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Heroes Of The Holy War
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"come on out faster!" the girl shouts. "I'm coming, I'm coming," the boy calls back. "Why are you so slow, Akira?" the girl asks as he catches his breath. Akira answers "you know that i dont have that much power as you... for now." "for now?" Girl asks. Akira, lifting his head with a smile and pointing his fist towards a distant kingdom, says, "Someday, I'll become a KamiHi. Everyone who laughed at me and teased me will look and envy my position," laughing, he falls backward onto the grass. "And what about those who like you?" the girl asks. Akira replies, "Of course, I'll provide them protection. And we'll have fun all the time." The girl, blushing slightly, asks again, "And those who really like you?" Akira, puzzled by the question, responds, "Like Gamble?" The girl, slightly surprised, answers, "I mean the love of a hammer." Akira reacts as if a light bulb went off in his head and says, "You mean my future wife?" The girl replies, "You could say that." Akira smiles and responds, "I can't choose that. But I know who can... and you, Aki?" After asking the question, everything started to blur around him, and the voice of another woman repeated, "Rise, hero of the sword." Terrified, Akira returned to his adult form. When the ground disappeared from under him, he began to fall, and a woman appeared before his eyes, touching his forehead with her finger. "You still have to live," she said, then everything flashed with light, and Akira woke up screaming in his room. As he looked around, trying to make sense of what had happened, he noticed Aki sleeping on a chair next to him, and after a moment, a little girl burst into the room, shouting, "Welcome home, Brother!" and wanting to jump towards Akira, she was stopped by Gamble, who shielded himself with a shield and asked, "Are you feeling better?" Akira, disoriented, asked, "What are you talking about?" Gamble explained, "In Pokeropolis, you were acting unlike yourself. You were speaking more femininely. When they attacked you, you defeated them with a flick of your finger, and when you reached us, you used some strange spell and transported us here... a shortened version." Akira, unbelieving, looked at Gamble as if he were an idiot, and after a moment, Kaido, Kaen, and Elarina entered the room. When they saw that Akira wasn't sleeping, they rushed to the bed and asked so many questions that it was impossible to understand them. Only Elarina stood aside. "My sister is coming, which means..." Akira begins. Gamble nods with a smile, "We're in your family home." Akira immediately jumps out of bed and runs downstairs, where he sees his mother in the kitchen. With a smile, Akira says, "Defend yourself, Demon!" then attacks her, but she balances the bowl on Akira's head and continues mixing the dough. With a smile, Akira tries to kick the woman with a somersault, but she disappears and puts the bowl away. "You could have waited until I finished, Kiki," she says, then almost immediately cuts Akira's legs, and as he falls, he gets another kick in the back. After falling, he gets up and says, "But I still won't defeat you." When the rest come down, Gamble says, "Once again, I apologize, Mrs. Kaede, for our sudden arrival." Kaede suggests with a smile, "It's okay. It's been too quiet here lately." When Aki comes down from upstairs, Akira's mother asks, "Are you still together?" Aki blushes, and Akira, puzzled, asks, "What are you talking about?" Kaede walks towards Aki with a slight smile and whispers something in his ear, then takes a deep breath and shouts, "LUNCH IN 10 MINUTES!" Akira and Gamble smile at each other, while Kaen, Kaido, and Elarina are frightened. "How can someone shout so loudly?" Elarina asks. Kaede replies, "You'll see when you're a mother."

