5 Chapter 4 (1/2)
After selling the magic stones, Nex earned quite the fortune so now he was going to do the next step, getting a house.
With the amount of money he now had, he could get a house almost in every part of the town so what he has to do now was only to choose where, since living in a high-class area will probably cause him to mingle with troublesome people, he set his way to more normal districts.
While he tours one of the districts, Nex suddenly froze and looked toward a certain direction, there, was a small apartment building that has on one of its windows a ”for rent” sign. While unclear emotions raging in his eyes, Nex walks into the building.
***
In an empty of property, looked at each other, one was Nex who tried to look respectful although he was still wearing his weird clothes from before, the other was an extremely beautiful young lady that looked just past the early twenties, she had a clear black hair and blue, sapphire-like eyes, her body has matured perfectly with large chest and shapely bottom all the while keeping a thin waist, in other words, another top-level beauty!.
”So let me get, you, an A-rank Hunter, want to rent a shabby apartment and live in a mid-class neighborhood instead of a top-level villa in an exclusive compound full of luxury.” concluded the young lady.
”Yes” answered Nex with a smile.
”Haa,” she massaged her temples, ”you know its suspicious with you popping out of nowhere and asking to rent the apartment like that right?”
”This…” Nex rubbed the back of his head, ”is there any way for me to get your trust? I really want to live here.”
Seeing the sincerity in his look, the young lady sighed and said: ”start by telling me your backstory, I don't want to enter my building someone I do not even know the name of.”
Having his face turn from hopeful to complicated, finally opened his mouth, ”then let's start by my name, my name is Nexus but I prefer Nex, and about my past, there isn't a lot I can say. A lot of time ago when very young, I found myself agreeing to what was once my dream job but which soon after was found out to be a scam,”Nex had a face like he trying to not sink to melancholy,” and from that moment my life turned to a nightmare, every day was a constant fight for survival without any chances for breaks. The ones who I thought of friends proved they actually the opposite and the ones that I thought of as enemies were found out as friends when it was too late. But luckily I grew strong along the way, strong enough to escape the reality I was trapped. And because of all that happened, I decided that I will live a normal life of peace and quiet, so can I please live here?. He finished with an honest face full of hope.
'If she is similar to the one I know, then she would probably sense that I'm speaking the truth and would start crying and comforting me.' thought Nex under his expression.
And indeed the face of the young lady turned soft, while she looked at him as if she is about to console him.
Nex sighed internally 'As I thought, she is the same type as the one I-'
”Get out.”
”...huh?”
***
Sitting outside on the sidewalk Nex sighed with dumbfounded emotions.
'”You heard what I said, get out. Not only you are acting shady with your intention you also come out with a third-rate backstory that doesn't give real information of where you were or what you did in your past. only a full will not think you don't have some issues.”' he remembered the words the young lady said with an angry face while she shooed him away with a broom.
'Since when did people with that type of soul would act that… fierce' but for some reason, he thought that it oddly suited this girl and even found it adorable.
He then quickly shook his head, 'these damn emotions its a bit more hard to control then I thought. Anyway, I thought I could do this slowly without her being aware, but it seems like I need to take a more direct approach.' thought while entering back to the building.
*Knock**Knock**Knock*
”Yes, what is it?”
Said the young lady while opening the door, only to have her face crumpled when she saw who stood behind it.
”Oh it's you, don't even if you a Hunter, the police-'”
”Listen to me for only one minute, and then if you want me to go, I will not bother you anymore,” he said while looking into her eyes.
Staring at him back and seeing the seriousness in his eyes, the young lady sighed.
”You have one minute.”
”Thank you,” Nex smiled and then his face turned back serious and he began to speak.
”Did you ever feel like you aren't really connected to the rest of the world? feel like almost everything is an illusion?”
Just with those two simple questions, the young lady expression froze and she stared at him with shock.
”You-”
”Did you also,” ignoring her, Nex continued, ”when you were young, made people feel great pain every time you touched them? No, I think this also true for today if you don't keep your emotions under control.”
These words were like a knife to her heart, she knew he was speaking the through but from the surprise, she couldn't even close her mouth.
Looking at her reaction, Nex expression softened as he finished: ”I know what your condition is and if it won't get treated, it will start to hurt not only you but also the ones close to you, and that's the reason why I wanted to live here, because I wanted to help you and make sure you won't hurt anyone by mistake.” after saying those words, Nex looked at her waiting for her reply.
The young lady stared at Nex with a complicated gaze until she finally sighed and entered back into her house, after the sound of a short conversation was heard, the door opened again and the young lady came out again.
”Let's speak about this in another place,” she said shortly.
***
”I want you to tell me everything you know.”
The young lady said while walking alongside Nex on the street.
Nodding, Nex begins to speak: ”your situation has a few names in where I was, but if you ask me, I prefer to call it OverSoul,” he stopped for a moment and then started to explain: ”you see, we humans consist of two halves, the body, and the soul, the soul is our spiritual essence of what we are, while the body is the corporeal essence, and together they complement each other keep each other at balance.”