Vol 1 Chapter 7 (1/2)

Magic Replenishment, Short-Tempered Satsuki and the Strange Meiko-sensei

Because of last night’s matter, I decided to get up a bit earlier today and diligently cook a delicious breakfast for Silent Water.

Yesterday night, the white dragon known as Freed and the black dragon known as Yalide appeared again. This time they didn’t fight; rather, they discussed with me about how to quickly defeat the demons.

As we chatted, the white dragon said his light magic was good and the black dragon said his dark magic was good as well. In this manner, they got into another argument, but they didn’t fight, which was good. Moreover, from their argument, I also understood which attacks were effective in killing demons.

If it’s a relatively high level demon, I could absorb its dark magic and then convert it into my own power. Finally, I can then unleash my Sacred Fire — that way, I can avoid burning my soul. However, the prerequisite is that I must be battling a fire demon. Furthermore, if I don’t absorb enough power then I still need to consume a bit of my soul to activate the Sacred Fire.

In addition, I also became aware that the Sacred Fire can eliminate demons that are possessing human bodies. That bit, with regards to me, is the most important discovery. That’s because up until now, expelling a demon from a possessed body was the hardest undertaking in the modern world — let alone eliminating it.

“Master?” Silent Water rubbed her freshly woken eyes and said with a bit of shock as she saw me in the kitchen.

“Yo~ Silent Water, good morning.” Having caught sight of Silent Water’s messy hair, I felt that she was very cute. She should have just woken up.

“Good morning… eh?” At that moment, Silent Water realized that her hair was in a mess and immediately ran to the washroom.

Haha, sure enough, Silent Water is really cute. Only, her face seemed to appear a bit abnormal.

Ten minutes later, after was.h.i.+ng up, Silent Water became a lot more spirited. Her hair was also combed as smoothly as it usually was. However, the weirdness on her face still didn’t go away.

Silent water looked at me a bit strangely and asked: “Master, today… why are you up so earlier? You obviously have to go to school, what if you’re not getting enough sleep? This sort of stuff… won’t it better if you hand it over to Silent Water?”

Silent Water, at the present, has basically already mastered my skills. In barely four days, she mastered my cooking skills that I spent five years on. In fact, the food she cooked was even more delicious compared to mine. Was this the the legendary “the student surpa.s.ses the teacher”?

“Today? I need to apologize for the matter from yesterday, so I’m cooking for Silent Water a serving of my specialty dish — egg fried rice. I believe you haven’t eat this before…”

“You really don’t have to apologize for yesterday…” Silent Water lowered her head, embarra.s.sed.

“Silent Water… I don’t have anything I can give you, so…” Right, I’m not Silent Water’s real master and also haven’t given her anything. Originally I said I wanted to take care of her, but presently the situation is in reverse and I’m being taken care of by her…She cooks the food and also cleans the house.

“No… Master already gave me a lot…”

The current atmosphere, how do you say it? In any case, it felt weird…

I saw Silent Water’s sickly face and suddenly had an urge to want to embrace Silent Water?

“Mas…ter…” Silent Water’s body trembled suddenly in my embrace.

“Sorry, I don’t know… what this is about either.” What’s going on? Right after having the urge to hug Silent Water, in the next second I suddenly embraced Silent Water?

At that moment, I could feel that inside my body, something formless was flowing into Silent Water’s body. Silent Water also felt that her hands, which she originally didn’t know where to put, were now tightly embracing my waist.

After approximately 10 seconds, the feeling that resembled energy transfer faded away. At that moment, the strangeness on her face already disappeared and her usual rosiness was restored.

“Master… thank you…” What happened?

“Thank me for what?” I thought Silent Water would get mad instead.

“Thank you, your… formidable magic power… giving a bit of it to me…”

Magic power? What’s this about?

‘Boy…’ At that moment the voice of the white dragon, Freed, came up by my ear.

‘Freed? What’s this about?’

