COI C179

It wasn’t long as the new phenomenon was over. However, the survivors have brought the runes made out of dusts. Juela sees her spell had reach them, and made her wonder to what happen to the both of them. Already watching over to their experience, it wasn’t that long as they managed to leave that place. She uses her sash scroll to find who was involved during the spell channeling. The two rogues were eventually taken care of as they will sleep and dream about it. It will be enough to force their memory with it. Juela’s secrets will keep away from foreign eyes, and her challenge to talk with Tabitha and Miyusuki about it.

The next day wasn’t about that. Yui is seeing progress. “Miyusuki, the shield student, single handedly and bravely go through the land of the realm. Golden to the core and strange sight between two moons. Many of his people have brought it into a prosperous town. It wasn’t that long until the day of mysterious people coming at their walls. Shorter than their tallest people, including me of course, and come to him with wonders and surprises. The past battles soon stop when he steps foot, and that day changed his life, without any reason to his first day and . . .”

“Oue? There’s no need for you to take care of me”

Yui’s jiggles herself to hear his words spoke her name so strong and clear. Miyusuki and Tabitha left the city guild beaten blue by the Jigeram runes. They made it back home, feeling the pain and the runes persist on their bruises. Miyusuki was not taken back home, but brought to Taiyou Industries residential housing. Where his uncle resides, thanks for the rooms vacant because of the preparation for other districts, he sleeps there where Yui can take care of him. He doesn’t know what’s going on as she keeps herself occupied.

He tries to ask again “So uhm, what happened to the others? Kiege, Tabitha, and especially Juela . . .”

“Oh, trying to be a little brother looking up to his older sisters”

“Please, don’t treat me like a kid”

“But you are kid, your training is hard and quite harder than just Kiege sparring you. Juela did it because your mentor is a demon, right?”

“That’s right, but she is one of the members of your guild. Teacher Haw’s guild. I can trust that and let her help me to . . .”

Yui notices his reluctant voice, the tone changed drastically as he still lingers his fear and reason to why he wanted help from them.

Besides about Tabitha getting involved with the Not Worthy guild member, Yui has interest of how this child joins her guild. Yui steps out from the room as he keeps pouting to himself. He looks at her moving out from the room, and noticed the clothes she is wearing. Tabitha didn’t wear her charming dress and more to it to look like a housewife. Barely convinced on view as she is short with a mature body. The stereotype body that most anime he watches are those Loli type mothers, but her attitude breaks the immersion of it.

She comes back with a tray, “Your breakfast is ready. I know a bit quick, but magic really suits my skill here”

Miyusuki felt a bit weary to see her acting more hospitable than her usual self with the girls. He tries to step out from the bed, but the bruises and his body feels a bit stiff. His disbelief of him able to carry Tabitha up from the stairs, 20mins from what he remembered. Now the consequence to overly exert his effort is on his bed, and Yui is here to take care of him. Yet, why is he think it like a joke? The meals on the tray shows purplish mist, this is too much of a reference to any anime to show it is bad cooking.

“Uh? Oue? Why are the food looks purple?”

“This was a recommendation by Tabitha herself. Don’t worry, your uncle approved it wholeheartedly”

Yui takes a soup and gives him a spoonful. The looks of the purple color and the vapor is also purple. He didn’t believe they could’ve done this to him. When it reaches to his face, he looks at her eyes acting motherly. The memory of his past kicks in and dripping in tears. He remembers his mother taken care of him when he was sick. That moment reacted to him and takes bite on the spoon, a loud bite on the spoon, yet he didn’t let it go. The taste wasn’t he had expected and it was better.

Miyusuki continues to tear up

“What good boy, it wasn’t that bad, was it?” Yui says to him so calmly made him realized how much he misses his mother.

“I’m sorry, I think . . . No, could you do it again? I want to remember myself with my mom one more time”

“Chuckle* Then how about lie down on my shoulder after you eat. I will make you spoiled like your mother would”

The room was filled nothing but nostalgia for him, not because of the moment, it was the settings of it. The hard life when he lost his dad, and his mother did her best to pull themselves together from that tragedy.

The moment after he finishes his breakfast and the last drop of water clears down his throat. He later leans to her and feels her warmth. Her thick body was small by it is enough for him to feel the warmth. Remembering how his mother takes care of him when he was in the lowest point in life from middle school. Losing a father was too much for him and his uncle was there to help him back up as his father figure. Yui feels her shoulder and her body being tightly wrapped around by him. She understands this lost, not experienced but knows about it. Another one who is desperate to fine reunion.

