"G-Garridan can you stop staring at me like that? You're making me feel self-conscious." Nozomi's chiding voice barely registered in my ears, the sight of her curvaceous body in skin-tight shorts and a sports bra was too much to bear. She looked at me with quivering eyes and a pink blush on her cheeks, her embarrassment plain as day on her face.
"Come on Mom, they're just workout clothes!" Fumiko had no compunction about her revealing clothes as her thick thighs strained against the tiny pink shorts she wore. Her massive tits jiggled with each step she took as she walked closer to me. Unlike her mother she took pride in the way my eyes wandered over her body.
"Fumiko that's too bold..." Nozomi gave a weak protest at her daughters choice in outfit. Her complaint fell flat as she looked down at her own revealing outfit and grimaced.
"I don't see what the problem is Nozomi, it's not like Gariddan plans on having sex with us." Charlotte forgot to add the word 'yet' to the end of her words as my eyes wandered over her petite body with appreciation.
She wore tight little gym shorts that barely covered her pert little ass. Her small bust was hugged tightly by a grey sports bra, and the rest of her pale creamy skin was exposed to the world in all its glory. She looked like a little doll, and I found myself leaning down to kiss her lips. Our tongues locked in a brief struggle before the sound of Fumiko's fake retching and Nozomi clearing her throat broke us from our lust-filled daze. We acted like a newly married couple and considering we were bound by a magical contract our desire for one another was understandable.
"Okay, it's time to get this show on the road!" I clapped my hands together as I pulled a whiteboard out of my shadow. Even with the small amount of geist it cost, I was panting from the effort. This is the result of one of my limitations on the technique [Sheol]. After using it I'm left in a weakened state of geist fatigue for a week.
"Garridan take it easy." Charlotte chided me as she grabbed hold of the whiteboard for me so I could draw while she acted as an easal. For the next ten minutes, my rather poor drawing ability was on highlight as the Katō family looked on curiously at my work. The drawing was an outline of the human body. Blue veins traveled through the arms and legs concentrating around six points located in different areas of the body.
"This is the network that makes up your [subtle body]. These points here are your [geist nodes] and the veins that connect them are called [circuits]. Nozomi your dominant element is earth right?" I spoke as my finger pointed at each dot occasionally tracing a path down the circuits I drew
"Y-yes though I'm not very good at using it." Her shamed face as she said that came from the memory of her near-death experience. Her body was caked in hastily crafted earth energy when I found her, her attempt at using geist failing miserably.
"Do you know why you struggle to use geist?" I asked as I looked at the woman who had never had a formal training in exorcist techniques. In the story at least she'd only been the plaything of a powerful exorcist who got bored of her after he'd had his fun. Her body is nearly identical to that of a normal woman with no notable qualities in regards to her spiritual power.
"I believe it's because I didn't train, my husband thought I was too weak to learn anything." Her bitter remark about her husband received a sympathetic nod from Charlotte and a disgruntled huff from Fumiko.
"Training is important but its not the most important thing. No, the most important thing is your foundation." Oh god, I sound like a Wuxia character. Next thing you know I'll be screaming 'Junior you dare!'.
"What'sa foundation?" Fumiko asked as she disinterestedly looked down at her fingernails, her mind already zoning out my lecture.
"It's the condition of your subtle body. The more one practices channeling geist through their circuits the 'cleaner' their circuits become." I explained like I would to a child and considering it's this airheaded girl in front of me it definitely made it easier for her to understand.
"What's makin' our subtle body dirty though?" Her head tilted to the side as she spoke. I could see the question marks floating over her head.
"It's simple, sin." Fumiko and Nozomi widened their eyes as they heard me mention sin. Unlike the mundane world sin is a tangible and malignant force on the world, and is the reason phantoms roam the earth. To be told that the catalyst for the chaos and destruction phantoms cause is in your blood would probably be unsettling.
"You can't be serious, how could we—" Nozomi's words were cut off by the snarling words of Fumiko. Her brown hands were balled into little fists, and her eyes glared at me with hatred.
"Liar, you're a fuckin' liar! There ain't no way in hell my mom would have anything like that in her!" She screamed her words as she denied the ugly truth of this world, humans created the monsters. The phantoms people spoke about with hatred and fear resided in every human like geist flowing through us. It sat dormant waiting for the day you would slip up and give in to it's temptation, to become one of them.
"If it makes you feel any better I have sin in me too, see." I channeled geist though my circuits careful to not let any of the energy 'evaporate' away. The energy came into contact with a blockage right near my heart as geist chipped away at the dark platelets of sin. Using geist I pushed the sin out of my body and into the palm of my hand.
A bubbling mass of tar-black goo formed in my palm. Like the beat of a heart the sin seemed to come to life, tiny little arms forming as they reached out toward the world. Crimson eyes gazed up at the sky for only a moment before my hand closed crushing the infant phantom. It's twitching body and flailing limbs grew weak as the thing turned to ash before disappearing.
"W-what the fuck!?" Nozomi swore loudly as she backed away from my outstretched palm, Fumiko began dry heaving at the grotesque sight and the implication that something similar might reside in her. Charlotte watched on with apathy, her knowledge on the subject having long since desensitized her to the sight.
