Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks


Camilla's POV

"All this snow." I walked outside with Noelle "It's so outside of season it's suspicious."

As we walked into the streets, snow crunching underfoot Noelle pointed out some children heading out of town. We started heading to the center where Asta was arguing with Gauche about something trivial I'm sure.

"What utter nonsense is this?" Noelle shivered as we got to the center of town "It's freezing!"

"It's you two!" Asta noticed us.

"This is strange." I looked around "Just like those kids, something must be going on."

"By the way why are you two here?" Asta asked.

"We were passing by on the way to a job." I said covering for Noelle "Still this snow, I can feel the magic in it, it's not natural by any means."

"It's magic that lets you control others." An old nun from the church came out "But it seems to be restricted to children who are still developing their magic. Some of the children from the church vanished as well, just what are they planning?"

"Hey hag, surely you don't mean that Marie was taken?" Gauche gave her a stoic glare.

"Unfortunately yes." The woman nodded.

"What the hell were you doing then?!" he grabbed her by the collar.

"Gauche!" I snapped "Stop that!"

"Answer me!" he yelled.

"Always resorting to violence." The old woman looked at him "Hitting me won't solve the dilemma we're in."

"You're right…" he looked at her "But it'll sure make me feel better."

"That's enough!" I blasted him back with a sound blast "You're not being cute at all Gauche, now be a good boy and help us."

"Tsk." He brushed the snow off himself.

"Now does anyone have an idea how we can track down the kids?" I asked trying to diffuse the situation.

"Mary has a magic mirror of mine." Gauche said "It's a communication device that I should be able to trace the mana in."

"See now we're making progress." I smiled "One step at a time and soon we'll have those cute kiddies back in their beds."

"I'll be going to rescue them with my own hands." The old woman said.

"You should really leave this to us Sister." Asta said.

"No…I'll admit she's capable of doing it." Gauche said.

"Alright now we're getting somewhere." I smiled "See you're much cuter when you cooperate Gauche."

"Alright!" Asta yelled "Let's do it! Don't worry Rebecca I'll definitely get your siblings back!"

"HMPH!" I floated up on a sound wave "Noelle you can't fly so unless you feel like hanging off Gauche's broom with Asta you should hang back here and look after that town, oh and call Captain too and let him know what happened."

"Okay…" she nodded.

We flew out of town with Gauche as our guide.

"It's over there." He said pointing at some mountain side caves.

"So they must be in there somewhere." I nodded.

"Look down there." Asta said "That's Rebecca's brother! Gauche get closer."

"Hell no, I'm not stopping for anyone but Marie." He said "If you want to go that badly just let go."

"WAAAH!" Asta fell off.

"Gauche!" I yelled.

"You're a monster." The old woman flew down after him.

"I'll keep an eye on this one." I said floating after Gauche "You're such a jerk, sometimes you can be cute but you're such a jerk."

"I don't care about that kid, just Marie." He said.

"Idiot." I hissed flying into the cave after him.

The cave was mostly silent but as we drew closer I used my sound magic to focus my ears.

"Sound Magic: Amplifier!"

I focused the more silent sounds and heard the rumblings of scared kids.

"There." I pointed forward "that's them!"

"Marie!" Gauche blasted by me "Don't touch her!"

"Wait for me idiot!" I yelled as he blasted one of the two men.

There were two men who seemed to be behind this, one was older and gross with long black hair, glasses and was super ugly, the other was younger, had softer features and longer lighter hair.

"We're under attack!" the younger, clearly more frightened one, shivered.

"Use your magic and do something!" the older one snapped.

"Snow Magic: Snow Cry!"

"Sound Magic: Banshee Scream!"

I blasted his attack back with my soundwaves, before landing to protect the kdis.

"Gauche get rid of this guy!" I yelled.

"Mirror Magic: Reflect Refrain!"

Gauche blasted away some snowmen and made sure we were in the clear.

"We made it!" Asta and the Sister finally arrived.

These guys must have been draining these kids magic…but why?

"HRRAA!" Asta slashed the bigger guy.

"Alright, Gauche you and I will deal with the other one." I said.

"Alright, Gauche you and I will deal with the other one." I said.

"It's already done." He told me.

"Oh really." I looked at the downed kid "Well good job, see it's times like this I think you're cute."


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Pick Up Point—Chapter 42

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