Chapter 163 Side Story - Aliya



/TOK/ /TOK/

"Sigh…. Another day again."

"Come on, man, it is what we are doing as always."

"I know, I know. It is just…. I am very tired, man."

At dawn, when the sun was still staying underground, two men were talking while smashing roads with their hammers.

"It is what it is, bro. We need to make our money, even if it is this early in the morning."

They were the laborers who were stifling the bricks that were covering the roads.

/CLIP/ /CLOP/ /CLIP/ 

However, as they were doing their things, suddenly they heard a voice of something hitting the ground coming from their backs.

"Huh?"

The man with the hammer was surprised.

"What happened, Milton?"

"Can't you hear these voices, Mark?"

"Hmm…."

/CLIP/ /CLOP/

As they were talking, the voices they were hearing got louder and louder until some point when they were able to see the source of that voice.

"Is that a horse?"

"It is."

"Who might this be at this hour?"

"I don't know. It doesn't matter anyways."

"Yeah. Man, gotta do what they need to do."

"Indeed."

However, although seeing someone riding a horse at this hour was not something they had seen often, it wasn't something they were interspersed in.

Therefore, they turned their backs on the road and started doing the things they needed to do again.

/TOK/ /TOK/

Smashing the stones and shaping them.

/CLIP/ /CLOP/

However, as they were doing whatever they were doing, suddenly, the voice of horse nails hitting the ground stopped.

Stopped when the voice was just at their back.

"Hmm?"

Seeing something was amiss, the man named Milton turned back.

Only to see someone standing right there.

A woman.

A young girl, to be precise.

With her dress that was beautifully showing her smooth face and her vest that was amplifying her charisma, she was standing there with the sun on her back.

With her fiery red hair shone through the sun, which was slowly started going up.

"Sir, are you the man named Milton?"

Slowly approaching the man, she asked.

"Yes?"

However, hearing this, Milton was surprised.

Seeing such a young and beautiful young girl calling his name out of nowhere.

"Who might you be, miss?"

Without even thinking much, he called him Miss getting affected by her charisma.

"Ah… Sorry, my bad. I forgot to introduce myself. I am Aliya Norris, and I am here to recruit you."

The girl said while introducing herself.

"Recruit?"

Milton was overly surprised.

After hearing such a thing.

Because nobody would suddenly believe someone appearing and saying she wanted to recruit them out of nowhere.

"What is this, Milton? Oh…."

As he came closer, a man named Mark saw the girl and stopped in his tracks.

"This lady over here…. She said she wanted to recruit me."

"Recruit?"

"Yes. Recruit."

"Like a job."

"Yes."

"I see, I understand….."

"….."

"I don't understand at all…. Who is this lady."

"I don't know either."

As the two were talking amongst themselves, a girl named Aliya approached them.

"You should be Mister Mark, right?"

And said while locking her green eyes with the man.

"Hmm?"

"Who are you, lady? How do you know my name?"

However, for someone who was just cracking the stones and shaping them, his name being known was something slightly dangerous.

Because he knew he was not someone popular.

"Don't worry. I am not here to hurt you or anything. If I wanted, I would have already done it, right?"

But, the girl swiftly changed the flow of direction while smiling.

And a smile of a beautiful girl would always work in these conditions.

Especially for those who didn't see many beautiful girls in their lives.

"Right?"

"Yes, yes…"

"Then why are you here?"

Though, they were not that stupid.

"As I have said, I am here to recruit you."

"Recruit, huh? For what?"

"I know about your talent, Mister Mark and Milton. I know both of your talents."

"You know about our talents."

"Yes."

"What are our talents then?"

Just as the man asked, suddenly the girl threw something at the man.

No… More precisely, suddenly, something appeared from the ground.

Just underneath the man.

/SWOOSH/

However, as it appeared, the man suddenly rushed to the side, dodging the thing that was aimed at him.

"Huh?"

And he was surprised.

Surprised because both Milton and Mark dodged the green thing that got out of the ground suddenly.

Looking at the thing that appeared in front of them, they saw the girl smiling ear to ear.

"As expected."

While she was saying that, inside her mind, she was thinking differently.

'He was right again…. How does he know all those things?'

"What was that? Why did you attack us?"

The man named Milton was looking at her with a slightly irritated expression.

"Didn't you both see it?"

With her eyes altering Milton and Mark, she asked.

"See what?"

"This crystal underneath the ground."

"….."

Hearing the question, both of them didn't have an answer.

"You could see it, right? You could see those tiny dots under the ground, right? Though you thought it was somehow a disease…."

"How do you know that?"

However, even a piece of information should have its limits.

"It doesn't matter how I know or not. I am just here to give you a chance to prove yourselves."

Aliya said while both of them were surprised.

""Prove ourselves?""

"Indeed."

/SWOOSH/

While throwing a contract at the men in front of her.

"If you are interested in changing this shitty life of yours, come to the Adaving Café in the city this evening. I will be waiting for you."

Saying that Aliya suddenly jumped over the horse.

"I hope I will see you soon."

/HEE/ /HO/

And then started riding back toward the city while leaving two dumbfounded men on the ground.

"Ah…. I really missed him so much…."

She thought while looking at the sphere-shaped device in her hands.

"I guess I should call him tonight…."

Though she didn't use it.

"The academy will start soon…. I guess I will give him a good surprise then…."

She mumbled on her way back from her talent hunt….