Stability

I get about 3 Loct for working at the cat cafe for 1 day. Which is quite a reasonable amount. There are 2 reasons on why I need money, 1, because I need to be able to live and eat food which I can purchase with the money I get. Another reason is because my father did want me to go to school, so I will continue going to school with the money I got.

There was an important test coming up, I am already 18, it is a test that will either see if I can get into a good school in the future. I wasn’t sure on how I should study. I just took out the books and started reading. The tests will begin in 1 month. Which I feel is like plenty of time.

After 1 month, when the tests started, I tried to answer most of the questions. There are probably some questions I got wrong.

After 2 weeks, the results got announced, I got top 5 out of the 24 people in my class. Most of my results are either above 70 or 80 percent. The top 1 got all the results as 100 percent, which was just saddening for me.

During the school break, I was called and said that I was called out from a school. Even the school was surprised, but they said I got called into a school for the nobels or prince and princess, basically royal blooded people. I have to had this part inherited from my father but I hate royal blooded people, they are cocky and annoying, showing of their money.

I got to talk to the person who called me out for the school, looks like another girl, she doesn’t look like the type to be boastful. “I heard about the news, the news about your father dying,” the girl said. I then replied “How did you know?” in a fierce tone. She told me come down “I knew your father, I knew him when he was young. I think I was the only other person who get well with,” she continued. I don’t know if I should trust her or not, she has royal blood. How can my father be friends or even be around a royal blooded person.

The girl said, your father’s strength is something that I have never met anyone with before, it is a different type of strength. The girl didn’t have magic and has a fighting technique that goes well with her sword. She drew out her sword and showed me her abilities when she combines it with her fighting technique. Her fighting technique is ‘blind reading’, ‘blind reading’ is very useful for a close combat or sword user since it helps you read your opponents movements and use the sword to parry its attack.

I wasn’t sure if I had a fighting technique but I know for sure that I have magic. I have a Level 2 magic from what my father said before dying. My magic is nothing but changing my image to a person’s greatest fear. The girl said that I have development potential. That she can help me improve my magic.

I decide to agree and see where it takes me. During the start of the year, when I was at home eating breakfast, there was a knock at my door, followed by someone calling out for me. I opened the door to check who was it and it seemed to be the girl. She came to pick me up? “I came to pick you up, since the school is far away, its about 1 or 2 towns away, and I can’t risk you going into the forest, there are many monsteres.

I just followed her. After reaching the school, I was speechless, or more like I couldn’t even see. It was so bright and shiny. Even though it wasn’t really, it looked grand. I mean what did I expect from a school that is meant for royal blooded.

She said that I was going to attend school the next day, since today is Sunday. Then she asked me “Did you bring all your clothes?” I was confused on why. “Did I not tell you? You will be staying in the dorm,” continued the girl. She 100 percent didn’t tell me. Well I will just go back today and take my things.

“How about a duel? I want to see if it is father like son,” she then said. I replied to her saying that I am not a male, I am a female. No matter how I looked like, I am still a girl you know? I asked for her name first before we fight. “Konota,” she replied.

“I will let you hit me first, a freebie you would call it. You can hit me anywhere, you can even defeat me with the first hit,” Konota said after the match started. I can’t tell if she was looking down on me but my offensive power is almost nothing. Unlike my father, I have a more support based magic than offensive power based magic.

I tried to hit her with my fist since I have learned somethings at the dojo. She looked like she didn’t even feel anything. She barely even flinched. I hid behind something for a second to use my magic, I am pretty sure someone like her will know it is me even though I used my magic but it was worth a try. I showed appeared in front of her and she looks like her life left her body. Her eyes are just full of terror, I have never seen anybody that scared before from my magic. I wasn’t sure of what she saw. I took away my magic and helped her.

She didn’t look healthy at all. I wanted to ask her what she saw. “It is fine, I am alright, if you want we can duel again, I didn’t really give you much of a fight,” said Konota. If anything she was the exact opposite of fine. She insisted to fight so I didn’t have much of a choice to fight. I rather not use my magic this time. Before the fight started I went to the toilet.

