Chapter 23:
Huh?
「Athena! Look at my eyes, tell me what happened! What do you mean!?」 Me
I hold her face gently so she could look at me properly.
「I-i have been engaged to someone i don't like. H-he is an evil person. I found out about his secret, so he wants to marry me so he could torture me forever, he killed a person... he takes out the man's eyes.... and then....」 Athena
「Okay stop, calm down.」 Me
She wants to speak more, but she is breathing heavily so i told her to stop, and i hugged her tightly.
I want to know how it happened that she was engaged to that person. But she's trembling in fear so i can't ask her anymore.
Just what the hell is albert doing!? How can she let her daughter be scared like this!?
Athena is still crying and hugging me tightly. She is always smiling everytime i look at her, i don't have any idea at all that she was scared.
「Okay, i'll save you from that person. So it's okay now, just let me do the rest.」 Me
Even though i said that, i really don't have any idea what to do. I should consult albert-san about this first when i go back to Ralles.
After a while, athena had already stopped crying. But when i looked at her, she had already fallen asleep.
「Don't worry, athena. I will save you, no matter what. I promise.」 Me
Athena is naked, and her towel is wet, so i used the dryer to dry her body. I already saw her naked earlier, so i guess this is fine.
I lift athena and carried her to the room upstairs. I don't know where to get a clothes for her, so i just used the white long sleeve polo that was in my drawer, and i put it on her.
She is not wearing an undies too, but as expected, i cannot let her wear my men's underwear. So i washed her undies with water ball, and dried it just like what i do with my clothes before. Then i put it on her.
Don't get any funny ideas, i didn't do anything to her. Okay?
After everything was done, i summined kuroma and told him to stay with athena. Then i go to my separate room and then changed my magic clothes into a sleep wear. Mainly white shirt, and boxer. Then i lied down on my bed.
So many things happened in just a day, i am tired, and my consciousness is fading.
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When i wake up, i changed my magic clothes into a hoodie and pants just like usual. And i head down stairs.
When i arrived at the living room, athena is preparing a food while wearing the white polo that i put on her yesterday night.
Eh? Ehhh????? I remember it, i remember it! Uwaaaaaahh, so embarassing, i didn't get embarassed yesterday, why i am embarassed right now? Aaaahhhhh!!! So embarassiiiiing!!!!
Let's Calm down, okay? Let's calm down. Take a deep breath, and then exhale.
I caaaant!!! It's very embarassiiing!!!
「K-kaito-sama」 athena
「Eh? A-A-A-Athena? Wh-why!? Wh-what!?」 Me
She is holding the bottom tip of the long sleeve polo with her right hand, and she is holding the collar with her left hand while looking at her side.
「T-the food is ready. Y-you are still sleeping, s-so i didn't wake you up to take out the food that was given by sarah-san.」 Athena
Areh? She is also embarassed? Did she remember what happened yesterday? This is bad, i meed to calm down so that she won't get embarassed.
I take a deep breath, and then answered her properly.
「I see, I look forward to the food that you made.」 Me
「Yeah」 athena
We sat down on the chair and then i eat the food that she made.
「Hmm, this is delicious.」 Me
It's indeed delicious. It is not on the same level as sarah-san's cooking, but it is still delicious.
「T-thank... You... anno~, kaito-sama, about yesterday night.」 Athena
I knew it, she remembers it. It's embarassing, but i need to calm down so that she won't get embarassed more.
「I-i'm sorry, i can't let you go to sleep while being naked, so i put on the polo and undies on you. Seriously, i'm very sorry.」 Me
「N-no, you don't need to feel sorry. I even want to thankyou dor putting it on me. And also, i just want to confirm something.」 Athena
「What is it?」 Me
「Do you really mean it when you said that you will help me?」 Athena
「Ofcourse.」 Me
I stand up and then said to her properly.
「I will say this again, athena. I will save you from that person, no matter what. I promise.」
Athena smiles and blushes, and she continue eating her food.
After we finished eating, we still washed the plates together just like yesterday. But now, she is not speaking.
This is bad, i need to do something to removed her embarassment.
After washing the dishes, athena takes a bath, and then i take mine after she's done. The clothes that she is wearing is the dress that we bought yesterday. I told her that it is still not washed, but she said that it was enchanted with grime protection.
When we made sure that everything was done, we goes out from the house and then put it inside my item box. Then i told kuroma to return to his original form.
As usual, she is sitting sideways on my front.
After we depart, we saw plain land, so i told kuroma to stop there.
