Part 42: Suspicion answered
A while after Klaus and Mimosa had gone off to help the rest of the villagers, "That looks bad, are you sure your okay" said Yuno looking at Asta.
"What don't worry about it, it doesn't hurt that bad now see" he answered smiling as he moved his arms up and down in their slings.
"You shouldn't move them around otherwise it could get worse" Noelle said looking annoyed by the way he was carelessly moving his arms around.
"Don't worry they'll be fine before you know it" he said smiling to reassure her.
"He saids that now but he didn't wince in pain for nothing" thought Noelle looking worried as he spoke.
"By the way have you grown taller since the last time I saw you" said Asta noticing Yuno had grown taller since the last time he saw him.
Yuno looked confused as he looked down at himself, "Yeah I think I've grown a couple of inches" he said calmly while Asta looked surprised as he stood on his toes.
"Oh yeah we'll just you wait, I'm grow some more my tomorrow then I'll be way taller" he said as his legs began to shake while Yuno stood taller as he stood up by the front of his feet without even shaking.
"Not gonna happen" he said smiling when Asta finally fell back to his feet.
"Who is this guy anyway, Yuno doesn't barely say a word to me, but like Mimosa this guys gets an entire conversation" thought Bell before she began to pull at the right side of Yunos, "Just who is this guy anyway Yuno" she said looking annoyed.
"Uh Yuno I Maybe hallucinating but there's some king of weird bug pulling at your face" said Asta looking creeped out before he realized something, "Wait that must be the wind spirit, she must be powerful if she can make his face like that" he thought.
"This is Asta, we grew of together when we were kids" said Yuno making the little wind spirit look surprised.
"Yeah not to mentions we bathed and slept in the same room together as well" said Asta calmly while the wind spirit looked like she fainted as she fell onto the ground.
"Slept, bathed together" she said sounding like she had just been told shocking news.
"Is she alright" said Asta looking confused.
"I'm not sure" said Yuno calmly when Noelle spook up.
"I think she got the wrong idea from what you told her" she said with a calm look on her face since she understood that Asta and Yuno grew up together in an orphanage and know they didnt have much from the sotries Asta would tell her.
"How can you be so calm, isnt the shorty your boyfriend" said the wind spirit flying in front of the water magic users face.
"Hey he maybe short but he's strong" said Noelle looking annoyed.
"Umm excuse me" said Charmy standing in front of Yuno holding out a pink cupcake. "I just wanted to thank you for saving my lunch the other day, so you can have this".
"Uh thanks" said Yuno taking the cupcake before Charmy dropped some kind of Berrys on top of the frosting.
"Here something to make it extra tasty" she said as Yuno took a bite.
"Wow this is good, oh Im sorry that I ended up falling on you that day" he said and Bell looked shocked once again and for the wrong reasons.
"Fall on her, hey shorty what do you think your doing Mimosas is the only girl for Yuno" said Charmy flying in front fo the cotton mages face.
"Shorty, have you taken a look in the mirror lately" said Charmy, "In fact I'm wondering if you taste devious" she said taking out a small fishing net from nowhere and started trying to catch the wind spirit with it.
"Uh Charmy I think you've gone a little to far" said Asta looking worried.
"Turn it down Bell" said Yuno while still eating the cupcake.
Finral sighed before opening a portal and walking through it, then he walked out of another portal that appeared behind Yuno, Asta and Noelle, "Looks like everyone getting along down here" he said with a nervous smile.
"Oh Finral is everyone okay now, Yuno this s Finral a Senior in the black bulls I'm sure you've seen him before" said Asta.
"Yeah I don't think so" said Yuno calmly.
"Oh that's okay, I'm not surprised since you're an elite from the golden dawn" said Finral as he rubbed the back of his head when a voice he recognized spoke up from one of the rooftops.
"Well well, I didn't expect to find you here older brother" he said and everyone looked up to see Langris smiling.
"Langris" said Finral.
"Most of the enemy has taken care of already, I'm surprised to see you're here since your just the black bulls pack mule" he said which made Asta look annoyed.
"Hey Finral whos the big jerk talking to you" he said.
"Hes my younger brother" said Finral.
"I wonder Finral, if your skills had been any better you would be the next house of Vaude instead of me" said Langris.
"Alright I'm getting sick of your attitude" said Asta taking a step forward but Finral held out his right arm stopping him.
"Its okay Asta, I didn't want to be the next heady anyway" he said smiling despite being insulted.
Asta however looked back up at Langris, "Ill have you know that if it wasn't for Finral we wouldn't have won our last battle" he said.
