"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
[Albert Einstein]
"Welcome, Master, it's nice to have you here."
A woman with white hair and ocean blue eyes, with a mystical spirit around her gaze, smiled when I entered her room. She sat gracefully on a chair, and in front of her was a table with a nameplate that read Headmistress, making it clear she was the academy's headmistress.
THE ATHENAEUM ACADEMY, a prestigious mystical school where almost ninety percent are young girls, and ten percent are boys. A school where mysticism is highly prized, and the young girls here come from all over the empires of the continent. The men were mostly laborers and personal servants or the slaves of young girls who had noble titles. It is very rare for a man to go to school here; there is surely a noble or unique individual with special abilities who attracts the headmistress.
As for me? I was born into a Salvadoran family that upholds power above all else; no matter whether you are a woman or a man, as long as you are strong, you are always accepted as part of the Salvadoran family.
I was lucky enough to be born into that family, back to now...
The short woman resembled a child, her eyes sparkling as she looked at me.
"It's been a long time since I've seen the principal."
I said it while slightly bending over and bending my right knee so that my body was as low as possible.
"Oh my gosh, you don't need to be like that. I've been wanting to meet you for a long time."
"What do you mean, Madam?"
I tried not to look her in her eyes or see her face.
"Come on... This is our meeting since the forest, since you can freely roam now, you should know about it, right?"
Of course, I know, a young girl I met while doing self-training.
(7 years ago)
When I found out that my body could emit mysticism and started training in the forest back then, I accidentally met a strange woman in a pure white robe.
"Извините, можно я здесь немного подожду?"
(Excuse me, can I have a ride here for a while?)
It seems that someone from the Rusvania region can be seen from the language.
"Entschuldigung, ich bin kein Einwohner von Rusvania. Können Sie eine andere Sprache sprechen?"
(Sorry, I'm not a resident of the Rusvania region. Can you speak another language?)
I deliberately used the Pruvian language so that the woman would understand that I was not from her territory.
"Ah…, I didn't know about it, I mean, can I be here for a while?"
Finally, she used the Aestheris language.
"No problem, you can sit here."
I said with a friendly smile.
She sat across from the campfire I made with my Mystique. She then looked at me carefully from bottom to top and made a confused expression on her face.
"What are you doing alone here? From your posture, your body looks like you're still a child."
"What did a little girl say? Your height is still like a little girl."
"What?! You know, I've lived a long life?"
She said while glaring at me, trying to look angry, but with her cute face when she tried to do so.
"Just assume I believe it."
"You don't believe what I'm saying, do you?"
"So who are you? What are you doing?"
I'm trying to divert this conversation.
"Wait? Wasn't that my question?"
"Hurry up, just answer before I kick you out."
"Do you think you can drive yourself out? Even you are not equal to me."
"Really. Little Girl?"
When I talk like that around her body, emitting mystical sparks resembling electricity, I'm so curious if she is a running battery?
"Don't you know, boy? I'm not a child!"
She instantly let go of her mystique and directed it at me. This is why I don't like real women being troublesome; if only my weekly anime characters could be brought here.
When she let go of her mysticism, her mysticism instantly reflected and hit her, then she bounced back and fell until she lay on the ground.
"What happened? How can you reflect my mysticism, no, how can a boy reflect my mysticism? I didn't hear you uttering incantation or feeling any mystical use from you or the surrounding objects."
"That's a secret the company knows; shouldn't you apologize to me for attacking me with a unilateral attack?"
"I'm not wrong, it's because you're annoying."
Oh my gosh, the little girl's annoying actions and not wanting to admit the mistake.
Instantly she stood up and her head hood was opened, then there appeared a girl with white hair and yellow eyes lit up, then a mystical stream resembling electricity came out of each of her bodies as well as her eyes, but the strangest thing was a heterochromia eye where the right was gray while the left was golden yellow with long ears, only the left indicated that she was a mixed race.
"You're a mixed race, huh?"
I asked while pointing to her left ear.
"Tch.... Haha. You're surprised, boy? I'm indeed a half-dragon human mixed race from the fulgur dragon race, that's why I'm long-lived, so you're now shocked by this fact?"
"Ah... no"
I ignored her.
"What does that mean! You should be surprised, it's very rare for you to encounter mixed races, right? Especially someone from the dragon ranks!"
"Well... I'm quite surprised by that fact, then what?"
"Haaah... It's so boring to see your reaction..."
"Then may I ask?"
"What?"
"From now I feel that your mystical flow is coming out, doesn't that drain your spirit or make you tired?"
