Episode 16- The Second Day of the Tournament

A beautiful man lay on the couch in the living room, his hair was messy, and he was wearing a Lemore Academy uniform. The eyes of the man were closed but he wasn't sleeping, he was peacefully lying down waiting for the others to wake up.

Three people walked into the living room where the man was lying down. One was the mother of the two children beside her Tenka Vermillion, and she stood over Shito looking at him as he was lying peacefully waiting for them to finish getting ready. She was wearing her Lemore Academy uniform. The other two were his children Illayaka and Illya.

Illayaka looked a little different because you could see a caramel color in her eyes. And her light sandy-blond hair was tied into two long flowing ponytails on each side of her head. She looked similar to her father who was lying on the couch and Illya looked like her mother.

While Illayaka was someone who was happy all the time, she was a woman who was over the age of a hundred mentally but even with that she was still childlike at heart.

"Papa we are ready to go to now. Can you please wake up?" Illayaka was standing beside her father, lightly tapping his shoulder. "Let's go ahead and start our day together."

Shito opened his eyes and looked at his daughter. He noticed that they were wearing a bear onesie. Illayaka's bear costume was black and Illya's bear costume was white. They were twins and wore the same uniform the previous day, but most wouldn't tell the two apart unless they looked directly into their eyes. They were not the type to let people get close to their faces.

Illya was also childlike but she most times acted as the older sister to Illayaka. Even though she was mentally younger than her younger sister, and since Illayaka joined the family last she was counted as the younger sister. She didn't care about being younger because she adored getting treated like a child.

Getting up off the couch, he looked at Tenka who was standing behind his daughters.

Tenka was smiling at the sight of her daughters waking up their father. This was a feeling she wanted to feel for the rest of her life.

"It's time to go you guys. We have somewhere we need to be, so let's hurry up and rush to the school." Tenka said, looking at her daughters and their father. They needed to go quickly if they wanted to get seats for the tournament.

Glancing at Tenka, Shito started walking towards the door. It was time for them to go ahead and start heading to the dorm room. They were already finished and ready to head out, so there was no reason for them to stand around and wait. battles for the tournament were going to start eventually. 

"Ok, let's go already."

With those words, the family walked out of the dorm room. They were heading to the arena where the battles were being held so they could watch the battles of some of the other fights that were going on.

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Standing in front of the arena, Shito and his family looked around to see what seats they could sit in. There were thousands of people in the arena watching the fights every day but today was different… nobody was in the arena at all.

They were earlier than normal, the only person in the room was a girl that was sitting in the middle of the arena alone. She had beautiful long blond hair, it was lustrous and straight, well-groomed, and was tied into two ponytails on each side of her head. Hair that looks like it's been taken care of all her life. Eyes that were bright gold and filled with confidence. There was a blue cloth hanging from her shoulder, which was how they could tell that the girl was from the special class. She wasn't even average height, she was below it, she could easily pass off as a fourteen-year-old girl but even for her insanely small body, her bust size was average.

The girl was around the age of seventeen. The girl, Lucia Komeiji, was the best student in her class. She was not only the best in her academic studies but the best in everything else, fighting included. Magic was above the other students to the point where she was compared to some of the best mages in the world. There was no one her age who could fight on equal terms as her.

"I'm ready to find someone to fight with me on equal terms. All this being the strongest student is boring. I don't like it one bit." Lucia was lost in thought and speaking what she was thinking aloud. She never really liked being the strongest student because she likes to fight and not being able to fight crushes her mood. "Hopefully, someone strong can clinch me of this ranging battle spirit I have… I haven't had a good fight since I arrived at this academy, and they promised me that I would fight some strong people."

Lucia was someone who loved to fight strong people, a battle manic who loved to fight in pleasure. None of the people in the academy wanted to fight against her because of how strong she was, so she would have to train alone.

Shito and his family stared at the girl that was sitting in the stand-alone. Even though she was smiling you could tell that she was longing for something. Something that she wanted to happen but knew would never be happy for a while.

The confidence in Lucia's eyes was not because she was cocky, she was just confident in her own strength, after all, she trained a lot to get as strong as she did. Even though with her strength she had enough reason to go already being cocky.

Shito and his family walked over to the girl and sat down beside her. No words were spoken between any of them. Shito and Tenka didn't personally know the girl so there was no reason for them to try and talk to her.

But their two daughters didn't like how silent the arena was because people were not there to make any noise. So, they were going to do something to break the silence between everyone and that was—

Illayaka and Illya looked at Lucia, the girl who was sitting beside them. "…Hey Aunty. What are you doing over there alone?" the two young girls said in unison.

—they called the girl Aunty. Illayaka and Illya wanted to get a reaction out of the girl, so she could start speaking.

"… A-Auntie?" Lucia asked, surprised by the girl's sudden declaration. There was no way she looked that old. "Why are you calling me aunty?"

Illayaka looked at the woman and smiled brightly. "Because you are our new aunty. You look so cool so we thought you could be a candidate for being our aunty."

There is no way that two random girls are mistaking me for their aunty… Well, I guess this isn't so bad. Maybe this could clinch me off some of my boredom.

Lucia looked at the two girls and smiled. She was soft around kids, so calling them head aunty was not a bad feeling.

"Being your aunt wouldn't be so bad but… who are these two people?"

She was looking directly at Tenka Vermillion and Shito Mahinu, the children's parents. Of course, she had no idea that the two of them were the parents. Since both children looked like them, she thought that they were siblings.

Tenka looked at Shito and noticed that he was staring emotionlessly at the dome-shaped arenas. He was not the type to talk to new people, so she knew that all the talking was going to be done by her. Anything that had to do with hanging around with new people was something that he didn't like.

"These two little girls are our daughters. The daughters of me and the man beside me."

Those words left the girl shocked. She didn't expect the two young people to be the father and mother of the children. Lots of questions were flooding her mind.

"D-Did… you two have… se—"

"Yes, we did," Shito interrupted. "But don't say those words in front of my children… They are still too young to be hearing those kinds of words."

Tenka's face turned bright red, she looked as if her head would blow at any second. Not only was he lying about them doing sexual things, but that was also something she wanted deep down. But she knew she had to wait for that for a while.

Not a single word could not get out that they were transformed into their children because of magic. That was not something that was known to the public. So, he did everything he could to keep the situation realistic at least. Even though they were seventeen and their kids were twelve years old.

"Yes, he is right." Said, Tenka. "We had these children together at an early age. So… we are the biological parents of these two children."

The two children looked just like them, so if she knew that Tenka was from the Vermillion family she would have known they were the kid's parents but since the announcer isn't calling them by names so.

Lucia nodded her head at the two and smiled. "Ok, I understand everything completely."

"How long is this going to take to start the duels?" Shito blurted aloud. He was getting bored of all the sitting around and not doing anything at all.

"It's going to take them a while because they are changing the whole schedule around. They are going to do them one duel at a time now. So, people could observe what was going on. The school received a lot of complaints because of the way they were handling the duels."

Shito and Tenka looked at the girl with bewildered expressions, they had no idea about anything that was going on. "…W-What?" the both of them asked in unison. There was no other question they could ask at the moment.