It took roughly an hour before we arrived at the city border. Looking out of one of the windows, I was greeted by the sight of high rising buildings with holograms displaying advertisements all over the city. Even from the air I was able to see how busy the streets were below with hover cars rushing back and forth.

“Here. Give this to the girl,” Craz had been fiddling with an earpiece connected to a computer throughout the ride, “We were able to translate most of their language pretty fast thanks to how similar it is to one of the known languages.”

Taking the earpiece, I passed it Mia, “Wear this. It’ll translate what we’re saying to some extent.”

Turning back to Craz, I saw him put on a similar earpiece.

“Hey girl. Do you understand me now?”

Mia nodded. Throughout the whole trip, she had been clinging to my arm, and would not let go.

As Craz began asking Mia questions about Earth and her story on what happened, I turned back to the window to gaze at city below.

Several minutes later, the pilot spoke through the speakers, “We will be landing at Moon Palace in one minute. I repeat. We will be landing at Moon Palace in one minute.”

The ship began descending towards an extremely large building that was shaped like a triangular pillar and had a glossy black exterior with several platforms sticking out the sides. It was easily the largest structure in the city.

We soon touched down on a platform extending out of the building. After I exited the aircraft with Craz and Mia, the ship flew back into the air and left.

There was already a hover car waiting for us. When we opened the door, Mia squealed and dived into the luxury car. Inside was smooth black seats with snacks and bottles of wine along the counter on one side of the wall.

As the hover car floated into the building, Craz talked to me about the current situation.

“One of the soldiers already explained the situation to the emperor on the way here so his majesty knows what’s going on to some extent. Also, some of the more important figures will be there too as they were already in a meeting with the emperor and wanted to stay and see if you had really returned.”

I nodded, and during the few minutes it took to arrive, I quickly stripped and wore a black suit that they had prepared for me beforehand. It had my sigil stitched in gold on the right chest. As a royal magister, I had to make myself presentable in an official gathering.

After I finished changing, I sighed turned to face Mia who had a very red face while I was changing, yet had not turned away.

 “When we get to the throne room, just follow our lead. Also, make sure you stay a step behind us, and whatever you do, do not talk unless you’re asked a question directly from the emperor.”

She nodded to show that she understood.

We soon arrived in front of an enormous door tens of feet long and wide. We all exited the vehicle and stood by the door, waiting to be announced in.

“General Craz of the Edrain Army, Mia, a friend of the royal magister, and Virk the royal magister himself has arrived! A soldier guarding the door announced.

“Come in,” an elderly voice called out and the gigantic doors slowly swung in to reveal an extremely large throne room. There were stairs on the far side of the room that led up to a throne where a middle aged man with graying hair sat. Standing on his left was a woman with heaven defying beauty. She had a flaming red hair and an exotic tattoo on the left side of her face that stretched down and disappeared within the tight black suit she was wearing. It also had my sigil stitched into it.

“Rina,” I could see and thought I could even feel her eyes raking over us.

As we walked in, on either side were hundreds of people who were wearing expensive looking suits and military uniforms.

As we walked down the middle towards the throne, I heard the people whispering.

“I heard the royal magister is back.”

“Really? Where? It can’t possibly be that boy right?”

“No way, I have dozens of his ultra-rare posters that shows his real appearance and he looks nothing like that.”

“Do you think he got underwent a DNA modifier?”

“Definitely not! In an interview once, I remember that he said that he would never undergo such a surgery as he honestly did not think that simple appearances were worth the lifespan.”

“Then where is he. I only stayed because I heard that my idol would be here.”

Ultra rare posters? I thought that I made sure that wherever I appeared, I covered me face properly. . .

When we got to the base of the stairs the Craz and I kneeled on one knee with me motioning Mia to do the same.

“Welcome back general Craz, and you too Virk. It has been a long time.” The emperor said, “You have changed quite in bit in the seven years you were gone.

“My apologizes for making you worry your majesty. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I had been unable to return and when I had come to, I had found that my appearance had vastly changed and it was through sheer luck that I have been able to return.”

“You have returned. That is all that matters,” The emperor stood up, and addressed to the guests, “Our royal magister, has returned!”

The crowd went wild and cheered.

After the crowd quieted down, I explained what had happened to me and the theory I had come up with.

“Hmm,” The emperor was deep in thought, “So you believe that someone had tried to summon you and thanks to that, you were able to return?”

“Yes,” I nodded, “However as far as I know, using a summoning magic that targets other worlds was banned was it not?”

The emperor nodded, “Of course. After all, that was how the Vera had come to our world several hundred years ago. Bringing creatures from another world was considered far too dangerous and risky and thereby banned by every single nation. Do you by chance have any idea who might have done it?”

