《Return of The lazy immortal》 Prologue "KYAHHHHH! " a loud shriek pierced through the deafening silence of the night. On his knees, Taru looked at his chest. A gaping hole was at the place where his heart was guess to be all the way until his back and gushing blood like a fountain. Around him his three friends were in chaos. Akira was looking at him, more precisely at his chest in horror, collapsed powerlessly on the ground like a puppet with its threads cut all while yelling to the devil. Taru even wondered where she got the air to scream like this without breathing. Chihiro was desperately trying to stop the flowing blood from his wound while crying and begging him not to die, she was at the edge of mental breakdown. And ahead of them, Daisuke was bitterly gritting his teeth while taking a combat stance against the being at the origine of this situation. Looking at all of that, taru could only think one thing: "what a pain."
The first word that would come to the mind of anyone looking at this thing was ''disgusting''. A repulsion that originated from the very soul. A fear that freeze the heart and break the mind. The simple fact the Daisuke was still standing while looking at it would surprise anyone that knows of this thing. A body that looked like a big dog about 2 meters with insects limbs breaking randomly from all sides. The head looked like a crushed deer with black maggots crawling in every of its orifices. The worst were the horrifying scream that it produced, like it contained the tortured souls of hundreds of peoples. This creature, this nighmare was the ennemis of mankind, the opponent of in war of more than a millions years. And most importantly, a being that was guess to never be able to come to this place. As for how this situation come to be, one had to go back to about thirty minutes to understand. The day was ending similarly to so many others. The students of high school subarashi were had already deserted the school leaving behind the fours members of the sudents council, late to depart due to the growing pile of paper work from the oncoming sport festival. "Aaahh." In the silence of the noon a sigh resounded in the almost empty streets alongside the sound of steps. Walking slowly, almost dragging the feet among the fours students walking was a eyes catching young man. Standing at roughly 180cm with an the thick grey school jacket to prevent the autumn cold, white shirt with a red tie and white pants. He would already stand apart but what would undoubtedly attract the eyes would be the snow white messy hairs atop his head next would be the ice blue eyes seemingly able to freeze the blood of these that look into them. Finally one would realize that these eyes were at there place on the decisively handsome face without any blemishes of the boy. Though at this moment this face was making a tired frown and these eyes half closed in a expression of weariness. "Why does it have to be us to organize the sport festival again?" He asked with a smooth baritone voice with a touch of annoyance. "Because we are the student council and that the teachers are already understaffed with the disappearance of professor nakamura." Came the quick answer from the girl at his right in a well practiced tone, as if they has already had this conversation a thousand times. She was almost a head shorter as him at 172cm which was tall for a woman with a good figure hidden by the same school uniform and a white skirt, with a lovely round face, pleasant brown eyes and a charming little smile. Her black hair coming to her shoulders in a ponytail tied by a formed a sharp contrast with the boy own snow white hairs making them look like a fairytale couple. A couple of steps behind them a boy and a girl followed with amused smile on their faces. The boy was pleasing face with the standard asian black hairs and eyes standar, his toned muscles were visible through his uniform. coupled with his more than 190 cm he cut a intimidating figure. Contrasting him the girl give the feeling of a small animal making other want to protect her. At 165cm she was easily the smallest of the group, however the bulge on her chest was a definite proof of her age. A nest of brown hairs and lively blue eyes accompanied her little round face, looking at the couple before her with a warm smile. "Give it up taru. You lost the moment you accepted to come to the student council with us." Come said the boy with a grin. "Who agree to this?! You guy annoyed me for a week nonstop and threatened my naps until I agreed! " snapped back taru while glaring at the boy behind him. "Mah isn''t it a given that you''d help your girlfriend and best friends if they decide to be the council? Chihiro was really looking forward to working with you this year." Replied the boy totally unconcerned by the glare. "And if we hadn''t done that you''d have spend your first year as a high school boy between the school and your home. We stopped you from wasting your youth." He finished by adding a thumb up andoing flashing a smile. "Daisuke... do you want a beating?" Murmured taru with