Merry Christmas mates, sorry for the delay...
Two months have passed huh...?
*Sigh* (-1 Happiness)
Can't find any time to write...
Let me tell you a funny thing...
When I'm studying somehow ideas come to my mind...
And a few of them were actually noteworthy...
And if you're thinking I'm a studious student...Nope I'm definitely not...
*Sigh* (-1 Happiness)
Well that pretty much sums up my situation...So...
Let's continue.
[The Warlock #2]
I looked at the two fallen girls who were lying unconscious and...just stared. Seriously at least Yuigahama should have had a bit of sense and should not have touched the cookies...
Her head must be full of pink stuff like her hair...
'For your information Sir, brain and other tissue in the head is mostly pink colour.' Shambal Interjected in between.
"Shut up..." I sighed but then a smile crossed across my face.
"Shambal...can you prove what you were saying?" I ask him. Previously he had told me some information about Yuigahama that I didn't believe due to various reasons.
'Want me to prove it?' He said and my sight went dark for a second before a bright light flashed in my line of site. I shook my head to get rid of the coming headache and looked opened my eyes. If someone were to see me now they would most likely be shocked as flames were literally coming out of my eyes.
What I did was just sync my eyes with Shambal so that I could see the world through his eyes. Djinns, Imps and some other Summons were able to see the world through all the seven levels of Magic and hence the colour that I could see was the combination of what they looked like on all the seven levels. Within those seven levels you could tell their aura, elemental affinity and some other things.
The colour on the girls told me of their elemental affinity.
Yukinoshita's was mostly covered by a bright cloud of various colours, but within the cloud there was something like a blizzard that was blowing.
'Seems like extremely High Affinity for Frost Element, *chuckle chuckle*' I had to smile as well. Looks like her title of Ice Queen was not wrong...
I turned my attention to Yuigahama and was surprised, she was covered by the same type of multicolour cloud as Yukinoshita but her cloud was definitely weaker. It seems that there was something...Ah...
'You see now? Her Circuits are damaged, hence her power cannot be fully utilised,'
"So that's her problem huh?"
To properly understand what I Shambal was saying, imagine that chanting a Fireball spell normally one would...
'I think you just confused between Magic Circuit breakdown and the short comings of non-Elemental affinity...,'
"..." Damn it...
'Got you!'
"Remind me again what it was...?" I replied helplessly. I had always focused on more practical things but I was pretty much hopeless on topics like these.
'Listen well kid, Her Magic circuits being damaged mean that she can't utilise the full potential of her spiritual force.'
"Wait...so how did she even end up here?" I mean this was a pretty good School with a High Standard. No-one could just waltz in here and get an admission. The entrance exam was also a pretty difficult exam where they test you with a majority of topics that also included magic.
'So what? Humans have many means at their disposal. Maybe she was a backdoor...or...'
"Or..."
'Hey kid...can you allow me to check her out?'
"You looking to get your soul roasted for 100 years...?"
"I was talking about her body, goddamn it!"
"...1000 years..."
"HER ESSENCE YOU FUCKING IDIOT! I want to know a few things about her. I want you to probe her consciousness for a few seconds. I'll be done,"
"Just say it clearly then." I closed my eyes again and then reopened them; my eyesight was back to normal. I then squatted down at her level and then touched her. Her skin seemed pretty normal but that was only on the surface. Magic could easily change your outer appearance. I took her hand and then focused.
I felt a ball of consciousness moving towards my palm and then through her hands it passing into her body, the separated consciousness constantly travelled and passed through every tissue, pore and cell of her body. It steered clear of the mind and In the matter of a few seconds it returned to my hands.
In an Instant a lot of information passed through my mind. Her magical affinity, fragments of her important memories and her aura signature.
"So...what did you find?"
'32...34...35..., pretty good,'
"ShAmBaL!"
'Chill out, I've got it...Whoa! It seems like this chick here is a Warlock,'
A Warlock..!
A warlock is a separate branch of Magi that gain power from their bloodline. Now I'm not talking about any sort of Royal blood or anything.
The bloodline that a Warlock belongs to are the bloodlines of Magical Creatures. The Warlock takes the blood of the creature and with a Magic ritual replaces his blood with that of the creature, and after training and meditating manages to acquire several traits of that creature.
Like someone with a Dragon blood can acquire some sort of AOE spell. Such Magi are exceptionally very powerful and can something change the tides of a battle.
However here also lies the problem, a Warlock is bound by his bloodline. A Pure blooded warlock is extremely powerful, getting most of the powers of the creature, however as the generations pass by the bloodline thins and because of that their power also declines.
"What kind of bloodline does she have?"
'Dunno, I need some time to think,'
"Weren't you supposed to be a store of knowledge or something?"
'At most I would say is there a greater chance that she's from a Snake bloodline or...maybe a Wolf bloodline...or maybe a Bear...Or...?'
"Ok...I get it...you don't know...so what about her circuits?"
'Well they look pretty messed up, poison I guess...like someone intentionally damaged them...?'
