Hi~ it's Nanashikun with the new chapter... To tell the truth, I did not like this chapter that much because the time skip was kinda hard for me... By the way, I like to declare myself as a fan of Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear, I even changed my profile pic to kuma bear novel cover and changed my title to kuma lover...
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-Takasugi’s Mansion, Hachi-gatsu 1, 7567-
~Momoe’s P.o.V~
Hi~Hi~ it's me Momoe! It's been three year since the bandit attack, time sure flies, huh? Now that I think about it, I never really explained the month and the season of this world, did I? First, there are 80 minutes in an hour, 30 hours in a day, 48 days in a month, and 10 months in a year. Not like in Earth, this word doesn't have things like days of the week. So it's never, Monday 10th of whatever month but simply day and a month. The months are Ichi(1), Ni(2), San(3), Shi(4), Go(5), Roku(6), Shichi(7), Hachi(8), Ku(9), and Juu(10) with gatsu placed in the end. It's pretty much the number of the month plus the word month if you translated but it sounds cooler, right?
Not a lot happened since the day I fought the thieves and freed the slaves. It was mostly training, training, and training… Brrr… I even had nightmares in which I was training. Is it just me or did the training become more intense after that day… Meh, must be my imagination I guess.
Last year, Oneesama and I entered our first dungeon, of course we stopped around tenth floor of a hundred floored dungeon. I mean we were five years old, and we actually almost died on the ninth floor… *grumble, grumble*, stupid traps…
Oh why am I referring Oneesama as Oneesama? Well, isn't it obvious since from the time I made the oath, I became her faithful weapon, so I must show my due respect. It's totally not because I like to call her Oneesama, or want her to own me… It just feels natural to call my mast… *cough* hahaha, I am going off tangent!
We celebrated Oneesama’s birthday on 12th day of San-gatsu. Since its her sixth birthday, which is special because you start attending school when you are six years old and graduate when you turn 16 years old, we had a big celebration to congratulate her. We had lessons in noble etiquettes last few years and learned how to dance. So during Oneesama’s birthday, we danced together.
I kinda caused a commotion during the present opening ceremony… I gave her a matching bracelets so that the both of us can wear it and also a necklace with a turquoise gemstone in the pendant of it. After she opened the present, she smiled delighted with her present. She gave me a big hug and thanked me… And then I spilled the bean about me becoming her Valkyrie…
It went sort of like this:
-flashback-
“Ahem, may I have all your attention ladies and gentlemen, Nyah?”(me)
The room became silent as everyone shifted their gaze to me. Even though it was a big celebration, the only guest present are Kaya-San and her son, the demon lord sensei, several trusted servants who knows about our blessings, and our parents.
“Three years ago, after I fought the thieves I made an oath to myself to protect Oneechan, Nyah. When I promised myself to protect her with my life, I received the new title… It is call True Ancestor’s Valkyrie, Nyah. From now on, I would like to serve Oneechan as her faithful sword and shield, and protect her against anything that might harm her in anyways, Nyah. That's all I wanted to say, Nyah…”
The room stayed silent with no one making any sound or moving… Did I mess up? Was I too straight forward?
“Buhahaha, I had a feeling this was going to happen, but it's sooner than I originally thought. You have my support, little one, make me and your parents proud by protecting her!”(Sensei)
My parents still did not speak, they seem to be deep in thought while looking between Oneechan and me. After what it seems like ages, they came to a conclusion.
“If that's what you believe is the correct path for you, Momoe, than we will support you to your path. From today and onward, Momoe Takasugi is to be Arisu Takasugi’s personal guard. However, I will not have anyone treat Momoe as a servant but still as my daughter… Will this be enough sweetie?”(Otosan)
“Yes, thank you papa, I will always stay by Oneechan’s side and protect her with my life, Nyah.”(me)
“But still dear, try not to be to diligent. You will need time to find a boy you love, marry him and have kids too. I want to see grandchildren soon.”
