Chapter 16

Hope she asks about it sooner.

<<<Ivy's point of view>>>

What a beautiful river with flowers. Water is also so clean that I can see cute little fish swimming.

I got the desire to swim like them while watching them.

This place is quite and peaceful.

Huh? Who's talking?

I heard someone's voice.

Wasn't I here alone?

As I turned my head towards the direction of the voice I saw a girl with wooden sword coming towards to me.

Is she going to bully me? I better act tough but I'm afraid.

What should I do?, what should I do?

Why is she looking me like that? Is something on my face?

She came near to me and began to talk.

I somehow managed to talk with him.

Now what is she doing?

Oh she is just swinging his sword.

I thought she was going bully me but no. She made me her friend plus she gave me his book to me as to pass some time but watching fish is going to be more fun.

I was continuously watched her while at the same time watching fishes in the river.

She is beautiful and cute. I hope I can get along with her.

We're already friend, I hope our friendship never ends.

I didn't have any friends before because I get too anxious while talking to others however now I have one.

She is cute and beautiful. The moment I saw her I thought of making her someone close to me.

That's why I tried my best while conversing with her.

And fortunately before I requested her to be my friend she became my friend.

She is my first friend. My heart felt strange when she asked me to be her friend.

I accept it.

She said she just wanted to be my friends when I asked her about the reason.

She is really a good girl. I want to be friends with her forever.

I wish she never abandon me.

She gave me his book to me to read thinking that I'm literate enough to read it. But my literacy is elementary level and I'm still learning basics.

I don't want her to find about my literacy. She may end our relationship and never talk to me again.

No I don't want that.

I want her to be my friend, I don't want her to abandon me, I want her to talk to me, I want to talk to her, I want to spend time with her, I want to befriend with her forever, I don't want to loose her ever.

I've to learn to read and write like her. She maybe is younger than me but she is literate.

I turned to watch her.

She is still swinging his sword.

I wonder if she ever gets out of breath.

Oh, she stopped. Maybe she is out of breath now.

If she comes here and finds out that I can't read then it'll be bad, I don't want that.

Please don't let her found about my literacy dear God but let her come here and talk to me and accompany me.

I wanted to talk to her more. I wanted to know her more.

I turned my head as to take a glance at her.

What she's about to do now?

I wonder why she is looking at her sword.

I turned and continued observing her.

She held her sword by both hand.

What is she doing?

"Woah…!"

Stream of water appeared on her sword from nowhere.

And it's flowing and disappearing at the same time.

How can she do that?

I want to ask about it, I hope she tells me.

I turned back to the book.

But what if she didn't tell me and stopped talking to me?

Should I ask? Should I not ask?

What-what should I do…?

Now, I'm more curious about her.

I was watching her constantly.

What she is going to do now.

How the water is flowing her hand.

I kept watching her.

She took off her hand from the sword.

Huh, it's following her hand too. How?

She kept doing the same thing again and again.

How is she doing such things?

She's unusual.

She's about to swing it.

I got curious about the future outcome.

Water that was flowing on her sword went flying really fast in curve shape towards the river.

Suddenly I heard noise.

My mind is blown right now.

How she is doing such things.

The calm river just looked like it got cut in half for a second.

As I was looking her, she saw me and smiled and said that she was sorry about it.

I smiled back at her as to signal there's no need for an apology.

She began observing his sword again.

Something appeared out of thin air that looked like bulky walk.

"Eh…?"

Did she create that?

She swung her sword towards it.

She didn't even touch it with his sword. How did she do that?

By the- buy that water curve thing? How can water be so powerful?

Did water went flying like before and cut it in a half?

It can cut things also?

I think so otherwise that-huh?

That object just disappeared.

Did she also do that?

I continued watching her.

While questioning myself.

What is she going to do now?

"Eh…!"

Two objects appeared from the ground.

What is she going to do with those things?

Is she planning to cut it like before…?

She swung his sword.

Did she failed to cut the second one?

She's going to swing again.

"Eh…!"

Now it is not a single piece anymore. She cut it.

I was full of questions and surprises.

Um…, she saw me looking at him, she is waving his hand at me, what should I do? Should I wave back?

Yeah I should otherwise she'll think I'm not friendly, I don't want that.

I waved back at her while smiling.

I turned back at the book.

She is coming here, my heart is pounding fast, what should I do now? What should I do?

Right, first calm down and talk to her when she comes here.

First I'll thank her for giving me this book. And…and…, what?

Right, I'm going to ask how she did those things, then…then…, I-I…

She's already here.

She sit next to me but she wasn't close.

As she started talking she came closer to me.

I tried my best to converse with her.

Suddenly a ball of water appeared on her hand and it was floating.

What is she going to do with it?

Eh…, she just drink it like it's a real water.

Is the water real?

I think so otherwise she wouldn't just drink it.

She offered it to me.

I can turn her down but I don't want to do that even though I'm not thirsty.

I drank it and thanked her.

I forced myself to ask her about how she did it afterwards.

Then she began.

"I did all those things by using magic."

"Do you want to do it also? Do you want to learn it?"

I nodded in excitement.

"Ok, I'll teach you everything about it."

"To use magic, you've to have mana. Mana is like a fuel for magic just like food is fuel for our body."

So food is fuel for our body and just like that mana is fuel for magic.

"Magic can be used by chanting words and phrases or without chanting."

"Let's me just get to the main point."

"I'll chant some words and water will appear on my hands."

"Observe it carefully, okay… so here I go."

"The great water spirits, bless me with your powers, lend me your strength, nourish this world, water sphere."

She just said some words and suddenly water appeared on her hands.

"Now it's your turn."

"Um…, the… great water… god, bless me with your powers, lend me your strength, nourish this world, water!"

"Woah…"

Water spherical in shape appeared on my hand.

"Now aim it at something and it'll go flying towards it."

It went flying towards the sky.

But I suddenly started to feel tired.

Then she started talking again.

"Remember one thing, a certain amount of mana is used per magic spell. So if you don't have enough mana to use magic again then it means that your body is nearly out of mana and you'll get hit by sudden tiredness or you'll feel sleepy. And if you perform magic again afterwards feeling tired you'll faint so be careful with that, ok."

I nodded.

That's why I'm feeling tired.

"Good, by the way, you're feeling tired, aren't you?"

"Yes…"

I nodded.

"I thought so. I also had gotten tired at the beginning but not now."

"Really?"

I couldn't believe her saying that she got tired.

"Yeah."

"So if you want to use magic like me you've to practice everyday but make sure while practicing it you're alone and in a safe place like your home and don't show off what you did here to others. However you can tell your parents."

"With enough practice you can perform various type of magic."

"But first focus on practicing the one that you just learnt. If you do it everyday day your mana capacity will increase on daily basis."

"Simply, today you use magic only one time and you started to feel tired, tomorrow you might start to feel tired after using magic four or more times."

"Like I said before the more you practice magic today the more mana you will have tomorrow."

"Also you can come here to practice magic. You'll find me here everyday. I'll teach you things I'm best at. You can ask me any questions however I'll not be able give you answer if I don't know the answer myself."

I paid thorough attention to her.