"So...it's like that huh...?"
'Yeah pretty much another standard Wuxia beginning,'
"What?"
'You know...someone plots against you and cripple your cultivation...and then later you come back stronger and then kick their ass and fuck their sister...' [AN- A-Anyone gets the reference?]
"Are you assuming that we should help her...?"
"Why not...? I bet this comes under your Teacher's request doesn't it...?'
"Do I look like a run a charity?"
'Service club...!'
"Shut up, just tell me doesn't that lead to the villain's death...? I'm obviously the villain here, why should I help her out?"
"And what if she becomes someone unstoppable...?"
'You...are you afraid of a Child of Destiny...?'
"What If I am...?"
'Well...then can't you do anything else...?'
"Like what...? Install a..."
'Now you get it? How much beneficial it can be for you?'
"I guess you are correct..." I really may get something from this deal huh...?
"Can you do it Shambal...? Can you open her circuits...?"
'Do you doubt my capabilities...?' He says in Mock anger.
"I'm more confident in doing it myself."
'Well I'll clear the block, you can put the failsafe.'
"Well let's do it!"
In a few minutes we were finished. I wiped the sweat off my brows and then looked at the two girls.
Nope...We did not do something lewd or anything. I simply used my abilities to clear the crippling poison from her and Shambal simply repaired her damaged circuits and then I finished it off by putting a little something that I call failsafe.
"Nice job..."
'You two, can't believe that you actually thought of that,'
"Now..." Should we wake them up...?
I took a bowl from the table and filled it with water...Oh yeah.
And with a splash...I dumped the contents of the entire bowl on top of the two.
"Wake up, Buttercup" Or maybe...Buttercub...? No wait...Buttercubs!
The two girls instantly woke up from the shock of the water, with their uniforms completely drenched they gasped for air as the shock from the cold water gradually wore off.
"What happened?" Yukinoshita was the first of them to recover her voice.
"Well, Miss Disaster-Cook here cooked up a fine little cookie which was so good that you passed out," She thinks for a seconds before she remembers the events that occurred.
"No I remember now, Yuigahama-san's cookies were so bad that I fainted from the shock. Oh she remembers...bad luck. Yuigahama on the other hand still looks dazed.
Yukinoshita stands up while muttering something about how bad Yuigahama's cookies are while Yuigahama finally realises where she was and stands up too...
All the while I am witnessing firsthand what happens when you wear wet clothes...
Red and Pink...
Well I can see is a tiny bit anyway...
'Enjoying the view Sir...?' Shambal popped into my head with an image of a Butler serving a...
"Get that Image out of my head..."
'Come on...you know you know you are enjoying it'
"Pleasure of the flesh comes last. The first priority is the pursuit of power and truth,"
'Which Magi book did you rip that out off...?'
"Can you just shut up for once...?!"
"While we share a body...? Nope...*chuckle*,"
Yukinoshita was the first to realise of her state of clothes as suddenly red in the face and covered her chest.
"You degenerate caveman, you dare sexually harass two fragile maidens...? I'm calling the police!"
Just who are two fragile maidens...?
I looked at Yukinoshita and them at Yuigahama who had also gone red and then turned around while covering her chest. One had an extremely high Frost element affinity and the other was a fucking Warlock...
Even a Dead man would know not to come close let alone mess with even one of these. After all, both of them would have gone through intense training to get where they are currently.
Yukinoshita would have to control her Frost Magic, having too much affinity was also not good...just having 70% affinity would already render several types of medicines and potions useless. So Magi like her have to go through a long training regime to learn how to control themselves.
Yuigahama on the other hand probably had another strict regime so that she could control her Warlock blood. I had already spotted the thick callus on her hands. You only need to take one look to know that you shouldn't mess with her.
'Still she got tricked...'
"Strange indeed...but that's not my problem." Yeah I should probably focus on the problem on hand.
"Nope I did not do anything...so put that phone down." I tried to pacify the Ice queen who was hell bent on suing me for Sexual harassment.
"Nope, I shall Inform the cops of your vile activities and..."
"First of all, no one would even touch you when there is someone else like Yuigahama," I said indifferently while pointing at Yuigahama who seems to realise why I said those words.
"You-"
"Can't you dry yourself already...? Or maybe, you're an exhibitionist...?" I said the last part with a devilish smile with a hint of mockery.
She didn't say anything but closed her eyes and then muttered a spell, with that the temperature of the air around her rose immediately and steam started rising out of her clothes and in the matter of seconds her entire person was dry.
She opened her eyes and glared at me showing a venomous expression. She was about to say something when Yuigahama suddenly drew our attention.
"No way...! That's impossible..." Her expression was one of shock. She hadn't dried herself and the sight looked almost like...
'Seeing your lover lose his life while saving you...?'
"Nope..."
'Finding out that you were pregnant...?'
"That was...close, but No..."
"Yuigahama-san are you alright...? Did this beast do something to you...?" Yukinoshita asked her while moving towards her and extended a hand towards her but Yuigahama didn't answer her but rather then facing her she avoided her and rushed towards the door.
