5th chapter : ancestors .

After getting into the antique store, Marco, Alice and Carla had talked to its owner. An old man named Eyezar appears to be an old friend to Marco’s grandfather.

“Go ahead and choose”.

Eyezar said calmly as he was waiting for Marco to get some good serments therefore Marco himself wasn’t expecting to get what he got.

Later that day.

“Pfft, hahaha!! A merely broken edge of a longsword. Seriously, your luck ran out this time!!”

Carla said as she was looking at Marco wearing some glasses. He was sitting on the couch at the restaurant with Emilis and the rest of the guild members.

“Don’t tease me like that, I mean I just felt it was the right thing to use, and those glasses as it’s seal state is kind of good for my current me”.

Marco replied to her teasing as he was kinda not upset for what he got , Emilis took a good look at his glasses as he felt a strange vibe from them.

“Marco kun? Could you release it again here? I want to make sure of something?” Emilis said as he was looking at Marco closely.

“Of course ….. Well , how do I do that again?” Marco replied but stupidly answered, not giving any effort in his attempt.

“Pfft and you don’t even know that !! What kind of holder are you!?”

Carla kept teasing him then Emilis smiled at her,

“It's your responsibility to teach him about such simple stuff, so tease him once more and I’ll have you work triple the load of your work”.

Emilis had a scary smile, Carla took some steps to the back and bowed apologizing.

“Now, Marco, could you imagine the process of the water melting?” Emilis asked a question “Of course you can!! then try to make the process of something being poured inside your hands and get transferred right to the glasses to fill the bowl. the rest will work on itself” Emilis explained briefly what Marco had to do to release his serment.

Marco took a deep breath then took his glasses off as the euro particles were unleashed furiously creating some after waves. Everyone was a little shocked to see that Marco’s process was kinda different as the euro normally has a slight light around the seal state and shines a little before it could be fully released. Marco wasn’t impressed a lot but he started to swing and play with his short black sword as if he had it years ago.

“That's what I thought? that wasn’t a broken sword, but rather than broken, you can say it is its hold, your sword is like a long dagger, and you seem to already know how to use it, make sure to use it at full ” Emilis stated.

Everyone looked to Marco who had no reaction to what Emilis spoke about, after that small talk they were about to start work.

“Huh, you mean you never used a sword before, but you seemed awfully skillful with that black sword” Alice said as she was cutting the vegetables.

“not really, well to be more honest this what happened..” Marco replied as he told them what happened to him that moment

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Earlier before Marco took his serment.

“Give us some respect!!”. Yuna said as she caught Marco by his back and slammed him to the ground.

“That hurts and could you explain more, I don’t remember meeting you in my life and not if you were my grandfather’s friends too” Marco responded as Yuna slapped him again.

“Well, well, let’s not get into violence ok, Yuna let him go” Cedric interjected as he told Yuna to let Marco go and so she did.

“Hmm, you really don’t remember anything? not the slightest memory about who we are?” Selicia asked as she looked closer to him.

“Well, I don’t blame him, for now, we gotta make him remember the way we fight, Yuna, he’s all yours” Cedric sighed as he was looking at Marco who had a poker face from all what was going on.

Marco saw Yuna licking her lips as she snapped her fingers and the ground around them became full of weapons as it all accumulated in one single white sword.

“Now prepare yourself, because I don’t think I’m someone who would let you pass the training” Yuna smiled as she took a stance facing Marco who sighed in response to her smile,

“Seriously what kind of place is this, I don’t really understand what’s happening” Marco pleaded as he stood there clueless. Yuna ignored him and swung her sword closely to his left cheek leaving a small cut.

“I won’t say it again, move on and fight for yourself ” Yuna re-speaked her words as she looked dead serious.

“Sigh, I don’t have a choice” Marco calmly dashed towards her, starting the attack using some wind in both of his arms.

Yuna calmly dodged his attacks and severely cut him in both arms concealing the wind he used, therefore Marco didn’t stop from fighting and attacked her again right after she passed through him. But with no use, she landed some fatal blows, slashing him multiple times and blowing him to the other side each time he tried to land a hit. As the whole floor was filled with Marco’s bloodstains, he took a deep breath and exhaled all his breaths, his euro pressure started to unleash itself.

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Yuna and the other two felt a change in Marco’s euro as it became more dense the moment they smiled. Marco had a calm and dead glare at Yuna while being filled with injuries. In the second that Marco started his attack, his body acted on its own and did some sign to see all the bloodstains becoming black euro particles and got gathered in one single spot in Marco’s hand as his black short sword suddenly appeared. And without a single chance for hesitation to cross his mind, Marco clashed with Yuna, attacking her continuously. He landed some hits as his movements became sharper.

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present time, back at the restaurant’s office.

“So in the same time, the one who were looking for the glasses or the sword in the antique sword was you but not you, and the second you stopped you found yourself again in the middle of the store, quite the unbelievable story but I guess we live in a world full of mysteries I’d accept this”, Xavier replied to Marco’s small story about what happened to him.

“Well for me, it’s the first time to hear such a thing like this, well, it seems you got some kind of strange sword, since it’s just the first release you gotta work your ass hard to figure out what kind of skills that little guy could be hiding”. Alice spoke with a cheerful smile on her face, Marco looked at her but he couldn’t get that idea out of his mind.

later that day,

“I’m going out for a while, Carla make sure they get to the bed before you turn off the lights, get it?” Marco pleaded as he was about to go outside.

