"Ehh... Onee-san is leaving now?" asked Moka while holding Naeva's dress.

"Can't you stay here a little longer?" it was Saka's turn to hold her with watery eyes.

Ruka, Raka and Youka who escorted Naeva to the teleportation site giggled. It was funny to see Naeva frozen, not knowing what to do in a situation like this.

Naeva had spent about two weeks in Rokka Village. Ruka and Raka tried to find her a personal Rokka in the village. Actually, quite a few Rokkas were willing, considering all the Rokkas there already knew Naeva as an Unofficial Irregular Ranker. But after facing a few small tests from Naeva, people backed off quickly.

Yes, small tests.

Naeva only took them down to the ravine to carry against monsters. She would take Rokka who was mentally strong enough to continue receiving her carry. But even if Naeva killed gracefully, in Rokka's eyes, she was still scary.

Well, no wonder.

Naeva only needed a few seconds to capture a dangerous monster alive and keep it dying until her Rokka could kill the monster with a single strike. For Naeva, killing the monster was much easier than taking it alive in its dying state. So you can imagine how ekhm... her monster looks.

But Naeva didn't leave empty-handed.

Moka who had been holding Naeva was now hugging Ruka tightly.

"At least don't take Ruka!!!"

"Even though Ruka just came home!!!" she cried.

Ruka smiled slightly.

"You can't do that, Moka."

"You know I made a contract with Naeva Nee-san. There's no way I'm breaking it," Ruka said softly as he stroked the little girl's head.

"But! But!"

Moka's crying didn't stop. Instead, Saka joined her in tears.

"HUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

Raka and Youka tried to calm them down. They were also sad because Ruka's departure was not something he wanted. However, they had no other choice. It was Ruka's own fault.

Different yet similar to elves, Rokka was a race that highly valued contracts. While not bound by magic contracts like elves, you don't have to worry about breaking a contract if it's with Rokka. Even if it kills them, the Rokka are a race that will never break their contract.

Ruka had already made a contract that he would make Naeva have her own personal Rokka. He suggested his aunt Mika as much as possible. But if Mika couldn't, another Rokka would have to be Naeva's personal Rokka. And since no one was able to, inevitably Ruka himself had to step in.

"Why are you making me out to be villain who broke up family?" Naeva thought in the middle of that sad drama.

Actually, Naeva had no problem not bringing Rokka personally. It's just... as explained, Rokka would never break the contract. They were pretty stubborn about it.

"Take good care of yourself, go back to village once in a while," Raka patted Ruka on the shoulder.

"Unh."

Ruka nodded, his eyes slightly wet.

Youka patted the other shoulder.

"May success await you in the future, Ruka."

"Thank you, Ojii-san..."

Ruka shed a few tears, so as not to spill the dam, he quickly turned his back to them.

"Ittekimasu, Otou-san... Ojii-san... Moka, Saka..."

"Itterasshai," replied the father and uncle.

"Ruka! Rukaa!!! Don't go!!!"

Moka and Saka pulled Ruka's shirt tightly.

Ruka, who was trying to hold back his tears, was no longer strong enough. His trembling hands and his sister's cries made him shed tears too.

"Gomen, Moka, Saka... Let me go..."

"No!!! No!"

Instead of letting go of Ruka, Moka and Saka tightened their grip.

Youka was stunned to release his children from their cousins.

"Moka! Saka!!! Let go of your brother..."

'"NO!!! NO!!! NO WAY WILL RUKA GO AGAIN!!!!!" and their crying intensified.

Naeva herself didn't know what to say now. Really, she wanted to throw Ruka at them instead of this continuing. She had said that even if she didn't get Rokka, she didn't mind. Why is this one race so stubborn to fulfill the contract when the other party is willing to let it go!? Naeva couldn't stop thinking.

What a hassle.

"Should I just freeze them all to make this noise stop?"

Naeva's thoughts began to go to extremes as she was rather annoyed now.

"💢"

"Tsk."

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Someone (who wasn't Naeva) couldn't contain her annoyance any longer.

"Arghh!!! No need to cry like a child left by their mother at market!"

People, "...?"

"That's why I told you! You want me! Why not just let me go!" that girl snapped, breaking atmosphere.

"Don't be so pretentious as to say goodbye if you don't want to go yourself!!!"

Suddenly, all eyes were on her. Mika, who had been rejected by Naeva and stalking her since last Sunday, now decided to stop trying to make Naeva come. Judging by her personality, Naeva was really going to leave now. It wasn't just a bluff.

"Why haven't you given up yet, Mika 💢!?" Raka fumed.

"You can't leave! How many times have I told you!!!" Raka replied firmly. He was sad to let his son go. But he knew, with Naeva as his Master, Ruka would not be in any real danger.

"Be a good girl and go back to your room!" the older brother snapped at his younger sister to the shock of his nieces and nephews.

But it was a different story if it was his sister who left.

Mika was a Rokka who had been targeted by big guilds and important people who knew of her Threadvision. Leaving Rokka Village meant entering the tiger's cage. How could he let his sister walk into such a dangerous place. Especially after all that had happened to Mika.

Mika walked past Raka, deliberately ignoring him. After all, Raka wasn't important. It was better to go straight to her destination.

