Afte 15 minutes or so of her reprimanding and hitting me, she finally calmed down and with a smile she said :
But seriously what is it really like, your past life and memories you had of it .
Seeing her eyes sparkling and she seemed to be beginning to be drawn to the supernatural stuff, satisfying her curiosity, i got an apple that was in a fruit basket in front of me and took a bite out of it, then throw it in the air and i calculate the right distance and time i needed it to be in the air for .
She was puzzled at my actions and was thinking that i was wasting food, so she was about to say something about it, just as she was about to, i decided that the time was ripe, i used Paradox reverse time effect and the apple landed back on my hand, there was not even a scratch on it, not to mention a bite mark, i then presented to her so that she can take a closer look .
She took it and looked weirdly at it first, then she took a bite herself and i saw her eyes widened in shock and they were sparkling too much to the point that i believed that if we were to turn off the lights, my Mom eyes will still be able illuminate the surroundings .
I was a bit hurt at the fact that she doubted the authenticity of the apple i gave her, but i guess she wanted to check up close whether was this some kind of trick or not, she didn't spoke for a long time, she only seemed to be awoken from her trance, after she heard the crunching sound that i was making unintentionally what munching on an apple myself .
She walked towards me and said while clapping her hands :
What other sort of magic tricks can you do ? .
I almost fell off the couch i was on at her saying this, she was really starting to take me for a con artist, but due to how she currently looked at me, i wasn't able to muster enough strength to say no to her, i got up from the luxurious couch and asked her to sit steadily, she not even having an idea about what was going to happen complied to my request and held to the couch quite tightly .
I urged my Prana and then picked the couch up and throw it in the air, she screamed due to the fact that she seemed to have not held tight to the couch so she was sent flying in the air and across the room, quite far from me, if she fell, she would break a few bones at least, but that was only if she did fall .
Using Paradox i saw her body becoming standing still midair just as she was about to crash down to the floor, i walked towards her location and raised my hands up and caught her before she fell down, she looked back and saw that the couch that was still in the air just now was now back to where it was .
She looked at the couch then at then she checked herself up, trying to see if their was an injury here or there, she kept repeating this process over and over again and her shocked face kept getting more and more intense, seeing her looking around like this, i couldn't help but chuckle a little, the moment she heard me chuckling, she actually regained her focus or at least enough amount of it which allowed her to glare at me .
Seeing her glaring the smirk that i was having on my face vanished, i used Paradox once again and put her down back to setting on the comfy couch and saw her eyes widen even more in shock, she was even beginning to be short of breath, it seemed her brain wasn't comprehending what just happened and that was affecting her body, at least that was what i believed, guess no more playing tricks .
Even though she was like that, her eyes hadn't lost their brilliance even for a little, she really looked like a child now, but i believe that was mostly how supernatural things made people behave .
I was also running out of magic tricks, i could use Heal but that will most likely freak her out, than making her happy, since i would have to force myself into getting injured, before i use it or else it would be usless .
She seemed to agree with me on that as she said :
Okay, okay, cool tricks, but i'm still more curious about what kind of previous life did you have, what was it like and how you feel about recalling those visions, memories .
She was so curious that i felt if she had a chance, she wouldn't hesitate to want to go inside my mind and check for herself, but i guess after reading all those novels and comics, that was understandable .
" What kind of previous life i had, hmm, it's really difficult to describe it in words, but i will try to share with you some of what that i remembered .
I said this and began telling her about almost everything that i had recalled in the flashbacks i kept on having, left a few pieces of information about the existence of certain kind of people, for a quite logical reasons, i was afraid of her reactions and embarrassed to talk about these sorts of information, the existence of Evelyn, the fact that i kept dreaming about other women, like the blonde hair beauty that i kept having a dream of, the girl made of light and arguably who knows what else .
I told her about themuch interesting stuff, like the battle i had, the fact that i actually became a king and it seemed that i was not a King ruling over one kingdom, but a lot of kingdoms, i kept the details about the people i killed, i just told her that i triumphed on all the battle i was in .
She kept sighing in amazement while pinching herself from time to time as if checking whether was all of this just her dreaming, but even with that she can't seem to be able to stop falling in trance .
I was about to wake her up from her state after finish telling her all i have, but then i once again felt someone glaring at me intensely through the walls, it was an awkward precognition feeling that i believe acted on alarming me that something dangerous was in this mansion .
That glare even though it was much intense than before, i was still able to tell who was glaring at me, due to fact that it was quite a bizarre yet familiar glare, Suguha-san that was the maid of this mansion name and the name of the current person who was glaring at me, i couldn't help but stand up from the couch and told my mother that i would be going to toilet real quick .
She pointed me towards the closest one and i began heading there, the mansion corridors had signs hanged everywhere as to prevent someone from getting lost, a house that had a copy of something akin to a guide map, to prevent people from getting lost or unable to reach their destination .
See those maps hanged up on the wall, i once again got reminded of how big this house where, even though it didn't seem like that from outside, wait what was that i feeling, so this what was happening here, i felt Mana just now and my brain understood directly that this house was like this due to the use of a high tire Dark Art, that made space in here expand like this .
