Mardinal: The Assassin's Adventure
Chapter 14: Grandma Kos

A beautiful, sunny, peaceful morning in a small boarding house located on the outskirts of town. It is quite quiet from the hustle and bustle of city activities. There are only a few rows of similar boarding houses, separated by small fences. Next will be more forests and old buildings that have been damaged.

It can be considered that this area is not so managed, but still comfortable to live in because it is quite safe from the attacks of monsters and roaming Rogue.

“Ole! The ole! The ole! Time to garden!”

This redhead Mullet cried out, so cheerful when it was time for gardening. Because it is a holiday, so his free time he spent gardening. It is good to add food this week without having to spend a lot of money shopping.

As Mardin walked cheerfully from the kitchen to the outside of the house, the formation of parasitic plants came out of the neck of Mardin.

“You are always noisy when it is this early in the morning, Mardin,” said Dros sounding irritated with an excited shout from Mardin.

“Morning musti spirit, dong!” Mardin began to open the door of the boarding house. “Moreover today gardening. It will definitely bring a lot of energy and sweat.”

“Haaah..”.

Dros sighed, deciding to go back inside Mardin's neck when the young man was out of the room.

Now, Mardin walked towards the small warehouse next to his boarding house. Just when he came out, Mardin saw the figure of the owner of the boarding house was watering flowers with a robot maid accompanying him.

The Mardin boarding house is next to the cost owner's house. Therefore, Mardin can see clearly what activities he does in the yard even though it is only separated by a fence at the waist of adults.

“Again, Nek Sita!” greet cheerful Mardin.

Hearing Mardin greeting him made Nek Sita smile, “Morning too, Nak Mardin. Very excited today.”

“Iya, Mother. Again want this gardening.”

Nek Sita remembered something. “Oh, yes. Grandma wants to buy some vegetables from you, son Mardin. Vegetable cabbage and eggplant yesterday was very good taste, let alone made fresh roasted chicken.”

“Wah! It's nice that Grandma likes.” Mardin smiled broadly. “Grandma can come get it. Don't buy, take it for free is okay.”

“Do not do that, Son Mardin. Grandma ‘kan so bad.”

“Nothing, Grandma. I can't use one kebon vegetable alone. If necessary, please ask me.” Then, Mardin suddenly shifted the subject. “Oh Yes, Grandma. I still have to pay for my expenses last month, right? What's nothing, huh? No more money because.”

Nek Sita seemed to think for a moment, while the robot assistant next to him was still watering the plants in front of the house.

“This time, Son Mardin. Grandma took the vegetables. Instead, you only paid 350 Dt for the same last month that is now.”

Mardin was wide in disbelief with the offer, his smile more bright. “Truly, Grandma? I was given two-month pieces at once, nih?”

The grandmother simply nodded in reply while smiling back at her senses.

Glad Mardin's heart was given a discount to pay the cost. Usually, the price of rental houses owned by Nek Sita is priced at 550 Dt per month. Given such cheap discounts using only vegetables as collateral, who is not happy?

Nek Sita is indeed famous for being very good to the cost tenants, especially the boarding house including good and quite large than other costs. It does not matter for tenants who have not paid for several months, as long as the promise can pay later. Sometimes the delinquent is often given a job to take care of the store or help his homework as a guarantee if he can not afford the rent costs.

Unfortunately, behind his kind and generous nature, Nek Sita only lives alone at home. Her husband had died about five years ago from Rogue's murder, and she also had no children or grandchildren. All the effort left by the husband must be taken care of by himself. Only one robot that always accompany Nek Sita.

Hence, Nek Sita was very kind to his tenants for considering them as part of the family, especially Mardin. Mardin is considered to be his own grandson.

“There are many yes, Grandma. Later in the afternoon I will anterin vegetables, or Grandma can come here if you want to choose a good one for Grandma. You see, I was busy gardening as well as other activities,” said Mardin kindly.

“Active child,” praise Nek Sita. “Ya, already. Have a great day, Son Mardin.”

“Grandmother too, may be healthy always.”

