"Stop being a coward!"
"I'm not! I'm being realistic!"
"Fight me!"
"Fight yourself!!!"
As a bolt of fire whisked through the air, I dived out of the way, dodging the bolt by a mere second as it passed by me and hit a large bolder... Blowing a small crater the size of a basketball into it.
With shards of rock falling down from the sky above, laying on the floor as I dived down here to dodge her magic attack, I was shocked as she used her Phyric Sorcery to attack me just now.
"Are you trying to kill me!!!"
"FIGHT ME OR DIE!"
How the hell did I end up like this?...
. . . . .
Earlier today after telling me to prepare I went back to my room to prepare and grab some extra clothing since we were going to go to the branch house for the next few days, while doing so I told Tina about what was happening and she didn't seem so surprised seeing as she heard what was happening, she apparently was at the stairs as she was going to come down when she heard Mari speak.
So after preparing and getting a "good luck and don't die" from my partner Tina. We soon left and took a normal train to the 5th district, getting off and then arriving here at this place they called the Branch House, it was like a clan's smaller division place where each elder of the clan controller over.
Mary our mother controlled this place/and faction.
However, there weren't any other members in our mother's faction aside from Mari and me so this place was more like an empty traditional Chinese siheyuan with simple servants to look after this place till she returned since it was also her place where she conducted all of her research in the Arcane Arts.
After arriving here and instantly being greeted by the head servant named Phil, we went to the back courtyard in which had been the largest open place with a few large boulders scattered around and then just sandy dirt as it was empty of everything else.
With the servant taking our stuff to rooms they were going to prepare Mari led me into the back courtyard and as soon as I asked why we were out here she instantly attacked me with a [Mana blast], startling me and forcing me to dodge as she just started attacking me without any warning.
For a few minutes, she attacked me without a word as I plead for her to stop and asked why she was doing this, but after those minutes passed and she clenched her teeth and demanded me to fight her.
Stop being a coward!"
"I'm not! I'm being realistic!"
"Fight me!"
"Fight yourself!!!"
This happened and she seemed to have gotten serious as she started using her powers of sorcery to attack me.
. . . . .
Shooting another fire bolt at me as I was helplessly laying on the ground, I saw it coming and rolled over like my life had depended on it... In which it fucking had!!!
*Bang!*
The bolt hit next to me and as it had and I looked over at it, I saw her shooting even more at me, this crazy bitch really meant it when she said she'd kill me!
Rolling, rolling, and rolling, I kept rolling on the ground evading all of these fire bolts being shot at me and creating booming howls as they collided with the ground near inches away from me each and every time.
Rolling even faster as more came, I eventually found a safe spot behind a bolder and as I got up I could hear her running towards me as she had stopped shooting endless fire bolts at me.
"Be a man and fight me!!!"
"Be a woman and go make me a sandwich!!!"
Hearing her footsteps getting closer I bolted into a dash as something felt off.
"Dragon Punch!"
*Kaboom*
Looking behind me the bolder had exploded covering the area in a dust cloud with an orange glow in the center of it, I didn't stop to see what happened, I continued to make a run for it.
"You can't escape me coward!!!"
It was Mari and I heard her behind me, looking behind me to the cloud of dust, she burst out of it and she clenched her fist as she then opened her mouth and yelled,
"Dragon Punch"
Fire shrouded her fists and as that happened I sprinted even faster away as if this had been a jaws movie.
Ah shit my head!!!
My head started to split in agonizing pain and I tripped, falling and crashing into the ground as I grabbed my head and scrunched up.
"Time out... Time out... Time out"
The pain from thinking about that horrid movie had flooded my head and as I laid there scrunched up she didn't stop running at me as she had through I was faking it.
But I wasn't and as she got to me...
Everything went black and the pain went away.
"I died"
"You didn't die retard" Unknown
"you were knocked out" Unknown
Looking over as I was in this pitch blackness I looked over to see Hiro's fragment.
"Wait so she didn't kill me?"
"I don't know?"
"But you just said–"
"I know what I said Demon!!!" Hiro's fragment
"And we are very much still alive I can assure you that" Hiro's fragment
"Are you sure?"
"If you don't shut up I'll hurt you worst than Mari, Demon!"