"That is sin. If you don't commit to [purging] it from your body it will slowly build up until you become a phantom seedbed. It's rather nasty stuff." The more geist someone has the more sin their body stores, and if left unchecked this sin can grow inside a person corrupting their body and turning them into a seedbed for phantoms. The reason people gifted with the ability to manipulate geist were recruited to become exorcists is that if they hadn't they would end up as a spawn point for more phantoms.
"H-how do we purge it?" Fumiko finally seemed on board with the training as she looked at me with desperation in her eyes.
"Woah, woah, woah, slow down there my little padawan. If we're going to have any shot at you succeeding at purging the sin in your body without blowing your circuits you're going to have to learn the first technique all exorcists must know." As I spoke my body glowed in a white shimmering haze, even in a weakened state my geist was still potent enough to be seen with the naked eye.
"...woah." Fumiko gasped at the sight as the training room was filled with a soft glow.
"This is [geist control] and it along with [geist release] and [geist masking] are the building blocks of every technique. And for the next two weeks, we will work on these three techniques until the both of you can use them in your sleep." They didn't know the hell that awaited them as I intended to make sure they became the best possible version of themselves. They wouldn't be damsels in distress, no they'd be badass exorcists capable of dispatching a phantom with ruthless efficiency.
***
"D-do I really need to sit in this tub of ice?" Fumiko shuddered as her body sunk into the ice bath I'd prepared for her. The daring two-piece bikini she wore showed off her mouth-watering caramel skin. Her nipples hardened in the cold as they poked through the fabric of her bikini top.
"Yes, it's going to help you feel the geist flowing inside you." As I spoke one of my hands gently pushed her hair to the side as the other rested on the nape of her neck. She shuddered from the warm contact mixing with the arctic chill on the rest of her body.
"W-what are you d-doing?" Her stuttering words were met with a warm sensation filling her body. The contrast with the freezing temperature of the waters highlighted the process happening in realtime.
"Channeling geist through your circuits. The heat you're feeling is geist, can you feel where it's flowing?" This is the best method I could come up with for a girl with less than stellar geist reserves. The purpose of the exercise was to create an extreme condition that would make the feeling of geist more noticeable in her body.
"I-it feels like it's in my lungs." Her words had some merit as with each breath she spoke a whisp of vapor left her lips.
"That means your elemental affinity is wind, how about any others?" I hoped we had more to work with as the element of air wouldn't suit Fumiko as most air specialists are skilled assassins capable of great stealth and near-invisible attacks. The loud and outgoing Fumiko would stick out like a sore thumb.
"M-my lower back too." Interesting, this could go in a number of ways, and yet in the original canon she only had her wind affinity. In the manga Charlotte trained her to coat her sword in air energy as the two became the swordswomen of the team, their teamwork making them a deadly one-two combo. But despite the power boost the power creep in the series grew and she could no longer keep up with the heroines with special bloodlines. I didn't want that, as I had no intention of leaving her on the sidelines. No waifu left behind!
"Can you try mixing them? Imagine the energy from both areas in the palm of your hand." I watched as her eyes closed in concentration, and whether or not it was necessary Fumiko stuck out her tongue. The swirling energy in her hand was sloppy and any exorcist could see that but for me a deep sense of pride filled me. This girl on her first day of training was making strives to create her very own [Eukrasia].
*Pop*
A bubble formed on her hand, the rainbow-colored liquid burst just as quickly as it formed but I knew exactly what it was. One of the potential elemental combinations of air and water is [Foam Eukrasia], and it's definitely a rarity as only one other character has it in the series and it's only ever indirectly mentioned.
"Soft and wet." I had to make the reference but Fumiko seemed to take it another way.
"If you think I'm gonna let you feel me up just because you're training me then you've got another thing coming!" She stood up from the ice tub before rushing off to go change. Damn, it's gonna be fun making her mine.
***
(Charlotte Kraus POV):
Darling had asked that I train Nozomi-san. The fact that he believed I could do it had me on cloud nine. I won't disappoint him!
"Uhm Charlotte why am I doing this again?" Nozomi sighed as the leaf stuck to her forehead fell off before landing on her massive bust. Looking down at my own rather petite figure I couldn't help but believe that maybe the sin in her body made her breasts so massive.
"Garridan says it's a tried and true method to gaining better geist control, Kishimoto-san seems to be a big influence on his training methods." The way darling raved about how his early work was a 'piece of art' and the disappointment he felt at the later works put a smile on my face. Darling could talk about the intricate process of paint drying and I'd still be there to listen. I love him so much it hurts!
"I see." She nodded with that dumb earnest look she always gives us and went back to sticking the leaf on her forehead. The way she listened to any instruction Darling gave with reverence told me she was one step from falling. I couldn't wait to be there to push her over the edge.
"After you can keep the leaf stuck to your forehead then we'll move on to tree climbing." I had no idea why Darling would suggest training in this manner, but what I did know was that he was a genius. He thought of a way for Fumiko to feel her geist and for him to feel up her body. I love how smart he is.