"Oh so he actually proved himself in battle, I'm impressed" said Langris smirking making it look like he didn't care.
"Seriously who is this guy" said Asta noticing the smirk on his face.
"Hes vice captain of the golden dawn, Langris Vaude" said Yuno.
"Yeah ive heard about him" said Noelle stepping forward as she looked up at Langris, "I heard you get your missions done but a lot of people end up having to rebuilt what gets destroyed in those battles" she said remembering the conversations she heard when she would go for her walks in the capital.
"Noelle of house Silva, I was surprised that you ended up in the black bulls" said Langris before smiling, "But then I shouldn't be surprised since you can't even control your own magic" he said.
"Alright that's enough" said Asta.
"By the way Finral, when did they promote you from pack mule to baby sitter" said Langris make Finrals eyes open, "Did they seriously stick you on babysitting them" he said looking at Asta and Charmy.
"That's enough Langris" said Finral now looking annoyed, "You can say whatever you want to me, but when it comes to my squad mates you've gone to far" he said staring up at his younger brother with a serious look on his face.
Langris said nothing, but before anyone say anything there ground shook as something crashed into the building near them. They all looked to see a big slug made of Mucus, there were people trapped in it along with Yagos who had an angry look in his eyes.
"Ive had enough of these games, I give you my word as one of the eight shining generals that I will take you all down" he said.
"Hmm I thought I took care of you all ready" said Langris with a bored look on his face as the mucus slug continued to move forward as some of the people that were stuck in it began to speak.
"Help us, we cant move" they said as Langris held up his hand.
"It looks like they'll have to make the ultimate sacrifice for their home" he said as his grimoire floated in front of him.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING" yelled Asta getting his attention.
"If I don't do something there will be more casualties" he said calmly like he wouldn't hesitate to go through with it.
"How could you even think about killing your own people, we're suppose to save them" said Asta looking annoyed by his attitude.
"Our job as magic knights is to protect the people of the clover kingdom, lets go Asta" said Noelle looking at her boyfriend with a determined look on her face.
Asta smirked back at her, "Right, Yuno make sure you watch" he said.
"Okay" said Yuno calmly.
"Finral, Charmy lets do this" said Asta.
"Got it" the two of them said.
"What are they doing" thought Langris before Asta ran in the opposite direction, "Retreating at full speed, how predictable" he said before Charmy spoke up.
"Cotton creation magic, fluffy sheep cushion" she said as a large sheep sitting down appeared in front of Asta. The anti magic user jumped into the sheep's belly and started flying in the other direction towards Yagos.
"A charge attack, how foolish" said Yagos shooting mucus towards Asta but his attacks were destroyed by blasts of water from Noelles wand. Finral created a portal and Asta went through it.
Asta appeared out of a portal above Yagos taking the demon dweller sword out of his grimoire with his mouth, he cut into the mucus freeing the captured civilians before he flew through another portal.
"How is he able to nullify my magic" thought Yagos before one of Finrals portals appeared behind him. Asta shot out of the portal with the handle of his sword still his mouth as he head butted into the shining generals back. Sending him flying into one of the buildings with enough force to make a crater.
"They won" thought Langris looking surprised while Asta began to fall to ground until Yuno caught him with is wind magic.
"Hey thanks Yuno" said Asta as his sword was stabbed into the ground.
"Good fighting Asta, same as always" said Yuno.
"Langris" said Finral getting his younger brothers attention, "Its true my skills don't match up to yours, but one day the black bulls will surpass the golden dawn" he said looking determined.
"Hmm, good luck with that" he said calmly.
Above in the tall tree, the captain of the black bulls stared at the captain of the golden dawn as he waited for him to make a response to his request, "Why exactly do you want to see under my mask Yami, I assure you it's not a good sight" he said.
"What you got some ugly scar under there, don't worry I wont laugh" said Yami, "World tree magic and light magic, while the two of them are different their voices and body's are similar along with their Ki".
"Lets start telling the truth, you think I'm the leader of the eye of the midnight sun don't you" said William still smiling despite the situation they were in.
"You and I have known each other for a long time, we fought together and even became magic knight squad captains at the same time"" said Yami before looking at William with a serious look on his face, "I just wanna make sure I'm wrong about this" he said.
For a few moments nothing happened before William grabbed his mask and slowly removed it, revealing what was under it making Yami look surprised at what he was seeing.
The top half of his face was scarred and some of it had dark patches, "That's a nasty scar you got there, you've had it for long" asked Yami?
"Yes, ive had it since I was child. not even magic is able to heal it and many people were frightened by the sight of it" said William looking down as he began to remember his past, ""You see I was originally a noble mans illegitimate child and because of my scar people kept their distance from me, so I would spend most of my time alone practicing my magic".
