Planning

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Hikaru was slapped.

Let's go back in time and explain who slapped him.

At the time when Hikaru and Lues were fighting, in a cave far from the fighting ground there was hiding Miss Melli the one who raised sana and aki.

"It's complete. May be it will work this time"

Miss Melli was finding a way to return aki and sana back to their bodies. She went back to the cave where the spell was written and searched around there.

There she finds the spell to turn back aki and sana. She came back to the cave where aki and sana bodies were and started the preparations.

First she tested the spell on some small birds found in the world. When it worked, she tried to cast it on sana.

Miss Melli finishes the spell and Sana's body disappears.

"Wait,where did Sana's body go?....... Did she return back to normal or i failed" asked herself while being anxious.

Now back to the present.

There was only a hand in the air, slowly the full body started to become visible. It was a woman.

She had grey eyes and grey hair of shoulder length. She was Sana

"Listen carefully to what we have to say first idiot." Sana scolded Hikaru.

"She is alive"Aki said

"Wh..what. don't lie to me, she was killed in front of me"

"Remember the wheelchair grandma(Miss Melli) made for her from the skeleton bones. Didn't she say that it will also protect her for the time being."

"But you also saw it didn't you the-"

"The skeleton bones made an illusion. The bones of that skeleton have some of the same magic as the skeleton himself. Its bones can take all the damage which was directed toward the one sitting on it. She should be transported somewhere else."

" So she is transported to somewhere else , Aki! come with me and search for her from the skies."

"Okay " Aki flies ahead first.

Hikaru looks towards sana and said "sorry i-"

"We can talk about it later first we need to find yuki"

"You are right "

Sana and Hikaru started looking for Yuki. Aki came back

"She is alright, Grandma is with her"

"Miss Melli? Where is Yuki?" asked hikaru

"Yes. She is beneath the same tree where we fought the skeleton."

Hikaru and sana rushed toward the place. When Hikaru and sana reached there they saw the wheel chair was broken and on the side of it yuki was standing on her feet there while holding Miss Melli's hand.

Hikaru jumped on Yuki and gave her a tight hug while crying.

"Thank goodness you are alright"

"Ehh...brother I still don't have much strength to keep standing wooooaaaa...."

They both fell on ground

"Ouchhh.... atleast be little careful"

"I don't know what would I done without you"

" Aghhh....what do I do with this brother of mine?" says Yuki while patting Hikaru's head.

In the meantime sana was also crying, meeting with grandma again. Sana told Miss Melli everything that happened.

After calming down, Hikaru asked Miss Melli why she was there.

"Sana's body disappeared when I used the magic to return her to normal. So I was worried that I failed. I thought to check where she was, it could've been that sana regained her original body. I was coming to the village when I saw Yuki on the floor and the wheelchair broken. I casted some healing magic and waited for her to wake up. After some time she woke up and tried to stand, that's when you came"

" So I can get my body back," asked Aki.

But Miss Melli couldn't see or hear him so sana passed the words.

"Yes he can,but it will take a while I need to do some preparations first" said miss melli with smile

"I have to wait more, even sana get her body earlier than me"

Sana passed the words again

"I don't want you to come back with only either one hand or one leg or neither of them. So wait a little."

Aki looked down and nodded.

"But what are you two gonna do now? Nefrim was worry of yuki being a hindrance in his plane that's why he send someone to kill her, Hikaru you have to keep eye on yuki" asked miss melli

"I don't think that would be a problem because he thinks that yuki is dead," hikaru replied.

"So are you going to keep hiding from now on"

Yuki thought knowing her brother, he would do something like that. He even refused to uncover the truth of the village incident to the public saying Nefrim has a lot of power.. After finally getting rid of all disease she thought she could finally happily live a normal life with his brother. She didn't want to live like a wanted criminal.

"Nah... I will kill him."said hikaru with anger

Yuki was surprised hearing that, she couldn't help but ask

"Why? I thought you didn't want get involved in this mess"

" I am against revenge and other stuff. But Nefrim tried to kill you. Rage is the only thing left in me when I can't beat him. Next time I meet him his grave will be dug by me"

"Next time you meet him will be the last time, either you or he will die and that's certain. Knowing how strong are you from what i have heard from sana will not be enough to beat him you need to train yourself more" said miss melli

" No doubt about it. I will make him feel what death is."

"First lets go back to village we have to make an excuse for all that uproar or otherwise if the village know about it.it will make a huge news and to stop it Nefrim will have to take actions"

All five of them went back to the village. All the villagers were out of their houses. The old couple at whose house yuki and hikaru were staying were also there, they saw hikaru and yuki coming so they rushed over to them.

"Thank goodness you are alright, I thought something happened to you two"

"Do you know who did that outside of our house" said the grandpa while pointing at the large ice block

‘Ah, that's going to be hard to make an excuse about all of that.’ thought Hikaru

"How are you doing?" Asked Miss Melli to the grandpa

"Ah.. Miss Melli long time no see, its good to see you again"

"Yes it been really a long time"

"Did you came here after seeing the mountain collapse"

"That.... that's my doing sorry, j was teaching this young boy magic. I went a little overboard. Sorry for scaring all of you. "

Villagers left a sigh of relief.

