Chapter 5 - 005: If there is something that called as fate, then this is one of that

When Arthur's vision is back he feels very weak and he fell to the ground, even if he can hear someone talking to him but he felt his eyes is too heavy so except for the blurry figure he can't see clearly, Arthur feel there is someone who is helping him moving and lifting him up from the ground.

"... .. ... okay?"

He can't hear clearly and in the end, Arthur lost his consciousness.

....

Arthur didn't know how long he is pass out but he can feel he regains control over his own body slowly so he tries to communicate with the system.

'What happened with the modification process?'

^The host is giving a commend to bought modifications for your brain and hearth and the host want to upgrade it directly to level five so the pain that host feel is an unavoidable side effect^

'Why I didn't feel anything when I bought the previous modifications like Golden Eagle Eyes and Heavenly Body?'

^Because host bought it at level one and upgrade it step by step so, host body is strong enough to bear the pain^

'In other words, modifications are not just granting me special power but it really really changed me?' Up until now, Arthur didn't think the outcome would be like this because when he bought Golden Eagle Eyes modification he just feels a little uncomfortable at his eyes, the same has happened when he bought the Heavenly Body modification

^Please remember to check the status menu^

^Modification and Ability have different sections so of course, it will have difference like price and process^

^Modifications, like what it stated. Modifying the host body to meet the host expectations^

^Ability is different with modifications because it will not change host base appearance^

'So much pain for manipulating the elements...'

^This is the price host need to pay for taking a shortcut and make a rush decision ^

^Congratulations, because of the modifications of your heart it will increase the natural healing ability that host body poses and make host is not easy agitated by outside influence^

^Congratulations, because of modification of your brain your memorizing abilities and reflexes is improve^

'I never thought there is still some benefit'

"Oh, you're awake?" A playful sound is heard from the side of the bench

Arthur gets up slowly and sits on the bench before he looks at the source of the sound, grey fur, rhombus-shaped eyebrows, gold earrings on the left ear, and lastly purple bag around his body.

What about clothes? Of course, there is none because what is described previously is not a human but a cat, or more exactly a spirit in the shape of a cat.

'Puck...? Seriously?' Arthur stuns for a moment 'Then that's mean Emilia is around?'

"Why you're spacing out like that? Are you mesmerized by my cuteness?" Puck in his little cat form spinning in the air and laughing happily

"Are you the one who is helping me?" Arthur decided to hide the fact he knows him, because if he says he knows everything about him and Emilia than there is a large possibility for Puck to exterminate him

"Of course no, the one who is saving you is my precious daughter" Puck declares proudly "If you want to say your gratitude then you need to wait for a bit because she is gone to buy something that you can eat"

"Eat?" Arthur feels weird because he is clearly didn't feel hungry at all

"Well, your condition is a bit weird. Your body is healthy but you lost your consciousness so except for extreme hunger my daughter can't think any other reason for someone to pass out in front of her like you"

"I think there is a bit of misunderstanding..."

"Huh?"

"I'm not feeling hungry"

"... then how about my daughter who is running to get food for you?" Puck feel the situation is slightly awkward, even if he is a great spirit but his knowledge about healing is not worth mentioning so he just agree with Emilia when she said he faint because of hunger "Well, how about this... when she arrives you just need to eat and say you're thankful to her?"

"Alright..."

"Oh she is coming"

In the distance, there is a girl with long silver hair and purple-blue eyes. She wears a white and purple outfit along with a white flower in her hair. She brings a basket with bread and water inside it.

"Oh, you're awake? That's good, here try to eat this first" when she is seeing the person she helps is awake and remember the cause why he is faint she hand over the basket without hesitation

Puck who is floating behind her make a sign for him to eat the bread and say thanks to her, Arthur needs to hold back his laughter because that was quite a funny sign.

Arthur eats a piece of bread and feels it was quite hard despite it was still warm so after he finished it he drinks the water and puts the basket on the bench.

"Thank you for your help, my name is Arthur Spencer, may I know your name?"

"My name is Emilia, you didn't need to thank me because I help you for my own convenience. You're coming from an alley and faint in front of me so it makes people think I was the one who makes you faint, so I help you because I didn't want other people to think it was my fault, because of that you didn't need to say thanks to me" Emilia explain her own reason and denied Arthur's gratitude word

'Oh, she is act like in the anime, but she introduces herself as Emilia and not as Satela, is it because in Subaru's case it was involving the royal election and in my case is not?'

