Apprenticeship Begins

I stood in what would be my new room for the next year and a half to come. It was… surprisingly small compared to my old one.

A welcome change nonetheless, I thought as I finished putting away my necessary daily items like clothes, weapons, notes, books I hadn't finished yet, personal hygiene…

" Ace-kun, If you are done, let us go to the lab. "

" Guess I'll set up my teleportation circle later on, lead the way uncle. "

…

We walked through his estate that was similar in size to my father's. It lacked any sort of homey feel though, as there were very very few servants, decorations, event rooms…

It was mostly a gloomy building that was filled with different types of labs, storage rooms, enchantment rooms, and one main library that was in itself, the size of a mansion.

We stood in front of the entrance to his main lab.

" I set up your own station in a room that connects to the lab. I do hope you find it enjoyable as you will be spending way more time there than your sleeping haven. "

I nodded and walked into the lab after him. It was completely different than any other labratuary I've ever been in from medical school.

There were wardstones, tubes filled with neon liquids, fucking dissection tables, a few computers and notebooks, and then, the regular lab equipment.

When we walked into the 'closet' of the room, I saw a smaller workstation that had three big tables, a reading desk, a device that reminded me of a microscope and some tools and trinkets laying there.

One of the large tables had a computer set up with three different monitors, looking just as old but also new with magical additions as I expected them to be. Imagine those old PCs with the beige-white coloring but just add a shit ton of gem-like structures to its frame.

There was also a wall dedicated to encyclopedia sized books, at least two hundred of them, if I were to guess.

" You will be reading about magic theory first, nephew. I'll give you a month of prep time to finish your assigned books. "

" Which ones are the assigned ones, is there like a mark or something? "

He smiled at me, like he was going to really enjoy his next sentence.

" All of them, of course. "

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…

…

" I'd ask, are you joking but, well, I already know the answer to that. At least give me something that can help with my struggles if I'm to learn all of these properly. "

" Very well, there is an app on your computer that will turn your voice recordings into Microhard Word format. You can use that to take easier notes and later go over them. You are of course, also free to use whatever magic you can to get a better performance. "

Well, if the speed I improved my full day SpeedForce kept on going, I would probably soon reach a 4x boost. So I'd have more than 3.5 months and closer to 4 to finish all of this.

It was doable, don't get me wrong. Just, so much studying that I did not want to be a part of, I had turned into even more of an adrenaline junkie that just liked fights.

" These books are my notes on magical theory. My whole collection is on the intermediate level, in fact. All of them are written by me, and there is only one of each. I hope you take good care of them, as, probably the books here are worth more than a Excalibur piece. "

Nope.

I actually felt like studying anyways, itching for it in fact.

" Well, if you'd let me, I'd like to sleep now to prepare for my study plan. "

" Of course, feel free to go in and out of this room as you wish. It has a separate entrance to my lab as you can see, so you will not have to come into my lab in the middle of an 'experiment'. Trust me, it's for your safety. "

" Yeah, I'll take my own entrance, thanks again Uncle. "

I started walking toward said entrance and opened the door. I was exhausted from today's events and it seemed I had a really important main quest given to me by my mad scientist uncle.

" Also, the books are best read from top left going to bottom right, right first, down second. "

…

That would probably make my life easier right?

[}-o-{]

Well, it really didn't make it easier in the end.

I spent weeks and weeks just visiting home for a few hours for Seek-replenishment. The rest of my days would be 6 hours of sleep (1.5 hours for me) and 18 hours of work (4,5 hours for me), so I split each day into quarters and got into the rhythm.

I never saw uncle sleep though, he probably had some sort of magic that let him be awake to have more time for his activities. He was extremely jealous of my scuffed Time Chamber though.

For the content of what I was studying, there were so many books on so many aspects of what we called 'magic'.

I learned that magic was just a reflection, a non-fully-utilizable form of what was called Chaos Energy.

Chaos was just what gods could utilize to become the aspects that they were. There are different names for it of course, but for example in Shinto myth it was called 'musubi' and it was why Amaterasu was a goddess of Sun for example.

Her being (that also came from chaos itself), was mostly internally aligned with that aspect of Chaos. She also had a smaller Life aspect to herself. Similar to Gaia or Yahweh. Probably the most broken aspect.

Well us mortals could only utilize 'magic', a lower form of chaos that filled the, and made up the, very universe we were in. Which meant that although magic could do a lot, it couldn't do everything.

