The Shopkeeper of Konoha

Chapter 24: You are falling apart



"Man, hold yourself together. You are falling apart." Aoto said looking at Hot Pie. For some reason Aoto wanted to be extra modern in front of him and spoke in English while adding a typical British fake accent to his words.

"What.. What.. Who are you?" Hot Pie who was still trembling finally saw the extra person around. The information load was too much and thus he was in his own world trying to comprehend to what just happened.

"My name is Aoto. Nice to meet you." Aoto said.

"They.. They call me Hot Pie."

"Oh. Who are they here?" Aoto asked even though he knew who called him by that name.

"My.. My friends." Hot Pie replied. By now he was slowly calming himself. Aoto was helping him get a hold of the things with normal talk.

"That's a nice name you got there, Hot Pie." Aoto said.

"Thank you."

"Do you understand why you are here, Right?" Aoto asked. Hot Pie clenched a bit but he slowly nodded his head. He had to accept the fact that he had just been forcefully led away to a different world.

"Well typically, you can call two of your friends from your own world. So do you want to do that?" Aoto asked

"Uhh.. Can I really bring people from my own world to this world?" Hot Pie asked still in a daze.

"Yes. You can forcefully bring them." Aoto replied. He was curious of who Hot Pie would choose. The world of GOT wasn't of any help to Aoto because these people lived in 'ancient' ages and this new world would be a monstrous world for them.

"I.. I don't know who to call as my friends. Most of them just hate me." Hot Pie said with a little sad voice.

"Why? I thought Arya was a good friend of yours." Aoto said.

"You.. You know of my world?" Hot Pie was surprised that this knew guy who he understood as his summoner. The system had given him a lot of information and one of the main one was that Aoto was the one who called him here.

"Of course. Though I might know of you in such a detailed manner I surely know one or two things about you. Your escape from King's Landing, your adventures with Arya and you mistook her as a boy." Aoto said. This brought an embarrassed smile on his face. He really did mis-gender Arya in the beginning and he thought this was a secret. But the summoner knew.

Seems like this guy really wasn't simple to have such power to call him from a different world. In a way. Hot Pie thought of Aoto as someone with witchcraft but somehow he wasn't fearful of Aoto.

"Then should I call Arya?" Hot Pie asked.

"Go for it." Aoto said.

"I don't understand. What is 'go for it'?" Hot Pie was confused.

"Uh.. I mean you can call her." Aoto said. Hot Pie then proceeded to close his eyes and in within seconds a light shone in front of him. And just like the previous time, Arya came out when the light diminished. She was again subjected to tons of information.

Arya looked exactly the same like in the last season and also was wearing the same outfit when she left for her adventures at the end to look for new place. She looked around confused but then she saw Aoto and Hot Pie.

Without much thought she went and hugged Hot Pie. Hot Pie who was little scared of her was surprised to see such reaction from her. When he brought her she thought that Arya would me mad at him but instead he got a hug in return.

"You are the best, Hot Pie." Arya said seemingly quite excited. And then she looked at Aoto.

"You must be the boss. Thanks for telling this guy in summoning me."

"How come you are so acceptable of the summoning thing?" Aoto was confused. He was sure Hot Pie still had his doubts and he might possibly be thinking that this was all a dream. But Arya seemed to be totally polar opposite to the fatso here.

"I have seen the Night Walkers, killed them, saw my own brother turning into someone who I almost don't recognize, saw the dragons... Do you think this will intimidate me?" Arya said with pride. Aoto's eye brow raised a bit hearing the words of Arya.

She was really accepting of the fact way too fast.

"Hot Pie, you have another guy to call yes? Can you call my brother?" Arya thought of something and pleaded Hot Pie.

"Who?.. Who?" Hot Pie asked.

"Bran? If he comes there will be again war in the Seven Kingdoms."

"No. Not that brother. I want John. He was on his way to Night's Watch. I don't want him to suffer there." Arya said. Aoto nodded his head as he had almost forgotten about their other brother.

"Hot Pie can you please call John?" Arya asked while showing her puppy eyes to him. Hot Pie couldn't take it anymore and just closed his eyes. In the next moment with a flash of light a man appeared.

A man with dark heavy clothes draping from his neck appeared. He had beard on his face and eyes seemed a little hollow and devoid of any kind of ambition. It was as if he had lost all purpose in life. Just like the other two, he too was barged with tons of information.

But unlike Arya who was acceptable to this new pseudo-space of white light, he reacted in a more dramatic way. He pulled out his Longclaw and pointed it at Aoto.

Aoto's smile vanished immediately and was a little scared looking at John.

"John.. John.. What are you doing?"

"Arya...No.. This can't be real. Tell me monster what kind of witchcraft did you do and turn yourself into my sister?" John was in denial as he looked at his sister and backed off while pointing his sword at him.

"John.. Calm down. It's me Arya.. Don't you recognize me?" Arya was a little scared looking at his brother who seemed confused.


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