“My best guess is that someone really wanted me back no matter the risk. However, it is most likely that they have already perished. This is not well known, but including other worlds as a target for summoning requires living sacrifices. If they did not know this, it makes sense why there was no trace of anyone strange nearby when I arrived to this world.”

“I see,” The emperor bowed his head deep in thought, “And there is the matter of those people who had come with you. I already have a report on them, and it states that they are the same as us Eldra in every single way. They even have mana veins, which is surprising considering they come from a world that lacks mana. If you don’t have any plans for them, I’ll take them under my wings and see where they can fit in our society.”

“That’s fine.”

“Then that is all for now. If there is anything else you need to report, feel free to stop by whenever you like.”

I bowed and left the throne room with Mia in tow. On the way out, I saw several people trying to follow.

“Ahem!” The emperor coughed, “As for the rest of you, I believe we have some things we needed to continue discussing.”

The people who had tried to follow me all knew that there was actually nothing to talk about. The emperor just wanted to keep these people from bothering me. Knowing this, I nodded in thanks to the emperor before I left.

We boarded the car we had taken to the throne room and soon we were flying out in the open sky with the Moon Palace behind us. In the horizon, the sun was finally rising.

“Where are we?” Mia asked as I stopped the car.

The car had brought us to a large building that was several stories high.

“My home, and the headquarters of the Royal Magister Squad,” I punched in a code on a screen nearby, and the door opened.

Inside, was a large white room with sofas, holographic screens, and a circular counter in the center of the room with a thick pillar rising to the ceiling inside the counter. However, it was eerily quiet as the holographic screens were playing with no sounds and there was no one to be seen.

I looked at the TV that was showing a huge battle between giant robots and smiled.

I then walked over to the counter and knocked on it.

“You know Nely. If you want to pretend no one’s home, turn of the holoscreen before you hide.”

After several moments, a small red haired head slowly inched up from behind the counter. She looked similar to Rina and had the same tattoo as well.

I was about to say something, when she started talking first, “Who the hell are you? How the fuck did you get in? I’ll kill you if you try anything funny.”

My smile disappeared and I frowned “It’s me, Virk. And who taught you to talk like that? What happened to my cute little Nely who had manners befitting of a young lady.?”

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She carefully looked at me up and down, “The Virk I know doesn’t look like a scrawny brat. Don’t lie to me you bastard.”

Feeling annoyed with the way she was talking I flicked her on the head, “Well to bad. Virk is now a scrawny brat. And if you don’t stop talking like your sister I’m going to upload those pictures I took when you wet your bed as a kid.”

Her face paled and she dived onto the counter to hug me, “Virk! Your Virk! I’m sorry! Anything but that!”

 She then looked up with her arms still around me, “What happened to you?”

I reached over and rubbed her head, “What happened to YOU? You’re nothing like the sweet girl that I picked up when you were just a baby with your sister.”

“Of course not,” She puffed out her chest, a very flat chest. Wait, there were small bumps. “I’m sixteen years old now! I’ll be going to the military academy in a couple of weeks.”

She tilted her head, “Who’s the girl? Is she another one of your living weapons?”

I was about to reply when there was an explosion at the front door.

We all turned to see Rina running out of the smoke and what remained of my front door.

Ah crap. Here we go.

 “Ouch!,” She tackled me to the floor and straddling me while grabbing my collar.

“Rina, stop-“ Nely tried to stop her but when Rina turned to glare at her, she innocently looked away like she had nothing to do with what was happening.

Damn brat. Is this how you repay me for taking you in all those years ago?

“Virk?” Rina turned her glare to me.

“Yes?”

“Clench your teeth,” She pulled her free arm back.

“Ah. Wait!” I struggled to escape, but she was too strong. The next thing I knew, everything went black.

Luckily I was out for only a few seconds. When I opened my eyes again, I saw Mia and Nely struggling to hold back Rina.

“R-R-Rina. Let’s just talk ok?” I dizzily scrambled to me feet and held out my hands as though my pathetic arms could hold back an angry Raia woman.

“Talk? Talk?!” Rina screamed, “You were missing for seven years! SEVEN! I TOLD you take me with you. I TOLD you to not go alone! But did you listen? NO!”

She activated a spell and the two were flung across the counter and disappeared behind it.

“Calm down!” I desperately dodged her swinging arms.

Oh man. You already knocked me out once. Are you trying to seriously kill me woman?!

Seeing Mia and Nely dizzily getting up from behind the counter, I jumped over and hid behind them. Call me a coward or whatever you want, but that woman terrifies me when she’s pissed.

“Oh? Is that your new girlfriend? IS SHE?! You womanizing bastard! I’ll tear her apart!” Rina then lunged at both of us.

Oh crap!

