it's been a day since visiting Uncle Kirin's grave, we took the ship once again to travel to the Floran underground City, it's also hidden in the forest with a village on top of it where the lower class citizens resides in, adventurers there typically want to see the sun rather than wake up with nothing but lights and a brown and gray roof the moment they exit an Inn.
"Hey! Osiria, don't you have a class to attend to?" oh! right! I forgot but-
"miss Trey isn't here, she's currently waiting with Aunt Mei and Aunt Theia"
to take care of my education, Aunt Theia recommended that I get a tutor while I was away at school since I'll be gone for a long time. I don't want to really but I have no choice and if the future ever leads to something else... I don't think I can handle it.
"hmm... then what about visiting Aunt Liliya? your mom?" hmm? what for?...
"there seems to be a sparring match there, it would be nice if you get used to using Omi right?"
I haven't really used Omi that much... "do I have to?... we don't fight and I'm a su- ow-" she bonks me in the head-
"you idiot, if I'm not here, who'll be protecting you? I was so nervous when I had to go meet my mom and leave you alone a few days ago, you think I wasn't thinking of anything that could've happened to you?"
well... nothing much happened... it was pretty uneventful and there wasn't much I needed to point out-
Alice sighs, she looks like a few of her Ether was wasted on nothing- "look, I'm just simply worried about my best friend alright? you're the least charismatic person in existence and I don't want anyone taking advantage of your silence. plus, don't you think it's high time for you to finally wield a weapon?"
wield a weapon huh?... Alice looks quite determined with that decision too... but there's something she's missing-
"don't you think that I have to learn how to wield something first? I can't swing a sword without even injuring someone behind me, also... that...-"
the "that" I was talking about was when I was holding a wooden staff enhanced for training with Alice when we were outside the world. what happened was I... somehow injured her by mutating the grass into spikes... we had to send Alice and replace her parts since the grass I mutated had ether that will disrupt the circulation of the ether of the person with it... Alice was all ether and since that disrupted her ether circulation... well... she shut down.
"first off, that wasn't a weapon. second, that was when we were a child! I've been upgraded and enhanced since that would've been my fatal weakness, if it wasn't for you, mom would've overlooked that"
well... "I wouldn't mind being your tested but do I really have to use a weapon? can't I just use Wind mutation?"
she sighs- "if you keep using mutation and manipulation, you could injure someone innocent or someone who wasn't involved with it in the first place. with weapons, you could fight without the fear of hurting an ally! just look at your parents! Uncle Naoya used a scythe in the past and fought alongside with Aunt Liliya! but did he ever injure her?"
well... if you point it like that... "but I'm not used to using a weapon! I'm not strong like mom and dad, if I use a greatsword like mom, I wouldn't even raise it an inch from the ground."
Alice is somehow looking like her life is fading away... she looks quite annoyed... I simply smile wryly at her- "Osiria... there are all kinds of weapons. don't generalize that all weapons are heavy or complicated."
hmm... I guess I did quite looked narrowly on that topic... but "what weapon should I use in the first place? there are not many weapons that are basic and light for me to use." the weapons we had were all heavy types with Uncle Kirin's Rapier too but a Rapier is too agile for me and I get tired too easily. the knives Sis Arie has are too top-heavy and the guns that Uncle Ingrid has are heavy and the recoil is too much
"then... why don't w consult mom after we land? I'm sure she could make one for you. I'm also getting an upgrade later since I've been lagging quite a bit" hmm... I didn't notice...
I ask her about it but told me it's too complicated for me to probably understand, well... true enough. I'm not as geeky on numbers as Alice.
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a while passes and Alice told me she had a couple of missed calls to cover. I wonder who that was... that aside, I look for mom and she seems to be talking with the captain so I don't bother her for the meantime. Dad is missing though... where is he?
I look around and there's no signs of him... not even Omi found him-
"ahh! miss Osiria, a pleasure to meet you" hmm? he's wearing a uniform, is he a crew here?
"ahh-. I-I'm looking for my dad... have you seen him?" after I asked the crew member, he looked quite perplexed. "your father was asked to help out in the engine hull, I suppose he'd be there for a long time... I don't recommend you going there though, the radiation is enough to halt your ether circulation so do best to avoid that place" after he told me that, he waves and heads to the main hull... so dad's been in the engine? well... I don't want to get sick so I'll avoid going there for the meantime...
that being said, I wonder if mom's finished talking...-
I head back to where I found her but she's not there... is she perhaps in the lobby? ahh- there she is-
I walk over there but she still seems to be talking to someone else... I don't want to intrude though...
"a-ahh! there she is, sorry but we'll have to cut this conversation short. tell me about the reports before we land alright?" ahh- mom noticed me. she excused the people she was talking with, I wonder what they were talking about...
"Osiria-hun! I've been looking everywhere for you!" ehh? was she?
"you didn't look like it though... you were talking for quite a long time so I didn't want to intrude on your conversation... it looked important so I went to find Dad but he seems busy too..."
"aww... is that so? well, sorry for not noticing you. you see, Naoya and I have been asked to help sir Tyl since we had to educate him on managing the ship. Alice told me you wanted a weapon, right?"
ahh- ehh? "n-no, I didn't say I want it, I was just going to ask what kind of weapon is suited for me..."
mom looked a bit perplexed... "well... lessee'... how about a rapier? although that requires skill... oh! why don't I teach you?"
e-ehh? Does mom know how to use a rapier? I ask her about it and she chuckled a bit-
"of course. being born for war, we needed to learn how to use a multitude of weaponry. your father and I had to use weapons both uncomfortable for us-"
I- I see...
"well... it's been a long time since I used those, my Greatsword, Jaded Ressurection, was my most used weapon but there's a few that I used than just that-"
knives, a long sword, bows and bowguns, and the one- Rapier. mom must've been efficient with those...
"why don't I take a test run with it for you? there's a small arena proper for sparring and training just outside the lobby. I'll go ask the captain if we could use the training weapons for a second, follow me-"
hmm? passed the lobby multiple times but I didn't notice that outside of it was a sparring hall...
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a while passes and mom got permission for using the weaponry, isn't this Ikarus a normal ship? what's with the weaponry?
"so- Osiria, mind generating a couple of strong roses here?" huh!? wait, how?
"oh come on- stop giving me that look. here, I'll show you." she starts doing some stretches... then some poses after, was that even necessary?
"look, even without a good patch of grass, you can still generate some greenery and plants." mom started excreting some ether in the already torrent air, soon after, Petals started to mix in with the torrential breeze... how?!
"ether is both air and our body mixed in, if you turn that ether into a sharp, pointy formation then you can use that and transform the air around you to create any type of mutation you want. just be careful since it can also clog the Ikarus"
the petals stopped... even with the breeze, it felt like I was standing on a hill... mom always had talent on these...
"mom, how'd you get this good at ether manipulation? hardly anyone has ever fought on an Ikarus before from what I know..." I asked her something quite obvious...
"hrmm... Kirin trained me like this I guess? it's actually a pretty scarce moment since the one training me was mostly Ingrid and Shifts." Uncle Kirin was capable of fighting? I heard from Aunt Mei that Uncle was capable but I hardly ever hear stories about him fighting...
"alright then- why don't I show you some forms with a rapier? just dip your toes in shallow waters for a bit to get used to it"
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ahh... even with a couple of swings, I'm already tired of training...
"alright then, we'll finish it off with that. here-" she tosses me a crystal. what does this do?
"ahh- right... well, just go and give that to Anallice for me, she'll give you something with it alright?"
I know she seems busy but she's practically avoiding the question...
a blue crystal at the size of my pinky finger... is this something to be injected with?