Been a long time coming. Like 5 Months?

On with the show~ Eighth Chapter.

There came a point of idle stature that really resorted to death.

Yotsuba Tatsuya knew that while it was a little dramatic, it just meant that your legs would go numb-ish after doing nothing for so long but taking your whole weight. Basically, it was a pun. Tatsuya didn't know who made it up, the actual quote itself was uncredited but Tatsuya knew...he knew that whoever made it up was an absolute idiot. Nevertheless, Yotsuba Tatsuya felt remiss that he could actually agree with it albeit to the slightest of possible degrees.

It, however, hadn't happened yet. It was a simply a notion of what could be from the onlookers nearby Tatsuya.

Tatsuya was currently stood outside of the School Counsellor's office. He was perplexed, no perhaps that wasn't the right way to put it. There were many ways to say the emotion that currently coursed through him, there were oh so many ways to put it yet none of them were exact because the truth was a mixture of all. He currently embodied all emotions while wearing a mask of confusion.

As a Narrator, I have probably said this before but allow me to make it clear one more time. Yotsuba Tatsuya has a slight Coffee Fetish. And I'm gonna say that again in the future, let's also be clear on that. Tatsuya loved it to such a degree, the people he worked with at FLT started to make jokes about it on his own behalf, no, it'd be easier to say that Tatsuya had asked them to come up with good ones. And if they didn't know Tatsuya as well as they did they would have thought that order was a joke in itself. The joke he liked most was this.

'Glazed Ceramic is my Body and Coffee is my Blood.'

Tatsuya was rather happy with it and had, for various talks with the Winner, learnt much about that particular age old 'Gem' that the man called it, ordered him to finish it. To create a full aria that completely embodied the Coffee. And the man jumped at that chance, he knew. That man just knew that if he did make one, make one that would make his 'employer' smile. He'd get a pay-rise as that's what Tatsuya did to people who made him smile or...that one time someone brought him a coffee unannounced and unbeknownst to anyone else. Not only did Tatsuya give that woman a pay-rise, he gave her an extra day off a month. But that's a slight digression on my part, I'm a rather lousy narrator all things considered. That's more or less the only reason why you get me as the narrator, because it's about Yotsuba Tatsuya.

It had to be something unusual.

So once Tatsuya had brought himself back to full spatial awareness and had pushed down his fears of getting a talking to about his dear beloved, he pushed forth into the room that awaited him.

"Yotsuba Tatsuya from Class 1-A."

"Sorry for calling you out so suddenly."

"Mmm."

Tatsuya proceeded to take a seat while humming lightly, foregoing any real interest in the Teacher before him. Not that he didn't care for the lady in front of him. He just knew absolutely everything about her already. Even her Three Sizes, just like any Male Heir should.

"And what exactly was I called here for, Ono-sensei?"

"Have you gotten used to School Life yet, Yotsuba-kun?"

Tatsuya felt relieved, although he didn't show it. It had just come back to hit him though, that he wouldn't have attended this school if it weren't for the other Ten Master Clans saying that the heirs must attend a Magic High School.

"No, not exactly."

"Oh dear. What exactly could be the problem?"

And it was that moment that Tatsuya gained a new sense of interest. For once, Tatsuya became interested in the person before him after starting to talk to them. This woman was trying to seduce him, whether it was innocently or not.

"People like to pester me about things. Mainly women. The older kind."

And Tatsuya didn't really like being interested in something like that so he struck back. Bluntly. Like a bat.

"Ah! I'm sorry."

And so a rumble greeted her in reply. It was a strange grumble because it was not one of hunger but there was no other way to put it because a body only rumbled when hungry. Unless you were Yotsuba Tatsuya.

"Can you just get to the point, Sensei? I was just about to eat lunch."

"It's the beginning of Second Period, Yotsuba-kun. You were excused from class for this session."

If a simple, plain, uninterested stare could show confusion then Tatsuya's version bore that seemingly impossible thought into your brain like the fear that struck a rabbit once seeing it's prey staring hungrily right at it.

"I don't understand, Ono-sensei. I'm excused from all classes."

"You aren't excused from them Yotsuba-kun, you just don't turn up to them unless you feel like it."

Tatsuya didn't grace that point with a remark.

"Regardless Yotsuba-kun, i'd like your help with something."

"No. Not a chance."

"W-Why not? You don't even know what it is."

"…? Why don't I? How could I, the Scion of Yotsuba, not know the thought process of an Investigator from Public Safety in regards to the differences between Course 1 and Course 2 students?"

