After spending 3 weeks here, I was going to leave, and no lie, I didn't want to, although my primary objective was the {mathematician ring}, this castle has become a very comfortable home, I know it's a bit pathetic to realise that on the day I leave, and it's pathetic to realise that when all this time I've only seen these 3 weeks as a quick level to get through, that it won't be anything special, that it's just a neutral level where you just have to do research to get what you need for the next level, and here for me was the {mathematician ring}.
Wan: this is where we say goodbye (sitting in front of Morpheus on a sofa)
Morpheus: (opens his mouth and says nothing for 2 seconds, then closes his mouth and turns his head to the left)
Morphée must surely have been sadder than I was, to tell the truth I'm not so sad that I could cry, to sum up my sadness you could say I'm as sad as when I had to leave my family for my career as an assassin, I know it's not goodbye, it's just goodbye, I know it's not goodbye, it's just goodbye, but leaving a warm and friendly place always hurts, and I've got an example for normal people: it's like losing your childhood friend, you think it's a shame, you suffer slightly, but then you realise that there are billions of earthlings out there and that losing one with whom you had an emotional attachment isn't so bad after all.
Wan: goodbye (gets up and turns around)
Morpheus: wait! (grabs Wan's sleeve)
Wan: yes Morpheus
Morpheus: you'll be back, won't you...?
Wan: ...yes, I'll be back in 1 week.
Since I'm now Morpheus' partner, I can teleport to his domain whenever I want, I could come back in 3 days, or 2 hours, the choice is purely mine
Morpheus: (low, trembling voice as she grips Wan's sleeve a little tighter) it's a promise....
Wan: Yes, it's a promise, I'll be back in 1 week without fail.
So I stood there while she held my sleeve, we stayed like that for 10 seconds then she let go of me, I looked at her for 3 seconds and then I continued on my way, but when I got to the front door I heard fast footsteps coming from behind me so I turned round and no sooner had I turned round than Morphée jumped into my arms and stuck her head to my chest, at first I hesitated to take her in my arms too, but after a few seconds' thought I embraced her too
POV Morpheus
Despite being hundreds of thousands of years old, despite all the atrocities I've seen committed in Olympus and in my world, I felt like crying because I was going to be separated from Wan and be alone again; I didn't fall in love with him, we did certain things because of certain conditions but I'm not in love with him, it's just that I've become attached to his presence and his company with me, in this castle.
Morpheus: you really will come back, won't you... sniff
I was crying silently, but Wan had surely noticed, after all it was his clothes that were receiving my tears
Wan: (sticking his forehead to Morpheus')
As soon as he put his forehead to mine I felt a light magical power surround us
Wan: I promise on my magical power, I'll be back
At that moment, when he said those words, I realised that he had made a promise to his magic power, a promise which means that if we don't keep it, our own magic power will pierce his heart and we'll die, even if our magic power is 0.001.
Morpheus: (wipes away tears) you didn't have to do that!!!
Wan: I know
Morpheus: why did you do it then, you fool !!!! (gives Wan some serious but harmless blows despite herself)
Wan: °her strength stat is not her strong point that's for sure° I didn't want to see you cry any more
Morphée: ooh....
Wan: otherwise my clothes would be even wetter than they are now, you've been crying a lot
Morpheus: raaah! fool!!! (gives Wan some serious but harmless blows in spite of herself)
Wan: it's all right, I was only joking
Morpheus: hmpf!
Wan: I was only half joking
Morphée: (gives another serious but harmless blow to Wan despite herself) aaaaaah!
10 minutes later
Wan: well, I've really got to go
Morpheus: (with eyes closed and arms crossed) yes I know, but I don't want to see you and your jokes for at least another week
Wan: I'll see you in a week then (goes out and disappears while he's in the garden)
Morpheus: hmmm (opens one eye) he's gone...
And while I was saying those words, my system sent me a message
[Your seal has been broken by your partner {Wan} you may now leave or stay here as you wish].
