Rebellious Path

(A/N: I know nothing about this so if I did anything wrong… well yeah, it's my fault, but I'm stupid, so I will go write something that I don't know.)

The process… has begun. Rosette had started to place bits of… something in a pot in which she advertently set it in the burning flames, of course with some kind of tool. What did you think, she'd burn herself intentionally? But I couldn't help but be curious about what she placed inside the pot, so I asked her myself.

"What was the thing that you placed there? It didn't seem like iron nor steel, so I'm quite curious."

"Oh, you haven't seen adamantite before, eh… Well, since you paid a f.u.c.k.i.n.g ton of gold, of course, I'd give you the best quality. Well, first, I wanted to make the frame made entirely out of adamantite to make it stronger before adding in the dragon scales."

Adamantite!? One of the most legendary ores in fantasy novels which is extremely rare! So it was that, huh. I couldn't help but grin altogether, feeling as if I have the best armour in this world. Seeing my face, Rosette couldn't help but smirk as she continued with her job as her eyes glowed with a flare of red, which seemed to control the flame which made me widen my eyes.

It wasn't just standard flame manipulation. No, it would be an understatement of what she was doing. It was as if manipulating the magic particles roaming around itself as not only the fire was affected, but the air near it as well! This was just pure magic manipulation!

Within a span of a "couple" of minutes as it certainly, wasn't short; maybe near an hour or so? After that, she pulled out the pot filled with adamantite, and the pot was certainly not small, it was large if I have to say so myself. She then proceeded to pour it down in a specific mould that seemed to form a c.h.e.s.t plate, which was interestingly lovely to look at.

"This is only the form of the c.h.e.s.t plate. I have to shape it myself before I attach the dragon scales."

"Hmmm…. I see."

I could only respond with such short sentences as I know nothing about the subject at all. Realising that; Rosette only giggled partially as her expression turned serious as she raised her hammer, whilst holding the piece of formed metal with some sort of tong specifically meant to hold anything that you are forging.

Her eyes glowed as her hammer descended, shaping the metal to her own will. With every swing, sweat started to cover her body. And, among all this, all I could say was… her being covered in sweat as she swung her hammer was hot. Extremely so, perhaps.

She noticed my gaze, and she couldn't help but become a bit embarrassed as someone was looking at her while she's covered in sweat! (This… I must look unbearably ugly right now. ), she thought, but her thoughts were mistaken! She didn't look unattractive at all! In fact, it just made her… even s.e.xier than before.

"*cough* T-that should be enough watching... Just come by tomorrow and get the armour."

"I see… I was enjoying it too… Well, I will go then. I will come back tomorrow to get the armour; thank you for letting me take a look at the wonders of blacksmithing. And perhaps... your other beauty."

With a broad and charming smile, Riku went ahead and walked out of the forgery whilst completely dumbfounding Rosette. (O-other beauty…? What is he talking about?), she just shook her head as her face was tinted with a bit of pink as she wiped a bit of her sweat whilst she went ahead and continued with her work.

Riku could only have a satisfied smile on his face, thinking about how his words affected her lightly as he chuckled for a bit. He then proceeded to genuinely thank Rosette in his heart for letting him show such a wonder, such as the process of forging, her beautiful and s.e.xy body—the wonders of blacksmithing, and how beautiful her sweaty body looks like—

He indeed took his time as he observed Rosette during her job, and he was wondering how the five are doing. He just walked out of the rooms until he reached the outside, wherein the girls looked at him with a smile as they were chatting with each other, causing his heart to be a bit moved.

Just then, he had a sudden glimpse of this "memory" as he looked at the girls… They looked… so familiar… His head started to rattle as he struggled to held his consciousness, and this sudden shroud of pain confused him in no small degree. He could see glimpses of the same events… but with many more of the women… all ending up with one thing…

He saw that the women were killed… Guilt enveloped his body as anger dried his soul of any other emotions. He could only feel numb at such memory as he saw a particular figure, laughing before him as he kneeled to the ground with eyes filled with hatred. He felt as if he was about to burst and every part of his soul wanted only one thing… To destroy everything that had existed.

"KAHAHAHA! That face of yours~! HAHAHAH~! It fits you perfectly~."

"Man… You really did it… You really made me mad…"

The person's expression suddenly froze as Riku stood up with his eyes turning pitch black. The mana all around began to feel chaotic as they were also instilled with anger from within. His body was shrouded with this unknown force, blocking and destroying anything in its path.

As he took a step, everything seemed to cease to exist as the universe crumbled. Time was frozen, and nothing was working anymore, and pain and regret could be felt as the only emotions left… But, no, it suddenly changed. It was no longer those two emotions, but anger… never-ending anger as everything started to crumble to pieces.

"Kah…!"

I managed to get the pain that I felt out of my system, but all those memories… were instilled upon my head… And I knew nothing about it. I could only tremble as I remembered everything that happened in that scene—the horrible things that were shown, and the anger that was spread all throughout.

I could only shake my head as I slapped it a couple of times whilst I looked at the girls, who saw me in pain earlier. Seeing that scene in which I trembled, they immediately ran up to me, worried about me. I just felt happy inside as I saw them worrying about me, mostly because of the vision that I had… The girls in the picture... And all girls that I had made contact with… looked precisely the same… and an absolute fear, an emotion that I thought was completely gone in my heart, was aroused.

"Riku! Are you alright!?"

"Papa!"

"Yeah, I'm completely fine… well, Rosette told me just to visit tomorrow, and the armour should be done by then… Shall we go to an inn?"

I just said I'm fine, as indeed I was… I just felt something within my core that seemed to scream painfully. I felt as if I had awakened something too dangerous. I just told them that we should go to an inn, as they held my hands whilst Yumina seemed to hug my neck quite tightly… as she was distraught. I wanted to pinch her cute face lightly!

"Y-yea, we should."

"Okay. I saw an inn near the stables, and they should be fine."

I just smiled at them as they did not stop holding my arms, or perhaps clinging unto me. They were quite bold now, not afraid to keep me within their bodies, even in public. Maybe, I should show them who's boss… am I right?

I just looked at Elena and the others as I slapped their asses lightly, causing them to become fl.u.s.tered, but they could only smile shyly as they m.o.a.n.e.d a bit in p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e. With that, we walked out of the smithy. Just right back inside the smithy, inside the room wherein Rosette forged everything, or perhaps we should call it, a forgery. There seemed to be a particular gemstone that she held within her hands as she also attached it along with the dragon scales.

"They seemed to really react to him… He is the one. I… just hope that it won't end up like last time..."

Her eyes started to glow as she let the gemstone combine with the armour, causing it to glow in radiance as a certain aura seemed to leak through. There was a clock hanging around inside the forgery, and it started to slow down. In a couple of seconds, it began to go in a frenzy, making the time seemed to be unpredictable, and when it stopped, space around it distorted as it got s.u.c.k.e.d in as if a black hole. Rosette could only weakly sit down on the ground with a v-shape as her breathes were heavy, clearly exhausted.