Family Reunion

The sun in the window marked the beginning of a new day. Unlike the previous days, this time Tama was next to me in bed. she had her eyes open and looked at me with a face of satisfaction when she saw me

"Good morning honey!"She told me happily

"Good Morning!"
"Did you just get up too?" I replied

"Not really"
"But it seemed like your mother wanted to be with Maria alone"
"So I stay here cleaning a little"
"But I saw how calm you looked when you fell asleep, I decided to be in bed for a while longer"
"You want breakfast?"
"I think breakfast is ready"
"I'm almost ready to go to school!"

"Tamamo today is Saturday, today we don't have to go to school"

"Really?"
"So if there are days off?"
"Although it is good because then we can try to clarify things with your sister, right?"
"So let's go down to greet them"

Tama and I arranged the room and then went down to the breakfast room where my mother and sister were eating their breakfast. After we picked up our food and sat at the table too, Maria spoke

"Now are you are going to tell me who are they?"
"I am curious because for the shooter that was yesterday it is seen that they are quite expert"
"Where did you manage to hire them?"My sister asked our mom

"Well I think it's time to explain all this"
"Sit back and calm down"
"I know it's hard to accept what you're going to hear"
"..." My mother looked at me worried
"But I know you can accept it"

"Leave it" I told my mother
"I better explain it myself"
"I think shame is now part of my new life, so I'm going to save you that"

I took a breath, I looked at Tama for a second, asking her with my gaze that this time she would try not to do another of her antics and prepare myself mentally to try to explain again the entanglement in which I ended up to someone else and to be easy to understand for her

"You like magic right?"
"What if I tell you that its magic really exists?"
"Would you believe me?"

"Magic?" she asked with a curious look
"What does that have to do with you? "

"Not much really"
"But it would be easier to understand it that way"
"How about the fantasy tales?"
"Would you believe them?"

"That's impossible"

"Do you like magic but don't believe in fantasies?"I take a second off before speaking again
"What if I told you that it is thanks to them that your brother is alive?"

"Leon?"
"But he is fine" she replied as she tilted her head in confusion.

"Thanks" I responded to her while trying to contain the urge to cry blood
"What about the other?"

"Cesar?"
"He has been dead for two years"
"The I.S.C gave me the last letter from him along with the news"

"That's right?" asked my mother

"You did not know?"
"Didn't they inform you?"
"He..."
"He died in the battle of Morocco" Maria answered a little sad

"So that was they told you" My mom said incredulously to herself

"We will talk about that later!"
"I want to get to the point of this conversation!"
"If I said that your brother is still alive in a way?"
"Would you think I'm crazy?"

"You said something about Magic didn't you?"
"I don't know the details"
"But if you can prove it exists then I'll believe you anything" she said while again a curious face was shown

It was no coincidence that I tried to talk to her about magic because I knew how obsessed she was with the subject, so it was easier for her to believe me and with concentration, if I showed her something that she really wanted first.

"OK"
"Tama" I turned to see my wife who she was still eating

"Here I am!" She replied happily as she raised her hand

"You told me you could even do an eclipse"
"Could you make magic a little less flashy?"
"Something safe and inside the house?"

"Okay"
"I could make a blue fireball"
"Like this one here!"

While she was still holding her food with one hand, she slightly raised the other on the table and opened her palm, and a blue fireball started to come out of her hand. Who despite having it close to her hand showed no signs of discomfort, but you could feel the heat that that fire generated. Something like that does not exist in a normal way in our world, because apart from the fact that it is not burning Tamamo's hand, the flame does not have anything that will generate it or that is feeding it.

"What do you think!?" Tama said proudly

"Is magic!?"
"It is for real!" Maria completely impressed puts her hands on her head

"Keep that away from the furniture!" say my mother while tried to avoid a catastrophe with Tama's fire

"I'm sorry!" said the Goddess apologizing and turning off her magic.

"Seriously?"
"Who are you really?"

"You let me continue my introduction"
"As I was saying, now that you see that magic really exists, what if I told you that your brother is actually alive?"

"So is that true?"
"Is he alive?" my sister looked at me with a confused face, anxiously waiting for an answer

When I saw her face almost on the verge of bursting into tears, I could not bear the urge to tell her the truth anymore, but wanting to make sure that she was fine after what I was going to tell her and also my emotion to reveal who I was. , I went to her and hugged her tightly, a moment later I continued to talk

"I'm so sorry"
"I never wanted to leave you alone"
"I just wanted you to have a future like the one that dad wanted too"
"Forgive me"

"Why are you talking like it's your fault?"

"After your brother died, several things will happen and he ended up turned into a girl with fox ears and tail"

"Is serious?"
"That would mean that Cesar is ..!?"

"It's me"
"I'm Cesar"

"But it's impossible!"
"Do you think it's a terrible movie?"
"At least try to prove it!"

