Chapter 4:

About the world

A jokers world


Yuki asks the old couple "Do you want grandchild"

Hikaru's face drops,aki burst out in laughter so does sana,yuki smiles, hikaru looks towards the old couple, the old couple look toward each other then laughs and says

"Ha ha ha... you are quiet a adorable child. So what do you mean by it?"

Hikaru sighs in relief,yuki asks them

"We were looking for a place to stay in the village, can we live with you Grandma and grandpa, of course we will not be freeloaders , we will give you money and I will also help you with house chores."

The old couple loo,s towards yukis legs and then comes toward yuki, pats her head and says

"How can we decline the request of such a sweet child. Come with us"

Yuki looks towards hikaru and smiles, while hikaru thinks "Thank goodness they were nice people"

The old couple took them to their house. In the way the old couple asks "what's your name childs"

Hikaru introduced both him and yuki to old couple and asks " What shall we call you sir and mam?"

The grandpa replies 

"ha ha ha, didn't you want to be our grandchilds then calling us Grandma and grandpa will make us happy"

Hikaru replies "Then, thanks for helping us Grandma and grandpa"

They reaches the house. It was quiet large with 2 floors, some space left in front of the main door  were some trees , flowers were grown. The house was quiet large but when they went inside the house it doesn't fell like the house more bigger then the front space, it had windows mad at places which didn't make it feel like it was a close building.

Then the old couple gave them house tour. Their was kitchen, a store house, 4 bedroom ont the second floor and a room filled with books its was the largest room of house, and a bath house it was the 2nd largest room.

After house tour hikaru asks the couple

 "we can start to help in house from today and if you need any other help then please order us"

The grandpa says

 "we don't need much help outside the house, you can help us by preparing meals, watering the plants and sometime cleaning the house Other than that you are free to use your time however you want." 

It was already around night time so yuki and hikaru started preparing dinner. After that they called the old couple and eat with them in the dinning hall, the old couple praised hikaru and yuki cooking. After Finishing the dinner they washed the dishes, take a bath and then hikaru take yuki to her room, lift her from wheel chair then puts her on bed and then says 

"Now take a good sleep,  Good night"

Hikaru closes yuki's room door and wents to his own room lie on the bed and sees aki's face coming out from the ceiling. He almost screams but held it in and then says in a little loud tone

"I almost forget about you, where have you been all day?"

Aki floats a little down and says

"I was checking out this house and the area around, how rude of you to forget about me"

Hikaru: sorry sorry i was a little lost in the peaceful time. Now what are you going to do for night can you sleep.

Aki: yes we can. 

Hikaru says "so go and sleep where ever you like. Ah.. and tell sana I want to speak with her if she allows"

Aki makes a face and says"so you forget about me even when you can see and hear me but you remember about Sana whom you haven't seen or spoken to.well how are you gonna talk to her you cant even hear her"

Hikaru replies" You will be the middle man between us"

Aki replies "well whatever"

Hikaru asks "is sana here in this room?"

Aki replies " No maybe she is in your sister room,why you ask?"

Sana enters the room from behind of aki.

Hikaru replies "Well, i was just thinking that she may be also getting lonely not being able to talk to us and neither I have seen you till now talk with her"

Aki says " i do talk to her you are just not there when I talk to her"

Hiakru replies: ya ya, but i slightly understand how she is feeling because of not being able to intract with other people, while you have us to chat with, laugh with, rant about something while she has only you, may be I am just overthinking or simply assuming that she is also eager to talk with us, maybe your are not letting her feel lonely and sad but it can be a possibility that she feel herself alone in the world when me and yuki are talking with you.

It's not like I am only taking pity for her but i aslo want to have a chat with her maybe I am curious about her or what ever and I think yuki also want to have a chat with her too "

Aki comes a little closer pats hikaru head, hikaru rools his head sideway in embarrassment the aki says 

"That's pretty kind of you "

Sana listening them gets red ears

Hikraru suddenly remembered ladies which used to work in his office,he asks aki with a little bit of fear

"By the way what type of lady is miss Sara?"

Aki replies while laughing "ha ha ha what happened, do you get nervous when talking to a women?"

Hikaru says "if they are like the women's i know from my office then surely I will get chills down my spine"

Aki with confusion says "why? Did they had bad personality or was it because of their looks?"

Hikaru says

"first of all i dont judge someone by thier face. They all were beautiful but the way they seduced most of men in the office to do their share of work and hide their true personality relly terrified me. Mens were dancing on those women's fingertip. So i am on guard around most of women's "

Aki laughs and replies " that why you were still single, like not all the males are same the same way not all the women are same. Sana is............"

Aki stops talking, hikaru looks towards aki and says

"Why are you not saying something?"

Sana was covering aki's mouth, she wispers something in aki's ears, aki nods and sana let's him go, then aki replies to hikaru

"Sana just came, she says we will talk face to face when you and yuki will be able to see and hear her. She is going back to sleep in yuki room. She says good night"

Hiakru replies "ah.. ok, Good night"

Sana goes back to yuki's room and aki sleeps in Hikaru's room. A little but after aki fell alseep someone knocks on hikaru door, he was still awake. He asks

"Is yuki there? You can come in"

Yuki opens the door come in with her wheel chair.hikaru stand quickly and helps her, then asks

"What happened ? Not able to sleep?"

Yuki smiles and replies "Looks like it became my daily routine  to talk to my brother before sleeping, j cant get sleepy without it."

Hikaru chuckles and asks "what am I? A boring story teller. Anywas is your body really alright?"

