They met up with the captain, and sorted out the little issue their old friend had created.

They were surprised to see how he had grown, especially how well he had grown with his familiar.

It was evident that after parting ways with them, the two of them must have been through quite a lot of things. It was obvious that they had fought many strong enemies from the bond that they had.

The horse had grown as well and now, it could use many new abilities that it previously could not.

It also looked like a proper horse, a proper fantastical horse instead of a pony, so seeing the majestic creature was a unique experience in itself.

Both of them were surprised to see it, and they knew this being, this amazing being loved his master as much as the familiars of the high rankers loved their masters.

Seeing them reminded Alex how she had been with her own familiar, the being that she thought she would be able to call when she reached her first awakening stage but that did not happen.

She still could not call her familiar, but she wasn’t worried about that chubby little one. She knew it would be fine and the moment it comes back to her, it would have as happy as she knew it would be.

There was also the fact that Odin and the little horse had leveled up far more than the two of them had anticipated.

He was strong and smart, they knew that much, but that did not mean they were any special than the other players. Until they were with them, they were still pretty normal even after being of a unique class.

But their growth speed was surprising for them.

It was not simply a level of a few ten levels but a level jump of several levels in the first awakening stage.

They did not yet know what the two had done to level up so much in such a short time, but they were looking forward to asking them.

“Wanna take a walk?”

They still had some time before they departed for their voyage, so before that, everyone left for their own preparations. And, since Alex and Elio didn’t really have much to do, they came back to their world.

They had just arrived at Elio’s house a while back so they still had many things to do in the house and updating their chariots was one of them.

They knew they wouldn’t be able to do it anytime soon with what was going on, but Alex at least wanted to set up the parts that they will be changing in the existing chariots so the assembly process itself would become easier.

However, for that, they needed the chip that Olive’s dad accidentally broke and was studying right now.

They will have to get that thing tomorrow morning, since it was late night right now. They couldn’t disturb them when it was so late…

So, the two decided to simply leave that matter and go on a walk now that they had come out anyway… sleeping was something they can do later anyway.

-Swiiiiish!

“Hmmm?”

“Oh, now that’s a sound I haven’t heard in a while.”

Elio’s room was on the edge of the second floor so the two of them walked all the way to the other side.

But while they were walking towards the staircase leading downstairs, they heard a certain sound, and were reminded of a few fun things.

“Let’s go. Quick.”

Alex was especially excited about this so she grabbed Elio’s hand and dragged him to the window downstairs. Outside of this window, they could see a certain scene that they had seen many times… and yet, even after seeing it so many times, they still found it as Special as the first time they saw it, the first time they saw Her.

It was a moonlit night and their front herd had quite a bit of grass.

They lived in a mountainous region so the nights of this place were pretty bright naturally.

The stars in the sky were more visible, there was also fresh air around this place, and the place was naturally cool. Not cold like it was in winter, but naturally cool.

There was pretty little pollution, there was also much less notice pollution in this place since only a few families lived in this area.

So… most of the time it was quite enough for even a single sting of the bow to be audible.

“A goddess…”

Elio’s mom stood in the middle of their garden, her being bathed in the serene moonlight of the quiet night.

Holding a bow in a professional attire, without any arrows on her bow, she stood in a perfect form, maintaining a perfect posture that would shame the modern day athletes that appear in the competitions.

She was old, but she still had a defined form and a body that looked as athletic as it did two decades ago.

Her eyes, unique and different from the one her children had, still contained the kind of light that no one in their house possessed.

Her hands were sturdy as she held the bow, her fingers did not have any gloves, she wasn’t wearing any safety equipment at all, and yet, she wasn’t afraid of being hurt.

Each time she moved her fingers on the bowstring, there was a strange certainty in her eyes.

She was looking at a distant target, her complete attention focused on the very center of that target.

It seemed like nothing else in this world mattered to her.

It seemed like the world itself did not exist for her at that moment.

