Year:X778 January , 7
Takeshi Haruka POV:
Me and Yoshito we're heading back to the Shinohara household, it's a late afternoon.
"Yoshito thank you and your drill sergeant Haruki, it really benefit me to be able to learn under his supervision."
I said genuinely.
"No problem man I'll be sure to let him know."
We arrived at the house, I walked inside and removed my shoes at the front door and placed them at the entrance shoe rack.
I would like to shower, however the restroom is occupied , I made my way over to guest room.
Hmm, I learned how to handle myself without the need of using magical powers.
I should learn new seals, to improve my arsenal. I got just the thing I'll learn some incantation spells.
I got up to see if any was in the restroom and the bathroom is open. I made my way over and took of my clothes then turned on the water.
Hmm I guess a bath wouldn't hurt.
15 minutes later-
I finished cleaning myself, now then I know Mrs.Shinohara will mostly make dinner. The problem is she's not home yet, Mrs.Shinohara is a head chef in a restaurant , Yuichi works in the same restaurant as a server. They would probably be back in 3 whole hours.
I'll head back out and go find my self an incantation spell book. I'll first go to the library and find any basic books.
I arrived at the library it's been awhile since I have been here. I walked inside and recognized the librarian.
I walked up to the librarian and asked.
"Where could I find books about incantation?"
"Hmm you could check the mage section where you could find all sorts of magic types.
"Thank you."
I thanked the librarian and proceeded to head exactly to the Magesonly section , I walked along the sides of the bookshelf and looked for pacific sections about Incantations or speech magic.
I did notice the bookshelves were in an alphabetical order.
D- D+ ranks
C- C+ ranks
B- B+ ranks
A- A+ ranks
S ranks
This are the types of ranks guild/people rank for ranking their strength.
A rank (D) is considered weak.
A rank (S) is considered strong.
Well now that I think of it, what would be my ranking now. I wonder if there is such thing as an (S+) or (SS) or (SSS) maybe there's more.
Anyway let's not get distracted, let's look for the incantation books.
I look around and found a incantation book.
I picked it up.
I flip through some of the pages
•flip
•flip
I scanned through the pages and only found two note worthy spells.
1.) Name-Lenses
Counter-Illusionary Focus-
Power level- strong.
Grants the caster the ability to perceive the magical scaffolding and a 6th sense for danger last-24 hours
Chant-
False weave, Shadow dissolve! Light of the heart, show me the truth.
2.)name- Tearsof Mother Nature
Water magic-
Power level-overwhelming
Duration- 5 minutes
Chant-Tears of the Sky, Darken the Heavens.
Well this will do nicely , for now lets go see any other sealing magic or magic spells that I find useful.
I went over to a sealing magic book and I found 3 new sealing spells I want to do.
1.) name- Leaping
Type of magic -Spatial Translocation(teleporting)
Hand Touch: The caster must firmly press the palm of their dominant hand onto a stable surface
Range- 10 kilometers
(Authornote: if you seen Naruto , it's basically flying raijing/flying thunder god, just can't be used in a proper combat.)
2.) SealingAbsorption:
Gives the user the ability to steal Mana energy and Spirit energy from creatures to objects.
3.)SealingDestruction:The ability to destroy seals.
Sub-power of Seal Manipulation and Sealing.
1 hour later-
A whole hour has passed and I was just leaving the library, I had a good understanding on the new seals I learned, however my speech in incantation magic needs improvement, I should probably look for more easier spells.
After getting comfortable with the easier incantation spells I could go back to those two spells.
For now, I'm heading towards the orphanage, I haven't seen it since and wonder if it's still holding up. I also don't know if what was her name.
Was it Akmi ima no.
Was it Akmei Imama no.
Was it Akemi Imamara no
I got its Akemi Imamura, now I remember her.she was a kind person , who didn't take anyone for granted.
As I was lost in my thoughts, I already made my way to the front entrance, however there's broken windows that haven't been fixed since.
Hmm did Akemi Imamura die and is this reason why it's been abandoned.
I looked around for sometime then walk by streets corners and I made my way back towards the entrance to the orphanage, however there was no one in sight.
I then walked up to the orphanage then opened it, I continued walking until I stopped at the front register.
My eyes wondered off towards the register desk, no one has touched it in years. I walked more into the main hall, there it was the same destroyed hall, doesn't look like anyone cleaned it.
A moderate scent of dead bodies and blood can be smelled from.
I look around to see and remember where Akemi Imamura body was knocked unconscious. I looked over and then I remembered where her unconscious body was at.
It wasn't there.
Hmm, there's 4 different outcomes that could have happened.
1.) outcome, she was taken or killed somewhere else.
2.) outcome, she was left here to rotten and she woken up and she did report the incident and nothing happened so she never looked back.
3.) outcome, she didn't report the incident and was to traumatize to stay here.
4.)outcome, she was in on the incident and her kindness was all an act.
The ideal outcomes would be (2.) or (3.) they would mean she's still alive.
I really hope that outcomes (1.) and (4.) are just theoretical predictions and not the real outcomes.
I went over to my room #5 if I remember correctly, I went over to the door I didn't have the keys, so I manipulated water into a form of a key to match the keyhole.
I inserted the key and opened the door.
•click
I walked in and there was my old stuff in here , I didn't really have much to begin with. I walked over to a small cubby , I looked inside it, what I found was my mother's letter, I almost had forgotten about the letter.
I grabbed the letter and stored it into my shadowstorage.
(Shadowstorage:The power to seal items into your shadow.)
