2 Can I?

*Thud*

"Ugghhh" Groaned Senex, laying on his back and feeling the coldness of the floor.

After having his soul sucked into a certain direction while struggling to free himself, he saw nothing but darkness. Moments after the ordeal, he felt like he was floating and serenity filled his surrounding, he wanted it to continue forever. Unfortunately for the newborn homunculus, a steel-like grip wrapped around his neck and dragged him to the outside world.

Crashing onto the ground and feeling the downward push that is gravity. Senex cursed in his mind 'Goddammit I-' and before he finished his thought, extreme pain and headache assaulted him, rendering him to a corpse-like state.

Not knowing what the hell is going on, tried to move, but could only groan like a zombie. The only thing he could do was open his eyes, seeing an old bastard towering over him grinning was a surprise and not a welcome one. Scared of his chastity, Senex mustered everything he had, turned over and started to crawl for his dear life and purity.

Agares seeing his inheritor's action began to snicker.

After watching his creation struggle to crawl way, the old man had enough fun and approached the poor boy to dispel his worries.

Senex heard footsteps behind him, scared of his soon-to-be butt fiddler, doubled his effort to escape. Sadly, he was too weak to do anything.

When Agares got close to the boy, he grabbed him by his skull and lifted him up. Senex flailed pathetically but to no avail, the old man was too much for him.

First spell he cast on Senex is [Mind Control] to forcibly calm him down, Senex felt unnatural calmness settling in him and started drooling like an idiot. Agares seeing this, laughed and thought 'perhaps I used too much magic to force him'.

After adjusting his magic output, he cast his second spell [Mind Reading] to better understand him. What he witnessed inside his protege's mind made him guffaw.

"Hahaha, so you are one of those 'spirited away'. Ah, I see that you were at best mediocre in your previous life, simply reading nonsense wish fulfillment books. Hm hm, 'parallel world'. Oh, our world is supposedly fictitious and has the same history, legends and mythologies, does it? Ohoho, our world seems to be in danger because of Trihexa according to what you read, not a first time that happened. Died young while being spirited away, I wonder which god you angered and banished your soul to another world. At least you are not some self-righteous fool that loves being a naive hero, by hell do I loathe those types. I suppose that is all the so-called 'useful' information I gathered from your feeble past life."

Dropping Senex to his knees after dispelling [Mind Reading], Agares began a slapping session to get his attention.

*Slap*

"Pay attention, boy! I will not be repeating myself just because you are going through a weird experience!" After saying that, he stopped.

With a swollen face and tears in his eyes, Senex said "Pleathe thtop, i will lithen!" afraid that he might be attacked again, he begged and agreed to listen to the lunatic geezer.

Satisfied with the answer. Agares began to explain how Senex's soul was banished to another world. How he is now alive and well all thanks to his benevolent Master. Also that this world is considered a work of fiction in his previous world and that he should cast away the idea that he can just act like the fools he read in 'parallel world adventure' genre books since this is as real as his previous life, even worse. Informed him that he is now a devil of the Agares clan. He is expected to master his [Time Manipulation] like his great Master did. After the brief explanation, Agares asked "Anything else you would like to know before we start your training?"

Senex stared at the old man in disbelief, no words can justify how batshit crazy this senile coot is.

Unamused by his reaction, Agares simply grabbed his head and used [Teleport].

-Floating island Agreas, at the edge of the island-

Agares placed the boy at the edge of the island near the waterfall.

Senex terrified by the sudden shift in location, almost burst his bladder. When he is forced to sit on the cliff where a waterfall can be seen on the left, dumping water into the sky. All he could do is marvel at the surreal sight in front him.

Having witnessed the fantastical vista, Senex turned his head to face his so-called 'Master' and asked "Can I fly?"

Agares Laughed and with a toothy grin replied "What do you think?"