1 C1 Matchmaking

"Isn't that the maiden?"

"I know, she looks gorgeous doesn't she? The way the sun shines on her like it's protecting her, or showing her off. she's supposed to be taking a student today, that's why she's here." I can hear everything in the city, everything that the sun touches, I can see the young man and woman talking about me, surprisingly the male has no lust in his eyes, maybe he's happy with his partner? "Lady Sol?" I turn my head to see my compatriot and he bids me enter the viewing room. Today is the chance for me to find a student, hopefully a male. We enter and take our seats while the city master quickly starts the elimination rounds of the competition, people from all around the country have come to take part in this fight, and more have come to see the battles, humanity truly does thirst for a fight. "If only we could turn all this towards the beasts right Lady Sol?" I punch him in the thigh and he jumps before looking at me "we studied side by side, stop it with the lady already dammit!" If there weren't other people here I would've knocked him on the head, but the city master must keep some level of respect so that he can command his people "you stand on top of the world Celeste, I can't just-" I look over at him, and for a moment debate whether I should annoy him like I used to, he always was too uptight for my tastes "that's why you aren't married yet," he looks at me confused and I turn back to the fight, there are five venues, but even so it doesn't look like things will be interesting this early, I browse through the test takers, the ones that have managed to pass the first round and see one child that the sunlight likes, "make a mark by that boys name, the one that passed first, the sun likes him." He raises an eyebrow and looks over before laughing "doyou know who that is?" I raise an eyebrow while some other people enter the room, a woman walks near us and speaks in Rens' ear, if she knew who I was she wouldn't have bothered "there are three men outside the walls that are asking to see you city master, they've threatened to break apart our walls if we don't bring you." I make a noise and they look at me, Ren raises an eyebrow "tell me something Ren, how many people still know your nickname from our master?" He sighs slowly and looks at the woman at his back "Métis, please keep Celie company." He stands up and walks away even now I can see the shit eating grin on his face "ok Rennie dearest, I'll be waiting here!" He stops for just a moment and I hear laughter from somewhere in the back, I focus on the young man and the light gets stronger around him for a moment before dispersing, Ren leaves and Métis sits down in his seat "in sorry my lady, I don't mean to sound rude but... how did you get so beautiful? No one should be born with that kind of face." I look over at her, entirely forgetting to watch Ren and look at her for a moment "I can see into your heart you know that right, you don't care if that sounds rude you just want... oh? I'll tell you but only if you promise to kidnap Ren and take him to meet your parents, dont worry I'll deal with it, and he would never hurt a civilian." She blushes and turns away, before nodding after a few moments "ok, my technique, 'rising sun scattering shadow' works on the body and soul, while there is a support art that works on the mind, if you want to get more beautiful the support art is what you need, it serves as a technique itself so you don't need to cultivate them both, I can have Ren give it to you.. it can also serve as a present from him to you, at least in your families eyes." I sit back, triumphant and turn back to the fight, there have been many good fighters, but so far the only one that the sun has likes is that boy, there is a young lady but most women don't have enough Yang energy to use the rising sun scripture. "My lady, why are you giving g me your own cultivation technique?" I look over and debate what to say, Ren used to say I was to brash, saying whatever came to mind, and while I do have a fiery nature, if I do say so myself, it isn't quite so bad, for example I won't tell her that I like playing matchmaker, but I also won't tell her it's because I love him like a brother and wish for him to be happy, or that I can use this to make fun of him in the future "my lady?" I break from my reverie and look back at her "sorry, when you reach an age like mine you tend to lapse into conversations with yourself. It's joy my cultivation technique, I found it in some ancient ruins, I feel it is my duty to find those truly worthy of these skills and give them away, after all, if I'm the only one using them then who knows if they are strong or if it's just me, the rising sun scripture isn't something g women can use, I have a special constitution that gives me the suns energy in the first place, I just built upon that." Ren comes back and I decide upon my new protege, I like that young lady but the sun needs a champion, and who better than a man, we women need to protect our skin after all.