33 Chapter 33 – Ether (2/2)

Adam could only shake his head as he realized what the two were thinking. He wasn't too worried because the sisters may fight but their bond was unbreakable. They may be peas of completely different colour and shape but they were still from the same pod and now they had pulled him into it as well.

”Okay, you two! stop fighting. Let's get out of here first. We will talk once we get back to my room. It would be hard to explain if mother walked into the room and found us unconscious.”

”Okay!” ”Okay.” The two replied.

He then began explaining to them how he would get in and out of his soul world. After a few tries, the girls were able to leave their worlds and only then did Adam return as well.

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Adam's POV-

Two tiger girls sat at the table in the room ahead of me. Their feline ears twitching attentively. Every word I say is captured and memorized by them.

'These girls are such fast learners. I only had to explain how I entered and exited the soul world a few times before they picked it up. Now when I'm explaining how to peer into the soul to view their cards, Elaine has already picked it up after the first repetition. Does she know how many times I tried and failed before I figured it out? Ugh. I don't even want to talk about it. I'm happy for her. Totally happy for her. Not one bit resentful. Nope.'

I had already gotten Elaine to understand the basic concept of soul peering. While Luna is comprehending how to utilize the technique I took the time to decide and ponder on the matter of their training.

'The first thing is figuring out an easy way to view the painting's on their card. I can't expect them to wait for ages to see the person within their painting execute a move or two. Plus it would be a little overboard to expect them to memorize the moves with one view.'

'They don't have the ability to record their cards as I do.'

'They are able to comprehend the soul world techniques a lot faster than me because they completely trust my experience as fact whereas I had to first accept the possibility that the concept was real and not a figment of my imagination before I could even begin to explore it. Plus I did not have someone giving me pointers.'

'I had to come up with a logical reason for their growth or my sanity would take too great a hit. Umm, I mean… I had to put it under a logical perspective for…for… for science! Uh, yeah no other reason comes to mind. I had no ulterior motives. The mind of a saint. Totally.'

'Moving on…'

'With training, however, they will have to tread their own path individually. Even with my matchless comprehension, I need to view the movements and attacks a few times to memorize them.'

After a few internal deliberations, I came up with the idea of having recorded the projection of the card myself. I could then imprint the useful parts into categorized recording crystals.

This way they could pick up the crystal which held similar techniques. Viewing them without having to go through hours of footage before getting to what they want to see just once. The crystals did not have the function to roll back or forward after all.

It was a bit inconvenient but I thought this was the best solution.

Recording crystals were not an expensive commodity. As such, it wasn't a problem for me to acquire them in bulk.

'The only other problem left for now is deciding whether to tell mother about Luna having the Ether element. It would be best to keep this under as many layers of deception as possible. Though I would feel bad, Luna would be a lot safer if we could even fool mother.'

'The problem is the fooling her part. She knows me too well for me to do it. I'll have to get the girls to do it. We should go with the story of her actually having the air element and that because her village only tested her for the light element, they missed out on finding it.'

'I should first figure out if she can cast the Air element.'

By now she had also comprehended how to peer into her soul with ease. So I explained to them how I would be able to record and then imprint the images of the paintings and how they could use it.

”…also I need to know if you can cast the element of Air. Can you try it out now quickly? Before mother comes.” I asked her to display her skill.

”Yes, of course, young master. Let me try.”

'The celestial enlightenment stone should have enlightened her on how to cast her spells. The only question left is if she has the ability to control which element she casts.'

I watched as she closed her eyes and then began chanting in an unknown language. Her lips moved extremely quick. It seems even she was not in complete control of this process.

'So this is what Skills are.'

Swirl! Woosh!

A wind kicked up around us in the room and started blowing heavily. The sheets on my bed were pulled into the air and flew around the room. Eventually getting caught on Elaine. Making her look like a ghost cosplay.

When the wind finally subsided I was truly glad. This meant that she did have a certain level of control over which element she was using. This made it a lot easier to fool people. Showcasing her ability was more than enough to convince just about anyone.

'Even I am an abnormality that needs to be hidden because of my dual elements. No one should think anything otherwise once she shows her air spells openly.'

”I only had to think of the wind and it worked!” She happily gloated to me.

”Good job.” I praised her. This was something that I had promised I would do if they ever excelled or put in the effort. Plus I really liked the pretty smile that would bloom after I would do so. That face… that they only showed me, warmed my heart.

'I am growing increasingly fond of these two cute girls. I haven't even spent more than two days with them. I'm not a lolicon! I'm not a lolicon! I'm not a lolicon! I dunno who I am yelling to in my own mind but this point has to be made clear!'

I then explained my plan to them in detail. I made clear how they should not tell anyone about the Ether element. It was a secret of ours that no one should know about.

Hearing that we shared a secret really excited them for some reason. I could not figure out why.

'As long as she only shows the element of Air out in public everything is perfectly fine. The only thing left now is to decide on a training program for them. I guess mother will want to do that so I will leave it up to her. Let's wait.'

'I wonder why she is taking so long.'