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Four years have passed since the days I accepted Mystel and Arsal as my parents, but I didn’t feel any different, mom said that my mind is beginning to grow because my body has just reached the age I was at before dying. I had stopped growing because my mental age didn't match my body’s age.

As I grew up, my body looked similar to my human one, but there are some considerable differences. My hair isn’t blond anymore but is now pure silver until my shoulders, where it gradually turned completely black from my shoulders to my knees and I have two horns and a strange lizard tail, the horns aren't like the two spikes that a demon has in cartoons, they are at the same time majestic, but still small and cute; the tail isn't really long, maybe around 30 centimeter, but it is really sensitive, one time mom caressed it and I felt all the strength leave my body.

It feel amazing but also scary...

When I asked mom why my hair became like this, she told me that there were two primal elements in the world, Shadow and Light; mom was the origin of Darkness while my dad the origin of Light. As their child, I possess the two element, where they coexist inside my body.

While I was human, my right eye was blue and the left one was green, it looks like it came from my soul but when I was human, the divine power that originated from my soul wasn't directly connected to my human body, but it still had same effect and gave my eyes different colors.

As for the horns and the tail, she said they are related to our true nature, but she said she'll tell me the rest when I grow up.

Now my right eye was silver like my dad and my left one red like my mother.

Anyone who saw us together would be able to tell that I was their daughter, well except for the horns.

Life as an immortal is pretty boring, we are currently living together in the house dad made after I came back.

They were somewhat envious of the families who were living together when they observed Earth and tried to copy it.

Mom said she wanted a small house with just the necessities, there was a single bedroom for the three of us, a kitchen, a bathroom and a living room.

There is also a garden but when you look at the sky, you can’t see any stars or a moon. Everything 50 meter past the house was black but at the same time there was light; I don’t know how dad did it but here we got the same day – night cycle as on Earth.

It looks like they took a liking to Japanese culture and made something that looked like a TV. Even if they hated the humans of my previous world, they still enjoyed their invention.

I really enjoy watching anime with them, every night mom would comb my hair, it felt soooo good, I would always fall asleep while she was doing it, sometime I find my dad glaring at her with killing intent, is he jealous?

I quickly realised that my dad isn't really good at showing show emotion on his face unlike my mother, who always shows a natural energetic expression which makes you feel full of energy.

He is always fighting with mom to know who will play with me, at times dad emitted and golden aura and mom a black one; some fissure always appeared around them that cause the house to collapse, they’d already destroyed it 72 times...

To stop them I always suggest that we all play together, but even like that they still fight each other to get my attention... He don't show it openly, but he really liked to spoil me.

It seem my dad had two hobbies; the first one is surprisingly cooking, it doesn’t really suit his character and as gods we don’t really need to eat, but I never ate something as delicious as the food he’d make, he would always show a small smile when he watched us eating his food.

My mom tried to cook too, I don’t know why but it always ended pretty badly, when the food was ready what awaited us was something that looked like black matter; since then, dad forbade her from cooking...

My dad’s second hobby is petting me, he’d do it at any time; when I was eating, playing and even sleeping. His expression doesn't seem different when he does that, but one time, when I awoke while he was petting me in secret I saw a big smile on his face; it was the first time seeing one even if it wasn't as big as mom's.

I wonder why he never showed that smile when we were around?

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Today, while I was playing in the garden, my parents called me to the living room, they said they had something important to tell me.

Mystel : "Sweetie, it seem that it's finally time for you to learn how to use your power; we couldn't begin earlier because your body and soul were still merging together, but now your body has started to unleash divine power passively. This show that you can now use magic."

Arsal : "Magic is directly related to your body. Before your body was as weak as your human one, however now that your power is unrestrained, your body is starting to grow stronger and you should be able to train it properly.

While I teach you how to use light related magic, your mother will teach you martial arts, she is specialised in an offensive style which relies on unleashing a barrage of hits to overwhelm your enemy by using speed and strength.

When your training is complete, I will teach you my specialty; countering, you need to analyse your opponent and predict their move and at the right time use his own strength to beat them. Meanwhile your mother will teach you black magic.

Shina : "I thought magic was about manipulating element? What can light and dark do?"