I finally reached my destination, the place where that glare came from, my phone suddenly rang alarming me, but luckily the room she was in happen to be in the same corridor leading to the toilet, even though i didn't know who was calling me, i was about to hang up the phone, wanting to finally clear any confusion here and confront her directly in try of understanding, what was the she glaring at me for, but just as i hanged up the phone, it start ringing once again, this alarmed me a bit .
I checked who was calling me and saw that the number was unregistered, that guy could be the one who was calling, but something was telling me to get that call and i did, the moment i answered and much to my surprise the voice that greeted me was the familiar voice of the Principal, she was saying a bit cheerfully :
How was it, did you like the mansion ? .
" I liked it a lot, my mom did too and she told me to thank you for allowing her to stay with you here, so thank you very much on behalf of my mother .
" I'm eternally grateful for your help, Mari-san, I'm really is and i would be looking for an opportunity to repay the favor in the future .
Tell your mother on my behalf that she doesn't need to, i live more in my office, so her being there brought some life to the place, in fact i should be the one thanking your mother, me and Maya got a new roommate, especially that ridiculous girl, she got easily scared staying in there all alone, so this was yet another problem fixed .
As for you, you might have the chance to do so more sooner than you think, you are soon going out on your first mission as a member of the Strikers, i hope that you will keep yourself safe and the others as well and return victorious and hopefully safely as well .
I once again noted the kindness that the principal showed me and was thankful to have met her, i found maya scared face a bit funny so much that i couldn't help but laugh in amusement, at the rest of her words i couldn't help but ask, saying :
" My first mission with the Strikers ?!, but am i not just a reserve member, will the Captain even want me back there, after my outburst earlier ? .
You weren't told, i was told that you were presented as an official member yesterday, i was told that you already knew .
" I had no clue about that .
Didn't you say the slogan of the Strikers yesterday ? .
So that what this was about, i finally understood that yesterday i wasn't being introduced as a reserve member of the Corps, but as an official member, after realizing this, i said :
" I did say the slogan but i had no idea about that it actually meant me becoming an official member, i guess you are right,
As for your second part of the question, my short answer for you will be yes, Isuragi-san even asked me to reach you, hoping to relay the message that he was sorry for taking such a reckless action without talking about it with you first beforehand, so yes I believe that he wants you to remain in the team .
I'm really rooting for you hoping that you would get a great results in the next mission, i also hope that you would listen to the order of the more experienced people in the and want be doing any more reckless moves, like those that you have been doing those past two days, i wish you a good first mission .
" Thank you, i will bear that in mind, i hope that my results will satisfy you, but principal when did i ever make reckless moves, that is a false accusation principal .
I said trying to clear my innocence, but her next words almost had me drop the phone from my hands involuntarily, she said :
Well, how do you explain your unauthorized use of Dark Arts these last few days, you know, it's very difficult to track you by depending entirely on cameras, if someone were to say that it was even impossible to do so, no one would argue with that, if not for the fact that it was impossible for a person to be in some place for a second and in another place the next second .
At least normally speaking, it can't be possible unless that person used his Ancestral Arts, but this can't be possibly the work of Prana, so you using your Dark Art Paradox seem more fitting, is breaking the rules of the school on your second day could be considered a reckless move or not .
I didn't respond or it was more accurate to say that i had no response or any face to argue with her on that and she too seemed to have already understood my character, so she continued to say :
From your silence, i believe that you already understood the faulty of your actions, but no matter, i would pass this and count it as merely a simple mistake, but you better not keep doing these sort of things, i'm beginning to hear some talks in the school about you already being labeled as a delinquent and a playboy, you really should take more care of your actions and image from now on, not to make things worse .
At her saying this especially her mentioning the last part, i couldn't help but remember that the reason to why was i being labeled as such was due to the fact that i was a bit late to the entrance ceremony and unintentionally disturb the silence in the hall with my sudden apperance, but wait did she just say that there was a rumor circling around the school about me being a playboy, when did that happen, i couldn't help but ask her about this, she said her tone was a bit weird but i attributed it to be a problem with the phone so i paid it not much mind, she said :
I don't know the person who started the rumor, but i heard about it from one of the staff in the school, so i think it had already spread to the whole school at this point .
But you don't need to worry much, it had started because someone had witnessed both the little fight you had with Urushibara-san and your interaction with Momochi Haruka-san, it should recede soon enough .
Another great misunderstanding that was, the guy who spread these rumors should pray to not fall in my hands, or I will teach him a lesson which he will never forget for the rest of his life, but i guess currently no much to other than to wait for it to recede as the principle suggested .
Something came up, i will be ending the call now, i called just to check on how you were doing, bye .
I was about to hang up when i suddenly was reminded of the situation i was in before and remembered that the principal said something strange just now, so i stopped her from hanging up and said :
" Does Maya not liking to stay in with the maid that much ? .
Huh, What Maid ? .
WHAT MAID !!!
My vision went dark suddenly .
( Recalling Of Old Memories ) :