Ooo..Okasan! That is not something you should be telling a five year old to do. It's too early for marriage and I'm still kid. Also, don't you still look like a teenager?! Don't expect any kid from me so soon… I meant don't expect ANY kids from me!
This is something I must firmly stand up to, since I am now her Valkyrie, I cannot call her so casually. Otherwise, this won't be a relationship between a master and her weapon. I am her sword and shield, I should have started to show my respect toward the person I was bounded by oath but did not do so until now. That is already unforgivable as it is and I do not wish to shame Oneesama even more.
-flashback ends-
Thus Oneesama chose to be called Oneesama and I officially became her guardian. Now a days, I always sleep with Oneesama in her bedroom and guard her from there… What, I already have been doing that?... I.. Um……. I am just making sure she isn't kidnapped or assassinated during her sleep, it's totally not because of how I like being spoiled in bed with hugs and petting…
I want off tangent for a little while, let's go back to talking about Sensei’s strenuous teaching methods… Now that I think about it, I think he did make things harder for us after that day three years ago! Yup… It's totally not like I'm changing the subject or anything…
Last three years, that monster decided to truly show his color, waking us up in the middle of the night for drills, putting on gravity changing bracelet to increase our weights, tying our hands and legs and throwing us in to a lake to make us swim without our arms and legs, so on and so forth. Drill after drill, we practically had no rest, while that demon(literally) drank tea and did his ‘Buhahaha’ laugh. I think my mind would have been snapped in half if I was alone, but because Oneesama was always with me, I was able to pull through it. That guy did not train us at all, it was more like a torturing than training with all those hellish tasks.
Anyways, today is the day our training finally ends! Hahaha, no more of your stupidly planned out training that normal people can't finish, ya stupid sensei!
(me)
Wait! Oneesama! That hurts! I'm happy to hear her say “my Valkyrie”, but the way she refers it, it sounds like I'm a single minded killing machine! Ow! Ow! Ow! Oneesama why are you stretching my cheeks even harder?!
“Nyah! Ooommiiishhamyah, thyatt herrtsss.” Ah… I can't even speak properly while she is stretching my cheeks. She is still smiling, but why is her hands viciously working against my cheeks. Did Oneesama kept some kind of grudge against me? She must see that my eyes are starting to swell with tears…
She giggled while pulling my cheeks for several more seconds. My cheeks are numb from all those merciless attacks from Oneesama. I start to cry a little since even with the mentality of a high schooler, I'm still only five years old. After she lets her vice grip go, she hugs with tightly and scratched behind my ear and the bottom of my chin in turns. Purrrr… Wait why was I crying again?.... Meh, I forget…
Yup, that's Oneesama, she knows exactly what I want to do. I haven't been able to read much since we started training and lie down on oneesama’s lap… I mean it's not necessary to lie on her lap but…it's comfortable… I'm just guarding her lap from perverts! I'm not doing this out of my spoiled nature!
Tomorrow, we are heading toward the magic academy to take the entrance exam, which consists of written and practical tests. It probably won't be much of a problem for the either of us since I read lots of books on every subjects in our library and Arisu-Oneesama listened to what I read through telepathy. Who said we can't use telepathy to read books together. And if in the worst situation, Oneesama can contact me to ask a question. As for the practical proportion, they just want to see your capability to place you in the right class.