Mystel : "Mastering light and darkness makes you a master of elements, all element share the same origin. Light means life, you can find it everywhere, earth, fire, water, wind, thunder; nothing would exist without light. But Darkness comes from death, every living being possess darkness in them, like water is necessary to live, it can also kill you; you need to breath to live; but without air you will die; fire can burn you, but at the same time it can warm your body. Mastering magic is mastering elements."

Shina : "But why do I need to learn martial arts? "

Arsal : "To kill any boy who will try to approach y...* Keuh Keuh * I mean to control your strength; now your body is just starting to fuse with your divine magic, but when it is done your body will get incredibly strong and you will have a hard time judging the amount of power you need to use common things."

Mystel : "We will start your training tomorrow, in the morning you will learn magic with your father and I will teach you how to use a weapon in the afternoon."

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its morning and dad woke me up in order to start magic training... * Funnnyaaaa * I still feel sleepy...

The training is taking place in the garden, dad said it could damage the house if we did it inside; mom is there too enjoying watching us.

Arsal : "Before trying to learn how to use magic, you have to know what magic is; you can call magic 'life essence' as well, it is generated by your soul and is recharging when the body is relaxed, because the soul is heavily related to the body, when your body is feeling relaxed, your soul will be able to regenerate the energy spend."

Shina : " Daddy, if magic is life essence, then does that mean that using magic will slowly kill you?"

Arsal : "She is sooo cute when she calls me that... * Keuh * No, if a human uses too much magic, they will be physically tired and faint; and even if that was the case, gods like us possess an infinite amount of magic within us so can use it without limit.

First, imagine a sea; this sea is without limit, it is endless; it represent the amount of mana within you. Do you see it?"

Shina : "Yes, but it's strange, I can’t help but see a sea with white water and a black sky."

Arsal : "It's because you possess Light and Dark elements, to use light magic, you have to imagine a ball of light coming from the sea and merging with your body, it's what we call mana channeling.

To use Dark magic you have to do the same thing but with the sky; but your mother will teach you about that later. Now imagine that ball of light coming inside you."

I imagine a small white ball coming out of the sea and entering my body, suddenly my body started emitting a golden aura, just like dad often possess around him.

Arsal : "Good, it shows that you successfully drawn the mana from your soul into your body. Now try to feel the aura around you and force it into your hand. After that imagine a small ball of fire flying above it."

As I followed dad's instructions, a small ball of fire appeared above my hand.

"She did it!!" screamed mom as she threw herself onto me and made me fall as she hugged me on the ground.

A small smile came to Arsal’s face as he saw Shina successfully did it on her first attempt, then he hit Mystel on the head who made a cute sound as the surprise strike.

Arsal : "We are still training, don’t disturb us..."

Mystel : "Come on, you should be the one hugging her; or at least compliment her! "

Arsal : "I know... Good job." Arsal said as he patted Shina's head.

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I trained with daddy all the morning, we didn't eat because we don't really need to and daddy was pretty occupied with my training. Now it is time for martial training with mom.

Mystel : "It's finally my turn! I felt like I could have killed Arsal to take his place in your training. Let's start your martial training, I will teach you how to use every weapon; but we will start with a sword, every weapon shares the same base and the sword shares most on the common points.

Today, I will show you not how to strike but how to hold a weapon, the stance is the most important thing in martial arts.

Shina : "Isn't striking the most important?"

Mystel : "No, you can try to hit someone as much as you want, but without the proper stance your hits will be slower, weaker and you will make yourself an easy target because you won’t be able to counter properly.

Only striking may work on weaker opponents who don’t know how to use a weapon, but if the enemy is physically stronger or knows the basics of any martial art, you won’t be able to hit him and you will only end up exhausted."

After finishing explaining the importance of stance, a small dagger appeared in her hand and she gave it to me.

Mystel : "If I were to give you a sword, it would be as if you were using a claymore; for now this dagger size should do it."

I took the sword and realised that it wasn't heavy at all; as daddy told me yesterday, my magic actually fused with my body and my strength is high enough so that I don’t feel the weight of the dagger.

Mommy taught me how to properly hold a sword and the basics of striking, I felt time passing even faster than while I was training with father. It's already night and I am exhausted. As always we are all going to sleep together and tomorrow, my training will continue...

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