My head hurts...
This pain is really familiar, like I'm using my Mystic Eyes for too long. What the hell happened anyway?
I open my eyes, and the first thing I see is I'm laying down on someone's thighs, and that person is Manaka.
"You're awake," Manaka says as she sees me opening my eyes.
Seeing Manaka's cute face staring at me makes me forget about the headache I'm currently feeling.
But only for a moment, because my head starts throbbing again after I try to move it.
"Aghh, my head! Why do I keep feeling this pain!"
Lady Ava said the more I grow up, the more my body will adapt to my eyes, and I'm gonna stop feeling this pain.
But the problem is, it's been two years since my eyes awakened, but my head still hurts.
"Are you okay?"
"No... I'm kinda not, but it's fine. My head's just feeling dizzy. What happened? Why did I suddenly lose consciousness?"
"After you finished asking me a question, suddenly your eyes changed color, and then..." Manaka starts explaining what happened and why I lost consciousness.
From what she says, it seems after she answered my question, I immediately tried to kill my Command Spell by following what she said, and after making a knife appear out of nowhere, I slashed the Command Spell, and that made me unconscious because of the backlash.
Wait, does that mean I used magecraft in front of Manaka??
This is bad. If Lady Ava finds out, she's gonna scold me hard! But at least Manaka barely talks, and I'm her only friend, so I think I'm safe.
"Manaka!" So I immediately sit up ignoring my dizziness then grab both of Manaka's shoulders with a panic expression
"Please don't tell anyone about what I just did! I beg of you don't tell a single person about it it's a secret that I need to keep!"
I don't know why I used magecraft and my eyes in front of Manaka in the first place I don't remember what the hell I was thinking when doing that
But for now I need to make sure Manaka doesn't tell anyone
I stared at Manaka making sure I'm making the most pity expression that I usually use to get snacks back at the orphanage
Usually this expression has a 98% success rate back at the orphanage but I don't think it's gonna work right now
Because Manaka just stared at me with a blank expression that I have no idea what she's thinking right now
After a few moments of silence I finally see a small nod from Manaka
"Great! Thank you Manaka" I immediately hugged her tightly thanks to her I don't need to be scolded by Lady Ava
After that because the time is already late I decided to say goodbye to Manaka and go back to the orphanage
While walking back home I decided to think about my plan that I already wrote for the last 2 years
The first plan is I try to follow the same way like those other protagonists that reincarnated in another world by befriending Sakura and Rin and even better their mother
I know that their mother doesn't want to separate from Sakura but as a Magus family she thought that's gonna be better for Sakura's future
But unfortunately I can't even find them to befriend them I already know where they live because the Tohsaka family is really popular in this city
I can't just walk to their house and tell them that the Matou want to put worms inside Sakura
"Especially that Tokiomi in the anime he barely does anything except summoning Gilgamesh and ordering him around so I don't know his abilities if he tries to capture me because of my eyes"
Elemental magecraft especially Fire and his staff gonna be a pain and Reinforcement, Familiar usage, Divination, Spiritual Evocation, Alchemy, Summoning, Necromancy, and mastered Spiritual Healing
"....Huh?"
"Where did that come from?"
I stop walking
I don't know why sometimes thoughts that I don't know suddenly appear in my head, even when I don't understand the meaning of those thoughts it's just appears out of nowhere.
I know those are basic magecraft that Lady Ava told me before but are those his abilities?
In the end I just shake my head and walk faster to get back "I need to wash my face..."
I hurriedly run back to the orphanage but because of that an accident happened during that
Thud "Gyah!?" I hit something when I'm trying to turn left making me fall backward
I felt my butt hurt after falling backward like that and then a man's voice could be heard in front of me asking if I was okay.
"Are you okay, kid? That looked like a nasty tumble," the man said, his voice soft and concerned.
"Yeah I'm okay it's just my back hurt" I answered trying to get up.
The man then tried to help me up by lending his hand to me while saying that he didn't pay attention while walking and said sorry to me.
"Sorry about that," he said, reaching out his hand with a friendly smile. "I wasn't looking where I was going. You alright?"
I then looked up where the man was while saying "it's my fault because I'm running carelessly and hit you making me fall"
But then the moment I looked up I froze mid sentence and didn't expect to meet him already.
