1/9/998:
It has been roughly three months since the encounter with Cole, Sera's older brother. During those times, he found out that he had a daughter who was kept a secret from him. Apparently, a month before the accident happened, Len Yumi found out that she was pregnant, she intended to tell him during their weeding but destiny stole that moment.
He had filed for child service protection, since the child was rightfully his. He didn't get back on his feet alone though, by his side he had his sister, his family and his friends. As for me, I just stood by the side lines and watched what would happen.
I was able to since I had unlocked the rinne pure eye once more.
Anyway, I should make my to Alma's fathers workshop; we made an agreement not long ago.
Peter and his friends also sometimes come here to 'visit me' but in truth he is just here to talk with Aria. Meanwhile, Aria on the other hand just ignores him entirely.
Alphia, Aishia and Alma also trains together. They formed a training circle where they fight one vs one battles. Sometimes, they call me to be the referee which I am not opposed to.
"Well, except I have been challenged by Aria's father today."
I guess I would help the Mr. Emmanuel before I go with him.
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The sword of elements:
"Let me see your sword boy," Mr Emmanuel asked as he stretched his hand.
I took my scabbard then pulled out the sword inside, as I did I felt the burn sensation of the fire room we were in.
The sword was a blue and red crystal sword that had been held together with the help continuous absorbing mana I feed it in battle. The sides are glasses which are formed by precious stones.
"Here you go," I said as I handed him my sword.
"A gem stone crystal sword, huh! I don't see many people using these types of weapin anymore," he said looking at the blade.
"Really,"
"Yeah... Anyway, what type of sword do you want change it into?" He asked.
"Can you just make it a metal precious stone sword... Like the same word but mix with metal this time." I said.
"Sure, that is easy enough."
"Alright, let's work to work then," I said.
I went with him to start the process. Since, I had already learned the process during my first sword making I had many things about how swords were made. I turned the fire on the perfect temperature; forty five degree celsius. Sir Emmanuel place the sword in. After that we went in the metallic room to pick what kind of metal would be the best option.
"Maybe silver," I offered.
"Sure, but for a sword like that you would need to constantly pour in charkra before you could activate the technique." He said.
"I guess that would be a problem for me," I said.
"What about we mix silver, mercury and tin," he offered.
"Why though?" I asked him.
"Because, the mix of mercury, silver and tin makes what we call little absorption technique. What this does is it receives little charkra from user but with this little charkra, the user could use many technique without the worry of charkra outage."
"Oh, really. Then let's do it then."
"Sure," he said.
Sir Emmanuel picked up two metals which didn't recognize at first. But I did recognize the liquid metallic substance he was holding.
Mercury.
He placed all those metals into one large bowl that had a lang handle on it. He places the bowl on fire then we waited for some minutes checking on it. As we did, we realized that it had completely turned into liquid form. After that, we also brought my sword which has been melted to liquid too. Sir Emmanuel asked me to pour all the substance into one bowl.
I held one bowl at a time, I poured the silver substances into the precious stone substance then added all of them.
"Now let's place them to a dry area."
We shaped the sword with the help of the sword shaper tool in the drying area. The sword begun to be shaped one more time. An hour later it was ready, it had the same shape as the first one but different colours entirely.
This time it had a light red and light blue shades of colour.
"Thank you every much sir!" I thanked him.
"You are welcome!"
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Practice area:
Finally the day of the mock battle arrived.
"Hey, Rial good luck with the mock battle against, father," Aria said.
"It is alright, I'ma be okay, just watch and learn," I replied.
I stepped out of the area, on the side of the bench sat Peter and his friend. He wore a grin on his face that expressed confidence. I turned my gaze back the opposite of which, I was facing.
From the other side, Mr. Van walked out of the podium, his eyes locked onto me. He gave me a knowing look which I understood immediately.
"If I win, you must marry my daughter but if you win you can have anything you want from this village."
