Time to Get Fisted: Burn Center Edition (Closed/Lance)

There he was, Lance had finally arrived to Magnolia Town with that white-haired woman named Yumiko. He let out a sigh, in the name of all Gods.. did he really have to follow her? Yumiko was there to buy certain things while Lance had to pass through the city as he was given a task, and his ‘master’ so to say told them to go together. While the woman continued speaking and speaking and speaking AGAIN, the God Slayer just rolled his eyes. “Alright be honest, is this really a coincidence or did he tell you to accompany me for some reason?”

Yumiko looked at him and let out a sigh, shaking her head slowly. “You don’t really get it, do you? You’ve been going left and right and acting on your own! You know we have to be discrete! If you want to have fun, go punch a mountain or something.. we couldn’t handle an entire unit of Rune Knights if they began investigating on us.” - she said, almost as if she was scolding him, much to his annoyance. “Alright, alright.. I won’t do that anymore.” - he said before both stopped by a farmer’s market.

The white-haired woman turned and cleared her throat lightly. “Anyway, I have to go now.. you know where to go for your task. Zanko doesn’t want us to waste time, Lance.”

Lance narrowed his eyes and folded his arms on his chest. “Yeah, yeah.. go already. I’m not going to destroy anything. I am calm now.” - he said, his eyes set on the ground as he thought of what happened with his old friend, if one like him could still define her so. He let out a sigh and nodded once more before Yumiko left off and Lance stood there for a few minutes.

He didn’t really want to think about that, not when he had to finish a task he was given. But first, he could use something to eat on the way, so he entered the market and looked around. “Hm.. I could always make a fire camp and make use of those eggs. I should have enough jewels..” - he thought to himself while pondering about it.

The God Slayer didn’t really do much but just look around for something to buy for the travel which could probably take longer than the task itself which he didn’t worry of that much considering how simple it was. He sighed lightly and scratched the back of his neck, his eyes narrow as he shifted them around the market. The place was just like any other shop or market there apparently, but he wasn’t really looking for anything particular, everything could work as long as the food would be good at least.

He took a step forward and spoke up. “Just put in a bag a bunch of fruit for me, that’s all.” - he couldn’t really know what else he could afford with his jewels but fruit could work even if he preferred fire over everything else.

Then, all of a sudden he felt like someone was looking- or rather watching him which was quite weird considering not many probably knew him around Magnolia, unless it’d be that Ryder guy then that’d definitely make his day. Although the only person worth of a look was a man, he could tell he was a mage, his godly senses had picked up on his magical power. He just stared at him blankly before let his jaw drop slightly, hesitating a few moments to speak.

“..What?”

He couldn’t tell what was up with that guy who was looking at him, perhaps the two had met and he didn’t remember but not like his memory was that bad after all. Or he could have destroyed his house in the past, he didn’t really remember nor did he care even if he actually did.

He just went there to get something to freaking eat before going out for that mission, although Jaeger definitely thought there was more behind his actions. “Great.. the hell is this guy looking at now?” - he thought to himself, narrowing his eyes.

He took note of how he just put his hands in his pockets and that meant either he was going to take out a magic gun of some sorts or he was brave, or rather crazy. The latter one was quite likely considering the circumstances.

All of a sudden the man spoke up and talked about how Lance shouldn’t have caused any trouble there. That made him raise a brow, sliding the jewels he needed to pay the old man for his fruit. He took the bag and ate one of the fruits while looking at Jaeger sternly. “My, my.. for once I just go buy something for a trip and a random guy comes up and threatens me? Now that’s hilarious.”

He said, shifting his gaze at him before taking a few steps forward. "Hey, temee. ("Hey, you bastard.")" - he called him out. “You really have some courage even if right now I am more interested in learning how you know about me. Have I become so popular already? That’d be quite a surprise, hehe.” - he said.

Lance looked at the man who stood in front of him sternly, somewhat amused from the man’s courage. If he had truly heard about him, he was probably confident in his fighting skills. He couldn’t really know much about the man but he could pick up on his senses and he definitely knew how to use his magic power.

He listened to his words and smirked, the guy sure knew how to talk smart, too bad Lance was not one to join speeches, even after he was suddenly accused in the middle of nowhere.