It was taken too long, but her body keeps her posture. Then he starts to cry, “Mommy”

A child of heart, Yui envied this tone. Hearing a cry to know they are there but never reach. This reminds her about Juela’s situation. Never once she cried for her own mother, and she wonders about her father, and she is new to him. She let the mood settle, and find the right time to ask him about what she wants. Inside of her, her schemes kicking into her expression. She stops it, as her bosom feels heavy whereas his head is lying there. She intentionally leans forward to his bed and drop on top of him. The grip was still there, then let loose as her magic phases back to her seat.

“Well, I think it’s time for me to clean up. I’ll be fixing up. Since you’re awake, I can bring those entertainment things into your room”

As she walks out, something comes into his room. Her familiars appeared carrying the stuff needed to distract himself for the day.

Miyusuki calls out to her “Oue! Uhm, thanks for the meal. Please don’t mention about what happened earlier”

Without a reply, she closes the door. The moment becomes embarrassing inside his head and he feels and sees Yui as a housewife, no like a mother. He shakes his head and focuses on the familiars.

The familiars weren’t too child friendly, but they look like small gremlins with chaotic faces. Minions looking at their eyes glow and their mouth smiling like idiots, Yui’s familiars reach to him, eyes to eyes.

“All hail the shield student, poor back bringer of the Tabitha”

A weak cheer at the back “Yay”

The dumb looking one continue to spout out his achievements as Raker Mawn guild member “Warrior of the heavenly demon, The spoiled taker of the gauntlet and the gem, the Raker Mawn guild member, the spar survivor of Kiege’s fierceness, the future little brother of heroes”

Miyusuki laughs at their dumb quotes, and yet. He shouldn’t be doubting like this. So many things they said is true, and he won’t take it to shame.

Meanwhile, Yui didn’t responds as her grinning smile and laughing tone will ruin the comfort of his experience. Hearing that she cooks the food made her believed it was her own doing, she looks at the note at the table

“Cook your own damn food, Yui!” With grief and loving regards by Kiege.

She takes advantage what happened here and the last person will train him. It was her turn to help him, and she was able to convinced Juela to help her how to properly take care of him. Juela had a great father, it was kind of sad that she loses him with such sad family fights.

To her side is the collection of books of how to take care of him, now planning on the next phase will be easy. Her plan to get to know him will come soon, and her next easy task is about talking with him. She picks out from her magic inventory, her magic bag, and take out some nice visionary spells. What’s better to keep his attention on him is with the hated expression she had to talk about. Within the vision, it’s her cousin, the beloved Fay’mae or what Tabitha calls her Faye. Quite stunning and daring for her to give nicknames, but Faye did make an exception for her. Such a beloved cousin.

After giving the boy some time to relax and the familiars are gone after they set up the big screen and a laptop for him, she knocks the door.

“You’ve been resting enough, are you ready for you training?”

Miyusuki barely hears the door as he is wearing his head phone to watch some ecchi animes. It’s been watching for more than an hour. Yet he is still can’t able to get out from his bed

“But I still can’t move, what am I going to learn in bed?”

“Your trainings are all physical. Why not be social about it?”

“Is there a need to be social as a guild member?”

“It would be interesting. You can listen to my story first and then I can listen to yours”

Miyusuki didn’t understand what she meant, but he doesn’t have what to say to her about his own life. He hears her again

“Besides, you’re one of our guild members. You can be isolated all you want, but you don’t have the experience what you have. Your gauntlet, your shield, your anything inside your inventory are never been your final tool set. Come on, I can tell you mine and learn more about between guild members. Lying on the bed and entertain yourself alone will always be there with you when I’m gone anyway”

“Ouch* Ok, fine but I want to learn about you then I’ll say something about myself. Don’t complain that my life isn’t interesting”

“Deal”

She opens the door, with the book on her side. The magic she had is already spreading to the tv screen. Yui is fully aware and prepared for this. She had already done it with back in the draft. Yet, her interest reaches highly on Tabitha’s time with her. Now this boy will see how interesting she is. The short woman can’t even stop herself in bragging, and now put on screen to be less likely. Either way, the all me on screen is there and only to balance it out is with her cousin, Fay’mae.

Miyusuki didn’t expect for a video. He watches it and saw the two live their life as guild members from a different guild. Back then, the guild mistress he met before at the embassy was an actual guild member. Yui explains to him

“Back then, before I drafted to Raker Mawn guild. I was like a home maker. Look at those familiars, right? They were just dolls and now they are walking and giving you the creeps”

“You knew?! Then why didn’t give it such menacingly faces”

“It would be humiliating that you got beaten by child’s toy. Can you imagine that?”

