Miya saw her sister sitting near a pond.
"Hey, are you okay sis?"
Ailee was still slightly dazed before her eyes settled on her younger sister's face.
"Ohh.. its you.. yeah. I just. Nevermind. Did you complete the assignment yet?" She took few peebles again and throw it on the surface of the pond, some skipped some just plopped and sink into the body of water.
Miya gasp and then clapped her hands.
"I think I just got an Idea how to solve the assignment!"
"Waaa-" ailee was dumbfounded. She was so desperate trying to find a solution and here her sister can easily say she can solve it?? Wasnt she was supposed to be the fast learner and her sister was slow learner? Now it seems the other way around!
"Tell me!" Urged Ailee.
Miya tapped her chin few times as she was thinking how to explain it to her sister. Then she opt to show it to her instead.
She took the peeble, and throw it on the surface of pond. All went to different direction except two of it. Two of the peebles skipped non stop and then made a u turn and skipped the other way around before flying back to Miya palm.
"How did you do that??"
"Hmmm… just like kunai lesson. We inject mana into the kunai and throw right? But this time, we dont inject, we provide continuous mana source to the object in order for it to animate according to our wish. Its hard to make sure we have contact with the object the distance is quite far from us. The far the distance it goes, the thinner the mana will have to stretch to provided it continuously power to move accordingly. It is almost impossible to completely control the mana flow to be exact as the distance grow. Unless its simply shooting and let go.
And since I'm still learning, and two is too much taxing for me, I control the flow of the mana on the some certain diameter surface of water in order to provide a bouncy surface for the peeble to move more. Think like I put a large plate where the peeble will drop and when it land bounce. Well.. its not as near as what master shion did but at least I control it" explained her feeling slightly embarrassed for her own lack of dignified method unlike their master.
Ailee was stunned.
To unbeknownst by them, master shion was accompanied by Master Sei, both of them were hiding their presence just six hundred meters away from those two siblings. Grandpa Sei smile was hidden beneath his thick and long bearded while Master Shion incredulous look couldnt be hidden and was plain to be seen by anyone who could see through their arts of hiding.
How can that child think she is not in competent? She was already controlling the peebles, albeit only two small pebbles, she double cast on the same time to create another mana plate to help her move the peeble on toward the direction of her wish. One had to be extra precise to bounce it certain degree of their wish. It could go awry far from intended location and might even back fire. But seeing the child doing it couple of times in front of her sister, teaching her with ease proof that she had no problem of estimating the tangent of mana plate position for the peeble to go where she wants.
"Grand elder-"
Grand elder Sei was still combing his beard and the only tale tell that shows he was happy was the curve of the corner of his eyes.
"She might be one in a time genius, just like her father and mother. I have meet their mother, and I am thankful she caught Kuro's heart. Shes a woman who nutured two wise and intelligent kids and not to be underestimated. The kids is the mirror of their parents, and sometimes I feel like they knew it too and aways cautious in every little things they do"
To get a compliment from this rigid old man was hard. But then again to even thaw the heart of their cold hearted Lord, is a feat impossible to achieved. He had to nod and agree with Grand Master Sei's statement.
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Understanding the concept behind what her sister had explained and doing it was two different things. She would try it couple of time but each end up as a failure. The mana flow will be broken before she could even call it back and control it to make a u-turn.
She was almost frustrated but she remember what that strange granny said earlier.
Ailee thought about how to approach the assignment. She may not be able to do it just like her master did. But what she can do is invent something that work almost the same like how master did.
If she were to listen to that old granny wisdom words. She need to think how to move kunai, be it one piece or thousands of it easily, projecting it to place according to her will. Like it was being moved by a remote control, like when a jet plane lock its target and press shoot. It will move until it hit its target.instead of making it into a marionette just like how her sister does, attaching string, why not simply paved the way?
She imagine a road that diverging to few certain paths. Bringing the peeble toward the direction she wants, she shaped the path true to its aim, avoiding obstacle. Yes, she was using the theory behind of the fun slides they always play back at Earth. But instead of top to down slide, its a smooth level slide path of mana. Just when the peeble moves too far away, another suprised came. Miya gasps and clapping her hands in excitement.
" Woahhhh! That is so like you, sis."
Yes. Ailee couldnt hope to control the tangent of mana bouncing plate, so what she did was programing each of the peeble. Once it reach certain distance, explosive spell will be activated, and rocketing it back toward the caster before, the second spell activated, stop just few inches away from the caster,levatating.
Ailee grinned. She used slightly unorthodox moves but hey, anything goes as long as she completed the assignment right?
Master Shion became even more flabbergastered.
"Grand elder-"
"Ho ho ho… these kids are really interesting. They are using quite something out of this world way of thinking to solve their assignment. Who would have thought that? I for one couldnt dream of using explosive spell to propelled it forward. Their creativities just goes beyond our world. Outstanding, I must say"
Master Shion replied nothing to that. As he couldnt think any words that could very much do justice to what he had witness.
Another person appear slowly beside them and made a small cough.
"Oh, Sarasa. What are youdoing out here? I had thought you said you were secluding yourself for another few hundred years."
"It was too noisy out here, so I thought I should come out and see what happened. Imagine my surprise to hear that Heixi dogs dare to bite the hands that feed them."
"They got us good this time. It seems that had it all planned for so long, in order to destroy our tribe."
"Tsk. Then lets hope they are ready to pay the consequences of going against us…. By the way…" the familiar old lady look toward Ailee and then back at Grand elder Sei.
"Whose daughter is that?"
Grand Elder Sei raised his eyebrow and comb his beard.
"Interested to pair her with your great grand child?"
The lapel of her japanese kimono flapped weakly when she put a hand motion away.
"I'm just asking. Her life force and scent smell different compared to ours."
"Ohh… if you say so, then it must be your skills detecting her soul then.." Grand Elder Sei paused. " she's the daughter of Lord Kuro's wife. It seems three of them came from other world. The world where our ancestor and I come from."
That stopped Sarasa. She could only stay silent.
" please help me watch over them when I'm not here. I wish not to make enemy of their mother…"
"Say no more. No need to fret yourself about them. They are part of our family."