a deep voice. Daisuke paled a little and begged with the hands up and a trembling smile: "please forgive me." "Don''t be like that taru. It''s true that we finished late, but at least we are having fun together, right?" Just then the petite girl beside Daisuke talked, ending her words with a blinding smile. "... I really don''t see what you like in this fool, hikaru." Faced with the saintly smile of hikaru, taru lost all his anger replaced by exhaustion and replied without strength. Chihiro looked at this exchange while chuckling and said: "probably the same thing I saw from you, after all you are brothers right." "Please, there''s as much kinship between us as there is between a Shonen manga and a marvel bd." Replied taru with a snort. "Isn''t it the same thing?" Asked Daisuke while tilting his head. Taru pointed at him and said to Chihiro with a disgusted voice:"see what I mean?" He continued while shaking his head "I have stopped considering him like a cousin the day they took me from the orphanage and presented him to me and I leaned that he liked ninja turtle over naruto." In response to this Chihiro settled for laughing, soon followed by hikaru and Daisuke. Taru looked at them with a annoyed look though the little smile on his lips betrayed his own amusement. Like that the walked toward their home while fooling around. It was like any other day, a ordinary afternoon. But strangely the darkness that fell on them after the sun totally want over the horizon was abnormally thick, such that the light from the moon and the floor lamps was just as for them to barely see their surroundings. After a quick look around the brow of taru slowly furrowed and an incredibly bothered look flashed on his face. Meanwhile the other three become as well aware of the abnormal situation. "We are walking since a while now shouldn''t we already be at our neighborhood?" Questioned Daisuke while observing his surroundings. "True, also this obscurity is somewhat strange don''t you think ?" Murmured Chihiro while looking at the darkness with furrowed brows. Hikaru who was also staring in the dark shivered and whispered "something is not right." Meanwhile taru was looking at it all with the mother of all the bothered face. Just then a sinister growl made the presence of another being know to the four as what could only be called an abomination walked out of the shadows. The beast looked at them with eyes filled with madness and malice prompting the three to spontaneously step back. "What the fuck is this !?" Yelled Daisuke staring at the monster trying to hide hikaru behind his back while shaking. Her voice quivering Chihiro said urgently "fo-for now let''s run!" "Taru!" Yelled hikaru white as a sheet as taru slowly approached the thing. Mysteriously instead of attacking like anyone would think, it was slowly stepping back from him while weakly growling , as if he was something dangerous. Without having noted this due to being full of anxiety, Chihiro took a peeble on the road and thrower it on the beast with a yell, hoping to scare it away from her boyfriend. Surprised by the hit the thing looked towards Chihiro as if only now noting her presence and it madness immediately overpowered it''s fear of the strange man before it. It instantly threw one of its disfigured limbs toward her at a speed imperceptible to normal people. Being a common high school girl, She had zero chance of detecting the strike , let alone dodging. The limb split the air with a sound attesting of its power, if it hit her she would undoubtedly explode in a shower of blood and grim. That is, if it hit her. Quicker then naturally possible taru appeared before Chihiro, embraced her while simultaneously jumping away from the strike. Still he was hit in the back, the force piecing all the way through his torso.only because he positioned her away from hit did Chihiro escape from it. They both landed there meters away from the thing before the panicked Daisuke and hikaru. All this took place in a single seconde, by the time she got ahold of herself Chihiro found herself in the arms of her boyfriend who was coughing blood and bleeding from a hole the size of a fist in the torso. She did what was normal in this situation and started to scream like a banshee. Hikaru at the view of the blood pooling beneath taru started to scream on her own. Daisuke awakened from his Shock by the screams gritted his tooth and positioned himself before his brother and the two girls in a battle stance. Here is the beginning of the end of the eternal war
Playing dumb never work