"Sure." With a dismissive look a accepted the challenge. If I refused, that would be a weakness in front of the others. But, if I lost then I would be forced into a marriage with Aria, which will be a problem, even including Peter and his shenanigans.
"Fine, but I win you tell me why you are so fixated on trying to get me married to Aria." Though we spoke, it was in our glances. The ability to read your opponent's mind without talking, this was the most useful skill in a fight during the waring state time period. But since, magic was created the ability was naturally forgotten, only a few could master them.
We both held out our practiced swords, and got ready to fight.
"Opponents ready... Fight," Sir Eric said as he acted as referee.
"Okay boy, let's see what you got!" Mr Van said.
With incredible speed he bashed towards me. Over swung his sword in a rhythm I didn't recognize, the sword nearly touched me. I enhanced the body with lightning astral arts to evade the attack but that wasn't enough. I immediately made the hand signs of spirit technique which would allow me to use spirit art and astral arts together.
With my lightning changing from blue to red, I bashed forward to meet his attack. Clash, clash, clash, our swords met for the first time.
I didn't know what came over me, but I somehow knew the outcome of this battle.
Mr. Van recovered his weapon with large amounts of energy which he stuck against me. I dived under the attack but it wasn't enough as I got kicked in the stomach by him.
I immediately came crushing down the pavement. I activated my level four pure immediately.
"Teleport"
Immediately I was teleported to Mr Van's back, he hadn't noticed at first back the moment when I landed he did. He leaped back toward the center of the arena but that was futile since, the moment he landed I teleported back to his blind spot. As soon as I felt my physical body appear I revised my body, using my right foot I turned and with all my strength kicked him.
I kicked him in the abdomen which caused him to walk sideways for a minute. He eventually regained his position and strength, reading his sword he used his arts to create a wind slicing attack.
The slicing wind came at me with incredible force, but I also combined both astral and spirit art to create the unwavering spear water rotation.
The attack met each other, this created a large shock wave that shocked the spectators sitting. As soon as the mana shock wave cleared, Mr. Van came at me again, we clashed with swords this time.
He sliced through the air then at me, I used the fourth and fifty form of the Karasuki water dance together. With this my dodging and attacking accuracy improved drastically, I switched my hand which held the sword. I sliced at the man but he somehow dodged my attack. He swung his sword sideways this time. I again switched the hand which held my practice sword, then I calculated where the attack would land, as expected it landed where I calculated.
"Well, I am done. I have run out of mana."
"Me too," Mr. Van said.
It was a lie but this was the only to avoid using my full strength, or else the rinne pure eye will reveal itself.
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Truth:
After the aftermath of the fight, I and Mr.Van sat down at the lobby near the entrance of the resting area. We both changed our clothes that were worn during the battle not so long ago. I changed mine to a black shirt and red and black pants. Mr. Van wore his usual white robe and the suit underneath it.
"So, tell me. Why do you want me to marry your daughter so badly?" I calmly asked.
"It may be a little overwhelming but Aria's future is not looking good in any stand point," Mr Van murmured with a loud sigh that followed.
"What?"
"Within our tribe, Fairies have a very long lifespan but our culture enforce his to find a partner at the very age of sixteen. But growing in these kinds of cultures made me question their intentions, since this doesn't help us, it condemns us."
"That is really crazy. First, the centaur tribe would marry a person if they lost to that person and you guys too. I gotta say; that is really interesting."
Even though I think that is crazy, I gotta say, that is a reasonable way to avoid shortage of people within the tribe. Since, young people like independence, they throw themselves in work and training, which leads them to forget about their love life. I think, to prevent such future their past leaders arranged these protocols.
"I know how crazy that sounds but it is true." He said.
"Even if that is true, why me?" I asked.
He stared at me and said: "Because, you are a special case. The first time I laid my eyes on you, I had a feeling that; you are the only one who can Aria the happiest girl in the world."
"Ah... I don't know about that. But, don't you think Peter will make the cut," I said.
