Chapter 23

"We're going on vacation tomorrow!"

He came just as they were having dinner, then again, Suiryu always tends to arrive when a meal is being made. Eso however, has come to expect this now and prepares extra. Without even an invitation to stay, Suiryu took a seat and made a plate for himself. "Vacation? What's a vacation?"

Suiryu grinned as he explained. "Yuuji just finished up his elemental phase with water. Since he ate a curse Dagon I think…"

"I'm aware of that one…" Choso said offhandedly. "In fact, it made a rather lovely domain for his allies…"

"Yeah, Yuuji can make the same one, and he's going to do it tomorrow, so, we are going on vacation in that domain! It's the best beach I've ever been too, so…" Suiryu teased.

Junpei was a little nervous. "Uh… not that it doesn't sound cool, but… isn't a domain used for attacking?"

Suiryu snorted a laugh. "There are different version of it, Choso just said he has been in this one before, he wasn't attacked either. Not all domains are meant for such a thing, this one Hell yeah! But Yuuji can control it, just don't challenge him to anything."

Suiryu even brought everyone swimsuits to wear.

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The next day…

"Domain expansion…"

They stood there in amazement as the domain as formed. They came early that day to help set things up, but not much needed to be done since everything would be provided within the domain… at least, that was Junpei assumed.

But the moment they were on the beach, he felt the air turn nice and hot. Before it was a winter wonderland, but now, it was a perfect beach vacation! "Whoa… little brother this is amazing!" cheered Sanso.

Yuuji smirked but excused himself as he went to greet the others. He hid himself in the water as the students began to appear in beach wear of their own. When Yuuji emurged from the ocean, they froze.

"Wait, I thought your domain was…"

"It is, but since Yuuji ate the special grade curse who made this one, he too can also make it. Not to mention, you can do that volcano curse's domain as well right?"

"Yeah… but that one is no fun unless you got a lot of marshmallows." Yuuji said and snickered.

Junpei left Yuuji with his friends. In the mean time, he taught the triplets about beach volleyball. However, just as the brothers got good at it, some of the other students wanted in.

"Hey, that looks like fun…" Todo announced aloud. "What do you way? Wanna make it fun?"

Junpei smirked. "Teams of four?" he asked.

Todo agreed. He grabbed Kamo, Mia and Momo. Despite their unwillingness to play at first, they grew curious to Junpei. "Wait, aren't you the guy that was in the air most of the time during that war?" Momo asked.

"Uh… probably?" Junpei said meekly.

"How did you fly on wings made of blood?" she demanded.

He paused to consider the notion, only to shrug his shoulders. "Curse energy? I don't really understand it myself… Anyway, let's play!"

They did so for a good half an hour. Junpei and the brothers were rather forbidable, and it didn't help that the other team was trying to boost their strikes with curse energy.

Two can play at that game easily!

But it came to a draw in the end, believe it or not. No one could land a point! But it worked out too, after playing in the sand for a bit, Eso called everyone over for lunch.

The meal was to die for!

Everything hand made, cooked to perfection. Suiryu was going to town, and yet, those who came from Kyoto were reluctant to eat. "Is this even safe?" Mia demanded.

Junpei glared at her, she spoke of how distrusting she was of the food since a curse cooked it. He wanted to speak up but Suiryu beat him to it. "This is some of the best food you can eat. Yuuji's a good cook, but I got to admit bro. I think your days of being the best cook are over!"

Yuuji nodded. "I freely admit that too,"

"Eso is always improving himself," chimed Choso. "He works hard on making our meals and making them so delicious, we clean our plates."

Mia still didn't trust the food, even when she put her plate down, it was snapped up by Suiryu instantly. After all, NO ONE wastes food around Eso!