I look at the young silhouette that's sitting on the bench next to the young me. We are on a playground, many other kids are playing here.
"This weird dream again?"
"My brain is fucking with me, creating those damn dreams that have this person in them..."
"Hey, Shoo~" The Silhouette nudged my shoulder softly.
"What, now?" I asked, rolling my eyes at them.
"Remember that if you're sad, or troubled..."
"You will always have me in your reach, okay?" They said kindly.
"After all, I will always be there, protecting you from somewhere, you know?" They added, taking my hands in theirs.
"...Yeah..." I muttered under my nose.
The memory shatters and I sight deeply.
"I don't remember who it was, but whoever they were... they were giving some promises that are pulled straight out of their ass."
Everything goes dark and I wake up, lying on some bed. I roll to the side, and then I see a beautiful black-haired girl with silver eyes staring at me.
"Oh? Who are you? Why are we in the same bed?" I ask curiously, sensing that something is wrong.
As I'm waiting for her response, I touch my nose noticing that it's not broken anymore.
"Oh... it seems that Sebas has poured some of what fucking water while I was sleeping... ehh... at least the bruises are gone, after all,l he beat me up real bad.'
"Wanna get freaky, Shoji-kun?" She grabs my chin, leaning closer towards me, her empty eyes staring at my soul.
"Oh... I think that I know what's going on..."
I look under the blanket, and then back at her.
"There's no tension here... there's no way that a cute black-haired chick, totally my type in the same bed wouldn't fucking turn me on... unless... it's not a real girl!"
I grab her by the shoulders and I shake her lightly.
"Why are you doing this to me, Oozarith?!" I ask loudly in frustration, shaking her.
"Oh. You got Oozarith, Shoji." Oozarith says with no emotion in her voice.
"But that doesn't stop us from doing anything, right?" She leans in even closer.
"After all... master ordered Oozarith to please you so here Oozarith is." She wraps her arms around my neck, pushing her chest into mine.
"So how do you like them, Shoji? D or E, huh?" She taps my chest softly and pulls the blanket on her head.
"Why the hell you care, huh?! Just get off me, or I'll throw you off this bed!"
"Just think of me as a real girl, it'll work, I can even fill the curves even more if you want, Shoji-kun." She lies her ear against my chest.
"It's not like Oozarith cannot be a girl anyways, Oozarith is whatever its master wants it to be."
"So just imagine it, Shoji-kun, and then I'll do the rest." She kisses my stomach, getting lower and lower each second.
I close my eyes.
"Whatever! Girl is a girl! Tho I can't believe... it'll be my first time... and it will take place in a damn church!" I softly grab her head, accepting what's about to come, or who's about to come.
I feel my pants being slowly pulled off.
The blanket falls off her, leaving us exposed.
Suddenly someone opens the door and turns the lights on.
"What the hell, Shoji?!" Haruki screams in surprise.
"Huh?" I open my eyes, seeing him standing before me.
"Oh... uhh... it's just Oo-..." I look down and I notice that Oozarith is gone, and my hand is on my crotch. My eyes widen in embarrassment.
"IT'S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, I SWEAR TO GOD!" I say loudly in desperation, waving my hands dismissingly.
"Shoji! Why here?! Why are you doing this in a damn church out of all the places you! Couldn't you just hold it for at least one more day, or try to do it in secret, not like this!" He says in disappointment and disgusted.
"IT WAS OOZARITH! I SWEAR! IT TURNED INTO A HOTTIE AND WANTED TO DO IT! I SWEAR TO GOD! BELIEVE ME, HARUKI!"
"Yeah, of course! But you wanna hear a fun fact?! Oozarith cannot leave the ring unless I allow it to! We are bound by a master-servant Pact, or as you guys like to call it "Compelling Pact", so it's impossible for it to leave without me allowing it too!"
"I SWEAR TO GOD FOR THE THIRD TIME THAT I'M TELLING THE TRUTH, BELIEVE IN ME HARUKI!"
