Time skip, yet not at the same time...wait, which is it?

What’s with this guy, suddenly attacking me even though I wasn’t ready.

“Suddenly punching me like that...”(Shera)

“Hahaha sorry, I just wanted to test something.”(Theiros)

“TEST? YOU JUST KILLED ME ONCE!”(Shera)

I can’t attack carelessly, If he could do this much, then I’m sure he could do it again...

“Hahaha Anyways, by the end of this day, the moment you step out of this place, you will be a lot stronger than you are now.”(Theiron)

“Oi, what are you planning, I don’t plan to stay here you know.”(Shera)

“Don’t worry, with this spell, we can train all we want. Chrono”(Theiron)

A transparent sphere covered the whole area, I couldn’t feel any pain though...so it’s not an attack.

“This is a eternal class spell which burns 100 thousand of my life force for a time spell. Inside the sphere, we will move faster, to be precise, 1000 days inside the sphere is equivalent to an hour outside. The spell disables after a day, in other words, we have at least 65 years to teach you.”(Theiron)

“1...100 thousand? Are you stupid? You just threw away that amount of time just to teach me? If you wanted to, you could have just begged me to let you join us in our travels.”(Shera)

“Hahaha I do not want to get out of this place and leave Miya alone, and the next time someone gets here, I would probably be dead. So I will use all that I have to make you stronger, much much stronger than you could ever imagine.”(Theiron)

It’s here again...I always get into a situation where I benefit a lot that I couldn’t even reject their offer. The attack before was still a bit angering though...

“65 years isn’t enough to tell you everything I know, so I’ll ask you, what classes do you want to learn. I lived for a long time, and I could proudly say that I have mastered every class known in this world.”(Theiron)

“...Fist fighting, magic, other than that, I don’t really know.”(Shera)

“It seems you already planned the first 2, but with the time we have, I could teach you 3 classes...is it fine if I pick the last one for you?”(Theiron)

“I...it’s fine”(Shera)

Actually, I don’t know what’s happening anymore...I clearly remember that I was swimming happily near the others, and now here I am, talking about spending 65 years with an old man to train...should I react more? Should I reject it and go back now? But he already sacrificed a lot, and I would benefit a lot. I will just be gone for a day in this world...wait, I’ll still feel all 65 years normally right? Won’t my personality change? Won’t I start to forget them? This is actually a lot more serious than I thought.

“Then I’ll recommend getting a swordsman class.”(Theiros)

...Wait, something seems wrong, I would use both of my fist to fight, where does swords come in?

“Why?”(Shera)

“Heed my call, Ragnarok”(Theiros)

At his words, a black colored long sword appeared. Intimidating aura was flowing out of the sword, and it feels like even a peasant could kill me just by using that sword. The handle was made out of purple metal, and the blade it self was made from black metal with glowing purple crystal in the middle...looks really good...

“This is the best weapon I have, and probably the strongest sword in the world. It is called a soul sword, and is connected to the user’s soul until the user decides to cut ties with it.”(Theiros)

“S...strongest in the world?”(Shera)

“This is made from both reis metal, and my own bones. I have repeatedly cut my body and took bones, which I compressed and made into the blade.”(Theiros)

T...that sounds a bit disgusting. I made a disgusted face, which made Theiros raise his brow.

“I PROPERLY CLEANED IT! Anyways, you probably know that the body parts of majin are highly compatible with mana right?”(Theiros)

I nodded, even though I didn’t know what he just said...I know now anyways, so I wasn’t lying.

“What do you think would happen if a thousand majin bones were compressed in to a blade, and was subjected to high amounts of mana for more than a hundred thousand years”(Theiros)

How would I know?

“The bones will continuously harden, and a core will be created. Once the core is created, it will start to have it’s own mana, and would regenerate on it’s own even if the user doesn’t give it mana. Once a link is created between a soul sword and a majin, both of them will get stronger. The stronger the user, the stronger the sword will be, and vice versa. In other words, if you master swordsman class and use this sword, you will be a lot stronger compared to what you are now.”(Theiros)

“That sounds great, are you really gonna give it to me?”(Shera)

“I don’t want my creations to rot in this place, and it is better to give it to you, instead of other’s who might use it for something bad.”(Theiros)

It’s here again, why do people think that I am a good person? I am not! I am neutral! I have already killed countless people before!

