Opposite Clovers

by JustAnAnimeOtaku

Never did Asta known that a simple event could change his world. That a simple tragedy could change his life. From the start, everything was normal. From their personalities, faces, playfulness. But as soon as they have grown, everything changes. This is a story of the two child who were left in the church at the same day and the same time. No pairings (or not yet)..

4. Chapter 2: Affinities

Warning: This story has an extremely OP main character. If you don't want this kind of story, please ignore this one(10 years later)

Asta's POV (14 YEARS OLD)

For the past 10 years, I have never shown any other magic other than wind affinity. Everyone thought that the snow storm was just a strange phenomena, but that was my magic. Nobody knows it aside from Yuno, Father and Sister. As for the reason for choosing wind as my ordinary affinity, I just felt comfortable with it. I want to avoid suspicion on as to how I have a lot of affinities. Unless, I'm an attention-seeker person and wants to be interrogated all day. Honestly, that's too troublesome.

I have learned a lot from those passing years, ranging from magic up to my knowledge about this world. Ever since I learned about my magic, I never stop training. Going to library is becoming part of my daily routine, I read books there to enhance my brain.

I'm currently standing in front of a tall, cylindrical tower. The place where unclaimed grimoires are found. I'm not here to steal, I'm here to read. This might be the place where the grimoire ceremony is held, but it is also a library.

Library is the place where I find comfort – also the place where I called my second home –, I became familiar with this place, I grown to love the silence, the peacefulness, and the quietness of this library in front of me.

I entered the library as usual. As soon as I enter, no sound could be heard except for the heavy footstep of the people who were walking. As I scanned the place, I noticed that there was a new librarian, which was quite odd since the first librarian have never gone absent before. Or maybe he just got sick.

I hurriedly went on my favorite seat, luckily no one was there. I saw Yuno, just as usual, reading books about wind affinity and its magic. Well, its not that I'm complaining, after all wind is his magic affinity.

My relationship with Yuno is not bad, though we sometimes never talk to each other. To be frank, we respected each other as a rival and as a magicians. Being rivals doesn't mean that you'll always be enemies, but it can sometimes help your friendship to grow. I know a lot of people does not believe it, but me and Yuno are the living proof of that.

I wish time would fly fast, I really hope that since next year is when I'll get my grimoire and take the magic knight exam. I'm really excited – no not really excited, but I'm looking forward to it.

For the past ten years, we have been training as hell so I wouldn't be surprise if Yuno and I pass, not that I'm boasting, I'm just merely stating a fact.

Speaking of ten years ago, I was very weak back then, and I was very cute too!, just like Yuno. Well, about him, Yuno had grown more handsome these days, especially when he is in the rays of the sun, his pale white skin glows, his eyes glint with lightness and his messy hair becomes more darker. If a lot of people see it, they might fall head-over-heels for him, be it a man or a woman no one can escape his charm, no one but me.

Yuno, right now, is 170 cm tall, only a centimeter to my height, and 14 years old like me. While I doesn't have a charm like him, I'm pretty confident that I'm a handsome myself, not to brag but I guess I'm the top two of the most gorgeous guys at Hage Village, second only to Yuno. Really weird for this village to held some kind of festival like that.

I have a messy Ash Blond hair, green eyes, and 169 cm tall. I have a pale white milky skin that can rival Yuno's and a personality that made me look cold but gentle at the same time. I am wearing an eyeglass, red necklace on my neck, black pants and a plain white T-shirt.

You're probably wondering why I'm wearing glasses, right?, well I'm not using it for fashion or anything, I mean my eyes are okay, it just that it's needed. I don't know why, but I always get blurry vision when I tried to read book. I have tried to ask someone about it but they only say it's heredity, it came from my parents so they say, but I don't know who my parents are so I couldn't get a single clue about it. (Made up info)

And about how I got it, well I met an old man in the winter, he was dying from cold so I brought him in an abandoned house and warm him up using my fire magic. I was carrying a book at that time since I was planning on returning it to the library.

When he woke up, he thank me and mumble something I don't understand. Soon there was silence, and I was bored so I did not do anything, he took notice that I wasn't reading the book so he ask why, then I told him the reasons, luckily he got the solution and gave me an eyeglass that fit the blurriness of my eyes. Since then I started to enjoy books again.

