Hello, I'm Kurai.
So far my first week at school was uneventful, Ryota kept pestering me to take the stupid bait, I don't know why he is so determined to humiliate me, but I think that's his whole personality, a jester for the class, nothing more, nothing less.
However, what bothered me is that I couldn't get the shy girl's name, I don't know why, but I feel like our souls are bound, because no matter how much I try to be the casual neutral being I am, I feel like I want to be near her all the time and protect her, but from what I can see, her energy is positive, she is in no danger, yet this feeling is eating at me.
I need someone who knows, he will surely understand, my father, not my current dad, but the black dragon.
But you might think, how, isn't he dead or something?
Well, no, he is very alive and immortal, if he wants to die he would, but he really seems to like living, and in order to contact him, I can't just call him on his cell phone, mainly because he lives on the mountain right now with no cellular network, but also he is too stingy to buy a data plan, so much for a divine black dragon.
However, I can contact him with a ritual, and I have everything ready for it.
All I need is two incense sticks and a calligraphy drawing of his spirit.
I put the incense on each side of the photo and chant a few spells, and he will get a spiritual message that I'm trying to talk to him, if he accepts, my spirit will teleport to his location to talk to him, while my body stays in my current place, practically like a video call on social media.
Now the words are cheesy, I mean, I am practically stronger than him, but it feels like I'm praying to him, whatever, I need his advice urgently.
-Oh divine dragon, I seek to consult you, please do not betray your subject, and be merciful enough to answer to me.
Hopefully he doesn't decline, I will need to redo it all over again, you can't use used incense.
Well, I spoke too soon, before I knew it, I was in front of him, he was sitting on a rock, cuddling the spirit of my mother, before leaving his body, he didn't want my mom to die, so he made her a wandering spirit.
-What do you want?
-Wow, what a way to speak to your daughter
-You died 5 times, it's about time I disowned you, I've had enough of your excessive reincarnation, but then again, your mother will kill me.
-Whatever, I need advice.
-The subjects saw you use your powers and thought you were a god again?
-I don't repeat the same mistake twice
-Then spit it out or I'm cancelling the connection
-Wait! I'll tell you! basically, there is this human girl I've gotten drawn to
-You like girls?
-Ew no! It's not love, I really feel like I want to cherish and protect her, yet there is no danger near, she has the most positive energy I've ever seen despite being unfortunate compared to other humans
-Ah, I see, she caught your interest, but it's not affection, rather possession
-You can say that, I don't know her name, yet it hurts when I am away from her, she is shy and timid, but she has a happy aura, there's something about her I can't pinpoint.
-I think I know why do you feel that way
-What is it
-I think you are her guardian spirit
-What!?
Usually, guardian spirits are wandering spirits with no past or future to long for, so they get assigned an unfortunate human to guard and protect from dark energy, the fate of a spirit is decided the moment it takes on a physical form, however, it is impossible for the spirit to guard a human if it's in that form, so, the reason that I'm surprised is because I have a physical body, it should be impossible for me to be her guardian spirit, unless...
-Father, what did you do?
-I don't quite get what you mean
-Father, if you don't tell me, I'll drown you the same way you drowned me in my first life, and you know how strong my grip is.
-Fine fine, so basically, when you died for the first time, you were a child, so you were granted heaven, but also, you were a divine shaman dragon, you were supposed to roam the earth forever, but they didn't have a good reason to reincarnate you, so, I pulled a few strings and managed to get a contract that you will be a guardian spirit even in your physical form
-That's too confusing, so in other words, you made me live in return for guarding a human.
-Exactly,
-And is there a reason why specifically her?
-No, you know I don't care if you like or hate anyone
-Fair enough, I'm cutting the connection.
-See you never.
He really is insufferable, but now, I'm in a bigger problem, my current mom is looking at me, and from what I can tell, she probably thinks I'm praying to a dragon from the picture in front of me, my current family are a bunch of agnostic people, except my mom, who is a devout atheist, and she reprimands anyone who decides to follow a religion, so seeing me pray to a drawing of a mythical creature really set her off.
She wanted to ground me, but I never use any forms of entertainment like TV or books, and I never leave the house, or have any friends, so that's out of the question.
She tried punishing me with a bunch of workbooks but I finished them early, she can punish me as much as she wants, my main focus here is to find a way to explain myself.
But even that didn't matter much, I wish I know if the girl is okay, did she eat yet? is she happy right now? does she believe in guardian spirits? it feels like I long for her, but I understood humans enough to know that it's not love, but these feelings of friends, does anyone ever crave someone to be their friend that much? this is all new to me, I want to talk to the black dragon again, but he probably would be furious if I call back, he doesn't like me anyways, but he talks to me for my mom's sake, whatever, all I can hold onto is hope.