Chapter 2.
Misato did not have time to enter the alley of the academy, as arrows immediately flew at him from the second floor of one of the buildings of the academies. Misato was incredibly quick to deflect these blows thanks to his ability. His ability is rapid movement, which gave him such a good opportunity to move forward faster than everyone else. As soon as he saw who was shooting at him, he almost instantly found himself behind this girl, the glasses began to crack from the fact that there was such a sharp surge of energy.
The girl quickly covered her snow-white hair, which was braided into pigtails. Apparently she didn't really want Misato to see that she was attacking him. Although Misato had already noticed her face, but in order to shame her, he took off her hood.
— Wait, Misato, you were just in the alley… So how did you get to me so quickly?
— Hah, Shizuko, it's ironic that you decided to shoot me, but nothing, I don't blame you. Nevertheless, the uprising began unexpectedly for the entire academy, but there is no other way. Listen, in fact, Prince Nuris killed the king and is now trying to win his place with this competition for the princess. So, will you help me capture the prince?
— I'm sorry, Misato... - said Shizuko and at that moment some purple sign lit up on her neck.
— Shizuko… What is that mark on your neck? Misato asked, but almost a moment later he heard footsteps from behind and also patting sounds. But Misato didn't have time to turn around, as if he was punched by something so strong that he was thrown to the other side of the corridor.
Karl was going to finish him off, but suddenly some kind of magical funnel appeared in the floor and Misato was pulled into it.
At this moment, Karl did not control his actions, he was controlled by Nuris, who had the ability to control consciousness over ten people at once. Thus, he managed to condemn Lin. Everyone believed Nuris not for the evidence, but only because the consciousness of all the members of the council was subordinated to this pathetic prince.
While Misato was lying unconscious, memories from the past floated through his thoughts:
It was a hot sunny day, there was an energetic atmosphere in the courtyard of the Takihashi family. Almost every member of the Takihashi family trained at full strength and so the brothers decided to fight among themselves, after they had trained enough on mannequins. But, their fight was interrupted by an unexpected noise from the bushes. Misato turned away in the direction from which the noise was coming, but Karl did not pay attention to it and went to attack him.
— Misato, why are you flying in the clouds… What are you staring at?
— There was a noise coming from there, - Misato pointed in the direction of the forest, which was located on the territory of Takihashi's lands.
— Oh my God, well, then go there, see what kind of noise there is.
Misato went there and almost a moment later saw a girl there who was surrounded by some bandits.
— What are you assholes doing on the territory of our lands? Aren't you ashamed to offend this girl?
— And? Whose lands? Why are you kidding us here, huh?
The bandits began to approach Misato, while cracking their fingers and flexing their fists. While they were distracted by Misato for a second, the girl managed to escape. Misato received a lot from these bandits that day, so he didn't go out for training in the next few days.
Except that I went for a walk… During one of these walks, he met this girl again, and she in turn ran up to him, hugged him and said:
— Thank you for saving me then! By the way, my name is Shizuko.
In general, since that time, she quite often came to Takihashi's estate in order to play something with Misato and she even sometimes had lunch with her family. Misato certainly didn't mind this, but Karl was always very wary, because you don't understand what kind of girl was sitting at the table with them.
In fact, this girl was from a very poor family, so she often had to endure all sorts of bullying, so she tried to hide somewhere outside the city.
And she was very happy to be friends with Misato, because in fact, he replaced her family with his friendship with her. Although she was previously friends with Mia, but she suddenly disappeared somewhere one of the days.
***
Meanwhile, Nuris was walking in the middle of the burning Academy building to get to his next goal. He was followed by several of his advisers, who restlessly asked him questions.
— In what way is the "uprising"? Isn't it just an attack by terrorists from other academies who decided to destroy this one?
— No, it's not like that at all, unfortunately. It was my pathetic little sister who staged a rebellion against me. Well, never mind, I'll get even with her personally, the main thing is to find her.
— If you knew that her attack was possible, then why didn't you just lock her up in prison?
— I don't need that. Let it come, I'll just watch it, and then I'll kick her out of the city.
—But... what about other people's lives?" Why are you... — one of the advisers did not have time to finish, as his mouth was covered by Nuris's hand and the same mark appeared on his neck as Shizuko's.
"Prince, wait a minute, isn't that Lin standing by the guards?
The prince looked around, but saw nothing, although he felt that she was very close. And the guards also disappeared somewhere at the same moment.
***
Mia was walking with her sharpened blue blade straight at the students who volunteered to defend the academy.
— Mia, what the hell are you doing here? I didn't like the competition for the princess, so I just wouldn't say anything! No! You're going to make up stuff about our prince… Shame on you. And she also staged an attack on the academy..." shouted one of the guys who went one of the first to attack Mia.
— Listen, Ray! I didn't lie to you! It's really just like I told you… Why don't you believe me? Eh?..
— Because I don't want to listen to the words of a girl who was previously a simple beggar and is now studying at the most elite academy, in fact, due only to your acquaintance with Aristia. Why did you turn against the competition? Don't you want the princess to be happy?
