Third person POV
The next morning, Kazaki and Roel are at the table. Kazaki's mother is cooking porridge for breakfast. Kaz just came back from chopping some wood. Reina became a bit nicer to Kazaki and Roel, making the two a bit nervous. They don't know what will happen if Reina tells Kazaki's parents about what they did last night. Then, once they all ate up, Kazaki and Roel remained silent while eating their porridge. As Reina collected their dishes and said, "If you want anything else, you can call me anytime." As she smiles cutely after that, Kazaki and Roel become uncomfortable around her, so they leave the house and go to the hills to research some herbs.
"Why are we collecting herbs?" Roel asked while whining on this a bit, "I thought we were gonna have some action!"
But he knew that he shouldn't say that and be patient.
"Herbs are also important; they can heal and give buffs to us during battle, so we must learn about them," Kazaki responded, "Like this one, this is a moon flower. It helps us to see in the darkness."
As they collected herbs and learned about them, they didn't know that they had gained the skills Sense and Herbalist, as indicated and revealed by the Isekai System screen.
"Wait, what is this?" Roel was stunned with some shock.
He realized that he gained those skills.
Now he knows what kind of herbs he comes across.
Kazaki then said to him, "Let's collect some of these so we can see in the darkness."
Roel nodded, and they both collected the said herbs. After that, they went on to collect other herbs nearby. They eventually found a different herb called Nerve Herb. Kazaki now knows what kind of herbs he comes across thanks to Sense and Herbalist. "This one is called the Nerve Herb. This one increases our strength during battle."
"Sounds like an advantage to us," Roel commented.
Kazaki then nodded. "Let's get some."
They collected some of that herb so they could use them for battle.
They then put the herbs in their knapsacks.
Later, after that, both of them went to the streets for a walk. At this hour, the roads are a bit busy with business activity. Sellers advertised their products and commodities constantly to passers-by while those who sold food tried to get their attention. Both of them went through a busy market street, but they weren't planning to buy anything. They were planning to sell those rare herbs in a guild for quick money, but little did they know something was waiting for them as they moved through the streets. They heard a voice,
"Give that back!" a girl shouted at two boys, who had snatched something from her.
"Ha!" the first boy teased back. "You'll never get it, loser!"
The girl tried to get it back but failed.
Upon seeing that, Kazaki suddenly had a flashback of him getting bullied. So, he said to Roel, "Let's stop them." Roel agreed, and they both went to the scene and intervened.
"Hey! What are you doing to her?" Kazaki said to the two boys.
"Yeah, give that thing back!" Roel added strongly. "We saw that!"
But the second bullying boy tried to man up and push both boys off.
However, Roel, who had a sense of Filipino-style justice in his past life, gave a punch, mingled with wind magic, on the two bullies.
"Hey!" the first boy scowled at Roel.
"That hurts!" the second boy added.
Kazaki and the girl were stunned at Roel's bravery.
"I said back off, mga putang-ina," Roel coldly and boldly said to them with a fist ready for a second offence and a Filipino word that means a curse word set.
Kazaki was stunned again but couldn't help but snicker at that word, remembering that Roel occasionally said that to bastards who dared to mess with them in their past lives.
The girl was astonished at Roel's bravery. "Oh…"