“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!

Whatever I said you don’t like I take it back” begs Shiryu clinging on to Aki, whom he had been waiting to reappear from under the grand tent all night

“Get away from me Shiryu,

Also, there is nothing to apologize for,

I was just heated after the fight, my bad,”

“Are you serious?

I have been trying to figure out what I said wrong all night”

“A real man would have spent the night training then challenged me first thing instead of begging,

Anyway I have things to do today so you can train here alone,”

“Aren’t you going to let me come with you”

“No, I had enough of people more specifically you, I like being alone

Leave me alone I have training and an army to instruct”

With that the chief pushes past Shiryu heading out of the tent and to her business

“I should take her off the list, but I don’t have much options right now…”

….

“What list?”

“Ah–can you people stop doing that” Shiryu pushes himself away from the suddenly appearing Fuyu

“What are you here for dragon boy?” presses Fuyu, disregarding his antics

“Its Shiryu, and I’m here to help with the dragon…”

“You are lying,

Come walk with me Shiryu,” the mysterious woman pulls the young man to her side

Her face stays stoic and eyes unreadable, she pulls Shiryu along treating him like he were a pet

(Finally some sun) thinks Shiryu as he steps past the curtained entrance to the grand tent into the morning of Tonbo

The ten is situated at the head of the town within an ungated compound spanning the length of Tonbo

Unlike the previous day Tonbo is now filled with people going in and out of the compound into the city,

The warrior and magic schools are all located here,

A wide-open yard to the right of ten serves as an assembly for army as well

Fuyu with Shiryu in tow takes a stroll across all of the compound facilities

(Should I speak?

She isn’t saying anything….)

Resisting his urge to break the ice Shiryu cautiously remains quiet behind one of the four evils of Bakufu

She carries on as if she were alone despite being the one who told the boy go with her

“haugh!”

“haugh!”

The sounds of men and woman in strict training seeps through wooden walls of the dojo

Fuyu keeps going past it

…

“Yes teacher!”

Comes the obedient voices of students near the schools

Fuyu takes a brief glance at the area of buildings while Shiryu speeds up, not wanting to be seen by a loud child

“Umm,

Where are you going?” Shiryu finally asks

“Nowhere in particular, I am giving you a walk,

You are Aki’s new pet right?”

“Nooo,

Pet?

Come on I am a human being”

“Ok, there is no rule that says people can’t be pets

Besides isn’t that why you followed her here like a dog”

“She kidnapped me firstly then I decided to go with her to help with the other dragon”

“But you don’t care about the other dragon do you?

I can ten when someone has the spirit of a warrior, and you do not

What are you here for?

If it is to kill and consume us there are far weaker humans out there that would be easier for you to go after”

(I’m never beating these beast allegations)

“Well I don’t want to do that, what I’m really after is….love”

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“Love?

Psshhhtahaahhahahahahahahaha!” Fuyu’s stoic expression breaks down into laughter

“whathahahahahahaha!”

(….)

“You-haha-are funny Shiryu,”

“I wasn’t joking.” Growls Shiryu

“Love is a joke I can’t take that to mean anything else,” Fuyu’s pale white cheeks are now red and flushed

Her full lips curled in a smile:

“If you want love then you came to wrong place,”

“Just because you and your family don’t love each other doesn’t mean you have to make it into a joke” Shiryu retorts irritated

“Mm, what do you know about my family?

What do even know about being the strongest?” Fuyu retorts calmly though her wording confrontational

“The last chief was weak, laughably weak,

He had things easy he had his love, and now that fool is dead,

My siblings and I have to be better than that idiot so that we don’t meet the same fate,

So please refrain on speaking on my family again”

“…

I, apologize miss Fuyu”

“Just Fuyu Aki and I are the same age you know”

“You are twins?”

“No, all four of us were born at the same time we all have different mothers”

“Hmm you all similar faces I wouldn’t have thought that”

“Alright Shiryu, since you aren’t here to be walked like a dog, do you want to train with me?” the woman changes topic, not keen on chatting about her family

“I don’t think that would be fair” Shiryu hesitantly answers

“Are you afraid that I will use my requiem on you?”

(Yes)

“No, Aki already told me that I need to mo—

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—ve.

Owww!” Shiryu picks himself up

(What just happened?)

From where he was just standing Shiryu had moved a good way off from it, his back feels sore and the concrete ground beneath him cracked and upset as if he was just thrown there

“You can move if you want but I can stop you myself” Fuyu dusts her hand slowly walking to Shiryu,

“I won’t use my requiem again, that was just a little display of strength to you”

“What did you do to me?”

“Nothing I picked up you and tossed you over there”

“When, how?”

“Since Aki has already blurted out a potential weakness of mine I suppose I should tell you my full ability,

It is called Do no evil, and is pretty simple as long as you are in a semi stationary state I can freeze your existence for three seconds that’s all,”

“My existence?”

“Yes, like your soul, your entire being, that’s why you have no perception of time after I used it on you,”

(I need to start working on new magic techniques the people here are insane)

“What about Aki does she have a similar ability?”

“The chief?

Normally she would kill me if I did talk about her, but since she already told you about me,

This will make us even,

Her requiem is called See no evil, when she is surrounded by smoke and closes her eyes she becomes smoke entirely, making her intangible for as long as the smoke lasts and her eyes shut”

“That seems like too much of a hassle to use, if she can’t see how will she win a fight?”

“Aki has never lost once, that’s why she is the Chief” Fuyu grumbles

“What about –”

–WHAMM!!

Before Shiryu could get the words out a fist with the force of a missile suddenly smashes into his face…..

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