Which was a flawed concept in my mind, since Sirzechs or Ajuka were easily stronger than most gods, until I realized that someone completely intune with magic could outdo gods that weren't intune with their aspects.

I learned so much about the nature of magic, how we utilized it, what 'casting' actually was, where it came from and how we managed to replenish it.

I learned about the origins of circles and their meanings. What each and every speck on a circle could tell about the spell being cast.

Ajuka could look at me creating a circle, and just cancel it with his thoughts alone. Barely spending energy from himself while my circle still drained my own reserves.

'Counter-magic' he said it was called. I would need to become a magical expert to utilize it.

But even with my intermediate training that we were going to do this year, I'd at least be able to cancel circles I could touch directly and had time to analyze. A big boon to have.

I learned about the theories behind channels and how they were best utilized, how to create stronger circles, and faster casting.

Another great thing that I learned was, and one I was certain I had to get into;

… Sealing magic.

It was a form of 'fuck you' magic that even applied to 'concept's. You could seal someone's emotions, memories, powers, physical capabilities, equipment…

The list was never ending to be honest and you could even seal lives themselves.

The stronger what you were trying to seal was, the harder it became to seal it.

Though that wasn't the problem, the problem was, well;

…

You had to continuously spend energy on the seal that fought with the internal energy of whatever it was that you were trying to seal. A constant debuff on you if you wanted to cast permanent seals.

… Damn.

There were some ways to lessen the burden, some unpowerful enough objects could be sealed with just markings, or circles that drained energy from around it to keep it active but…

None of these would ever work for Trihexa damn it.

That's why every major god-like entity was sealed alongside the damned thing. The magic that was utilized for the seal was a replica of a forbidden magic, and it drained the energy of those people permanently to keep the monster hidden away.

That was probably why God was also weakened from his own first sealing. Ending up with him passing away in a war that he had no business dying in.

So all of my plans would amount to nothing that was differed from the original timeline. I'd still need the help from multiple god-class beings who were willing to basically kill themselves for the sake of the universe.

… Unless,

Unless I found a way to seal the damn thing myself.

[}-o-{]

When I said only gods could utilize Chaos itself, I was somewhat wrong actually.

Ajuka could do that to a small degree. Also that Sun Wukong guy was a mortal turned deity, so my guess was he would be able to do something similar.

" I must say, nephew, I didn't expect you to finish all of them. Even with your cheating magic. "

He really was jealous, hehehe~

" It was a generous gift from you, uncle. It would be disrespectful of me to not make the most of such an offer. Those books might have fried my brain a bit, but just from understanding magic from a different standpoint;

My SpeedForce has improved from 3.5x to 4.5x in a month, a record for my improvement rate. "

" That is really good. What I was expecting though, as this would be more of a one time boost instead of a constant growth rate boost. Do you know your new maximum speed boost that you can activate for a moment? "

" … I haven't really tried yet. "

He grabbed my hand and put something on my hand.

" This watch will give you the exact speed rate. Your guesstimates were always either correct of just slightly off by a tiny margin. This should help with not bothering to make constant calculations though. "

This was him telling me to try it.

Fucking curious bastard.

…

I did try it though and,

" Welp, it appears I can go about 70x if it is just a minute. "

" That's, damn, actually really good. " He was right, this would let me reach a temporary 140x speed with Touki added onto it.

Since my base speed was a bit faster than an average adult human by this point, I could run about 3600 km/h for a minute straight…

… That was fucking Mach 3, easily bending the sound barrier over my knee and spanking it like my bitch.

" Although, it would only ever be a last option for me right now uncle. Once the spell ends all of my stamina disappears into thin air. Not only my energy reserves are fucked from my maximum output, that's two and a half hours (140m) that I fell while constantly fighting in a combat situation.

When there are people out there that can reach and pass my speed on just their baseline alone, I still have a long way to go. "

I looked down at the watch.

" You need to go easier on the comparison pedal, and focus a bit more on the 'small victories' one. The fact that you even classify something so significant to most devils as 'small' is already baffling enough. "

" But I don't want to be most devils, I don't even wanna be you. I wanna be better. "

He put a hand to my shoulder in a comforting manner.

" Then my advice is even more important to someone of your ambition. We devils are creatures who grow stronger with our sins, so take pride in your accomplishment. And use that morale boost from hitting a checkpoint to fuel your ambitions more. "

We devils are creatures who grow stronger by partaking in sins, huh?

