After minutes of waiting Floga finally arrived at the port, he looked tired, Caroline welcomed him with a low wave, Floga then noticed them and walked up to them
"So, when are we going to leave" Floga asked Caroline
He ignored everyone else
"We can leave right now, so everyone grab me by my shoulder"
Caroline said, everyone touched Caroline on her shoulder, and all of them entered a mana zone that a familiar robot had created, Caroline ran up to the robot
"Hug support!" Caroline screamed
The robot extended its arms and hugged Caroline
"What the hell are you doing?" Luck asked her with a disgusted look
"I'm just hugging my good friend Robbie"
She replied, Destiny found it cute, but Floga and Luck found it the complete opposite
"Please don't call it that..." Luck told her with concern
The group then entered the plane for the base, the whole flight was awkward, nobody dared to speak a word, eventually, Caroline put on some music but her try to ease the mood was a failure, Luck desperately tried to look at his phone to escape the situation, Caroline was a bit pissed by their actions
"Robbie let me drive" Caroline said as she switched places with the robot
"What are you doing? Do you even know how to drive a plane?" Luck asked her concerned
Before Caroline could answer the plane started going down at an alarming speed, everyone inside the plane were scared for their lives
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?" Floga yelled
Destiny was also screaming out of fear, and Luck was ready to jump out of the plane but before the plane could crash at the sea they all woke up, the whole thing was a SMZ of Caroline
"Did you like my little prank?" Caroline asked innocently
"DO YOU CALL THAT A "LITTLE"?" Luck screamed
"I SWEAR I'M GOING TO KILL YOU WHEN WE GET OUT OF THE PLANE!" Floga told her
Destiny didn't say anything because she wasn't even conscious, she fainted a long time before
"A quite scary threat Floga but I assure you even if the 2 of you attempted to attack me at the same time you would still fail"
Caroline replied with a smirk, that pissed Floga off
"Fine, I and Luck will fight you after the flight, if you really manage to beat us then I and Luck will do as you say for a day" Floga told her with confidence
"Forget it! we can never win against Caroline, she is way out of our league" Luck told Floga, he didn't seem convinced
"Even if she is a sin she still can't deal with the 2 of us, trust me, back at the school I didn't go all out but today I'm not holding back, I will even burn down the whole Italy to beat you"
Floga replied, he was very confident in his power, Caroline liked that
"Fine! after we return from the agency we will duel"
Caroline said with excitement, the plane then finally landed at the location of the agency, Destiny had woken up, and the four of them then entered the mana zone, Kamira was waiting for them
"Welcome back, please read those manuals and go to your assigned spot" Kamira told her
"Oh, and Luck, you come with me to the office, I have something for you" Kamira told him before leaving
Luck's day didn't go well up until now so he felt negative about the "something" Kamira had to give him
"Hey guys what do your manuals say" Caroline asked
Turns out all of the manuals said the same thing
"Caroline what are you doing here? I thought I only said Luck to come"
Kamira told her with an angry look, this time Caroline refused to leave
"Why do I have to always miss out on things like that? I swear I won't bother anyone" Caroline told Kamira
"Fine I don't care, So Luck, do you remember the incident in the training room?" Kamira asked, Luck nodded
"Risha here attacked a valuable member of the agency like you with a dumb excuse, so instead of punishing her myself, I decided to give you the right to decide what her punishment will be" Kamira told him
Caroline whistled in the distance, Luck felt weird about it, he wasn't angry about what happened since then he only reacted based on his emotions but punishing someone for such a stupid reason like that seemed cruel to Luck
"How about you make her my full-time teacher, someone has to teach me the element of illusion so I want her to be the one to do it"
Luck replied as he pointed at Risha, Risha felt at ease when he heard Luck's request
"That's possible but Risha has an attribute for the element of creation, not illusion, are you sure that you want her to teach you?"
Kamira asked him, she didn't really approve of Luck's request but if that is what he wanted then she couldn't refuse
"I'm sure about my choice, I much rather have someone I know teach me than a random person of the agencies"
Luck told her, Kamira then dismissed everyone
"Why did you do that?" Risha asked Luck once they exited the office
"What do you mean?" Luck asked confused
"You could have punished me by taking my share of money or something but you chose to be my student? Why do that?" Risha asked him, she was genuine confused
"And why would I do that? You didn't do anything to me, plus I punched you so you should be mad not me" Luck replied
Risha felt some kind of way after hearing that, she hadn't heard anyone speaking like that in a long time
"You are a naïve kid you know that?" Risha told him to tease him
"A friend of mine used to say that to me too, the funny thing was that she was even more naïve than me"
Luck said with a smile, this small talk brought back some good memories to Luck. The 3 of them then entered an actual training room this time, the room was completely white, no windows or furniture were inside, only some white soft pillows that surrounded the whole room
"Here you will learn how to use the element of illusion and hopefully more, are you ready to begin your training?" Risha told him
Luck nodded so Risha began explaining to Luck his element
"So Luck, you have to think of the element of illusion like a mirror, more specifically a blank one, no matter what you put in front of it nothing will reflect back, the only way you can use this mirror is by creating things from your mana and fantasy, most illusion based tactics are mostly things from real life, they usually illustrate the thing they want the mirror to reflect in their mind and they then create it, this is similar to the creation element" Risha added
'Finally, an explanation that actually makes sense' Luck thought, the man that Gnomon fought before was the only example he remembered
"So for example I can create a bat with the element of illusion?" Luck asked
"Precisely"
Luck then channeled his mana and thought of himself, most specifically he thought of that one time, he and Caroline fought, before Caroline could hit him with a fire punch he somehow created a clone of himself, so he tried to do the same thing, Caroline and Risha closely spectated Luck from afar
'Concentrate and illustrate! Just think of myself spitting into 2, it's just like my shadow, but I have to imagine coming to life, just split, and multiply, just split my mind into 2'
Luck's power started to increase, and his mana level also felt much more intense
"This isn't supposed to happen is it?"
