Editing Skill Tree Goddess:Volume1 Chapter4 (section)

===Part 3===

It turned into a death-defying trip.

She was 50 metora. Gilbezos never knew it was possible for a ride to be ''too'' big. On that enormous mama dragon’s back, tiny Gilbezos had nowhere to grab onto, so he had no choice but to spread his arms and legs and cling to her so the wind didn’t carry him away! He actually was torn away a few times and thrown into the sky, but the kind mama dragon made sure to catch him each time!!

“Wow, the Saint is something else… She’s laughing in delight while this thrill ride makes loop-the-loops.”

“Where can you feel safer than on your mother’s back?”

Was that how it worked?

She apparently couldn’t speak human language, but with one exception: the word “mama”. She must have worked hard to learn it.

The bearded man, Penelope, and the others were shouting something up from the Sky Territory, but there was no need to listen. Gilbezos had forgiven them, so he was fine with them paying the exorbitant fee to head on down themselves.

Afterwards, Yuileen flew off with the little Saint on her back. Gilbezos seriously doubted they would ever be caught again.

He found himself in a field on the outskirts of the capital. For now, he decided to walk back to the kingdom’s largest city.

…It was long time since he paid Shirayuri a visit. He hadn’t seen the 10-year-old since leaving her behind in the village of pillagers that was after the high elves, so he wanted to make sure she was all right.

“Huh?”

He found a smaller child instead. Gilbezos spotted a 9-year-old boy in a crowd in the capital. Wasn’t that Sismond Johnson, friend of the high elves? But he had lived in that forest village, so what was he doing in the capital?

“Have you seen my sister?”

“Whoa!?”

Someone else popped out from the crowd. It was Saezuri Ferslona, leader of the Undine Knights, one of the kingdom’s five elite fighting forces.

“We destroyed the criminal village of Needspart and rescued whichever villagers we determined to be innocent…but I saw no sign of my sister who I was certain had been there. She is free to disagree with me, but the problem is her troublesome tendency to run away instead of discussing it with me. She must be rotten to the core. When I find that foolish sister, I will spank her until her butt swells to twice its size.”

…Oh, so that village was arrested as a whole.

Well, this was the physically powerful meathead knight who said her targets were all human. That village had been disturbing the kingdom’s order, so it had seemed unlikely it would be left alone for long.

However, it would have been cruel indeed to hand over the 10-year-old sister to the 17-year-old sister when she was so worked up, so Gilbezos replied with some polite niceties and began his own search for Shirayuri with only the goddess for company.

“Do you know where she is, Little Girl Hunter?”

“I seriously hope there isn’t a skill with that name.”

When seriously trying to avoid her sister, Shirayuri wouldn’t place her shop in an unknown back alley. That was the same as hiding your spare key in your mailbox. So the short boy checked an area one street off of the main street where small shops were crammed so tightly into a decently sized plaza they looked like a solid wall. …Yes, it was best to hide in plain sight. The Necessities Emporium was hidden there, camouflaged among the other shops.

“Wahh…. G-Gilbezoooos.”

“There, there.”

She seemed more afraid of her sister than the village of pillagers. He gave her a hug to help her calm down.

She had brought back the bag and bicycle he had left in the village inn, so he gave her another hug.

Gilbezos felt great relief as he perused the wide variety of wares available at the Necessities Emporium. It had been too long. Maybe crops didn’t grow well on the chilly Sky Territory, but the Cure Herbs had been a sad sight to see… Maybe it was best to replenish his consumable items before battling Brave Liar. Magic skills were convenient, but they could be sealed away by a status effect.

“Any recommendations?”

“Every last thing I have on sale.”

…Did she have an item that made you grow taller? A fast-acting one? Shirayuri made sure to drink milk on a daily basis, but looking at her that appeared to be a healthy habit but not one that provided immediate growth.

“So you say you’re going to find Brave Liar? Do you know where his hideout is or something?”

“Searching him out isn’t the only option.”