Chapter 2: Chapter 2
After they pass through the gates Wilhelm is casually buying things he needs while Runa is following him around. He carried the food he brought making one of his hands full. The crowd started to form, there was a small commotion. Two drunk men were fighting inside the town, and Wilhelm watched the fight. It was just your average misunderstanding between two drunkards.
He was busy watching the fistfight because he was curious about who would win it but then he noticed Runa trembling, her hand was cold as he held it. She's afraid of people, and with her past experience, she clearly wouldn't forget how it feels like to be a slave where she witnessed and felt how people treat them. She's having trouble around people. The only thing that she could convince herself was that her current owner was a weird one, different than the previous ones, she could differentiate the difference with people's vibes through living a harsh life and Wilhelm didn't feel malicious instead he gave out a tranquil vibe after being held by him calmed her down a little.
Wilhelm pulled Runa away from the crowd he figured that the crowd was the cause of her trembling state.
"It was getting way too crowded, let's go somewhere else," he said as he dragged her away. Wilhelm chose places where there were fewer people. Runa has trauma that's one thing he understands, even if he heals her body, the mental and emotional damage were not included during the healing process. While venturing through his thoughts, he was thinking and formulating a spell that involved the memory of the human brain and body.
'What would happen if I were to try manipulating her memory? Will she forget about her trauma? Tampering her memories would do the thing. It could but even so, the body would still have certain reactions only to some extent. It's what people call muscle memory where your body naturally reacts to something that you kept experiencing or doing for a long time and if that were to happen by adding another set of magical functions that erases the memories of the body should do the trick but if I make a mistake then it would completely ruin her body's coordination and might destroy her senses where she might end up in a vegetative state'
He was diving deep into his thoughts and had come up with solutions. The only thing that stops him is the risk of harming Runa. Wilhelm was taught by his parents to treat living creatures as 'living creatures' and to know his limitations with his experiments. Therefore his ideas can't be performed as they still have a risk factor.
They left the town after buying things he needed including women's clothes for Runa and other essentials and went outside the town. The reason why he needed to go outside instead of teleporting inside the town was because it's illegal to use magic inside the town. That's why he would always wait until they reached a certain distance away from the gates to use his magic.
He teleported along with Runa back to his house, he prepared the table and placed the food on top of it. It was plenty for one person, he wanted to share the meal with Runa but she refused to eat with him, saying, "A s-slave s-should n-not share the s-same table as the m-master"
The way she kept stuttering is the result of her being constantly abused which developed as a habit. She's a slave and slaves do not share meals with their masters. Slaves only eat the leftover meals and are sometimes not fed at all, taking that into consideration Wilhelm intentionally brought a lot of food in case she refused him. He doesn't want to force someone to eat with him, it will only make the food taste bad if he did. Therefore he decided to leave her the remaining food.
"Hey Runa, I'll head to my room now, Do you remember your room? It's next to my room so don't enter through the wrong door Also, you can have those leftovers and care to use the chair I have two of them after all and also don't forget to clean the plates after eating, the spoils go with the can next to the sink"
Wilhelm instructed as he climbed the stairs and went to his room.
Runa was left alone with a pile of warm food on the table, enough to fill her belly full. She planned to not use the chair but Wilhelm told her to use it, she couldn't refuse orders. The food left on the table is still warm and most of them were untouched. She was grateful for the leftovers from her new master.
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Wilhelm was reading a book inside his room it's his habit to read books when he has free time, he used magic that screens him images inside the house, and he could see Runa sitting on the chair he sat on while eating the remaining food. It made him smile,
"I wonder what's your plan for making me do this? I'm curious as to why I bought a slave you know? You're telling me that I'll take care of a slave? Well, it's not like I have something against slaves. Anyway, it doesn't matter now, as long as she's with me I'll have her experience a life without being bound by chains... Carefree? Aha! Look who's talking! Aren't you having leisure time chatting with me? Guardian of the Rowas Sea, Lagus the Sea Serpent? Anyhow you're telling me to help her recover her mental health? Well, it's not like I can refuse you"
They were exchanging words through telekinesis, Wilhelm just couldn't hold his mouth shut. People would sometimes think of him as a completely insane person as he sometimes talks to himself but they do not know that he's having conversations with spirits and guardians. These spirits can hide themselves to the point that the human senses can't detect. Only by using your sixth sense allows you to see them, the sixth sense or the spiritual sense can make you view the world from a different perspective. Creatures are granted with sixth sense the moment they develop magic inside their body. The performance of the spiritual sense relies on the capability of the vessels. Someone with a weak spiritual sense isn't granted with a clear vision the spiritual sense is a lens that allows you to see or feel things clearly, if you're poor and can't afford good glasses then you'll see things in a blurry way. Wilhelm continued his chat with Lagus until he slept but they continued to talk inside his dream.
