POV HOSHI KIMI

As I open the door I smelled it before I saw it was a nekomata. It was sitting in a chair on the other side of a desk looking at me. "Well now in this is a surprise I heard we have a kitsune but I didn't think it was one of Lady Boido's clan you must be a washout hahaha." Hoshi looks at the cat ”I'm going to kill her before this day is over for even mention lady Boido name with her fishy cat breath.” "Hello there Hoshi Kimi my name is Aiko Nariko and I'll be you a case manager." Case manager, what is that? "Oh, how silly of meow I forget how unintelligent you kitsune can be haha." I might not know what a case manager thing is but I do know what unintelligent means and by the time I'm done with your.... "meow meow don't get your tails all ruffled and don't do anything rash."

What do you mean by that? "Well if start a fight with me then we will put the lost little fox down and then who will train Esmond Morrow to survive till the end of the year." As I clench my clawed hands I sit down so how do you know about Esmond? "I have my ways but I got to say you have a tall order to accomplish in a month and don't worry no one in this building will participate in this bit some of the younger generations will jump at the chance."

You are not like the other nekomata I have met in the past. "Well, that's nice to hear from a kitsune the only advice I can give you is help him as much as you can and cool that temper of yours take this pass and go to the next room." As I take the pass from her but you still haven't told me what a case manager is yet. "I don't think it matters do you after this process is over you can just look it up on the internet." Internet what is that? "Just ask Esmond he can teach you all the modern stuff and you can tell all the kitsune stuff but one last piece of advice you should tell him about the banishment and the game it's only fair to him." As I walk through the door I turn to thank Akio but the door vanished.

I'm now standing in an arena with three people at the other end. We are the examiners here to test your combat skills and physical abilities. "Ok as for the first task which one is a monster the other is a human tell me which one they are?" As small crosses, my face I point to the one right that female is the monster with the magic power of a six the one on the left is a human Male with the magic power of a seven but is using a dampening spell to hide his power level. With surprise on the face "that's a ten on magic auras, smell, and hearing."

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"Now time for us to test your strength, speed, and powers." As he points to the weight "we keep adding weight till you can't lift it we're starting at one hundred pounds." As they keep increasing the weight after for ten minutes we stopped at six hundred pounds. Now it's time for speed test around an obstacle course I cleared the course in twenty minutes as I jumping over a forty-foot wall moving at a speed of ninety mph. "Well, that was lackluster anyway time for your powers."

I much rather say but I can you magic barriers, void claws, teleport, foxfire, regeneration, illusion, emotional manipulation, shadow slip, void magic, and of course shapeshifting. Now are we done I'm hungry and tired? " we are almost done just a Sparring match." Ok, who do I fight? As the woman walks up to me I get a better look at her as she shifts into a Naga. "All right you ready because here I come." As she slithers towards me I stand my ground as it gets closer I fee a magic aura building. I prepare for an attack as she shoots a giant water ball at me I put my tails out as a shield to soften the blow. As it hits my tails I'm pushed back but my defense held all I got was a small cut on my forehead as I bring the ball around my body I add some void magic and split the ball into five one for each tail.

As I launch each one in rapid-fire the Naga was surprised when her elemental attack came back at her as she moved around each one but one grazed her. When the ball grazed her its life a small void patch where her scales used to be the pained look on her face as she collapsed to the ground. The other examiners came running over to check on her I walked over to her as well. That was fun I'm sorry if it hurts a lot as the other two begin to heal. She opened her eyes "thatsss wasss a good throw Iss barley ssssaw them butsss I losssse." One of the examiners hands me another one of those passes and point to a door.

As I head for the door the examiner tells me its something called a waiting room. I opened the door to a small room with seats he tells me there vending machines and a TV once the door closed what the hell is a TV and vending machines. With nothing else to do I go and lay on one of the chairs when the door opens again. As I look to see who enters I see a woman carrying a fox wrapped in a coat as I smell the air I can tell its Esmond and he is suffering from magic overuse.

I turned to the lady magic overuse "how did you know and fo you want to hold him? As the woman leaves I feel Esmond shack as I tell him we have a lot of work to do and I expect payment for each lesson. As I turn him around to face me he growled and yipped at me "what happened to you?" Oh this don't worry about this now you take a nap it will help as his eyes begin to close "and don't worry I'll wake you up if anything happens" and with that, he's off to dream world.

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