Morpheus: (laughs softly) I told him I didn't want to be released.... (smiles happily)
POV Wan
[Current number of tokens: 42]
Wan: (In his book den on the highest shelf just 10 centimetres from the ceiling) °it almost makes me want to cry to use 165 tokens...°
___________
? ~ Whether alive or dead, strong or weak, superior or not, I'm the only one who decides who can be sealed and who has the right to be unsealed.
Rank: Mythical - Sealing and Unsealing
You created this skill using your tokens (165 tokens used)
|This skill allows you to seal and unseal anything of 'Mythic' rank or lower at will.
|This skill does not use magical power.
|Since it doesn't use magic power, sealing can only be used once a week and unsealing can only be used twice a week.
|The name of this skill is the activation phrase _________ ?
Wan: maybe the name is a bit narcissistic....
I've been thinking about the possibility that I've overdone it with the name of the skill
Wan : no it's not narcissistic the name is perfect
I can't have overdone it as the name is my height, and even then I sometimes think it's a bit below my true height, but I'll overlook that slight point
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2 days later
POV Mia
Just as I'd managed to dodge Sangho and sit down to wait for the class to start, I saw a crowd of 60% girls and 40% boys outside the corridor and you could hear them talking and whispering like groupies who'd just met their star, and it really looked like they had, but suddenly everyone stopped talking after a few words from this man who was causing such a stir.
??????: I know I'm a legend, but still, you're making a lot of noise in this corridor, hihi~?
Mia: He must have some ankles!
So, I'm going to tell you exactly what happened after those words, but I'll say it first: what just happened doesn't seem real because he didn't use any magical power.
This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.
After these few words, which the man who was walking said, no more noise was heard in the corridors, I was curious but I told myself that given that the course was about to start, there would be no point in looking to see who it was but it was just a few seconds before I heard that about thirty of the fifty or so groupies had fainted in the corridors and that the twenty or so others were in a fainting state; but the most shocking thing is that it was just his words and his presence that did it.
Knocking people unconscious is possible if you deploy enormous but very,
very enormous magical power, but in the words he spoke, there was no trace of magical power, none whatsoever, and that's what makes it as impressive as it is shocking.
?????? : aaaarh I'm bored, father should have given me something else to do, and on top of that he's not even here today ..... fiouuu (breathes) I don't want to reeee - passeeeer~ (sings)
I thought straight away that this man was crazy and dangerous, but he hadn't done anything to the people on the ground; and as I looked back, the one who appeared to be the man appeared sitting right next to me
POV ??????
Father had asked me to give his to Wan, but he wasn't there
'Father": (smiling confidently) go ahead and don't worry, he'll be there today.
Those are his words to me, but his prediction was wrong.
?????? : now that I think about it... hmm °Father was almost never right in his predictions about Wan° (a slightly narcissistic smile)
??? Wh-who are you...?
The girl on my left spoke to me
?????? : .... don't you know me? (a bit outraged)
I'm pretty well known in the demon, human and fantasy worlds, but this human didn't know me....
??????: I'm taking this the wrong way.... (Loses his smile) .... My name is Damon (reads: Daimon) and you, little one?
??? My name is Mia... (a little sceptical)
She wasn't ecstatic or admiring my presence but had mixed feelings about me, like 'is he dangerous and crazy or just crazy ....?!?!?'
Damon: (giggles) hahaha (regains his smile) I like you kid
When I say I like her, I don't mean physically, or out of any love or emotional interest whatsoever, but more out of curiosity, seeing someone act like that in front of me these days is pretty amazing.
And after these words I leaned back a little and turned my head completely towards her, then I made some flowers appear which I stuck to my face and then I said.
Damon: You know Wan, don't you hihihihihihi (giggles a bit unhealthily)
Only Wan would hang out with people who make me so curious: Shin-hee, Ama-ne and now this 'Mia'.
Mia: (startles a bit) °he's scary....° (getting a bit serious) why are you asking me this?...
Damon: so you know him hihi; I've got a message for him from someone, but from what I can see this someone was mistaken when he told me he'd be here today
Mia : eh qu-....?