"We thought a dragon came here"

'A dragon? There are also dragons in this world' the word dragon spiked hikarus interest.

"Haha how can a dragon be here, they rarely are seen in this area"

'I want to ride one' haiku was filled with excitement knowing there was a dragon.

" will you come to our house Miss Melli, have a tea" asked the grandpa

"Sure, why not" replied Miss Melli

'Miss melli has helped the town many times in the past and saved many lives, she is basically an angel for the villagers. Maybe that's why they believed in Miss melli and didn't complained about the whole magic teaching lie.' Thought hikaru while walking back to home with the old couple.

The grandma looked back, toward us and asked while being surprised

"Oh! look grandpa,Yuki is walking on her legs "

"Ohhh! You are right grandma. Yuki how did you heal your legs?"

"That's my doing" lied Miss Melli while smiling.

"You really are a great magician miss melli. You also used to heal sick people in village when you used to came here back in old days"

"It's just my duty to help whom i can if i have the power to"

"Hahah, as polite as always.you didn't change miss melli"

They reached home. Miss Melli and the old couple chat over a cup of the tea, after that they went to look around the village. Miss Melli said she would look after the agriculture field and check the health of villagers.

Yuki also went with them to practice walking again, and Aki followed her. Sana and hikaru were at home alone, sitting opposite to each other around the table.

"Aa.. Miss Sana thanks for helping me earlier and also sorry for behaving like that."

"Y..you don't need to worry about that. Anyone in that situation would have behaved like that."

"But still I am very thankful for your help Miss Sana. If you weren't there at that time and slapped me, I would have surely killed myself."

"You need to keep your calm hikaru. Just don't do that again ok?"

"Yes, i will not behave like that again miss sana"

"And please drop the miss, it feels weird."

"Sorry, it's just a habit of me from my time in office in my world"

" you can talk to me without any formality"

" okay, then once again thank you sana"

"No problem "

Miss Melli and others returned. Hikaru and Yuki prepared the dinner, and sana also helped. After having dinner the old couple talked to Miss Melli for a while then went to sleep.

Hikaru was in bath

"It sure was quite a day. Nefrim, that man was very strong. I cant purely depend on the 5 jokers to defeat him, he surpasses me in magic. I have to train myself to defeat him, learn more about mana and the world. I should talk about it with miss melli"

Hikaru came out of the bath. After some time when yuki and sana had taken their bath. They all talked to Miss Melli.

"Miss Melli can you help me teach about magic"

"That's not a problem, i will teach both yuki and you about magic"

Hikaru realized that Yuki would be also fighting against Nefrim from now on , he was slightly against it But he also knew that it would help Yuki to defend herself so he didn't object.

"But while you are at it, you should also train how to fight with a sword, it may be helpful in future. While it looks like a swordsman is weak against a magician, that's not the case in reality. The one who is using them decides who is gonna win the battle."

"Ok but who will teach me"

Sana raised her hand

"Sana is an excellent swordsman. There are 4 levels in swordsmanship: 1st basic, 2nd Intermediate, 3rd advance, 4th Demon. Sana is a demon level swordsman. So she can teach you."

"Okay, i will be in your care sana"said hikaru and thought 'sana, is a swordsman and a top one'

"Okay, take care of me too" replied sana

"Aki is a magician so he can also help when he return to his body" said miss melli

Miss Melli also told about the ranks in magic. They were 1st basic, 2nd Intermediate, 3rd advance, 4th Dragon, 5th God.

"You both are 17 years old right yuki and hikaru?" Asked miss melli

""Yes"

"Next year when you turn 18 you will go to the magic academy and teach there. Only 18 year olds can teach there."

"Ehh!!Why do we have to become teachers??" Asked hikaru

"That academy is run by Luke. He works under Nefrim. So may be you can find something about Nefrim and his plans there"

"Teacher..me. that's worst combination"

"There is no other option. You have do it"

"It's not that difficult to teach others, brother "said yuki

"I think they will fail me at the interview or even before that when I place my foot there"

"Haha. Dont worry, I will prepare you for the interview."

"Thanks "

"In this 1 year, it's not even 1 full year but in this time you have to train yourself"

Aki asked "what about my body"

Hikaru passed the words to miss melli

Miss Melli replied " dont worry i will return you to your body before that. You and sana will also go with yuki and hikaru. They will need your help there."

Aki smiled.

After the meeting they all went and slept in their rooms. In the morning they started doing their training.

Yuki was taught by miss melli first and hikaru started learning how to fight with a sword from sana. They went near the mountains to train, to not disturb the villagers.

Miss melli would go back to cave from time to time where Aki body was, to check on it and prepare for the spell to give Aki his body back.

And that's how months went by.