After coming to the bookshop, their next stop was a badge emporium, or so what was it said on its entrance.
"Good morning, Sir."
The attendant greeted them as soon as they walked inside the store.
"This is where we will going to get your badge so that next time you come here, you can enter even without my presence."
Eugene explained and Abby just nodded her head without saying a word.
'This is it. This is really is it.'
Abby thought to herself as the realization that she was plunging herself to the world of unknown and even getting a badge of her own, slowly dawned at her.
"You'll get used to it, eventually."
As though sensing her building up agitation, Eugene gave her some words of reassurance.
Due to being busy managing the bags and walking at the same time, Abby failed to notice the incoming creature carrying a sack of weapon along her way.As a result, the two collided with one another and due to the huge difference in their size Abby was obviously on the disadvantageous side.The other party was like thrice the size of a normal man's height combined. It had six bulky arms attached in its body; all carrying a sack of their own.Although the other party managed to evade her at the last minute and only hit her side lightly, the sudden collision still made Abby lost her balance and she fell on the ground.Abby grazed her knees in the process but she did not notice it right away."Sorry"The other party muttered with his extremely big and deep voice. The other party leave as soon as he helped her up.
But then after fooling around, Eugene went back to the topic at hand and asked Abby again where did she get her injury."You can't seem to walk properly. What happened?""Someone bumped at me along the way and I fell on my feet. I sprained my left foot on the process due to that."Abby finally decided to tell the other party what really happened when she saw genuine concern from his eyes."You sure had a way of injuring yourself. Even when I first saw you, I already knew that you are clumsy. Try to be more careful next time"Eugene said then he bent on his knees, to look at Abby's fresh wound."Is this from that accident as well?"He said referring to the grazed skin that Abby had on her knees.
"We still have one last stop. But this time, I need you to behave."Eugene warned Abby with a stern expression.'Err? What is that for? It was not like I am unruly, right?'Abby thought to herself but nodded her head silently."I am serious Abby. Don't touch anything once we are inside the necro store. Most of the items there were cursed so you have to be extra careful.""Alright, I understand. Don't worry master I will not touch anything there. I promise."Abby swore and even raised her right hand to up complete her pledge.When they arrived at the store, Eugene instructed her to seat at the corner. But before leaving her alone, he found the need to warn her one last time."Remember
After stopping by at the necro store, Eugene finally decided to go home.Abby did not have an idea what he did in that store and she also did not mention to the other party the thing about the weird lady.It took them almost half the day to finish buying everything. Good thing that, Abby already bought groceries the other day so all left to her now was to cook and prepare for lunch."Hello, master. Hello, little girl. Welcome back."Jorah greeted them as soon as they arrived."Did you get me a treat???"He asked afterward and then he gave Eugene an expectant look. His pupils dilated as his eyes went wide as that of an adorable puppy eye and Abby found it cute.In fact, even Eugene could not resist Jorah's cuteness whenever the cat did that."Of course, I brought you so
"Believe me, it just a waste of time. Befriending people and giving them your trust was like allowing more people to betray you.""Why are you so pessimistic about your views in life? It is not always like that! You know what? If only have the money and opportunity like you? I would probably be the happiest girl alive. If only I am as rich as you are. I would go to college and make a lot of friends. Perhaps, I might even search for my love interest ....."Abby said with a dreamy sigh."Maybe I could even get a chance to meet Bryan more often."She whispered."And who is this Bryan, you were referring to?""Huh? Who's Bryan. Nothing! Don't mind him, I am not even supposed to mention his name."Abby said in agitation then she slapped her talkative mouth and lips."So a childhood sweetheart then???"Eugene probed and seeing the other party blush, he felt like teasing her more."Of course not! I told you it's nothing.""Then why are you getting all so worked up with just the mention of thi
"Too noisy..."Out of the blue, Eugene started descending down the stairs. Then in the next instant, Abby found herself floating in the air, which did not come as a surprise to her anymore.In fact, she already grew quite used to it now since the other party often did that to her as he reckoned that it was good practice for her to overcome her fear of heights."Eugene put me down. Look what you have done? Our clothes got mixed up again."She said but there was no hint of annoyance in her voice as she was still feeling over the clouds knowing what the other party had done for her.Eugene also brought her down the floor afterward but he was caught off guard when Abby ran to his arms. The other party hugged him tightly due to her mixed up emotion of excitement and delight that she was feeling.Eugene remained frozen on the spot as he did not know what to react. Abby on the other hand, pulled away awkwardly when she realized what she had done.Due to her over excitement, she ended up huggi
After that short but awkward encounter at the living room, Abby's day went on pretty much normal as how it was on usual days.She did the laundry, cleaned every nooks and cranny of the house, then she also prepared the meal, do the dishes, and repeat!Jorah was there to assist here and there, but obviously, almost all of the works were done by Abby, herself since the cat could not exactly cover enough household chores by himself alone.Her task revolved almost everything that a housekeeper would normally do. Nothing out of ordinary, which was somehow contrary to what she initially expected.Signing an apprenticeship contract with not just an ordinary man but a warlock made Abby think that she would eventually have to get used to dealing with things related to sorcery.However, living with Eugene under the same roof for a month, she came to realize that her prejudice was unfounded since it did not seem that the other party even have any plan of having her do or touch anything related to
Going out of her room, Abby realized that the house was nearly empty."Hmmm... They must have been in the secret room again."She told herself as she started making her way to the said room.'Secret Room' was what Abby used to call the chamber where Eugene brought her the first time they met to have her signed the blood contract.But after that night, Abby had been kept out of the room and she never visited it again. Firstly because there was no way for her to enter the room without Eugene's consent.The room would only open itself once Eugene did his hocus pocus and obviously, Abby could not duplicate even a portion of what he was doing. Even though it looked just as simple as randomly tapping on the brick walls."EHEM!"Standing outside, just before what she believed to be the entrance of the room, Abby deliberately cleared her throat first before deciding to announce her presence."Eugene???? Are you there???"She called out of thin air, but even after waiting for a few seconds, she