Hey I'm back once more with Re:Spirited, hope you enjoy!
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Chapter 7: Interesting Developments
While Puck and Beatrice were ready to fight, I was thinking of a solution to stop this peacefully, after all they were her creations. "Stop this! I don't want to fight you!" I shouted hoping we could just talk things out. Beatrice and Puck simply continue to glare at me and prepare for anything I might do. "Well then answer the question Subaru." Puck says staring at me with suspicion. "I can tell you I'm not part of that insane cult." I answered, Puck seem to calm down after hearing this but Beatrice simply asked another question," Then why are you covered in the scent of the witch." Beatrice asks, that question was what I was dreading. They watched as I fidgeted looking around, I could sense the magic in the door was gone meaning that using that as an escape was futile.
Puck and Beatrice were still waiting for my answer and I say," That's personal, but I can assure that I'm not one of those witch cultists." While Puck was conflicted, Beatrice immediately exclaimed, "You must have an affiliation with those hooligans if you have that scent, so you either tell Bubby and I or we will force the answer out of you, in fact!" and with that Puck and Beatrice begin to set up their attacks, "Minya"as Beatrice chants and the spell takes effect my eyes glisten.
Purple crystals of mana form around Beatrice and Puck creates icicles, "Please… stop." I plead hoping to stop them, but it seems they won't stop. Just as they launch their attacks, I look down and chant,"El-Nisu" the effects were instantaneous their attacks vanished as if never even casted. While Nisu would completely take mana away from a single opponent's attack, the El class turns it into an area effect.
After their attacks were stopped a menacing aura permeated the room, and the source was the boy they were fighting," I… said ENOUGH!" I shouted, the great spirits flinch at the sound of my voice but quickly recompose themselves. I raise my head and warn them one last time," I warn you; you don't want to fight me." They flinch again but Beatrice quickly responds," Me and Bubby are great spirits, I myself am 400 years old if anything you are the one who wouldn't want to fight us, in fact!" they prepare their attacks again but this time I counterattack,"El-Izu" as their launch their attacks, a wall of fire appears between me and their attacks. The fire wall is solid as shown when their attacks smash into it like a real wall, smoke blocks both our vision but I can sense them.
I launch my spell with a quick chant," Izu" a blaze of fire launches out of my palm, Beatrice and Puck simply put up some kind of barrier but my spell was stronger than they expected and broke through they barely managed to dodge. I decide to show off a little," Minya" for a moment nothing happens, and they looked at me as if I was crazy but their faces quickly shifted into shock when purple mana crystals form around me, immediately launching the spell at them they barely recomposed themselves to block the attack.
"H-how can you use my spell, I wonder?" Beatrice asks, I simply smile and answer," Well simple, this is my divine protection 'The divine protection of Magic Mastery' this divine protection allows me to instantly master any spell I have seen." They realize that I could easily cancel their best spells while simultaneously mastering those same spells; this was a losing battle for magic users like them, but also a battle of attrition for me. "I give you one last chance, we can talk things out!" I shouted, Beatrice and Puck hear this, Puck floats near Beatrice and whispers something to her whatever he whispered seem to calm Beatrice down enough for them to discuss.
"Very well, I suppose." Beatrice relents as she looks around the library as sees the damages and begins working on restoring the library, Puck floated to me and asked," So you aren't part of that cult right?" I quickly answer," No that cult is crazy, sure I have come in contact with them before, but never have I really been affiliated with them." Beatrice finished fixing the library which I noticed is made of mana, "So which witch gene do you possess?" Puck asks, I decide to lie," What makes you say I have those witch genes?" Puck glares at me, and pretty quickly I cave and say," Okay, okay I have the pride gene."
After hearing my answer, they discussed something. What they didn't know was I had learned how to enhance certain parts of my body using mana, I saw a few knights do it and experimented with it eventually I discovered a plethora of uses one of which was enhancing my hearing. "So Bubby, is he a threat to anyone here?" I hear Beatrice question; Puck shakes his head saying," Yes, he is most likely a threat, but I can tell he is lying about something, but I'm sure he has no bad intentions to anyone in the mansion." They kept discussing for a very long time, I realized that I still had to help make lunch and asked if I could leave.