The classes are ranked from F to S with the F at the bottom and S being the highest. The S class consists of only five best students and they function as the student council for their years. Anyone, as long as they could surpass the one of the “elite 5”, they could become one of the student of S class and gain the title of student council. Top first becomes the president, second place gain the title of vice-president. The other three gets the seat called secretary, treasurer, and disciplinary committee in order from the top to bottom. Every noble children aims for the top and spend time training and learning from tutors. As for us, we did get training, a monstrous one at that. Father taught us blood magic, strange since I'm not a vampire but the blessing allows me to learn them… and we had tutors come into teach us advance spell we have affinity to. Oneesama had more free times than me at first because she has affinities only in fire, dark and blood magics while I had affinities in all magic. Obviously we couldn't find a teacher for all affinities for me but I manage to learn from a priest to level up my light magic and tutors of basic magic system came an taught me. So four tutors, one priest, father, and Maou sensei taught me all they can. Of course I don't remember who my tutors were since they came in like the wind, taught me and disappeared again… As for Oneesama, she, asked to have weapons tutors. Right now she can use almost every weapons I can name, spears, swords, knives, hammers, bow&arrows, bow gun, lance, so on and so forth. While I mastered my magic, Oneesama completed surpassed me in weapon combat and she could beat me nine time out of ten… I'm sorry I lied, she can beat me ten out of ten. *sniff* even though I'm supposed to protect her…
During the past three years, I actually leveled up quiet a bit. I leveled up around ten times!
Here are my stats:
Name:Takasugi MomoeLevel:17Race:Cat-kinAge:6HP:92MP:278STR:46Def:37INT:102WIS:97DEX:70Charm:34Skills:
Kitty Talk: (passive) (Curse)
Fire Magic: (Level 5)
-Fire ball
-Fire bullet
-Fire breath
-Flame armor
Water Magic: (Level 5)
-Water ball
-Water bullet
Wind Magic: (Level 5)
-Sonic blade
-Levitate
-Tornado
EarthMagic: (Level 5)
-Earth cage
-Rock slide
-Rock spear
Enhancement Magic: (Level 4)
-Herculean strength
-Detect
-Appraisal
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-Iron defense
-Song of calm mind
Light Magic: (Level 4)
-Heal
-Purify
-High Heal
-Angel’s aura
Mana Manipulation: (level 3)
Dark Magic: (level 4)
-Shadow ball
-Nightmare
-Shadow Walk
Ice Magic: (level 4)
-Ice spear
-Freezing wind
-Hail storm
Blood magic: (level 3)
-Absorption
-Blood rain
Bloodlust: (level 3)(Passive)
Photographic Memory(Passive)
Chant less casting(passive)Titles:
Bizarre Genius
True Siscon
Disciple of Maou
Merciless One
True Ancestor’s Valkyrie
Archmage:
You have finally reached a level to be able to proudly call yourself an archmage. This title can only be given to those with greater blessing from the goddess of magic and have at least 70 points in intelligence.
New skill: Photographic Memory
20 plus in intelligence
20 plus in wisdom
Level 17 might seem not much but I have actually went passed the level of average adult human villagers. Then again, if you are trained by a crazy demon lord teacher, then I guess this is expected. According to Oneesama, her level went up to 16. Only a small gap is in between us.
As for the new spells I learned are mostly higher level healing spells, and some dark magic spells. Purify can lift most curses, apparently, I know this because I tried to lift the kitty talk curse and failed miserably…
High heal can mend bones, close wounds, and with enough mana, it can regrow limbs! I personally can't regrow them because it takes at least 100,000 mana points to regrow a full limb. At most, I can manage a tip of a finger with my mana reserves.
Angel’s aura is an AoE magic that can heal my allies within 10 meter range with me in the center of the spell.
Shadow walk, or rather I prefer to call it shadow teleportation, allows me to transport myself and one other person to places I have been to. Only drawback is that this spell can only be used during night time or in complete darkness.
Nightmare, even though it sounds like a spell to put someone to sleep and give them nightmares but actually… it's a horse… It's a spell in which I can form a horse using mana thus called night mare. This one doesn't really have restriction and is quiet useful. After using mana to form the horse, it only takes 1 point of mana an hour to maintain it and compared to a regular horse, it's twice as fast and doesn't get tired.
Absorption from the blood magic system allows me to drink blood to gain health and mana back, but... I rather not drink blood unless I really have to.
Blood rain is... blood rain... It's a spell that let user summon a cloud full of bloody rain. It's suppose to be a support spell to help ally vampire and instill fear into non-vampires.
So far I wasn't able to learn many useful blood magic spells because of my low level.
