Ch. 66: Direct Disciple

The group were on their way to the so called world tournament for the young generation that had immense potential to have a very bright future and even lead their own respective kingdoms and empires.

"..mom how much more are you planning to embarrass me.." I said feeling the glares of the other teachers.

"hmm? what are you talking about sweetie? Can't a mother be close to her only child?" Mona said with a smile on her face that showed only motherly love.

"I mean sure... but.. not that close.." Mona was embracing my whole arm, which was held in between her breasts which only added to my embarrassment.

"oh stop whining already, it's not that often we go on such a long trip if ever at all" She pushed away all my arguments as if they did not matter to her at all and continued to hold my arm.

I just gave up on it and continued with the journey.

Before we started the journey out of the capital to the tournament, my mother dragged me into the carriage meant for the teachers, telling them that she WILL NOT separate away from me.

So while the other participants were in their own carriages, I was stuck with the teachers of the academy... embraced by my mom.

At first I thought it would be better that way, since I didn't want problems with the other participants.

Even though I showed them a bit of my strength, they still might nag me, which I would definetly would like to avoid.

But now that I was in the carriage... I regretted accepting it without a word.. My mom was overly affectionate..

I mean I lover her too, there is no question about it..

But only as a mother and that is that. NO QUESTIONS.

Alberto was, naturally released from my earlier attack after our.. uhh.. exchange. Since he is also a participant.

He surprisingly or not, did not dare to look at anybody.. not to mention talking.

after a few hours we passed the border of our Empire and were now in Ezaliton.

On the way, we met many other carriages from different kingdoms, but they naturally let us go first, considering our position of higher stature.

Nothing much really happened during the trip only that my arm went a bit numb but nothing serious because of my mother literally laying on it.

My mother fell asleep with a happy smile on her face.

Judging from the expression and little whispers which I heard with my enhanced senses, I understood that they never seen her making such a face. Mona always appeared to be strong, arrogant and all mighty in front of others, and now that they saw her like this with her son, they were flabbergasted.

Other than that, as stated before, nothing happened.

As I was bored I went to check up on Krásue. But she was 'asleep'. Hmm how should I explain this..

Her soul was resting after what happened earlier, and you all know what happened earlier.

And even though I have the ability to repair souls... it doesn't mean I can get rid of exhaustion. Krásues soul was Exhausted and needed time for natural recovery. I already did what I could, now it was up to her.

I checked up on her daily in my soul world.

There was one thing I found out about the soul world though. If I wanted to I could speed up the time there, but only up to the time speed of the real world, but I could nearly infinitely slow the time down there. for example one week there would amount to 1 minute in the real world, but this is just an example.

As stated before, I could do anything in that world, I was a literal god there. Including Krásue. Whenever I went out of that world into the real world, Krásue sped up time to the time of reality.

And yes, also with just a mere thought. Only that now, she couldn't do anything until she recovers.

We arrived at the capital of Ezaliton where the tournament took place this time. It was packed with people from different kingdoms and empires.

My mom was still sleeping on my shoulder.

"Hey, sleepyhead wake up" I poked her forehead with my finger.

"mmm, whaaaat?" she sounded annoyed. Anyone would be annoyed if they were woken up from such a good sleep, just like my mom apparently had.

"We are here already, time to wake up" I told her.

The teachers had already stepped out of the carriage and left us two alone. They didn't want to be there any longer, for.. reasons so to speak.

"Huh? where?" Mona sat up and rubbed her eyes.

"Ezaliton" I answered.

"Oh.. already?" she grabbed my hand and dragged me out.

"MOM! I am not a child, you don't need to hold my hand, I won't get lost!" I kinda whined.

"Yeah yeah, don't talk back to your mother and let me have my moment" Mona ignored my worries.

"..."

I gave up.

The Ezaliton Empire had prepared high class hotels for the tournaments participants. Naturally the participants of the three great empires had the most luxurious ones.

Some might think that this is a bit unfair.

But these were the customs, and no one complained. Well at least, nobody dared to complain.

We still had a few days till the tournaments beginning, so most of us went out to explore the capital.

We split into three groups, since the participants would rather not be left alone in case of trouble. Every group was led by a professor from our Empire.

I was naturally in my mom's group with 1 more person.

What? you say the split is uneven? Well then send all the complains to Mona Kraftfull. Normally she would only take me, but in this case there was one girl from our 10 participants that was... more special and 'worthy' of my mother's attention.

That girl was a direct disciple of Mona Kraftfull.

Her name is Larissa ...uhh, shiofan? sofan? ...Sofa?... I don't know... my mother once told me about her, but I wasn't really interested since I was exhausted from training.

"What's your name again?" I asked the girl after the three groups departed. Our 'group' consisting of me, my mom and her disciple. My mother didn't hold my hand or arm anymore so I was in luck. Got to keep my image and stuff.

We were currently walking through one of the many now busy streets of the Ezaliton Empires Capital.

"..Who? Me..? Are you talking to me?" The girl asked meekly.

"uh, yeh… I am" I looked at her, since I wasn't even looking at her before.

She had shoulder length brown hair and eyes almost black in colour with a shade of blue. Her height reached to my shoulders, which made her look like a kid than anything else. Her shapes were... petite.

She was wearing a black dress that looked surprisingly cute on her. She had some kind of shoes that lifted her height a bit, don't know the naming of the shoes, am no expert, but they definetly weren't high heels.... maybe low heels or something like that. Meh, who cares right? And she also wore something like.... pantyhose? I guess.

Yes... I did just check her out. But don't judge, listen to what she says in a second.

"I- I am Larissa Soifon! Direct Disciple of Lady Mona Kraftfull! I am currently 17 years old! It is very nice to finally- i- I mean it is nice to meet you! Please take care of me young master Kiran!" Larissa bowed down and closed her eyes.

"I-... what??" I was confused... I mean... we are in the middle of a street and quite a bit of people turned to look at us... well mainly at my mom.. wait.. they looking at my mom?? COURTING... actually no, THEY ARE READY TO MARRY DEATH!

You actually though imma do something? pff. It's not as if their glances are going to affect us anyways since my mom would undoubtedly burry anyone who tries to talk to her in a flirty way without her permission... how did dad even score her..

Wait... I heard that surname somewhere before... but wasn't it a name though..

"Yeah.. don't go crazy about it, I just asked your name since I forgot it. And stop bowing already.. Its weird.." I said to Larissa.

"You knew my name??" Her eyes sparkled.

"Well my mom mentioned she got herself a disciple so yeah I kinda did"

"OMG OMG OMG OMG! He actually heard about meeee! And I finally got to meet him!" Larissa seemingly went crazy....

..How did that girl even know that I exist.. Nobody outside our household knew about my existence.. so why-

'Mom' I looked at her cheeky smile that was directed at me.

"I see you are getting along quite well, hmm? Kiran? What do you think of her?" Mona whispered to me, but so that Larissa would also hear, "Want to take her in too? She is a good girl, I taught her everything myself, But she isn't just a good girl she is also a very strong girl. Hehe, Oh, and she knows everything she needs to know" Mona winked at me.

"Mom... why are u even..." It seems my dad wasn't the only one who had plans for my future...

But wait.. if mom is saying someone is strong.. they are indeed strong.

Who is this girl, really?

(Authors Note:... okay, sorry guys for not posting for a MONTH ALREADY. If you thought I am dropping my novels, I AM NOT. It's just that right now and in the near future I am very busy, so that's that. This chapter was basically written one paragraph a day over the past month... yeh don't even ask.. dumb right?)