With a disgusted face he muttered, "Absolutely not, that kid is like the devil himself. I don't like him even being near her and my family."
Well, not even he can hide from him.
"Yeah, he is a psychopath. That we can agree on, but you don't to worry he is going down very, very soon."
"I guess I have to leave it in your hands then."
"Yeah."
Meanwhile far east of the world, four men flew on a ship towards a dark cave near the forbidden forest. These four men were: Rushed Tsukasa, Master Skies, Sir Noir and, Sir Rice. These four men were responsible for many bad things that happened in the last few years. They are also the creators of the facility: "Black Asylum".
Initially, the creation of the 'Black Asylum' was to protect innocent children who lost their parents. But due to the influence of the ex-queen the Northern kingdom, Mater Rushed and the manipulation of Master Skies. Due to these people, the institution changed from a safe place for children to a night mare facility for children.
But, the thing most people ignore is that: all this evil was planned by the person that hides in the shadows, manipulating certain people to do his desires and fulfill had his mission on Isal.
"What do you all think about this place?" Sir Skies asked.
"It is nice but the legend clearly says: you need to find a place that has an enormous amount of charkra and place the artifact." Said Sir Rice.
"That is true, if that is the case then I suppose the Spirit village will do the job." Answered Master Skies.
"Yeah, then the Moon kingdom will be our next destination right," Asked Sir Noir.
The queen looked at the Rushed with a devilish smile and muttered, "I think someone might get mad if we try to ruin his plans for a weapon."
"Oh yeah that boy. His name was Max, wasn't it?"
Master Rushed sat down in a calm manner and responded, "That child is already a pain, if we teach him a lesson I suppose it will teach him not to act on his desire any more."
"Talking about the spirit village, I heard that there is a boy that holds the magic death ball and some boy with extraordinary skills there too." Said Sir Skies.
"Even if he wrote its name, that god-like being would just kill him before he even thinks of writing." Answered Master Rushed.
"And the boy name Rial, he became an obstacle during the Shira incident we planted long ago?" With a disgusted face, Sir Rice asked.
"Does everything seem disgusted to you?" The queen asked Sir Rice
"No, if you plan something so great then in the last seconds someone pops up and suddenly deactivates the plan, won't you get mad?" He asked.
"Actually no, what it does is: it teaches you to plan carefully next time," Sir Skies answered with a calm smile.
"Anyways, those three children are extremely intelligent, I think we should keep our heads up." Answered Sir Noir.
"You two do think like, Master Rushed, Sir Rice." Said the queen.
"Why did we bring her?" Sir Rice asked.
"We didn't, she just got on the ship when we weren't looking." Answered Master Skies.
"Alright, let's head to the Spirit village, Moon kingdom, then finally the Asteroid kingdom," Said Master Rushed.
The five people climbed on the ship and headed for their locations. Not looking they were all manipulated by the people who sent them in the first place.
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Lie:
1/05/998
Light's perspective:
"Why did you sell me out...! And given now I must run away from this country as fast as possible, you know!" I said angrily at the relaxed being sitting on the sofa.
"Ah! I just felt like it, so I did it. And, as you know: I am the one who made you the person you are today." He answered carelessly.
I looked at him as I began to pick with incredible speed. Nevertheless, it was about five until I heard the night force knocking at my door. I zipped the bag and smashed the chair in front of me through the window. It sharded against the concrete floor, then I jumped over running as far as I can possibly run.
"You know, it wasn't my fault." Said the death angel.
"Why do you know?" I asked.
"Do you know the 8 gods of transcendence?"
"Everyone does, why?" I asked.
"As far as I know, their coming has caused ripples throughout the cosmos. That eventually led me to run you out!"
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"In the text of the transcendent law book; it is said that during their next coming, there will be ripples of events that will change the history of the planet."
I still run but far ahead I was Rico, Kakashi, and Max looking at me in the eye.