The tension was tigh. No matter who saw this situation they would be overwhelmed by this situation, Let alone three ordinary high school students. Daisuke could go forward purely because of his strong will to protect his loved one and a harsh mental and physical training sharpening his fighting instinct. From this front he possessed the making of a hero of hold, the resolution of a warrior ready to sacrifie himself to defend what he hold dear. What a shame that this courage would end up being gathered for nothing. Taru stood up slowly, completely disregarding the blood leaking from his chest as he moved under the dumbfounded gazes of hikaru, Chihiro and Daisuke. Soon he found himself before the latter and once again under the full view of the monster. As soon that it looked at him, the beast started shivering uncontrollably, a stark contrast from its slow retreat a few moments earlier. With eyes colder than ice and a deep voice taru said to slowly: "I was planning to drive you away and solve you quietly with none the wiser but you had to go and attack her." Sighing, he declared calmly :"you are dead." And just like that, the monster collapsed in a twisting black mess before evaporating directly, leaving only a black pearl the size of a egg as witness of its existence. Pocketing the pearl in his suddenly spotless jacket, taru smiled innocently toward the dazed stares directed toward him and said :"let''s go, our parents will start to worry if we don''t hurry." Totally neglecting the supernatural event that just occurred like it was a passing breeze. The others soon wake up and run toward him screaming together : """what the hell just happen ?!""" The girls didn''t even had the time to dry theirs tears before the sudden turn of events. Nine of them remarked that the abnormal darkness that surrounded them disappeared like it was never here nor did they note the slight increase in the air moisture where they once stood. Chihiro jumped in his arm as soon that she caught up with him. Sobbing bitterly and whispered none stop "I am glad, I''m very glad, thank god you are alright." The thick relief in her voice was something nobody could dismiss, not even taru. He could only scratch his cheek before hugging her softly in his bosom. Daisuke who calmed down at this sight asked taru confusedly: "but seriously what happened just now. You were on the verge of death and suddenly you stood up like there was nothing and this monster disappeared." Saying so he stared intently at taru and added "your wound vanished, heck even your clothes were restored. " Facing with this barrage of questions taru answered leisurely while titling the head :"what are you talking about ?" "Of course I''m talking about the monster we just encountered!" Yelled Daisuke in exasperation, thinking that taru was not listening to him. "There was no monster though ?" Replied taru puzzlingly all while throwing him a gaze that questioned his sanity, which he transcripted in words "did you finally lost your mind?" "He? He? No their was really a monster! Their was one, right?" Mumbled Daisuke, confused to the extreme as he turned toward hikaru for support. "Tha-that''s right! And it even hurt you !" Affirmed hikaru after finally calming down. Chihiro in between his arms added "I also saw it. Rather, don''t try to change the subject. Now that I think about it, you didn''t look surprised when it appeared! " "That''s right !" Exclaimed Daisuke, having regain confidence from the words of the two "you can fool me, but you can''t fool your girlfriend that''s always looking at you, So spit it out !" Said proudly while pointing his finger at taru. "You know you just admitted that you are dumb, right?" Pointed out taru. "Wha-" "Don''t try to change the subject!" Said Chihiro while cutting out Daisuke. Looking at his girlfriend and knowing he wouldn''t be able to evade her and the others two now that they were locked on it, taru just sighed and replied weakly "fine, I will explain." Before they could congratulate themselves he added "but tomorrow. It is really starting to get late and I don''t think you''d like getting scolded" Only now noting the late hour, they hurried until their respective houses after making him swear to explain himself. Like this the night ended and the following day progressed like it should. They meet on the road to school after Chihiro dragged taru away from his prized bed, the class passed without any anomaly and they reunited at the school council after class to do the paperwork and coordinate the activities. Soon they found themselves at the house of taru, where he lived alone since both of his parents, the aunt and uncle of Daisuke worked outside the city. Taru opened the door, looked at the three clary wanting to come inside and said nonchalantly : "well, then, see you tomorrow." Before trying to close the door. Of course it wouldn''t be that easy he thought as Daisuke blocked the door with his shoe. "You didn''t think it would be this easy right?" Said Daisuke with a shirt eating grin. Behind him Chihiro was glaring at taru with a grave face while hikaru was pouting at the fact that he tried to lock them out. With a sigh taru give up and let them in. They sat in the living room while taru prepared their drinks. Coffee for chihiro, tea for Daisuke and coca for hikaru. After serving them taru tried to do some small talk, a last ditch effort to make them forget. However, It was in vain as they were set on hearing about this. Sighing one last time taru relented and asked: "well, what do you want to know?" "Everything. Last night I thought about it and there was