When Kaede sets the table for dinner, an older man comes down from upstairs, still sleepy, and says, "Did I sleep the whole day?... Damn, I still had to go hunting." Sitting at the table, he realizes they have guests. When he also notices that one of the guests is Gamble, he grabs him with a smile and messes up his hair, to which Gamble responds with a smile, "Nice to see you too, uncle." "So, what brings you here, because I have no idea," uncle asks. "Akira wanted to come by to say hello because we were passing by," Gamble replies. Laughing, uncle also notices Aki, "Oh, the bride of my nephew has arrived." Aki, blushing, says, "I-I don't know what you're talking about." Laughing, uncle notices that the rest of the guests are children and starts a thought process. Gray cells fight for activation, and when it succeeds, uncle takes a breath and wants to say something, but Gamble interrupts, saying, "Students..." Disappointed, uncle sits at the table and waits for dinner. Kaede says to uncle, "Ben, maybe you could show the kids how to control mana?" Ben, looking at the kids with a disdainful gaze, says, "And why didn't Akira teach you that?" Kaen replies, "We didn't have much time." Ben smiles and says, "After we eat, go behind the house. After lunch, Kaen, Kaido, and Elarina go to the back of the house, where there is a large garden with a very shallow lake. Ben, walking barefoot into it, says, "To control mana, you must learn meditation. Release enough mana for the water to produce synchronous waves." When Kaen, Kaido, and Elarina try, Elarina is the closest to completing the task. "Alright, you won't go back home or get anything to eat until you succeed," Ben says, returning home. "But..." Kaen doesn't finish, and Ben closes the door, saying, "Good luck," with a wide smile. "How is this supposed to help us?" Kaen asks, and Kaido replies, "Maybe we should focus on one thing to make it work." Elarina adds, "Since we have no choice, we need to try." The day passed, and by evening, everyone had almost perfect control over mana, like on the first day when the sun set, and Kaido and Elarina rested on a bench, while Kaen still tried to improve control. When flames appeared next to him, dancing around him, and his tail caught fire, the girls were a little scared, and Kaen accidentally went to the place where he heard the mysterious voice. "So, this time you're here voluntarily," a woman says. Kaen asks, "Maybe now you'll tell me who you are?" The woman replies, "I am your first incarnation." Surprised, Kaen asks another question, "Will you tell me more?" and the woman shows herself to him for the first time. A bit similar to Kaen, but with long, not tousled hair and rounder ears. "Find out about me yourself. There are many motifs and legends about me. Find them," she says, then pushes Kaen, and when he falls into the water, he wakes up and realizes it's already early night, and the girls are not there. However, Kaido comes out of the house and calls Kaen, "Come on, or you'll catch a cold!" Kaen says nothing and goes back home, where there's a feast to celebrate Akira's return. Kaen asks Ben, "Why can we enter?" Ben replies with a slight smirk, "You can't enter. You can just activate yourselves," then falls asleep. Kaen doesn't understand what's going on. "Maybe he doesn't look like it, but he's stronger than me and Akira," Gamble says, and Kaen, shocked, asks, "How?" "In battle, it's not about strength but tactics. That's what uncle says," Gamble explains. Intrigued, Kaen wants to ask something, but Elarina interrupts, "Kaen, I-I have a question." "What?" Kaen asks. "Tonight, I want to sleep with you in the same room," Elarina replies. Kaen says, "But we already slept together, so what's the problem?" Blushing, Elarina says, "But alone in the room." "There's my old room in the attic; you can sleep there," Akira interjects, whispering quietly to Kaen, who blushes and rushes upstairs. Kaen, still not understanding, continues. The party goes on, and Kaen realizes that more people have arrived. He asks Kaido, "Do you know who they are?" Kaido replies, "I think they're friends," and Kaen says, "I'm going to bed; I feel like I've been running all day." Kaido replies, "Goodnight." Going to the attic, Kaen notices a sword with a golden blade, red gems, and a white handle, which he admires for a moment. Wanting to lie down, he sees clothes on a chair with a note, "For Kaen to change. I know you'll be here, Akira knows everything, muhahahahaha," puzzled, Kaen puts on his pajamas and says to himself, "I might like these pajamas," then discovers Elarina already sleeping. "It will be a bit cramped," he says to himself and lies down next to her, falling asleep quite quickly. Downstairs, the party continues, and Kaido asks Akira, "Do you have any spells that I can quickly learn and maybe strengthen me?" Akira replies, "You already have the spell you created; learn to execute it at will, and you'll be much stronger." Kaido clenches her fist and says, "I'll go practice some more," and goes out into the backyard, while Akira smiles and says, "Maybe someday you'll even master My one spell."