I AM RIGHTEOUS FURY!!

“Hopefully it won’t be too long. Even if there is a wait, the time goes by pretty quick.” Entiral said with a nod. “If you have anymore questions about your phone, don’t be afraid to ask. I don’t want you to have bought something and not know how to use it.. That wouldn’t be very fair.” He said, laughing quietly under his breath.

It took little to no time to arrive at the restaurant, and Entiral was just happy that he didn’t end up getting them lost somehow. He walked inside and approached the counter, speaking to the hostess for a moment before he returned to Noire’s side.

“There’s a small wait, but it won’t be very long. This place seems to be very popular.. I think we came at the right time.” He smiled. “It’ll give you time to download an app, too. Did you have any in mind that you wanted? There’s a lot of different options.. There’s games that you can download.. I don’t know of many since I mostly use my phone for business purposes.. but I’m sure you could try almost ant of the top rated ones and they’d be fine. There’s also things to help keep you organized. You can download pretty much anything through apps, really..”

Noire nodded as she tapped through her phone, looking at the top apps in the app store.  Reading the descriptions made her head spin; so many phrases she didn’t understand.  She felt a bit slow on the uptake, it seemed the friends she knew from Ylisse who had also traveled to this world -- even if they didn’t stay for long -- figured out how to use phones fairly quickly.

It made her feel a bit dense, but she bit back the anger she felt bubbling up in her chest and looked up at Entiral, offering him a small smile.  “Yes...well...I feel a bit like an old woman, not understanding how things like this work.  I was imagining what it would be like to bring this to my home realm, I imagine our Dark Mages would be fascinated with it...”  Her mother in particular.

“There are so many to choose from, it’s all a little confusing.  Some of these look like they’re basically the same...”  Maybe that was just what this world was like.  Endless variety.  “Maybe a simple puzzle game...”  Noire clicked to a different screen and found the selections to be a lot less stimulating.  “Ah...this is better.”  She downloaded a Soduku app before sticking the phone into her pocket as a hostess gestured for the pair to follow her.

Entiral listened closely. It sounded like she really wanted the flaming cake, so he would do his best to try and find it.. Even if he had never heard of it before. He smiled faintly and laughed under his breath. “Don’t worry.. Let me see if I can find it somewhere..” He said as he pulled out his phone, typing a few things in on it. After a few moments, he gave a sigh of relief.

“I think I might have found it.. Now lets just hope it’s the right thing. I’ve never heard of it before, so it’ll be a new experience for us both.” Entiral nodded. He looked down at his phone, putting in the restaurant address into the GPS on his phone. He silently hoped they wouldn’t get lost like they had the first time he tried to navigate, causing him to frown lightly.

“Oh, look.. It’s not far from here at all.” The Italian smiled as he began to follow the direction of his GPS. “I can’t believe I’ve never heard of this before.. I’ve tried a lot of things, so it’s just surprising to me.” He explained with a modest laugh.

Noire lit up at the prospect of getting to try her flaming cake.  It was something she planned on looking up later herself.  She had all the time in the world to try to bake these new and exciting desserts and it was extremely exciting.  “Oooh, well it looked good so I’m sure you’ll like it...everyone seemed to be enjoying it, at least.”  Even if she didn’t find it tasty, just knowing she got to try it would be enough.

“Ah, I’m so excited.  I hope there isn’t a long wait at the restaurant...”  If there was one thing about this world that she was having a hard time adjusting to, it was the waiting time it took to do, well, anything.  She wasn’t sure how much time she’d wasted waiting for a bus, or waiting in line to buy something.  Perhaps that’s what happened in a technologically advanced world.

“I see.. Well.. I know just the place. We can have something I like as well as some dessert. I’m not sure where we could get a cake on fire.. But I know where we can get some normal cakes.” Entiral smiled with a faint laugh, scratching his cheek. Cake on fire, hmm? He’d definitely need to see what that was about..

Looking around Entiral tried his best to gather his surroundings before he began to head off into the direction of one of his favorite restaurants in town. He had to eat out often due to him taking clients out, even if it didn’t look like it due to his small frame.

“I’d make you real Italian food, but I’m afraid it might hurt your stomach from the thick sauce.. So we can just get the authentic stuff. It’s good, too.” He explained. “You’ll have to tell me more about this cake on fire.. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that before. Where did you see that at?” He decided to ask, trying to imagine what that might feel like seeing.

Noire trailed behind Entiral slightly, taking in the sights as they walked past the storefronts.  Ylisstol was a fairly large town, but she still marveled at how different these two worlds were.  She couldn’t decide if Ylisse would ever reach this level of modern technology.  Now they they no longer were at war...possibly.  They were still far off from it, however.  Noire snapped to attention as her companion brought up the flaming cake.

