Mary's son had been missing for 3 months. ago her child, along with the rest of his class dissapeared. She had heard of it happening in Japan but she never anticipated that it woukd happen in her own country. She'd rip a new one to whoever took her baby.

She was part of the American Magic Guild so she knew it had been Cross world group summoning from the residual magic traces. But that's exactly why she had to hurry. Worlds that would summon children and teenagers were fundamentally no good.

She sighed as completed the last rune on her singular reverse summoning circle in her son's bedroom. She had already completed the circles in the homes of the other children

She then went over to her crystal ball that had finished locking onto her son's location and linking the summoning signature locked on to his classmates as well.

"Why did it take 3 months just to lock on?" she lamented. "I can only trhink of a temperol difference as the reason. I hope it isn't to severe."

Luckily fo Mary, Fate was in a good mood so while there was a temporal disparity. it had only resulted in 8 months passing in the world the kids had beenn summoned to during thes three months.

Mary put her hands on her crystal ball and started the arduos process of reverse summoning the children and shielding them from any other illegal and unwilling summpons

___________________________Meanwhile there was a proposal going on_________________

Mary's son, Eric, had assumed the conventional proposal pose before a short woman in a sky blue summer one piece dress with red hair a oval shaped face and a pear shaped body. She had tears streaming down her face and her hands steepled in front of her mouth

He was presenting her with a ring filled with his magic power. The ring was a simple affair with two golden bands encicling a greenish black band with a meaningful inscription. In this world it was the custom to exchange items filled with your magic power instead of rings.

"Are you really fine wth me?" she asked him

"Of course. There is no point if it was anyone else. It has to be you"

"I'm 25 cycles, you know. I'm exired and unwanted goods you know." she recited

"I want you. No one else. You're not expired at all. You're young and you're beautiful." Eric replied.

To put this into context this was a world where most girls were married by 12 and had children by 16. Naturally a few of his class mates took advantage of this since they were no longer in a world where they were judged negatively fo their tastes but Eric was not among them. In fact he had a diffent thing that the woman in front of him apealed to perfectlty.

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"I...I only know how to cook and make weapons. I only know how to rely on others. Are you fine with such a valuless bride?"

"Don't call yourself valueless! I want you to rely on me. Read the insription on the ring." Eric said as he handed her the ring.

"To Mimirosa, My most valued treasure." Mimirosa read. She handed Eric back the ring. "Please. Put it on."

Eric grabbed her hand and put the ring onto her left ring finger. He kissed proceeded to kiss her knuckles. " So you accept then?"

"Of course I accept! Please don't let go of me..." Mirosa said as she rummaged around in her sack for someyhing filled her magic power. She puleed out a necklace that was shaped just like her golden eye.

"Of course, I defiinitely won't let you go! I'd be a fool to." Eric said as Mimirosa put the necklace on hin neck and reached around to fasten the clasp. as soon as he heard the casp click shut he took the oppurtunity to reach around her back before she could pul back and wrap her in a loving hug.

Mimirosa squeeked a bit before joyfully wrapping her arms around Eric.

That's when she noticed that he was glowing. She noticed theshe was glowing too.

"Eric! Eric! We're glowing." Mimirosa whispered in his ear panickedly. "And I feel like we're being pulled somewhere?

"I know. Its okay. I recognize this sensation and magic power."

"You recognize it?" Mimirosa squealed as she tried to pull back to look at him only for him too squeeze her just tight enougjh that she couldn't quite escape.

" Yeah."  Eric then activated the communication spell hius classmates used to communicate with each other. "Everyone grab your loved ones and valuables. We're going home! you've got 15 minutes."

There was a a rash of cussing and inquiries over the channel the channel as the classmates scrambled to do just that.

Mimirosa looked at Eric 's ear and asked, "15 minutes? Is that why you're hugging me so tightly?"

"Nope. I seem to be the spell anchor so I only have 5 minutes and I don't want to take any chances. I told you right? That I won't let you go. Plus I want to hug you beacase you're so cute."

The cyclops turned red and changed the subject. "So do you have any idea who is summoning us?"

"My mother. And it's not so much summoning as a reversal of it."

"Your mother?!" Mimirosa exclaimied increduosly."I thought there wasn't any magic in your world?"

"No. It's actually rather common. But most people don't know about it because thers's a certain element to the mana that makes it poisonous to those without resistance. So it's kept under wraps until they know about it. Well, a lot of people don't know that what they are doing is magic though." Eric explained.

"...poisonous mana? That's absurd!" Mimirosa insisted.

"To me, Mana that isn't poisonous is absurd." Eric rebutted.

"The world's are truly different." Mimirosa nodde and snuggled against Eric when she notices she was feeling cold. "...cold? It's summer, though?

"It's winter, you know?" a new voice cut in.

"!!" Mimirosa noticed that Eric's hold was loosened and turned toward the source to find a panting raven haired olive skinned woman.

"Ah. Stay like that please. We have to wait for another 25 minutes." Mary said as she noticed her son and the Cyclops staarting to move. "Welcome home Eric. Who's this?"

I'm back , Mama. This is Mimirosa. I just married her. Literally five minutes agao"Eric repiled.

"I saw. Welcome to the Crawlidge family Mimirosa." Mary said as she slumped against the table her crystal ball was on.

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Yes I'm back. a lot happened Real life, then write'rs block. finally falling in love, then a weird love triangle that resolved into a stable trio. Well I'm back to writing. So I'll be going back and revising all of my stories since I feel most of them need it.

next time.

The sad past of the Cyclops daugther.