Fine, I am actually proud of my accomplishments anyways damn it. I can run Mach 3 now, fucking Kiba can suck my swords.

" Thank you uncle. What will we move onto from here? "

This past month he also got me to speed up time for some animals and plants, he was now testing a way for true immortality by age for devils.

So he started with rats and bats and was now seeing the results of magic. I would speed up time for it to see how long it could live if the conditions were met.

I was curious for the results as well, and didn't really understand why my dad hated doing this. Seemed fun.

" Well, I actually devised a few plans. We will eventually do each of them but, you can select the order.

I can start teaching you advanced circle usage to further boost each and every spell of yours that use them.

I can teach you cheats around learning magic that you have very little talent in to a small degree.

I can teach you more ways to layer different magic schools and spells to create varying effects.

I can teach you a way to gather information using magic.

I can teach- "

" Wait, wait, wait. Gather information, as in being able to tell what my output's and my reserve's level just by looking at me? "

" Correct, we will see your talent in the area and move on from there, I can not promise you that you will be able to see to that extent. But I can promise you, there are so many numbers that you just can't see with the naked eye. "

" I want that. "

" Hahaha! That's fantastic nephew, my favorite brand of magic as well. Very well, we will start with you learning basic and intermediate human magic first. The calculations to using such magic is crucial as a basis for my own school of magic that I created with these hands,

Inquiry Magic! "

" FUCK, I HAVE TO STUDY MORE? "

" YES, MY PUPIL, EVEN MORE STUDY AWAITS US IN THE HORIZON! LET US START IMMEDIATELY ! "

" Wait, what about my one day break as a reward?

Uncle? Uncle… UNCLEEEE-! "

I was dragged by my neck like a fucking cat.

I struggled and tried holding onto different support beams but it was useless.

My fate was sealed,

Dark days were ahead of me…

[}-o-{]

My brain…

My very consciousness…

I felt myself slipping towards the edge of insanity from another month of mastering TWO LEVELS of a completely new magic branch.

I wanted to die.

Sleep didn't even help the migraines that were plaguing my nervous system, and not even reciting the Bible directly could cause this much of a headache.

" Your calculations are absolutely correct once again, nephew! You made me truly proud today. "

" It would be much better if I didn't spend a good 40 minutes of my day, looking down the barrel of my gun and questioning whether I should just end it all. "

" Hahaha~ You jest, Ace-kun. These are not the results of a suicidal person. "

" That's what you understand it from? "

" You also learned a ton of new magic that you can utilize now right? Improved elemental magic, (Meaning my Psi-Wind got way stronger and we figured out a couple of new techniques even.) barriers, beginner-intermediate human sealing magic, Illusion magic, enchantment magic. Come on, not even you can complain about these results. "

" I am not complaining about the results, I am merely stating that I'd rather die than to go through these two months again. "

" Well, too bad, as now it is time for Inquiry Magic- "

" DO NOT DRAG ME TO YOUR EVIL LAIR OF STUDYING MONSTER! I NEED A FULL DAY OF SEEK-CHAN TO FUNCTION! "

I didn't even let him finish his sentence and teleported myself while talking to myself like a madman.

Oh, I also learnt better teleportation magic as well, still not ready for around the battlefield teleporting constantly to throw people off but, it was getting there.

Now though, now I just need to hug my Seek-chan until my brain stops giving me warning signs of overflooding with info.

…

…

…

" Now nephew, since you finished human basics under 4.5 months your time, almost twice as fast as my record by the way congratulations- "

" You asshole! Why did you force me to learn it in a month if I could get it done in two? "

" I wanted to see if you could. "

This fucking piece of shit.

" Anyways, since you did that our Inquiry training will be a lot smoother. You can now understand the numerical value of magic and how to use calculations to make magic act to your will.

We will now reverse this process and instead of using numbers to control magic, we will look at magic that is around us all the time, and understand the numerical value of each variable.

I will then teach you how to decipher those numbers depending on which part they come from, which element they correlate with, which races have which set of rates to convert numbers.

By the time we are done, you will not only become a mathematical genius on the PHD level, you will be able to read numbers that are around us like it's your very own name. "

God I hate him so much.