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The meme pops up on his head, where the adventurer got beaten by a big chubby spirit bird. The post was so popular as the meme’s origin was lost and only the thing, he can remember is the funniest.

“I defeated my opponent in mortal kombat” He said it out loud as he smiles.

“I hear you have seen someone did it before”

“Sorry, I never imagined something related to this moment”

“That’s fine, you’re still in bed and you won’t be missing a thing. Lunch won’t be coming closer with that little distraction”

Yui returns to the story “I was I like you. I mean younger than that. Oh my, look at that”

They both see a portrait of herself with Fay’mae. Both young and two of them with their dolls. Young teens keeping their familiars. He looks at the familiars altogether that all of them are seven in total.

“You see, the familiars are both owned by me and my cousin. You may think that they are just minions, but if you know their origins and how they are made from. You’ll found out that these little things can made good guardians for little girls”

Miyusuki watches her life, as a guild member of M’ji Han’dhyr. Complicated name, but this is her time as an adventurer. Before all of her complicated magic and items put all together in a dress. Later by time, he soon realized the longer if he would be staying here. The more developed he can get. Yui keeps speaking to him about her life how she becomes who she is, both challenges and struggles were too unbelievable for him to hear her say it, until on screen to make it clear. The vision shows him what this fantasy world can do. All he can say is

“That guild mistress, I mean your cousin, will she also help me?”

“Groan*” She looks away feeling bad.

For the time, he always apologized, but such opportunity like this will be needed after what he had experienced yesterday. Magic items, that’s all he needed. Like Team Platinum, he needs what he can utilize for the future. Starting small as a tank, or starting as an Raker Mawn Guild member. Circling to both of his boldness and concern, he chose to be worried

“What happened to the both of you?”

The worried face presents to hers. His eyes were sincere and yet adorable to his misconception. She never sees someone don’t know the meaning of having a big family. Such concept she never thought exist.

Yui laughs uncontrollably, Miyusuki hears her innocent laugh. Sweet voice, better than the adult one. His head wasn’t able to grasp it as she pats his head

“Tabitha told me that you usually get patted among the adventurers. Oh, how sweet of such a young man who never experience the life of having so many family members”

“I do have one, but we never get along. Really big age differences”

“Maybe because they didn’t live close to you”

“. . .”

“Then you didn’t know why I’m always bragging. Families will give you their legacy of their identity. I love to brag to myself, a good or bad trait if you will. Yet it is greatest reminder why I love them so”

The screen shows her family. The reason of all her purpose to become a guild member, honestly the entire Enders are required to. Miyusuki sees her family, all together and all professional according to their appearance. Dangerous and powerful with their magic items within their clothes. All different and all the mana types are put into one. Yui’s true teaching is unfold to him

“Purpose, why are you trying to train yourself? Even doubts will ruin your head. The faith of yourself is the main manpower to driven you get here. Either be impatience or wise planning. I show this to you because you need to believe in yourself. That’s when you can control your . . . Sanquin’s blessings”

The awkward pause gives away how Yui has a grudge on her. Miyusuki notices it too, he takes his interest of why she is not saying properly about her name.

He asks “Why are you hating her so much?”

She made a mistake not trying to tolerate everything on her own, her family passed it down on her without her being open to others when she was young. Either way, she remembers how he tries to seek comfort on her. Then remembers how she was comforted from her family. With this logic put together, her aunty attitude is forced to humble herself. She was lucky that pride didn’t stick in within her childhood.

“You could say, family, sometimes they have good examples and sometimes they are not. Eheh, my bragging attitude had a need of a certain person who had a little different view on the matter of guilds. Uh? Let’s just say it was the past that led their mouths talking when I was young. I don’t hate her actually, but when adults speak nonsense for a certain someone. You put your children into it. Confidently, she did it purposely because she reminds herself to my family members. That! Immortal size giant is getting her legacy in front of me. What will she like it if you call you your guardians’ name on top your own well-earned achievements?”

Miyusuki listens to her bragging, he didn’t stop her, that tone reminds of his own mother making gossips when he was young. But Yui is fiercer and the words she says have no swear besides death threats and beautifully made phrases.

“. . . Rises to the ashes of her own failures . . . Sweet delicate liar . . . I want to say you were abandoned but I don’t care . . . Busy woman the hypocrite . . . Charms worth nothing but a punching dummy . . . Failure of an excuse of an aunt . . . sigh* what am I tell you this? I should talk to her what it is. If I ever see her with every heart of my family members talking about her. I’ll have to give her my dearest and sincerest, SLAP, to feel the bottom of my heart”

That long distraction stops Miyusuki watching on screen, it was off topic and an entertaining one. He somehow sees the last clip where she joins the Raker Mawn guild. No words, but that’s when there was an election in her guild. To become a guild master, and Yui was a candidate. The look of Fay’mae’s face to see a disappointed look as she was inherited by disqualification due to the drafts. That’s when she gave away her own familiars to her as a token of remembrance. That was the moment he fell silent and remember his side of his family. Although, they are happy, but this one hits him. That farewell will be forever if he can’t return back home.

