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"So what are you going to do?" Uryū asks Kazuma as a flash of light from the storm outside covers half of his face in the darkness.

'The truth is, I have no idea, for now, I was hoping that you would help me train her kids."

"You can't!" Masaki protests the moment she hears Kazumas words.

Kazuma lifts his head as if he was trying to choose his words wisely, but he's never been the kind of person to sugarcoat anything, so he doesn't.

"You and I both know that those girls are going to look for you and if they can't find you, they will look for me."

"Masaki you and I both know that the fact that they can see you, puts a target on their backs, so why not teach them to defend themselves and pass time with them." Kazuma says to Masaki who just looks at him with tears in her eyes.

'You know why.' she says to him.

"Yeah I know, I also know that the moment that they laid eyes on you, the future that they had before they saw you ended when they called out to you." Kazuma says to Masaki, as he allows his magic to flow into his eyes and makes them glow with a mixture of blue and green light.

Both Masaki and Uryū stare silently into Kazumas eyes as they seem to have a haunting allure to them, neither of them says anything even as they hear the storm outside growing stronger.

Masaki wraps her hands around herself as she tries to protect herself from something that she doesn't know, but she knows that Kazuma is right and yet she just wants her children to live normal lives.

"Uryū if I were to give you a pair of disks or just one, would you want it to have a spirit in them, or would you want them to be empty?" Kazuma asks Uryū.

Uryū doesn't say anything and he just looks at Kazuma, as he watches the young man yes quickly lose their glow and power.

"Neither, I'm a Quincy" Uryū answers Kazuma.

'Good because the disks were made for Quincys." Kazuma immediately says to Uryū, who just glares at him.

'I want them to be empty, it's true that if they have spirits in them then I'll have their experience but." Uryū signals toward Masaki who is still trying to regain some control over her emotions.

"You would have to deal with their problems." Kazuma says to Uryū.

'So?" Uryū asks Kazuma.

"So what?" Kazuma asks Uryū.

"What about the disks, you asked me if I wanted a pair, and I assumed that you were going to give me one or two," Uryū says to Kazuma.

'Oh ask your dad, I haven't been in the laboratory remember." Kazuma answers Uryū, who just shakes his head because he can't believe that Kazuma would just ask him something so meaningless.

The sound of Uryū's cell phone ringing catches everyone's attention and the only thing that Uryū sees is a text message from his dad telling him to get in the car.

"I'm leaving," Uryū says to Kazuma and Masaki.

'See you at school." Kazuma says to Uryū as he closes the door.

Kazuma turns to look at Masaki and he places her disk on the kitchen counter, Masaki turns to look at him and silently asks him what he's planning to do.

"I'm going t find something that I never thought that I would be looking for if I wasn't going to get paid." he says to her and Masaki grabs Kazumas hand before he can do anything.

"I'm coming with you." she says to him, but her voice doesn't have any of the strength it would normally have.

Kazuma picks up Masali's disk and opens the door before walking into the rain, he closes the door, and for a long quiet moment, he enjoys the feeling of the cold rain on his back.

He never liked the rain before, every time that he had to go on an adventure and it started raining things just went bad for him and his party.

He didn't expect things to be any different now, but he was hoping that the rain would bring something that shouldn't have been here out, it was a long shot, but who would have ever thought that he would choose to walk into the rain when it was dark outside and he had a warm place to sleep for the night.

Kazuma turned around and jumped onto the nearby roof of the building that was next to the one that he was using.

He ran and jumped from one roof onto another, he didn't know that Kanae and Ryūken were following him in their car, or that Uryū didn't blink as he followed him.

After what felt like hours Maskai and Kanae gasped at the sight that neither Uryū nor Ryūken could see.

There was a massive whale-like creature swimming in the sky, the beast disappeared into a portal before reappearing through another portal, and it kept on doing this over and over aging.

The creature only stopped doing this when the rain stopped.

"That's where we're going." Kazuma says to Masaki as he's about to try and jump into one of the portals, but before he can even try, Masaki tackles him and makes him fall onto the ground.

"You're not ready." Masaki says to Kazuma, and as Kazuma turns to look at her and asks why she stopped him, he finds himself staring into the tip of an arrow that's made of blue light.

'No Soul Reapers, no Quincy, if there's any danger you make sure to send my girls far away from it." Masaki says to Kazuma.

'I can't." Kazuma says to Masaki who puts the arrow directly in front of Kazumas right eye.

'What I can do is teach them some of my skills so they can have a fighting chance" he says to Masaki who lowers her weapon and makes it vanish