Magic Shop System

The night fell and a sickle of a moon hung on the dark starry sky, visible from the window of the tavern room, amidst the occasional passing clouds. The cold wind blew and smashed his face, as Kadyn gazed at the flickering lights on the city walls from time to time.

"Don\'t kill him immediately," Kadyn said with a nonchalant expression. "Get as much information as you can about the capital and its forces. Don\'t leave any clue behind or it would be troublesome. We are just minions in the eyes of these powerful houses. Need to think twice before we take a step forward. I wouldn\'t have thought about killing him, if he didn\'t touch my nerves. He could become an eyesore in the near future if we let him live this time."

A shadow standing behind him nodded and then scattered abruptly, vanishing into thin air.

Kadyn took a deep breath and moved his eyes towards the tall castle that stood at the centre of the Capital. "I wonder what kind of a person the emperor is; hope he is not like those idiots from the Sweeders and Webney."

After that, he turned around and fell on the bed. As soon as he laid the room lightened up. A small figure appeared and sat on the windowsill. "Do you realise how dangerous it is?" the bird opened her mouth. "You will have a hard time surviving if they find out the culprit behind it."

"And you think I will live comfortably if I let him live?" he said as he stared at the bird. He still didn\'t know anything about it, but he knew that this bird must have a powerful background. 

As he thought about it a graceful figure appeared inside his head. It was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his life. His heart started to beat faster as he thought about her, but then he shook his head. She was like an immortal fairy while he was a lowly beggar on the street as compared to her. No match at all. No chance at all.

"Are you…" he hesitated for a moment but then went on. "Are you from another world?"

The bird stared at Kadyn but didn\'t speak. He curled his lips. "So you \'are\' from another world, huh?"

"How do you know about another world?" the bird asked. "You aren\'t powerful enough to come into contact with the secret of ascending."

"Ascending?" Kadyn looked surprised. It was the first time he heard such a word. "What do you mean?"

The bird glanced at him and then shook its head. "It\'s not a good thing for you to know some things, or the karma will come back to bite you."

"Hey, come on," Kadyn said in irritation. "Talk in a way I can understand, at least. Anyways, can you tell me about the world you came from?"

"Nope."

"..."

"How did you come into this world?"

"Not a chance."

"Why… did you come here?"

"Forget it."

"What do you want from me?"

"Nothing."

Kadyn took a deep breath and calmed himself. He clenched his teeth and asked. "If you don\'t want anything from me, why are you following me? You are already so powerful, why aren\'t you going on your way, and I go on my way? What do you say?"

"You\'ve saved my life and we are connected through blood and spirit. Even if I want I can\'t leave you," it said. "That\'s why I was so angry when I came out of the egg. Anyways, you saved me and helped me to hatch. Otherwise, I would have eaten by that idiotic hybrid and died with her."

"Died with her?" Kadyn looked confused.

"Hmph, that moron wanted to devour me and improve her bloodline." As it talked about Zephire, its voice became cold with every word. "A lowly hybrid dared to blaspheme the Celestial Flame Sparrow! Do you think she would have succeeded after swallowing me? A fat chance! She would have been blown up like a balloon and with her, I would have also died.

"So that\'s how it is," Kadyn nodded in understanding, and when the iron was still hot he spat another question. "So how did you turn into an egg?"

"That was because…" it stopped midway. It looked at Kadyn and narrowed her eyes. "Are you trying to get information from me?"

"No, no," Kadyn shook his head. "I just want to know more about you. As you said we are together in this, so we should understand each other better so we could cooperate without any misgivings in the future?"

"Oh really?" said the bird disdainfully. "How about telling me about yourself and… the shop?"

"Well, I can\'t tell you about it?" he denied without batting an eye. But when he saw a hard stare from the bird he hurriedly explained. "I can\'t tell you because I don\'t know anything about it myself. It just appeared one day in my head, out of nowhere. How can I tell you anything if I don\'t know myself."

"Out of nowhere?" the bird chuckled in sarcasm. "Do you think something like that would appear out of nowhere? Do you take me for a fool?"

Hey, I\'m not lying!" Although he hid a few things, what he said was really true. He had no idea where his system and the shop had come from.

"Alright, I believe you." The bird said. It looked at Kadyn who was staring at her suspiciously and explained. "We are connected through blood and spirit. Even if we want we can\'t lie to one another." \'Just hide\' it thought inside her head.

"Oh," Kadyn was surprised to hear it. He looked at it and asked after a short pause. "Do you know anyone in this world... who is from another world?"

"I was in an egg form ever since I came to this world. How would I know any…" it suddenly stopped talking. She blurted out something she didn\'t want anyone to know. "Damn it!" it cursed and vanished.

Kadyn looked at the empty windowsill speechlessly and shook his head. "Weird bird."

Previously he thought that she was some kind of old cunning monster — as he failed to subdue it inside the shop when it had just hatched — but now he realised how childish his thinking was. Then he chuckled and a relaxed smile appeared at the corner of his lips. At least, it wasn\'t hostile towards him like before, and he could tell that it wasn\'t evil.

"Whoosh!"

At this moment a cold wind flew inside the room and a shadow appeared beside Kadyn\'s bed. "It\'s done," Cecilia replied.. Kadyn\'s face changed and he stood abruptly when he saw blood dripping from her shoulder. "How did you get injured?"