" So you're losing your humanity?" Doris reiterated what she had just heard.
Currently, I was in some sort of intervention circle with Amanises, Nyx, Shizu and the three dryads. Doris, Trya and Shizu looked afraid for me while Treyni looked at me with an emotion I could not identify.
" I'm not sure what's happening but the theory is that this is the result of my own ultimate skill. It causes me to passively infect those personally close to me with human ego and emotion."
Treyni then asked something, "That shouldn't be possible. Ultimate skills are still just skills, they shouldn't go against its user."
Nyx voiced her opinion built on Treyni's inquiry, "I have a theory, I believe that dad has been unconsciously giving away his humanity on purpose."
Everyone looked at me with incredulous gazes which is how I looked at Nyx, "What would make you think that?"
"It like Treyni just said. In fact even you once taught me that no matter what skill, even a sentient one cannot defy its user. It stands to reason that it's the user that's causing their skill to function like that."
I just looked into blank space with bewilderment, " So… it's my fault?"
" Mr. Simon, are you going to be ok?" Shizu looked up at me from my lap with snot and tears.
I wanted to tell her that I was going to be fine but every time I opened my mouth, nothing came out. I attempted to comfort her but I knew my breath was filled with empty promises, " I… don't know."
" I'm sorry but can I have a word with Simon in private?" Treyni spoke up with a resolute voice. Her request caused the others to briefly hesitate but they complied anyway.
Treyni got up and straightened my clothes, " Treyni, are you ok. You seem very uncom-ACK!" Suddenly I felt a punch ripple across my face. I fell to the ground and saw that familiarly angry expression on the dryads face.
"You jackass!" Treyni straddled my hips and began punching me repeatedly. I caught and held her arms causing her angry expression to transform to tearful frustration, "Why?…why didn't you tell me, tell us?"
Treyni began crying in my chest, weeping silently to the affliction tearing at my soul. I just laid there too afraid to do anything to her. I wasn't sure how to comfort, or if I could.
Despite Treyni being extremely fragile at the moment, I couldn't help but tease her, " Awe, I didn't know you cared so much about me?" Well that earned me a well-deserved punch to the face.
" YOU THINK THIS IS A JOKE!?" Treyni frozen when she realized how big a commotion she was making, scaring the pixies around them.
" Sorry, I don't know how to comfort you." The pixies around us reacted to our emotions.
The pixies came closer to me and suddenly hugged me, they could feel the malice and malcontent from within me…yet they could also feel the turmoil and fear I felt for my own eventual unraveling.
"See. Even the pixies that you just birthed want to help you. Why would you think I wouldn't be the same?" Treyni said with a face warped from tears. Her expression filled with want.
Suddenly the pixie started speaking incoherently and all together, and they all spoke one phrase directed towards me. They called me their papa.
" It seems that you have a lot of new kids to take care of now." Treyni teased me after recuperating, although there were still tears coming out that she was trying desperately to wipe away.
I began to wipe the tears off of her face, "So it's ok for you to tease me? You're just terrible."
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Nyx, Amanises, Shizu, Doris and Trya saw me and Shizu coming out of the Dryad exhibit.
Shizu rushed into my arms so hard that I flew back, " Mr. Simon, will you be ok?" I could already see tears forming in her eyes.
"Now now, don't cry, I'll be ok for now. Ever since I found out, Nyx and Amanises had been, in a way, healing my change before."
" How have they been doing that?" Treyni asked surprised.
" Their unique skills. Nyx's allows her to restore and heal spiritual damage and change and Amanises's allows her to calm down or agitate someone's soul. For the last 20 years they have both been treating me."
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I took Shizu back to El Dorado, " Is there something wrong Shizu?" Leon noticed Shizu's downcast mood.
She stayed like that for a while until she lifted her head with stars in her eyes, " Lord Leon, Mr Simon created a ranch for elementals. He already has a lot of medium elementals."
Leon was shocked by this and looked at me was a little fear, "You're… creating… elementals? What the fuck!"
" C'mon it's not that bad. It's not like I'm creating an army to subjugate the world."
" It feels like that's exactly what you're doing. What have you made?"
" It's only in the beginning stages and there is no significant elementals born from the ranch."
Shizu jumped into the conversation, "You already have a band of pixies that consider you their father."
Leon heard her words and decided that was enough.
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Guy saw someone enter his castle, "Well Leon, do what do I owe the pleasure of your visit. Have you finally considered surrendering yourself to me, don't worry, I'm not that bad."
"No I'm here for something else. It's your student."
Suddenly Velzard popped out of a portal, " Oh dear, what has he done now?"
" He's created a ranch in which he basically farms and grows elementals without any restrictions."
The resulting sentence caused Guy to spit out his alcohol and Velzard's jaw to drop, " I fear that he will someday become a massive threat."
Velzard put her hand on Guy's shoulder to get the drink out of his trachea, " I doubt he would do anything but…"
Guy came too and finished her sentence, "…We have to pay a visit to make sure."