Raikou returned to the dorm.
"Hey Ghost. I got something for you."
"You got me some more she-wolves?" Ghost started salivating.
"No you dirty bastard. I borrowed a skill from the academy. It's quite special, it's for the darkness element, but I thought I would let you have a go at it."
"How does that make any fucking sense?" Ghost stared at him, as if he was an idiot. "I don't even have the darkness element!"
"Well fuck you! I was just trying to be helpful. I only did it out of convenience!" Raikou retorted.
"Yeah well, fuck you!" Ghost went back to cultivating.
"We do need to make you stronger though. The only useful skill you have is the ice spear, which you got as a bloodline skill. At rank 3 you got wings instead of a skill, then again, that's way better. We're going to have to find you some skills on our travels."
"What do you mean on our travels? Are we leaving the academy?" Ghost didn't seem too happy with the prospect of leaving.
"Yeah, we're going to leave soon. This place is boring, there's only a few people here that can even challenge me, and they're all teachers or higher."
Ghost grumbled about not wanting to leave and continued cultivating.
Raikou had to sort some things out before he left. The first thing was Satella. He needed to give her a method of contacting him when she needs the favour.
"System, is there a way for her to contact me long distance?" Raikou was hoping the system had a method.
"There isn't a method from me directly, but you can purchase some talismans from the city to use. Why not ask her if she has some." The system suggested.
Raikou went out and looked for Satella.
After some inquiring, he found out where her dorm is and knocked on her door.
She answered the door in a long white night gown. Raikou was mesmerized by the sight. The words he was going to utter got caught in his throat.
"What is it?" She quickly fixed her bed hair and looked at him.
"I'm leaving soon." Raikou told her.
Satella let out a look of alarm, which she quickly concealed before he noticed. "Why?" She asked.
"There's nothing more this academy can offer me. I came to notify you, and to ask you if you have any methods of long distance communication?"
Satella was inwardly quite happy at his question. "I have a talisman that can allow us to communicate up to 1000miles. However, if you plan on travelling further I have a better solution." She paused waiting for his response.
"I don't know how far I will be travelling, but it will definitely span further than that. Tell me what your other method is."
"Well. Us elves have a soul brand that we can use with a person to communicate with them at all times. Of course it can be turned off by either party at times for privacy. It also allows us to teleport to each other once. Remember it is only once." She reiterated the last point and waited to see what his reaction would to her proposal.
"System, if her soul brand is dodgy, would you be able to detect it?" Raikou wanted to see whether the system would find the situation safe to proceed in.
"Of course, who do you think I am!"
He looked at Satella and nodded. "Fine, do it."
She raised her hand and placed it on his chest, just above his heart. She began chanting some unknown words and her hand began glowing.
Raikou could feel her warm hand on his chest and his face went red. He looked at her face and could see a faint hint of a blush on her cheeks too.
He grinned after seeing her ears going red. "How cute." He thought. "Wait what! I didn't say that." Raikou realised what he was thinking and stopped it.
(A/N: I'm keeping it slow. If anyone doesn't like it, take it up with Estatica. I am currently unavailable for comment though.)
She finally came to a stop.
Ding! Soul Brand of 'Satella Tu Odelschwanck' has been detected.
Allows you to communicate at all times if needed.
Can teleport to the others side once.
Would you like to confirm?
He accepted the soul brand request.
"Hey." He heard a voice in his head. He looked over and winked at her.
"I will be in touch." He transmitted his voice and used his cloud steps to leave.
"That was a good touch. Makes me look fucking cool." He was thinking how cool it was to use cloud steps to leave.
"I can hear you..." Satella sent out.
Raikou froze. "Oh fuck! Forgot to turn it off." He turned it off and never came back. It was too awkward for him.
He had two things left to do. Next on the list was to return Lilia's sword to her.
He knew she would be at the training grounds at this time and went over. When he arrived, she turned around and smiled at him. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm leaving soon and I wanted to return your sword to you. Also, can you return this scroll to the skills library for me."
"What! Why are you leaving?" Lilia went into a panic.
"Just wanted to leave. No reason to it." She didn't know his real strength and he couldn't be bothered explaining it to her. He gave her the sword and started walking away.
"Wait! Will you be coming back?" Her voice was quite shaky.
"Probably not." He replied and left.
"Why is she acting so weird?" He thought.
(A/N: You dense and cold bastard...)
Last on the list was Moses. He needed to sort out the target on his back. However, he didn't know him well enough and put on his transformation mask. He took the form of Urahara from Bleach and knocked on his door.
Raikou was acting all mysterious to look like a powerful expert.
"You boy! You have a powerful bloodline. People will covet it. Stay careful and don't trust anyone!" He gave him some vague warnings and left.
Raikou helped him as much as he wanted to. He didn't really know Moses and felt that the warning was sufficient help for a stranger.
"Time to leave." He called Ghost out and they left the city.
Estatica: Follow them as they continue their journey past Birminfram. ;)
End Of Volume