‘After fusing for so many days, Yalide and I can now communicate with you through your conscious. Even though we can keep this up for at most 1 hour a day, it is enough for us to a.s.sist you during emergencies. Remember, this must not be exposed or it will bring about lots of problems.’

‘Fusing? For now, let’s not talk about this. What was that just now?’

‘That? Oh, that. That was the spirit’s magic replenishment. You b.a.s.t.a.r.d, still have the nerve to talk about not forming a contract with her? Do you know that for a spirit to remaining and live normally in the human world, they need magic power?’

‘This…. I really didn’t know about it.’ That’s because it doesn’t seem to be written in any books. No…. as long as spirits exists, humans would probably always try to catch them to form contracts?

‘Okay, now I will simplify it for you. After spirits form a contract with humans, they can share magic power with their master. Humans can recover spiritual power daily and convert it to magic power. With this, they can supply their spirits with the necessary magic power. However, spirits without a contract need to use their own magic power to continue living in the human world. If spirits do not have a master, they will have a very slow magic power recovery. Furthermore, for king cla.s.s spirits like her, naturally they will need a lot more magic power to support their activities.’

‘King cla.s.s spirits? What is this about?’ I’ve heard about sharing of magic power before but I have never heard of king cla.s.s spirits.

‘Are you serious? You don’t even know about this? King cla.s.s spirits are the protector of the spirit race. In total, there are light, dark, water, fire, wind, lightning. These are the 6 basic elements. They are entrusted with the duty of protecting the spirit race. Their ancestors were our faithful servants.’

‘…… I really didn’t know about this.’ These books sure are useless. Furthermore, humans seldom venture into the dangerous demon world, so how would they be able to clearly understand about the spirits? In addition, not all spirits are as talkative as Silent Water…..

‘The higher the spirit cla.s.s, the more magic power they need. The reason you unconsciously hugged her, was because your powers reacted to her needs. As a result, it led to resonance, which allows you to replenish her magic power through hugging her.’

‘So it was like this…. in that case, I can use magic now?’ I have always wanted to try those cool magic used by Takahas.h.i.+.

‘Yes…. but the magic you use belong to the power type. Until you can learn to control that magic, all spells you use will go berserk.’ said Yalide.

So the reason was like this. This explains why during the first day, that mini tornado became a giant tornado instead.

‘How can I control this magic?’

‘I’m very sorry, but I don’t think there are any ways for you to control this magic.’

‘Why?’ Isn’t this too saddening?

‘It’s because you didn’t start practicing from a young age. Actually, it is all a coincidence that you are able to come to this world and us living in your body.’

‘Explain?’

‘As Yalide and I were sealed, our body had disappeared, however, our souls did not completely vanish. The current me is just a incomplete soul. Yalide and I had drifted though a few s.p.a.ce, where time and s.p.a.ce seems to be countless. I can’t remember drifting through how many s.p.a.ce or how much time went by. Just like this, we drifted around for more than one thousand years. Only until a few days ago, did we happen to drift to your previous world, and you, coincidentally fell into the sea, and we accidentally b.u.mped into you which brought out your soul. We have never come across this before….. perhaps your soul gave us power, and allowed us to return to this s.p.a.ce and time, and even live inside your body….’

‘So it was like this…..’

“…… Master…… Master……. Excuse me, how are you?” Silent Water, extremely fl.u.s.tered, pulled my arm.

“Ah? What is it?“ While talking to Yalide, I had lost track of time.

“I knew it, it’s because you gave me too much magic power, so you’re probably tired?” Silent Water blamed herself as she spoke.

“No no no, this is definitely not it…. it’s just….. I was thinking too deeply about some things just now…..” I quickly patted Silent Water’s head.

Anyway, it’s good that nothing happened to her…..

“Don’t frown. I already said it doesn’t concern you. Have a seat, I’ll go and make some breakfast for you…..” While speaking, I continue to cook the fried rice from where I had left off.

After checking that I was no longer heavily distracted, the guilt she had had disappeared.

She quietly sat in front of the dining table and waited for me to finish cooking.