"Looks like your plan worked Kakashi" Eiichiro shouted.
"Yeah, Max idea worked with my magic. I can't believe that even worked on a being like that."
"What do they mean?"
"They think their plan worked through an illusion magic they created back when they came to our house. My guess is that the transcendent used that opportunity to create an illusion and then they threw you under the bus."
"But now how can we run away?" I asked in a desperate attempt to escape.
"You can't, but I can." Then he went into the ball and vanished.
"Slung." The magic death ball vanished from my sight.
"What you bastard!" I shouted as I tried to run.
From my cheek, I sensed a sharp pain I have never felt before. Then, as I turned another pain stuck my back.
All I saw was the sharp slice of the wind in front of me. I was still in the process of analysing the pain and it cause.
I looked far ahead of me, that was where I saw the presence of three different people: Max, Rio and Kakashi. Within the next second, I felt another sharp pain in my head. I fell down onto the concrete floor.
"Light Sasami, you are under arrest by the law bestowed onto me." Max said, coldly.
"Let me make one thing clear here, you are going to spend the rest of your life in jail." Rico with a disgusted and cold tone said straight to me.
He wasn't completely wrong, he had lived some of his under pressure, being careful about who you spoke to and who you welcomed in your life.
Max came at me with a handcuff.
"How did you know it was me who did all these?" I asked, trying to waste time.
"It was obvious from the start. You keep a pencil string in your door closing intersection; which insures that if a person enters your room, you would know. Then second, you kept playing mind games with us... Although, I have to say, you played well by using different people to cover your trails." Max answered.
"Then, there is your father; he is the leader of office within the night force, which also has every citizen names within their files. And using that, you managed to kill some of the students. You also hired the mercenaries to frighten the students to release their names but we handle that in time." Rico also continued with the analysis.
"The fact that you used other people made it difficult to catch you off guard but luckily your father invited us. That was when Max and kakashi prepared a plan that required all of us to work together." Eigi continued.
"Do you know why Rio was so silent during the meeting?" Eiichiro asked.
"I am guessing he was a clone."
"Yeah, I made a clone and carried out our plan. After you all entered the meeting room, I slipped past you and your father to enter your room. Then, placing a magic artifact against the magic death ball it adsorbed the illusion and then waited for it to route you out." Rio recalled what they planned. Of course, this was foreshadowed during their conversion too.
From their backs the death angel appeared more angry than usual. By getting them to reveal their plans from the start, I made sure to twist some facts which of course led him here to rescue me, and now he must finish them off.
He threw a kick that spread wind into parts, it was headed towards the group but Rio without flinching got the kick in his arm.
"Wow! you are weak."
Max covered his hands with mana and started blocking its mana point. Immediately, he made space between himself and the death angel, he made many magic circles which released many elemental magic against it.
Not wanting to waste any more time, he grabbed me and started to run.
"Wait! I dropped the artifact." I shouted.
He glanced at the floor and dived straight toward the artifact, but before we could Eigi grabbed the artifact. From here, he had many choices to make.
"Eigi, write his name in that book." Max said coldly.
"I-I can't... I can't take a life of someone..." Eigi screamed.
He was clearly looking worried, I looked at him and began to smile.
"Foolish boy!" I murmured.
Something changed in Eigi's eyes, he looked at and mentioned, "Light Sasami, I know perfectly well that I can't write your name but you do know that someone could if they had the chance."
"Are you talking Rial?" Max asked.
"Nope, his counterpart."
Eigi smiled then he knew the magic ball with a paper and pen towards Rio. Rio looked at me and smiled.
"Yo, Max, how do we spell LIGHT SASAMI?" He asked, even though he perfectly knew how to spell it.
Max cold gaze gave me chills, "It is spelled L-I-G-H-T_S-A-S-A-M-I." He said dismissively.
"Done." Rio said.
With slow steps, I started to see my heart failing with every step I took. As I watched the ground before me, I saw every victim I had written in those papers, their souls pulled me towards the underworld.
