6th chapter : dance of the swords .

After getting to meet Eyezar and discussing things with him. Marco confirmed that only he can see Yuna and the other two, he learned a lot of stuff and barely had anything left for him to ask about therefore he had still got this heavy curiosity feeling around him.

“Dinner is ready!”. Marco said as he was preparing the table so they could come and eat dinner.

“Thanks Marco, I’m kinda getting to be a push for today. I'll reward you later” Alice responded as she was eating with them.

“Well, you are a guest and our vice master too, I don’t mind some visitors from time to time” Marco said.

Arthur looked at him and replied, “Besides Hana, I don’t think someone will visit us at all”.

Both sighed as they looked at each other, Carla giggled to see them having a good time being synchronized in terms of reacting.

“Alice neesan give some of that bread!!” Sophie asked for the bread suddenly as she was eating silently enjoying her food.

“Ah, sure!! Still, I never knew that you have such cute siblings? I’m sorry for your early loss” Alice said as she sadly smiled at Marco.

“You mean our parents, they’ve been dead since Arthur’s birth, so you don’t have to apologize, really” Marco answered her words as Carla and Alice looked at him then at Sophie.

“You mean, Sophie isn’t…?” Carla flustered as Alice stopped her.

“No, she’s our real sister, we just feel the same, I mean we kinda look alike in some points” both Arthur and Marco replied.

As the three siblings got closer and looked directly at Alice and Carla, the two saw a huge resemblance which made them impressed and amazed at the same time.

“Hmm, I hardly believe it but you do look alike. I mean you have the same pattern of acts and incredibly sharp senses too, I feel bad for trying to take these earlier” Carla had a pale face as she spoke her word.

“What are you saying? Anyway, it's almost time to sleep. Sophie you can sleep in the living room with Carla and Alice senpai, you wanted to try a sleeping party right? not sure where you read about it though”, Marco said as he brought some bed sheets and a lot of plushies for Sophie.

“Where did you get the money to…” Carla was surprised to see these things, which she didn’t see until now.

“I’ve taken my money back from that old man,” Marco replied with a satisfied expression on his face.

Alice and Carla looked at him and thought they misheard him.

“As I said I’ve returned the money. That old man is one of the few that served my family back then, he might not look like it but the pointy ears and the big beard, is his real form. He’s around a million years old, so as a Deca family member I took the chance and asked him for my money back” Marco said as he giggled a little, looking down at his hands.

“Sigh, the fact that I’m seeing you react as a normal person is much more relieving or stressing than this whole story, I thought you were some kind of sadist or stuff like these” Alice said as she was fixing her and Sophie’s bed.

“I don’t know what you are talking about? I don’t even know what being happy really feels or what being sad feels, feelings, memories and bunch of other stuff, I don’t want them” Marco responded calmly as he placed a fake grin on his face right along with the last words.

Alice and Carla looked to him as they saw some pitch black darkness inside his eyes, they also felt like they stepped on a sensitive thread or like a road full of landmines.

“Sigh, I guess I went overboard with what’s on my mind. Alice senpai please don’t mind or think a lot about what I said, as much as my brother and sister are laughing happily and living their best life I’m ok with being the way I am now” Marco brought them back to their senses with his words as he turned off the lights.

On the same side of the scene, Alice and Carla thought that he’s being a little too careless around himself as long as his siblings are living a good life, somehow both felt it was wrong.

After hearing his own words Marco sighed and stretched his head a little bit, “And here again my gloomy side is showing up, Always seek the sunny side of the story, after all I still have great people around me” Marco mumbled to himself as he turned around and went to his room.

Alice and Carla looked at him walking away as they decided to believe in him, despite that the uneasiness didn’t go away.

“Sigh, so how do I return back again?” Marco asked as he was laying on his bed while Yuna was standing next to him.

“Well, it’s like you need to feel your body drowning again, as if you are having a good deep slumber in a warm place!!” Yuna responded as she was acting weird in front of him.

Marco sighed and focused on what she said aside from her weird pose, and after a few words after he felt exactly what she talked about as he found himself drowning in a deep sea, then it instantly took him to the palace.

“Heeh!! that’s what happened, still I’m really happy that you took your money back, you sound more like the way you used to!!” Selicia said as she was smirking while patting Marco’s shoulder.

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“Well, I kinda wanted that money for Sophie, she’s been watching other kids a lot lately and I didn’t give her anything, so…” Marco said as Yuna was having teary eyes while wiping her nose.

“Sniff, sniff, you are the best, despite you looking all gloomy and suspicious but you care about your little sister, despite being a total jerk,” Yuna said as she smiled at him.

“Ok I get it, no need to say it two times in a row, anyway I wanted to ask more about our family, that old man Eyezar didn’t tell me everything, did he?” Marco asked calmly as he felt comfortable around them.

“Well, it’s not like he couldn’t say, but rather he made a vow not to say,” Cedric answered the question as he looked serious for a moment. “Let’s see from where to start, we are a cursed family” Cedric spoke as the whole atmosphere became cold. Marco was about to reply but Cedric stopped him as he continued to talk “To put it simply, I was the first cursed one, I was the one who cursed our family, you have the right to hate me though it’s not the problem here, our curse is our strength, so to put it more simply it merged with each one of us and till now, the one who you saw looking like you is your curse…”.

Cedric spoke deliberately as the white haired guy added after him “pleased to meet you again, unlike the weaklings in your family, I have a name and its Deva, feel free to use it as much as you want” Deva popped out then disappeared again.