“Yes...well.  I had been walking past a restaurant and they had an outdoor patio.  The waiter brought out a cake...it looked a little odd, I’d never seen a cake like it before.  The top looked...crunchy.  He poured something on top and then lit the cake on fire!  Everyone started clapping, so I suppose that was meant to happen...it was odd.

Entiral couldn’t help but smile faintly. Having the chance to help someone try new things was something he greatly enjoyed.. Especially since he was sure she would enjoy what he had to offer. He had always been told he had good tastes, especially when it came to food.

“Don’t worry.. We can go try anything you want, my treat.” He nodded. “Is there anything you really really want to try first?” He decided to ask, figuring giving her the option would be best.

“I know a lot of the food options around here, so we’re in luck. Whatever you want, I’ll help you find it!”

“Something I really want to try...?”  She pondered it for a moment a faint smile tugging at the corner of her lips.  No, she didn’t have anything particular in mind.  Truthfully, she’d rather try something new -- something she hadn’t ever had in her entire life.  “I don’t have anything I’d like.  I’d rather get your favorite food, I think.  Anything would be delicious compared to some of the things I ate in Ylisse...”

Entiral couldn’t help but smile. He was simply glad to have been useful enough to help, if anything. Just him getting out and being able to talk about something other than work was payment enough.. but he could also tell that she probably wasn’t going to take no for an answer. He rubbed the back of his neck, trying to think.

“Hmm.. Well.. I know a lot of things seem to be foreign to you. Have you tried pasta before? Or even something like spaghetti.. I’m sure you can tell I’m not from around here due to my accent. I’d love to be able to share a bit of Italy with you.. Even if the restaurants aren’t as good as the real thing.” He smiled, chuckling under his breath before sighing. “I’m just glad I could help you out, though. It actually made me feel quite.. useful.”

Noire pursed her lips ever so slightly before nodding.  “We had pasta in Ylisse but...it was more of a luxury item.  To tell you the truth I spent most of my time eating bear meat and berry pies.  If I have to ever look at bear meat ever again I might be sick...”  She offered him a small smile.  “I wouldn’t mind trying some of this ‘spaghetti’.  I always did like pasta the few times I had it.”

“Oh no.. You’re not wasting my time at all, don’t worry about that.” He began as he looked over at the screen. His eyes scanned the phone, looking for the calendar option. Truth be told, he felt a bit bad for her. Growing up, he never had this sort of stuff. Back in Italy with his mother, they lived in poverty and never even had a house phone or anything along the lines of this. It wasn’t until he was, almost miraculously, given his job that he was able to enjoy the finer things of life.

“Really, don’t.. Just don’t worry. It took me awhile to get used to mine. I was.. Sorta in the same situation. I knew that phones existed, but I never really had one until a few years ago.” Entiral explained before he cleared his throat and pointed at the icon that said calendar below it.

“Alright.. So here is the calendar. Just press it to open it. Inside it shows the whole month, just like.. Well.. A calendar. If you click on a day, you can add events to it.” He said, clicking on the current day. Entiral then pointed at a plus sign in the corner of the screen. “If you press this, you can add the time you have something scheduled and the event.”

Entiral then paused and laughed quietly. “Sorry.. I know this is a bit much, but you’ll get the hang of it.”

Noire watched him open the calendar app and clapped her hands together, nodding happily as he showed her how to add events.  “Ah!  That’s not very hard at all.  Thank you, I can be very...forgetful, so I thought having a calendar with me at all times would be very helpful.”  She took the phone back from him and set it in front of her, drumming her fingers on the table.

“I suppose that’s it...I think there are some things I should figure out myself.  I’ve read through the manual, but a lot of it seems to assume the person reading it already understands several things about these phones that I...do not.”  Now that Entiral had showed her the basics she wasn’t quite as worried about figuring out other aspects.  If anything, he probably wouldn’t mind showing her other apps later if she got really stuck.

“I don’t suppose you’d like some coffee...?  I’d like to buy you lunch in return for you taking time out of your day to help me.”  Noire held up a finger, already knowing he was going to insist he didn’t need anything.  They both seemed to have a problem with profusely apologizing for things.  “And I won’t take no for an answer.  We don’t have to eat here...”

Entiral couldn’t help but let out a quiet laugh. “Yeah.. They’re made for communication.. but as the years went on, they just decided to add more and more stuff to it.. A lot of it is really unnecessary if we’re being honest..” He explained with a smile.

“An app is just short for an application. You can add a lot of different stuff like games, social media, or just other tools like a notepad or something.. I use my phone for work, so all I know about is the boring stuff..” He said, fully aware that he probably sounded like the biggest nerd to hit the planet as he explained all of this.. Especially to someone who wasn’t familiar with a phone.