"Save me...!" I shouted.
"Light, you have met your end." The angel said without caring.
Slowly but surely, I got pulled towards the underworld, but I didn't die. I had all my body pars, but I was locked in this realm for eternity.
Eigi's perspective:
"Now, what do we do with the magic ball?"
"The smartest thing to do here is to give it to the king of the Northern kingdom." Max said.
"Anyway, Rio why did you write his name? We could have captured him." Eiichiro asked.
"I didn't write his name to die, I just made it for sealing, so now he must be in the eternal prison where he just sleeps." Rio answered.
"Well, as long as I don't get to face that coward again I am fine," replied Rico.
"Alright, let's get to the Northern king's room before sunset.
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Information about the dead:
Finally, after an hour we made our way to the Northern king's private room.
"Hey your majesty how are you doing?" I asked him.
To his left sat his wife *the queen*
"Boys, come in don't be afraid."
We moved in the room and began to sit down, Max, Kakashi and I sat on one couch while the other spread into the other sofa. Max gave the king a run down of what happened an hour ago.
"So, a boy named Peter was the one behind all these misfortunes?" He asked as he directed his gaze on Rico.
"Yeah, after we found out, we made a plan that allowed us to use illusion magic on the sentient-being that stayed in that box. Within the second, I saw it perform its task perfectly," exclaimed Rio.
"Seems to me that Rio had the most contributions amongst all of you," the king said.
"I guess not, but we all contributed what we had in our circumstances so in fact, we all did contribute the same things except their difficulty levels weren't the same."
"Yeah, exactly," muttered Rico.
"Anyway, I don't care about anyone who contributed the most or not. I came here for one reason," announced Rio.
"What do you mean?" We all asked.
"So, you are also dropping out too huh!" The king said.
"Why?" Max asked.
"You too!"
"Not you of all people!"
The people over there grew restless, I stayed silent wanting to hear his side before judging.
"I understand why you are shouting at me. Your best student is leaving, that must be hard for you all but there are times when we all have to make a decision, and when yours comes, you will know my reasons." Rio said.
At first, his voice was silly, expressing funny jokes but within that moment he changed his tone to the undeniable truth we all must face someday.
"Alright, I guess if you have already made up your mind then there are no reasons for me to stop you." I said.
"Thank you, Eigi."
"Wait, Rio do you mind if I follow you?" From the silence, Rui raised his voice.
"Why?" Rio asked.
"Because there is something I must confront, but I know where you are going and that is where I am also heading so that will be good wouldn't it." Said Rui.
"I guess."
"By the way, where are both heading?" Asked the queen.
"To the Asteroid kingdom," they both replied.
"Ah! To meet sweet little Rial huh!" She said.
"Yeah."
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Alphia and Rial:
Rial's perspective:
"Rial, can I ask something I have been wondering?"
"Sure, but what kind of question?" I asked.
"What happened in your past?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"It's because I have f-f... It is because I care about you!" With blushing embarrassment Alphia said avoid me entirely.
I didn't know what came over me but I started telling her everything that happened during the last fourteen years of my life.
"When I was a child, I was both my parents died when I was four and five...! And that was when I had sacrificed eyes to get a new level of power, that was when I swore that I would kill the man who killed them. No matter what happens, I can't let that live his life happy!"
I turned to look at Alphia, her face was filled with tears, she was clearly worried about me, the pain and sacrifices I went through as a child.
I walked up to her, and raised my arms. I pulled her into a hug, we both felt each other's breaths out skins making contact. Although she was in my embrace, she still cried.
"Don't worry, I will be just fine, even if I lose my way I know that my friends will come and save me."
"I wish you the best."
"Thanks, all that I ask for is for you to stay safe." I said.
"Sure." She replied.
"Now let's go to bed."
We both made our way to bed, for some reason she slept besides me. Within the night, we shared our sorrows and happiness.