I made my way outside the orphanage.
Hmm I guess I should head back towards the Shinohara household.
1 hour and 30 minutes later-
I was at the front entrance of the Shinohara household, I walked up to the door and knocked two times.
•knock
•knock
The door opens and it was Yoshito that welcomed me in.
•click
"Hmm.. welcome back , not to be a noisy pants, but where were you?
Yoshito questioned me with curiosity, since I left without warning.
" I went to the library, then went to the orphanage."
I said, but then continued saying.
"Since I went there, Yoshito can you tell me what happened to Akemi Imamura she was the orphanage innkeeper."
"Hmm that's a difficult question because, I don't know who Akemi Imamura is."
Yoshito replied with unsure who Akemi Imamura is.
"Can you tell me what happened at the orphanage, 4 years ago?"
I asked Yoshito.
"Hmm I remember something about a bandit raid happen at the orphanage , where 5 missing orphans, there was no mention of anyone or thing reported."
Yoshito says, as all four of my theories are popped in my head, this doesn't really help with narrowing down on what exactly happened.
"Can you ask your supervisor about a person named Akemi Imamura , she's a woman about 30 years old, with wavy black hair cascades down her back, framing her paled tanned skin and has dark blue eyes."
I asked Yoshito, describing how Akemi Imamura looked like.
"Hmm I could see if my supervisor has anything about it."
I then asked Yoshito a question that's been on my mind.
"Yoshito, why hasn't there been anyone to clean the orphanage, despite it being abandoned,the bodies and blood are still there."
Yoshito gives me a uncertain expression.
"Hmm I haven't looked myself, but if what you say is true then it's probably a biohazard or nobody cared to clean it up."
Well there's nothing I could think of since there is no information or evidence to go by.
"I guess you will have to see what, your supervisor has to offer."
I say then continue with.
"If possible can you bring me the report of what happened."
" I'll see what I can do about the report."
With that, I then heard the door open
•click
" we're back!"
Announce Mrs Shinohara with Yuichi by her side.
"Did you fellas have fun."
Mrs.Shinohara says referring to the military training.
"I wouldn't call it fun."
Said Yoshito with a painful expression from the so called torture drills.
"I have no complaints."
I said with no regret whatsoever.
"I'll have dinner ready in 20 minutes."
Mrs.Shinohara says as she heads to the kitchen.
30 minutes later-
I notice Mrs. Shinohara made food for the three of us.
"Will Mr.Shinohara not be joining us?"
I asked unsure of the reason for her so serve for a family of three.
"Ohh.. I forgot we didn't tell you what my husband does."
Mrs.Shinohara says forgetting to mention what her husband does.
"My dad is a official village guard, sometimes he has night shifts and other times morning shifts."
Yoshito says , despite also forgetting to mention it.
"In fact my dad probably has better understanding of what happened that incident, you should ask him."
Well that could be useful, however I still think maybe drill sergeant Haruki, has a better understanding because of the experience of serving the village military.
"I'll ask him then."
I said as I clapped my hands.
•clap
"Itadakimasu!"
That was the end for today.
Year:X778 January , 8
It's a new day time to go to the library, instead of using lower incantation spells, I should learn about Drama or Acting, to improve my speaking and speech skills, these will help with making my incantation spell easier to do.
Location:Library.
I was at the front desk of the librarian.
"Where could I find Drama or acting books?"
I asked.
"Hmm you could find them in section #2,hmm now I remember your the little boy who would come to the library."
"Thank you."
I replied, but I never denied or answered her.
I made my way towards section #2 , I walked in and noticed 4 books that caught my attention.
What caught my attention was how much pages there are on the four different yet similar books.
1.)Life'sScript: Lessons from the World of Drama.
2.)TheArtofDramatics: A Guide to Self-Improvement.
3.)CastingCall: How Drama Inspires Change
4.)Inspire, Act, Transform: The Power of Drama
The 4 different books, interested me, they each have each have a key aspect to incantation.
1.)Life'sScript: has the key aspect of introducing ,starting the speech.
2.)TheArtofDramatics:has the key aspect of body, main part of speech .
3.)CastingCall: has the key aspect of conclusion, where all speech is summarized.
4.)Inspire, Act, Transform: has the key aspect of transition, turning irrational speaking into logical speech.
I picked up the 4 different books, each book weighs about 1 pound, meaning there's about 160 pages per book.
Since it's morning and that means I have all morning and early afternoon.
4 hours later-
I've been here for four hours, I should go to the lake and do my the new training routine I learned from the drill sergeant Haruki.
Before I leave, I should check out the books and study them for at least 4 whole days
Location-Lake
I made my way over to the water of the lake, I immediately went under water to do my routine in water instead of on land , even the weights which I've borrowed from drill sergeant Haruki
(Authornote: all the training in chapter 15)
4hourslater-
I finally finished doing my routine , I was on my way to Shinohara household, until I spotted a shop it's named The Twisted Vine:
The Twisted Vine: Nestled in a nook, it specializes in unique potions crafted from climbing plants and magical roots.
I'll visit another day, to see what's up with the shop, the potions could come in handy.
Location:Shinoharahousehold -
Mrs.Shinohara made Salmon and Shio Kombu Onigiri and a side of grilled fish.Mr Shinohara did join us today I was going to ask about the incident, however he looks like he needs some rest,I'll save it for tomorrow.
15 minutes later-
I went to go take a bath, after brush my teeth, then called it a night.
Chapter ends-
Word count:2,221