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Chapter 11 - Kappanelle

The goblins were approaching the kids, and all of them took a fighting stance, but before they arrived to where they were Tako extended his arms and clapped in front of his torso, then he separated his hands and at the same time, the ground that was below the goblins opened creating a huge hole in which they fell. After that, he clapped again and the ground closed, crushing the goblin that had fallen."Wow. That was cool", said Steve and Yoro at the same time. They examined the ground that had moved and saw that there was a thin line that separated the floor."Hey Tako, why did you clap your hands?", asked Steve intrigued thinking that he was sure it wasn't necesary.Takobu clenched his fist, made a serious face, one resembling a jojo's character, and with a deep voice he said: "Dramatic effects".Steve and Yoro laughed a lot for what he had said.Then, out of nowhere, Tako lost strength and fell to the ground, been catched by his brother just when he was about to hit it."What happened!?", asked worried Yoro to his brother."I ran out of mana", said Tako breathing heavily. He was almost passing out.The old woman, who was resting like always, stood up when she heard that. She ran to where Tako was and worried said: "Never run out of mana. It depletes your life force", giving him a strong hug."Oh shit, there's life force now?", thought Steve impressed about the amount of things this world had. "I bet there's a spell that drains life force to get more magic", he added in his thoughts.The old woman softly left Tako on the ground and Steve created a pillow with his aura, putting it under his head so he could rest comfortably."What's that?", asked the brothers at the same time with Tako saying it between breaths."It's a pillow", answered Steve understanding that since they had never left the cave, they didn't know what it was."It's comfy", said Takobu falling asleep.When they all knew that Tako was sleeping, Steve went to where the old woman was and said: "I already defeated Yoro. Can we go now?""Ugh... ok", said her. Steve didn't understand why she was so opposed to complete the dungeon in spite of saying that he must help them."But let's give Tako some time to rest", she said going to sleep again."Do you want a pillow?", asked Steve to her.In that moment, she remembered someone, a demon, that had said the same to her. She smiled and accepted the pillow, she layed down and put her arm between the pillow and her head."The pillow won't work if you do that", Steve pointed out, but she didn't answer."Now that I think of it, why is she so kind to demons? For what Aria said, she should kill me or enslave me", wondered Steve."I'll ask her when Tako gets better", decided Steve while creating a pillow for him and Yoro. Then he went to sleep, wondering about how his friends were."I had a year to accept that I was going to a new world, but they only had a month", he thought worried for them."Louis should be fine. He was better than me with swords, and he went to a camp where they tought survival skills, so I don't think he has had trouble in this world.", he thought reassuring himself.He kept thinking. "The problem is Mia. She didn't practice kendo with us, so she could be in more problems than Louis and I. Now that I think of it, she was really intelligent, so she should be able to master magic.""Lastly Aria. Well, she is a goddess, so she shouldn't have that much of a problem. I always wondered why we got separated, because... like... we were literaly hugging", thought Steve, blushing a bit when he thought about the last part.***The next day and the days after that, he was filled with energy, so he tried new things with aura. The first day he summoned a lot of swords and made them fight between them. The day after he tried to throw them as fast as he could, breaking in the process the heads of various goblins.He kept doing different things with his aura each day, until he thought: "Wait. I can create things. Could I clone myself?". In that moment he started creating a sculpture of himself with aura. It took him all day to get all the details correctly, making parts too thick or too thin.He was happy with his result, but there was a bigger challenge: make it move.He spent the whole week that Tako rested to try to automatize it, but he couldn't. He finally gave up after realizing that he would need to know his own anatomy perfectly. "I should had paid more attention on Biology", he thought, then realizing that the body of this world's people could be different from the one of his previous one.The day that Tako woke up, his mother said that he should practice magic in a battle against his brother, so they got ready. The old woman and Steve sat near where they were and they started fighting."Hey... I want to ask a question", said Steve to her trying to ask about what he was thinking all those days while experimenting."What is it?", she asked almost not paying attention to him."Well... why are you so familiar with demons?", he asked.This time, she paid attention to what he was saying. "It's a long story", she said. "Are you sure you want to know?"."I've been wondering about it for so long, so of course I want to know", Steve replied frustrated that she didn't start telling him."Ok. It was many, many years ago. I was an adventurer living my life to the fullest. I had long brown hair, not like now.My party consisted of a male mage named Plan, and me, a magic swordsman. Plan calculated everything to extents that no one could imagine. He was a genius. He had black hair and black eyes, always wearing a leather armor. He had a big wooden staff with a small red gem.One day, after our daily missions, he decided that we needed an addition to the party, adding either a healer or a swordsman. I didn't understand why we needed one, but he was so calculating that I believed in him.That day, we posted an announcement offering a spot in our party, but our party wasn't so well known, so nobody came.We tried to get new members everyday, offering entrances to newbies or offering payment, but still, nobody joined.After a week, he concluded that nobody would join. That's why he suddenly decided to buy a slave. I was truly against it because I was against human traffic, but somehow he convinced me.That night, we went to the slave market, where a fat guy, the owner of the place, attended us.'Are you sure you want a slave?', I asked, but he didn't reply.He showed us the place, letting us see the wide variety of humans he was selling.They were in big cells. Each one had a big bed. They also had dishes with food and a big jar of water. It seemed that each one of them had a basic but filling lifestyle.The market was really big, so we walked there for a while.After some time, my companion asked if he had another species, one that was good at fighting.The shopkeeper happily said that he had, but they were more expensive, but Plan didn't care.The shopkeeper led the way to a hidden passage below his desk, when he opened it, we saw ladders to a basement.""I'm having a deja vu", Steve thought hearing attentively."We went down the stairs and we saw a lot of small cages with humans inside.'We asked for the other species', Plan complained, to what the fat man replied to look at their ears. There we saw that those weren't humans, but half humans, like elves and beastfolk.When Plan saw that, he went to talk to each one of them. He asked them if they wanted to join our party, but everyone rejected his offer.The shopkeeper told Plan that he shouldn't ask, he could just buy them, but Plan didn't care and kept asking.He spent the whole night in that, until he saw a cage that was far away of every other one. We went near that one, and there we saw something that wasn't like all the other slaves. It was a female demon.The demon had long silver hair and beautiful blue eyes. We admired her beauty for a while. Then we noticed something written in her cage. It was her name. Her name was Kapanelle."