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Shun woke up and felt some weight on top of his body, he opened his eyes and saw that Mira was completely glued to him with both her hands snaked around his body. He shook her a little, "Mira, wakey-wakey! Wake up… MIRA, wake up!"

His voice went from soft to forceful as he asked her to wake up!

Mira grumbled something before she opened her eyes, she saw her own position of sleeping and blushed a deep red. She quickly pulled back her arms and behaved as if nothing had happened.

She turned her head towards the window and saw that it was day time, they had nearly overslept. She turned towards her siblings and woke them up. Lisanna woke up, and she was surprised to see a boy in their room.

She greeted him with a smile, "Hello, my name is Lisanna."

Shun saw her smile was incredibly pretty and cute, he replied back, "My name is Shun…" With that, he shook Lisanna's little hand.

His stomach grumbled once again as he knew that he would have to have some food to eat. He looked towards Mira and informed her of his plan, "Mira, I will go out in the market to eat something. Do you all want to come with me?"

Mira had a sad expression on her face, "We don't have enough jewels to eat much food. I…" Shun was confused as he heard the word jewels, he remembered that Zagnivol did give him a pouch that had many gems.

"Jewels?" He showed his pouch to Mira and asked her, "Are these Jewels enough?" Mira held his bag and felt some weight from it, she didn't think that he would have many jewels and opened the pouch.

She was almost blinded by the light reflected from the jewels. She didn't know how many they were, but on an average estimate, they should be around 10 Million Jewels. She knew that in this amount, they could buy their own house and live a life of luxury.

She heard him asking in a worried tone, "Are these enough?" She nodded in a rush as she excitedly spoke, "More than enough!" Shun opened his mouth, "Oh… Ok, then."

Mirajane did have doubt, and she asked him, "Can we use your jewels to eat together with you?"

She was worried as to what his answer was going to be. She knew that she couldn't blame him if he said no, these were his jewels after all.

Shun immediately replied, "Of course. Food tastes best when you have company. It was so lonely to eat my meals." Mirajane heard his answer and felt a soft and comfortable feeling in her heart, she didn't think that he wouldn't mind them using his jewels.

Lisanna listened to their conversation and cheered, "YAY!! We will have something nice to eat in a while." Shun smiled as he saw her cheering up and added, "Of course, let's go now. I am starving."

As if on cue, his stomach grumbled, letting the Strauss Sibling laugh at his expense. Shun was embarrassed, but he was also happy, he felt really relaxed here. He even had some friends here now.

All four of them went towards the market, they entered a restaurant and ate some food. Shun ate that food for the first time in his life, so he started eating like a madman to which he was rebuked by Mirajane.

She told him to eat a little modestly to which he replied, "What's that?" Mirajane showed him how to eat, and Shun felt that it was a lengthy procedure before he could even eat his own food. He just continued eating the same way he was eating before.

After food, Lisanna dragged all three of them to the playground where they started to play with each other. Shun sat on the swing, Lisanna gave it a push, and it began to swing back and forth…

Shun was excited as he felt the swing going back and forth, it was super fun. After swinging for 10 minutes, he jumped from the Swing in style and landed on the ground. He looked towards Mira and asked her, "Why don't you sit on it too?"

Mira was about to reject him, but she suddenly felt him holding her hands and putting her on the swing and pushing it.

The swing started to move in a to and fro motion.

Initially, it was a little scary to look down from such a height, but soon enough, she started enjoying it. She was having fun. Fun that she had never experienced with anyone other than her siblings.

She turned towards Shun and gave him a sweet smile which astonished him as some heat gathered on his cheeks.

They all were playing that suddenly 3 kids appear in the park and look towards Mira and her siblings with an arrogant expression.

One of them shouted with his young yet prideful voice, "You all, get out of this place. These are our Swings." Shun was confused by their words, he asked them, "Are these really yours? I apologise to use your things-"

Mira looked towards Shun and answers him, "No, they aren't theirs. These swings are set up for every child to play, but they bully us and do not let us play on the swings." Shun nodded as he heard her, he thought 'So these are bullies…'

He stepped forwards in front of Mira and others and informed them in his commanding voice, "Get out of here before I throw you out of place."

One of them had a prideful expression as he heard that.

He started to laugh and then spoke to Shun, "You kid, get out of here. You are just orphans, you don't have any parents, nobody will come to save you."

"Hmm? That lizard was really right. Words don't work on bullies." he lit up the Azure flame on top of his finger and casually informed them, "Get out of here before you get some burns on you…"

This did intimidate the kids, they were just ordinary people, they didn't know how to use magic and didn't even know what magic really was. They were scared of those blue flames and quickly ran away from the park.

Suddenly, Shun felt someone hugging him from behind and saw that it was Mira. He wondered why she was behaving like this and asked her, "What happened Mira? Are you alright?" Mira nodded her head.

She hugged him because she was charmed by his appearance as he tried to protect her.

She was the one who would always step up for her siblings, but this was the first time someone had stepped up for her.

She wanted to thank him and express her gratitude. Lisanna saw Mira hugging Shun and let out a teasing voice, "Big Sister loves Shun~."

Her words got Mira to start blushing, she glanced towards the mischievous expression on Lisanna's face and began to charge towards her while Lisanna fled from her position.

Shun laughed as he saw this and noticed Elfman looking down with a glum expression on his face. Shun approached him and asked him, "What happened Elfman? Why are you looking down with such a gloomy expression?"

Elfman was surprised that he asked him such a question and replied back, "It's because I am weak. I can't even protect my sisters. I am a failure as a brother." Shun simply smiled at his innocent words.

He looked towards the sky and spoke his innermost feelings, "The opportunity hasn't arrived yet, so why do you look sad? If you are talking about being a failure as a brother because you fail to protect your sisters. Then I am an even bigger failure than you."

The words from Shun truly surprised Elfman. He looked straight at Shun and continued to hear him speak, "You think that you lack bravery? If you did, then those feelings wouldn't even appear within you. The frustration you experience right now will become a huge power in the future. Do work hard when the time comes."

Shun then suddenly smiled brightly and touched his shoulder, "For now, let Mira take care of you, she is older and knows many things that you don't. Learn right now and take care of her in the future."

He grinned as he finished his words and added, "So, what I mean is. Relax a little, and you will be fine…" Elfman heard his words and found that he felt much better than before, he was indeed too young to be thinking about protecting Mira and Lisanna.