I pulled Mia and Nely out of the way, barely getting away. Then, I picked Mia up and ran through a door that lead into a series of corridors with Rina close behind and Nely behind her.

After several minutes of being chased by the terrifying woman down twists and turns, I finally arrived in front of the door I was looking for.

 I quickly jumped inside and locked the door behind me. I ignored the pounding and screaming voice telling me to get out. Sitting down to catch my breath, I looked down to see how Mia was doing. After all, being thrown like that across the counter must have hurt if you didn’t have a body like a Raia’s.

I looked down to see two eyes staring right back at me. Her face was a lot closer than I thought. Then, before I could react, she lunged forward to close the small gap and kissed me. While I was frozen in shock, she took advantage of that time to force my lips apart and went exploring with her tongue.

When I finally snapped out of it, I shoved her off my lap, making her yelp as she fell to the floor.

“Mia . . . you.”

“Me what?” She giggled as she licked her lips.

I touched my lips I was trying to get my head together. Mia noticed I wasn’t properly focused and tried to lunge at me. Unfortunately for her, I was clear headed enough to stop her face with my hand , preventing her from getting any closer.

“Mia, stop.” I sighed.

“Why,” She slapped my hand away, “You have two beautiful females in your house and I doubt I lose out to either of them. What’s wrong with taking one more?”

There were so many things wrong in so many different ways that I didn’t even bother to reply. Honestly, she was so similar to the Raia race that . . . maybe.

I quickly stood up and pulled her to one of the desks that was in the room.

“Eh? You want to do it on the desk instead?” I rolled my eyes. Some guys might have jumped on her by now, but I had no interest in taking someone who could barely think for themselves.

“Just need to check something.” Before she can react, I pulled out a syringe from a drawer and drew some blood.

I then dripped some of the blood into a small machine and pressed several buttons.

Looking at the flashing lights from the machine, she asked the same question, “What is it? A pregnancy test?”

O~k. She was starting to lose her ability to make a proper logical thought. There is definitely something going on with her.

“This is a machine that’s used to analyze DNA. I kept it in my laboratory since I usually use it to study Vara DNA.”

After a couple more flashing lights, the results came up on the monitor. Studying the lines of codes, when I got to a certain part, I then realized why Mia was acting so much like a Raia out of control.

Raia were smarter than then Eldra, more beautiful than the Eldra, and lived longer than the Eldra. But another difference was the way that their brains worked. It was proven several decades ago that the Raia race was hardwired to be attracted to an opposite sex who they deemed to be far superior to them.

It varied individually in how the mate had to be superior and by how much. Some were satisfied with someone being able to hold them down in a brawl. Some wanted a mate that was smarter than them. Others wanted a mate that could completely dominate them in mind and body.

They weren’t masochists; they just wanted to find a strong mate to carry on their genes. People believed this to be the reason why the Raia race was so much superior to the Eldra race.

However, their control over this instinct was incredibly weak. Therefore the tattoos they used were actually a spell that was drawn onto them using special liquid that is extremely hard to erase. The spell helped them have some control over the instinct, but people have yet to find a spell that was able to completely keep it in check.

However Mia did not have it, which was the reason why she had been acting more and more unreasonable to the point where it just made her seem like a crazy pervert.

I couldn’t tell whether she was lucky that she ended up in this world where we could help her, or unlucky that she had Raia DNA in her. But thinking of how it had only started to become serious once she came to my world, I couldn’t shake off the feeling that maybe mana had something to do the Raia’s instinct.

I began opening cabinets searching for something. After I finally found it, I returned to Mia with a bottle of what appeared to be black ink.

“Hey Mia. Come here and sit down,” I gestured to one of the seats.

Apparently she ignored the part where I gestured to the seats because she sat on my legs and refused to budge.

I sighed and began using a brush to draw a tattoo on her face. She quietly sat there as I drew, but when I looked at her eyes, I could tell that it was taking everything she had to not jump me.

I continued drawing and was soon drawing near her collar bone. At that point, I stopped. I tried figured out the best way to continue when I heard the sound of the door breaking. I turned to see Raia standing at the doorway with a blaster in her hand. It was shaped like a pistol, but was able to fire an energy blast that was able to destroy nearly anything within a few feet.

When she saw what was happening, she froze. Nely was also there peeking around the side of the door.

“Isn’t that a Raia tattoo? Why are you drawing one of her?” Nelly asked.

“I found Raia DNA in her. Probably one of her ancestors was a Raia and it was carried down her family.”

“But she came from another world.”

I simply shrugged. I tossed the bottle to Rina who caught it in one had, “I need you to finish the tattoo. I’ll be in the lobby waiting.”

Watching me struggle for a moment to get Mia off me, Rina sighed and walked over. She then yanked Mia off, and turned to me.

“We’ll talk later.”