In addition to all my spells, I was able to obtain a new skill due to my rise in intelligence and my endless hunger for knowledge. Even so, not everyone with high intelligence can get it since I am a special case compared to others. Because of my blessing and title, I gained the skill. Yet, I still do not consider myself as an archmage yet because I still have not reached my goal. It's just a title.
While I was explaining to my imaginary audience, Oneesama led me toward somewhere that might be the way to the library(?). Even after all those years living in this mansion, I still can't find my way except toward Oneesama’s room and the library. So why do I not know if we are heading toward the library? Well, the books call for me to come and read them… Not really… It's just after I wander around for a while, I can find the two huge double door leading to the library.
““Surprise!””(???)
Huh?! What's going on here?! This isn't the library, is it? I take a look around my surrounding. It's a beautifully decorated hall with a long elegant dinner table and two dozen luxurious chairs made from white ivory. The ceiling has five chandeliers in total hanging in straight line with light mana crystals hanging down with shining light. Wait… This is the dining room, and sensei, Okasan, Otosan, Kaya-San and Kei-kun, and some of the servants are here.
“Nyah?!”(me)
I'm dumbfounded by this scene in front of me with everyone smiling and throwing confetti at my direction. What day is it today?
““HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOMOE!””(everyone)
Ahhh, today is my birthday… Really, this is too much ya know… *sniff* I have always been a loner back in my old world until I met Oneesama as Leah. I never cared to remember my birthday back then but Leah always managed to remember it and celebrate it with me…. This is heartwarming…
Oneesama hugged me in her arms while smiling. Now that I think about it, she is at least a foot foot taller than me, will I always be smaller than her?
“I guess Arisu was right when she told us that you probably forgot your birthday. You know, your Oneesama has been preparing this for several days now and took charge of every single thing. Haha, I never heard Arisu talk as much as she did during that past few days.”(Otosan)
So Oneesama, prepared the whole thing?! She even talked to everyone to plan for my birthday even though she is uncomfortable with talking to others. I put my arms around her and gave her a big bear hug.(author’s note: aww… I want a bear huggy too)
“Thank you so much! Oneesama, Nyah!”(Me).
“It's not a problem Mochi, anything for my precious imouto.”(Oneesama)
… Why is everyone silent?
“Eh?! Arisu spoke fluently!”(Okasan)
“That was probably the first time I heard her speak a full sentence…”(Otosan)
“Umm… Mommy, daddy? When you said Oneechan talked, how much did she talk.?”(Me)
“Well, at most it was six words? It wasn't fluent like just now, and it was stiff, but she did talk more than usual three words…”(Otosan)
Hah~ I thought so, there was no way Oneesama would start speaking naturally after all those years… But to speak out for my sake, I'm so happy she did.
(Oneesama)
What else can I ask from my reverend Oneesama, she is the best.
“Okay, let's not think too much about this, buhahaha, let the birthday girl open her presents!”(Sensei).
“Yes! Of course!”(Okasan)
Forgetting the unusual atmosphere made after Oneesama spoke up, several different present box were brought in by the servants. Okasan and Otosan grabbed one of the box and presented to me.
“This is from your mommy and daddy, I hope will have good use for it.”(Otosan)
The box was elegantly wrapped in golden paper and red ribbon held it tightly together. I carefully undid the ribbon and took off the wrapper. Inside was a book, but it was any boring book, it was a grimoire. I opened the book and noticed it was empty. I'm guessing the blank pages are for me to write my own magic research materials and magic circle designs, which I already keep in a stack of paper. But to be able to write it in a book, that would make organization easier.
“Try dropping your blood on the silver plate on the bottom.”(Otosan)
I closed my book and carefully looked at the design. The book was kinda old styled with dark green covers, a lock to keep it closed, and as Otosan mentioned, a rectangular silver plate at the bottom.
I took out a hidden knife from my sleeve, and cut one of my finger and smeared my blood on to the book. I learned how to conceal knives in my sleeves from Maou sensei and it became of habit for me to always carry it around with me. You never know when you are going to be attacked.