"But one day the noble mans heir passed away and so I was brought into the family" said William, "My life was a little better but the noble mans wife, my foster mother treated me terribly and the only good thing that came out of this was that I was able to meet Julius" he said looking down at his mask.
He then explained to Yami the day he met Julius was when the wizard king was still a magic knight captain at the time. He had been practicing his magic, Julius was impressed and suggested to William that when he was older he should join the magic knights. But the young William thought it wouldn't be a good idea since people were afraid of his scar.
But he was then surprised when Julius told him that his scar is a good thing because even with it he stays strong and then told him if the scar bothered him so much he had a solution for it. Julius gave him the mask he would end up wearing for a long time.
"Since that day I deiced to devote my grimoire to his service as a way of thanking him" said William smiling as he remembered that day.
"His story kind of sounds familiar and from his Ki it looks like he isn't lying about any of it" thought Yami, "Well sorry about that then" he said scratching the back of his head.
"No its alright, you were right to be suspicious given what's been happening" said William when a voice spoke up from a magic item in his right hand.
"Sir we've done it, the diamond kingdom forces are in retreat" said Klaus.
"Well done, do not attack the retreating forces instead focus on gathering and healing all of the injured" said William speaking into the magic item.
"Understood" said Klaus.
"Well I guess we should go down now, hey I got a guy whos good at getting to places we can use him and keep him working for a long time" said Yami happily while William laughed.
"Well not to long" said William.
Back in the town with Asta and Noelles group, Finral had opened a portal for them to leave the area, "Bye Yuno" said Asta waving goodbye to his rival.
"Say goodbye to Mimosa for me" said Noelle.
"I will" said Yuno calmly when Bell spoke up.
"Hey shorty remember that the only one who should be giving Yuno treats is Mimosa" said Bell looking serious.
"Why you little" said Charmy taking out her small net out again before Finral began to drag her into the portal, "Next time we meet its going to be fried bug for dinner" she said before the portal vanished after Noelle and Asta walked through.
"So their finally gone huh, honestly Yuno shouldn't you pick your friends more better and aren't you embarrassed by them" said Langris who was now on the ground.
"Embarrassed, not at all since Asta is my rival" said Yuno looking back at the vice captain calmly.
"Haha rival, what are you in some kind of competition or something" said Langris while on Kiten villages wall.
"Uh I cant believe I said that, picking a fight with the golden dawn what was I thinking" said Finral as he remembered the words he said to Langris after he helped Asta take down Yagos.
"Uh don't worry about it, here have some of these" said Charmy passing him a cupcake that a sheep cook had made. There were already a pile of them behind Charmy.
"Oh this is really good" said Finral as he took a bite.
"Oh yeah after all that I cant wait to be able to swing a sword again" said Asta swinging his arms up and down.
"And get back to training with me" said Noelle smiling.
"Yeah you got it" said Asta smiling when Finral spoke up.
"By the way are you okay with the way you said goodbye to that golden dawn guy, aren't you friends" Finral asked looking confused while Asta just smiled.
"No I'm sure will meet again in battle, after all were both competing to see who becomes the wizard king" said Asta.
Back with Yuno he had just told Langris what he and Asta were competing for and the vice captain of the golden dawn just laughed, "Wow you said that so calmly, I know you're a commoner from some village who made into the golden dawn" he began to say but Yuno interrupted him.
"Theres no rule saying the wizard king cant be a commoner, ill get results and do that I will become the captain of the golden dawn" said Yuno calmly while Langris looked annoyed.
"Some serious words since your talking to the current golden dawns vice captain" he said and the two stayed silent as Klaus walked over to the two of them.
"There you are Yuno, everything's taken care of now and hopefully you can make sure Mimosa doesn't overwork herself" said Klaus not getting a response as he watched the vice captain and his squad mate walk away in opposite directions.
The steel magic user pushed up his glasses, "Did I miss something important" he said.
Back in the capital in the wizarrd kings office, "The people who were injured have been healed and some of the enemy has been captured while the rest retreated" Marx said finishing the report on the results of the battle at Kiten village.
"Thank you Marx, that will be all" said Julius. Marx nodded as he left the room and when the door closed Julius stared out his office window with a serious look on his face, "Kiten may have been a border village, but I think theres something more going on" he thought.
Meanwhile somewhere in the diamond kingdom Lotus was kneeling in front of a man after giving a report of the battle at Kiten village, "So the shining generals failed us, well I guess now its out turn" the man said looking at the other diamond kingdom mages in the room and one of them was Mars.