‘Oh crap! Birthdays are important to people. What do I do?’
“The day isn’t over yet so I was planning a surprise for you.” said Zero
Yoko stared at Zero and said, “You know that I have the ability to see when whether you’re lying right. So you want to try that again?”
“I really do have something special planned for you.” said Zero
Yoko gave a confused look as she stared at Zero. The ability that allowed her to see when a person was lying had shown her that Zero was lying a second ago but didn’t react to his current statement. She was confused and wondered if maybe she had simply seen it wrong. Zero smiled and said, “Look forward to your surprise.”
‘Phew looks like I can get around her lie detector ability this way.’
Zero had been caught lying due to using the word planning despite having made no such plans. He evaded the ability by simply thinking of a simple plan and changing the word planning to planned instead. This way he wasn’t exactly telling the truth but he wasn’t lying either. At Yoko’s skeptical look, all he did was smile and refused to say anymore to avoid implicating himself.
“I found Nova so let’s head over.” said Zero as he grabbed Yoko by the waist and teleported to Nova’s location.
They appeared at a lake and found the lake surrounded by many races playing in the water. Besides the dryads, there were valkyries, erinys, liliths, and skeletons all sitting around the lake with a few playing in the water. Besides the valkyries that Zero had created all the others were the creatures were the ones, he and Valna collected from the chaos dimension. Zero had truly forgotten about them since they were so insignificant to him and he hadn’t seen them since bringing them back.
As Zero looked around he found Nova sitting underneath a nearby tree standing next to the dryad Iris who now styled her vine hair differently and accessorized it with a green iris flower. Zero and Yoko walked over towards them and when Nova noticed them, walking over she ran toward them at an incredible speed. Zero noticed as Nova ran every step she took caused flowers to sprout from where her feet touched. Nova jumped and Zero caught the little girl and lifted her up.
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“Nova how many times have I told you that you shouldn't let your mana leak out like that? It’s a bad habit that you need to fix okay.” warned Yoko with a stern attitude but when Nova turned to look at her with a sad face she completely folded and said in a coaxing manner, “It’s okay just try not to do it next time.”
“Papa! Mama! Nova missed you guys!” said Nova as she snuggled up to Zero
Yoko patted the girl’s head said, “How can you miss me when you just saw me 2 hours ago. Unlike a certain someone who keeps disappearing, I’m always spending time with you.”
Zero coughed and said, “I have just been a little busy doing a few things but I’ll be done soon and spend as much time as I can with Nova.”
Nova smiled at Zero’s words and stuck out her pinky finger. She then said, “Pinky promise. I just learned it from my friends in school last week.”
Zero smiled as he made the pinky promise with the little girl. A few seconds later, his smile froze as he felt Nova’s mana invading his body. Since she was exuding mana while they made the promise it had become a simple contract between them. Zero hadn’t expected this so he was unable to control his facial expression causing Nova to look worried and ask, “Are you okay Papa?”
Zero fixed his expression and played it off telling the little girl he was fine. He then began to examine the contract and found it to be fairly simple and easy enough to break. Zero decided to leave it be since he didn’t know the consequences of forcibly breaking contracts and he didn’t wish to do anything to harm Nova.
Zero handed Nova over to Yoko and teleported them to the lobby so they could walk to the park. After spending 30 minutes with the 2 Zero excused himself and told them that Yoko’s surprise need just a few more things.
Zero teleported to Hirosaki Medical Hospital the largest hospital in the city. He walked around until he came across a doctor. Zero smiled and with his hypnotic glowing purple eyes gave orders to the doctor. He said, “Hey can you do me a favor and find out if any of your patients have either the skills to play the piano or cook very well. I’d prefer if they were coma patients so please check the other hospitals too. Come report to me when you find them and please hurry.”
Zero then called Hikaru and asked her to inform him when Yoko returns to the hotel with Nova. Having nothing better to do while he waited Zero walked around the hospital randomly reading people’s charts. After an hour passed, the doctor returned and informed him that a chef who used to be popular was in a coma in the hospital but he was unable to find a pianist in a coma.
“It’s okay please take me to see the chef.” said Zero with his glowing eyes
The doctor led the way and Zero followed behind. When he arrived at the room, Zero had the doctor excuse himself as he entered the room. Zero then walked up to the man and check with his divine vision. He found that the man’s soul was MIA but still tethered to the body. Zero had seen this phenomenon before whenever humans dreamed. The soul would leave the body and return shortly before the human awaked but it seemed coma patients were unable to return.
Zero then activated his mental manipulation and entered the mind of the coma patient. He walked around through the mind of the patient until he found what he was looking for. Before Zero was the memories and experiences of the chef. Zero decided to copy the memories into his own mind a process that would usually damage the mind and soul of humans since they would unconsciously resist the process. The chef luckily had no resistance to the process due to his coma so he was spared from the damage.
After successfully absorbing the man’s memories and experiences, Zero exited the man’s mind. Moments later he received a call from Hikaru telling him that Yoko had just returned. Hanging up Zero exited the room and found the doctor still waiting outside so he asked if there was a non-coma pianist in this hospital to which the doctor answered “Yes.”