That was my question from the beginning of the meeting, I always felt a mystical leak but didn't really care because I thought she was just a beginner who hadn't mastered her mysticism, but after the fact that she was a mixed race long-lived and saw the mysticism that always came out of her body I realized that it was something abnormal.
"This? It's normal, although sometimes this makes me tired quickly and almost makes me faint, but I've overcome it for a few years by widening my mystical container, because it seems like this is a side effect of the mixed race, you know?..."
"Ah... Mixed race side effects seem to be the cause. Then you didn't try to fix or cure it?"
"Hey boy, if I knew how I would have done it."
"You're right too..."
Then we were both silent for a few minutes, and then she seemed to be aware of something and looked at me intently.
"You're a man, aren't you?"
"Of course I'm a man."
"You're not a woman trying to dress up or crossdress into a man, are you?"
"Of course not, do you want to make me show my sex here now?"
For a moment, she blushed and was embarrassed, and then turned her face while screaming...
"NOT THAAAT!! I'M NOT GOING THERE!"
"Then what?"
She then pointed to my right hand, which was emitting mysticism and was moving a floating wooden branch.
"How did you do it?"
"What are you doing?"
"THAT'S IT! HOW CAN A MAN USE MYSTICISM AND DO THAT!"
"Didn't I tell you earlier, it's a company secret?"
"What does that mean? Wait, are you practicing your mysticism here?"
"Yes."
"Without a teacher or instructor?"
"Didn't you say men can't use mystics? If I told my family, could I use it, would they believe?"
"Ahhh...! That's right, I forgot about it, then I saw from your clothes that were quite clean and neat, are you a noble?"
"That's right, I'm from Salvador"
"The Salvadoran family has a son? Why have I never heard of it? Wait, how old are you?"
"10 years"
"No wonder you haven't participated in the coming-of-age ceremony, have you? Wait a minute, you're Obelia's younger brother?"
"Yes, I am her brother."
"I didn't expect to meet little brother Obelia here, as well as meet a genius here."
"Do you know my sister?"
"Of course, she is a talented talent in the academy who defeated several candidates and even the princesses of the second French empire, but what must be corrected from her is self-control, because she always invites anyone to fight mystically, no matter if they are nobles or commoners as long as they are strong she must propose them, it really makes me exhausted to clean up the problems created by her."
"Ah... I thought that the older sister was crazy, talented, and crazy, two things that shouldn't be one, then it seems like you really know my sister, who are you really?"
An index finger then rested on his lips and said with a smile...
"It's a secret."
"Haaahhh... It looks like I've been hit back."
Then the atmosphere became calm again without any conversation until...
(Crack... Crack... Rustle... Crack... whoosh)
I felt a sound from behind me at high speed, and when I was about to turn my head behind, someone hit me instantly.
(Debug!!)
Someone hit me hard enough from the front, and I fell to the ground. Then, I saw a little twelve-year-old girl in front of me in a conical hat and a long black robe.
She is my friend, a young witch that we have met a lot in this forest lately. I first met her about five months ago when she was crying in the forest alone near the flowing river. I was frightened and thought it was a ghost at that time.
When I saw that the crying one was a little girl, I approached her and calmed her down; that's when I first met and became close.
"KAI! It's been a long time, huh?"
"Kirana, we haven't seen each other in about three days, you know?"
"Aaahhh... But it's been a long time, three days of not seeing you and training with you feels like a long time, you know, I even had to sneak away from the guard to meet you, so I rubbed my head."
I could only sigh and stroke her head; it seemed like she was quite comfortable with it.
"A young Witch, huh? I didn't expect to see her here."
Instantly kirana turned her head towards the source of the sound and saw the little girl who was the white hair A woman with a youthful appearance but advanced age of the mixed race.
"Who are you? Why is there a mixed-race little girl here?"
Instantly, the lightning strike like the one done to me earlier was directed at the kirana. Kirana wanted to protect herself with her robe, but there was no use; the mystical protector on the robe broke, and Kirana bounced until she hit a tree trunk and fell to the ground ten meters away.
"uggh…What the hell is that? Why can she be so strong with just that lightning strike?"
"First, I tell the little girl, I'm not a little girl, I'm already eighty-seven years old, second, I'm a mixed race of dragons and humans, thirdly, it's really disrespectful that you suddenly interrupted in the middle of people resting."
Oh my gosh, Grandma Loli was angry, and now some electricity instead of lightning around her body was moving uncontrollably, while Kirana, who was exhausted, fell down, immediately stood up slowly, and looked at me.