They entered the space between the buildings, which had already begun to quietly collapse from the fire. The coals were falling right on their heads, and they just didn't notice it, only the smell was so pungent that it was difficult to breathe. The guy didn't care, he continued to fight and even managed to use his magic skill along the way, the ability of which was the summoning of entities. In his case, they were just birds, because his powers were almost nothing. This ability depends entirely on the strength of the owner. Mia easily reflected them, because her ability was to reflect any enemy attack and partial damage was transferred to the attacker through the blue blade.
— Ray! Stop it! Let me walk calmly to the prince, otherwise we will soon suffocate here from this very pungent smell. — Mia blocked her mouth with Tolstoy's and tried to escape from the battlefield, but got in her way… Aristia?
— Aristia! I'm so glad to see you… Wait, you're covered in soot.
— And I'm not happy to see you, Mia. You dared to stop my brother, and now I'm going to stop you. — a purple mark also appeared on her neck and as soon as Mia saw it, she immediately flew away from a blow from the guy's back.
Streams of tears flowed down Aristia's face. She didn't want to interfere with Mia somehow, nothing like that, it's just that her mind was also subordinate to Nuris, so she couldn't resist, otherwise for each such retreat she would have received one magical blow in the neck area, which could kill her. Aristia turned around and saw that Mia had already disappeared somewhere. But she didn't do the search, firstly because she didn't want to, and secondly, she couldn't feel Mia anymore.
Kleins' offspring has an incredible skill that is passed down every generation — it's a flair. It does not belong to any of the types of magic, because such special cases were very rare. But this is not all the features of the royal family. According to legend, kings with the type of star get the ability to create. What this ability is and what are the exact conditions for its appearance, no one knows.
***
Lin almost immediately sent the guards of the academy to her created world. This is the power of her artifact, which could create a space invisible to anyone. The enemy is surrounded by a purple cylinder covered with stars and he plunges into this very space.
The guards of the academy did not understand where she was. In front of everyone was a boy with red hair and yellow eyes like gold, in a black army suit. Mia recognized him immediately. It was one of her court guards earlier.
— I am Lin Kleins, by the command of the stars, please obey me. — Lin began to cast her charms on him. Unfortunately, they did not always work as needed. Nevertheless, she did not act through her real power, but only through an artifact that could transform the command of the stars into the power of subordination of very weak personalities.
— Of course you shouldn't have used the artifact on me, Ms. Lin. I'm your personal servant after all, I'm listening to your instructions.
They came out of space and a moment later, Nuris was behind Lin and was about to pierce her with a sword, but the guy then deflected Nuris's blow from Lin with his scarlet blade, which became such after one of the terrible stories in which about a thousand people died.
— Hey you, how dare you disturb me! You're my guardian now, why are you protecting her?
"I know the whole truth about you, Nuris. The night someone killed the prince, I was walking around the castle and out of the corner of my ear I heard that someone was stabbing with a sword right in the middle of the corridor. When I turned the corner, I saw you and Mia. You had a sword in your hands, and Mia was all bloody from the fact that you just brushed the blood off the sword on her.
I'll have to kill you, too, since you found out this truth, you freak!
Nuris did not have time to hit the guard again, as almost a moment later he and Lin were dragged away by a black something. But where to…
***
Everyone woke up in a clearing in the forest, where a fire was lit, huts were set up and some living creatures were already roasting. A girl with white hair, which she hid behind a hood and green eyes, came out of the hut. She exuded a very strong magical aura, about a hundred thousand times greater than everyone else in the academy.
— Wait a minute, is that really… Not... the Goddess Akismin? Misato exclaimed, realizing that she looked exactly like the girl depicted on the walls of the academy.
—That's right, Misato Takihashi, and... we've met before. It was I who presented you with your star mark. And now I need the help of each of you. The ability to create is a very dangerous thing… That's why I moved you away from the prince, because he has almost reached it, but he lacks two conditions for this. The first is recognition by all family members, and the second is the ability of the star. All this he could achieve through you, the lords of the stars. In fact, he needs a triple label for this. But he doesn't know it yet. So it's better that you stay out of town.
Having finished this, she disappeared from sight. And almost a moment later, Marie also appeared through a hole in the ground. Apparently Akismin almost forgot about her and came back to pick her up as well.
And immediately there seemed to be a huge explosion of stars in the sky and the kingdom was enveloped in a kind of blue dome that shone just like the stars in the sky.
— Well... T-S. Ah! Mosquitoes bite… Can we go from the forest to some other country? Mia started to get indignant, because she already couldn't stand mosquito bites.
— But where should we go? The nearest kingdom without restrictions is Mirga, where the beastmen live. And it is in fact very far from here. Of course, I can quickly find my way there myself, but you won't catch up with me.
— Well, we'll have to go like this. There's nothing I can do, yet I need to get away from Nuris, and he can use that feeling while I'm very close to the kingdom. Lin said, and at the same time reached for the food, which had already been donated by Akismin herself!
Would you think that by killing the prince they would have achieved their goal faster than just hanging around in another place? Unfortunately, this is not the case. By killing the prince, they would simply delay time, because a more terrible person was approaching, and maybe not even a person…