“So where are you going?” Carla asked him before she closed the door.

“Just a simple tour around the town, I wanna meet someone there” Marco answered Carla and went on his way.

“So exactly, I confirmed that I’m the only one who can see you, mind giving me some explanations now?” Marco seemed like he was talking to someone as he was walking alone. Therefore he wasn’t completely alone. Furthermore Yuna appeared next to him.

“I told you that there’s some serious stuff you forgot, for now head to that old man’s store and ask him yourself about your family”. Yuna interjected as she had answered a few of Marco’s questions on the way there.

“Here, I come, wait!!” said Eyezar as he heard a door knock, “The sales are done now… Marco kun…need something?” he asked out of curiosity to see Marco in front of his door.

“Not something important but I want to check things, like why you didn’t tell me that this sword is one of Yuna, the white gale’s swords, or how my family has a long history with the euro. First, why are you one really acquainted with my family?” Marco asked all what he had in mind as Eyezar gave him a sigh and told him to get inside.

“So, what kind of answers, you want?” Eyezar started with his twisted questions.

“honestly, I wanna know why a guy who lived around millions of years is now working as a shop owner normally, first I’ve met them, Yuna san no, Yuna nee and Selicia neechan too, Cedric san my first ancestor, these three were there when I chose the sword, explain?” As Marco answered him straightforwardly he had a serious face.

Eyezar smiled at him as the vibes in the air started to get heavier.

“And if I said I don’t need to respond? What will you do?” Eyezar interejected as he tried to threaten him, however Marco had already released his serment and pointed to Eyezar who smiled gently as he was remembering his past memories around the Deca family members. “Fine, fine, It was a little test to see if you got the guts, I’m a navigator in the first place, you can beat me just sneezing if you wanted but I have one condition.” Eyezar smiled as he told Marco not everything but what he needs to know about his family’s history.

“Morning!!!” Sophie said as she rushed to the kitchen after smelling something delicious.

“Good morning Sophie!! want some pancakes” Carla greeted her as she was preparing the breakfast.

“Give me some too, Marco nii haven't woken up yet?” Arthur sat in the chair next to Sophie as he appeared right after she came.

“He hasn't woken up? I thought he was going to do the groceries for today?” Carla answered Arthur’s question right after putting the plates to them and was about to go search for him.

“Nah I just woke up, I had some work last night so I got back home this morning. Sophie, Arthur I have a few stories that you want to hear or should I leave it to myself?” Marco responded as he had a smile on his face.

Carla was amazed to see his smile for the first time, “ you just smiled didn’t you?” Carla spaced out for a second as she wasn’t expecting Marco’s straight answer

“yeah, I was”.

Replying with just two words , made her fluster for a moment but she sighed and got back to her part of work while Marco was telling the stories to his brother and sister.

Two days later,

“we have a huge problem, the festival is close by the end of this year”.

Emilis stated as he gathered all the members for an urgent meeting.

“Well, putting that aside. we don’t have enough members to participate, so why not dropping things by now?”Alex responded as she was putting down some papers.

“Now! we fit this time exactly, Marco on the count along with one other member, we have the right number to join” Emilis interrupted her as he had a smug smile.

“One question, what’s this festival?” Marco curiously asked.

“Huh!? oh yeah we didn’t tell you yet” Emilis answered “it’s an event that the council holds for the guilds every four years, things are getting lucky for us with you in the game. So for now you guys will start the training individually first , till I prepare your houses just in case it’ll be a royal hunt or stuff like that, then we gotta work our asses hard and win for sure, to get the big prize!!!” Emilis explained with a big sparkle in his eyes for winning “So as for now!! Alex, you said you can take a couple of days in one of your colleagues’ houses right then do it. Zack and Xavier, err well, you guys can sleep here in the restaurant since it’s been closed for repairs. Alice, go to Marco and Carla’s house for the rest of the week”.

Emilis gave them some instructions then looked at Marco and Carla glaring daggers back at him.

“Sigh, having one more person is surely tiring. I’m not sure where I can put you Alice senpai” Marco spoke out of the blue on their way back home.

“Don’t say that, It’s master’s orders, I would’ve stayed at Marie’s place or somewhere else, but I guess it was because he wanted to have an eye on your daily life too” Alice replied and giggled at the same time.

“Master Emilis is quite strange enough, and now the room I was using in the restaurant is now a place for Xavier and Zack senpai,that’s kinda sad for me” Carla spoke calmly while having a little sad grin on her face.

“huh, you used to live there, I thought you had a house or stuff like that” Marco had a surprisingly shocked expression on his face as he replied to Carla.

“That's rude!!” Carla pouted as soon as they reached the house “We are back!!” she said as she opened the door.

“Welcome back, Carla nee!!” Sophie jumped to Carla’s arms as she was acting all happy.

Marco sighed and patted her head, with a bit of a relief.

“I’m home too, you know” he said as Sophie responded with a smile to his words.

“Is there something wrong, Alice senpai?”.

Carla asked as she saw Alice having some unusual eyes looking at Sophie while having her mouth opened.

“C...Cute!!” she said as she got closer to Sophie who smiled at her back.

Marco and Carla looked at her as they both thought she was clearly charmed, it was the starting of something else.

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