Cha ching!
"That will be 4.2 dollar"
midnight already my shift is over it's time to head home
My name is Roy Taylor, working full time and convenience store, barely make enough to make ends meet
"Leaving already Roy?"
Bounce
The blone woman with huge melons here is my senior, name Alice Lewis, she always been kind to meet since I started working here
"Y..yes" Roy move his eyes away trying to not look at the melons
"Then please stay safe, there's alot of people dissappear recently"
"I'll keep that in mind alice" yes there's news report of a few missing people, I too should be careful
ding dong
The automatic door slide opened and Roy walking back home
"That street light, when are they going to fix it?"
Roy looks at the broken street light that's doesn't light for weeks now, but his mind it's on that street light that he doesn't pay enough attention to the street
Luckily no truck
But lightning suddenly struck him
...
Somehow he survived
"Sniff, h-huh"
Roy is crying, but not for the joy of surviving, but at his hospital bill
"How many months for me to be able to pay off this?"
Next day at his shift, Alice pat Roy on the back trying to cheers him up
"We glad to have you back" Alice then stick a heart shape sticker in his hat
"What that's for?" Roy blushes
"That the sign that you have my support" she smile brightly
"Thank you Alice" Roy whipped off his tears because he have work to do
ding dong
Then a black haired woman with a lot of scars on her body walk in and buy one pack of cigarettes, but then she noticed Roy's tree looking lightning scar
Then she lean over the counter and touch Roy's lightning scar
"Uh... miss?"
"You're inheritor?"
"Inheritor? My relatives are all still doing well though?" Roy scratches his head in confused
"Hehe, Hahahhaah I see, I see!" Then she's walking out while laughing with that pack of cigarettes
"Hey ma'am you forgot to pay!" Roy run out of the store, but she's already gone
"... what a weird way to steal?"
"Roy! Can I borrow your phone for a second?" Alice shouting from inside the store
"Sure, why though?" Roy ran back in the store
"I want to called my grandma but It's seems like my phone doesn't found any signal"
Then Roy check his phone too, and there's no signal either
"Huh? Uh, Sorry, mine too"
"The problem is with signal not my phone huh?"
"Seems like it"
"Wonder if there's anything disturbing the signal"
...
Later that night at the end of Roy shift
"Actually stay safe this time alright?"
"Come on Alice, lightning won't struck me twice right?"
"Of course I just kidding, see you tomorrow" Alice waved
"See you tomorrow"
As roy walk in the same way home, he saw a flickering light
*bleep.... bleep*
"They already fixed it? Why are they flickering though?" It's the same street light, and Roy go to take a closer look
"W-what?" Roy gasped as he see badly injured woman sitting under that street light, there's a blood all over her body, and he's immediately rushing to her
"Are you alright?, wait here! I'll call ambulance" Roy reaching in his pocket to pick his phone but he suddenly remembered that there's no signal "Dammit"
Injured woman stared at him and his scar Then grabbed his hand "Please help me" then she fall unconscious
Badum Badum
Roy heart suddenly beating fast after hearing her voice
Help? But how? I guess there's no choice
Roy carry her back to his room and gave her some first aid, he ended up letting blood stains on his clothes
"She's seems fine now... even though she's full of blood earlier" Roy stared at her emerald hair and eyes "so pretty" then he's also collapsed of the exhaustion
...
That night he dreamed
Dreamed that he's floating in a lake
"Where am I?" Roy stand up then look around, trying to make sense of what going on
Then there's a sword coming out of water
...
Next morning
"Last night wasn't a dream huh?" Roy looks at the unconscious mysterious girl, she's seems to be fully healed now, then finally notice her tree looking lightning scar on her chest
She's also have struck by a lightning huh? Dammit, last night I'm so exhausted that I didn't see this scar when I aid her
Then he pulled out a phone and try to called ambulance again but still no signal
Well I can't leave her alone, I'll call in sick for today ... sh*t I can't make a call
I don't know how it happens but she's seems to be fully recovered now, so I guess I can leave her here and go to work for now
"But how could I do that!" Roy keep staring at her
How can I leave her alone unconsciously when she's this pretty, I'll just absent from work today then
Then Roy spends the entire day taking care of her
later that night, she's finally awake
"Oh? Feeling better?" Roy sitting half asleep are also now fully awake
"Are we safe now" she's looking around the room
"I don't know what's happening, but you have been sleeping here for almost a full day now, want to eat anything?" Her voice are also really good
"Where are they" she's shaking while taking
"They...?"
Then suddenly, the window breaks open, and skeleton rushing in his room
"Wtf are these!!??"
Then the mystery girl grabbed his hand tackle the skeleton and jumped out the window
"You don't know what going on!?" She running and bring Roy with her
"What are those things!? What's going on!" Roy scared
Then the mysterious girl suddenly tipped and fall, she still haven't fully recovered
"A-are you okay?"
"Run! Go without me!"
"How can I do that!?"
Then Roy carried her on his back and runs, but when he's running away, he got hit by one arrow, but he's can keep running without a problem
Huh? Is it supposed to hurt this less?
But then they got cornered and got nowhere to run
Dammit! What do I do?
"U-use this..." she got off his back and suddenly a spear appeared out of the mysterious woman arm
I've never fight before I don't even know what's going on"but I guess there's no choice" Roy accepted a spear from her
"Aagh!!" Roy lauching himself at the enemy and attacking them brainlessly
He's somehow managed to killed some of the skeleton swordmens, but got shot by a lot of arrow, his body his covered in blood
Huff huff
There's still too many of them, if things keep going on like this, I will... we will...
Then suddenly skeleton mage that seems to be thier leader came out and speak to them
"You, if you gave that woman to us, we will spare you, I don't want to lose more minions, and you don't want to die right?" Skeleton mage pointing thier finger at the mysterious girl
They can speak? "Why? What do you want her for?" Roy hold the spear tightly
"You see, she disturbing our mission, we can't let anyone that get in our way live"
... I can't die like this, there's still many things I want to do
"So what's your decision"
I still have many close one, still have my family
Roy take a look at the beautiful person behind him, and the answer is obvious
"No"
"I see, so you've chosen death" the mage gave a sign for his minion to start attacking
Suddenly a sword appears in front of him, the same sword that appears in his dreams
"Unbilevable! Did this bastard just got chosen for inherent just now!" The mage slowly back away in disbelieve
The girl also surprise, but more because of the sword itself than the situation
"It's can't be, is that Arondight?"