「Kaito-sama, what are we doing here?」 Athena
「Athena, you said yesterday that everyone needs to chant to use magic right? You also told me about magic aptitude test.」 Me
「Yeah」 athena
「Then how do you that test?」 Me
「You just need to speak the chant "Summon magic element" then speak the element water, earth, wind, fire, light, holy, and darkness. If there's no magic that will appear, then you don't have any apptitude for that element.」 Athena
I see, then let's try that.
「Summon magic element earth」 me
Areh? There's nothing?
「Kaito-sama, i didn't see you use earth magic before, so maybe you didn't have an aptitude for it.」 Athena
No, i can use earth magic you know? But she didn't saw me made an earth wall, or earth room before.
「No, I can use it, look at this.」 Me
I then made an earthwall.
「You are right! What's going on? No magic appeared when you speak the chant earlier.」 Athena
What is this? It's so confusing.
「Athena, do you know what is a magic power?」 Me
「Yes.」 Athena
「Try gathering magic power in your hand」 me
「Eh? Ah, okay.」 Athena
Athena is gathering magic power in her hand, it's not stronger than mine ofcourse, but it's stronger than average people.
「Okay, try imagining an earth magic」 me
「Eh? I can't do that, i don't have an aptitude for earth magic.」 Athena
「Just do it, just trust me.」 Me.
「O-okay, i trust you even from the begginning.」 Athena
Athena closed her eyes, and then after a while, an earth stone is forming on her hand.
「I-i did it. I did it! Kaito-sama, i can use earth magic! Kaito-sama. You are so amazing!」 Athena
I knew it, everyone can use any magic if they just visualize it properly. I wonder why they didn't know that. Did no one ever tried imagining another element while closing their eyes? It's so easy, yet they didn't know it at all.
After that, athena tried to visualize any other element, and she succeeded in everything. But the most powerful element she can use is the water.
There are many types of water attack magic she can use, but it is only the compressed one like water ball, or water bomb. So i teached her how to make water bullet.
Water bullet is a condensed magic, so it is stronger than compressed magic. Imagine a bucket of poison, being squeezed into a small ball, then injected into your body. That's how strong a condensed magic is.
After a while of practicing, athena can finally use water bullet as easy as breathing.
It is already 8 in the morning, so we decided to go. While we are running, i told kuroma to let athena handle the monsters. There are some monsters she can't hit with her water bullet because we are running fast, so i shoot them myself.
After a while, i looked at the map to check the road to the capital.
Areh? It's not that far anymore, if we keep up this speed, this we will reach there in 5-6 hours.
「Athena, pour magic power into your brain and eyes.」 Me
「Huh? Ah, O-okay.」 Athena
I also poured the same amount of magic power on my brain and eyes so that i can communicate properly with her.
「Areh? We became slower. Kaito-sama this is?」 Athena
「This is Enhancement magic: mind accel, it allows you to think faster than normal. I am going faster, tell me if you can't take it okay?」 Me
「Y-yeah, okay!」 Athena
「Kuroma, increase your speed little by little!」 Me
Ne~igh!
When kurom said that, the speed increased little by little. But athena didn't say anything, so kuroma speed up more. And after a while...
「Kuroma-chan, this speed is enough! Just keep it up!」 Athena
It looks like this is the limit to her magic power. I am using the same amount of athena's magic so i can see that it's just right.
But i wonder how fast we are really running. So i turned off my mind accel.
Owwwhhhh!!!!! Sh*t, it's very fast!!! This is not as fast as kurumas speed, but it's very fast! This is even faster than 300kph on motorcycle racing on the full dive VR that i played before!
I can't take it anymore, so i used mind accel again. But i wonder why out face is not waving because of the speed. Normally, your mouth and hair would be waving right now, so i wonder why it is.
Ne~igh!
Areh? Kuroma, it's because of you?
Ne~igh!
Eh? Kuroma, you can read my mind?
Ne~igh!
I see, i see, hahaha. I didn't know that. I always speak to him everytime, so i didn't know that a thought communication is possible. This must be because he is my summoned beast.
After a while, we can finally see the walls of the royal capital, so i told kuroma to slow down. Then athena and i turned off our mind accel.
「Kuroma-chan, you are so amazing, we started running on that speed at 9 am, but now, it is still 10:15. Kuroma, you are so amazing!!!」 Athena
Athena has a watch, so she knows the time. Kuroma is running at a very high speed earlier, so it's expected that we will arrive here in just an hour. But i wonder how many hours it will take if we run from here at the capital back to ralles if we go on a full speed. I will definitely try full speed when i go back.
When we arrived in front of the gate, there are many carriage lining up, and there are four guards checking the guild card. As expected of the capital, there are so many people coming, that they will need more than one guard to check the guild cards.