" Fine, why are we not using a spell circle to do that for us by the way? "

" Then, people could steal the circle itself to replicate the effects of my magic to a small degree. Sure it would be easier, but it wouldn't be in safe hands anymore. "

" Huh, that actually makes sense. There are very few people as insane and as smart as you to completely learn that level of understanding and not even put it in a simplified formula later on. "

" Very few people indeed, nephew, maybe just a couple in fact. "

Why are you looking at me like I'm your next experiment you freaky bastard?

Stop.

" We will start with these wardstones. They are kind of like fossil fuels in a way, being used for absorbing energy out of them. They have a natural capacity for magical energy, and they absorb it from their surroundings slowly or we can forcefully charge them ourselves.

Since they only have two separate numerical values for magical purposes, their capacity and their current magic, they should be an easy target to get an understanding of what each number represents. "

" Wait, if I can fill them up with my own energy, could I hypothetically create a car engine or a motorcycle engine from these and use it to make my own two and four wheeled beauties? "

" It would be possible, yes, we use them for factories and such anyways. We could also use lighter stronger materials for the frame of the devices and enchant them for protection or magical effects as well. A very brilliant idea you have there, are you interested in such devices perhaps? "

" ARE YOU JOKING ME? LET US START IMMEDIATELY UNCLE, MY MAGICAL KAWASAKI H2R NINJA IS CALLING FOR ME TO FATHER IT, I CAN HEAR IT'S GORGEOUS SOUND ALREADY! "

' I don't think I've ever seen him this motivated before. Note for later Ajuka, if you want to get him riled up, use bait with cars, motors, and guns. Isn't he just an American at this point? '

" Let us begin then, Ace-kun, also you are shining again, too bright… "

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…

And begin, we did.

The initial spell was one you cast on your eyes, and it would allow the magical properties around us to turn into numerical values.

When I first casted it, I immediately fainted from the information overload. Magic wasn't just in the wardstone after all, it was fucking everywhere.

Everywhere I could see numbers and calculations and constantly changing numerical values on small scales. You could make them smaller but you first needed to be awake for it.

It took me three days to stay awake while casting it and being able to adjust it so the numbers disappeared into tiny little statics. You could then choose a specific target and make the number bigger just by your will and inspect it.

What a fucking broken ability it was.

Sure it could be blocked by concealment magic, but guess what?

Then you could just see the results of the concealment magic in place, effectively learning every time there was an illusion or concealment going on.

My uncle could even spitball a guess as to how strong the actual person was just judging by the quality of the concealment.

Now did I understand anything from the numbers around me? Of course not. I was still trying to adjust to my vision being slightly static and all of the information that was being fed to me.

I managed to isolate the wardstone in question after a day.

" Uncle, I want to thank you once again, from the bottom of my heart. This means so much to me. "

It really was man, sharing your own unique branch of magic like this was a sign of trust that most people wouldn't give most people, even families. This wasn't just a Clan Trait, this was a self crafted branch.

It could allow me to become a whole different beast, even if I were to go against him one day. He trusted me with such an ability.

" It is no issue, nephew. You hunger for learning and getting better, although I still don't know why, reminds me a lot of myself. I also know that as you are now, your heart is in the right place. I can trust you with such an ability because of it. "

" I will make sure to tell you my reasoning after we are done here, then. That is the least I could do. "

" Very well, now for numerical readings. I'm guessing you are seeing 19 digits on the upper side and 8 digits for the bottom part. "

I nodded.

" Well for me, I've just learned how to look at it from a glance and I can tell each number apart with muscle memory alone. For you though, just reading and keeping in mind 27 digits could be hard. Although, I guess you are the perfect person to counter that weakness as well, huh? "

" Yep, damn I love Clockwork so much. "

" Annoying broken ability…"

…

He explained how the first 6 digits would always be about the type of target it was, it could tell you whether it was an object or something alive, it could tell you the species of the alive target or the building blocks of the object, it could tell you multiple different of those elements as well.

It wasn't just 0 to 9, each number, it also had the whole alphabet for complex numerical layers and it also used the Greek alphabet on top of it.

Basically, I could tell what I was looking at from a material standpoint or the species of my targets.

The other 6 digits told you about the nature of magic, elemental or divinity or barriers and stuff.

Then 3 digits came as a blank space for specifications, such as, the object's enchantments if it had one or a buffer or debuff spell that was affecting a creature.

You would need to look at the spell itself to figure out the details but, these just gave you extra information as an overview.