There was only the bow in her hand, the target before her eyes, the bowstring on her finger, and the calm breathing that resonated with the air around her…

“Seeing her like this always seems so… fictional.”

Alex did not have many inspirations when it came to people of this world, people of reality, people that she could learn something from since most of the thing she had learned either by herself or from the individuals that existed in that virtual world.

But, Elio’s mom was different… she had learned a lot of things from this person in the last few years.

And above all the things that she had learned, passion for her own ‘art’ was something she had always placed on top.

Just like this moment that had made Elio speechless once again, there was something about those who had mastered that one thing.

For Alex it was sword, for Elio it was what one understands as ‘art’ itself, and for his mom, for this cool person, it was archery.

“Should we tell her to show a few things again?”

“You want to train in the middle of the night? Again?”

“…”

She was the most serious when she was talking about this, about archery.

She had been in love with a bow and arrow ever since she was younger than Misha.

She wanted to become one of those fictional characters that can fire unfathomable destructive objects from her bow when she was young… that’s what made her choose archery.

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That silly thought of being able to do cool and fun things with a bow and arrow drove her to practice this simple yet effective sport to the highest standards.

And even after she left the professional field for this family, she kept improving herself, her art, her skills, refining even the smallest of the gaps she had.

Just like right now, at some point, she mastered the bow and arrow in her own way, and was able to do things that were seemingly impossible.

Many of the things she could do in reality were something many people could not even do inside realistic games like <NO>.

One of the reasons she wanted her to play NO was exactly because of her prowess, but she could never convince her.

For her, a game was a game and the reality was reality.

She had countless things to do in this world, she had countless things to look after each day and if she spent a few hours of her time in that game, even with the time difference in place, she knew she wouldn’t be able to enjoy either of the worlds.

She was happy here and she had everything she needed. The joy of life was more than enough for her so she did not want to experience a fictional world that had magical elements and unique things.

There were still so many things that she did not know about this world that she did not even want to experience what it was like in some other world… so, she never played the game.

But if she had played, even for a year or so…

Alex knew she would have surpassed even the best archer, one of the high rankers, in terms of pure skills.

She would have to do many special quests to get to their level but even without that, she would still be on par with those possessing divinity.

That was, if she ever played the game…

-Swiiiiiiiiish.

The release of her string caused the air around her to resonate. And even though she did not have any arrow on her bow, it almost seemed like the very air around her was shot from the bow.

If one looked closely, they would even ‘see’ how this air that was shot from her bow actually hit the target in the very center…

It was humanly impossible to do something like that. And yet, every time they saw her doing this, they thought that she was some kind of main character from some other world that could do fictional things.

It was always like this when they were with her.

She was simply just that cool of a person…

“Huuuu…”

Alex could certainly imagine just how difficult it was to do what she did just now while making it seem so effortless, and now that Elio knew how power worked in the world of <NO> he knew it as well.

It wasn’t simply about shooting some arrows at the target.

Breathing, micro movements, there were many elements involved in the process of shooting these arrows and making them hit the target in a certain way.

Now everyone could do it. There were few who could actually do it from a distance at which she was standing at With an arrow.

There were many things that one needed to take into account when doing this, and yet she was doing it without any safety devices or any arrows.

And that too, with a wooden bow instead of the professional ones that were hanging inside of their house.

“I see you two… are still awake…”

She looked into their direction now that she was done with that little training.

There was a smile on her face that was asking them if they wanted to see something more than this.

And they would have certainly loved to See some more of those cool moves as well.

“Oh damn…”

“What now? Should we run-.”

Alex had already run back inside before he could say anything more than that.

She didn’t want any more training and she knew Elio did not either, so it was only a bad idea to go out right now.

She knew the kind of training Elio had received from her, she knew just how brutal she was with that training so, at this late hour, they were better off sleeping instead of running around this entire neighborhood.

“Hahaha…”

V, his mom, knew their thought process at that moment so she couldn’t help but chuckle at these funny children.

They had grown up a little but even right now, they were still the same little children that They used to be…

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