“Anyways, you could sync the 3 classes like this.” Theiros threw the sword to me.

I dodged the sword, but Theiros used this opportunity to get close to me. He punched my left shoulder, and kicked my left leg. He summoned the sword to his arms, and cut my head away. By the time I regenerated, he pierced the sword to me body, and started punching me. He delivered the final punch to my head, and released a spell on my face.

“Celestial flare”(Theiros)

The light was sent directly to my face, and vaporized it. Once I regenerated, I jumped back.

“See? You could use all 3 classes at the same time.”(Theiros)

“Why did you have to do that just to show me?”(Shera)

“It’s better to learn them the hard way.”(Theiros)

Starting that day, I trained in various ways. For fist fighting I mastered the god fist, for magic I simply learned the advanced method of what pooch told me, and for the sword, I learned the 4 paths of the Majin sword style consisting of, wide explosive motions, fluid trajectory change, fast mobility style, and flash draw.

It’s easy to learn each of them, but hard to combine all of them into one fighting style. Once I mastered every movement, I sparred non stop with Theiros. Every time I reach his strength, he would seal one of my sense. The first time I defeated him head on, he made me seal my sight, next was the ears, next was the nose...I kinda felt like a dog fighting only with my sense of smell.

For the last part, it was my sense of taste...just kidding, it’s magic perception. In the end, all I could do with mana perception was notice when he starts casting a spell, and where his location is. With that, the training was over...exactly after 65 years.

“Are you a monster or something? You were only supposed to learn basic or intermediate level of the classes. Look at you know, you are already at the top of all 3 classes in just 65 years, are you kidding me? That’s something that took me 150-200 thousand years to achieve you know?”(Theiros)

“Calm down master, I only got to this level because you were a great teacher.”(Shera)

“Great teacher my ass, I can’t believe this...”(Theiros)

“Maybe we should spar a bit so you could calm down.”(Shera)

Theiros started to get edgy when I first mastered the god fist. After that he started to get irritated every time I mastered a class...

“Spar? You want to bully this old teacher of yours just to boost your ego?”(Theiros)

“...It’s not that”(Shera)

“Sigh...I hate that fact that you got this strong in such a small time, but I can’t help but feel proud of you...I guess old age is starting to affect my brain.”(Theiros)

It seems that 65 years is just a small time for majins, well it is kinda understandable if you know a majin’s normal life span. Each majin could live for 700-900 thousand years, so 65 years just looks like a day, No, actually it just seems like half a day for them...not for me though, I think 65 years was already too long. I already miss the others, I worry everyday at the thought that I might forget them.

The one thing that changed aside from my strength is probably the way I see thing. Living 65 years away from everyone made me start thinking about a lot of things, especially my past life. I know I should forget about it, but I need to face my past. I started looking back at life with a different perspective, and I could say what I did was a bit too much, but it was still understandable.

The people didn’t know the truth, so it is only natural for them to protect themselves from a posible threat, but our side was also right to a certain extent. I have only viewed things as right or wrong, but it was naive of me to think that way. There are a lot of factors affecting a person’s action, so we can never fully judge them.

Another thing was Kyle...even in the end, he wanted to save me, yet I couldn’t see it until now. In the end, it all comes down to luck, we were simply unlucky, and vent our anger on everyone that lived a happy life. People that didn’t know anything, children that simply wanted to live with their parents, and even those that tried to help us, were killed by us. Simply because those bastard scientist experimented on us.

Well my perspective change a bit, but that doesn’t mean I got smarter...I simply see things differently, I think. Maybe the 65 years away from the others were starting to affect me. There was one thing I am sure of though, I miss the people that made me feel happy on this world. They were good people, I could be myself when I am with them, and I want to stay with them. These 65 years can’t compare to a year that I was with them.