“Oh, yes.. This is basically just like mail..” Entiral said as he went to open a new message. “Up here, you put who you want to send the message to.. and down here you write out your message.” He explained before he handed the phone over to her, making sure the keyboard on the screen was up. “You can type out the words on this.. It takes awhile to get used to.. and I suggest proof-reading your messages before sending them.. There’s something called ‘auto-correct’ that often gets people into a lot of trouble.. Myself included.”

Noire blinked as Entiral handed her the phone.  This was a bit too much to process all at once, but at the same time she didn’t want to have to continuously ask him and other stupid questions.  She’d seen others typing out messages before, but it seemed so odd that there were no buttons aside from the ‘home’ button.  The man at the store had been frustrated with her questions and couldn’t seem to offer her an explanation other than ‘it’s a touch screen’.

Clearly, it was some form of magic.  She was sure Laurent and Miriel would find her new phone to be of importance, but unfortunately they weren’t around.  “Alright...so all I have to do is type out the message?”  She stared at the keyboard for a moment before slowly tapping in a text, slightly confused by the configuration of the keys.  Why they weren’t in alphabetical order she didn’t even feel like questioning.

After several painful minutes she finally finished her text and her thumb hovered over the send button.  “Ah.  Actually...”  She pressed the home button and slid the phone back to him.  “I’ll send it later.  I was told pressing the home button while in an app...pauses it?  Or something along those lines.”  She hoped she hadn’t just lost the message she’d spent so long typing out.

Work had been running slow for him today, so he didn’t mind leaving a bit early to head over to the cafe. He was glad to finally hear from Noire, even though the message showed in itself that she was lost when it came to using her new phone. Entiral couldn’t help but laugh quietly under his breath, a bit amused but he knew he couldn’t show that to her. The last thing he wanted was for her to feel bad. Besides.. Phones were new to her, and they even confused him despite having one for many years.

Once he walked into the cafe, he was quick to find her. The Italian smiled as he sat down beside her, looking at the phone as she slid it over to him. He sat down beside her.. taking the phone in his hands as he slid his thumb across the screen, going through the menu on her phone.

“Oh, don’t worry about it.. I wasn’t busy or anything, so it worked out fine.” Entiral smiled. “Alright.. Well.. I’m not used to this type of phone, but I can figure it out.. Right now you’re on your home screen. If you click this button, it’ll take you to the main menu where you can pick from many different options. Was there something specific you were looking for?”

Noire paused, watching him click on the Apps button.  “Ah...no actually.  I don’t completely understand what this phone...does, I suppose.  I though phones were for speaking to one another, but it seems they have many purposes I don’t yet understand.”  She let out a weary sigh, cupping her chin in the palm of her hand.  All this technology this world held was far too confusing for her.

“The man at the store offered me some vague advice...he told me to download useful apps.  I’m sure it’d be more useful if I knew what an app is...”  She had been too embarrassed to ask the cashier anymore questions, not wanting to seem like even more of a dunce than she already did.  “I suppose a lot of apps would be useless to me considering I don’t plan on using this very often...”

Noire had taken Entiral’s advice and purchased a cell phone.  Of course, she had no idea how to use it.  After playing around with it at the store, she at least convinced the cashier to show her how add contact and make calls.  So his number was the only one that she possessed, but it’s not like she understood how to even use basic function on it anyhow.  After leaving the store she left him a rather cryptic and nervous message asking if he’d been willing to meet her at a nearby café to explain how to use this so called ‘smart phone’.

It was embarrassing, to say the least, that she couldn’t figure it out herself.  Entrial seemed nice enough to forgive her for any stupid mistakes she’d end up making regarding her phone.  Noire sat herself near the entrance, sipping on a cup of tea she’d ordered earlier.  With her phone laid on in front of her, she gave it a hard stare.  So far she’d managed to open up her calendar, but hadn’t been able to figure out how to add items to it.  She’d also figured out how to use the calculator, although that was an entirely different issue.  Her head shot up as the bell rang, signaling someone had entered.

“Yeah.. The only time math has helped me out is.. Well.. never, honestly. As long as you can use a calculator, things should be good.” Entiral said with a faint laugh, followed by a sigh. He looked down at his phone, noticing they were getting quite close.

“Oh, It’s no problem. I’m never really doing anything aside from working.. so I guess this was my way of getting out.” He said with a faint smile. “I admit.. Having someone to talk to is nice.”

“You said you don’t have a phone.. right?” Entiral began, digging around in his pockets. He pulled out an old receipt, followed by a pen. Lucky for him, he seemed to always have some sort of scratch paper and a writing utensil on him. Silently praying that Noire didn’t think he was some creep, he wrote his number down on the paper.