For my necklace, the old man gave it to me as a sign of gratitude and the sign of our acquaintance. I refused at first since it looks expensive and I thought that it was important for him, but he insisted that I should take it, there was no reason to turn down the offer so I accepted it or otherwise it would be rude.

I told you about how I used my fire magic right?. Well, you see, fire is one of my affinity but there are a lot more. When I say a LOT, then I mean a LOT. Magic affinity describes what nature is your magic are. It is usually one per person but for me, that's not the case 'cause I have a lot of affinities, and that's our discussion right now.

I stood up and leave the sign on my chair, indicating that it was occupied, before I went to look for the book that I hid.Various information about my magic was in that book and I can't just let people borrow it when I needed it. Yeah, Call me greedy but I don't care since it's important.

I stopped on the informational hall and pick up the book name "Elemental Magic". It has a lot of dust and is very dirty, scratches could be seen in the cover. I tried to remove the dirt on the book by blowing on it, but I guess it's a bad idea.

As soon as I did that, dust particles began on spreading near my face. A lot of it was breathe in to my nose as I started to cough badly and began on having a runny nose. It was then started to regret my decision. After a while, my coughing stopped and I started to go back to my seat.

I snatched the sign away from the chair and crumpled it in my fist. Running out of patience, I dragged the chair harshly which cause a loud sound.

"Shh" Hushed everyone. Suddenly, I felt embarrassed at my own actions. I gave them an apologetic look before dragging the chair again. This time, it was more gentler than before.

For the past years, I have been reading books and training like a maniac without knowing the truth about my affinity, but now, I will learn about it.

I opened the book and contrary to the cover, its pages were very clean and there was no dust. On the bottom of the first page, a name could be seen written neatly. It was showing the word 'First', in which I assumed the first person to have the elemental magic.

From what I read, a magician who had a lot of affinities are what we call elemental mages. They are legends and probably the most strongest mages in the world. The book also states that the only one who has this kind of magic is the 'Chosen One', and is the only one who can use it.

I, before, doesn't believe anything about it, but what is written on the book is proved to be truth. After all, I, myself is the proof.

According to the book, there are three stages of evolution for this kind of magic: The Primary, Secondary and The Final. In addition, it also stated that the primary evolution start when you had use your magic for the first time, meaning it started when I had my first manifestation.

Secondary evolution starts when you receive your grimoire, it will suddenly appear without your consent. Secondary evolution is also the stage where your body reacts on its own to protect yourself from harm, it is convenient but can also consume you if you have dark emotions.

I took in what the book had written while gulping at the same time. As expected, everything that looks perfect still have flaws, maybe this is why they believe that No One – Nothing – is Perfect. I continue on reading and was disappointed at the end, at the Final Evolution there were no triggers for it but still has information.

I sighed deeply as I closed the book, so far I still have little knowledge about my magic. What a disappointment.

I tried to stand up in attempt to return the book, but my knees wobbled as I had no energy left on it. I needed support to stand and seeing that the table was the closest, I used it. I grabbed the the end of the table using my right hand as my left hand was holding the book. As stupid as it may sound, a sharp tip of a nail under the table pierced my thumb.

"Ouch!" I grabbed my right hand and hissed quietly while covering my mouth with my bloody hand. I bit down my bottom lips to prevent myself from screaming and held it with my left hand. That hurts.

My action caused me to drop the book from my left hand. I looked at my hurt thumb and saw it was bleeding badly as it was leaking a lot of blood. I ignored the pain and continued on what I was about to do. Sister can just heal this hand later.

While still bearing the pain, I bend down to picked up the book using my left hand, which has a little blood on it. But as soon as my hand made contact with it, it reacted. The book started to flip on some pages that I hadn't read before.

'Maybe it reacted on my blood' I thought.

My blood can function like mana, so if I don't have any mana left then I could just use my blood. Rather than saying it reacted on my blood, let's just say it reacted on my mana.

The flipping stopped and its on a page that has some unknown characters. Surprisingly, I can read it very clearly.

It shows that – well, never mind, I'll just summarize it – for anyone who is lucky to have this magic, it is usually accompanied by something black or red and can be use as anti-magic. We are loved by mana yet it's ironic that we can use an anti-magic. Remember: don't be consume by it because instead of becoming a hero that you wanted, you will become a heartless monster.