As she was speaking, I just handed her the letter before saying the following while flowers took my place
Damon: You give her this and tell her that it was the one upstairs who wanted me to give it to her.
She opened her mouth and said some words I couldn't hear, she must have wanted to question me, but flowers of all kinds took my place before the sound reached my ears.
And just as I disappeared from one of Prism's classrooms, I appeared on a fairly large table with at least a dozen people in suits sitting on chairs looking at a hologram, which I was embarrassing because I appeared right on top of it.
I was in Father's meeting room, which was on the penultimate floor of this 70-storey building, and the floor had a very, very nice view, because his ego had made him replace the walls with windows overlooking everything around Prism, where he meets the most important people in the world and they explain things to each other and do lots of other boring stuff.
???? : ..... Damon..., I think I've already told you not to appear like this...
Damon : ..... I was curious to know what you were doing Father ....
'Father": and now I hope you're not curious about how you'll end up if you don't fuck off...
Damon : I'm really curious, aren't I? ....
I was about to finish my sentence but then I remembered who I was talking to
Damon : Actually, I've always been curious to see what it would be like to give you all a gift of flowers as an apology (bows with a wide, slightly dangerous smile).
After these words I once again left some flowers behind me, in order to get away as quickly as possible.
I arrived in the corridor which, to my great surprise, was really dark, you couldn't see more than 5 metres despite the fact that it was daytime and we were in a building where there were no windows, there were only supposed to be the lights of the lamps embedded in the ceiling.
???????: There you are Damon
Damon: (startled) .... (breath of relief) you scared me Pythias, I thought it was Father chasing me
This is Pythias, this person is my twin sister, and she loves drama, and in this case she probably - not to say just - turned off all the lights on purpose and stood right on the edge where I could only see her feet and the darkness covered her whole upper body, leaving me to see only her silhouette.
Pythias: I imagine you teleported onto him while he was in the middle of a meeting.
Damon: (playfully hopping around) yes yes yes! How did you know! How!
Pythias: I know your creativity perfectly well, and I also knew you were going to come here because it was your creativity that led me here
Damon: HIHIHIHIHIHI (loud, frightening laugh) you make me cuuuuuuuriiieeeuux !!!! (bends his back, extends his 2 arms to take up a fighting stance and takes on a very frightened expression)
Pythias: (just look)
Damon: Show it to me!!!
Pythias: hmm...?
Damon: what you call your cre - a - ti - vi - té !!!! hihihihihihihi (very frightening laugh)
Pythias: ha - ha - ha (ironic laugh) so you want to fight ....
Damon: (makes weird noises) grjqme hsjfmsb xlqpeify xisbdk (his eyes turning black)
Pythias: against me .....? it's because you want your life to be shortened
Damon: (puts on a sullen, joyless and unsmiling expression and says these few words) I'm curious to see your dead body and your creativity asking me for forgiveness...
Pythias: .... my creativity devoured all your curiosity (puts the palm of her hand towards Damon)
The corridor shakes, and the walls move, while paint and stone fall from the ceiling.
Damon: ΠFLORAISON (dried flowers at his feet appear) PRINT- (takes a blow that stops him)
Pythias: μCREATION (strange liquid matter surrounded by multicoloured light forms around her hand) TECH- (takes a blow that stops her)
????????: (appears between the 2) there's nothing funny about doing that
Damon: Hmph ... you're right hehe (regains a carefree smile)
Pythias: Yes, you're right, Gleipnir, but know this
Damon/Pythias: I didn't start it! (pointing at each other)
Gleipnir: (sighs) Wan was much more fun than you were
Pythias: It's normal Wan...-
Damon: -...is the best of us! hihi~
Gleipnir: puah-! the best of you if you like, but I'm out of my league compared to you, and it's the same for Ga-eul
Damon: (puts on his sullen, cold expression) you're talking down to me.... (regains his carefree smile) I'll let it slide for today, I've done too many stupid things and Father's going to punish me if I go on hihi~★ (teleports and leaves flowers behind)
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External POV
Father: °his flowers still smell so good° (flowers in hands)
The meeting that Damon had previously interrupted had ended
??? Father: Can I have a word with you sir?