"...Nothing escapes the shadows, does it?"

With the seemingly dark tone, Tatsuya proceeded to tilt his head in actual confusion.

"There is nothing dark about it. Instead of it being a shadowed truth, it is something that's rather plain…As you'd perhaps say, as the day?"

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Now, one thing should be rather clear. Tatsuya telling a joke on accident is funny. Tatsuya telling a joke on purpose is awful but not just that, it's horribly done. No matter who you are, whether you are the most die-hard of Yotsuba fanboys/suck-ups. It's ingrained into you as a Human, just as much as needing air that you visibly blanch and gape at just how ridiculous the joke was.

Yeah, he tried. For someone who is renowned for his serious, blunt persona. Trying to joke was something fresh, or it should have been. It wasn't even an embarrassing out-of-character display. It was just plain horrid.

And simply because it was so horrid, the Lady before Tatsuya. The Teacher before Tatsuya. The School's Student Counsellor. The Public Safety Investigator. The woman called Ono Haruka laughed. Chuckled her little heart out at Tatsuya. Uncontrollable, fit of laughter that caused her to leak a certain bitter fluid from her eyes. Basically put, the grown woman cried in laughter at Tatsuya trying to make a joke.

Tatsuya wasn't affronted by this. Frankly, it'd take much more to make him care because he was too happy. If the Counsellor wasn't intent on questioning him about his coffee habits in school, his reasons for blowing lessons to go drink coffee than anything was worth putting up with in the tense of protecting his dear beloved.

"Then Yotsuba-kun. Why won't you help me despite being friends with students in Course 2?"

"Too much of a hassle. First off, i'd have to make myself care. Then i'd have to make Haha-ue care. Then i'd have to make the rest of this school care. The typical go-to choice of Yotsuba, the 'Idle Threat', isn't exactly gonna work here. Even then, who said I was friends with them? Miyuki is the one who befriended them. I just acknowledged them after they offered to buy me a coffee."

"So if the whole of Course 2 bought you a coffee, one coffee per student, you'd recognise them?"

"Depends. I won't give details but I'm rather picky about my coffee. If they did, I wouldn't allow coffee from within the school. That'd be too easy for them as I'm sure they've all seen me at one point drinking coffee from on campus sites."

"If I could get this to happen. Would it?"

"No."

"And why not?"

"Miyuki wouldn't be very happy."

"Miyuki? As in Shiba Miyuki-chan?"

"Yes. That's her."

"And why wouldn't she be very happy about it. Besides her being your Guardian."

"She's the one who makes my coffee to begin with and the one who makes sure the coffee is up to standards. Don't know why she started but I didn't care for finding out after I started to get very, very good specimens of coffee coming my way."

Then it was silent. Only the slight hint of a buzz from the computer terminal.

It was silent because Tatsuya had let it out of the bag. His coffee fetish was slowly becoming something more prominent. It was already a headline on the School's Newspaper and website. He didn't want it to be a case brought up with his own Mother and Clan's Doctor.

Coffee didn't hurt him. It made him stronger.

"So. You like coffee?"

Tatsuya gave his reply a short 3 seconds later. Which also happened to be how long it took for him to get up from his chair and walk out of the room. And if you didn't get it by this point, his answer was the opening and closing of the electronic automatic door that people loved these days.

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If there is something that I could say about Tatsuya's life that could be considered a spoiler, in the whole Narrator realm of instant knowledge, then it'd be that his life is just that. With the point of the matter that explaining it would just make you more confused. You don't get something simple, even if it's the most simplest thing in the world. If it involves Tatsuya then the World's Law dictates that it must be complicated in some profound way. The profoundness isn't always a legitimate claim of such a thing but in all honesty, when it comes to the point that the World makes simple things not so simple when Tatsuya is involved, something as small as that just doesn't matter anymore.

So in conjunction to that fact, the people who are considered close to Tatsuya will experience a degree of profound difficulty to some of the things in their life. Whether it's a stupid as their hair being harder to brush one day for a reason that isn't knotted hair or their tea bag burst for the lower-class of people who are too practical to waste time with the richer, more pointless alternative.

But! It was simply that ludicrous that it went further than real life. It even infected the AI that were created by Yotsuba Tatsuya. The things that were in prototype. If the World had made it known that it was interfering in his life so much then the world would know that Yotsuba Tatsuya or in that respect, Taurus Silver was not exactly the best man for trial and error of such things. The best man for the extreme uses but the World dictated that he was a poor evaluator for anything 'simple'.