Yuki replies "ya,the pain vanished and i can do normal works easily but i still get exhausted pretty easily i should start doing some light exercise "

Hikaru replies "your body is not familiar with hard work and you was only able to do little amount of work previously due to affected by cancer, it will take time but surely you will be able to stand back on feet and do any work you want to do."

Yuki looks around then asks 

"brother why don't we help exposing what the guy, nefrim did with village to other higher up to punish him for what he did"

Hikaru knows the question was coming,he replies 

"You know we are new in this world,we have no connection, we don't know whom we can trust whome we can't. Dont you think the person who was able to hide the incident of vanishing a whole village,have power and connection and many people working under him.we cant do anything again him.you don't have to think about that stuff, maybe there are some persons who are already suspicious of him. You should go and sleep in your room for today, okay?"

Yuki replies "okay."

Hikaru take yuki in her room then comes back to sleep in his room.

Morning comes, hikaru gets up , checks on yuki and sees she is still sleeping he smile went down take bath then goes to kitchen and starts preparing breakfast. Then he went to check on old couple they were awake, he calls them for dinner at the same time yuki wakes up he helps yuki on wheel chair. They eats breakfast , hikaru request grandma to help yuki with bath she agrees. Hikaru in meantime completes other house works. Aki and sara wakes up and start doing stretches at the top of house. After yuki had taken bath the old couple went to their friends house

Hikaru asks yuki "you want to go outside?"

Yuki replies"nah, i want to try using this wand. So i am going to take aki with me to teach me outside. So can you call him and take me near the trees shade of our house"

Hikaru calls aki "akiiiii! Come down"

Aki comes down through ceiling and asks 

"what happened?"

Hikaru says" Can you teach yuki how to use magic spells?"

Aki replies "sure why not, i also want to see how powerful she can be"

Hikaru says" okay thanks then "

Hiakru takes yuki under the shade of the tree then comes in, after completing other left tasks he started thinking what to do. He remembers the room filled with books.

Hikaru goes into that room and starts looking for books which can be of his interest, by going through shelfs he founds some books which caught his eyes. He takes those books puts them on the table and sits on the chair.

The first book hikaru opens was named-

 'About mana and magic spells'

The books says that mana in present in living organism, dead ones also and in plants and surrounding environment. Your body can store mana but its not mana itself which makes a being strong its the way someone uses it which can make them strong, you can collect mana from surrounding and store it But up to a limit which vary according to creatures and person to person.

That mana will help to cast spells. Most of spells which are being used and will be used in future may be same because creating new one requires good imaginations and talent which is not something common to found.

You can cast spell with chanting or without chanting depending on a person capabilities and hard work.

Wand help in efficient use of mana and help in storing mana. You can also cast spell without a wand whose power will depend on again the person

Some persons may suffer from disease caused by or related to mana. Some persons are only able to use mana from surrounding, they don't have ability to store mana

Mana can be used for healing also but you will need meat of any living being if you want to regenerate body parts which are lost by the person if you don't have his/her original body parts but if you have his/her body parts not completely destroyed then some simple healing spell can help but the spell for giving someone parts which they lost ,by meat of other living being is not still completely perfect so it may not help, its success rate is low.

Other many things were written in the book.

Then second book which catch Hikaru's eyes was about the map of world and information about nobel families 

The third and last book which caught Hikaru's eye was titled-"The 7 who ruled the world"

It has information about 7 monsters who ruled the world before humans and still are present somewhere here in world but out of the 7 monsters it was siad that 1 was dead and 1 was on verge of death. So that left 5 monster who are still alive and fit, living in this world but they don't come in contact with any person they are hiding somewhere in this world.

They have powers which is immeasurable, humans can't fight against them. It's is a good thing that they don't have any intentions to wipe out the living being.looking at the evidence at mountain and seas it seems they liked to play like child, some of mountain shapes and big holes under sea surface are their doing. Some people even call them 'Jokers Of The Pre Era' for their behaviours.but still they are monsters to be scared of. Search for them is still going on by many people but not even of one of them is still found out.There was no way to rank them according to thier power so all of them are thought to be equally powerful.

Hikaru hears voices from outside so he puts back the books to their places and goes outside. He sees yuki with a big smile on her face and ice block floating in air. Hikaru goes close to yuki and aki then says

"So you are able to produce ice umm."

Aki with a smug says " and its without enchanting "

Hikraru asks " why you are so happy about that though "

Aki replies " she will spread my name in future as a great teacher of her. She have great talent"

Hikaru says "whose sister do you think she is "

Aki looks with wide open eyes toward hikaru and says 

" i dont think you will even be able to move wind with your mana controlling ability.I can guess your limit by a glance at you"

Hikaru says " You dont have to be that harsh"

The old couple returns home. They all enjoy rest of day by chatting and talking about hikarus past and the old couple having pain in joints and shoulder due to old age.

At night hikaru give massage to old couple took relive them from some pain. After that hikaru,yuki,sana and aki talks more about hiakru and yuki childhood  and aki's and sana childhood.Then after seeing yuki sleep on chair he takes yuki to her room and then he sleeps after checking the house door.

The next day the old couple takes hikaru and yuki outside the house to introduce them to other people of village. All villagers greets them with a smile, some talks to them about how the old couple were the only one at that house and the villagers were worried about their health but because of hikaru and yuki starting to live their they can rest assure. 

After that the old couple goes again to his friends house, according to the villagers all old people meet at a decided house and enjoy thier time at that place, it was a daily routine.

Hikaru and yuki goes back to house and practice magic their and so few days goes by





A jokers world