many strange thing that bother me. For example how you arrived instantaneously before me when I was attacked when you were so far from me. Or how your wound vanished. Or how you seemed to know about this monster." Said Chihiro as she pointed the incongruities one by one while the others two nodded in agreement. "Sigh, why did my first girlfriend have to be so sharp? Well I guess if she wasn''t I would have never agreed to go out with her." Mumbled taru exasperated, "alright, let''s start by the beginning." He said this time seriously to which they all put on serious expressions. "I''m a magical girl." He said with a deadpan look. Immediately Chihiro hit him at the back of the head with an exasperated expression while yelling:"Be more serious!" while the other two just looked at eachother with wry smiles. Rubbing his head, taru sighed for the nth time and said " alright, alright. Sheesh I was just softening the atmosphere." He then fixed them with his ice blue eyes "before I start talking, let me get it right. You have no obligation whatever to do anything, nobody can hurt you and I''m perfectly alright with the situation as it is." Seeing them nod in agreement, albey confused he continued "the ting that attacked us was a nightmare, a aggregation of human negative emotions given life. It is the most vile and repulsive formed of life. Most people just start running uncontrollably from fear and disgust when they first put their eyes on these things. The fact that you guys were as calm is surprising. Aso for why it attacked us, these things get more powerful the more negative emotions there is. Fear, wrath, hatred, despair. They feed on these feelings and get fortified by them. Usually they would have never get the opportunity to appear in here on earth, but accident happen." He ended with a shrug of his shoulders. After a long pause Chihiro talked after taking a deep breath. " I really want to say that it''s nonsense but I still shiver when I think about that thing, that nighmare as you say. There is no way it coud be something natural if this wasn''t an illusion." "And there''s no way it could be an illusion" added Daisuke while shaking his head. "But that don''texplain how you made it disappear or why you even know about it." Said hikaru making them once again focus on taru. Leaning on one arm taru replied calmly, having already given up on trying to make them forget "Well you know, humans are some really sturdy fuckers. Before illogical foes, they developed illogical weapons by learning to use their will to alter reality. They call this ability ''magic'' and the one who possess it ''mage''. By the way, some fools leaked it to normal peoples and that is the source of most of the myths and legends in this world. Before you ask, yes there is others worlds although calling them planes of existence or dimensions would be more accurate. The war with the nighmare was deported to one of these planes to give the ones without the ability to fight a chance to survive." "Wait" interrupted hikaru "is this war still going on even now ? And what do you mean by without the ability to fight ?" "Exactly what I said" Replied taru "the ability to use magic is something everyone have to various degree. Some can use it to start tempest with a little training, others , however can only produce a spark all their lives. As for the war, it''s still ongoing and don''t look like it will end anytime soon." "Do we have the potential to use magic?" Asked Daisuke with shining eyes. He wasn''t alone as the girls also looked at him with expectant eyes. Taru looked at them for a moment. After a long pause he scratched his head, sighed and said "yeah, by some miracle you all three have the potential to become mages. Yeah, by some miracle of fate. Even though the probability is less than one in one hundred thousands." All while grumbling he contemplated on the matter but choose to give up since it wasn''t really important. "You now know as. Questions such as how I learned magic would only make the matter more anoy- I mean more complicated. Don''t worry too much the war is far away from here and I don''t intend to get involved either so let''s just return to ours mundane everyday life." He ended with a self satisfied nod in confirmation to himself, and looked around only to see the others three with thoughtful expression. After a while they looked at eachother eyes and seemed to come to a collective decision. Seeing this taru feel a chill in his back and hurriedly talked before any of them could say something "no. Just, no. We aren''t in a manga there and there''s no way I will introduce you in a war where lives are cheaper than tap water. Erase this thought from your little head. Forgot you even considered this. Like seriously, you would just be throwing your joyful lives away." All through his rant the three youths looked at him with tranquil expressions. Finally Chihiro talked after he finished "and yet you would probably be the first to jump in the war if it takes a turn for the worst, right?" Hearing this taru become silent. He wanted to deny, but