There is even a possibility of the World making something so simple, much simpler than it should be just to create difficulty and that is what I truly mean by it being profound in it's essence. Just because something is difficult, it doesn't exactly mean that it's a harder puzzle to complete, it could just as well mean that you are missing something vital. Tunnel Vision is such a thing that lends it's hand into this sort of thing.

"There was one that laid the breath of life."

It was the coming fortune and the fortune of birth that allowed someone like Tatsuya to survive in the World. The sobriquet of Yotsuba was also a name. There was never a time in his life when he stumbled due to inadequacy of his surroundings, he only stumbled because he simply wasn't there yet.

"There was one that laid the breath of death."

It was the ideals of those past and present, to see the future you must spread good will and enact the will of the Gods and wreck havoc. There isn't one without the other. In life, there isn't such a thing as one side. There must be another.

"If that one can break the Earth then the Heavens are a feat that is impossible no more."

There is no words for the one that forges the way to Heaven.

"If life can break the odds then the odds can overcome failure. There is no way but forwards, setbacks are just preparation to go."

If you can't hold true to the facts that make up your life then you can never move towards the Golden Stairs.

"It's the Creed of the Fortunate. It's a Law of the Hopefuls."

There is never a way out though. It only breaks out into a vast plain where something, anything and it could even be anywhere, would and will eventually strike you.

Death waits for no one. You think you can cheat it but you simply amuse it.

"We hold the Truth in our hands."

Life is a trickling inconsistency. There is nothing else as fragile.

"We know the Truth of the World."

Is there such a thing as irony on a grand scale? Could it even begin to cope with it? Does the World deem it appropriate? Could the World even find amusement from allowing such a thing?

"For we are His Beacon of Warmth."

If you can't go forward, how do you fare in the World of Trails and Tribulations?

"For we are His venue of Appreciation."

If there isn't a light, that spark of something, how are you even supposed to go forward?

"We are his Limbs to Protect. His Avatars of Peace and Protection."

Without the Will to follow that Light, how could you even live?

"We are the Future. We are the Petals that Protect with Fluttering Beauty."

There are things that you cannot follow but a Light will always persist. It's there as a what if and Life, True Life is full of them.

"In his Eye, we are the Flowers of Eden."

You need those who believe in you. Belief is just as important as your own Will.

"The Dragon's Iris is protected by the Sign of the Flower."

The Will makes you press on. The Belief gives you the strength to do just that. Your body, that spectacular haven, is the foundation that creates the possibility. The Mind is the Creator of Intrusion. Intrude on those who are wrong. Intrude on those who are misguided. Move the Foundation to further plant the Possibility of Light. There is no such thing as Right or Wrong when the World dictates. Just go with it. Don't think as the World planned it.

"We are the First."

Don't give in to Pressure.

"We are solely His."

Don't give in to those who don't know.

"We are His Dolls."

Don't extinguish the Belief in you.

"We are the Righteous."

Don't look back. Don't stall in the trek to the End.

"We are the Generation."

If YOU can't make it, then who can?

"We are…"

Run for it! Grasp it with all your strength! Don't be humble. Don't be placid. Push and Pull. Force your way to your Goal. They will stand in your way but Nothing is too tall to climb to Reach.

Lay waste to your opposition. Because, at the end of it all.

"...AYAME." You are Worth it.

What a chapter this was to write.
Instantly, i found myself stuck with it. I knew where i wanted to go with this chapter and i had some extra stuff.
There was another scene that i wanted to put in but it didn't fit with this theme.
While the two scenes were completely different, they all fitted around the singular theme of Tatsuya.
More to the point, what's so odd about This Tatsuya. This Tatsuya is odd, and not just because i'm writing him as a standard.
This Tatsuya is just off. The brighter eyed reader will understand what this Second scene represents or maybe just those who have read far into the LNs.
Whichever or, it proves something different. This second scene along with the small breaks in other chapters are what i'm really changing in this series.
The first ones are rather small, i've hinted at what they are in the story but joked in the A/N and replies.

I give away a lot and also nothing at the same time. I love this stupid personality trait of mine xD.

This chapter isn't exactly what it seems to be. At first thought, it may be an Inspirational Chapter or the lines to whatever AYAME actually is. But it's neither. Heck, it isn't even about the Narrator which i somehow turned into a Character of it's own with it's own quirky personality. It's about the only thing that really matters as a whole in this story. Tatsuya. It's Him.

So i bid you farewell, once more. Hopefully for not as long.
Ciao~!