I was lying down in the bed while staring at my status plate. It was a plain white card with no words engraved on it.

Then a thought came into me.

‘I forgot to drop my blood on it!’ I mused

I pulled my katana out of its scabbard and prickled my finger with it a little.

Blood flowed on my finger and drop it on the status plate. After dripping the blood on it, the card started to disperse and vanished. All goes well just like in the novels I had read in earth if not for the katana in my hand which was also glowing.

I was startled that I throw it on my bed and back away. I waited for it to stop shining when a voice resounded on my mind

‘---ter’

I jump out of my bed and stood up at once. I look around the room with wary expression. Naturally, I was the only one here inside my room, so where does that voice came from?

... Did my room become haunted or something ... ?

‘M-master!’

The voice said again but this time much clearer.

I look around and noticed that the katana which was glowing before was now fading and had only a dim light on it.

Then I suddenly realized and looked at the katana

“Are you the one who is calling me?” I asked

“Y-yes m-master!” From the voice I concluded that it was quite a shy little girl.

“How come you can talk? And why now?”

“I-I’m not really t-talking directly, I-I can only communicate with you telepathically!”

“Why?”

“B-because Y-you’re our m-master!”

I took the katana lying in my bed and held it with both of my hands. I look at it and ask

“Our? And why just now? We’ve been together these past few years!”

“Y-yes I-I’m sorry, but you still didn’t enter the S-soul-binding contract with u-us, t-that’s why we can’t c-communicate with y-you master! And because just now I absorbed some of your blood, I I-Invoked a temporary contract to communicate”

“I see, then why are you calling me your master when I still haven’t invoked it yet?” Surely I was puzzled. This sword is calling me her master all this time when I’m still not.

“That’s because when we’ve met for the first time, you told me you will become our master!” She said with conviction and this time without stuttering.

“I see” I excitedly spoke to her mentally. Right now, I was overwhelmed with the sudden burst of happiness inside of me. “So, how will we do this Soul-binding?”

“Yes, first please take out my sister out of its scabbard for now!”

“Sister?” I asked curiously.

“Yes, my twin sister. You heard the story about us right? I...I heard that man talking about it when we’ve m-met!”

“Ah right! I’m sorry!” Feeling the awkward atmosphere, I dejectedly apologize.

“Hahaha you don’t have to! We’ve already accepted our fate a long time ago. Although our souls are trapped in this sword that’s alright, holding grudge and hatred for a long time is very tiring.”

Although she sounds merry, but I feel deep sadness on it.

“Hey can I ask something before we start?”

“O-of course, you’re our m-master so obviously it’s fine!”

“If what you said is true then why are they still calling you cursed swords all this time?”

“Ah, about that, well, the people who wield us so far can’t hold our strong powers and became insane. They keep

killing and killing people. Then my sister decided that to avoid any of this things happening again, we'll scare them

once they touched us like showing them with nightmares or gruesome visions!”

Now I understand why.

I grabbed the other sword and unsheathed it. Just like the other one, this word is also a jet-blacked sword. I put it

beside the other and

“So what will I do next?”

“Drip some blood on us and this time make a vow and name us” She explained.

I followed what she said. I grabbed her blade and gently slide it in my palm. Blood was oozing out of it. I put her back while I drip some of my blood at the other sword.

“I Lyle promise to become your new master and will treat you well as long as I live. We will not be separated until death do us part. I will name both of you Yuki and Sakura. In return you will follow me and protect me. Both of you

will help me vanquished any enemy that will stand on my way”

A thick, dense black light began to emanate from the two swords.

The blood from the swords suddenly, bizarrely transformed into two opposite, interlocking black triangles, which the thick black light merged with, forming a strange magical formation which gave off a dark aura.

The strange black magical formation separated into two, with one of the three black triangles flying into my body, and the other one was flying into the two swords. After that the black magical formation disappeared leaving me and the two foxes I saw before.

“T-thank you master for the wonderful n-name you’ve given to m-me! f-from now o-on, you can c-call m-me Y-yuki”

The fox in the right shyly said.

If a fox can blush then maybe just now she did,

“Same for me as well, master! Just call me Sakura” The fox in the left said.

“Please treat me well in the future you two!” I could feel my spirit and the foxes spirit interlinking. Yuki is a little bit shy and Sakura has the ‘Big Sister!’ aura on her. Although she is calm on the outside, I could feel her excitement,

Due to the spiritual link we’ve just done.

“I didn’t know you can materialize?” I asked curiously.

“It also surprised us. In the past we can never materialize and appear in front of our master but now we can. Maybe it’s thanks to master’s great mana!” Sakura said answering my question.

“What do you mean?”

“R-right now, w-we are a-absorbing your m-mana to m-materialize. W-we d-deeply a-apologize for it!” Yuki said.

“It’s fine! It’s fine! No need to apologize.” I waved my hands in front of them. “You can use it anytime you want.”

Now that she said it, I can feel something draining my mana, although it’s fine because it’s only a little.

“Really? T-then c-can we s-stay in this f-form for a w-while?” Yuki asked somewhat excitedly.

‘Maybe because it’s been a long time they are in this form' I thought for a little while and then happily nodded.

“Really?” Yuki immediately began to jump up and down.

Watching this scene, I suddenly felt new warm feeling surge inside of me. I just can’t understand how can someone

kill this little adorable animal just for their own ambition? Have they known no shame?

“Yuki stop it! you are in front of our master!” Sakura scolded her.

“S-sorry!” Yuki bowed apologetically.

Watching them behave like children, I couldn't help but started to laugh, “Its fine, if you need something just tell me,

I will gladly give it to you!” I was extremely happy right now.

“Master, you can’t spoil her too much!” Sakura said.

“Don’t worry about it! And it also goes for you too Sakura. Both of you are part of my family now, so there’s no need

to hold back.” I chortled. “And there’s no need to call me master, just call me Lyle!”

“But…”

“Please”

She wants to say something but I immediately cut her off.

“Fine. M-master Lyle” Sakura said while facing the other direction. It seems she didn’t want me to see her face. Yuki

on the other hand, was just watching us happily.

“Let’s rest for now” I thought about my status plate inside of me.

I want to see my skills but I guess it can wait.

There are too many shocking events that happened today that even my body, mind and soul were all worn out.

I glanced at the huge egg beside my bed. That was also something I don’t know about but let’s leave it that for later.

I’m so tired right now.

I lay in my bed and started to drift into the dream world when I felt the two foxes snuggled in my blanket. Yuki was on my right arm while Sakura was on my left. If this were two beauties then it might have been great but it’s not, although it’s also fine the way it is.