His imagination builds up and gripping his blanket. “. . . Tell me, Oue. Do you think you are doing this because you are trying so hard to get me go back home?”

The moment of silent where Yui turns around as the vision is already finished. He must be watching when her farewell with her beloved cousin. She secretly kicks out the familiar are trying to pop out, truly, she has one different opinion against Sanquin.

“Yes”

Words spoken truly, her family’s legacy is all one start of abduction, just like them. Everything that happened in this world, they somehow escape yet they can no longer remember where their homes were. Horsin shouldn’t be a place for mortals as it is home of the powerful race.

As the show is over, the bed sheet moves to the side. The struggling stiff body feels the pain that he had experience yesterday. Forcing himself to do what he shouldn’t be doing. Yui lets him be. Health wise, this is bad, but in her view, this is normal trying to go through the limits. That steady and slow to pull himself off from his bed. A man knows his own ambition and the hand reaches out to the air for triumph. Barely to sit himself up, then moves his legs at the edge. The shield student gets what he inspired and learned from yesterday and today. A chance.

On to his feet, and still tumble. Yui finally grabs him and said “So, you already gain some strength in you. Since I’ve been helping you realize your goal. Can I ask one thing for it?”

“Yeah, I think I would answer your question”

“Don’t worry, it’s a little rivalry spoke out to you”

Sanquin, held from the far distance sees the light. A light of the soul, where something in her disciple to go through inner triumphs. It was just two days, and he grew it out with transpired ambitions. Then she found out, what they did to him. To unleash the blessing, she had on him. The curse that stops him to use magic, and become what it truly used for.

Yui asks “Why do you join our guild, through that demon? I can understand Haw would, disappointedly, to get a temporary membership. I can’t get it on top of my head in a place where your city is better than all our city states combine”

Of all the questions she had to ask, that one is the most kept secret. Sanquin did help him to stop the situation and miraculously disappeared after that night he joined. He too didn’t know what happened, but he heard it is better left off a secret. It was suspected to be her demonic magic from what he sums up throughout the conversation with other Enders.

He honestly answered “Sanquin did it, I don’t know how she done it and she left a mysterious expression to me and the rest of my neighborhood. Is there you can understand what she had done back then”

“That’s, it would be a good analysis for me if I stay longer, then again, I won’t be here either that pique my interest. I have nothing to say more in this. Come on now, let’s get out from this place and need a good breathing outside of this building. I want to show you something”

She accepts so easily, it’s probably because he was reluctant to say to her, or maybe this is what it feels like for having an aunt. Very active speaking aunt.

They walk out and saw the sky from the city barrier is burning to the highest settings. He didn’t know what happened, and the dusts are making layers after layers to the city barrier. Seeing cracks altogether, trying to hold itself up to the highest level to the sky. The burning bright light is the mana is forcing itself to sips into the barrier before it hardens or it fall to the ground just like the previous incident. Days are coming closer to what he had imagined, the return of the siege is getting closer.

“Ah, ok, I have learned a bit about martial arts and techniques. Let’s try practicing your black misty whatever that comes out from your mouth”

“Are you going to help me while being in this condition?”

“The three basic training of Circoston’s traditional arts. I don’t know about your world’s martial arts, but you are using that demon’s power. So, let’s try it before your well-deserved break”

“Break?! Wait a minute? What day is today?”

He checks his device and see the calendar on his app. Tomorrow is the day of the convention, where his friends finally going to go there.

A sigh coming from his mouth as if he is going to be there with his physical condition. Yui smiles at his worries to expect that he really wants to go. Tabitha wants them to go there too. It won’t be a letdown when Yui is taking care of him, along with the rest of the ingredients made by Kiege and the guide books she borrowed from Juela. To think he will be left behind after so much effort he had done.

“Oh, don’t let yourself be down. You’ll ruin your special reward”

“Special reward?”

“It’s going to be difficult, because I’m no warrior. Follow this instruction by the book and we will proceed to the next”

Miyusuki follows through like any martial arts training. Sitting down, folding his legs, and places his hands together. She has no idea what’s that is and continue reading the basics he needs to learn.