"kai.... sob... sob... she attacked me... sob... sob... it hurts... sob... sob..."
I thought Kirana must be crying, so I immediately stood up and walked towards her and hugged her.
"Yosh... Yosh... Don't cry, it's all because of you who suddenly came."
"sob... sob... But I want to see you."
"I know that, but can you come next time just normally?"
"sob... sob... Forgive me... sob."
"Good, make it a lesson, and you, Grandma Loli, can you tone down that mysticism?"
"WHO DO YOU CALL GRANDMA LOLI?!!!"
"Then what should I call you? I don't even know your name."
"Isn't that a question that should have been asked earlier?"
"Your words are secrets?"
"Who said 'Secret' first, ahhh!! Already, introduce me to Astrael Velora, a mixed race of Fulgur and Human Dragons, and then who are you?"
"Me? Kai von Salvador, an ordinary human from Salvador."
After I said that, Astrael became even more suspicious and narrowed her eyes and looked at me carefully.
"Liar! If you're an ordinary human, how can you reflect my mysticism?"
"It's easy, I just made a mystical shield around my body."
"That's crazy! A boy can reflect the Dragon Clan's mysticism, and He is only ten years old? The world will definitely be in chaos if a boy is born like you."
Instantly, Kirana stood up and confidently held both of my shoulders and directed me towards the Astral.
"Hehehe... Take a look! This is the greatness of Kai, little girl."
Kirana actually said it proudly.
"Huh?"
"I... I... Mean... Madam... Astrael..."
She curled up in fear behind my body, really shameless.
"Haaah... Already, no need to quarrel, let's make peace."
"Haaahhh.... Alright, I'll calm myself down too."
"That's Good"
Astrael then sat back down near the fireplace while I scolded and turned to face the kirana.
"So, what are you doing here? Why are you flying so fast?"
"That's it, the mystic you taught me I managed to master."
"Really, you really have mastered it?"
She, with sparkling eyes, nodded so quickly.
"Show me"
Kirana took a small wand from the robe pocket, a mystical wooden wand with purple gems on it. She closed her eyes and began to move the wand while saying...
"Hrōpan ic thia hwalas, thuru thia hwal-ridan; Sceadu an themo mere, scīn fan themo liohte. Blindan thiu ougan, thā thit bidrog is!"
(I call the whales, through the whale-riders; Shadow on the sea, shine from the light. Blind the eyes, for this deception!)
A black smoke surrounded her and then scattered into four shadows, two on the right side of the kirana and two more on the left of her, the smokes began to form to resemble the form of the kirana.
"How?"
"Good, it looks like your training is paying off."
"Illusion skills are quite good; usually, young witches can only create one to two shadows because they are very draining of their spirits."
Astrael instantly stood before me, even I didn't notice her, meaning she was really great.
"Of course, I actually trained for these three days."
"Wait a minute, three days? I heard that young witches practice that for weeks or even months to polish and tidy up their shadows, and you only need three days."
"Of course, I'm not alone, I couldn't do it at all before, so he asked for kai's teachings, he taught me by helping me control the spirits in my body and the process of releasing until it produces a single illusion shadow, then I practiced on my own by remembering that process, and finally managed to create these four."
I then turned my head, avoiding the gaze of the astral eyes. I could feel the astral having a high curiosity about it.
"Kai, can I get rid of it now? The four of them are really draining my spirits."
"Of course, take a break."
Kirana then lowered the stick, and all of her illusion shadows disappeared into smoke and returned to her.
"Wow... exhausting"
I then approached her and stroked her head.
"Good job"
"Thank you"
Kirana smiled as she lowered her head. I could feel her body warming up, and I thought maybe she was tired now.
"KAI VON SALVADOR!"
Astrael then approached me, then instantly prostrated himself before me. Kirana and I were instantly confused by Astrael's behavior.
"MAKE ME YOUR DISCIPLE!"
""WHAT??!!""
Kirana and I were shocked for a moment, and then I immediately lowered my head by bending my knees and holding her right shoulder.
"What do you mean? Why are you suddenly like this?"
"I've seen it, a miracle, a miracle in the aestheris continent, by being your disciple I'm sure, I can heal, this Sickness of mine"
Instantly, I was shocked by her words. I was really confused. I, who just wanted to train my mysticism in the middle of the forest, suddenly got a student of Grandma Loli?
Fuck you, world! Give me a break to understand what's going on?!
Character Unlocked: https://imgur.com/gallery/astrael-velora-rmYCxSY