I gulped at the word monster. Being scared of hearing this word is an understatement. By just hearing this word, my blood runs cold and I got goosebumps. Every time I hear it, it reminded me of that guy. Yep, that guy, after ten years I still haven't forgot him but I got over my trauma and the nightmare.

I wash off my thoughts and jusy continued on reading the content of the book. It says:

Primary evolution

- Will gain your 6 primary element such as Fire(B), Water(A-), Nature(B), Wind(A), Ice(A), Lightning(B)

- Combinations should be:

• Fire and Wind(A)

• Ice and Water(B)

• Wind and Ice (A)

• Water and Lightning(A-)

• Wind and Lightning(A)

• Fire and Lightning(B)

Secondary Evolution

- will gain more elements like Earth(E), Shadow(B), Time(F-), Sand(A), Rock(B), Mist(D), Snow(A)

- primary elements would be upgraded from:

Water(A-) - Water(S)

Fire(B) - Fire(S)

Wind(A) - Wind(SS)

Ice(A) - Ice(SS)

Lightning(B) - Lightning(S)

Nature(B) - Nature(A)

- Possible Combination(the previous combination will get higher rank)

• Wind and Nature(A)

• Earth and Nature(B)

• Shadow and Lightning(B-)

• Water and Earth(C) (strong if you use the right combination)

• Wind and Sand(A)

• Rock and Earth(B)

• Wind and Earth(B)

• Fire and Rock(A-)

• Water and Mist(B)

• Snow and Water(A)

• Snow and Ice(A)

• Snow and Wind(A)

(Combination is not possible for time)

Final evolution

- will gain more element such as Sound(A), Gravity(A-), Speed(A), Light(SSS), Space(B), Dark(SSS), Reflection(B), Creation(A), Black White Hole(SSS – Very deadly), Dreams(S), Fate(A-), Magnetism(A), Prophecy(A), Physics(A)

- previous element will be upgraded:

Earth(E) - Earth(S)

Shadow(B) - Shadow(SS)

Sand(A) - Sand(SSS)

Mist(D) - Mist(S)

Rock (B) - Rock(SS)

Time(F-) - Time(S)

Snow(A) - Snow(SSS)

Wind(SS) - Wind(SSS)

Water(S) - Water(SSS)

Fire(S) - Fire(SSS)

Nature(A) - Nature(SSS)

Lightning(S) - Lightning(SSS)

Ice(SS) - (SSS)

- There will be infinite combination and mostly will be SSS.

"Please be careful, using S magic might cause some unnecessary deaths" I read as it was the last thing in the book.

I closed the book and notice that someone was tapping my right shoulder. I already guess who it was, and as I look above my shoulder, I was right. That person was Yuno, he was pointing on the outside, just then I notice that it was already dark.

'WHAT?', I mentally screamed as I remember that I forgot to train, Oh well, I was too engrossed on the book I was reading.

"Let's go home, it's late", Yuno said with a grim look on his face, which is scary to say the least. It was rare for him to show such expression, 'something must have happen'.

"Sup Yuno?" I tried to brush it off and decided to act normal. But his expression never changed and stayed unwavered.

"Why didn't you tell me?", my foster brother said, I didn't quite understand.

"About what?" He paused and looked at me skeptically. I gave him a confused gaze and shrugged off my shoulder. He took a deep sigh, which shows that he understand that I couldn't catch what's his asking about.

"Your right thumb." He replied before tugging my right hand harshly causing my thumb to hit his palm hardly.

"Ahh! That hurts!" I accidentally yelled. Luckily, no one was around. It seems like we're the last person here. "What's your deal?!"

"It seems that you forgot that you have a sensitive body. Being hurt is not good for your health." He reminded for almost the umpteenth time of my whole life.

"I know that, I was just busy." I assured him, in which he returned with a suspicious gaze. It seems that he doesn't believe me. He looked at me in the eyes as if he was searching if there were lies on it. Eventually, he gave up and seemed to accept my answer.

"Let's go home and let Sister treat your wound."

"Right. But let me return the book first."

As of right now, I can only use my primary affinities and sometime soon I might be able to use the secondary. I stood up from my seat and returned the book, as I went back Yuno was in the outside, waiting for me. As I reach him, we started to walk home and talk about what we learned for today.