"And my name is Puck, please to met you" Puck extend his little paw and Arthur accept it

"You're very light"

"Of course I'm a spirit after all" Puck floating back to Emilia's shoulder before put his little paw on his chin "Speaking of which, your body has no mana at all, this is very strange"

"Well, not everyone has mana inside their body, right?" In his world, there is no mana, and the people called as a magician is just a trickster, not a real magician, so it was normal if he didn't have mana inside his body

"No, everyone is born with 'gate' inside their body. And the reason why not everyone becomes magician it has a connection with their gate so even if they can't use magic there still a little mana inside their body" Puck explains it to Arthur and make several motions "But if I look at your attire it seems you're not a normal citizen? And I never heard there is a noble family with the name of Spencer"

"Puck it's rude to ask other people situation like that, I'm sorry Arthur if Puck makes you uncomfortable" Emilia is apologizing because in her opinion it was rude to questioning someone like that, even if she wants to know too, she prefers to know it from the person itself willingly rather than questioning like Puck

"It's fine, it was understandable because he treats you as his daughter. Well I'm not from this place so it was normal if you never heard my name"

"Oh, can you tell me where do you come from?" Emilia is slightly interested because she never leaves Elior forest before and just coming out of the forest a year ago

"It's very hard to describe but I come from a very very distant place" Arthur answer apologetically because there is no way he said he comes from another world, or say he is coming from a land behind the great waterfall because the people in this world believe if the world is a flat land surrounded by the great waterfall or called as Cascade by several people

"Oh right, look like you're fine now, do you have a plan?" Even if she is slightly disappointed but Emilia didn't show it on her face

"Plan?" Yes, what is my plan?

Honestly, since he sent to the trial dimension by the system his daily routine is killing the monster and traveling, no plan, no goal, no dream.

"You... didn't know what you want to do?" Emilia look at the stunted Arthur and ask because she feels slightly concern with his situation

'What is my dream? Even if I have a second chance but what is my dream?'

"Are you okay?" Emilia put her hand on Arthur's shoulder and ask him worriedly 'Is there something wrong with his memory? Can hunger consume his memory too?'

Arthur raise his head and look at the worried face in front of him and a slender hand on his left shoulder

"My mother told me if I need to repay the kindness that other people give to me, and now I already eat the bread that you bought and so I need to repay you" Arthur decide for his current goal, he wants to see what is the ending of this world full of irony with his own eyes

"You didn't need to do anything for me, as I said I helping you for my own convenience and not because of you or your sorry state when you're lying on the ground unconsciousness" Emilia reject Arthur's idea to repay her hurriedly, but unfortunately her rejection reason is very weak

'She said it herself if I was in a sorry state... so she took pity on me?' Her rejection is quite convincing at the first part but it turned to awkward at the later part 'If you want to say it was for your own child then you didn't need to mention about my sorry state at all'

"Well, it was like this. Even if you help me by giving me food now it can't solve my problem because I didn't have money to buy anything and for renting a place for resting so I need a stable source of income or something that can help me to solve my current problems"

"But my daughter already help you once so there is no need for her to help you again" Puck feel the person that his daughter help is slightly suspicious

"That's why she needs to be the one who helps me, because if you just giving fish to a starving person than he will starve again tomorrow but if you teach him how to fishing then he can search for the fish alone without your help"

"But I giving you bread and not fish..." Emilia retorts innocently because she feels it was rude to compare the bread that she bought from a store several hundred meters away from where they're now with the smelly fish

"... What I want to say is if you want to help someone than you need to solve the problem if not you're not helping that person but just pending his suffering"

"So you want to leech off from her?" Puck didn't hide his hostility because he thinks his daughter is meeting with a shameless scammer

"Of course not, how about if I work as your bodyguard and you will need to provide me with food and lodging, of course, I'm very welcoming if you can give me salary but we can discuss about that in the future" Arthur voice out his shameless proposal to Emilia, if this is the interview in his previous world then he will hundred percent throw out of the office but the person who is standing in front of him is a person with heart full of kindness but she always refuses to admit it and instead she always thinking anything she does is for her own selfishness "I just alone and I didn't know anyone..."

Arthur gives the last push for his proposal and the result...

"I... I can promise you about the food and lodging but about the salary... it's not like I didn't want to pay you but... I stay in someone mansion... other than food and lodging I can't promise you anything"

His plan is success, Emilia is described as someone who is like to take care of others so with a little story it's nearly a hundred percent his plan will work.

"No problem at all, please to work with you Emilia-sama" Arthur raise his hand for a handshake and Emilia accept it with some confusion 'Why someone who acts miserably before looks like very happy?'

"Haah... this is the first time for me to see such shameless way to get a job" Puck look at Arthur for the last time before he disappears back to the crystal