9th chapter : what will happen from now on .
After getting into a stressful day of work, Marco was on his way back home to see Hana standing in the corner waiting for him. He sighed as he asked Carla to go on her own. She didn’t refuse as she took some food with her for Sophie and Arthur.
“I never, ever, imagined that you're gonna work here from all places” Hana said suddenly as she was walking with Marco on the sand of the beach.
“Spare me your words please, as if I imagined that I’d find you there today, since when?” Marco answered and asked at the same time.
“When what? when I knew about the existence of the euro holders society or when I knew about the red mermaid restaurant?” Hana avoided the answer with another question.
The two looked into each other and sighed, then both giggled a little.
“Well, you are getting cocky, honestly part of me is happy that you know about this world, the other part is where I tell myself that I’m gonna be stuck with your selfish requests even in this new life” Marco pleaded while laying down on the sand.
“As straight as ever. Well, I’m not that selfish in the first place, and second, my family, the Loki family, is a hybrid dwarf family. that’s a reason why I know about the euro society and a reason why I can’t join a guild like the rest of the holders”.
Hana was annoyed by Marco who spoke straightforwardly. At the moment she mentioned the hybrid word Marco got up looking at her face and looking aside to Yuna as she nodded to him, he sighed and returned back to laying down. she laughed about his reaction then she smiled at him before having a serious look.
“Then, won’t you ask about him?” she asked.
The vibe changed for a moment and things looked calm at first.
“Him, I don’t really care whether he knows or not. all that I know that he left us” he replied with a sad tone of voice but didn’t seem to be fully sad about it.
“Sigh, I’m tired !! Let's go back home!!” Hana said as she was laying next to Marco on the sand.
“I guess we need to return, it’s pretty dark, and your parents are going to be mad whether you stay the…no forget it I’ll take you home”.
Marco said as he stopped for a moment after seeing Hana doing the puppy eyes thing. After that he had no choice but to let her stick around his house for the night, therefore she took a hit on the head because of doing the victory sign right in front of him.
after reaching the house,
“She’s staying the night at our house” Marco spoke to Carla.
As he went back to his home, Hana smiled at Carla while taking off her shoes.
“Tehehe!! Thanks for having me, I’ll go call my parents!!” Hana said as she rushed inside to use the phone.
Seeing that fast reaction and how she knows her way around the house, Carla looked at Marco with deadly glares however Marco patted her head.
“She’s my childhood friend, she used to stay here more than one night, so I guess I apologize for not letting you know about her coming”.
Carla pouted at Marco but gave him a fine smile after that.
“Marco!! My parents want to talk to you!!”.
The two heard Hana’s calling as Marco sighed. He went and explained the situation to her parents, Carla was amazed at how he was talking thoroughly with them on the phone.
The night passed and Alice didn’t return yet as everyone slept , Marco used that time and went back to the palace after going into his bed, he got used easily to go and return to the palace using his astral body, even the three of them have managed to find a way to pass time around the palace while waiting for him from time to time unless Yuna or one of the other two stays around him.
“I see!! So Hana!!! Is!! one of the three families!!! sigh!!!”.
Marco spoke in the middle of his training with Yuna as she was teaching him her basic stances, he stopped to catch his breaths while speaking with Selicia and Cedric too.
“Well, you were childhood friends and that’s good, since most of the serments were made by the dwarfs themselves” Cedric said as he served him some water.
“Having a dwarf on your side is like having a maintenance expert” Selicia interjected right after Cedric’s words.
“So how was your first time using the chains outside?” Yuna asked in hope of changing the topics.
“Not that much, It was kinda hard to pull it off, I mean you told me the trick but the trick has another trick, so I figured that going on instinct and spreading all my euro particles around the area was a good idea” Marco replied having the three of them impressed.
“I see, show me an exam!! ple!!” Selicia said as she found herself bound by chains right before she could finish her words.
As Marco used the chains, Yuna and Cedric whistled, applauding for what Marco did. Selicia did the same as she snapped her fingers getting out of the chains.
“Well, going back to work!! let’s see whether you could land a hit with these or it’s just for the show, your opponent will be me” Selicia added as she stood.
Marco wasn’t surprised as he accepted her task, he saw her having a smug face with a bit of a confident smile. She was fully open but Marco didn’t want to attack first as she noticed him not going to get the first move, she launched some elemental attacks targeting his shoulders therefore Marco only bent down a little bit as a sudden chains appeared guarding the two attacks right before it could land. After bending down he dashed directly attacking from the front, she smiled at him as she used an earth wall to stop him.
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Marco didn’t see that coming and slammed right into the wall but Selicia and the other two smiled as his attack was about to reach. Selicia grabbed his sword right before it would land on her left shoulder, the three of them saw chains tied to the back of the sword as if it was some sort of lance surrounding Selicia’s range. After grabbing his sword Marco continued his attack and leaped right to her back, gently putting his hand on the back of the sword trying to push it into her shoulder with a wind strengthened push but Selicia had already landed her blows stopping his attack and having him caught in the middle of the air by plant roots.
“Pun Pun Pun!!! you will never land a proper hit on me as long as you don’t understand that i’m superior to you!!! wahahahaha!!” Selicia couldn’t stop the mockery until Yuna and Cedric pumped her head to the ground.
After getting into some battle Marco was taking a rest,
“Well, I see that you can manage the chains well now. Though you aren’t using it at full I shall say,” Yuna and Cedric said one after another as they were looking at Marco trying to hold his hair up.