Crossing my arms as he yelled at me I had forgotten about Hiro.
"Oh yeah, you're the stronger sibling?"
"So what?!"
Hearing him say that a devilish thought occurred in my head and I approached him.
"Hey you really hate your elder sister right? How about you teach me some of your magics whenever I come here and I promise you that by the end of our training this week I'll land a solid blow on her"
Hearing me say that he looked over to me as if he had now caught interest.
"I'm listening"
Uh... He responded?
Yeah of course he did just like I knew he would! hahaha!
"Look, I'm Hiro and you're Hiro, nonetheless I'm the part of you that doesn't have any magical knowledge as you can already tell, and I bet you do, so if you can teach me the basics of sorcery while in here, maybe we can milk Mari to benefit the both of us" Me
"Plus won't it be pretty funny if we were able to surpass Mari in the tournament and stomp her to the ground, humiliating, and embarrassing her in front of the entire clan. Showing them all that they were wrong of us and also showing Remi that she shouldn't have left us for some stupid lesser man, showing everyone that it should have been us and that they were stupid to force us to change, after all, we just wanted normal lives didn't we?" Me
To be fair I'm a Demon and this is manipulation to the purest.
Hearing me out he then scoffed before turning to me fully aware of what I was doing seeing as we were connected,
"I know what you're planning demon and I won't fall for your manipulative trickery, after all, I have nothing left to lose, I'm stronger than you'll ever be... PLUS, I know that you're scared of me"
But as he said that I devilishly grinned.
"Remi's new boyfriend is Derek Kuro, he's a wolf beastman and the alpha to his pack, he values his woman and pack above all and will fall if they fall"
Saying that his eyes widened in shock as if he didn't believe me or that he wanted to know more.
"Your lying!!!"
"On the contrary, I'm not. I know a lot more that I'm not willing to tell anyone, but if you give me what I want, I might just tell you. Shoot, I'll even slip and tell you what you thought you knew but didn't know about the love of your life Remi Tenya. Or should I even be calling her that when it's not actually her true identity"
"W-Waht do you mean?"
"What I mean is that the same girl you so desperately love but know nothing about... Isn't just some ordinary girl" Me
"Because I know her as Remi Tenya Astimintion of the Woodleaf clan" Me
"Clan?? Wrong! Remi isn't apart of any clan! She's just a normal girl!! Who I love deeply!!!"
"And you called me wrong? You know nothing about her and I can prove it to you when we get back..."
Saying that as a demonic grin crept onto my face as I was hurting him with nothing other than the pure truth and he knew that.
He balled his fist and clenched his teeth.
"Fine, I'll tell you what you want to know in exchange"
"Exchange?"
"You know what I want so don't act dumb! I teach you what you should have already known and you give me what I want to know about Remi and also humiliate our sister"
"Ho ho ho, no deal? You're asking too much, chose one or the other or give me something more in exchange, oh look, in said exchange, hehehe your already influencing me... Hiro"
"You... Demon..." he clenched his teeth holding back.
"What do you want" Hiro's fragment
Putting my hand on my cheek and thinking about it for a few seconds,
"Can you liven this place up, I don't like how it's just pitch black in solitude"
"I don't control this place, you do, and your mind is too weak to do anything about the darkness"
"Damn, well... That's all I wanted, sooooo. What can you give me?"
"For the ALLMOTHERS's sake, you're so damn annoying!... I could just teach you more magic!"
"But aren't you already doing that?"
"But aren't you already doing that? Hiro's fragment mocking
"Stop complaining and just take it you dimwitted fuck face!!!" Hiro's fragment
"Fine stop yelling!"
I reverted back to an innocent state as he got mad and started yelling.
"Now sit the hell down so I can start this damn lecture on our most prized possession and greatest magic power, our Phyric flames!"
This lasted forever, why the hell wasn't I waking up, it was so boring and whenever I stopped paying attention he would kick me in the face and tell me to repeat what he said back to him.
He's cruel just like his sister... Boo-hoo...
* * *12 Excruciating Hours Later* * *
I learned a lot and learned a single skill from his lessons.
Waking up, I was going to now challenge Mari again.
"Oh my freaking God my body hurts!"