"I'm sorry but I just remembered that I had to go somewhere...I'm sorry but I'll have to leave now," And with that she rushed out of the room, her speed seemed a inhuman but as I knew that she as a Warlock possessed enough agility to do that.
I watched as the door closed on its own after a few seconds. Yukinoshita was still petrified with her hand extended. I didn't say anything and she was still frozen how she was and the atmosphere froze.
"Looks like you scared her..." I said to break the silence.
"Me?!" She said with a glint of murderous intent in her voice, "What did you do to her...?!"
I put my hand on my chest and gave the Magi salute.
"I swear by the Magi's Honor that I did nothing to you that could charge me with sexual harassment."
"That..." She seemed to lose her words at that. After all swearing by the Magi's Honor were one of the highest promises that could be made without the use of a Trial's eye.
"But that just means that you could have done something else to us!" She said while pointing a finger at my face.
Huh? What kind of logic was that...?
'Well that is the kind of logic someone uses when they just want to say something against another person...even if they themselves don't realise what they are saying or from where they are getting the words or the courage to say those words.'
That's pretty accurate.
"Well if you don't believe me, you can just ask the 35 year old hag standing outside!" I say those words a bit loudly and as expected...
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING OLD HAG YOU BRAT!?" A person's roars from outside the room and the door bursts open and in comes Hiratsuka Sensei all guns blazing.
'Umm...I think we're better off getting out of here,'
"Relax I know a technique of..."
*Ching*
I looked down slowly and see my feet enclosed in a thick layer of ice, and as I looked up and see two lionesses moving in for the hunt.
"Is it just me who is getting a feeling of Deja vu here...?"
[2 Hours later]
In a Japanese style room three people sat in a Seiza positon while waiting. In a few moments the door opposite to where they sat slid open and an old woman can into the room. The three people bowed at her arrival.
"Let me check," An old woman said as she moved her hand and held the hand of the 16 year old year sitting in front of her. She grabbed both the hands of the pink hair girl and closed her eyes.
Behind the girl a man and a woman who shared several features with the girl looked on with nervous looks on their faces.
"Strange, the damage has been reversed and the poison has been completely removed," The old woman opened her eyes and looked at the girl before her once again.
The girl looked down, not daring to look at the Elder in front of her.
"Normally only the Aqua Regia Potion can clear the poison...no wait, there was one other methord..."
"Only a High class Magi should be able to clear the poison with ease..."
The Old woman glared at the girl, "Whom did you meet...?"
"The change occurred after..." The girl recollected the events that occurred earlier in the day to the old woman whose expression changed by the minute.
When she had narrated everything the old woman was quite for a second before she spoke again.
"Listen Yui, you must stay close to her. Being close to the Yukinoshita's might be beneficial for us. You must gain her friendship under any conditions."
The old woman spoke for a few more moments, and then waved the three people away. The three bowed and left the room and then only the old woman was left in the room.
The old woman remained silent before muttering, "Hikigaya Hachiman...? If I remember correctly, almost the entire Hikigaya clan was massacred when the Russians attacked...so a high level Magi from their family is impossible...unless that old geezer survived...but she said that he was young...No that's impossible...I shouldn't ponder on useless things..." The old woman shook her head and then standing up left the room.
"Man...today was a pain..." I muttered as I walked back home which a can of Max Coffee in my hands.
'What pain? They were the only ones who were left in pain...'
"What the hell are you talking about...? I didn't even do anything..."
'You should let them vent out their frustration something...otherwise...'
"Give up, we all know where this is going to end up..."
'By the way...'
"Hmm...?"
'Did you notice that Yukinoshita girl was wearing a High grade aura suppressing artefact...?'
I stopped in my tracks.
"What...? Wait, how come did you not tell me this before...?"
'I only noticed this after she gave off that killing intent, the magic from that artefact fluctuated for a brief second but that didn't escape me.'
"What Kind of artefact was it...?"
'From what I guess it suppressed her aura...and was also faking it,"
"And just how do you know that...?"
'You're wearing the same artefact, it gave out a familiar feeling."
"..."
"Shambal...could she be the child of Destiny you were talking about back then...?"
'Maybe...you know, it all depends on Fate..."
I reached for another sip but found that it was already empty, throwing the can into a nearby dustbin I walked home.
"Fate my ass...A Warlock and an Unknown Affinity...days sure are getting interesting,"
[END OF CHAPTER 6]
Woo...
Damn it took me much larger time to get this done...
Well I want to say something here...
I'm changing the fate of the Main couple here...
And this story just might...not turn out to a Yuki X Hachi as I promised...It maybe be a...Well that's for later.
Well whatever it would be...It will be interesting. I'll try to get out FOTW out before the end of the year...but...
No promises...cause we all know what happened last year...
You don't...?
Oh wait...of course you don't. Nope don't bother. I'm out of here.
Thanks for reading!
Cheers Mates!