“Ooh? I guess there was a spy or two around Hargeon Town, or at least that’s the last restaurant I attacked, hehe. I’m curious no one speaks about Clover Town but I guess not many really saw me there. Well, even if you’re here now.. the hell should I care? Unless you’re willing to carry my food ‘till I’m back from my job, that’d be perfect.” - he said, bursting out in a faint laugh before he took another bite from his fruit.

He looked at the counter, taking note of the small pet as he was rather amused it was just going to have fun while he was arguing with his owner, but it didn’t really matter to him that much.

He just turned and took a few steps towards the exit until he glanced over his shoulder and smirked. “Come on then, if you’re so brave to pick a fight with someone like me.. let’s go. Ya’ better move it, else I’ll just leave and go.. I’m kind of supposed to be finishing up a job.”

Lance was really tempted to smash that guy’s face with his own punch, not only he had just stopped him to warn him boldly in front of others but also demanded him to act ‘properly’ while he was just really shopping. Hell, he had even just told him to fight him if he really wanted to pick up a fight so much, not like Lance would have minded after all. A brow rose on his face, halting from leaving the building as he looked at him. “..Are you seriously asking? What kind of job would you usually find on a request board?” - he asked. It wasn’t really hard to tell his comment was full of sarcasm.

“It doesn’t really benefit me in any way, it’s gonna become a drawback once I’ll get all the Knight units up my ass. Or at least that’s what I’m expecting if I ever do it again, hehe. I’d say for fun but I really just had to give vent onto something.” - he said, turning to face the exit once more as he was about to step out.

“You know.. I might as well attack something, or rather someone before I go. We shall see if I feel like it, hehe.. feel free to stick around here and let your pig enjoy himself though.” - he said, clearly teasing him as he was hiding a smirk. He wasn’t really planning to assault anything or anyone for a while, he just wanted to make Jaeger attack him first.

The God Slayer tried to hide a grin, wide across his face as he took note of how settled Jaeger had become in regards to his comment. It was just so easy to play with people’s minds, and even better it was funny-- almost too much. Perhaps Lance had truly turned into a mindless bastard up to a certain degree, more than what he had been showing off that far. Even if he was nowhere like his worse self at the moment, not like when he fought Ryder and his eyes even turned red that time.

He snickered, looking towards the pig briefly. “Its sense for danger wouldn’t help you that much. I tend to cause enough trouble for anyone to notice in entire cities, you wouldn’t need anyone to guide you there. You’d probably notice it immediately, hehe..” - he said before a brow rose in slight amusement to his statement.

It was interesting to see how he had just tried to make him lose it and yet he tried to act cool with it, he was not but he could see he was refraining from hitting the God Slayer. Even worse was how he called him, which he was getting used to hear in these days. “Yeah, yeah.. blah blah.. I am a bad person and so on. Have you really just approached me to say this? I mean I don’t even know you and you already call me a bully, hehe..” - he said, his eyes narrowing as he gave him one serious, dead look in the eyes. “You may not want to go around and talk of those you haven’t even ever met.”

Lance was really getting enough of chatting with that man with the absurd hairstyle, he had seen some crazy hair but that one was really something. He didn’t care any less of what he thought about him, whether he was going to attack him or not, Lance wasn’t going anywhere without a fight and was ready to destroy that very same market to finally let the fight begin. Although he should have really gone to finish up that mission he had taken from the request board, he could allow himself some time to beat down that guy.

Lance blinked, somewhat surprised but also annoyed to hear of Rialle. The guy had literally just faced her and she had already been talking about it? Great. It wasn’t going to take long before someone would have had a talk with the Rune Knights then. He didn’t give it too importance if he’d have become a wanted person or something like that.

Even if his comment on how she had just beaten him down made him roll his eyes, and chuckle faintly. “Did she also tell you on how I decided to not beat her own ass? Just for old times’ sake, but if she really wants to, I have no issues with a small rematch. Hehehe..” - he said, even if it was somewhat of a lie, considering he didn’t decide to not beat her, but he didn’t really feel like fighting her any longer that time.

“But oh well, how Ria defines me or talks about me to others is just one way to make more.. acquaintances for me I guess, hehe. But I am Lance Firebrand indeed, or you could call me Phoenix. Go ahead with the one you prefer, hehehe. So, who would you ever be?” - he asked, grinning maliciously as he cracked his knuckles.