Poniko's POV
Today, only Monoko came over to my place (by teleporting, rather than the usual route with balloons), as Monoe doesn't possess any special powers. Now, it was my turn to show her my sorcery, rather than her showing me her psychic powers.
"So what's it like to be a sorceress?" Monoko asked, as she took her last sip of cherry coke.
"Difficult" I replied. "First, I felt something awaken inside of me when I was only six, and then, the medium told me that I possess magic. Ever since, I tried focusing more on it, by learning spells, starting to brew potions, et cetera… and eventually, I became quite advanced in it, so I started making up my own spells and potion recipes. One of my own most notable spells is Uboa, which I summon whenever people annoy me so much that I just need to scare them."
"Could you show me?"
"Not physically, but I do have some information on it somewhere…" I stood up, and looked around in my bookshelf, until I found my 'own spells' notebook. I sat back next to Monoko and opened it up. "I can at least describe some of its effects to you, right?"
Monoko nodded, and started reading and looking at the drawings.
I use this 'Uboa' spell to scare annoying people away whenever I really need to, not whenever I don't get my way or anything.
Uboa looks like this, which is probably scary enough already to startle even the tiniest flock of ants. Most of the ones I've scared away with Uboa probably had to throw their clothes into the washer straight away and take a long, intense shower afterwards.
I do not use this spell whenever someone asks me to. It's unnecessary to not spare the details and let someone depart all out of sudden.
"I see, thank you for showing me, and, indeed, sparing most of the details."
"Yeah, it's a good thing that I'm not even in a public school, otherwise, I would've scarred my math teacher for life already because of Uboa."
The two of us chuckled because of my comment.
I got up again, but to switch my spell notebook with my potion recipe notebook instead.
"I was already wondering where you kept your own potion recipes" Monoko chuckled, "you make me curious!"
"I didn't develop too much of them yet" I replied, "but if I had to write some down, they had to be successful, too." I opened the book and showed a simple potion recipe to one which increased one's appetite.
For this potion, one needs:
-two drops of eye palm blood
-four bay leaves
-dried daffodil root
-a tiny cup of fish scales
All ingredients must be added to a kettle/pot of boiling water (about 350 degrees Fahrenheit/175 degrees Centigrade), and stirred for approximately 30 minutes. Afterwards, the usual potion spell has to be cast on it, otherwise, it won't have any effect.
This potion increases the appetite of any person, and it may even eliminate queasiness, so this may come to a good use whenever a sick person needs to be nourished to prevent starvation.
"Whoa, that sounds intense, but it's amazing of you how you could possibly come up with such recipes."
"Isn't it? Someday, I should test it on someone who's unable to eat by mouth, to see if they can regain the ability to do so."
"That surely is going to be interesting."
I nodded, and put the book back into the bookshelf.
"And I think you already knew about my musical ability, too?"
Monoko nodded.
"When I first saw you at Masada's, you were holding a trumpet."
"That's right, but I'm not just a trumpet player, you know?" I grabbed my music book, flipped through a few pages until I found some notes to a part of the Windows Welcome Music, cleared my throat, and sung those notes.
Monoko applauded once I was done singing.
"Wow, that was amazing! How'd you learn so sing so well?"
"In the choir of our local church. You see, I go there every Sunday since I'm catholic, and when I was only eight, those hymns that I had to sing along at the end of every service finally became something interesting to me, so a few years later, I decided that I wanted to join the choir, and ever since, whenever there's a more important service, I always sing during one of those."
"Nice, and how did you come with the idea of wanting to play the trumpet?"
"That was just something that randomly got into me when I visited Masada for the first time. I summoned a trumpet, and guess what? Through my trumpet, I can even cast spells!" I switched my music book with a simple spell book, grabbed my trumpet, and did as I wanted.
Once the bowl of sweets was summoned, Monoko was speechless.
"Yup, it leaves everyone speechless! Even Masada felt the same way when I summoned a cake through my trumpet during that time." I handed Monoko a handful of sweets.
"Thank you very much." Monoko enjoyed her sweets to the fullest.
"You see, ever since joining the choir and taking lessons from Masada, I started enjoying music genres such as classical and jazz so much, that I may even consider joining an orchestra or a street band, what do you say?"
"If you really want that, you should. Even though we may differ quite a lot from most of the others, that doesn't stop us from following our dreams, right?"
I chuckled, and gave Monoko a high-five.
"Do you have any interest in music, if I may ask?"
"Well, if you put it like this… not as much as you. I occasionally listen an enka song or two every now and then, but unlike you, I do not sing, or play any instruments, or whatnot." Monoko suddenly chuckled. "And if it comes to my sister, she sings in three parts at once: loud, out of tune, and overly enthusiastic!"
This comment made me laugh out loud. A lot of others would sing at those three parts at once! At least, if they didn't have the amount of musical knowledge that I happen to possess.
"I see, I see…!" I had to catch my breath after laughing so much.
"Also, Poniko, may I ask you why you occasionally lift up a finger and then whisper a spell?"
"That's because like you, I'm able to check surroundings, but in my case, it's more advanced, which means that I can even read your mind, and so, get to know your powers. The first time I saw you, I already knew that you were psychic, but when you and Monoe were here for the first time, I focused more on it, and now I know what kind of powers you exactly possess."
Monoko nodded.
"This world contains more differences than we think, right?"
I nodded, and took another handful of sweets.