On the way back, heading to Konota to fight her, I put my hands in my small bag that I brought and where I kept my refreshments, I found a box. It has a paper attached to it. It says “Open this the day I die,” I remember now, I was suppose to open this when my father dies. I open it and inside it was a weird mask. It wasn’t normal. It looks scary, maybe my father knew my magic and this mask was to improve the nightmare magic.

I wore the mask, and then I felt my soul getting strangled. I started having difficulties on breathing. When I opened my eyes, I see myself standing in a different place. It was dark so I couldn’t really see anything. I called out for anyone. Then I hear a voice “Can you hear me?” in a slightly scary voice that you will hear in your nightmare. “I am your own magic that you use all the time,” the voice continued. It’s my magic?

Once I blink, I am standing in a different location, it looks like if the place I was had an opposite side. It was bright, then as I suspected, I hear a voice. “You have awoken me,” Awoken? I woke something up? Based on where I was earlier, it was something to do with my magic, so can this be......., my fighting technique? “Are you some fighting technique that I just woke up?” I asked the voice.

“I have no reason to answer you, I am not in your submission, I have no reason to answer you. Now leave this place,” the voice replied. You have an attitude don’t you? It seems the voice went back to sleep, well I think it did. Once I blinked again after that, I am standing near the toilet stand. I checked the time and only a second has passed since that. I quickly placed the mask inside my bag and went to Konota.

I wasn’t sure to what that second voice was, but it said something about giving submission to me. If so, then I have to force its submission to me. I have to keep this thing stable. I have to keep my magic stable itself. I return to Konota and then both of us got ready to duel.

We we started, she said that she would use a real blade. Her fighting technique seems to be swordsmanship. She rushed in with a sword out infront of her first. I normally see people swinging their sword when they rush in and come at a distance where their sword is confirmed to hit. Konota rushed with her sword out front. I tried moving to the side to avoid the hit.

Konota immediately turned her blade in her palms side ways. She then swung her blade to side towards me. With a powerful slice, she sliced my right leg. The wound wasn’t that deep but I didn’t expect Konota was going all out. If so then I also had to go all out. I tried changing my image to Konota’s second nightmare. It looks like Konota couldn’t really see anymore. I suspect that the image I took was something to do with either shadow or I am invisible.

Konota is the type of person who can sense magic. So I had to be careful to not let my magic flow too much or not Konota can pin point my location. I couldn’t tell if Konota could guess my location but she jabbed her blade in my direction. I blinked for a second, and once I opened my eyes, I see myself in a vast field again. This is like the time where I heard the second voice.

I hear a voice “Are you pathetic or what? How can you be beaten so easily. Just so I won’t disappear, I will lend you my ability. But as soon as the match is over, I will take it back. Unless you make me give into submission,” I opened my eyes to see Konota’s blade almost jabbing me. My magic seemed to go back to show myself, because I can see the surprised look on Konota’s face. Not only because of that but because I managed to catch the blade, with both of my hands.

Konota jumped back but her hand slipped and she let go of her blade. I had the blades in my palm, but I somehow burned the blade and it looks like the blade broke in half. The cross section of the blade is burnt and it has a bright red color. It looks like it was just tossed into the furnace and was just forged. “You have won, my blade has been broken, I can no longer fight,” said Konota.

She then comes to ask me what was that move, you somehow grabbed my blade and somehow burned it. Not even your father could catch my blade. “Your speed was incredible,” said Konota. “Can you do that again?” continued Konota. I tried to do it again but I wasn’t sure how I did that. Then I remember that the voice said that it would only lend it to me until the match is over.

Konota said that my movements are rather capricious. “Since you have a fighting technique, why not I teach you this, I couldn’t teacher your father anything since I didn’t have magic and he didn’t have a fighting technique. I will show you ‘Katachi’ (Katachi means ‘form’ in English). Katachi is a secondary upgrade to your fighting style, it is not like magic which has 5 levels. I will show you my Katachi,” said Konota

“Norowareta blade” (Norowareta means ‘cursed’ in English) said Konota. Then the broken blade looked like it was fixed but it changed its form. The blade has an obsidian look to it and the guard was connected to the blade. She just showed how it looked like but she didn’t tell me what was the ability to this blade.