Unexpected Visitors 4.

After the principal asked something about Chloe's existence, I looked at Alicia as she looked back while tilting her head, before I let out a deep sigh.

*Sigh...*

Thus, after a few moments, I began telling them about the whole story starting from the beginning until the end, which was when we finally got back at the mansion.

Of course, unlike last time, I thoroughly explained everything on how we saw Chloe alone in a crib, and how Alicia and I came across an Onyx.

They were left surprised when hearing about this, and as for my mother, she was a bit upset after learning that I didn't told her everything I know when she asked me about what happened that day.

Well, I can't blame her for that.

At the very least, I was lucky enough that there are few people watching us. Because if there isn't, I know that if ever we were left alone, my mother will take advantage of this and ask me some troublesome questions.

Not to mention, now that Chloe had woken up from her quick slumber, when she and Alicia heard my story, they both looked at each other, dumbfounded.

Chloe : "You're the girl who was with my brother when he saved me when I was still a baby?!"

Alicia : "You're the baby who Athan and I had saved after we escaped the bandits?!"

After learning about this, the two of them hugged happily as they apologized to each other, ending with a truce.

"I'm sorry for calling you fake earlier." Alicia said as she hugged and patted Chloe on the back of her head. Hmm... how sweet~.

And as for my sister, "I'm sorry for thinking that you are a whor-- I mean, a girl who just wanted to get close to my brother and get his attention." Chloe responded with a warm smile. Still, am I hearing things or did Chloe almost slipped on her words, almost calling Alicia a 'whore'?

With a stiff expression, I ignored them. After I finished telling everything I know about Chloe, I looked at the principal, silently waiting for her to reply.

I don't know why, but somehow, I felt a bit nervous while I was waiting for her to talk.

"I see..." Resting her chin onto her fingers, Eva looked at me with an all-knowing look. "Although what you said like there was a mysterious house and about how such a high level artifact that can hide a whole house's presence was still believable, for the Onyx part, that would be--"

Before she could even finish her sentence, Alicia let go of Chloe and crossed both of her arms in her chest before saying, "It's true. I was there at that time when it started chasing us so we both ran. And the only reason why it caught up to us was because of me."

I don't know why she was saying that she was the reason why the Onyx had managed to caught up to us since the Onyx was actually just too fast enough to reach us, but I ignored this and didn't say anything.

When the principal heard this, she became silent for a moment.

Then...

"If you still don't believe our words, then you can just ask my mother about the location of the mysterious house is." I said, pointing my fingers towards my mother, who was currently distracted at the view from outside.

𝘏𝘦𝘺... 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶...? While saying this internally to her, I suddenly heard the sword chuckle.

[𝘚𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭.]

As if finally noticing our gaze, Celestia turned her head towards us with a confused expression.

"...What?" She tilted her head to the side. She seriously needs to learn how to listen to someone when they're talking.

But I guess, this was fine since although dealing with her is hard, her changing her personality and habit into something else would be annoying.

I mean, what if she suddenly become too overprotective and send me back home to lock me in my room, or if I needed something from her and have to use my 'secret move', and then, she just straight up ignored my pleading? That would be troublesome, right?

My mother being like this has its own up and downs.

Never would I have thought in my life that I'd actually be thanking god for giving me this kind of mother.

Wait...

Actually, who's god should I be thanking right now? I mean, this world's gods or the gods from my previous life?

As I pondered about these kind of question, I shook my head to remove these unnecessary thoughts.

𝘈𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘥𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦... 𝘐 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩...

While I was preoccupied with this thoughts, the principal spoke.

"...The location Athan had given you?" Eva rested both her elbows on the table as she started fidgeting her fingers onto one another.

"Ah!" Celestia nodded while her eyes closed with a look of realization. "About that..." Opening her eyes, she scratched her cheeks as she avoided making an eye-to-eye contact to us.

Probably because I had experienced many unexpected shits in this life, I could calmly remain with my indifferent expression after hearing what she said next.

"Actually, after investigating and trying to find the place my son had mentioned in his story, the location he pointed out was not actually a house, but instead... It was only a huge crater with a small portal."

Since there's no need for me to say out loud this, I just cursed to myself internally.

𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘵...

***

When all of us finally finished the long hour of meeting, we were sent back to our rooms saying that we should get going as the principal pondered something in her head.

Anyways, my mother invited the others to eat dinner to my room and which they politely accepted; except for Adam of course since he still have to deal with his trauma.

What happened next was basic trivia. We talked around while eating dinner, which was expected since I knew my mother's personality.

Again, I was reminded to be thankful that she was being too easy to read.

Well, I don't know why, but somehow, I felt like that tonight had been... fun?

Even though I know that my workload will increase after today because of some stupid questions appearing in my mind, because of what happened today had only increased my determination.

After my mother and the others left my room to take some fresh air before going back to their rooms, I was left alone in my room... Not actually alone if the talking sword is included.

[𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰? 𝘐𝘧 𝘴𝘰, 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵.] As the voice said this, I could somehow tell that he was worried according to his tone.

"You know that this is the only way? If I didn't do this, no matter what I do to break this chains that had been binding my existence, the outcome will stay the same."

[𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸... 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬! 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 0.0001%]

"Correction, it's actually 0.000000001%." I said this to him with a proud smug. For some reason, I can't help but feel that the sword had a deep frown.

[𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘫𝘰𝘬𝘦! 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴, 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘰 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴!]

"Seriously? You were joking around earlier, and I just wanted to get back at you for doing it." I let out a tired sigh, pinching the middle of my brows.

[...]

"Relax. Why don't you try and trust me? Aren't we supposed to be partners since we're sharing my body?" I smirked.

[𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 '𝘩𝘪𝘴' 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺, 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵?]

"What's the difference? Although I don't know much about what happened to the original Athan, let's just don't think much about and look forward to the future?"

"Anyways, although we have been talking for awhile now, I still don't know what to call you? You know, calling dumb, horny or pervert sword is quite long. I don't want to waste much of my saliva when talking."

After pondering for a bit, the sword floated out from his scabbard and flew towards me.

[𝘋𝘦𝘶𝘴... 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘶𝘴.]

Deus? Not gonna lie, that name sounds a bit cool if you ask me.

[𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵.]

"I'm not complementing you. I was only talking about your name." After seeing that the usual Deus I know is back, I decided to joke around for a bit for the last time...

[𝘏𝘶𝘩? 𝘋𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨?] Deus spin around in the air as if he was trying to ignore me.

Sighing, I lifted my left hand up and stared at my stigma silently. "Never thought I'll be saying this to you, but... I'll miss your annoying voice." I grabbed Deus and raised him up as he pouted.

[𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘩!]

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘣𝘺𝘦... My smile stiffened as I stared at my upset sword for the last time.

Suddenly, my stigma lit up brightly that filled the whole room with lights.

"I guess this is goodbye..."

Slowly, I placed my left hand to cover my head including my eyes.

[...]

Seeing that Deus deliberately tried to ignore me, I couldn't help but smile. "Stop acting like a child. We'll meet up once again after a few years anyway."

[𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭...]

"Don't worry about it. Please, continue on guiding me after I'm gone. And... Besides that, right now, you're acting like some girlfriend who's seeing her boyfriend for the last time that will be gone for a few years." I said to him teasingly.

[𝘚𝘩𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘶𝘱!!]

Lightly laughing at his reaction, my hand finally reached my face.

"Bye... I guess."

Saying this, I took a deep breath before activating the new skill I created.

[Mind Break]