Beatrice simply waved her hand and I was blasted out of the library, right into the kitchen. Rem and Ram were both surprised by my sudden arrival. "Barusu where have you been, you missed lunch." Ram asks, brandishing a ladle. I explain," I was in the library chatting with Beatrice and Puck and I lost track of time, please don't hurt me." I cower and cover myself. Ram looks at me for a moment before her face softens up and she says," Fine I'll let this one go, but you better not let this happen again, understood?" I nod and with that they went back to making dinner, I asked if I could help with anything.
While Rem seems to be mad at me for some reason, Ram simply asks me to peel potatoes. Luckily I still remember how to do that, "I'm impressed Barusu, your peeling is excellent." Ram praises, "Aw thanks Ram, to be honest I'm a bit rusty haven't really cooked in a while." I say scratching the back of my head. I asked if I could prepare dessert and seeing my performance in the kitchen they agree, I set off gathering the ingredients to make a simple appa pie. After preparing the ingredients and dishes I begin baking. While figuring out how to use the lagmite powered stove, I ended up burning myself luckily no one noticed and it healed relatively quickly, I quickly began mixing the ingredient whilst simultaneously adding my secret ingredient into the dish.
"Dinner is served Master Roswaal, Lady Emilia and Lady Beatrice." Ram announces politely with Rem bringing out the dishes, meanwhile I was in the kitchen putting the finishing touches on the appa pie. "Wow back in the day we didn't have these fancy machines to cook for us." I say amazed, entering the dining room with my appa pie. I set it down on the table before patiently waiting next to Rem and Ram. Everyone tried the appa pie and they all looked surprised for a moment, they looked at each other before fighting for the pie. It was quite a sight watching a jester, a half-elf and a spirit fighting for pie." What did you put into that pie Barusu?" Ram asks, "I only added the usual ingredients and a little bit of my secret ingredient." I answered Rem looks at me curiously. "And before you ask, no that's my secret to keep."
As they kept fighting over the pie, they eventually reached the last slice and something peculiar happens, time stops, I watched in confusion as everything stops and Beatrice grabs the last slice and eating it before continuing time. 'D-did she just stop time, wow she really is a spirit or a really good yin magic user,' I thought, the pie was finished and everyone looked at me with a certain look in their eyes which told me that I would probably be making desert very often. After cleaning the dining hall, I was called by Roswaal and Emilia to come and chat with them. Being a servant I had to follow the lord's order so I excused myself and went to the Roswaal's Office where Emilia and Roswaal were waiting for me, "Come~ in Subaru~ we have a lot to discuss." Roswaal says gesturing to a seat; I quickly take a seat opposite of Emilia and Roswaal who stated, "Subaru~ it has come to my attention that while you may look like a child, you~ are in fact not a child at all."
I frown and tense up a little, "And what of it?" I asked narrowing my eyes at Emilia, who seems nervous "Now, now~ Subaru we mean no harm, let's have a civil conversation shall we?" Roswaal questions trying to deescalate the situation, I closed my eyes and took deep breaths before calming down and steeling myself for the conversation ahead. "So what do you want to know?" I asked looking at them." What are you specifically~ Subaru and what is your story~?" Roswaal asks, "I think they used to call me the 'Spirit Child' back in the day, I was hunted after my home was burned down and hid away for 1000 or so years spent the other 400 wandering and learning about the new world I found myself in after my self-isolation, met some interesting people, they all died, I grieved but moved on and explored some more before one day arriving in the Lugnica and staying there for a while, nearly got robbed saved a half-elf royal candidate and here we are now. Satisfied?" Roswaal and Emilia listened to the summary of my life, with a few lies sprinkled in, intently with Emilia questioning why I was hunted and who burned down my home, but by then I was getting very sleepy," I think it's my bedtime now if you excuse me." I excused myself and got ready to leave when Roswaal stopped me.
"What is this bedtime~ you keep speaking of?" Roswaal asks, meanwhile it was starting to get harder to keep my eyes open but the situation was quite stressful and bedtime was being blocked out, "Fine, when I was made my creator thought it would be a good idea to add certain features such as a healing rate, the inability to age, and bedtime is like when Puck disappears around 5pm, I have to be asleep but there are ways to bypass this, an example would be when I am in danger or am really stressed. But there are penalties for skipping bedtime such as memory loss, a shorter temper, sometimes even loss of sanity. Is there anything else you want to know?" I asked getting really irritated. Roswaal did the smart thing and let me go back to my room, but I didn't make it 3 steps before falling asleep.
