While stopping by a town for a rest along your journey, you and your friends decide to check out a famous matchmaker who is said to have a keen eye for perfect pairs, with anyone who uses her services finding love for years to come. But while you don’t expect much out of it, you’re surprised to find that your perfect match is with a longtime enemy who frequently targets your group. Despite neither of you thinking much of each other prior to this meeting, there may be some feelings beginning to develop that could make things complicated if you decide to act on them. Written by BlueChanXD
Well well, fancy meeting you here. Ah ah, don't go wasting your hard earned gold like that. You know these services are too pricey to simply walk away from.
So, how about you get your money's worth, hmm? I would like to as well. So please stay with me and chat for a while.
There, now let's be civil and enjoy each other's company instead of coming up with a list of greedy friends that will give us even more reason to want to fight each other. Besides, I don't think our host would appreciate us vandalizing all of her lovely, lovely furniture. It's very nice, don't you think? It sets the right mood for the occasion.
Makes me forget any attacks you might have thrown my way in the past. Oh but uh, did you ever do something that cruel to me, hmm? No, you've been a good little one, even when you had your chance to strike.
Just the fact that I can't seem to remember any time you've tried to attack me, makes me much more confident in our host's intuition. But I would love to talk some more with you to be absolutely sure. Oh I'm afraid you've got this all wrong.
This isn't a front for me or, well, any of the others I work with. Our association with the host is purely that of clientele, just as you and your friends are. Mmhmm, absolutely.
This place is a real deal. Her matchmaking services are truly, well, unmatched, as they say. I've heard nothing but good things regarding her work.
She's always right on the money. Well of course I had to leave my fate in her hands for something as important as this. Otherwise I would have made a horrible mistake.
When I found out you and your friends couldn't resist these services, I knew I had to find out for myself. In your case, I'm sure you and the others just needed some excuse to discuss these very particular matters of intimacy under the guise of mere curiosity. I'm certain some hidden feelings contributed to the decision, probably several assumptions that you would each end up getting the person you want, which given the circumstances don't seem to have gone exactly as expected.
But considering how you've all been together for so long and yet no relationship have come out of it, I could have told you that, can't I? Oh, but it's not to knock your anyone else. After all, we're all in the same boat here.
Yes, I myself have made many incorrect assumptions about you all that I'm only just finding out now, in fact. I should rephrase this by having you get to know me on a more personal level. You see, I have a very particular taste for innocence, if you would.
Well, when you surround yourself with the corrupt more often than not, you begin to crave for something that cuts through all of that. So it has been in my interest to find someone who could best cleanse the palate. Despite all that bitterness, I need someone sickeningly sweet in my company.
And who better to have at my side than a hero? That's what you're supposed to be. Well, at least that's what I thought.
Anyway, when you're so far on the other side, anything looks much nicer from far away. You know, for a while I had my eye on that little healer friend of yours. No direct combat and with a purpose of taking care of others.
That's the type of person you expect to be nurturing and one you can easily turn into a blabbering mess with a couple of innuendos. Though it seems like I was very dead wrong. Your friend must have a dirtier mind than I thought.
Oh, I can't be too mad about that. Today, we've just proven that there's someone else I should have been keeping my eye on this whole time. Oh dear.
Why did you hide this from me for so long? We could have gotten to this point so much sooner. No, we're not here today because of something I've been wanting.
Your own desires were taken into consideration by our lovely host. She doesn't lie and she does those best, even better than you or me. I would even go so far as to say I would trust her more than I would trust myself.
Whatever you told her must have given her good reason to believe that you and I would be perfect for each other. While I would love more than anything in the world to believe that somewhere deep down you had feelings for me, I think your actions have proven that you're just as surprised as I am that things turned out this way. Unfortunately, I cannot say that I had feelings for you either before today, but that has most definitely changed.
Oh no, I am afraid we cannot go back to how things were anymore. After all the trouble, I don't think so. Remember, we both paid for this opportunity after all.
If we don't get something out of it, we're just wasting everyone else's time. You walk out that door and get back together with your friends, and I guarantee you that if someone were to confess and you chose to give them a chance, you'll know in the back of your mind that, in the end, you two just aren't meant to be. You aren't going to get that perfect romance if you stray too far away from the gift that's just been handed to you.
You don't have to wonder if the person in front of you is really the right person. The matchmaker took out all the hard parts for you. All you need to do is enjoy.
I mean, after all, it's just you and me in here. No one else has gotten a reason to be in here, or even think they should be. Oh, I cannot tell you what will happen once we walk out of this room, but we do have some privacy for a little bit longer.
If you leave too early, you might just end up waiting for the rest of your friends to be done. I personally do not think there's much fun in sitting around just imagining everyone else having their own fun. Let me at least make this a pleasant experience for you.
I would hate for us to come out of this thinking ill of our host and her hard work. Oh, a nice conversation will do it. It'll give us a better picture of why she made this decision in the first place.
Now, if I could have your hand, please. You're not one for holding a blade or a bow, are you? Well, regardless of our weapon of choice, some of us tend to learn the skill of using weaponry outside of what we show off in battle.
It makes us more flexible in times where we aren't so lucky to have an advantage or need to improvise. Flipping pages through a tome won't give you a callus, and your hands are perfectly soft. You're quite transparent about your skill, then.
No tricks up your sleeve? My, you're so honest. I must say, you've got the best of both worlds.
You get to play heroics and still have such free hands. Let's keep it that way, yeah? Wonder what other secrets can these tell me? Maybe that you've never been complimented by anyone like that before? Oh, I can also tell that you lack experience on the subject of romance.
I'm guessing you haven't felt the touch of a man's lip before, have you? Oh, my darling, you do need to be appreciated more. But I can't say I would trust just anyone to do it.
You know, things might just turn out wrong and you would end up falling in love with someone who wouldn't be your perfect match.