“Umm, I got that feeling too, I felt that I can use it in some kind of enhanced attacks or stuff, like using wind with them” Marco replied while trying to stop Selicia from baiting him.
“If you want to use elemental attacks, such as wind or fire I can teach you, but unlike Yuna I want a prize for that” Selicia replied to his words after pouting a little to him.
Marco sighed then looked aside taking his time on thinking.
“Well, I approve but if there’s types of like, I’m using the sword to slash, I’d rather use wind like a cover for the sword or some attacks that let me release a wind push or stuff like those, till now I only managed to have the wind warped around my arms” he responded after having an annoyed expression on his face.
Selicia licked her lips as she had a smug face looking at Marco.
“Well, if you need any ideas, I guess I have what you need, after all I’ve released all my weapons and you went and chose that little thing and some chains too. I don’t really see how you can fight with them properly, though you are doing great” Yuna answered as she showed him the weapons again.
Marco looked at his sword and had some thoughts about changing it, therefore that wasn’t what his words or his face showed.
“I’d like to keep this one, more or less, this black rusty looking broken sword has emerged from the bloodstains of mine. Means that I’ve already had an encounter with it” Marco said as he had a calm grin on his face.
Selicia looked at Yuna as she had another smug face. She went and hugged Marco from the back.
“You really one sweet grandkid, I love how you state what you have on your mind straight to the point!!” Marco saw her having a great smile and looked down after that.
Few moments later,
“Put more strength into that slash!!” Yuna roared.
She was training him into cutting things with wind, that was the main idea that came into his head after discussing the things briefly.
“You are doing things wrong I guess Marco! try to be the wind like this,” Selicia interrupted them.
she showed him with just his hand as she swung her hand, slashing the big statue into halves, the statue fell down leaving a strong impression of how the wind slash should be.
“Impressive, don’t go and show off to me as if I know how to do it. In the first place, I agreed on you training me but you are just showing off” Marco sighed as he was trying to figure out what they wanted to show him.
“Are you scolding me!?! I told you before, our family has created the euro or magic circle like you see in the shows, we use our mind, imagine the process of the attack and the result of your attack. What will happen if you lose balance or what will happen? you get these things, the serments usually do the scriptures thing, it writes the process on itself, yours is just a metal scrap, it’s empty and has nothing inside such as spells or combo attacks” Selicia protested so suddenly as she was having a serious face for the first time.
Marco looked to his sword and caught her indirect insult, as she saw that Selicia flustered on her own before continuing the talk.
“But that’s good in my opinion!!” She clearly was trying to comfort him “Having an empty shell means that you can put anything you want inside, as if it’s your own house”.
Marco got a sudden idea right after she finished her words, he smiled and hugged her making her blush for a second.
“Having you hugging me won’t give you any power you know but I like this feeling” Selicia said as she caressed his hair.
After he let her go he took a deep breath then exhaled everything, Yuna and Selicia were curious to see what Marco will do now.
As he exhaled all his breaths he sealed his serment and used his body instead.
“The image process and the outcome of it, I guess I have a basic image, if I need to choose, I’ll do this” Marco was speaking to himself.
He accumulated wind around the palm of his hand and closed slightly his fingers as if he was pressing a button. In a split second Marco with the huge speed unleashed that wind hitting the big rock in front of him and demolishing it into pieces, Yuna whistled at the moment.
“That will do the work still, it’s with your hand not the sword, so more or less like you said it’s just a half step toward your goal” Yuna praised him.
She said as Selicia pat her shoulder “No!! he just stepped a thousand steps, that attack right now, it’s more powerful than the slash I just did, the empty shell idea had given him a great push” Selicia was impressed as she smiled.
Marco took a deep breath after that attack and got to the sides of Yuna.
“What do you think?” he asked bluntly, waiting for an honest answer.
Yuna sighed and pat his head, “I dunno if I should praise you or not but you stepped the first steps, well done”
Marco sighed and felt like a burden got off his shoulders. as the three of them felt like they saw some great development just a moment ago, it made them eager to see what will happen next.
“Then I guess , I’m gonna try this slash now ” he said as he released back his serment.
Yuna and Selicia didn’t get what he meant and were more shocked to see him doing the wind slash that fine as if he used to do it a long time ago.
“You bastard!! Are you mocking us!!” Yuna said as she was slapping him while Selicia had tied him with her roots.
“Well, I felt like I had a push, and more or less I feel like I did this before, like I’m used to this type of fighting, this type of scolding, this type of training. More or less like I said before, as if it was written inside memories ” Marco said explaining his intentions.
“I get it, so you do remember the dungeon” Cedric twitched a brow at Marco as he looked at them having fun.
Marco looked at him curiously not understanding what he meant.
“Like I said, you do remember the dungeon, don’t you?” Cedric said as the four of them sat down after Selicia letting Marco down.
“What do you mean?” Marco asked out of curiosity.
“Don’t ask much, there’s nothing good in remembering” Selicia said as she had an upset face.
“Again, I don’t like when you guys speak of things in that way. I don’t remember most of my childhood, I don’t remember the face of my father or the face of my mother, neither where nor when I really was born, Arthur and I lived alone with grandpa when Arthur was born, anything before that is already er-erased”.
Marco spoke as he looked down after saying his words in a sad voice. Yuna and Selicia looked at him as he stopped moving or even speaking , they figured out that something was off with his own memory after all, despite that fact they also felt something more creepier the moment the silence fell upon the whole place.
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