Reborn Into Pokemon With An Odd System - Volume 1 Chapter 20
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Lancer POV
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He found himself engulfed in a blinding light. He was in the usual kneeling position as he thought “Here we go again, I wonder what other servants I’m going to get the chance to fight this time.”
The light began to fade and he found himself on a dark stone floor and said to himself “Great, here we go another creepy bastard.”
He raised his head as he said: “Yo master what’s up”. Lancer figured that he might as well try to lighten up the mood, but the thing that he was not expecting was that the person that was in front of him was a kid. At first, even if he was surprised he assumed that his real master was hiding somewhere else.
Suddenly the kid responded, “Sup buddy how are you doing?”
Lancer continued to look around but wasn’t able to feel the presence of anyone else in the cave. He sighed and sat on the ground and said: “Great looks like I’m going to lose again, ahhh why do I always have such bad luck.”
He had already given up as soon as he knew that his new master was a kid who seemed to be around 5 years old. He yawned and looked at the kid and asked what he had in mind “Kid are you even old enough to be out of your house, how the hell did you get involved in the Holy Grail War?”
The kid simply shrugged the question away and said “I don’t have anything to worry about especially with you here Lancer, or should I call you Cú Chulainn?” and sat down next to him.
Lancer simply shrugged it off and replied: “Call me whatever you want, I’m happy that you think so highly of me but you should be careful there are a lot of powerful people in this war.”
That’s when the kid told him something that he found impossible to believe, with a smile the red and black-haired kid said: “Actually about that you’re the only servant that has been summoned in this world.”
Lancer thought that the kid was taking it as a joke and began to get angry but the brat didn’t seem to care and told him to follow. With a big sigh he made himself invisible to the boy and followed, as he was deep in thought he found an odd creature. When he got a closer look he found out that the creature was a plant with eyes and it had a body of a stick that was actually moving.
He grabbed it and held it upside down and the damn thing talked, it began yelling “BELLSPROUT, BELLSPROUT”
He made himself visible to the kid “I guess you were telling the truth about things not being what I remember them, so what is this thing anyway?”
The brat just looked at him holding the plant and began to laugh “Hey Lancer I know that it looks weak, but I still wouldn’t hold it that way.”
He raised a brow at the boy “Come on, don’t tell me you’re scared of this twig.”
Suddenly the freakin plant began to shoot out leaves, his instincts quickly warned him of danger and he dropped it and began to dodge the leaves. Seconds later he heard a crashing noise and turned around to find a tree that was cut in half.
The kid looked at him and yelled: “Could you be more careful, I nearly died!!”
Anyway skip forward a bit and the kid asks him to do the stupidest thing anyone has asked him to do. The kid actually asked him to hit himself with a rock on the head just to meet his family. In the end, the brat said that he could live a normal life for 5 years without being attacked by any servants. He found it hard to believe but then again he never met a freakin stick that could talk, walk, and of course, shoot off deadly leaves. The brat even said that he might live a normal life when he summoned another servant which surprised him but also made him nervous. Some servants were bad eggs and would definitely take advantage of the situation. He didn’t care about the kid, what he was worried about was not finding someone to supply him with mana if something happened to the kid.
Anyway, he did what the kid told him to do and began to pretend that he had amnesia which wasn’t too hard to do since he truly had no idea what the hell was going on. The kid invented a whole story and his parents bought it somehow. That’s where he found out that the brat’s name was Max.
Lancer was offered the choice to sleep at their home but began to reject the offer, sadly he could tell that Max wouldn’t let him off the hook so he gave in and stayed. He agreed to work with the lively father as a blacksmith to pay rent and also save up some dough. That’s when the kid gave him the name Lance, even if the name wasn’t much different than Lancer, for the first time in what seemed forever he didn’t feel like a tool. He finally had an identity and according to the kid for the next 5 years, he would live like a normal person.
Four days passed and he began getting used at smithing and whenever he wasn’t working the kid had him watching what they called Pokémon battles. He could see that the creatures really enjoyed fighting which reminded him of himself. That day Max told him about his childhood, how he was reincarnated, and how he died looking for them so that he could get the wish granted of seeing his parents.
Lancer didn’t find it hard to believe since he himself had been brought back from death a couple of times, the thing he found hilarious was that the kid was reincarnated for being the 100th billion person to die. He sighed and thought “Why does this brat have all the luck hehe.”
In the end, he agreed to help Max with his goal of cleaning the trash, even if the kid was his master Lance still felt that he was the one to make the choice and help the kid.
Days became weeks and weeks became months, during all that time he had been training the kid to fight with a spear. At times Lance couldn’t help but wonder if the way he felt now was what he would have felt if he had his son with him. The thing that always pained his heart is having killed his son, Connla.
He silently promised himself that he wouldn’t let anything happen to this kid. This was the brat that gave him actual life and treated him as a friend and not a simple servant like all his other masters.
Anyway, years began passing and the bond that he shared with the kid got stronger. During the 5 years, he would spend his time training the kid at the art of the spear, they would have pokémon battles which the kid and Lex seemed to be addicted to, when the kid wasn’t around he would spend his time working on the spear that he was making for Max or just laying down in the grass and getting some nice air while calmly walking through the forest.
Max over the years became pretty popular in the village and received the title of genius. Lance knew that the reason the kid was so smart is because he had 13 years of living in an advanced place and it seemed like he was quite the bookworm when he was there
Whenever Lance brought the topic up Max would defend himself by saying “Well what do you expect, I was paranoid about what I was going to do when I got kicked out of the orphanage so I read and learned whatever I thought could be useful.”
Finally, after the long wait, today was the day that Max was waiting for, the day that they began their plans. He walked towards Max’s room and was about to knock at the door when it was suddenly opened and showed the muscular kid who was now 5ft tall. Even though the kid was still young Lance couldn’t help but think that he was going to be quite the lady killer.
The brat looked at him and smiled “Ready Lance? The years sure flew by didn’t they?”
Lance nodded and began to go down the stairs “Since your parents are still asleep I’ll make breakfast and wait for you to come back make sure you don’t take too long.”