After taking a bite of the fried rice that I cooked, she covered her mouth and with a face full of happiness said: “So delicious…. Master…. thank you.”

“If you like it then it’s fine.”

…………………..

After coming to school and seeing Satsuki sitting on her seat with a reddish complexion, I feel at ease.

“Yo~~ good morning.” I put down my bag and greeted her like usual.

“Ah… good morning.” said Satsuki with a face full of happiness.

Did something happened? This expression that Satsuki has.

“Did something good happened?” I asked.

“Ah? nothing.” Satsuki blankly looked at my face, then returned to her usual self and said.

What a strange girl.

“Xiang~ good morning.” Takahas.h.i.+ came over and greeted me.

Today’s Takahas.h.i.+ is handsome like usual.

“Satsuki-san, good morning.”

“Ah, good morning.” To my surprise, Satsuki actually looked at Takahas.h.i.+ as she answered. I simply can’t believe this.

“Takahas.h.i.+ seems to be surprised by Satsuki’s change as well, then he showed his white teeth, and handsomely said: “Today’s Satsuki…-san, feels very different.”

“Really….?” Satsuki actually smiled towards Takahas.h.i.+…..

“I knew it, Satsuki-san is really pretty.” Ah~~~~~~ Takahas.h.i.+ is on the offense now

Go on, Satsuki, good luck, this is your chance to deepen your relations.h.i.+p with him.

“Haha, thanks.” Satsuki embarra.s.singly smiled.

What happened? Today’s Satsuki is so brave, from the looks of it, by tomorrow, their relations.h.i.+p should get hotter. Does catching a cold, change a person’s personality?

“Hey~~~ Satsuki-san, are you free today after school? I don’t have to work at the shop today, so do you want to watch a movie with me?” As expected of Takahas.h.i.+, he’s so daring, so quickly asked Satsuki out to a movie.

Satsuki, you must grab hold of this opportunity, this is Takahas.h.i.+’s first time asking a girl out to a date! ! !

Satsuki sweetly smiled and said: “I’m willing.” Wah~~~~ Today’s Satsuki is really brave.

The only thing is, what is this sour feeling in my heart? If anything else, I should be feeling happy…..

“However, I’m really sorry Takahas.h.i.+-kun.” Satsuki again said: “I’m not free today.”

Did I hear wrongly? Did I hear wrongly? Satsuki, what did you just say?

Takahas.h.i.+-kun did not mind and said: “Is that so, then tomorrow? I’m on leave tomorrow as well. Shall we go tomorrow then?”

At this point, I completely understood why Takahas.h.i.+ was on leave, it’s obviously because of Satsuki that he applied for one? Takahas.h.i.+ is working in a very popular coffee shop and how can such a popular coffee shop allow people to take a leave for two consecutive days?

Actually…. its popularity, should be due to Takahas.h.i.+’s handsomeness?

I went to Takahas.h.i.+’s shop before and I completely understood that those young girls came just to see Takahas.h.i.+…..

“Hmm~~” Satsuki thought for awhile, and said: “I’m not sure if I’m free tomorrow, why not wait till tomorrow and decide?

Ha? Satsuki…. what are you saying…. do you even have other things to do? Don’t think I don’t know that you didn’t join any clubs. After school, at most you and a few other girls went to the cake shop to eat some cakes and headed straight home after that like a good girl….

— The above information, all of it came from the nerdy Lin Xiang that likes Satsuki, to the degree of madness, who after a few days of stalking, managed to obtain this information…..

“Is that so? Then I will invite you again tomorrow.” Takahas.h.i.+ cooly turn around, and went back to his seat.

“Hey…. what are you doing? That was such a good opportunity.”

“Did you forgot what we said yesterday, about accompanying me to buy magic books? said Satsuki.

“Can’t we just buy the magic books at a later time? Just now was a such a good chance….” Speaking of which, I had forgotten about this. This girl only dares to talk face to face with Takahas.h.i.+, but is still timid, so she didn’t go with Takahas.h.i.+? But… seeing her expression, she doesn’t look timid at all ! !