127 Chapter 127: Checking in (1/2)

”Ugh…what a day at school.”

Scooping a spoonful of rice into my mouth, I savored the sweet, tangy taste of Japanese curry and exhaled happily.

Nothing like a good meal of curry rice to end off the day. Alone at home, I had to take care of my own meals, and thus I found myself cooking simple dishes. It didn't take much to wash the rice, switch on the rice cooker and microwave a plate of curry before mixing them all together. I enjoyed cooking up simple but delicious meals such as these.

After my meal, I did my dishes, and for some reason I unconsciously glanced toward the living room. The television was switched off, and the couch was empty.

Without Dad, the house felt so…deserted.

”He'll be back soon.”

Dad always came back. I knew he would. There was nothing in this world that could kill him. I was sure of that.

Even so, I had to admit that it felt a little lonely when I was the only person living in such a huge house. I wasn't expecting my female homeroom teacher to show up (my homeroom teacher was male, and he was Teacher Fielding, anyway) to freeload at my house, nor was I hoping for a cute junior at my school to visit me everyday to cook me meals and such. I wasn't some harem protagonist in a visual novel that received so many anime adaptations.

But sometimes I wished I was one. It probably would feel less lonely.

Fortunately, that loneliness would end when Dad returned, and we could both watch anime or game together. I was willing to even go through his hellish training sessions again if it meant I didn't have to spend another quiet, lonely night in the huge house.

”…I'm getting sentimental, huh?” I muttered to myself as I shook my head, washing the detergent off my hands and placing the plate in the tray to drip dry. Wiping my hands on a kitchen towel, I then switched off the light in the kitchen and proceeded upstairs.

With everything taken of, I headed straight to my room. Striding toward my bed, I caught sight of the two parcels wrapped in brown paper lying on my desk.

”Ah…I still haven't opened them yet.”

I was busy with school, so I didn't have time to open them yet. Even though I was curious to see what kind of weapons I had received, I wasn't in a hurry. After all, I didn't need Divine Devices or physical weapons. Not when my entire magic skillset revolved around summoning my own Constellation weapons

But I might as well check them out right now, since I had nothing better to do. Reaching out, I unwrapped the brown paper from the two swords.

They were a pair of swords, one black and one white, each representing yin and yang respectively. Forged by the famous swordsmith couple Gan Jiang and Mo Ye, I was tempted to just name them as such, but there were already Chinese script engraved into the side of their blades. Studying the pair of swords closely, I was reminded of my own Gemini twin swords, but these were a little longer, a lot sharper and much more durable and stronger.

”Bai Ri and Hei Yue,” I read the names on the swords out loud. The white one was Bai Ri, literally translated as White Sun, while the black one was Hei Yue, which was translated as Black Moon. A fitting name for the pair of them.

I paused for a moment, frowning in puzzlement. Why were they so similar to my Gemini twin swords? How did Gan Jiang and Mo Ye know that I employed a dual sword style? The resemblance couldn't be a simple coincidence, could it?

Strange…

Perhaps they did their research on their client before forging their swords accordingly. Adrian mentioned they took several days, after all. That was more than enough time for them to look up my personal information and particulars, which was freely available online. Especially since so many people uploaded videos of my fights and duels online. My Gemini twin swords were the Constellation weapons I summoned and used the most. Mostly it was because of my familiarity with them, my favoring of the dual sword style, and the ease of summoning and wielding them, since they were light, fast and cost very little mana to summon.

That inevitably led to the impression that they were my main and favorite weapons. Well, I couldn't say the impression was false. They were certainly my main weapons, and I favored them a lot. But they weren't my number one favorite. My favorite weapon was rarely used because it took up too much casting time and consumed too much mana, but it was my favorite because of the immense firepower it unleashed.

What was it, you ask? Well…at this point, it's a secret. You'll only find out after I reveal all of my Constellation weapons. I haven't used all of them yet, so I will leave it to your imagination.

Whatever the case, right now I wanted to find out how Gan Jiang and Mo Ye knew about my fighting style and the swords I favored. Constellation weapons aside, Gemini was certainly my favorite Constellation sword. The twin swords were my favorite swords if you were looking at a specific type of weapon. So Gan Jiang and Mo Ye weren't wrong in guessing that. The thing was that, I also frequently used a bow, so why didn't they forge me a bow?

Was it because they were a legendary swordsmith couple, and therefore could only forge swords? Were they unable to forge any other kind of weapons?

Unfortunately, I wasn't given much time to think about the uncanny resemblance much. My smartphone buzzed and I picked up the call.

”Dad?”

”Hey! Checking on you. How are you faring, being alone at home?”

It was a video call, and I could see Dad's face in the holographic screen that my smartphone projected upward. In the background, I could see what seemed like a luxurious hotel room from somewhere, but I wasn't sure where he was currently.

”Yeah, I'm doing fine. What about you? Where are you right now? Have you completed the mission? Did you find the culprits behind the Transdimensional Key? Did you destroy the organization that created it?”

”Whoa, whoa, whoa!” Dad threw up both hands, taken aback by my flurry of questions. ”Asking so many things at the same time…one question at a time, son! Relax!”

”Sorry.”