although they spent such a tiny amount of time with him by his standar, these three before him were probably one of the people who knew him the best. They didn''t know his past but they knew the present him. And that was more than as to know who he was. As such he knew denying would of no use. Before his silent a acknowledgement Chihiro spoke with a determined and sincere tone "if that''s the case then we can''t remain in safety even while knowing you are risking your life fighting somewhere beyond our sight. It would be more painful than anything the war could do to us. So please taru. I know it may sound conceit for us who know nothing about battle to say this, but allow us to fight with you when the time will come. We don''t want to watch you fight powerlessly." Taru closed his eyes with a sigh, and said simply "I will think about it." They remained all silent for a few moments, each lost in his thoughts, then Daisuke Exclaimed suddenly "right! Didn''t you get a new game some time ago? Let''s play. This time I will beat you for sure!". Taru looked at him briefly and then smiled faintly and replied "you''ll never be able to beat me. Give it up." "That''s what we will see! Bring it on!" The girls only looked at their boyfriends with warm smiles before joining on the game as well. Like this they spend the remaining of the afternoon goofing around and playing. And then when the three were about to go home taru looked at them and said before closing the door " come here tomorrow. I''ll let you choose your fate.*sigh* Whatever should happen will happen." Left with such paroles the three smiled brightly and walked home while discussing about their exceptations for magic. magic is the answer For the three excited youths, the night passed too slowly. At the first time in the day, they found themselves in front of the door of the house of taru in casual clothing since it was Saturday. After knocking on the door for more than 10 minutes, it was finally opened by a still half asleep taru, looking at the group with half open eyes and while yawning. He looked at the three before him with glassy eyes totally unfocused and still half asleep, then his brain caught up with the situation. Blinking, he said "can we put it at tomorrow, I was doing a really nice dream." They blankly stared at him for a while, then at ech other before reacting each differently. Daisuke laughed his ass off while hikaru giggled more elegantly. Chihiro sighed grandly and shake her head. Then she said what they all had in head at this moment with a smile "magic or not, I guess taru remain taru." Yes, she thought no matter if the world is different, if there is magic or demon, the taru which we knew all these years will not suddenly disappear. At this moment the unnoticed apprehension that lurked in their minds dissipate like a mirage. Surprised Chihiro looked at taru once again and saw a barely noticeable relief on his face. Only the many years she spent observing him let her remake it. Before her piercing glare, taru remained stoic. Scratching his head he sighed and said "I guess that means no. Well whatever, let get this over with." They get in the house and waited while taru made himself more presentable. Then they went toward the front door. "Where are we going? Is there a train that will take us to a magic school?" Asked Daisuke curiously. "How come you know about this old book but you don''t know what''s the soul society?" Asked taru while giving him a disappointment look. "Although there is indeed portals to the magic world at keys points, I''m too lazy to remember them so we will just take a shortcut." Saying so he opened the door of the house. Instead of the familiar neighborhood, what appeared beyond the door was a richly decorated hall. Finely sculpted gloden Pillars Which would look at theirs place in royals palaces support the high ceiling orned of shining chandelier. By the vast windows on the left wall could be see a gorgeous garden filled with healthy and foreign vegetation and far in the distance, a ghastly forest filled with a sense of mystery attract the glare of the beholder. Soon had the three youths taken their bearing that a simple yet imposing wooden door door before them that had somehow escaped their notice opened abruptly. From inside come a white haired woman, striking beautiful in all points if not for the heavy look on her face as she looked vigilantly at the group before her. That''s until her eyes stopped on taru. Her eyes were firstly filled with surprise, then suspicion followed by joy. "Taru..." she purred and seemingly teleported before him and embraced him, completely ignoring the odd stares of the others three. Taru looked at her with complex emotions before Sighing and said "good to see you too, luna." After she calmed down, luna lead them inside. The room was spacious with dark blue walls and a black wooden floor. Just before the door was a huge desk filled with paper work, on both ends of the room were two bookcases filled to the brim with stranges books giving powerful and dangerous vibes. On the left wall