Chapter 4:

The Unsheathed Katana

Three Legendary Swords

”Ahhh I wanna kill this hooman!!!”
"Listen! If you wanna stay here-”

Miraii Bridge
At 5:30 AM, Shinji walked beneath the bridge while Akira floated behind, carrying his duffel bag lazily.

"I cant believe I agreed to this!”

He stopped, breathed deeply and stared at the lake. Akira on the other hand, placed down the bag behind him and floated beside him.

"You like this view, hooman?”
"Apparently…”
"Apparently?!”

She glanced at him and he took the katana out of the bag.

"Know what this is, Akira?”
"Katana? Why is it unsheathed?”

He smirked and pierced it to the ground.

"This bad boy right here is Moeru Yona! One of the three legendary swords!”

She stared at him for a second before bursting out laughing, rolling in the air.

"HAHAHAHA!!! No way-… No way this is Moeru Yona!”
"I can smell that from miles away…”

He let her touch the katana and it drained her mana.

"EHHHHHHH?!”
"Believe me now?!”

Her eyes widened and her face turned pale. She floated to the back, trembling.

"Why he have the Moeru Yona?! Not to mention he could see me also… Don’t tell m-”
"Please…”

He lowered his gaze.

"Huh?”
"Please teach m-”

She extended both her arms to her side.

"Wo woo woo! Slo- slow down hooman! Where did you even get that?! Wha- what else you got?!”

He raised his head.

"I got it from my daddy… I have this too but I dont know what this is… Wait, let me show you!”

A red aura cloaked around him for a short time.

"Demonic Aura?! HE'S A TRYBRID?! This is bad! But… Wh-... Why ‘she’ didn’t take over his body yet?”

While Akira was talking to herself, Shinji lowered his gaze again.

"I know this is sudden but… Please… Teach me Moeru Yona’s true potential!”
"Haaa?! Did he even realize what he talking about?! Wh- why?”

He clutched the katana’s pommel.

"I wanna destroy Dragonoid Naga!”
"Wha-… Did ‘she’ brainwash him?! Im sorry hooman…”

She shook her head and Shinji looked at her.

"Dont tell me you sided with them?!”

She turned her whole body to her back.

"Im not gonna teach you for you to do something bad!”
"THEY TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME, AKIRA!!!”

She flinched, her eyes widened and she turned to him immediately.

"I was a kid when it happened but I cant do sheet! They killed everyone and everything… Up until now… More and more innocent souls being taken away! Why?! TELL ME AKIRA! TELL ME WHO’S THE BAD ONE HERE?!”

He stepped forward with a hard stomping, causing a mini earthquake.

"Hooman…”
"Please! Im begging you!”

He bowed his head and squeezed his eyes closed.

"Why he-?! I'm the one who supposed to be a slave here… But he-... What kind of master is this…”

Akira crossed her arms and looked aside.

"Dragonoid Naga… But princess said-…”

She closed her eyes and held her chest.

"I feel bad if I turned him down… But… I don’t want to see the worlds burn either! What should I do? Who should I trust?!”
"Please… Believe me… Please!”

She breathed deeply before gazing back at him.

"I'll just... Play along for now… Hooman… I like it rough, so you better be prepared!”

He raised his head with a faint smile on his face.

"Bring it on, ma’am!”
"So! What did you know so far?”

He explained his battle with the ninja yesterday.

"Tho, I don’t know how… It just… Magically happened…”
"That proved ‘she’ already awakened… But why ‘she’ didn’t make ‘her’ move yet?”

She floated right in front of him with a serious expression and her arm still crossed.

"First things first! You need to understand that Moeru Yona is a Spatial Ability type, in other words, it’s a space manipulation magic!”

He imagined redirecting an asteroid from hitting the earth and she chopped his head.

“Adoiii!”
"Not that kind of space, hooman! Let’s take the moment you stepped on the air for example, what actually happened is you condensed air particles into solid matter, which gives you an invisible platform that allowed you to push against!”

She explained and he nodded without fully understanding it.

Next, shukuchi! When you walking or running, air resistance and gravity will slow you down, but with Moeru Yona, you can control them! That’s why you could reached your target almost instantly!”

She zipped the duffel bag.

"Let’s move to the first lesson! Fundamental but useful, it’s called teleportation! You can start by teleporting your Moeru Yona into your duffel bag and vice versa!”

He glanced at the katana and the bag.

"Aaa… How?”
"Imagine the place you want it to go! It should be easy for you!”

Shinji closed his eyes but she chopped his head again.

"Adoi! What?!”
"Distraction existed, hooman! Learn to focus while getting distracted!”

They repeated it for an hour and yet nothing magical happened, only pain.

"Ughh! My head!"
"Hooman, you sucked!”
"I know! You don’t have to remind me that!”

He knelt and held his head but Akira only healed her hand. The next day, they came back only to get the same result. Day after day, until a week passed by yet no progress has been made.

"How come you struggle at a basic level you dum dum hooman!”
"Uhh, I-… I will just commit seppuku…”

He stabbed himself with the katana’s pommel.

