36 Chapter 36 (1/2)

After spending saturday buying more beverages for their get together on the following day and catching up on all her assignments, Laura was looking forward to seeing Gabe play.

Getting up quite early, she managed to get showered with enough time to clean and dry all nine of her tails before the rest of the dorm's inhabitants got ready for the day.

Once she had put on some clothes, the Kitsune decided to head through town to get breakfast at Akiko's bakery, and use the opportunity to get some rolls for Daiki, Gabe and herself to snack on during and after the game.

Just like the day before, the trip across Hiyokuna took Laura longer than before. Being more conscious of her tails, she tried her best to keep people from running into them. When she finally reached her destination, the bakery had already been open for a while and the number of customers made navigating the small space difficult for the nine tailed spirit.

”Good morning Laura, what can I get you today?” Akiko asked her a few minutes later once it was her turn to order.Surprised with how she seemed to recall all her customers names, the student took a moment before she spoke up.

”Morning, can I get a melon bread and six anpan please?” Laura requested as she pulled her purse from one of the small pouches hanging from her belt.

”Okay, just one moment,” the older woman replied with a friendly smile as she began packing the order in a brown paper bag. A Moment later she took the yen and handed over the bag in return. Before she turned to the next Customer, Akiko gave her a friendly wave goodbye as Laura carefully made her way back outside. Once she was in front of the small bakery, Laura took out the melon bread and began to enjoy her breakfast on the way back to campus.

A couple hours later Laura and Daiki were two of the handful of students sitting in the stadium watching the friendly game between Yamatanuki and a small college closer to Tokyo.

While the game was just about to finish it's first 40 minute long halftime, Laura still wasn't a hundred percent sure what was going on on the field at any given moment.

Deciding to use the 10 minute break to take a break herself, she made her way into the stadium, and began searching for the closest lady's restroom. It took a while to find one, but once inside it turned out that the small stalls inside it were definitely not designed for visitors with tails, especially not nine of them and  a longsword. Trying her best to manage despite this, Laura got into one of them, her tails brushing against both sides despite her best efforts.

Just over 10 minutes later she was finally done and stepped back out into the empty restroom.

Leaving it soon after that, Laura frowned when she heard steps following after her. Putting a hand on the handle of her for now still invisible sword, she turned to face her stalker.

As her eyes trailed down to meet those sitting underneath the small man's helmet, he spoke up, his accent sounding germanic of all things. ”So you are the one to stop all of the giant's minions are you?”

As he stepped closer, his mail hauberk clanged against the scabbard of his blade.

”Now get your weapon and fight me.” the Dwarf demanded as he slammed the bottom end of his poleaxe on the floor. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Laura, more than a little perplexed by this, dropped the illusions hiding her weapon and non-human characteristics as she inquired, ”Why didn't you try to kill me when you had the chance? And why are you this polite?”

”Well I am polite to a young lady because that's just the right thing to do,” he explained, ”And I didn't just strike you down because he asked me to fight you in return for his help, not to kill you.”

The look of utter confusion on her face was plain enough that he continued right on without waiting for Laura to ask another question. ”Not everyone that dislikes Onyu and her ways of keeping everyone locked up is with Yo-tsu. I mean just take yourself, pretty sure you don't agree with her much from what I heard. Oh I also forgot to introduce myself, I am Austri, proud blacksmith of Arminius.”