Sebas walks into the room, a look of anger and annoyance on his face.
"You two won't let me sleep, huh?! I wanted to let you two rest after this training, especially you, Shoji... but seeing you two soo active in the middle of the night must mean one thing~!..."
"Oh no no no please!" We both plead at the same time.
"...You two must be eager for the second part of the training, right~?" He says, his voice playful, but also has a hint of sadism in it.
And so we end up hanging upside down with our legs tied to the ceiling with no way of escaping.
Sebastian is sitting on a chair that's in front of us.
Haruki looks over at me with a frown on his face.
"All your fault, Shoji!"
"I've told you tha-..."
"Ka Mida" Suddenly water appears on our faces, cutting our ability to breathe off.
We both start to mumble as the Priest starts speaking.
"This training will be slightly harder than the previous one, tho I think that you two will do it."
"It's harder because there's a countdown to the end of your lives, how? Oh, it's very simple! Organs start to struggle after one hour of hanging upside down, and the consequences are just getting worse and worse."
The water disappears as he flicks his fingers and the both of us can finally catch some air.
"This is a fucking torture, Sebas!" I scream at him.
"Get us down! We will either drown or die from brain damage! Please, father!" Haruki pleads.
"How can you even call yourself a priest, you mother fucker!" I struggle even more.
Sebastian just sighs softly. "Ka Katr."
Suddenly many small cuts start to appear on our bodies, some hurt less, some hurt more.
"The hell?!" Haruki gasps.
"The fuck is goi-..."
"That's enough time to catch a breath, Ka Mida." The water appears on our faces yet again.
"The point of this training is for you two to concentrate your Vymir around your bodies to create an aura that can deconstruct low-tier spells, or natural phenomena, making them inefficient, or neutralize them."
"I will begin with covering your mouths and noses for thirty seconds, and I will give you thirty seconds of being cut afterward to keep the two of you awake."
"Of course, I'll increase the time "underwater", decrease the "break time" and increase the duration of the cuts with time, so if you two won't learn it quickly, then you'll be constantly cut, even when being "underwater"."
"This guy... this fucking priest is insane! What the fuck is going on today, huh?! I thought that I will fucking dip in the sauce today, but it all turned into torture very quickly!"
"After 10 minutes you two will start having a headache and your backs will also be in pain."
"After 30 minutes of hanging upside down you, two will start to feel nauseous and struggle to breathe in the "break time"."
"After around 45 minutes your blood pressure will rise to dangerous levels, retinal detachment may also occur."
"After 1 hour organs will start to struggle, just like I said earlier."
"And after two hours there will be high chances of: brain damage, loss of vision, nerve damage, and many more, but the point is that you two will surely die."
"So, what can I say?"
"Good luck~."
The water disappears and we both struggle to breathe yet again. "Ka Katr." We are starting to get cut yet again.
"You... fucker... how... did... you... even... become... a... priest...?...!" I ask loudly, trying to catch some air.
"Ouch... ouch... ouch..." Haruki eeks and looks over at me. "How come you have so much pain tolerance, Shoji?! It's like needles are constantly inserted into your body!"
I roll my eyes at him. "I guess you're just more sensitive than me, it's nothing bad!"
"Ka Mida."
The water appears again and I start to struggle even more.
Sebas walks over to a turntable and turns it on. I immediately recognized this song, it's nothing other than Mozart's Magic Flute, which will accompany us for the next rounds of the "training".
After 30 minutes we're still hanging there, the music is still playing, but we're both starting to finally get a grasp on it.
We've already manifested the aura, but it doesn't seem to do anything right now, because it just blends in with the water.
Both of us are in a lot of pain and our bodies are bloody, just like if we were walking in between thorns because the new cuts landed on the old ones.
In the past 30 minutes we've been "pulled underwater" about 20 times, but the "break time" was shortened so much that it's only 5 seconds now.