“I guess this ends our training.”(Theiros)

I bowed deeply, before hugging him.

“Thank you...teacher.”(Shera)

“Oi, Miya would kill me if she sees this.”(Theiros)

“Hahaha I am sure she will. Anyways, thank you for everything.”(Shera)

“The pleasure was mine. To actually get a monster as a disciple on my last moments, it made me enjoy my last years.”(Theiros)

Tears started to flow down my cheeks as Theiros slowly turned to dust.

“Don’t cry, Miya would scold me if I make a girl cry.”(Theiros)

“No, I just felt like crying.”(Shera)

“Hahaha anyways, farewell. I had fun on this past 65 years, I hope what I taught you could be a help for your future struggles.” Theiros smiled before completely turning in to dust.

Teacher was already on his last leg the first time I met him, and he only saw the opportunity to pass down a bit of his knowledge to a new generation, which is me. Now that he is dead, this place will slowly lose power, and will fall apart in a few years. Teacher told me it was ok to leave it, the last wish he made was for me to use some of the equipments he created.

For the first time in 65 years, I would go out of this space, it was quite funny how I stayed in 1 place for such a long time. I used air magic to gather teacher’s remains, and went back to the basement. I went back to the place where I first met teacher.

“Teacher’s room should be on the left.”(Shera)

I knocked on the door despite the fact that no one was there, and entered. I put master’s remains on a jar, and buried him next to lady Miya.

“With this, you can now be with her forever, I wish you happiness on the after life, teacher.”(Shera)

I bowed before going out of the room, I then went to the room on the right. When I opened it, it was a lot more spacious than the other room. It was as big as 2 soccer fields, and filled with equipment that master made. I already told master the other’s fighting style, and told me which equipment to take with me.

I already have ragnarok, which is sleeping inside me. For the armor, I was to take the rune mail. It was an armor made from reis and master’s bone, just like ragnarok, it can be linked with my soul, so I could store it, and summon it at will. I cut my finger, and let blood flow to the core of the armor. It glowed, and started floating. It sent waves to my body which was painful, I have to endure it until the armor syncs with my body.

The armor faded into thin air, and as a test, I tried to call it.

“Rune mail”(Shera)

My body was filled with light, and the armor covered my body. It was a bit big for my body, especially for the breast part...teacher, your big breasted armor is starting to hurt my pride. Soon, the armor adjusted to my size, and fitted me perfectly. I moved around to check, and the armor didn’t hinder any of my movements, it’s well made.

For Nero, I’ll take the cerberus gauntlets, and balzan armor.

For Feric it is the rune orb, and Krion robe.

For Ciela, it is the sun sword & moon sword, for the armor it’s the leezian armor.

I grabbed teacher’s Zid pouch. It compresses the items, and stores them in the bag. It activates with the keywords store and open, ‘store’ let’s the bag store an item that the owner touches, while ‘open’ summons the item that is stored in the bag. The bag can store an item no matter how big it is, although it can only store one item at a time. I put everyone’s present on a large sack, and stored them on the bag. It seems that it identifies the sack as one item, despite the number of things inside it.

“Teacher, thanks for everything, and farewell.”(Shera)

I started walking out of the castle, and stared upwards. I couldn’t see the top, but I know the gate is there. I checked everything one last time, and after that, I started running upwards. The gate opened the moment I got near it, and I casted the air bubbles before going back to the water.

To think all of that would happen simply because I was curious...but I don’t regret meeting teacher. I started gliding upwards in the water, using water dragon, which is a white class magic. When I finally got to the small hole connecting to the lake, I disabled water dragon, and casted water walk, a yellow class magic. I moved at high speeds in the water, and reached the lake. From the underwater castle, it only took 30 minutes to get to the lake.

I swam upwards, and finally got to the surface of the lake. It was morning, and I could sense someone from afar...it’s them...after 65 years...I could finally see them again. I ran on top of the water, and went to the coach. I could see them waving at me, so I waved back.