My thoughts started going haywire because the man was Ryuunosuke Uryuu the killer that I saw in the anime and the one that summoned Caster and killed many young girls and children
And now here he was staring at me with a face full of worry asking me if I was okay.
"Hey, you sure you're fine?" he asked again, his eyes widening a bit. "You look like you saw a ghost."
No I need to calm down first. There are still many people around me and it's not dark yet so he definitely can't do anything to me.
His way of killing is usually by luring his victims to his base or sneaking into the house of someone alone.
So I hesitantly accept his hand to help me stand up.
"So you okay kid? You're sweating a lot there. Did you hurt your back?" he asks his voice still soft his face looking worried.
"No no I'm fine anyway I'm late I need to go goodbye!" I say quickly.
I then run away as fast as possible from him back to the orphanage.
While running I glance behind me just to see him staring at me with a face full of confusion then he starts walking away.
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And so at night
"Lady Avaa help meee!"
The moment I arrived back at the Garden of Avalon I immediately ran to Lady Ava asking for her help.
Hearing me scream like that so suddenly she almost dropped her tea that she was drinking in peace.
"Rikka? What's wrong why are you screaming like that?" she asked her voice calm but surprised.
I immediately hugged Lady Ava's legs because she's sitting on the chair we usually use for tea time and there I tell her everything that happened.
"You managed to kill your Command Spells? Congratulations!" she said smiling warmly.
"Thank you it's thanks to Ma... Wait that's not it there's a killer near my orphanage!"
"He's really dangerous he always kills young girls and children so Lady Ava do something!" I said pulling her dress to follow me.
But then suddenly my body started to feel light and I'm now floating in the air.
Lady Ava cast her magecraft on me making me float and then she gently put me down on her lap.
"For you I'm gonna give you a reward for that~" and then Lady Ava suddenly started patting and caressing my head from behind.
Not gonna lie sitting on her lap close to her like this I can immediately smell the usual aroma that Lady Ava has it's nice.
Added with her caressing my head and hair I feel really comfortable and it's making me sleepy...
"Wait! Can you stop ignoring what I said and help!" I shouted.
I started thrashing around on her lap so she'd actually listen and in the end after doing that for a few moments she finally said something.
"Rikka calm down" Lady Ava said her voice soft but firm as she kept patting my head. "Humans killing each other is normal. It's been happening for thousands of years. Even now they still have urges to kill their own kind. A murderer is just a common thing among humans. One more doesn't change anything for me."
"Except if you're the one getting harmed of course I'm gonna do something to save you, but you don't need my help you already can protect yourself and you have your own goal so better focus on that" Lady Ava added her voice still soft but with a teasing edge.
What Lady Ava said is true I can protect myself and I even asked her to put a Bounded Field around the orphanage so it's safe there.
But still I remember he's such a psychopath killer that managed to kill 42 families by himself even before becoming Caster's Master and after becoming Caster's Master his kills got even more brutal.
And a normal person like me that comes from a world with no weird stuff like this world I just need to focus on my future and becoming rich with my magecraft.
But is it fine to let him roam around killing all those young girls and children? I know Saber's gonna kill him later but that's still more than a year...
"Awawawawawa..."
"What are you thinking so deeply like that~ didn't I already tell you to stop overthinking" Lady Ava said suddenly pinching both of my cheeks as I was still lost in thought.
"If you're done with your thinking do you want to receive your reward now?" Lady Ava asked her voice playful.
"My reward? You mean my reward isn't just you patting my head?" I asked turning around to see her face.
"Of course not~ I'm a good teacher so I'll reward you properly" she said with a teasing smile.
Good teacher she said... Oh well that's true in two years I managed to get this far thanks to her.
"Then what is it?" I asked curious.
Suddenly her delicate right hand moved and her finger pointed forward in front of me.
Curious I followed what she pointed at and then
"Fou?"
A tiny white fluffy creature suddenly appeared in front of me on top of the table its fur so soft and sparkly it looked like a little cloud with legs.
Its big round purple eyes twinkled at me like shiny grapes while it tilted its head all cute and curious letting out a tiny squeak that made my heart melt.
"Huh? What is that?" I said my eyes glued to its adorable fluff.
"It's your new friend congratulations~" Lady Ava said clapping her hands while me and the creature just stared at each other.