"Man! Working isn’t easy, thankfully I have all this energy bottled up inside me!" Light exclaimed while covered in dirt and flexing his muscles.

They had been in the Unity town for about four days now, and in that time he had picked up a job as a dung excavator in a local pigpen.

Seeing as he had no idea what a dung excavator was, he quickly accepted the job after hearing all those fancy words.

The stench hit him like a fatal blow tbe second he stepped into the pigpen.

"So this is the area you’ll be excavating, make sure to do a good job. Money is hard to make." The owner, a short old woman told him. She wore a hat of straw and walked with her eyes half open.

"Wait! By excavating, do you mean I clean up the pig poo?" Light asked, an expression of disgust flashed across his face.

"Why yes, that’s exactly what an excavator is..." She opened one eye wider than the other, for the first time Light saw her eyeball. "...Or do you not want the Job?"

Light smiled sheepishly and took the shovel.

After a hard day’s work he would return to Leon’s apartment, stinking to the high heavens.

Jacob had had enough of it after four days. When Light arrived they quickly covered their noses, Xenia used a small handkerchief while Leon just raised his collar to cover his nose.

"Light can I speak with you in private?" Jacob inquired, walking towards him.

"Yes, what is it?" Jacob turned him around and pushed him outside the hole in the wall.

Light had made enough money to fix it partially, but the hole was still big enough for someone as tall as Jacob to pass through.

"Bro, everyday you come back here stinking like a skunk. Now I have a deal for you, let me fix the wall—you want to impress Xenia right, I’ll say you did it, and I’ll also give you some coins to get a new outfit. Don’t embarrass yourself any further, please." Jacob whispered to Light.

Light wasn’t anything if he was not opportunistic, he had been waiting for Jacob to utter those words in that exact fashion for days.

With an outstretched palm he responded to Jacob. "Deal!"

"Good man." Jacob patted the young man’s shoulder, as soon as his hand came off he immediately realized he had made a mistake.

He pulled out a small handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his hands clean.

Light watched as the young man turned around. Jacob was noticeably younger than he was, but he moved with a grace that Light had only seen in the Primarch of Wutherhorn.

_ _ _

The next day...

Jacob’s injection into Light’s cause had sped up the repairing on the wall, and in a few hours tbe hole was fixed and the wall was repainted

Light casually opened the door and strode in, carrying a bag which most likely contained clothes, new clothes.

He was properly dressed in a silk black button-up shirt, and long black pants, his hair was trimmed shorter, his skin looked clean. He was a handsome young man, more handsome now than he’d been before.

Jacob looked at his fingers and at his neck, Light wore jewelry!

’I might have given him a little too much, and the little fucker made sure to spend everything.’ Jacob mused in annoyance, but he quickly waved the thought away. After now, he would have no reason to give Light any money.

The red haired young man spun around dramatically after dropping the bag, his entire outfit radiating wealth and class.

Jacob smirked as he watched Light, he was a greedy young man but he was pretty entertaining.

"Now this is an outfit fit or a Prince!" Light announced, constantly looking at himself in a small mirror he held in his hand

Jacob turned to Xenia, who remained silent as she watched, she really was a woman of few words. Jacob had never met any woman who spoke with as much restraint as Xenia did.

It bothered him sometimes, he had always half expected her to talk his head off during their journey, but she remained as quiet as a mouse.

"Xenia, Leon... we need to leave this town soon." Jacob said in a low tone, unaware that Light had enhanced hearing from living in the forest so long.

"But where to? Young master Jacob." Xenia inquired, she had pondered extensively in tbe last few days.

Everywhere Jacob would go, he would experience the same thing, he had immense power swirling beneath him and would draw enemies everywhere he went. It made no difference to her as she would no sooner die by his side.

"Why don’t we go to the Wutherhorn estate?" Light jumped in to tbe conversation.

The pair had grown absolutely tired of him doing that. They all looked at Light for a moment, Jacob rubbing against his chin slowly while pondering on what the young man had just said.

’Wutherhorn estate huh, that sounds interesting.’ Jacob mused inwardly.

"Besides I have a score to settle there." Light tightened his fist, a determined look on his face as he uttered those words.

"Why would you go back if you ran away in tbe first place?" Leon asked?

"Because if I didn’t, tbe shame and humiliation I would’ve faced is no joke." Light had a serious expression on his face now.

"He’s right, as an integral part of a stronghold like Wutherhorn, failing to awaken three times would mean instant exile. No remorse." Jacob explained to Leon.

"But now that I’ve awakened my powers, I want to show my father and my snotty brothers what I can do. I want to stake a claim and challenge to be the next Primarch!" Light spread his palms and laughed maniacally, mimicking villainous gestures as the rest of the crew looked at him like he was mentally unstable.

He was laughed at, taunted, even beaten sometimes. Jacob knew all this, which is why he found a journey to the Wutherhorn estate interesting.

Light, however, continued to speak. "They must think I won’t make it back, they don’t know what’s coming."