Casual Heroing

Chapter 33: Nice

Chapter 33: Nice

When I lay down on my bed, I just want to drown in it. I want to physically enter the weird spongy mattress and disappear in it.

Is it too much to ask?

So, a short summary of the day.

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Lucinda is apparently a prick.

Camilla is hot but not bothered by me. And she could become a very interesting partner. Her sisters are pricks, but she volunteered the information herself, so

Too many decisions.

Im on the verge of closing my eyes and falling asleep when

[Mage Level 3!]

[Skill Deep Focus Acquired!]

[Skill Light Manipulation Acquired!]

Oh man.

Come on.

Now you made me curious.

I hoist myself up from the bed, grumpy as hell.

Deep Focus? So, I just say [Deep Focus]? nothing happens.

Maybe I need to think about focusing a lot

WOAH.

Every single noise in the room goes silent.

Since I was thinking about the skill, I started to closely analyze its effects, forgetting about the rest of the world. I feel calm and collected; I can barely remember anything thats unrelated to this current task.

After a few seconds, Im actively trying to get distracted, but its like my mind is automatically brought back to the skill. [Deep Focus] makes my mind unilaterally engaged with something, it appears.

I deactivate the skill and the world spins a little.

Woah, this is trippy as hell, I mutter.

One day, sister, Ill fire your ass, Camilla pointed a finger at her sibling, and not even Father will be able to put you back here.

Sure, Cami, Amelia scoffed and went out.

You two should stop fighting, Flavia said.

Please, Flavia, please. I dont want to hear it.

Camilla put her hands up.

She couldnt deal with idiocy at the moment.

She was too focused on the problem at hand.

Joey was a very nice boy, but he also seemed quite nave. She really wanted to work with him, and she did not care that he was a human.

You like the boy, Flavia told her.

I like someone who can bake, sister, Camilla shook her head. Hes a human. Im not Amelia, I dont need to chase, or be chased, by every member of the male or female race.

Hes cute, though.

Snatch him up for yourself, then, Flavia. I need him for baking. Ill leave the non-baking activities to you.

Flavia laughed and shrugged.

Not that cute, she too got up and left the office.

Camilla stayed behind, thinking.

She hadnt got much from the Human. He was clearly too tired to show the main side of his character, and something seemed to have him depressed. Lucinda had told them he was the bubbliest person around.

Was he suddenly not liking his stay in Amorium? And where had he come from, by the way? There were humans in the elven city, but they were not common at all.

Is it homesickness or is it heartbreak?

He had looked wistfully at his own legal representative, and it looked like there was something there. Maybe that something had rotten.

Camilla looked at the walls where a few nice letters of recommendation had been framed. Even [Gourmets] had praised her innovative approach to food. Some had despised her and said that she was declassing the culinary experience to the commonfolk level, but she saw it as just feeding people better food. It wasnt complicated.

She kept them both, hate and love. The hate she received together with the envy was fuel for her ambitions.

And food critics could say all they wanted that she was whoring out high-class cuisine, but she wasnt going to stop. Hell, she was going to double down very soon.

She would get to Joey and learn all about this street food he mentioned.

Whatever the cost.