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Wilhelm wakes up around noon, he stretches his body as he changes his clothes. His hand reached for the knob as he feels someone else's presence inside his house. He took a peek using magic and saw Runa waiting behind his door, he forgot that he bought her yesterday only to remember it when he saw her face. Wilhelm opened it, and the sound of clanking made her jolt.
"G-good morning..!" She greeted him and offered a bow. Runa doesn't know what she is supposed to do inside the house therefore she waits for Wilhelm to get out of his room and give her orders.
"Good morning, Runa. Although I'm pretty sure I wake up around noon as a habit but oh well it's still considered as morning, I guess. Anyways are you hungry? Have you eaten yet?"
Runa shook her head sideways,
"I c-can't possibly e-eat on my a-accord" she replied. He hummed as he was thinking of a way to make her not act like a slave and even if she were to eat on her own accord there was no food available inside the house but he forgot about that problem and only to remember it later on.
"I got an idea. Runa, As your master I order you--" It brought out her trauma, he saw her fearful eyes for a moment, and her body trembled as she heard those set of words. "-- ah... I forgot that you had bad memories about this kind of thing"
He lowered himself, to make himself look harmless, he slowly reached for her hand while maintaining eye contact.
"I don't plan to harm you" he kneeled with one leg, and she stopped her tremble the moment Wilhelm softened his voice. Wilhelm was glad to use his father's advice he still recalled it like it was yesterday
'Listen son! Whenever a girl is mad, sad, sulking, or feeling another form of negative emotions, always approach them gently, and make yourself look small so that they could ease up a bit. Women tend to love small animals after all, that's why I always make myself small when your mom is angry haha!' He applied it and miraculously it worked, he thought that his father was just saving face for not being able to go against his mother but witnessing it take effect made him acknowledge his father's teaching but only for a bit.
According to Lagus, Runa is a slave, her job is to serve her master and to warm her master's bed, despite her unwillingness to offer her body she was bound by their commands. She was defiled and abused to the point where his previous owner threw her away like a broken toy. He can't just force Runa to change and forget about her trauma, it would take time.
'The time would be shorter if I use magic to erase her memories but it would feel like cheating, Lagus did tell me to try and resolve this situation about her trauma without the idea of using magic to erase memories and whatnot, helping her means that he should be a bit more understanding and extra kind... I'm still curious why that snake knows about her'
"Runa, you are safe inside this house, I won't do anything that will cause you harm and I won't force you to do things against your will, I just wanted to tell you" he paused, "In case you're trying to clean the house can you please not touch the study and the research area? Despite the messy looks in general, everything is well arranged, you could just do the cleaning anywhere else inside the house" He said it at a fast pace since it happened to cross his mind. "Going back, you can take your time adapting to this new lifestyle with me"
Runa started laughing softly, her other hand trying to cover her face by placing it on top of her mouth, covering just the lower part of her face. The sound of soft laughter and her softened expression. Created a satisfied feeling inside Wilhelm's chest, he wanted to keep her smiling for a bit longer.
"Anyways I'll be heading to town, you can stay here if you want, in case you get bored there are books inside the study, just don't touch the books on the floor, also there are games under my bed, you can play with them if you want" he stood up tapped his knees and left the house.
"My master... is weird" she giggled. "This is the first time someone was kind to me after being thrown into slavery... I.. I don't know what to feel about this but what if he's just faking it? For me to trust him and then he'll show his true nature.. then I'll be placed in hell again" She was thankful but her trust issues closed her heart, after all, the one who threw her into slavery was a person she used to trust, her father. Ever since that incident, she couldn't bear to trust anyone. Wilhelm will have it difficult trying to heal her soul.
'Magic can solve it easily! It just so happens that I won't be using it!'
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