aside of the bookcase were They sat around one of the two couch in the room before a warm cup of tea congured by luna. Ignoring the surprised look at the sudden appearance of the cups taru causualy sipped the tea while trying to ignore the glare luna give him ever since the entered. recovering from the surprise, Daisuke said excitedly while looking at the steaming cups. " Is this magic? Amazing!" Hikaru was fidgeting with her tea timidly taking it like fearing that it was an illusion and chihiro turned toward taru , throwing one question after the other.If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. " where did that come from? How did she made them appear? Is it something anyone can do? is that connect to how you made us come here ?" to which taru answered blandly "magic, magic, dunno, somehow." "muu, answer me seriously " "too troublesome" looking at this interaction, luna suddenly burst into laughter, until tears started rolling out of her eyes. after calming down and seeing that everyone was lookin at her she blushed slighly and wiped her tears before saying "I am sorry i didn''t mean to be rude." coughing lightly she pursued " allow me to introduce myself: i am luna dawn the headmaster of this clear water magic academy, archmage of the second order, as well that the older sister of taru." bowing lightly she said toward the three confused teens " thank you for having taken care of my brother all this time." "I am the one who most often took care of them though." interjected taru simply. luna smiled and replied "maybe but that don''t mean they never did take care of you. you must give thanks wher its due." taru simply looked aside, too lazy to counter not to mention that it was true. Finally getting over their confusion the three looked at taru and luna alternatively. Indeed, if one take the time to compare them, the resenblance is striking. Same ice blue eyes? same snow white hairs and beside the slight differences brought by gender even their face was the same. The cause of their bewilderment was that this relation contrasted everything they knew of taru. with complicate expression Daisuke asked " when you mean that you are his sister you mean..." "Exactly what i said. We were born from the same father and mother. i understand your confusion but that iss the truth. due to some incident though, we had to live separatly." explained luna while sipping elegantly her mysteriously still hot tea. Proccessing everything she said all looked at taru who was playing with his cup. sighing softly he glanced toward them " don''t look at me like that. Although i may not be an orphan like you thought it don''t erase the fact that i lived as the son of the sake family. And as far as i am concerned that''s all that matter." as he finish his speach he saw that they had visibly relaxed and looked ashame for even doubting him . After all they had knew each other for years. Ignoring them, taru talked to luna about their situation. "I understand." She said after a moment of contemplation. suddenly a heavy pressure started emating from her body. the air sank, the light darkened and the temperature took a dip toward the dephs. "i understand that your feelings stem from a good intention. but that''s far from as to face the life that await you if you decide to tread this road. Here, life is as cheap that dirt onthe ground and famillies tears each others for riches and power." looking at each of them in the eyes she spelled calmly " if you can''t even bear this level of pressure then stop dreaming about standing beside taru." Right. While they were all struggling to remaing awake taru was streching, contenplating if now wasn''t the time to get back the sleep that he lost in the morning. in her blurry eyes, chihiro saw this familiar scenery. He was always like that. He was so strong that he didn''t need to make any effort. Nothing got to him if he don''t will so. It was this intouchable image of him that attracted her. The day he saved her she resolved to always follow him. And if the price to that was losing her, life, her humanity or even her soul. Then so be it. Daisuke was struggling, his consciensness theating to fly away at any moment. Despite this, the figure of taru nonchalantly laying on the table to find the best sleeping position reflected cleary in his eyes. this nonchalance that he displayed everyday was to daisuke a symbole of his strongth. Fom childhood until now this strongth is what always pushed him forward. Always struggling to reach thsi solitary world in which he seemed to live. What pushed him forwad was indeed affection. But it was wrapped in a solide stuborness. Like the other two, hikaru was barely holding on. One would think that she would be the first to fall by her frail appearance. But her uprising in a shrine which reinforced her mind and soul coupled with daisuke who unconsciously withranded a little of the pressure for her allowed her to endure. But just that. It would be so easy to give up and let her consciensness fly away. She knew that chihiro, daisuke and despite his indifferent attitude, taru