I close my eyes as I hold my breath, flinching from the pain, feeling nauseous and sick.
"How the fuck do I neutralize water with my "aura"?! It's fucking insane... Think Shoji think!"
"If you won't think of anything right now then we both will die! I'm so fucking stupid! Oh my god! In some time, we won't even be able to get oxygen..."
"Wait...? Oxygen?"
"Water..."
"Two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atom..."
"He said... "The point of this training is for you two to concentrate your Vymir around your bodies to create an aura that can deconstruct low-tier spells, or natural phenomena, making them inefficient, or neutralize them." That fucking priest! He tricked us! He could've just said it straight away!"
Suddenly the water disappears and I scream to Haruki, screaming those words as fast as I can.
"HARUKI, H₂ + O! RECONSTRUCT THE SPELL BY TAKING AWAY THE TWO ATOMS OF HYDROG-..."
Sebastian gasps in surprise and amazement.
"Ka Mida!" He says loudly and the water appears on our faces yet again, but it's too late because Haruki already knows the answer.
"Imagine it... Nakamura Shoji... two atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen in my purple aura... now reach your hand towards the Hydrogens... and rip them out!" I rip the Hydrogens out of my aura.
I take a deep breath, finally having good access to the oxygen.
"Shoj! We can finally breathe! It was a hell of a torture! We can finally go to sleep now haha~" Haruki says with a wide smile on his face, tears of happiness dropping from his forehead.
"Yeah!"
"Shit... this feels amazing... the water is still there... but only partially... the aura separates me from the water, preventing it from affecting me..."
"You two... have done that that fast?!" The priest screams in amazement.
"Yeah, fuck we did! So take us off, you motherfucker!" I scream at the priest.
Sebastian bursts out laughing as if he's held this laughter since WW2.
"I never said anything about taking you two off, right~?"
"SEBAS! YOU FUCKING PRIEST! TAKE US OFF AND TURN THE FUCKING CUTTING SPELL OFF! DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW FUCKING MUCH IT EVEN HURTS?!" I scream at him with frustration and annoyance.
"He's right, Father! Please! I don't want to die or anything... please... just stop saying this stupid incantation!" Haruki pleads.
"Incantation?" I immediately recall how Sebastian told me that I could cast a spell I'd never seen or come across. "He's right... back then I cast the Yano spell, tho I didn't even know it existed... I mean... I've just remembered the names Hilo, Yano, Mida, and the others... so maybe... just maybe..." I look at the rope that's tied to my legs.
"Ka Katr...?" The magical string appears before my eyes, but this time it's cyan.
I spiritually press the string in the middle of it and then I fall onto the ground.
"Ouch...!"
Sebas smiles and starts to clap as he slowly stands up from the chair. He walks over to the turntable and stops the music.
"Ka Katr." He says softly and Haruki fallston the ground.
"Ouch! My head!" Haruki says while rubbing the back of his head.
"You two have passed this training, and the time is amazing."
"Huh? What do you mean, Father?" Haruki asks curiously.
"Huh? Isn't he angry? This fucking excuse of a priest just hanged us upside down for half an hour!"
"Well, you see, Haruki. You two are learning everything very fast, even faster than my first student who is a holy knight now, on a mission in Europe." Sebas says with a smile on his face.
"You two can go to your beds or something."
"Fuck yo,." I say loudly.
"Shoji!" Haruki looks at me.
"What?! He just hung us upside down!" I say in frustration.
"We agreed to be his students, and this is the training you wanted!"
"Fuck you too, Haruki."
"You haven't even thanked me for figuring out the aura thingy...!" I say with even more frustration.
"Okay, okay! Thank you, Shoji!"
"Now you can go fuck yourself Haruki! I'm now going to the room, to think about girls so don't bother my ass!" I leave the room.
Haruki gives Sebastian a slight bow of embarrassment.
"I'm sorry for him, Father." He says softly.
"No, it's okay, after all, I was like him when I was his age." Sebas smiles.