Caroline asked with a worried tone, Risha didn't reply she just kept on waiting for the results
'I have to do this right here and now so I can finally be independent, I have to do this in order to become stronger, so I have to...'
"SPLIT!!!"
Luck screamed, a spark of golden mana appeared from the back of Luck and just like that, Luck was out of control, he tried to attack Risha but Caroline defended her, the clash between them launched Risha to the other side of the room, Luck had matched Caroline's physical strength
"Luck snap out of it!" Caroline told him but Luck couldn't hear her
The power he had was messing with his senses, Luck then punched Caroline, Caroline was launched through the wall of the training room, a lot of people watched Caroline getting launched, they were scared, Luck then tried to attack Caroline once again, but Caroline didn't let it happen, she used the element of destruction to hit him with a lightning attack, Luck stopped at the moment of the impact, the lighting running through his body was too much to handle
"Luck snap out of it!!!'
Risha yelled at him, Caroline then created a sword and enhanced it with the element of destruction with a black flame and without a word she charged at Luck, Luck tried to fight back by kicking her but Caroline easily avoided the attack by jumping, Caroline then sliced his head off, Caroline landed but the head of Luck didn't because it didn't exist in the first place, this damaged version of Luck was a clone, Luck managed to come back to his senses and barely managed to make a clone to avoid Caroline's attack
"Did you just try to kill me?"
Luck asked with a surprised expression, Caroline's expression changed too, she felt kind of bad
"Luck I can explain"
"No you can't, even if I got out of control you had no reason to kill me, you simply went straight for my head without a second thought"
Luck told her, he was very sad about her actions
"That's not what hap..."
"SHUT UP! You tried to kill your friend, is that how you treat someone that cared for you and gave you a house to sleep, a plate of food to eat?"
Luck asked her, Caroline didn't reply, she simply kept her head down, this was the only thing she could do, Kamira quickly arrived at the scene
"What did you do Caroline?"
She angrily asked, Caroline, didn't reply she simply exited the mana zone leaving the base
"I can't believe this girl! Are you alright Luck?" Kamira asked as she swiftly got close to Luck
"I'm okay, as you can see I learned how to use the basics of illusion" Luck said with a sad look while he presented his copy
Kamira was speechless
"Risha please take him home, and I will now deal with this problem" Kamira told her with an enraged look
Kamira then exited the mana zone too, she went to look for Caroline
"Are you okay Luck, did Caroline hurt you?"
Risha asked him, Luck ignored the question
"I figured out that I can create a clone if I imagine it like a shadow, isn't this great?"
Luck asked with a glum smile, Risha then hugged him
"I don't care about this, I only care about your wellbeing, things such as your training come after, you understand me?"
Risha told him, she was beyond concerned about Luck's health
"Stop worrying about me, I'm fine, how much more do I have to tell you?"
Luck said with annoyance in his voice
'Turns out I care for Caroline more than me, maybe I am more naïve than I thought'
Luck thought as he let the hug of Risha's comfort him
Meanwhile outside the mana zone
"Where are you going, Caroline? After what you did you must be punished by not only Luck but me too"
Kamira told Caroline, she found her walking on the road to Palermo
"Miss me with your stupid rules, I'm just trying to go home"
"Home? Where exactly is your home? Because if you think you can go back to Luck you are fooling yourself" Kamira told her in an aggressive tone
"I will find a home somewhere, you do remember that I have a credit card with enough money to buy a store, right?" Caroline told her as she show her the card
"Yes a card that I can decline any time I want, so how about we go back to the base and talk things out or things will turn out worse than we both want to" Kamira warned Caroline
"Nah I'm good without the card, so just leave me alone will ya?" Caroline told Kamira as she walked away, a beam then scratched her cheeks
"Next time I won't miss" Kamira told her with a cold look
"Then bring it on bitch!" Caroline replied with a menacing smile
"You didn't give me a choice Caroline, or should I say Sin of pride"
Kamira told her as she got ready to attack