"He so persistent… You sure you transferred enough energy into it?”
"Well… It keeps on sucking me dry so I learned to hol-”

Akira forcefully pushed his head into the lake.

"Auuughhhh!!!”

Chrono, who was jogging on the bridge with his earpiece on, overheard the faint noise.

"Huh? Lagu ja kot! (Guess just the music!)”

He went past and she pulled Shinji’s head back then punched him in the stomach.

"Aaadoiii! What was that for?!”
"For you being an idiot! Just like machine and our body, magic needs energy source for it to work! Humans don’t have mana, that’s why it drained your energy!”

He blinked.

"That’s it?!”
"No! That and you being an idiot!”

She glanced at his watch and slowly floated backwards.

"Let’s go now! You will be late for school!”
"We! Why you backing of-”

She fled right away, leaving him and his duffel bag behind.

"Nyahahahaha!!!”
"You slacking off!!!”

He stood and turned to the lake with a slight smile on his face.

"Ya saw that buddy? She resembled Aimi so much, don’t ya think?”

He lowered his gaze, glanced at his watch and released a deep sigh.

Chrono’s Room
Chrono flipped the sketch of a girl, folded it and read the note.

001:
Dear diary, I want to be an athlete but Im weak and sick! Big bro works really hard for me! He even bought me medicine! With this, I can finally run and jump like a true athlete!

He said athletes paid well too! I want to pay big bro back-... (The rest of the note folded)

"Today is the day… I will win this for you, Chloe! Hang tunggu nah! Dok sini elok elok! Malam satgi aq balik! (Just you wait! Stay here! I will be back tonight!)”

He inserted the sketch into the frame, grasped his school’s badge and a cyan pen then left the room with chocolate color school sports shirt.

School Street
Shinji walked to school in a plain white shirt and tracksuit pants, with his duffel bag at hand. Akira floated behind, invisible to everyone else.

"Hooman, you sure it’s safe to bring Moeru Yona with us?”
"Im not sure if I can trust you with this yet…”
"Tsk!”
"Dont tsk me!"

Nearby students noticed him talking to no one and instinctively kept a distance.

"You farted?”
"Ye- wha- NO! Im in my spirit form, only you can see me, hooman!”
"How the fork-"

All the nearby students bolted even before the sports event started and Shinji scratched his head.

"Because you a trybrid, a human with Spiritual DNA genetic... The perfect ‘pawn’ for the ‘queen’…"

She gazed up in the sky.

"Fate, what kind of ‘game’ you making us ‘play’ here?!”

Akira stopped and floated statically while staring at him as he walked away.

“I need to kill him… Before its too late…”

Somewhere Unknown
Thousands of Dragonoid Naga members gathered, waiting for someone.

"I never see the commander before!”
"Me too! Finally we can see him!”
"Cant wait to selfie!"

Two men walked into the building: one wore a golden dragon pendant, while the other, accompanied by three knives floating around him, wore a platinum pendant.

"WELCOME BACK VICE COMMANDER, RIZAI!!! BIG BRO BLACKY JACKY!!!”

They roared then all his knives glowed, flew and stabbed three of them.

"Wha-”
"Arkhh?!”
"Why-”

The knives disappear upon being touched but the bleeding didn’t stop and they collapsed with blood flooding before passing away.

"Why you do that, Vice Commander?"
"They didn’t greet us…”

Everyone looked at each other, trembling. The man with the golden pendant glanced around.

"Commander didn’t arrive yet?”
"He’s already here!”

Rizai closed his eyes and the whole building was suddenly blown by a strong wind. They were all shocked, including the man with the golden pendant, except for Rizai. They covered their eyes as dust flew by.

"Vic- vice commander! Big Bro!”
"What’s happening?!”
"Where this wind come from?!”

The wind suddenly stopped and Rizai opened his eyes.

"Up there!"

One of them shouted and pointed at a black haired demon in Human Form, standing on the second floor with a heavy blade at his back, smug.

"Yo!"
"WELCOME BACK THIRD COMMANDER, XARAX!!!”

Their roar was so loud that it shook the ground. Xarax released his Demonic Aura and blew his soft wind magic around the building.

"I just heard from the prince! Our Second Commander I mean! Moeru Yona has awakened! The first sign of apocalypse has shown itself! BE PREPARED! MY FELLOW GUILDIES! THIS IS WHAT WE SIGNED UP FOR!!!”

Xarax yelled, swung his heavy blade and an aerial wind slash through it then exploded after hitting a wall.

"THIS IS WAR!!!”
"THIS IS WAR!!!”
"THIS IS WAR!!!”

All the members inside the building were cheering, yelling and roaring, raising their fists in the air.

End of Chapter 4…

Extra 004:

"Listen! If you wanna stay here-”

Five minutes later…
Shinji twisted the stove and lit up the fire while Akira held two eggs, floating beside him.

"Too much fire, hooman!”

He lowered the fire.

"Too weak! Give it a little push!”

He twisted it again.

"That’s gas! What you tryna do?! Blow us up?!”