One Step Closer To The Truth

Daxhoull is a port city. It's surrounded by a large forest on the third side. Then there's the sea on the other side. The biggest docks of Utuvis are here. But overall, the city itself is better and prettier than most of the others. The biggest part of the beauty of this city is its closeness to nature.

Of course like every other city out there this city also has modern pollution. To expand the living quarters of humans they cut down the trees and destroyed the part of nature. But, Daxhoull always tried to protect nature, and even if they couldn't they tried to fix it.

I'm sitting on a hill that oversees almost all of the city. This hill is close to the docks so there is also the relaxing scent of the sea. This hill is one of the secret places me and my group of friends are usually gather. But today I'm here with an... old friend.

"Thank you for coming."

Carla Liyah. She is a foreigner. She has beautiful silver hair and charming crimson eyes. She is from class 1-C. One of the popular girls in our school. She texted me right before school was over. Asking to meet with me here.

How do I know her? She is my childhood friend. Her grandfather and mine were friends so when we were little we used to play together. I haven't seen her since grandpa's funeral.

"No problem. It's just, been so long since we last talked."

"Yeah, sorry about that. I thought that you needed some alone time."

"I did. Thanks for your consideration. Anyway, is something matter?"

Her eyes flashed with sadness. And she is shaking a little. What's going on?

"My grandpa... he passed away two weeks ago."

"I...had no idea. I'm so sorry for your loss."

"Thanks... By his will, I have to give this letter to you. I just got this, this morning. It came with the mail."

Grandpa Henry died... It's been two weeks and he has a letter for me... Grandpa Henry and my grandpa were like brothers. He was so sad after my grandpa died. Now he died too...

She took out a letter from her backpack. It looked new and clean. While taking the letter from her I noticed that my hands were shaking too. I am nervous. I respected them, I looked up to them. And after their death, their true lives are revealed to me. Grandpa possibly knows about magic and mana. Did grandpa Henry aware of these too?

I carefully opened the letter. There were several papers written with handwriting that belonged to Grandpa Henry. What was written there... shocked me. I need to look into this.

[I don't know if you'll believe me but you have to learn the truth before it's too late. The necklace Adrian has given you is something called Mana Crystal. It's created as a key. The mountain house that belonged to Adrian, your grandfather has all the answers you need.

There are things that you wouldn't believe without seeing. You may think these words of mine as nonsense of an old man. I can't prove otherwise, after all, I'm already dead by the time you are reading this. But I have to warn you. Now that all of the old monsters are dead, the New Omen will rise.

Take care of yourself, kid. I don't want you to suffer because of who you are. Also, take care of my Carla. She is a good kid, you know. I believe you guys will need each other a lot in the coming times.]

I didn't get everything he tried to tell. But, what I understand is they were aware of the mana. They knew something. And from some of the words he wrote, something is going on behind the scenes. Possibly there are other people with powers.

"What did he write? Does he mention something about me?"

I remembered what he wrote about her. Did he want me to... No no!

"He did. You blushed. Haah... Since we were little he kept teasing me with this... He always said that we would be cute... c-couple when we grow up."

"...My grandpa too... he teased me back in the days..."

Those were good memories. Everything was good at that time. Ugh... Nothing was like now.

She is my first love. When we were little I fell in love with her but I didn't know what love was at that time. But then she went out of the country for a few years with her grandpa. After she left I met with Jason and others. She is my first friend.

"You know..."

"Hmm?"

"I would like to spend some time with you sometime... If you don't mind, of course."

"...I would like that. How about Sunday? Are you free on Sunday?"

"I am. Thank you."

"You don't have to. I would like to spend some time with you too, you know."

Oh, she blushed. There's a faint crimson on her cheeks. She is so cute! If this goes on, I might fall in love with her again. Ah, but there's Kairi too. Well, I see her as a close friend, not a love interest.

Ugh... Anyway, I need to go to the mountain house to learn the truth and get some answers. Maybe I should take Carla with me. Her grandpa is involved with mana too. But this kind of thing would change people's all world.

Well, I can decide that after our date. Then I can ask Kairi for a piece of advice. But one thing is confusing me. My necklace is a key? This is looking like a similar plot from anime. Will it open to me the humanities real secret?

I should focus on getting more powerful in the close term. But, taking some time off can't be bad, right? Everyone needs to rest sometimes.

"Hey, what would you like to do... at our date?"

"...Are you going to ask that to me?"

"This is my first ever date, you know. I don't want it to be a bad memory for both of us."

"Ugh... how can you be so sweet?! Well, meet me at the city square. I will plan something."

"You know... I don't will it be good for a date but I know a place... in the forest. It might sound weird. It does sound weird."

"Hehehe. I would like to see this place you talking about."

Her smiling face is quite charming. I may be looking for Sunday more than I do with mastering magic. Sometimes relaxing is necessary. And what better way is than a date with a cute childhood friend. Maybe I should ask her for more dates after this one.