would ensure that nothing bad happen to her. She also didn''t had such a long time with taru having met him only in middle school. It certainly wasn''t as to justif y risking her life. But contrarly to the two who saw in taru a deppless strength, she could also see lonelyness in his figure. this simple fact led her to try to remain by his side. both because of their friendship, her personality and also because of her personnal experience of lonelyness. And so she persisted deseperatly. To not let go of this lonely boy. like this the situation turned into a deadlock. luna excerced her pressure to make them give up and they desperately endured, refusing to give up. Until- ZZZRRR with a loud static sound a the deadlock was brocken. mana A formless strenght started pushing back the crushing weight arrassing the trio. This strenght of the same nature then the pressure exerced by luna was coming from the body of the three youth. Indeed, the obscession of chihiro, the stubborness of daisuke and the kindness of hikaru under the threat of this extrem situation dug out of them a might that they themselves were not aware of. Though, even then the combined power of the three wasn''t a match for luna''s, only just able to give them breathing room. At this sight luna had a complex expression on her face. Like she said earlier the life in the magic world was many time cruelier than on earth. By sudjeting the three to her spiritual pressure, she wanted to let them experiment for themselves a portion of the durness of this world. If they were able to endure and use this pressure to awakened their own it would demonstrate their suitability and determination to live there. If on the contrary the lost consciousness, it would mean that they should give up on trying to become mages fr they would only get killed meaninglessly or become mediocre mages without futures. Clearly, Taru understand this reasonning and let her do as she wanted while trying to take a light nap. Although he didn''t know that this simple fact stimulated them as to wake up their mana. "Congratulation on awakening your spiiritual force. From now on you have the qualification to become mages as you stand before the very door of magic." Said luna after givin the younths the time to regain their breath. They looked at her with a mixture of confusion, surprise, dread, and wariness. Seeing this luna smiled faintly and said" please do forgive my rude manners from before, its one of the quickest and safest way to unlock the spiritual force in an individual. There woulf of course have been no adverse effect had you failed, beside getting knocked out and waking up without memories of anything supernatural." gesturing to the still sleeping taru she pursued "and that include this dear brother of mine of course." This declaration made the three of them pale slightly at the idea imaginating losing the memories of their friend that was so much more than that. Looking at the clock across the room luna finished by saying, "If you have anymore question, do ask taru. This periode is almost finished and i still have to prepare the neccessary documents confirmating your admission." She then shooed them all from her office, including the just awaken taru. Who even while looking like half asleep was maneuvering expertly through the halls of the school like he made them. Finally the four found themselves in a wide room alike a fancy diner chamber for wealthy peoples. Taru lead them to one of the blue transparent table and seat them there. As soon, four holographic image appeared before them with a list of dish for them to choose from. Too tired to feel surprised anymore chihiro asked listlesly "i thought it was suposed to be magical fantaisy, not sci-fi " "Why should a magic world tied to earth be behind it in technology, in particular if there is a time dilation of 1 to 5 like now." replied indifferently taru while browsing the list and comanding some steak and coca as drink. " well, it''s true that because of the war and the focuse on magic the technology if far from what it could be." he added while starting to eat the meat that feel from the ceiling along with the cutlery. "Wait, what ?" Asked daisuke " the time dilatation? You mean that fives days here are one on earth?" "Now that i think about it, we still don'' know where ''here'' is." Added chihiro sagely. Meanwhile hikaru was losing herself in the wide arra of choices provided by the school.The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation. "I guess i never did tell you." Nodding to himself taru looked at the three and said " well for now, eat something. I am pretty sure you didn''t get any breakfast and its almost 12h. you also need to recover the mana you used during your awakening." With that said he returned to his meal. Daisuke and chihiro ad know him long as to know that when he really don''t want to do smething, nothing short of a divin intervention can mouve taru as such they swallowed their questions for later and procceded through the menu. the choice of food was overwhiling. It seemed like every food ever