AOT Rays Of Heaven Ch 5 : Mikasa And Eren

After once again taking my knife back, I let the girl outside of the house and followed her after taking anything useful I could find on the human scums I just killed.

I have to say that for a shut-in who didn’t even punch anyone in his life, suddenly coming to another world, killing villains and saving a cute girl was an unexpected outcome.

Who I am kidding, that was awesome.

After getting out of the house, I saw the girl looking around with a lonely face. I swear I was hearing sad violent music playing in the background.

‘Okay think Ray, there must be something that you can do to cheer her up,’ I asked myself while walking towards her.

“Are you okay,” I asked with a smile on my face. Making sure that I appeared friendly to her, but there it was again, she started to look at me like what had happened just before those men.

“Is there something on my face,” I asked touching my face, trying to figure out what the hell was going on here. Those men and now this little girl there has to be something.

After my asking, she came out of her daze and shook her head, swear I saw a blush creeping on her face.

“Are you all right,” I asked while looking at her, she was covered with blood and I could also see the poor girl even shaking in fear, or maybe that was the cold air.

“Hmm I am sorry for what happened, I came here after seeing what happened in the house I found over there,” I said while pointing toward the direction of the wooden house.

She after hearing me just nodded, and the little bit of blush she had was gone, there was a lost look on her face.

“Hey don’t worry, we will find a new place for you, I am homeless too, what you say, wanna come with me,” I said in the hope of getting her attention, although later I thought that not talking about her now death parents would be better.

She just nodded once and then returned back to her quiet self. I mean mana, I am not good at this kind of thing.

“FUCK IT”. I said and walked up to the girl and hugged her.

I could feel her stiffen while I didn't let go, just to make sure that I made her feel safe as much as possible.

“I know it hurts, I am sorry for your loss. Sorry if I only could have come a little earlier then maybe your parents would have survived,”

Not knowing how to comfort her, I just did what came to my mind at that time. Seeing that she was not pushing me back or yelling, at least she was not considering me a threat. But there is no answer to my question either.

But then I hear the cry.

“AHhh, arrggggg ggagaggg arrgggg,” 

I felt her wrapping her hands around me, holding to my shirt tightly. Finally letting go of the tears she was holding back.

Well I guess, in cases like this, letting the sadness out is the right choice. I guess saying anything now is pointless. I have to wait until she calms down.

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By the time she came down, two people had come by the house. It was a man with neck long black hair and black eyes and a boy with same age as the girl and technically my age.

“Mikasa, are you alright,” the man said and I swear to god I mean Rob that I heard this name before.

Man, I should have done those mental exercises to increase memory retention. Maybe increasing my intelligence might solve that.

“And who are you young man,” asked the man wearing glasses to me while not making eye contact with me.

Did I say that when he first came, they too acted just like the girl here, looked shocked like they saw a devil, well more like an angel considering the blush that appeared on their faces later?

I was now barely resisting opening the system shop and buying myself a hand mirror. Though probably shouldn’t do that in front of them. Not to mention it’s not free to purchase things.

Hey system, how much GP do I have.

[GP 560]

Whoa, how this happened. I’m sure that I only had 60 GP left after getting my knife. Where did the 500 GP came from?

[User killed 2 human, 500 GP Awarded]

Oh, that's cool, if only the system was not trying to tempt me to become a genocidal psychopath for system currency. 

“Boy what happened, are you alright ?” asked the man this time looking at me.

I almost forgot that he asked me a question in my musings.

“Yes sir, I’m alright,” I replied almost acting like a soldier.

“Good, now can you tell me what happened here ?” asked the man while pointing towards the house and the three dead bodies.

“They kidnapped her and killed her parents. They were about to sell her to slavers. I had to do something,” I tried not to panic, but I didn’t sound very convincing to myself let alone the man. Good that the man didn’t ask further questions about that.

“ I am Grisha Jeager and he is my son, Eren Yeager,” said the man as I saw the boy finally coming forward and introducing himself.

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I on the other hand started to connect all the dots, I might only have a general understanding of the Attack On Titan world but that doesn’t mean that I don’t remember the name of its Protagonist.

And this also explains the reason why the girl's name was familiar to me, Mikasa is the Female Lead of this story.

I looked at Eren who extended his hand for a handshake.

9-year-old doing a handshake for greeting, really? But I just went along with it.

Here is another very interesting and confusing thing that happens. The moment our hands connected. I heard this notification.

[Time Disturbance has been detected]

[Unknown being has been spotted]

[Does the user want to block the unknown being]

[YES/NO]

I blink,

Now what the hell is that supposed to mean? Well whatever it is or whoever he is, just block the creep.

[Unknown being has been blocked]

Good.

“I am Ray Paladis and I am 9 years old. Nice to meet both of you,” I said all the childhood spirit I could muster.

And by the looks of their faces, it apparently worked as both of them looking at me like they saw a kicked puppy with those pitiful eyes.

I understand then Grisha but why Eren too?

“I believe that you the girl, Mikasa was it, you know her,” I continued to the conversation trying to get a rapport in and also get much-needed information about this place.

“Yes, I am a Doctor and Mikasa’s parents used to be my patients,” Grisha said and from then on I started the conversation to get some basic understanding of this world.

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“Hello, sorry I didn’t even ask for your name, I am Ray Paradis, Mikasa right, you don’t have to worry about anything now, doctor Grisha here told me that you are welcome to stay with them as you please,” I said while looking at Mikasa.

“No,” But the response was not something which I was expecting.

“Huh,” I asked not hearing her the first time.

“I want to stay with you,” Mikasa said, her voice was staggering and there was no power behind the voice but I could see the determination.

Yo, where the hell this comes from, girl I can’t take you in, hell I got no in. Not to mention that will completely change the plot, in fact, if I knew that she was Mikasa and Eren would save her eventually then I might have not saved her but just waited for Eren.

“Hmm but I don’t have any place to stay and see over there, they have a warm home and food. Believe me, you will be just better off with Doctor Grisha and his family,” I smiled my best smile and replied with a positive attitude.

There was a visible defamation on her face, and she just pursed her lips and said.

“I’ll stay with you,” again she said but with more determination.

“Actually you both can come and stay with us,” Grisha from the side said and this surprised me. Is this guy’s personality like this, taking orphans and telling them to Be My Son/Daughter?

I could not help but picture a white moustache on his face and compare him to a certain Emperor of the sea.

“Ah that’s very nice of you sir but I can’t accept that. You have no reason to take me in. You barely know me,” I replied trying to politely deny it even though I really wanted to.

Who wouldn’t like a roof over their head and a warm cosy home? But that really asking for too much, there are already problems with the current economy of this place. 

“Don’t worry, you don’t have to worry about that, you save Mikasa here and for that, you have my gratitude. Please stay with us,” Grisha said once again offering to bring me with him. 

Mikasa on the side grabs my hand like telling me she is going where I am going. Practically taking away all options from me.