soon a smile formed on her face as she looked into the box, just as Mars was about to ask 'what's in the box' she looked up at him with a intense look on her face

”this... are you sure I can have this?”

”...yeah that's why I got it for you?”

Vanessa gave a wide smile and reached into the box and took out... a bar of chocolate before she imitatively bit into it with relish on her face and closed her eyes as she chewed before she sighed

”so good...”

and bit into the bar of chocolate again with a blissful look on her face, Mars looked at her with a blank look on her face

'I guess it's true... chocolate is happiness in solid form'