24 Kagura Mikazuchi 1 Part I (1/2)

I appeared at a mountain range which I passed with Cana a week ago. That day when I checked our route, the person who appeared in my senses' range was another one of my targets. The future swordswoman of Mermaid Heel.

Kagura Mikazuchi.

Now, you must be wondering why I never targeted her when she was still in her village which was the same as Erza's. well, there are two reasons for that. One, the life Erza had before meeting me was full of loneliness. So she had to have someone solely focused on her without needing to share me with someone else. So if I had included Kagura into our little rendezvous, she would have held herself back considering her selfless personality back then.

The second reason was she was too small. She was only three years old at that point. the last year that I spent in that village I did see her, but again, I wanted to focus on Erza at that point. and if I wanted to go after Kagura, that will have to happen after Erza and the rest were taken away.

Now, the reason I am so surprised to see her here is because currently her appearance is saying that she is six years old. But, the problem is this is X772, meaning she should be four years old right now and that too spending her life in that village.

I'm both confused and scared at this sudden appearance of Kagura and I don't know what I should be doing. But I know for a fact that she is in this timeline because of me. As such I need to know the reason she is here.

I made my way to the six-year-old Kagura who was inside a small cave taking shelter from the rain that was pouring. When I reached the cave I saw that she was balled up in a corner shivering from the cold. She hasn't noticed my presence probably because of her shivering and hunger which I'm sure of since she probably doesn't know any survival skills. I took out a blanked from my pocket dimension that I managed to make during my training journey with Cana. It's not very big though. I'm only able to put a small amount of things in there right now.

Anyway, I covered her with a blanket which surprised her since she obviously thought she was alone. She looked at me with fear at first which turned into surprise and then joy. If it was only surprise, I could have written it off as her being surprised by my looks. But we have never met face to face so we are still technically strangers. So her showing joy upon seeing a stranger baffled me.

”Cover yourself with this first. I'll go get something to eat for you and try finding some dry wood to make a fire, though that would be tough considering the rain. But don't worry, I'll figure something out. Take that time to rest ok?”

Honestly, the dry wood part wasn't really a problem. I could just teleport to some place that wasn't raining and bring it here. But I need to show that I was taking the brunt of the rain to help her and take care of her to make a good first impression. After settling those issues, I need to ask some questions in order to clear my doubts.

Once I saw a small nod from her followed by her cuddling into the blanket and closing her eyes, I went out of the cave and teleported to the forest that was next to Cana's home. After gathering enough dry wood for the night, I once again teleported to the small port town where Levy used to live and bought two fishes.