“The training you need to do to use your techniques are; the right amount of physique, the courage and other virtuous values within your heart, and finally the spirit inside that nurtures your soul. The first was Haw’s and Kiege’s training, the second was Juela’s training, and finally your personal training. The last training was reflecting everything you’ve done and the reason behind it. Your soul feeds on the belief that both real and dream are working together”

“Now put it all together, and believe a technique given to you from her. The blessing is all the three. Body, Heart, and Soul are there to make it real. The mind is the creator of perfection and the hands you have is the limits of your innovations. Put them all together, even without your belief in the gods. This world is believed in you. Now take her blessing and twist it to your control. Practice won’t make you perfect in this, and accept it for what is given to you. It is already prepared for you, and trust it as you believe in it. That black mist from your mouth. What is it you?”

“It is the part of me”

“What?” She softly confused without disturbing his concentration.

Yui thought this boy would be inspired anything inside because of so many fictional stories coming from the entertainment from the small device. She thought it would be the same with Tabitha. Given her what she wanted and her geeky attitude on about the cards, but this boy should be more creative since Tabitha talks about this called shounen anime. The word part of him is blatantly true, if it is one of those young teens’ entertainment, but the technique he is doing is far more than that. His shadow comes alive, behind his back glowing out so much auras.

The darkness grows around him as he turns around and excitedly sees with his own eyes. “I can’t believe it, my shadow clone jutsu. But . . . Oh well, I tried and wow this is nothing different from what I should thought”

It wasn’t, because Sanquin has full responsibility to give him that power. This full dark creature is the demonly formed that concealed his mana. The filter one, if Yui wants to explain it to him. The boy has the power of a certain demon who can able to control it without any interruptions. This shadow clone, it can be filled with another soul, the dead, and bring back to this world to be his side with their unimaginable powers.

“I did Oue! I somehow use magic” He looks at her dumbfounded and starts laughing after saying it.

“Laughs*”

“What’s wrong, why are you laughing?”

“Remember you can’t use strong magic anymore. Oh, forget it, at least you can show your mentor about it. She’s probably be so proud. Whenever you see her again, just tell her what happened, ok? But only this moment. I still don’t like talking nonsense about oof!”

He runs to her and hugging her tightly. His tall body covered her down because of her short stack.

“Thank you, for everything”

She looks away and don’t want to fuss about. Another loving moment like family really puts her through in this. While she was looking away, she saw her friends and his uncle come to see them. It was closing lunch time, and they saw them together with a shadow figure to their side. Her twitching face and her hands shaken a bit. The uncle thought it was her being cute and embarrassed. While Kiege shakes her head where she is about to do it. Juela and Tabitha expect she has to do it front of them. That arrogant little short stack is going to do it.

Miyusuki didn’t let go and the temptation is getting through to her. The uncle is nodding to hug him back quietly, while Kiege moving her mouth saying

“Don’t you dare!”

Yui casts little bit of magic to hide his uncle’s view and show her evil grin at the three women. The chattering of her teeth and her arms wrapped around him. It looks like she is manipulating him into a monster. The shadow to his side sees her expression and replicate with in its shadowy face, cartoony but visible to see. Kiege wants to get close to her so bad with a clenched fist, yet stops when his uncle greeted them.

“Hey, kid. It’s lunch time”

Miyusuki embarrassingly turns around. Yui helps him and removes some blemishes on him.

“Hi uncle, I never thought you would be come to visit”

“Where at Taiyou Industries boarding house. It would be easier for me. So, let’s have some lunch”

He turns his head pointed at Miyusuki’s shadow “While we are preparing, tell me about this guy first. He looks like some character from a video game you played when you are a cute boy, laugh*”

Tabitha, Juela, and Kiege listen to his story of how a good aunt was to him while he was bed rest. Even his body is getting better once he tried so hard to get out from his bed. His uncle, Kombat, is so proud to hear him being cheery and more determined as ever as he never knew. Meanwhile Yui wasn’t seated next to them as she was excusing herself while they eat. Both Kiege and Juela were never been so mad. The foods she cooks was Kiege and the way he was helped was Juela’s books. Their faces can’t show to him and he was so happy he did his first disciple’s technique.

All while Tabitha trying to look like an air head for all this. She whispers to herself “Hey? It feels like De Ja Vu”

Yui didn’t say a word and uses her familiar to record it all. The mischief of this girl is really telling. Her offset personality does make wonders to herself. The memorable voices in her head coming from her own family. She softly singing to herself happily in sweet dark lullaby tone

“Oh, my sweet little child,

taken you away to my pride,

sweeping away to the roaring tide,

come ashore, you can’t hide

. . . from me”