“What kind of curses is this guy? The most important thing is that I have a favor to ask from Yuna nee?” Marco said as he seemed to be thinking about something else.

Some time passed after that little talk and Marco stayed in that palace. As the whole place was nearly empty, they could hear the sound of clashing metal as if it was a melody rimming in the air. Marco asked Yuna to train him more on how he could use his sword.

“More sharper, pour everything into that slash!!” Yuna roared as she was fixing Marco’s stances and type of movements in the middle of the battle. “If you can’t do the slightest perfect movement, say goodbye to your life in front of a good powerful enemy, you want to protect your brother and sister!! Then do it better”.

she kept talking as she landed hits on him, Marco was nearly exhausted and had not slashed her not a single time.

“huff, huff, one more time” he responded calmly as he was about to attack again.

Yuna sighed as she intercepted him right before he moved, binding him with some chains.

“Such a shame you can’t even get out of mere chains” Yuna roasted him as she had the same cold eyes as Marco while pointing her sword right into his face.

“One more time!!” Marco said as she let him go from the chains.

he exhaled and started to look around him while thinking about some stuff, he dashed towards her but she caught him by chains. At that moment both had the same dead glare as he was bound by chains. He countered them by leaving a little space on his back with the sword , he got free and caught the chains landing on the ground as he pulled them with full strength trying to hit her with the chains as a bluff.

Yuna bought the bluff and moved to the left side according to what Marco thought she would do. He went right behind her as he was about to attack, she repelled him instantly landing several hits. in the same time she didn’t notice that the chains had turned to the same color as the sword and Marco wasn’t even holding his sword , she got slightly slashed on the back by the sword of Marco who were connected to the chains. he didn’t land a good hit but he took over her chains as he pulled them taking his body out of her range. Cedric and Selicia were impressed as he stood after getting severely injured by Yuna’s slashes.

“Sigh, wonderful battle, been a while since I saw someone not getting killed by Yuna’s slashes” Cedric stated as he was sitting next to Marco.

“Well , I’m impressed with myself, It crossed my mind for a second but I guess I can nearly do what Yuna nee can do with the sword,” Marco responded as Yuna slapped his head after that.

“Don’t get cocky, it’s true that you had slashed me in the back once it’s a huge leap until now, also I’m glad you can use the chains, next time after this little rest we gotta have to train on merging them within your body and fighting style” Yuna smiled after scolding him a little. “Honestly I guess I can do that, Alba old man, taught me how to fight using some kind of thread and even without the sword I can use wind as a weapon….” Marco said as he looked at them having a little giggles.

“As I thought, my guess was right, he’s a wind user, means that he can inherit any skill you use” Selicia interjected as she was looking closer to Marco.

“What do you mean?” he asked straightly.

“From now on, you're gonna inherit the skills and refine your own from me, Yuna or the holder of the name White gale” Yuna answered his question as she patted his shoulder.

Marco took a deep thought then looked down for a moment then gave them a little smile.

“Sounds good to me!! Yuna nee!!” He tried to speak in a cheerful voice as he thought that they need at least a small reward for what they’re doing. the three of them barely had a heart attack from the pure smile of his even if it was an empty smile.

“By the way, the white…no I mean Deva said, unlike others he has a consciousness or stuff like that, what did he mean?!” Marco asked calmly right before another question.

“Oh!! this time I’ll explain” Selicia said in a happy voice. “You know, Cedric san who is the one that brought the euro to the human realm, while being executed from the head of our family, my father to be clear, he put on us a curse unconsciously. At that time, I was born along with one other person, his son Godric. Putting this aside, Godric and I didn’t show a lot of things, but I was the next head of the family after that, when we knew that we are cursed and it already gives us a lot of things. I created that dungeon and the witchcraft to maintain and learn everything about our curse, that’s when I developed it more as Godric did too, and that's where my curse’s name came from, Saryal the All creation Curse. so in other manners I created the dungeon that polished every skill you see now in yourself, you might not remember it but you passed through fourteen years inside it, I dunno what happened to you but it seems that you forgot everything about it…” Selicia finished her words as she had a sad smile on her face.

“And so after generations of passing through the dungeon, I appeared to start the revolution of the serments,” Yuna continued. “I was a leader of the army and the head of the family. Even with the curse and the dungeon I had gone with this serment thing and created multiple weapons with the help of other three families. putting this aside too, if you noticed, each and every one of us had given our family a slight change in the manner of living. despite it gone to the worst, so in other words we are the cause of the curse that won’t let our souls rest at ease. Then the one who noticed that and told us was your grandpa, Albert, the next one after me to hold a conscious curse on him and can talk to us in this palace. He searched and saw something about us, the nine persons that are deemed to stay here. and each one of us has done some grave sin to the family…”.

Marco looked at Yuna having a sad expression yet a calm reaction behind all the words she said.

“Honestly!! we are the worst, we are making you hear our speeches and comfort us in a way or another , be-!” Cedric said.

Marco interrupted him “Then, I’m the worst too, I mean if I’m here with you means that I did something unforgivable to our family” Marco said as he was looking at them.

“The reason why we aren’t living in our old place along with the others and my parents, I guess I was right to believe that deep in my mind, I was the reason for my parents to disappear and the reason for my grandpa’s disappearance too. as if I erased them all from the world…”.

Marco said as he spoke again what he had in mind But before he could hear the words of Deva who appeared next to him having enjoyed Marco’s words and smiling, he found himself being woken up by Carla who was scared to see his clothes and bed full of blood, the sudden first breath that marco took was truly heavy for him as he only saw carla scared not knowing what to do.

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