Bad Loser

Viscount Chaire was irate. He spent his time throwing objects and mistreating the staff of his mansion to take out the fury that he carried. The unsuccessful recovery of "his daughter" at the hands of the old Rubí, was impossible. The girl looked at him as if he were a stranger and she was aggressive. She not being able to forcibly bring her with him to his house after his fourth visit pissed him off.

He had received the information that his daughter kidnapped three years ago was in the slums working cleaning the brothels commanded by Madame Rubí. When he got there he found a dirty girl who was being whipped by the old woman for not having finished her work. Although the little girl bore a certain resemblance to his wife, he knew that she was not the girl he was looking for. He did not care if she was his daughter or not, he offered money to take her away, but the madam of the brothel refused, distrusting what the man might want to do with her slave.

She authorized him to pay for visits to verify if what he said was true. The viscount returned to his wife and they tried to convince the mute girl that they were family. The girl named Mavis had no idea what they were trying to achieve with her and she never looked at them kindly, on the contrary, she shied away from her contact to the point that, she pulled a small knife to avoid being touched.

The viscountess, who was mentally unstable, swore that the girl was her daughter and that they should do everything possible to get her back, so they planned to kidnap her and call the authorities to send old Rubí to prison. The viscount hated to see his wife suffer and in order to see her happy, he acceded to her request.

On his fourth visit he tried to drag the little girl into her car while she was shopping, but Mavis stabbed him in the leg and fled desperately. With no intention of giving up, he chose to wait two days to break into the brothel at night to accomplish his task. They waited but, unfortunately there was a simultaneous attack by creatures eating men in various parts of the kingdom and with more growth, the carnage was deployed in the slums.

When the out of control subsided, he returned to the brothel to find Mavis. The surviving prostitutes told him that the girl was eaten along with old Rubí, as pools of blood and guts were found in the old woman's room and in the warehouse where the girl used to sleep.

With hope, he tried to track down the informant to learn more about Mavis and how he got to her the first time. Her anger grew more and more when she found out that the informant was killed in the attacks.

-Damn! Begonia was the only one who knew about Mavis, now how am I going to tell Sarah that she may never see her again. Could you find something in the guild? -

-I'm sorry my lord. The few mercenaries left there are unaware of the movements of the woman named Begonia. They said that she showed up every three days to deliver various reports to the late union chief. I paid as told me and the new leader only managed to give me the same information given by Begonia. Offering more than that is impossible for them unless you want to do another search, they have no problems -

-Another search huh? ... you're right. Ask them to find another girl who meets the same conditions and to do it quickly. I will pay them well if you do their job correctly, now it only remains to call Rupert-

-Count Fork is in the palace. The fight for the succession to the throne increased and he is in dispute for the position of minister of education. I am afraid my lord, cannot attend to him.

-Tell him I'm going to collect the favor he owes me, unless he wants me to open his mouth with the matter of the Marchioness Lennox-

-Yes my lord-

The viscount was reluctant to lose again and embarked on the task of obtaining a new daughter for his wife.

**

Albert was studying theories of dimensional geometry with his grandmother. In order to advance with his training, he dedicated himself to practicing with Scuti since Siri was running errands from here to there and hardly stayed at home.

-Modeling matter is the simplest way to add weapons to the catalog. Imagination is the key and the limit of power. Controlling the aura to materialize spirit and will-

Ellen formed geometric bodies in the air to show her grandchildren what she was referring to. A transparent dodecahedron began to fill with light to form a psiball. The children practiced and with each advance they got stronger. The weeks passed and they were almost adept at the free use of mana.

-Keep your distance. Albert lowers his shoulders, there is no reason to tense up. Relax and try to create a toy like the ones you like.- Ellen walked between them to get them used to different positions -Scuti well done, now create a barrier strong enough to resist an attack that varies at short and long distance-

Scuti spread his hands and several summoning sigils formed in the air to cover her. Albert by his side created a hammer almost of his size of his, and when her grandmother got out of her way, he launched an attack on his cousin. At one point his figure disappeared only to reappear atop the purplish dome created by Scuti.

One, two, three hammer blows sent Albert throwing himself back on his head, falling to his knees to the ground. Scuti sent halberds sprouting from the shield toward her cousin. The hammer then changed its shape to transform into a zhanmadao making it possible to block the attack. Albert held the sword in both hands and running towards Scuti he slashed simultaneously to finish off the halberds. The attacks turned into gusts of wind that when hitting the shield showed cutting lines increasingly deep.

Scuti seeing his soon defeat, changed the shield to a thick luminous chain whose termination was a sharp hook. She sent the point towards Albert, who bent his body to the left to avoid the hook without realizing that the other end of the chain had gone underground and positioned itself under him. The chain came up from the ground, wrapped around his legs and pulled him down, making him fall. The hook came closer with more power towards his neck, then Albert formed a shield on his arm blocking the impact and with the other materialized a whip.

Scuti's smile widened, suddenly, she heard a hissing sound and realizing her mistake, saw her chain being dragged by a whip towards Albert. Neither was willing to give in to the other and like a bad loser, Scuti threw a psiball into her cousin's face. Ellen, who was carrying Olivia, very angry sent a shield that got in the way of the attack.

-Enough, for today we end up here. Go wash up, Siri is back and it's time to eat-

-Grandma, I can carry Olivia-

-Take her to bathe -

-As for you ... why did you hesitate to use the power of the star when she threw the psiball at you? You know that you could seriously hurt yourself-

-I don't know, something stopped me suddenly. I think I still need a lot, grandma-

-We will not let this incident go by, before sleeping I want you to come with me to the library. If it is what I think it is, you have to fix it today-

-Yes grandma-

Ellen was immersed in her thoughts as was her grandson. A terrible foreboding warned her that she should hurry to avoid someone getting hurt.