Bell stopped swinging his legs while sitting on the carriage for a moment.
He let out a sigh, kept his head looking forward, the sun already halfway down the horizon.
"What are you thinking so hard about Bell?" Koenji questioned beside him as he stole glances at Bell, making sure their carriage followed the contingent in between.
Two days had passed since the incident with the goblins, leaving Bell with some chores from time to time to complete accompanied by a heavy dose of overthinking about the future.
"Nothing Big bro, it's just thinking about the difficulties ahead, In Solingen and even further in the future." Bell spoke absentmindedly while keeping his eyes on the carriage moving ahead of them.
Just thinking about the dire state of the current world as described in *Danmachi* gave him a massive headache, along with him apparently not having any golden finger staple for transmigrators.
So yea, life was bad.
His luck was even worse than those Chinese transmigrator fellows from earth, at least they all had their own cheats to not be steamrolled the moment they transmigrated.
While forget about golden fingers, he might not awaken the cheat [Liaris Freese] of the original Bell.
Afterall, half of original Bell's achievements were thanks to [Liaris Freese], the other half came from the gaslighting from Goddess Freya and his bloodline, being the nephew of the Silence, Alfia.
Take [Liaris Freese] away and he'd not even reach Level 3 in a year, forget about reaching Level 8 or 9.
That was with not even keeping in mind the most important feature of [Liaris Freese]; The ability to break through the natural limit of 999 Excelia in all parameters, just like those old heroes and monsters from the Primordial Era.
So, yea he might have spoken about overturning Orario with only himself, reality was way off from the words he spoke, now that he thought about his words, he even felt a hint of embarrassment for speaking those things to himself.
"Bell, you really are a child, no matter how mature you appear from outside,"
"Little bro... thinking and worrying about the future is a waste of time, since that is not for you to worry about, but your future self, do you want to take the work of your future self away by thinking about everything that will happen in the future? Take it one step at a time," Koenji spoke with a exasperated sigh at Bells words and spoke like a mature adult teaching a child.
"How do you walk? By taking one step at a time right? If you try to take a longer step than the length of your legs, won't you end up loosing balance and falling?"
"So, in life it's better to take things one step at a time." Koenji finished his words with a gentle sigh while discreetly hissing from the pain coming from the bandages wrapped around his torso.
"You're right Big Bro." Bell spoke absentmindedly while acknowledging the wisdom in his words.
Living in the future would make your mind unnecessarily overthink,
Living in the past would make your mind keep hurting itself,
Only by Living in the present, going through things as they come can a person truly be alive.
Concluding this, something unclenched in Bell, the air left his lungs with palpable relief, unknowingly since transmigrating, he'd been on his toes, keeping his mind hyperactive and overthinking, always on edge, since this world was dangerous, this world was *Danmachi*.
But now, he relaxed, for the first time since arriving in this world, all the future threats, all the future problems, and all people in the future who needed help,
Let the Bell of the future handle them.
The contingent stopped by the time he concluded his thoughts and night had fallen, then Koenji dragged him to the group of people travelling in the contingent, sitting around a fire, talking and laughing.
Some people greeted Bell, others asked about his showdown with the goblins, some even offered him some fruits as snacks.
Bell lost himself in his surroundings slowly, laughing and chatting with others, for the first time since his transmigration, with his guard relaxed.
When Bell looked around for Koenji after talking and laughing for some time,
Somehow, Koenji had pulled out a old grill from somewhere and was expertly grilling one delicacy after another and offering them to everyone who was feeling hunger.
Bell looked on as some people around the fire started singing and another group started to dance on some folk dance with a grilled sausage in his hands.
Miss Carmen, the one who had treated Koenji earlier and now was acquainted with Bell walked towards him in sync with the beats of the song and started dragging him towards the dance going on and insisted that they enjoy themselves.
Bell looked back at Koenji with pleading eyes to stop Miss Carmen.
But, Koenji flashed him his most charming smile while showing him a thumbs up.
'Traitor.....'
Bell muttered inwardly while he was dragged to dance with Miss Carmen, first feeling very awkward with the closeness and the music.
But slowly got into it, dancing with the rhythm of the songs, expressing his inner happiness about getting transmigrated in *Danmachi* this way.
This was real.
Transmigration.
Orario.
Danmachi.
Bell Cranel.
*Click*