The rest of the digits specified the 'power level' of whatever you were looking at. So for this wardstone, its capacity was 4 digits. When I asked what my capacity was,

" It's currently at the 243 mark. "

Oh, oh shit.

243 different numbers, and he could read it in just over a second.

What the fuck.

Also I wasn't even that strong yet, someone like him would probably have over 100000 digits lined next to each other, how the fuck I was supposed to read that anyways?

" Damn. "

" Damn indeed. "

" How the hell do you even read all of the numbers that come up you monster? "

" A simple trick actually, the first 15 digits have nothing to do with power levels right? "

" Yes?"

" Well I just look at the 16th and the 17th number, then count the amount of digits there are-"

" And then reduce that by 15. 24 digits becomes 9 and you can look at the first to number to get a representation of how strong they are! "

" Correct. "

Well damn…

Unless people specifically use energy level concealment magic in combat, which they mostly don't since they could use that extra energy and focus to actually attack the target, Ajuka will know their maximum output just by taking a look at them.

" Of course the amount of actual numbers there changes with the target. The warpstone has 2 separate numbers for you to read, but you yourself have more than a few dozen.

I will teach you what each of those represent depending on the location of them, the listing, the rank in that list.

Then we will go on to doing that for magic and for other techniques such as Senjutsu or Youjutsu.

Then we will start reading some physical strength.

Then we can look at markers for Sacred Gears. "

…

What the fucc-

[}-o-{]

" Uncle, please tell me you have some edibles here. I need my brain to shut the fuck up. "

" Of course I don't, we need your brain at full capacity all the time. "

So that really is the reason?

Not, hey let's not give a now 6.5 year old weed, but instead, that 6.5 year old needs the highest brain capacity for me to forcefully teach him PHD in Theoretical Mathematics and eventually Quantum Physics.

I now laid on the cold floor of my study room, with an ice bag to my forehead, trying to lose consciousness.

Sleep had been escaping me for the last,

…

… somewhere around 4 days probably.

I never stopped using my 5x speed, and never stopped studying.

That 100+ encyclopedias have turned into 200+ after human magic got involved and now at least 350+ after whatever the fuck our last training was.

The last of that addition was purely calculations by the way.

" Hasn't it been like 6 months since I got here? Why are you making me learn everything so damn fast? "

" It's fun. "

I had studied all of the combinations that he would teach me, taking my brain apart and melting it…

For his fucking fun.

I had another whole year I could use to study this shit slowly. And now since the rest of what we were going to study was way easier than Inquiry, I would be done earlier than the year and a half mark.

… Probably.

" At least give me some alcohol or something, I need a break. "

" You don't expect me to give alcohol to a 6 year old, do you? "

" I AM 11 YEARS OLD NOW BECAUSE OF YOU, YOU ASSHOLE! GIVE ME A BEER AT LEAST! "

He laughed at my expense as I couldn't even get up from the floor.

He made me a device, again, that would constantly change its own energy levels in a random way each minute, and I had to write down the number of digits there were, important details, and the overall energy level guesstimate.

Every single minute.

For the past 4 days.

I saw him grab a cold beer and throw it my way.

" Well, I'll be damned, it has been 4 months, 20 for you, and you have learned the combinations necessary to do the correct calculations on most things. Living, supernatural, objects, machines, magic or otherwise, you have gotten really far in it.

I'll give you 5 days worth of break. After you finish that, make sure to sleep. We do not want to stunt your growth hormones for too long after all. "

I saw him get up from the bed. Yes, I decided to ditch the room and just carry the bed to my study, and leave my room.

I crawled on the floor and using all of my remaining strength, climbed to the bed.

The beer can in my hands made a glorious sound when I opened it and started drinking it.

It has been what? 8 years? since I last opened a cold beer.

Messing with your time perception so much was a weird experience overall.

Seek would stay a baby-toddler all this time while years and years passed from my perspective for example.

It was perfect in the sense that I got to enjoy such cuteness longer than usual, but weird in the sense that my 'best friend' from school was clearly smaller than me.

Brianna would be 6 years old now, while I was almost about to enter my teenage years.

Cathy was 15 when I was first awake, now she was 18. I was 11. At some point in the next year or so, I would catch up to her age, and then pass her age.

Well, I was older mentally anyway, so it didn't affect me too much.

