For Tomorrow

"Thank you for your patronage at Allen's Adventurer Shop! Please come and visit us again soon."

After finishing our shopping at the establishment for emergency supplies, our current party of two, me and Yuna, went ahead to the forest for our gray horned wolves subjugation quest that'll serve as testing of what I could do after the studies and training I had under her and her sister.

The lovely elf's in good mood since morning.

"Caesar, this is their location." whispered Yuna who had her weapons ready to be drawn in case things went wrong in our quest.

"Understood, 3 targets at 2 o'clock, distance 50.69 meters." Drawing one of my revolvers with my right hand, I immediately sprinted towards one of the concealments with 6 pieces of normal 45 ACP chambered in.

These 45 ACP bullets were enough to kill all of them; thank John Moses Browning, the Patron Saint of the 1911, for inventing one of my favorite cartridges of all time.

'Now it's 40.1 meters.' Using a single-hand method that was like an off-hand method of pointing the gun at the intended target except that I'm an ambidextrous, being the guy ridiculously proficient with revolvers, knowing the timing and feeling confident of my shot placements, in a matter what felt like seconds, I fired a single well-placed shot each at 'sure-kill' zones with one of them, a headshot.

Turning my back on them, I walked my way back to Yuna who had a calm look in time for me to hear 3 dead bodies dropping to the ground.

"I will never get used to it." jokingly commented Yuna. "It was all blur."

I laughed at her joke. "Can't be helped. My father figure and teachers from my former life molded me who I am as a marksman and a shooter."

"Interesting." remarked Yuna. "Will you share us some of your stories?"

"Sure, I will. Got plenty of tales to tell." I answered Yuna as I turned and looked at the corpses of the wolves behind. "Right, let's store the corpses."

"I'll do it." volunteered Yuna.

"Thanks a lot, Yuna."

"You're welcome."

Watching her producing a magic storage bag that made me thought of a making a better one, she went over to the corpses to safely store them for our turning in the quest.

'7 more years for age of ceremony.... this will be a long game in this world.'

"Caesar, it's time for you to be enrolled."

"Understood."

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While Caesar's party were about to return from the hunt, in the MacMillan Estate at Skyspring, a spar between Rhea and Alessia concluded with Rhea's win as the other black-haired maid helped Alessia up to her feet.

"Thanks, Rhea-chan." thanked Alessia. "I appreciate it."

"That's what I do with my trusted friends." said Rhea with her small smile. "It gives me back the time when Young Master asked the madam to watch our spar for the first time."

"Aha, now that I think of it, he looked for you first." cheekily commented Alessia.

"He did. You and Sasame were about to commence magic-only sparring at that moment."

Like the rest of the maids who stood by Caesar's side, Rhea get along with her Young Master. She remembered how curious he was in learning magic, knowledge, and a piece of history. Unarmed sparring lessons aside, at one time, her young master joked and complimented how lucky he was able to have a maid who has beautiful eyes in such a way that only a single person will be lucky to see it every single day. Not that she would complain. She was one of his personal maids who loved and trusted Caesar. She saw what he could do with his device. It interested her. She couldn't wait how far will her young master grow and look after he returns.

Sheathing back her sword while smiling, Rhea looked at Sasame who had a faraway look as the siren's sheathed nodachi lay on the bench.

Ever since Caesar showed his magical device and went to the capital without them, the black-haired siren was more determined in training and learning lately. The older black-haired maid was with Caesar since he was a infant. She knew her young master the best slightly and like all of his maids, cared for him. She remembered how happy she was when the curious young master asked what's Yamato looked like and what were the things needed to know there including the pre-Angevine Yamato. But she had forgotten something to tell and entrust to her master. That magical device of her adorable young master, she knew what it was. She wanted to tell Caesar about her secret. She heard stories about the hero who unified Freival. She trusted him and he trusted her, she saw the nature of her young master. She wanted herself to tell young master about what she had. She'll make sure of it after Caesar returns.

'Goshujin-sama, I'll show you who I am.' thought Sasame, slightly unware of Rhea and Alessia observing her.

'/ understand the feeling Sasame-chan. Goshujin-sama is close to our hearts' 'She missed Young Master too.' thought Alessia and Rhea in understanding since they're Caesar's lovely maids.

"Good to see they're all here." a voice called out, revealing a newly arrived, Theresa who had Suzu and Anya right behind the smiling legal loli. The adopted daughters both wore a smile. "My cute Caesar has a message for you all. I recommend reading it privately."

'Goshujin-sama has a message for us?'