"Once when I told you the story about the princess and the frog, the next day one appeared near the window of your bed and ..." I could not finish speaking because a fist was directly against my face and hit me so hard that I fell back with the chair

"Moron!"
"You didn't have to go that far trying to prove that you are Cesar"
"I believe you, but if you finish what you were about to tell, I'm going to kill you myself and make sure you don't come back"

After I got back on my feet I told him my story again. As usual, try to only tell the essentials and reserve for me the crazy things that would only cause even more misunderstandings, such as related to Momo's marriage. I told her why I joined the alliance army, why her health had improved so much, about Tamamo, and how I met our mother. Maria listened carefully to everything I said, although she seemed not to believe me, in reality, she was quite excited about the story. Although she occasionally asked a question or two, that I try to answer in the best possible way.

"So you managed to return from heaven through a portal that the Angles use as a means of transportation"
"And you are married to Tamamo, who is the goddess of the Moon?" Asked my beloved younger sister with joy to see that the world of the magic that she loved so much was more and more real

"Yes, very crazy I know"
"There are still more parts but for now I think it is enough to understand what has happened"

"You've had a pretty weird life"
"But if the magic is real!"
"It means that I can fulfill my dream!"
"Can you teach me right now!?"

"Have you just seen your lost brother again and the first thing you ask of him is that?"
"Can't you ask me something else?"
"Show a little more excitement? "I complained to Maria who was excited about the wrong topics

"It does not matter"
"All that is in the past"
"If I can learn magic all this will have been worth it!" She answered again with emotion

"I can't do something like that"
"But Tama sure if she can"
"Ask her"

"Tamamo!"
"Come here I have something to ask you!"

My sister ran to the living room where Tamamo was watching TV to see if she could really learn magic. In the dining room, I was alone, but in the kitchen that was nearby, my mother was now preparing lunch, because all the time in the morning was spent in my story.

"And there she goes"
"Behind the dream of her leaving everything behind"
"You must excuse her, you know how she is"
"If it's something with magic she could leave everything behind without much though" Said my mother while washing the rice

"As long as I don't walk all day again with that magic notebook that she downloaded from the internet"
"Everything will be fine"
"It seems that she does believe me even if she doesn't pay much attention to me"
"But for now we have other more important things to discuss" I told my mother with a serious face

"You're right"
"We haven't finished this yet"
"We have to find out what the I.S.C was planning by doing something as risky as a kidnapping?"

"We can be sure that it really was the I.S.C because the warehouse was exactly where Maria spent the night" I answered her
"What they tried to capture you must be without a doubt because of your position in the alliance"
"Do you have any idea what would have happened if they had achieved their goal?"

"Well, my disappearance would not have been noticed until the next day"
"The command of the alliance would have created a team to search for me and rescue me"
"But the only thing I've worked on lately has been finding Maria and a couple of meetings with the government to set up a response team with Arksuits"
"None of this affects the I.S.C directly"

"What about Haru?"
"Why do you think she was kidnapped too?"

"She is the granddaughter of Inspector Yamamoto, he is the head of the investigation section of the Tokyo police"
"Although in the past he helped in the alliance he retired at the end of last year"
"He right now he's just a normal cop"

"But someone important anyway"
"Someone like him must know something or other that happens, in addition to meeting several important people"
"Certainly someone with whom you have to be careful"
"If yesterday we managed to locate Haru so quickly without a doubt he knows how to do his job"

"What do you think?"
"Do you have any idea" Asked my mother seeming to test me with my answer

"Well, seeing that it was a multinational company with billions of dollars in its possession, that they did it for money is impossible"
"That they kidnap you means that it had something to do with your work and how it affects the government"
"Seeing that the inspector was also one of those affected, I imagine that it is because what they are looking for is here in Japan"
"In your case, they would probably have asked something like making the alliance intervene in a specific way with the government"
"With the inspector, the only thing that I can imagine relevant is his police position"
"So it only occurs to me that maybe they wanted to shut him up about anything he found by using Haru to threaten him"

"But I'm just an intermediary"
"In case of my kidnapping, they would not have been able to ask the government of Japan for anything for my release"

"So there are only two options left"
"The first is that they wanted you or the alliance to do something for them"
"Or the second option is that you were a nuisance to them and they weren't planning to kidnap you, but to kill you"
"And looking at the resources you have and how you have been asking questions about them everywhere is a real possibility"

My mother stopped what she was doing and stood still for a moment, she was deep in thought. It seems that my mother had not realized the level of danger that she ran yesterday. Her face changed from her doubt to that of irritation. She turned around and saw my face.

"If so, we have to do something"
"They will try to do it again perhaps with an even more direct method" She said clearly

"Do not worry about me"
"If you need me to do something I will do it immediately without question" I responded quickly

After all, I'm not going to let something like a couple of fucking bastards hurt my family after everything we've been through to get here. I'd make them pay for even having thought they'd get away with it. Even if I have to fight for my life relentlessly again.

"So you want to get to the bottom of this too?"
"This is only going to get worse than what happened yesterday" my mother asked trying to figure out my resolution to this issue

"If so, I think you will need a lot of help"
"I know how to defend myself pretty well, and doing damage is my specialty"

"I'm going to make a couple of calls"
"Surely the ISC has people infiltrated everywhere"
"I need people to trust before doing something"
"We have to know what their true goals are, stop them and find a way that they never bother us again"

My mom grabbed the home's wireless phone and went up to her room, leaving her lunch preparation aside. I don't know who she is going to talk to, but if she left her kitchen aside, I feel sorry for the poor person who attends her on the other side of the phone.