…

… Probably…

After finishing my beer with my hidden snacks, I laid down to my pillow hoping to sleep for at least 16 hours. That asshole would be busy for at least 3 hours anyways.

He said he would let me have 5 days worth of break time.

That fucked meant in my time.

I just had one actual day to rest, then my torture would continue once again.

…

I needed to hold Seek-chan.

[}-o-{]

" My everything, are you sure you are holding up well? You look like you haven't gotten any sleep in the last few days. "

Well, I actually didn't, so good guess mom.

" It's fine, mom, I just woke up from 15 hours of sleeping. I'm probably still sleepy. "

I now had Seek sitting on my lap and playing with one of her toys. Since she saw me for just a few hours each day, she would be attached to my hip every time I came to visit.

I was also hugging her to get my dose of Seek-cuteness.

" Our little gremlin has really grown though, hasn't he Violet-sama "

" I can finally beat your ass in our sparring sessions Cathy, prepare yourself for my revenge. All those years of constant teasing and bullying, I'll make you pay for all of them. "

I saw the maid in question stick her tongue out at me.

" How are your studies with Ajuka-sama going, baby boy? "

" Intense, but very fruitful. I learned a lot from him already, and we don't plan on stopping anytime soon. "

My mom came next to me and hugged me from the side, before I could question her though,

All of my exhaustion started feeling way better, and the strain on my mind slowly started disappearing. Bouchujutsu, otherwise known as the Bedroom Method…

" I know you are helping a bunch, mom, I also don't have the energy to refuse such a helpful technique but should you really be using that on me? "

" Hush, it is also known as healing arts anyways. It just works best during sex that's all. "

" Hihihi~ will you use it on me after we spar and you 'beat my ass' as well, gremlin-kun? Maybe kiss it so it heals? "

" You shut that trap of yours while Seek is here, hentai maid. "

" Onii-chan, what does a hentai maid mean? "

I did spit take.

" I- It means that Cathy here, is being a little dumm-dumm, okay Seek-chan? "

" Cathy-nee is being a dummy? But don't you and Cathy love each other like Mum and Mama-Vi? "

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…

…

I grabbed the wrist of my mother before she could escape.

" Seek-chan, can you go to your Mum for a few minutes, I just realized I had something really important to talk about with your Mama-Vi? "

She nodded twice before taking off and walking to where her mom was. Probably her study.

" Now, Cathy, be a dear and close the door for me. Also lock it. Don't even think about running away, I will find you. "

" Aether-kun, we can explain, okay? Just calm down for a- "

" Close it. "

" HAI! "

" Now, my dear mother… Would you mind explaining why she knows that? "

" She heard us… "

" HEARD US WHAT WOMAN? "

" Kissing… "

…

Phew, that wasn't that bad.

" We just explained to her how we loved each other, the same way her mom and dad loved each other as well… "

Okay, worse things could happen.

I knew that from first hand experience.

" And Cathy-chan~ Why did she just say that we also loved each other the same way, hmm? "

I saw her go down in the dogeza position from fear.

" I APOLOGIZE! I was just joking around while you weren't here and she took it seriously. "

Both of these women were idiots.

" Haaah~ I do not want a repeat of this, both of you. Keep her away from the debauchery you guys exposed me to. " I sighed deeply.

This was supposed to be my break damn it.

" Mom, are you and dad also? "

" N-no baby, me and your father were never really a couple to begin with. We also stopped the threeways since the last one ended up with you- "

…

I saw her slap her own mouth in desperation.

It was way too late mom,

… Way too goddamn late.

" Someone get me my gun, I have a date with God in hell. Oh wait, I am already in hell… "

Before I could think any further about the bullshit that was my visit home, my little sister came into the room again after Cathy let her in.

She was dragging my guitar on the floor behind her, not being able to lift it.

… Cute.

Everything would be fine now since cute was here.

" Onii-chan, can you play me some songs again? Pleasepleaseplease, pretty please? "

" Of course my princess, I was just in the mood to play Bullet by Hollywood Undead anyways. Though, probably shouldn't do that while you are here. "

" I wanna hear Bad Guy again! "

" Of course you do… " (Billie Eilish's hold on the younger audience seemed to be constant across multiverses it seems.)

" Mom, Cathy, I hope you understood what I was trying to get at. "

Both of them nodded furiously.

Fear.

Good.

" Then give me that guitar princess, let's tune it first. "

[}-Chapter End-{]