When I smeared my blood, I felt some of my mana leave my body and the book started to glow. Light blue aura covered the book for several second while golden letter started to inscribe itself on to the book. It wrote, Momoe’s Grimoire. I used appraisal skill to check what this was about.
[table][t4]Momoe’s Grimoire: (Rank: Sigma)
Magical grimoire evolved into sigma rank after absorbing the knowledge and mana from Archmage Momoe Takasugi. This book has complete compilation of knowledge both in original spells and effects. The lock is enchanted with magic to only allow Momoe and people she allows to open them. The text inside the grimoire also needs the same requirement in order to read.
Function:
-Whenever new magic is developed, it is automatically recorded in here
-Mana reserves, allows the holder to take in mana from the grimoire, store 4000 mp, restores fully every four hours by absorbing surrounding mana.
-Using spells while opening the grimoire decrease mana consumption rate.
Original state: (Rank Alpha blank grimoire)
Owner:(Momoe Takasugi)[/td4]Sigma rank grimoire! This is crazy, this book is at the level of kingdom treasure… Then again, this used to be an alpha rank grimoire before became the owner of it.
“Let's see how much the grimoire changed, it supposed to be an alpha rank item but after the blood binding is done, most down grades do to lack of knowledge… Hmmm… Wow! A sigma ranked grimoire! That's my student, buhahaha, what I tell you Yukari and Kakuei! I said you'd be surprised at the level the grimoire will be raised to!”(Sensei)
“…. Sigma ranked… grimoire… My daughter… Owner of sigma rank magic book?...”(Okasan)
“I did expect something off from common sense but, sigma rank… Momoe, please try not to let other steal it, it would be disastrous in the wrong hands.”(Otosan)
“Hah~ I'm not even surprised anymore, if I drop my jaw one more time because of you or your older sister, I might die early…”(Kaya-San)
“Congratulations, Momoe-chan!”(Kei-Kun)
“Kakuei, there is no need to worry about it becoming stolen since the book is blood bound to her and she can summon it to her side anytime. In addition, only Momoe and those she allows can read it. There is no one powerful enough in this world, except the deity beings who could read the grimoire without momoe’s permission. And deity of this world wouldn't mess around themselves nor would have interest in sigma rank item. Anyways open my present next!”(Maou sensei)
Grabbing what appears to be a long box he presented to me. I eyed the long rectangular with deep suspicion. I remember what sensei gave Oneesama six months ago. It was a sword called “Bloody Rain Bringer” a sigma ranked sword. Sounds awesome right? There is a downside to the sword… It's cursed and it becomes part of your soul… What kind of idiotic teacher would fuse a sword into a six year old child's soul? Where the heck did he even find such a dangerous weapon that fuse to the soul. You can't even get rid of it after your body dies…
When I asked where he got the sword, he just laughed his “buhahaha” and walked away…
I opened the box, an inside was a beautifully decorated staff made of wood similar to white pine. The staff was carved with dragon claw-like design to hold a large black orb that has dark smoke swirling inside it. Right below the orb is dragon wing made from steel, which Kinda look like a blade for the sickle. The bottom of the staff had blue crystal attached.
This staff is wicked, I have a very bad feeling about this.
“Just pick up the staff, it won't bite ya!”(Sensei)
Easy for you to say! I can't even appraise this staff which also happened when I tried to appraise Oneesama’s terrifying sword. Instead of arguing, I picked up the staff, since it was a present.
When I brought the staff toward me, a painful sensation ran through me as my soul began to fuse with my soul, the sheering pain burned me intensely and I clutched the staff tighter and fell on my knees due to pain.
After what it seems to be forever, the staff disappeared inside my soul.
“Hmm… So even she successfully contract the weapon without being devoured…. Interesting…”(Sensei)
Wait?! He just whispered something to himself, what is he planning?!
Well, whatever…
Oneesama brings out a box around 3 feet tall and 3 feet wide… Oneesama, what is in this box?!
I cautiously opened the box and Inside was…