Nomadic Odd Jobs : Saving The Children [Job/Solo]

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The black haired girl hummed softly while she tried to add all of the food into a basket, the melody was in her head since the first time she heard it and had taken a like into that soothing tone very much. Philippe taught her how to hum the tone when she visited him last time and she wondered if she could teach him something this time to pay him back for teaching her such a beautiful melody. Noir took some of her magic lesson book after decided to teach him one or two things about magic, she shoved the book inside the basket and stopping herself to add more things inside or it won’t fit.

Happiness flowing in her heart, it was like having a little brother to look after and she was glad to feel that way as she finally understood how it was to have a siblings even though she still wondered what was her older brother looked like. Noir shrugged it off, they were already a stranger for Noir as she couldn’t even remember them, nor having this longing feeling towards them no matter how hard she tried to when looking at the family picture. More importantly, they were no longer a living being so whatever the black haired did, she knew they will never reunite while she still on the mother earth inside at the great heaven.

As soon as she arrived at The Plains and walked to the farmer’s area, she could feel something different about the area. It filled with a strange vibe, felt like sorrow had infected the area and made the usually bright area to be a dark one. What happened… Noir thought to herself as she tried to observe the situation around the area. She twitched her eyes as she saw something odd in front of Philippe family’s house, the usual toy that Philippe and her sister played with was shattered into pieces. The black haired girl could just opened the house door but it would be too dangerous assuming something bad happened here, so she quickly put the basket down, walking to the back door and getting herself ready by taking out Nero from its holder. Noir breathed in the air to made herself calm and sneakily observe if there were really someone inside the house, she could hear something but it was not too clear and finally decided to entered the house.

Much to her surprise, the mother was sobbing inside, but Noir couldn’t sense anyone else beside her mother and quickly approached her. The black haired girl asked the mother but she noticed the emptiness inside the mother’s eyes, she was consumed by her own sorrow and couldn’t think straight anymore unless she saw her own children again. The girl quickly headed to the other house and found the same situation as well, and after visiting more than 10 houses there, the situation was the same. Fortunately, several people who were not consumed by sorrow could help Noir to know what had happened in the area. Apparently, a number of children were kidnapped in these several days but no matter how hard they searched for the kidnappers, they couldn’t find it now getting any information about it. Several parents were gathering money to hire someone to save their children, but it seemed that the money was not enough since nobody wanted to take the offer. “I don’t need the money…” Noir said and left the area to find for the culprit’s whereabouts.

It was like the story of Pied Piper of Hamelin where the children suddenly disappeared without trace in one night from a city called Hamelin. The piper kidnapped all the children when the townspeople refused to pay him after he got rid all the rats from the town by using the instrument. Noir wondered if that story was possible to happen, if the story was real then the piper must be using some kind of a magic to make the kid followed him without a trace. Noir sneered as she found a trace, turned out the kidnapper was not as clever as the piper as he left something that was not from the farm area. The girl picked a white colored flower petal from the ground; it withered a little but still recognizable, she remembered seeing this kind of flower at the furthest hill at The Plains Area and straightly went there. It was quite hard to get there since the sun started to rise high and unleashed its heat towards the earth, but the yellow magician kept moving on, searching at every hills and area until the sun was not very high anymore. She wondered why she couldn’t find the kidnappers anywhere and starting to doubt the clue she found earlier, but she kept walking until she found something unexpected, a hidden cave that was located under the hills and it was pretty hard to notice the place.

She carefully watched from above and noticed there was one guard there guarding the cave, she knew the place must be right even though she had no proof. Noir sneakily cast Fulmine Lancia after carefully measuring their current gap turned out to be only 15 meters, successfully making the guard knocked down. The girl proceeded to climbed down and observing the situation first before finally entered the small cave just to find nothing inside it, nobody was there. “Killer Wind”

Noir wanted to cast a spell but she was too late and the spell smashed her borg, leaving her with no protection. She noticed there are three of them; all were holding a wand and ready to attack. The girl whispered to the rukh and cast Thunder Bullets to make it hit two people at once. The remaining kidnappers clicked his tongue and cast Icy Spear which was quickly dealt by using Noir’s Lightning Whip when the spear’s remaining gap was 10 meters from her. “Tch! Just give up already little girl! Or we will sell you as a slave like what we are going to do with all those children! Heh! You will be a worthless slave!”

“Why… do people like you even exist in this God forsaken world?” The yellow magician was angered and it made her eyes changed from golden to crimson red, she let the anger consumed her as she cast Parafulmine and making  red colored lightning strike descend downwards towards the kidnapper. “Fulmine Nero II…” the last spell overkill the kidnappers. It was the first time she ever had to kill a people, it felt… bad. But she couldn’t care for such person and quickly headed outside to find the children, she noticed that the children were afraid of her and when one of the children mentioned about her red eyes, Noir’s body twitched and she hesitated to take them back while trying to cover her eyes. “Hey, big sister.” A child’s voice called her and it was Philippe’s voice, “Let’s go back…? I missed my mom…” He said while holding Maya, his little sister and approached Noir, “Don’t worry, your eyes are not bleeding anymore, it’s the usual golden color.”

Enlightened by the comfort from the little child, Noir stood up and taking all the children back to the farms area where the parents forced the girl to take the rewards. The black haired girl excused herself after accepting the rewards even though she didn’t want it, bringing back the empty basket she brought earlier after sharing the foods with the kids. On her way back, she noticed her hands were trembling hard, and she closed her golden orbs, I killed a person…

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WC: 1273/1000
Magoi : 70/200

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