Everyone, I’m back.

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When I got back, I got scolded by everyone. It seems I have been gone for 4 days, and they were all worried sick about me.

“Do you know how worried we were?”(Nero)

“Master, even I will get angry if you do things like this.”(Pooch)

“I couldn’t sleep thinking of you, you know?”(Feric)

“PUNISHMENT!”(Ciela)

Seeing them like this, my heart felt warm, and I decided to hug all of them.

“...Hugging us won’t make us forgive you”(Nero)w

“I know, sorry, and thank you for waiting for me.”(Shera)

“Of course we would wait for you.”(Nero)

“You are the party leader after all.”(Feric)

“You are no longer allowed to swim alone master.”(Pooch)

“No food for you.”(Ciela)

I spent the morning telling them everything that happened while I was away, and also told them about my past. I didn’t tell them about god and how I got this body though, I told them that I reincarnated as a majin, after dying on earth. They were all shocked about what I said, but after they calmed down it seems that they still want to travel with me.

“I told you that no matter what you are, I will always be with you.”(Nero)

“Those bastards, how dare they play with Shera’s life.”(Feric)

“Onee-san will stay as onee-san, or am I older?”(Ciela)

“Since I am probably at 66 or 67 years old, I am older than you Ciela.”(Shera)

“Urg...I was defeated by a majin that wasn’t even a hundred years old?” Pooch seemed a bit depressed though.

“...so about our presents.” Ciela hugged me, and looked up to look at me with puppy eyes.

Her being like this, makes me think that what she did to me before was all a dream...

“Master, you also brought something for me right?” Pooch jumped to my arms, and rubbed his body on my chest.

“Of course, I have a present for everyone. Open”(Shera)

The bag glowed, and the sack appeared on the ground. I gave them their new equipments one by one. Each and everyone got their own soul equipments, and started to make the link by letting their blood drip to the equipment’s core. All of them experienced extreme pain which made them faint, the weapon and armor successfully synced though. I forgot that it was painful for for me who was accustomed to dying...

Pooch got a choker for his cute form, and he seems to like it despite it not being a weapon. It was already night time, and Nero was the first one to wake up. Pooch started walking away, to leave the 2 of us alone.

“To think that I fell in love with a majin.”(Nero)

“...Do you hate me now?”(Shera)

“Of course not, I just suddenly felt like I should act differently around you...”(Nero)

“No! just stay the same, just act like you always do. I want everyone to treat me like they did before, I don’t want anything to change.”(Shera)

“I see”Nero looked upwards.

“Sorry”(Nero)

“...For what?”(Shera)

“You had to go through all that, yet I didn’t do anything about it.”(Nero)

“What are you saying? How could you do anything when it all happened in a different world.”(Shera)

“It’s not that, you went through all that, yet I was only focused on making you fall in love with me. We were already in a relationship yet I didn’t try to know more about you. I got blinded by the thought that we were already in a relationship, and simply thought about myself.”(Nero)

“Remember the time I first used magic?”(Shera)

“...”(Nero)

“You stayed with me while I was weak, and it made me feel secure. That was enough to make me happy.” I held his face, and stared directly to his eyes.

“I only did that because I was scared that something might happen to you when I am away.” Nero’s face turned red and looked down.

“It doesn’t matter, I felt happy and that’s that.”(Shera)

“B...but”(Nero)

“Do you love me?”(Shera)

“Y..yes”(Nero)

“Do you want to stay with me forever?”(Shera)

“Yes”(Nero)

“Then this conversation is finished. I love you, and you love me.”(Shera)

I pulled his head closer to mine, our foreheads touched each other, and I started talking.

“We aren’t perfect, and we can’t make the perfect choices, but as long as we both love each other, it will be solved. We don’t need to rush things, we can proceed at our own pace.”(Shera)

As we stared at each other’s eyes, my hands slowly slid down to his shoulders, while his hands slowly made its way to my waist. We slowly pulled each other, and as our face moved closer, our eyes closed slowly.

On that night, we kissed for a second time.