Once close enough to Ruka, Mika grabbed the boy by the back collar and threw him into Raka's catch.

"Boy, go back to your father."

Ruka, "??????"

Mika's steps stopped right at Naeva. Her hands, which were tightly clenched into fists, began to unravel as her body squatted in front of Naeva.

Raka, Youka, Ruka, Moka and Saka.

"!!?"

Naeva, "......"

By observing Naeva for the past week, Mika already knew very well what Naeva was like, her nature, her desires, her style and her ways. Her previous ways were useless, she should have realized from the start. The person in front of her was the Glacial Princess, the Grand Master, the Teacher of the Grand Families's founding Muses. There was no point in selling out in front of a figure of this level.

Mika felt so stupid for letting her ego and nature control her in front of the Grand Master in first place.

"......."

After taking a deep breath, Mika looked at Naeva straight on, full of confidence.

"Naeva Winter-san... no, Master... Please protect me. Please make me stronger. Please avenge me. Please destroy all my enemies before my friend endangers herself for it."

"In return... I swear not to betray and lie to Master for anything."

Raka and Youka, "!?"

"Don't tell me she will--!"

"I swear I will try to bring you all the information Master wants. I swear I will only be the eyes for Master."

"If information is a sword, then I swear to be Master's sword from now onwards."

"!!!!"

Mika's words surprised everyone. Honestly including Naeva herself.

Raka and Youka immediately sped up to shake their sister.

"You idiot!!! You--!!!"

Raka didn't know what to scold his sister for.

"DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU JUST SAID!!?" He asked angrily and worriedly.

"I know."

Youka, who was always calm, panicked.

"Mika! Of all people... You should be the one who shouldn't say that!!!"

"I know."

Mika knew. What she had just said was the Rokka's Oath. It was a level higher than the Rokka's contract. And the Rokka's Oath could only be said once in a lifetime to one master in their lifetime. If they had already said the oath, even if they were to repeat time, reincarnate, or other mystical things, they had to be loyal and remain loyal to their Master. That's how heavy the Rokka's oath is.

Mika, who was still being shaken by her two older brothers, remained silent with a stern look at them.

"Raka Nii-san, Youka Nii-san. I have decided."

"I did not do this rashly. I've thought about it long enough."

"Other than that butterfly... The information I've gathered so far strongly supports this situation... I have no other choice..." Mika thought.

"That damn butterfly was right. Situation will be worst if I don't go with Grand Master now."

"You can't change or do anything about it," Mika continued firmly.

Raka and Youka, "Mika..."

Still in the grip of her two older brothers, Mika turned to look at Naeva. Her gaze seemed to say,

"Is this what you want?"

Naeva, "....!"

Naeva was a little surprised. How could that kid still maintain her impoliteness even though she knew it was the Grand Master and no one else.

Naeva's chest tingled. It turned out that this kid was much more entertaining than she expected. A satisfied grin was etched on Naeva.

"Pfft..."

"You managed to change my mind, kid."

"!"

Naeva's one-liner snatched the Rokkas' attention away from Mika.

Naeva extended her right hand forward, in a position as if she was holding something large.

"I was going to go straight to the 6th Floor, but since the situation is like this... I'll change my plans."

Something began to appear in the hands of the girl with long snow-white hair. A silver-colored traditional musical instrument with white feathers & flowers and wrapped in a pink ribbon began to reveal its form in an elegant manner. Judging from the design alone, it was obvious that it had great value.

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And that precious object was thrown by Naeva to Mika.

Mika, "!?"

Fortunately, Mika quickly caught it. She panicked as she tried to save the lyra from impact Naeva had caused. Somehow Mika felt deja vu with that situation...

Mika, "This!!?"

Before Mika could ask another question, Naeva explained first.

"You who bleed and know Erato, don't need any explanation about what that thing is, right?"

Without moving a finger, a cold white cloud that Naeva was used to began to form under her feet. Making her float a few centimeters off the surface.

"2 years."

Raka, Youka, Ruka, Moka, Saka and Mika, "???"

"I will postpone my departure for two years," Naeva said still in her calm expression.

Naeva slowly raised the cloud and prepared to launch somewhere.

"Prepare yourself quickly."

"Then go down to bottom."

Mika was confused, "Eh? Huh?"

"Hah???"

Naeva turned her gaze in another direction. Instead of teleporting to a point near the Tower Elevator Building. Naeva instead intended to fly down to the bottom of the 5th Floor ravine.

"You are now unworthy to call me 'Master'."

"Come down and practice using that thing from me for 2 years. If you meet my standards, you can follow me," Naeva said before she was never seen again in Rokka Village.

That's good.

Whatever the outcome, Naeva would be satisfied with this.

After all, from the beginning she needed a serva-- ekhm, needed someone of Erato blood to play that Lyra.

Naeva had no idea how long it had been since Erato had last played a genetically mixed barrier tone using Lyra Erato. Judging from Mika's age, Lyra Erato was last played several centuries ago. Before more trouble was created by Erato's half-blood birth, Naeva needed an Erato-blood child to regularly play it again, like their ancestors.

Luckily, she found one right away.