I nodded and left, taking Nely with me. In the lobby, I sat down with Nely curled up by my side and I stroked her head while watchig the video that she had left on when I walked in.

“Isn’t this an old video of the Pilot World Championship?” The Pilot World Championship was a competition between pilots who drove anything that could be driven in space, and duked it out.

Of course, the pilots controlled the vehicle from another location for their safety. I remembered that I had even seen a pilot use a regular commercial hover car and armed it with missiles and laser cannons. Unfortunately, his vehicle was one of the first to get destroyed as it was far too slow even without all the heavy weaponry compared to a mech.

“Yeah” She nodded, “I was actually watching this one before you walked in,” she rewound the video.

She then pressed play when she saw a certain black and blue mech come out.

“Isn’t that?”

“Yeah. It’s you! When you participated in the Pilot World Championship and completely destroyed everything in your way!”

She turned to face me, “I’m actually going to join the piloting sector once I join the military academy. I want to be an ace pilot like you were.”

“Were? You mean I still am,” I crossed my arms.

“Nope,” Sister actually beat your record while you were gone. Downed Five hundred twenty enemies in the virtual reality machine compared to your four hundred seventy three.”

“What?! No way!” The person who had placed right after me had only twenty enemies down. The only reason I had been able to take down that many was thanks to my customized mech that was assisted by an advanced AI I developed to use for my living weapons.

“Nope. After you were gone, some people managed to get a copy of your basic AI kit, so it helped boost the average enemy downs from fifty to one hundred. The top rankers all have a few hundred. Your actually rank five now.”

“What?! How’d they get a copy of my AI?!” I screamed.

“Not the advanced AI. They only got the basic version you made while still in school. The basic versions are only able to execute the short commands you give them but still able to decide how best complete the tasks. Apparently someone found it in the dumps. It even had your sigil on it proving it was yours.”

“So I accidentally threw it out.” I was close to pulling out my hair in stress. Although it was only a basic AI, I could have made a few billion credits out of it considering no one else was able to make anything even remotely close to an intelligent AI, but I just had to accidentally throw it out!

As I was in the midst of my despair, I heard footsteps coming from behind. I turned around to see Mia and Rina returning. Mia now had a completed tattoo and was wearing a loose T-shirt and sweat pants. Rina had probably given her a change of clothes.

Rina walked over and sat down next to me. Mia however, sat down on the furthest couch while avoiding eye contact with me. Her mind had probably cleared up now that that tattoo was helping her keep in control.

Rina poked me in my ribs, “I still haven’t forgiven you for disappearing on me for seven years.”

I made a nervous smile, “Hey. You already knocked me out once. Isn’t that enough?”

“-s -e.” She mumbled.

“What?”

“Kiss me.” She blushed while looking at my face.

“Rina,” I was about to say no, but when I turned around to see a blaster pointing at my face, I changed my mind and said, “Why not.”

As soon as I replied, the blaster disappeared and was replaced by Rina who immediately yanked me towards her and covered my mouth with her in a hungry kiss. Her mouth was warm and her lips so soft. She tentatively tried to push her tongue in and I parted my mouth to let her in. I thought it was cute how she acted so stubborn and cold, but was so nervous when she finally got what she wanted. It lasted for a few seconds until I finally pushed her off.

“Are we even now?” Rina nodded.

But Nely surprised me by turning my head around and doing the exact thing as her sister.

My mind stalled for a moment as Rina desperately tasted my tongue in an aggressive manner compared to her sister. Then, before I could push her away, she pulled back and ran out of the room while giggling.

I stared after her as she exited the room.

“Rina,” I said, “You sister . . .”

“You should have known,” She simply shrugged and turned to watch the TV.

“But she’s a kid. She’s only known me while she was a kid!”

“We Raia mature faster than Eldra. She may only seem like sixteen to you, but if compared to Eldra, her mental age would be in her mid-twenties. Sixteen when you disappeared when she was nine. Mature enough for her to get attached I would think.”

As I struggled to not be disturbed by kissing someone I had always considered to be a child, someone tapped my shoulder. I looked up to see Mia.

“What-“ She quickly pecked my lips before running off after Nely with an even redder face than before.

“. . . . I don’t understand this anymore. Why the hell are you Raia girls so attached to me.”

Rina looked at me sideways, “We’re hardwired to be attracted to men we see as superior than us. It’s your fault for being so dependable and strong.”

“. . . I’m a scrawny kid now. I got knocked out in one hit.”

“Already attracted.”

I closed my eyes and leaned back. Rina wrapped her arms around my chest and laid there.

“Oh and next time you go on an S-rank mission without me,” she whispered as I was drifting asleep, “I’ll strap you down to a bed and never let you go.”

I sleepily nodded, and was soon snoring.