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Chapter 3 - Determination

Aeries sets off to the east-west from his point of view, back side of from falling water. Though it seems dawn by the position of stars and the memory, Aeries is thinking as the time between morning and noon or most probably noon in the earth. Despite being morning, star shining brightly the forest seems like greyish.

Suddenly Aeries sees a greyish leaf, mostly colored like if dark ash color mixed with olive color in high temperature, falling in front of him. At a first glance, Aeries becomes stunned by this color. Pressing the forehead for a time, he realizes it is the normal color of the trees of this world.

"What will happen if a scientist is just teleported here from the heart?" he thinks,"He will sure describe it as the new species to be found and fight for Nobel prize."

Aeries controls his laugh strongly. In a moment of a single heart bit, he finds some bird like creature chirping and flying in a folk. These birds are most likely to be looked like the pigeons but with big beaks and wings. He hears a voice coming from the southern part from here. He is now confused if he should follow this path or not.

After all, Aeries keeps all his accidents in his faith to be happened, he follows this part. He is actually becoming stunned every time he sees something. But in a moment it is all because of his memory in earth not this world.

"Though I was feeling weak last night mostly, I am now better than yesterday. Is it because I accepted my fate or just a miracle or something in this world happening?"

After walking for mostly thirty minutes in a row without taking rest for a while, he reaches to the exit of the forest. He now clearly sees someone from a distant place. With a vague view from this distance, it seems like a market.

Aeries now checks his bag again if he can manage to open the bag. He sees a lock hanging with the chain. No matter how many times Aeries tries to open it will not without key or something heavy to break. Aeries is searching something with which he can break the lock. He finds a mini size rock shaped like football. He is beating the lock again and again. After a while, the lock breaks.

He searches in the bag to find something. He finds a brass steel ball no written over it. He keeps it outside the bag finding no advantages with it. He again searches in the bag but finds no thing in the bag.

The ball starts to reflect on the light. It is enough neat and clean to see anyone's face in it. Aeries is nodding the ball with left hand until he sees someone in the surface of the ball.

He finds a face pale but not a dark color. This face is full of scratches but the scratches are removing faster and faster but keeping some marks. There is a circle wound mark over the left eye brow, older than the rest, clean-edged as if once pierced by something sharp and deliberate. That one did not fade away. His face is slightly beardy having a pointer mustache. The nose is long than a usual man should have. It is the eyes that holds him a bit and shocks him. The eyes are wider and the pupils are of dark blue color which carries a deep hue, like a deep ocean where light could never reach in decades.

He raises his hand to rub his face hesitantly as if this were not his face. For a while, Aeries simply gazed at the ball with a hesitant smile, unable to look away. He can't make believe himself he is into someone now. From the view, he is sure of one thing that Aeries was still a boy when he transferred into his body.

All the wounds were indicating that Aeries were in some trouble though he couldn't remember that memory. He is sure of one thing he was dead for a moment until Alex comes from the earth unknowingly or unconsciously.

"Was I transferred here to save Aeries?"

He stands up and looks around his body. The height is actually same like Alex watched in the website.

"That means I am now in the body of the helping sound!!!"

With this realization, he doesn't care whether he was summoned here intentionally or not. Alex is determined to find mystery of the death of Aeries.

"That means his family was killed. Aeries was mentioning some kind of lord and divine throne. It likes this is the government type in the earth."

After a few stop in the stormy mind, he just looks up at the sky, carrying something like a duty, he said to himself

"I am now Aeries Vangrove, not anyone else from today."

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At the entrance of the market, there is a bill board, written Minisio Traders. Aeries wants to buy something to devour to meet his hunger. There are only mini shops but in tent shape, a thatched roof made of only soft cotton like cloth, actually it can't be called cloth. It is known as Spirit-woven Fabric.

Aeries stands in front of a such like shop. There he sees human like creature not properly a human. His eyes are narrow in the hole and ears are long but not much like an elephant.

"Is there any kind of dry food?" asks Aeries, with a hesitant voice following through his lips.

The shopkeeper was busy in counting coins and notes. Sudden question annoyed him. "Yes, what do you want?"

"Anything in low price," he replies with a shimmering voice.

Before entering he made sure he had some money in his back pocket in his pant that was almost torn apart.

"A bread and an egg?"

"How much?"

"One Brask."

But Aeries has eight Vellin and two Hellicon in his pocket. He thinks to bargain with the shopkeeper.

"Can you keep it for eight Vellin?"

"Fixed price."

Aeries has no interest in bargaining for food at this moment. Finding no way, he gives one Hellicon from his pocket.

"Here is the change."

Taking the food and the change, he moves forward. Aeries looks back to the shop again and sees someone talking with that shopkeeper.

That man is actually looking like a human. With a not clear view from distant, he sees that man passing some kind of small folded paper to the shopkeeper and whispering to him secretly. It is a strange matter looking for the first time.

"Oh man, I forgot to ask whose egg this is. By the way, how do I know the currency of this world?"

In this world, there are four types of coins available for middle and lower class family actually. There are hardly any middle class people affording any type of note out of three notes. There is a colloquialism that one piece of the lowest value note is enough for living four months without even working. Brask is made of bronze like metal which is equivalent to fourteen steel Vellin. Ten consequent Brask can make up to a Hellicon which is made of silver. Twenty Hellicon is enough to make an equality to Caelis. Caelis is actually the mixture of gold and silver. Silver is mostly seen in the portion rather than gold.

Ignoring this thought he focuses to eat the bread. The bread is too dry to eat. Anyway out of his hunger, Aeries grasped bread and egg in two minutes. The egg tasted not like from hen or duck. It is from another creature.

A faint voice is yelling Aeries for several times but Aeries doesn't give much attention to that, thinking it is his mistake. Suddenly the same voice appeared in the back. This time it is louder.

"Aeries, Aeries," yells a young boy aged in twenty. "Where have you been all these time?"

He turns back to see who is yelling at him. This face is familiar to him. This is none other than Aeries' only best friend Varion.

"Hey Varion, I am always here," Aeries replies.

"I am not asking for now. Where were you for two days? I didn't find you in your house."

"I was dead."

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