Kino points her index finger to somewhere and the Elder follows it but there's nothing there, only an empty land, that's what the Elder thought but then, this happens.
In the distance, the Elder could see another Kino, waving her hand to left and right. Seeing this, the Elder is stunned to the very core.
"What the?" It said and it quickly look at the girl beside it, the girl was still there, looking at her second self. The Elder quickly averted its gaze from this Kino to the Kino in the distance.
There are two Kinos! The girl is still waving her hand but then, she turns around her body, runs away and disappears from sight.
"There are two of you." The Elder said what he just saw and Kino nodded and soon enough, the Elder noticed something.
"You… did you just time travel? How is that even possible? You… you just broke the first rule of the Five Principles! But, how come you are still here and not sent to that place? "
The sight was so bizarre that the Elder thought that this was just a dream instead of reality. The sight in front of it basically shattered its view on this world!
If the girl is indeed time traveling, shouldn't the girl disappear from this world and no one will remember it? Instead, she is still kicking and alive, unless.
"You have a clone and make it seem like you travelled to the past. Are you thinking I'm a fool?"
Kino turned its head to the Elder, "Elder, I have no intention to do that. Furthermore, what benefit would I gain to fool you?"
Hearing the girl's words, it makes the Elder calm down a bit. That's right, even if the girl it just saw earlier was a clone, the Elder should see some kind of invisible thread, connecting that girl to this Kino.
You see, to make a clone, one must use their own soul. Of course, only a small fragment. When the clone is successfully made, it will share its thoughts and emotions due to them having the same soul, little did they know that there was a thread that connecting their souls, as if two cans with a string.
With up above, the Elder's doubt of Kino using a clone to make a time traveling scene was gone, though, it hasn't disappeared completely, it was still there albeit by a small amount.
"Forgive my hastiness, little one, looks like because of my old age, I jump to conclusions." It apologized and this made Kino surprised.
Her heart rate jumped for a bit and quickly calmed down, it was like she just got a jump scare. In addition to that, her eyebrows raise slightly and her facial expression changed that of surprise.
Though, it only lasts for a few seconds before coming back to calm and flat.
There is a reason for why Kino would be surprised. As you know, ancient creatures have high pride. So if they apologize to a human, well, you can guess already what would happen.
If Kino tells her brother that an ancient creature is apologizing to her, her big brother would definitely think she was crazy and has screw loose in her brain. Also, she can already imagine her big brother's expression would be.
Well aside that, Kino immediately told the Elder that it was okay and it wasn't that big of a deal. The Elder nodded as it responded.
"Little girl, what happened to this world while I was in my deep slumber? How come I cannot sense any changes in this world?" It asked, the Elder at this point had no choice but to accept that the world had changed. What's more, it even changed without it knowing.
Ancient creatures have a close connection to the essence of the world, which means that. If there is anything that disturbs that essence, it is either some entity from another world or dimension that could destroy the world or a very huge war broke out that could lead to mass extinction, all ancient creatures would wake up and balance the world.
So, if something big like the world changed, the essence of the world would be disturbed and the Elder would wake up, but why did the Elder not?
Kino then picks up something from her Aura Scan. She keeps it activated in case some kind of another ancient creature wakes up, cause ancient creatures, if make a comparison, it would be like a magnet that attracts each other.
Still, the chance of that is very low, about ten percent but it didn't hurt to stay alert of anything. Who knows she picks up something, though, what she got is nothing like she expected.
It's not an ancient creature, a bandit, a crazy zombie villain, a hero that comes and saves the day, or even a floating child, no. Instead, it was the dark thing on the back of the Elder's head.
It keeps growing in size at a fast rate and this makes Kino panicked. She didn't know what that thing on the Elder's head is but it keeps growing.
Even as we speak, its size was the size of a volleyball but two times bigger and it keeps growing.
Kino didn't know why but her instinct told her to stop that thing from growing no matter what, still, what can she do anyway?
She's only a girl that never sees any ancient curses or illnesses but only knows the way to remove or cure them. There is not much she could do to stop that thing from growing.
The Elder noticed the panicked face on Kino's face and couldn't help but ask.
"What's wrong little girl? You seem to be afraid of something."
That's right, not only is Kino's facial expression panicking, she is also afraid. This is a very rare case.
When hearing the Elder's words, Kino was brought back to reality and averted her gaze to the Elder's eyes.
Both eyes stared at each other and in the process, this made Kino's mind realize something.
"Elder, what do you think about your current situation?" Kino quickly asked.
"Huh?" It asked back.
As soon Kino asked that, the black thing behind the head of the Elder stopped growing. Kino then let out a breath of relief.