Dream:
I was hiding in some caves after escaping some hunters, I never fought them because it would be a waste of mana, and I needed all the mana to escape since Taru used more mana depending on the distance of the other end. I was preparing to leave when I heard a voice, "My my, Subaru how dreadful of a situation you have gotten stuck in, might I suggest a solution?" I was surprised I closed the portal before any of them manage to get into it, "Who are you, show yourself!" I shouted pulling out the sword I got from a hunter, it was too long for me but it was better than nothing. "Calm down I mean no harm, also that sword is way to long for you to use and you know that." I keep looking around trying to find the voice but all that was there were stalagmites, stalactites and me looking around.
I tried using Saga to find the voice but there was nothing, "Strange Saga is supposed to sense the mana of other people, so either I've finally gone insane or I am talking to a ghost." "Well your partially correct there, I am a part of you I just didn't see a reason to talk to you until now. Please to meet you Subaru I am the piece of the Od Laguna inside you, you can call me Haji it's a pleasure to finally chat with you." I realize now why I couldn't find the source of the voice; it was because it was quite literally in my head. I asked why it didn't talk to me sooner. "Well you see Subaru, I wasn't able to talk before due to the fact the piece within you was still a bit underdeveloped, when your master was gifted with this piece of the Od Laguna it regressed the farther it got from the original Od Laguna, even then I still share knowledge and a connection with the original one but couldn't say anything until that piece within you evolved with your strange new body, as you know you are a completely new species there is nothing like you in the entire world. So the piece also evolved to fit your needs but you and I must work together for that to happen." As it was explaining I had finished preparing a makeshift spear and was preparing to go hunting.
"Why do you need to hunt? As a spirit you could just consume the mana around you or even the mana you have in store. After all I can just give you more mana." Haji explains I looked confused," What? I'm not a spirit? What are you talking about?" Haji was taken aback," No wonder you so confused, allow me to explain due to the experimentation your creator did to you, you aren't a human anymore I think your master knew but never told you for some strange reason, your partially a spirit that's why a lot of people are hunting you, they consider you unnatural an abomination." I stopped for a moment as I digested the information; everything makes sense now, why I was being hunted and why every hunter seems to hate me with a passion, "B-but why, I did nothing wrong" I ask myself trying to piece together the reason. "Humans are complicated creatures; they fear what they don't understand though few are a bit open-minded. They don't understand what you are, you are a king, innocent young boy even if you are a spirit-human, that's what I'm calling you now but there is a solution to your predicament." "And what is that?" I asked, Haji was suddenly gone I couldn't hear his voice and once again I was alone
The next day, I was walking through thick woods finding shelter from the storm, when Haji started talking again, "Forgive me for my sudden leave my time was up-" "Ahh!" Haji appeared so suddenly and surprisingly that I jumped right into an unseen cave landing hard on the ground barely missing a stalagmite thanks to a quick cast of Kaze, "Ouch… That really hurts, my goodness don't do that again Haji!" "My apologies Subaru" Haji apologized in a sheepish manner, at least that what I imagined he would be doing if he had a body.
"So Subaru allow me to explain my sudden disappearance, I can only manifest for a limited amount of time due to the fact that the Od Laguna piece within you isn't developed enough for me to manifest for long, maybe in a few months maybe even years before it would be developed enough for constant communication." I nod getting up before the pain forced me back down, "Ouch… Haji, never do that again, hey what's that?" I asked pointing at a strange glowing lagmite; it was unlike anything Victor owned back at the laboratory. "That is a special Lagmite used by humans a long time ago, it was for brutal executions its nickname is the Lagmite of Death, it has properties unlike most Lagmites but has similar properties to anti-mana crystals but instead of dampening mana, it sucks mana right out of any living creature that comes in contact with it, Subaru why are you…" As I was listening the glow of the Lagmite was enchanting, even hypnotizing everything that Haji was saying was just blocked out as I reached for the Lagmite.
To be continued…
Authors Notes:
Seems Subaru had a companion before Satella, want to know why he hasn't talked at all in Arc 1 find out soon.
Wow it's been a fun writing this, really challenges my plot making skills really does.
Longer than expected as well, the Re:Pokemon will come soon.