Father: ho~, Seol-hyu, is there a problem you want to tell me about? (waves his hand to his subordinates in suits who are leaving and leaves the two of them in the corridor)
Seol-hyu: The shareholders have asked me-
Father: (puts his hand in front of him) stop, let me guess; they're afraid to come and see me so they've asked you?
Seol-hyu: That's right, haha...
Father: don't worry, you can speak freely, the shareholders must have already put you under a lot of pressure about what you're going to say to me, so feel free to say whatever you like (a wide, bright, sincere smile) I'll accept anything you say.
Seol-hyu:
At the sight of that bright, pure smile, I felt a wave of warm, friendly wind fill me with happiness and free me from all restraint, because I was sure that the gentleman in front of me was going to accept me no matter what I said; In fact, it wasn't the first time I'd seen that smile and felt it afterwards, but each time I saw it was always so intense, and it was one of the only reasons why I continued my work as his secretary, despite the enormous pressure I was under from the shareholders because they knew they couldn't get their hands on him; his smile was my greatest source of happiness.
Father : but first .... tell me, Seol-hyu
Seol-hyu: yes sir? (a very happy expression)
Father: Why are you still playing the role of secretary when we're all alone?
Seol-hyu : m-my role...?
Father: I want to talk to Seol-hyu, my wife, not the secretary (tilts his face towards Seol-hyu's).
Seol-hyu : y-y-your wife?
Father : the one I love
Seol-hyu : .... (lowers his head then raises it, and shows a new expression with new eyes) I've taken out my contact lenses- hmmmm-...
Father: (kisses Seol-hyu)
After kissing ardently
Seol-hyu: (a contented smile, as she contemplates 'Father's' face) is it that hard for you to just wait? (tucks a lock of 'Father's' hair back behind her ear)
Father: if you only knew how much I tested my purity while I was waiting for just the two of us (his face is literally 3 centimetres from Seol-hyu's)
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In the lair of knowledge
External POV
Wan: that's weird ....
Uli: (curious) what's weird about it!? (jumps around like the kid she actually is)
Wan: no, don't worry... it's just an impression
Uli: (curious) What kind of impression? (jumps around again)
Wan: a feeling like I've been forgotten and I feel like I've disappeared, like I
haven't made many appearances, but it's nothing really
Uli: (curious) Are you sure it's nothing?
Wan: Yes, but for now let's go and play! (still monotone, both his voice and his
expression)
Uli: yes!
He played and played with her until they both fell asleep.
Hoe: (cheerfully, plastic bag in hand) To celebrate your return I've bought some spicy fried chicken! The food you told me about!
While she was very happy to be able to eat the spicy fried chicken she'd heard so much about from her master, she stopped rather quickly in her tracks when she noticed that her master Wan, and Uli were both sleeping in the middle of stacked books, both sleeping on top of each other.
Hoe: (smiling mischievously) It's your turn; holographic watch! (takes out her holographic watch and takes lots of photos)
After this, although she was a little disappointed not to be able to eat that spicy fried chicken with the one she called master, she quickly turned around and left, satisfied with the photos of the 2 of them sleeping peacefully on top of each other.
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Instructor : Mia, put those flowers away!
Mia : (putting the letter away) .... but it's not me....
Instructor: The flowers are in the only empty space and it just so happens to be the one next to yours! Be honest and put it away!
Mia : (mumbles very low) But it's really not me... (gets out of her chair)
Ama-ne: (a comforting smile) I'll help you, it'll go quicker with two of us (gets out of her chair) Damon can sometimes be a bit recklessly mean haha... (picks up flowers)
Mia: (with tears in her eyes, jumps on Ama-ne) j-j-j-je t'aime!!! (speaks softly so as not to get caught by the instructor)
Finally these 2 girls got a warning because Mia started tickling Ama-ne, while the instructor was right behind her watching them.
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