After saying goodbye, Nek Sita went into the house with his robot assistant, while Mardin began to enter the warehouse.

“Prepared to garden!” shouted Mardin spirit.

Mardin collects a variety of tools and gardening materials, such as gloves, shovels, to baskets for later harvest. However, there are less according to Mardin. When he checked the top drawer of the warehouse cabinet, he did not find any garden materials.

“Why?” Dros appeared, coming out of his neck when he felt the confusion of Mardin.

“Emm...” Mardin tapped her lips using her index finger. “Crop seedlings equal fertilizer depleted, Dros.”

“Iya. Just a regular subscription store I buy garden needs destroyed by the explosion yesterday. If you want to buy those around here, the quality of seedlings is just as good fertilizer,” explained Mardin while thinking.

“Keep, how about something goes wrong like this?” dros asked confused.

Mardin thought about finding a solution for a while. Then, a smile was engraved on his face. Mardin flicked his finger, a sign that he had just found a good idea.

“I know where we should look for gardening needs.”

“Oh, yes? Where?”

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“Owwwh, yeeeaaah..

Dros heard bete when looking at the scenery around, looks spacious, but seedy and quite arid. As far as the eye could see, many buildings had collapsed, roads were destroyed, and there was no sign of life.

Now, Mardin is in one of the urban slum sectors. This area is an area that has not been managed by the Jaguara Guild. No one dared to pass through here as it was considered a dangerous area, filled with monster nests.

However, as long as Mardin traced the area here using his beloved skateboard, he found no sign of monsters at all. All you see are collapsed buildings, very quiet and boring.

“Why must be through here?” dros Bete asked, still stuck to Mardin's neck. “Kan can still make the way to the destination store.”

“If muter, the distance is very far. Can be daar noon just get to sono, keep behind it even kesorean. So, the fastest way here make it to the destination,” explained Mardin.

Mardin was still casually skating on a skateboard, passing through a completely broken and hollow road bend. As Mardin passed by, strange growls were heard very quietly in every ruin of the building, something watching him in large numbers.

Dros had been in a daze to see the situation around, he felt that Mardin was currently being watched by many objects.

“You feel it?” ask Dros.

Mardin was still staring straight at the road while continuing to skate, but he was already starting to be vigilant. “Iya. There's a snarling sound near here. We're being watched.”

“To be exact you are, Friend,” said Dros. “You can handle it yourself, right? I went back to your body first.”

Dros rushed into Mardin's neck. Mardin simply responded to Dros' attitude with a small chuckle. From his casual attitude, Mardin did not feel intimidated by anything that was watching his movements.

Mardin hopes to get a surprise from them.

“GRRRRAAAAAHHH!!”

Mardin was forced to stop the speed of skateboarding when many monsters sprung up in every corner of the ruins of the building. All the monsters gathered, besieging Mardin on various sides without leaving a slight gap for Mardin to escape.

It'sit's okay. Besides, Mardin didn't think of escaping at all.

“Wohooo, Friend!” Mardin lightly raised both hands while retreating slowly. “You mean to invite me to your party, huh? Sorry, sorry, here. I have a busy life again. Kebon hasn't been taken care of. So, must cepet-cepet back.”

The monsters did not care about Mardin's ravings at all. One monster in front of him started swinging its claws, intending to claw Mardin. Mardin easily held the claw's wrist with one hand. At the same time, Mardin kicked his skateboard until it hit the monster's head, then bounced back to him. After the skateboard was captured, it slapped it into the monster's head so violently that it shattered.

Hordes of monsters growled, roaring furiously when they saw one monster had fallen victim. If this is the case, they assume Mardin has declared war.

“Alright, friends.”

Mardin took out a machete from inside the skateboard, stuck his skateboard in a magnetic patch on the back belt, and stood relaxed while carrying the futuristic machete on the shoulder.

“Gathering together, relax muscles, cheer up cheerfully.”

He catapulted a moment of his machete, then pointed forward with confidence.

“Time to party!” Next to Mardin's eyes were blinking.

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