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Chapter 33 – Downtime 1

  Waking up, Lumina smelt a beef like broth and saw that there was a bowl of freshly cooked beef stew with vegetables o her with a hat read to get well soon. Sitting up, she grabbed the bowl and spoon aly blew on it to cool it down before ption. Phew. After doing so, she slowly ed it finding it juid teo the tongue.

  After ing a soul lifting meal, she decided that it was best to stretch her legs and go for a walk to make sure her limbs and training wouldn't go to waste. Getting up, she found a cold bath pced to the opposite side of the room so Lumina undressed her bandages and underwear and got into the tub to the sweat and grime for being unscious and out of it for a couple of days.

  The water was freezing, causing goosebumps to appear on her skin as she inhaled a breath of air. Eventually l herself until the water goes above her shoulders, Lumis her mind wander in thought.

  Once a brief amount of time occurred, Lumina got out of the tuba and dried herself down with a nearby towel befetting dressed in her usual armour as she left the room. ing outside the door, she saw that she was in a long corridor where there was a young guard stationed outside.

  "Excuse me, do you happen to know the exit?" Lumina spoke up to gain their attention startling the puy.

  "Ahh! Jeez, don't scare me like that! *cough* A-Anyways, Lumina I presume? Please follow me as the knight ander wishes to speak with you."

  Following the young guard, she looks around the pces that she ends up going through and sees many different portraits and collectibles until they stop before a set of double doors in which the young guard knocks.

  Knoock

  "e in." A muffled sound was heard through the doors that sounded simir to An. Opening the doors, Lumina stepped in gazing upon a desk filled with paperwork in whi is seated with a couple of couches set up with a coffee table iween. "Sit down, I'll be with you in a moment."

  Lumina decided to take a seat on the empty coud ended up ting the nails on the wooden floorboards to pass the time. Waiting a few minutes An finally finished and sat down opposite her. "So... How are you feeling?"

  "Physically I feel fi mentally... Mentally I could be better."

  "I see... Well its in my best is to inform you that while we don't have determinate clues we believe that the trigger for this euation happened due to the atta Ternan at the hunters guild. It seems that he may have informed some... Unsavoury individuals of your existeo be clear, we are still iigating but I wao inform you of this just in case and to be careful iure."

  A moment of silence passed as Lumina processed this information Ternan? That motherfucker and his friends? Hmm... Looking back at An, she broke the sileh "Do I have permission to send a couple of my 'scouts' to infiltrate the slums to see if I find anything?"

  An raised a brow to that question and gave a little wry smile. "Sure, just don't get caught. I'll turn a blio that."

  Getting a firmation, Lumina got up and was led out of the knights headquarters to the astonishment of the other knights as they saw their knight ander personally escort someone making her feel a little embarrassed.

  Oside, Lumina decided it was best to head to the hunters guild to cim her reward from the previous mission before she does something to rex. Walking into the hunters guild, Lumina headed straight for the receptionist that issued the mission for her. "Hey, I'm back." The receptionist looked shocked before schooling her expression into a smile but Lumina noticed that the smile seemed a little stiff. Huh, she couldn't be involved with that could she?

  "H-hi, thank god your okay! About your mission, seeing as it was just an iigative report you o make and you didn't o involve yourself further but you did anyway along with Agreas reendation, we will award you with more points towards being a k hunter, as such, you will only o plete four more quests and a rank up exam to bee one."

  "Alright thank you very much." Lumina decided that now that was sorted she could go and have some fun for the rest of the day but before she left, she hid a spider shadow amongst the receptionists shadow due to her suspicious rea to seeing Lumina.

  Once she left the hunters guild, Lumina was unsure as to what to do, therefore, started a stroll amongst the residential district doing some people watg to witheir day to day lives such as menial arguments between husband and wife, kids annoying their parec. Eventually, she came across Sharron and Sheryl, a couple of old teammates and decided to py catch up with them.

  "Hey! Its been a while girl, how you doing?" Sheryl with a pep to her step, hugged Lumina and sounded cheery as she asked her while Sharron while nearly expressionless had a slight smile that she tried to hide.

  "I'm doing fine, Sheryl, Sharron I currently have nothing to do at the moment and I'm not sure what I do with my spare time."

  Gng at each others eyes, Sheryl and Sharron then looked back at Lumina before a mischievous smile graced Sheryl's lips. "Well what else is there to do other than go shopping of course!" After saying that, she grabbed hold of Lumina's shoulders, turned her around and started pushiowards the market district where there were a bunch of shops Lumina hasn't been to before. Feeling their enthusiasm, she decided it best to py along with them but even that put her troubles with killing for the first time out of mind.

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