cooked in the world history and then some more were compiled in this. In face of such a diverse selection, chihiro choose the safe option and ordered the same as taru, although with some modification. A small steak and some salade with citrus water. As for daisuke and hikaru who still hadn''t decide the give up thinking and ordered two burgers and some fries. After a good meal that was better than everything they ever ate on earth chihiro finally turned toward taru to talke to him, only to find that this guy was asleep. face palming herself she said to no one " I forgot that he always fall asleep after eating." Nudging taru awake was could be a long and delicate proccess. However, chihiro had a stressful day and decided to make it better by choosing to do it the fun way. Standin up from her chair she stood before him and then procceded to french kiss him awake. No matter how heavy of a sleeper he was, taru had no choice but to wake from that. Instead of pushing her away, he embrraced her and returned the kiss until she was struggling for air. Panting slightly and blushing from the gaze of hikaru and daisuke, chihiro hide her face by pressing it against the chest of taru. "Good morning." Said taru while yawning. "It''s already well past morning though" retouted daisuke, with a grin that said ''i saw something good'' all the while nudging his own girlfriend, who was trying hard to ignore him with a bright red face. "ah, that''s true ." Nodded taru "Well, i think its time for me to answer yours questions, so shoot." Refocusing on the matter at hand chihiro, regained her composure, although she still didn''t get off taru''s knees. "Right. first of all where is this place?" She asked before clarifying "i mean this world." Embracing back to his chest shamelessy and resting his shin on her head he answered " This plane is the plane of victoire, discovered by the grand archmage Frederic tirade and another 10 first grades archmages when they tried to banish the gate to the abyss, the gate from which the nightmare come from, away from our plane. Basicaly trying to throw away our problem to the stars. They succeded in ripping open a hole toward this plane ;named victoire in hope for the future victorie against the monsters; and succeded in relocating the entrance of the abyss in there." "If we are there i guess something want wrong" remarqued hikaru absentmindly while munching some remaining fries. "correct, turn out that you con''t just throw out the monsters created by your emotions. althought they succeed in depacing the gate they also created a permanent connection between this plane and earth. There is also the fact that while the nightmares attack everything in sight they are extremely partial to earth peoples, their progenitors so they would have found their way home one day or the other. So it was decided that the mages would fight here in victoire, while the powerless would remain in the home world giving the situation we have now." They remained silent for a while proccessing the news informations before Daisuke asked the questions that was on theirs lips since they left the headmaster office. "What the heck was this aura thingy back then?" "Mana, spiritual energy, soul force, aura thingy, this power has many name. Basicaly it''s the will, the intent of a being." "intent? What do that mean" asked hikaru confused by the notion. "It''s exactly as it sound. Magic can be resumed by the modeling of reality by the usage of the will. Not everyone can do that, which is why no everyone can become mages. Hhowever if as ordinary peoples get together with a sinle hope and belief, it can overyime have the same effect then or even stronger than magic. That is the power of miracle, of belief. Being a mage mean honing your will and soul to be able of affecting more and more the reality. What happened back then was that before the overwheling pressure of luna, your will to not lose was condensed and strenghten to the point of becoming mana. Even without that you would have had a chance to awakened with time, but the chance of this is minuscule and without guidance your mana would have just collapsed back into regular, if not stronger willpower." Looking at his watch taru added "Well that''s as info dump for today. You will learn the rest in your classes anyway. Luna should have finished with your admission form by now. lets go before the starving students burry us." just saying It''s not dropped, not dropped, not dropped ! Important thing must be said three times! So yeah i''ve some thing cropping up irl that prevent me from writting so the next update may be kinda late (even more than usual) but fear not for it will come. Just not now. you know it''s at these moment that im happy that i got so little reader. nobody to pressure me and no expectation from any one. It ''s kinda nice. Of course im grateful toward anyone who take from there precious time to read this brain shit of mine. I pray that you all become millionaires with joyful lives and stuff.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. Well thats all, cloud out.