"Uh."
Emerging from a bright light, Lilith slowly woke up, and what filled her vision was a ceiling that was unfamiliar to her, and Lucia was sitting beside her.
"You are finally awake. I have been worried that I might've hit you too hard."
"Uhhh," Lilith held her head, and she started to look around the room to see where she was at. It was a room that she had never been to before. "Where the heck am I…? This is a room that I have never been in."
"I have forgotten that you haven't been in this room. After all, we have never been injured before so it's to be expected."
Saying that, Lucia leaned closer to her friend and put her forehead on her head.
…What the hell is she doing? This feeling feels good, but she needs to stop before I get the wrong idea. After all, I was interested in her not as a friend but as a woman.
Those were some thoughts that she could never say out loud. These kinds of thoughts could ruin their friendship if she didn't accept her feelings.
"So that means our team lost right? Seeing that you are sitting here completely unscathed that means that me and my partners have gotten eliminated."
With that realization, her face turned gloomy. Even it was her fate to lose that battle against her. She still had the feelings of a normal human, so it hurt her that she lost.
"Even though I knew I was going to lose. I… I still wanted to win this fight, but I guess I wasn't strong enough to even compare to you."
"You shouldn't let that bother you at all even though I'm supposed to be the strongest student. Some of your abilities gave me a little bit of trouble but even so… you are the strongest person that I have ever fought in my life, so there is no need for you to be down about your loss."
"Well, thank you for that. It means so much to me."
After saying that, the two students heard a knock on the door, and they looked at each other. Even though they were friends with everyone in their class, they knew they would never come and check up on them because of how strong the two of them were.
"You can come in if you want to."
The door opened and two little girls ran towards Lucía. One was Illya Mahinu and she was there to congratulate her on winning her duel. She really injured the match because of how entertaining their fighting styles were. The other was Illayaka Mahinu, she was there to do the same thing as her sister.
The twins smiled cutely. "Aunty congrats on winning the duel, it was interesting to watch you two fight against each other!" Illayaka and Illya shouted in unison. They jumped onto Lucia and hugged her tightly.
"Hey, you two. I was planning to come to see you soon. Where did your parents go."
Who are these children? She never told me that she had any nieces… no we've been together all our lives and I never seen these children in my life. So, the question is who are these children? And where did they come from?
…Ah!
Lilith looked at the door and noticed an unfamiliar figure standing in the doorway. With all her time in school, she had never seen the man before. The only thing she heard was the rumors about him. The man had long light sandy-blond hair that flowed down his back and was fluttering. His caramel eyes shined bright, eyes that looked like sweet caramel candies. The man's figure looked slightly above average with his clothes on, and his name was Shito Mahinu.
—My daughters wanted to come to see her. They enjoyed the battle that she had with her friend—speaking of her friend. Her power comes straight from the moon. So, in a sense, she would be a goddess. So, her title could be Moonlight Goddess… that's such a good name if I do say so myself.
Staring at Shito, Lilith's face frowned, and she crawled out of bed and walked toward Shito. She looked at his extremely calm face, she had almost mistaken him for an emotionless face.
"Well, who are you and what are you doing here?"
There was some hostility in her voice, she was completely conscious of the man that was standing before her. Not only was Shito beautiful, but he was also an incredibly calm-looking person, it was almost as if he was flowing with the breeze.
Shito just stared at the woman who was standing before him. His facial expression didn't even change, it was like he was a doll that kept the same facial unless they were commanded to do something.
"I'm a friend of that girl over there and the father of those two children. Why are you asking questions in such a hostile tone?"
With that question, Lilith immediately stumbled backward, and she looked at Shito who was still standing before her. His facial expression still hadn't changed, and he watched the girl as she stumbled backward.
"Now, now, stop being so mean to people, Shito."
A woman walked into the room, she had beautiful silky smooth silver hair, milky-white skin, and chromic pink and purple eyes, with her blue pupils shining brightly. The woman was insanely beautiful and not many girls could match her appearance.
The woman was known as, Tenka Vermillion, and she was the mother of the children in the room. She could tell why the girl was so hostile, so she came to put her doubts to rest.
"You might have gotten the wrong idea… but this guy is with me, and those are our children over there, so there is no need for you to be so hostile. Our children wanted to congratulate her for winning her battle."
Lilith sighed before looking over at Shito. "I'm sorry that I'm acting like this. I was being overly conscious... I'm deeply sorry for that." She slightly bowed her head, and respective apologized to Shito. She was a person who could admit that she was in the wrong for the way she was acting.
Leaning close to the girl's ear, Tenka tapped the girl's shoulder and smiled. "There is no need for you to worry so much after all, he has no interest in other women except for me so there is no need to worry about him falling for you little friend," she whispered low enough that only Lilith could hear her words.
Illayaka and Illya looked over and noticed that their parents were standing at the door, they had run ahead of them so they could hurry up and see Lucia. Even though they had just met her, the girls could sense how strong she was and started to call her Aunty because she was strong enough to be classified as such.
But it also went beyond strength. The girls had the ability Void Eyes, and they could sense the emotions of people and could even see them in colors. There were only two colors that people could see and that was a blueish silver aura that represented good and a black aura that represented evil or bad attentions. When using void eyes, they could see a blue aura around her body.
That was the main reason they decided to call her Aunty.
"Mama and Papa are here!" They jumped out of Lucia's arms and ran over to their father and jumped onto his shoulders. They landed on his shoulders and sat still, not moving a single inch.
"You two don't run ahead like that again. I understand that you were excited, but something could happen to the two of you one day."
"...We understand papa, we will be more careful."
With those words, the two girls looked at the mother and smiled, they were happy that she was sitting there waiting for them. After all, a mother's care is one of the best feelings in the world. They were lucky enough to have parents because they originally never had a mother or father's love.
Shito looked at his daughters. "It's good you two understand. Even though you are strong I'm still a parent to you and I worry about you. After all, that's also in my job of being a father to you two." he said whispering to his daughters. Nobody else could hear the words that came out of his mouth.
The two girls looked at their father in shock. This was because they were using void eyes to look at his emotions. Normally the aura for his emotions could not be seen but now they could see a bright blue aura surrounding his body. Every word that came out of his mouth was what he was feeling. Their father was showing more emotions than he ever did before. It was almost like he was changing into a different person.
The girls leaned close to their father and kissed him on the cheek. "We understand father. We know you care about us so much. So, we will be even more careful."
Tapping his wrist, a mana screen appeared in front of his face, and the screen was blank, and nothing was shown. He looked up at the screen and thought of his sister, Sara Mahinu and she instantly appeared on his screen.
Lucia looked at the big mana screen and noticed that the strongest mage was looking at them. "Wh-What… the hell!" She was a little flabbergasted, looking at Sara who was smiling through the screen.
She didn't understand how someone could have any connections with the strongest mage in the world. Nobody really has the connections to even talk to her except for the government and the families. But even still they had no control of when they got to talk to her.
Shito looked at his sister who was staring at him through the school. "Well, sister I called to talk to you about something."
Lilith and Lucia looked at Shito with no emotion on their face, they were trying to process the information that they had just heard.
After a couple of seconds, the information had been entirely engraved into their minds and both girls looked at him in shock.
"Sissssterrrrrrrr…!?" Lilith and Lucia shouted in unison. They didn't know the person that they were talking to was the brother of the strongest mage. No, they didn't even know that she had a brother, to begin with.