“If you plan on getting a phone.. Feel free to call or text whenever you’d like.” He smiled before his face began to burn red. “N.. Not in a weird way.. I just.. I mean.. Well.. It’s just nice having someone to talk to, I.. I mean.” Entiral dryly said before he quickly cleared his throat and sighed.

“A calculator...we didn’t have those.  I think if we did no one would learn how to do math properly.”  Noire offered him a faint smile.  “Although it seems the math you do here is much more advanced than anything we did in Ylisse.”  Glancing down at his phone before looking at the buildings around them she nodded to herself.

She immediately turned to face him again as Entiral pulled out a pen and a piece of paper to scribble his number on it.  “O-Oh.”  Noire took the paper using both hands and stared at it for a moment before looking back up at him.  She noted his face turning red, which immediately made her blush as well.

Roses’ eyes glinted in amusement as they looked over to the woman. She was an awkward human that’s for sure

“Wouldn’t know. Don’t tend to meet too many people.”

They stood there for a moment, eyes narrowing slightly. They weren’t sure why the stranger wants to know they’re name.

But she didn’t seem all that harmful. They supposed it couldn’t hurt.

“..Rose.”

“That’s a, er, nice name.”  Noire gave the other a blank look before taking the last bite of her donut and tossing the paper it was wrapped in into the trash.  “You know...not meeting other people is, ah, a bit...boring?  Haven’t you ever been interested in getting to know people.  Aside from your...mates?”  She wasn’t sure where she was going with this.  It was hard making conversation with someone so quiet.

“In all honesty.. I don’t feel like school is as important as people make it. Your type of school sounds much better than what I had to do.” Entiral explained with a faint laugh. “I mean.. I have a bit of knowledge about starting fires.. but that’s all stuff I’ve had to learn on my own by reading books. Survival really is the key in life.”

He finally looked back at his phone, giving a sigh of relief. “We’re going the right way.. We should be at your house soon.” Entiral nodded. He looked around, noticing it had gotten dark a lot quicker than he had expected it to. He wasn’t excited about walking all the way home in the dark.. but he wasn’t going to bring that up.

“Don’t worry.. I’m paying more attention now, even if it may not look like it.” He said with a quiet laugh, rubbing the back of his neck.

Noire gave him a wavering smile before turning her attention to the sidewalk once more.  “Right...well I suppose none of my friends went to school so I shouldn’t fret so much but...”  She trailed off for a moment.  “I suppose I’d like to be smart like my mother; although she’s a bit...eccentric.”  That probably was putting it much more nicely than Tharja deserved.  “You’re right though.  I only needed to know how to get through the day...math wouldn't help me much.”

She nodded when he confirmed they were going the right way and let out a small sigh.  A few buildings were starting to look vaguely familiar, but she didn’t want to say she knew where she was going only to end up lost again.  Once they were within a block of her house she figured she would be able to find it on her own.

“Ah, I see.” Entiral began. He didn’t know a whole lot about being sick. He rarely ever fell ill, and if he did he always managed to power through it.. but then again, it was typically just allergies from all of the travel.. so he couldn’t exactly relate.

The demon finally let out a sigh. He wasn’t too proud of his past, especially when it came to his education.. but at the same time, he didn’t feel the need to hide it. People typically found out some way or another.

“Well.. I don’t really have the education for it. I dropped out of school for a young age so I could take care of.. well.. my now ex-significant other.” Entiral slowly explained. “It was a mistake, because he wasn’t exactly the best person for me to be around.. but.. anyways.. most people with my job have a high level of education, but I couldn’t even finish high school.”

“The only reason I have my job is out of the goodness of my bosses heart. He’s like the father I never had, honestly. I was homeless for a week or two, and he gave me my job so I could get back on my feet.. but in the end he didn’t want me to leave.” He explained with a faint nod, secretly hoping that she wouldn’t judge him for being so open. He just wasn’t the type to lie or hide things. That was mainly due to the fact that he was bad at it, so he never really tried.

Noire listened to him talk with some interest.  He was extremely open about his past, which she was grateful for since it meant she wasn’t going to be left with a lot of awkward questions she’d like to ask.  “Ah, I see.”  She turned to look at the road ahead of them, taking a moment to collect her thoughts.

“If it makes you feel any better, I never really went to school at all.  I mean, we sort of had a school...but we were busy doing other things.”  Like fighting.  “So...we mostly just learned what we needed to know in order to survive.  I can tell you five different ways to start a fire but if you asked me anything about math I’d be...a bit clueless. “  Noire shrugged.