Everything went back to being normal; every single day, I train, do chores, talk with Zia, then go home, and have a nice dinner with my family. I don't know if these days will last, but I-, No, I will make sure they do.
I've decided. I will get stronger to protect this life of mine and those who are close to me. But, for now, I want to enjoy these days.
Three months have passed since then, and I have enjoyed my days; within these three months, instead of practicing our magic and finding more about spells, Zia and I just talked about our plans.
One of the few things we talked about was our dreams; I told her I planned to get a Blood weapon and hopefully get picked by someone in the capital to become an adventurer. Then, suddenly, she says. "M-Me too." I didn't know Zia planned to be an adventurer too, but maybe she'll do good being one.
We met two days later at my house, and she told me she would be getting her Blood weapon today. I completely forgot that she was two years older than me. I was happy for her. I was about to rush to father and mother to tell them immediately, but she pulled my sleeves.
"I want to surprise you, so don't come."
I nodded at her.
"Sure thing! I wish you good luck Zia!"
We both smiled at each other, waiting for one to go. I felt awkward, so I closed the door to bid her farewell and end the long smile.
I took a seat and placed it at the front door, waiting for her. Until night came, and she didn't visit, and so I thought to myself.
( Maybe she'll visit tomorrow. )
So I headed in, ate dinner, and slept.
Morning came, I remembered Zia, and I rushed out of my room expecting her to be there. However, all I saw were father and mother, wearing concerned faces.
"What's wrong? Mother? Father?"
They both looked at me; mother rubbed father's shoulder as she headed for the kitchen. Father then walked towards me with crossed arms.
"Zeal, It's about Zia. She didn't receive a Blood weapon."
I was awestruck; I didn't know how to respond to what father said.
"You should visit her tomorrow, for now ... give her some time first."
I then tried to explain to father that she might think that I would hate her if I didn't show up to her right now. But, father replied.
"Do you really think that Zia would think of you like that? Give her time Zeal, you of all people should know that."
Father is right, and so I waited for tomorrow.
I visited her, knocked on the door, and she was the one who answered it. She looked fine, cheery, pretty, but she hid her pain; and so I hugged her; she then started to tear up.
"It's going to be fine; we're the ones who discovered magic. With or without a blood weapon, you are strong."
She calmed down after a few more words from me, and we both entered her house. We spent the day telling each other stories.
"You better get yours Zeal! We can't both be two weaponless adventurers."
I laughed and said.
"If I do not get one, we just got another thing in common again! And we're not weaponless you know! We have magic!"
And so I came home to wait for another day to go by.
Tomorrow came.
I went out of my room to prepare for sword training. I saw mother cooking for breakfast and noticed something strange. Ube first noticed that mother was pregnant, which was four months ago. But, if you look at the date, she should be pregnant for four to six months now, and yet, her stomach was that of an eight-month.
Mother is a slim woman, so I could tell that her stomach is bigger than it is supposed to be, but, I can be wrong, and I just expected that she was a month or two already pregnant when Ube noticed, curiosity kills me, so I asked.
"Mother, good morning."
She turns around slowly as she greets back.
"Goodmorning sweetie, aren't you going to train today?"
"I am, mother. But, I have a question for you."
She waited for my question, so I continued.
"Are you expecting in a month or two? Or even three?"
"I am expecting at the third month sweetie, why do you ask?"
"Nothing mother, I was just excited to see my sibling."
She only smiled back at me and turned around to proceed to cook. I then walked out to start practicing my sword.
( I should be expecting a sibling that's taller than me, gee )
Starting today, I'll focus on widening my knowledge of spells and adding magic practice to my training. After I woke up from the incident, I taught Zia how to use magic; then, she told me that she got an idea and would need about three months to complete it.
( Today should be the day Zia finishes whatever she had in mind before. )
I started to wait for Zia to come while I practiced my magic, and a thought came to me.
( How come that bitch haven't shown herself to me since. I don't even know if she's still in my body since Ms. Aneres didn't detect anything in me. )
"Zeal!!!"
That was Zia's voice.
( So she's here. )
"Zeal! Do you remember that time I got an idea because you told me how to use magic?"
While she was talking, her hands were both behind her back.
"Yeah, I was expecting you!"
"So you remembered?"
"Of course I did."
"They just got finished so … "
She pulled her hands behind her back and showed me …
( A pair of gloves? … But they're both for a right hand. )
"See! One for each of us."
( So that's why. ) "So, what are these, Zia?"
"That's a glove that contains each of our blood. It's the red gem in the middle."
"O-o-our blood??" I almost choke in air by hearing that.
( That's a genius idea, but I'm kind of concerned about how she got my blood. )
"This is really smart of you, Zia, thank you. I was just practicing magic just now while waiting for you. Want to join?"
She agreed, and we both spent the day coming up with new ideas like combining spells and magic, using more blood, and combining two magic attributes. Almost all the suggestion she was making, I already knew but ... I never saw her much happier.
Two months passed and our studies bore fruit.
One of the significant discoveries that I made without relying on a book is giving proof that not only nature energy exists in this world, drawing a spell formula allows you to see or create these other energies. However, it's different for magic. If you can feel them, you can control them.
The energies I discovered aren't that many, but one of them is special. The first one, the energy used by exorcists the soul energy, I could feel the most condensed energy over the church in town.
The last energy I found is special because the very first time I saw it, I knew I want it.
Space energy, which was hard to feel at first but Ms. Aneres showing me before made it easy for me, although I mimicked Ms. Aneres' space mine was smaller and whenever I put things in the space, where I put the thing will stay there. It's progress so, I guess it's still a win.
Zia is studying on how to apply magic into inanimate things since spells could. She thought that magic could, too.
!!!
( What was that noise?! Plates breaking? Did Mush and Ube argue again? )
I ran straight to the house to check what happened. Getting there, I saw mother lying down the floor while holding her stomach in pain.
"Mother! Are you alright? What happened?"
"Call your, father, hurry!"