(14 years and 1 month after Reincarnation)
[Kyrielle's POV]
Things to do :
0) ☑ Take the trash out
1) ☑ Visit Thomas's grave
2) Buy school uniform (shorter skirt)
3) Buy stationaries
4) ☑ Find my friends
5) Find a doctor for the hallucinations
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(New Klada, Gerdur's family tailor)
➡Buy school uniform
(11:53 a.m.)
'Cha chank!' With Gerdur leading the way, I entered her family's tailor shop where they do make the school uniforms that I wanted to buy.
Michael left us because it is inconvenient to accompany us to shop for clothes.... Well, at least for Gerd.
"Mom, I brought Kyrielle!"
"Excuse me for intruding...."
"Oh my! Little Kyrielle, it's been such a long time since I've last saw you!"
"It's good to see you as well, aunty."
"I heard that you were caught with the teleportation accident... Are you alright now?"
"Yes I'm fine, thanks for the concern. It's a long story but I've made it back safe and sound."
"I see. So what business do you have here today?"
"I want to buy a school uniform. For the magic school."
"Oh, you are going to finish your fifth year huh? Very well, but I'll need your measurements first. Gerd, do your job!"
"Aye aye mama! Come, Kyrie."
"Mmm."
Walking into the back of the store, we went into a dressing room with just the two of us.
"Okay, now take off your clothes."
"...." I did as she asked and stripped down to my underwear.
"The bra as well."
"Is that really necessary?!"
"It is! I have to get an accurate reading of your bust first and foremost, or else the readings might be off!"
"It's just weird!"
"Come on you're not shy are you? We are both girls!"
"No is no! Besides, why do you even need my bust measurements anyway?! It's not like I'm going to get a custom-made uniform with boob shelves!"
"You.... You have a point actually.... I don't need your boob's measurement."
"Hah?! Then why did you try to sexual assault me over it?!"
"Ahaha, just a little mishap on my side!"
"Seriously.... Get on with it will you?"
"Right right, you're no fun at all...." She wrapped a soft measurement tape around my shoulder, my waist and then my hips.
After about a minute, it's done. But what's not done is her antics....
"Hmm... Your's pair grew as well huh."
"Gerd, don't make it weird."
"Haha, of course not!"
'Grab!' She reaches her arm forward and then squeezed my breast. It was painful, but also somewhat arousing....
"Ahn! What the hell is wrong with you?!"
"Ahaha! I thought I'd prank you a little bit since we haven't met each other for so long! But who would've guessed you'd make such a cute noise, you're so adorable Kyrie!"
"S-shut up! You have your extra large sized ones, why did you grab mine? And why is yours so huge? Is it because you let Michael fondle it every night?!"
"Wha- how could you say something so indecent?!"
"I'm not letting you off the hook without grabbing your tits as well, come here you little!"
"Ahaha stop it Kyrie!-"
"Hey you girls! Stop trying to rub each other's breasts and get to work!"
"Y-yes...." (2x)
It's kind of fun that we can still get carried away and mess around like we used to do.... It reminds me of the times we'd spend the days messing around together in school and also in the weekends. It's fun while it lasted.
"By the way Kyrie, I've been meaning to ask you...."
"Hmm?"
"Why is one of your eye golden colored?"
"Oh that.... It's a secret, and it's nothing you should worry about."
"Is that so? Anyway, Michael and I has already finished our terms last year, so it's just you now. I hope you can get along with the younger kids and not end up as a loner...."
"Well it wouldn't be a problem even if I can't fit in, it's my last year after all."
"Yes but still, try to be nicer with them alright? Your measurements are done now, stay here for a moment and I'll bring the uniform over for you to ty out."
"Okay. I want the shorter skirt variant, it's cuter."
"Oh, dressing up are we? Okie."
After a bit of wait, Gerdur came back with the uniform.
"Here, put it on."
And just as I thought, the shorter skirt does indeed look better on me. Usually the skirt's length is supposed to be just above the knee, but this one that I have is around half thigh.
Now I'm dressed in a buttoned shirt with a blue blazer, a red ribbon tied to my collar and a short skirt.
"Wow, you look really good in that uniform!"
"Hehe, thanks."
"Hmm... but it still feels like something is missing."
"The stockings?"
"That's not it, I'm not talking about your legs.... That's it, your hair style!"
"My twin tails?"
"Yes. Although your twin tails are cute, it doesn't match it's style with the uniform and your body shape. Like it or not, you are already growing into a woman now and is starting to develop that hour glass body shape."
"So what you meant to say is that my hair style is now too childish for my age."
"....I should've worded that better."
"Don't worry, I won't get angry. But which hairstyle do you think will fits me better?"
"Hmm.... We could never go wrong with just letting your hair down but that'd just be too generic..."
"I know right? I'm specifically avoiding letting my hair down because every girls wear their hair like that."
"Hmm.... Why not try a braided let down style?"
"What's that? And I don't know how to do braids..."
"Don't worry, I'll do it for you now!"
"I'm not your dress up doll okay?"
"Pretty please? Just this once!"
"....Fine."
I sat on a chair and let her do my hair once I let down my twin tails.... She grabbed a section of hair above each sides of my ears, and then turned them in a strand of braids.
Then, she grabbed the two strands of braids and tied them together behind my head, making a U shaped strand of braids.
"And now I brush your bangs to cover up your golden colored eye and.... done! See, this one looks so beautiful."
I looked at myself in the mirror.... The braids being tied to the back of my head exposes my ears while leaving the the rest of the hair untouched, giving a sense of elegance and care compared to a normal let down hair.
"Oh...."
"Hehehe, you don't have to hide it, I know you love this hairstyle."
"No I don't!... not as much as my pigtails anyway...."
Sometimes, even I wonder if I'm an actual tsundere.
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In the end, after Gerdur taught me how to do that hair. It was a lot of trouble to tie my hair into braids but I do want to look good so it's fine....
I bought two sets of uniform with the slightly shorter skirt and also a new sundress to replace my clothes that was damaged by the slime. Gerdur's mom was kind enough to give me a big discount because she knee me, it was great.
I also went and bought some stationaries. Afterwards, I went home that day feeling completely exhausted.
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(Next morning....)
➡Find a doctor for the hallucinations
(A random clinic)
'Cha chank.' I opened the door to the clinic and walked inside to see a man inside dressed in a black coat.
"Welcome in, what's your name?"
"Hi, I'm Kyrielle Buffet, and I need a diagnosis."
"I see. I am doctor Olivier, come over here and take a seat there." I walked over to in front of his desk and sat down in front of him.
"So, do you think you are sick?"
"Yes... Recently I've been having these weird hallucinations all of a sudden...."
"Hallucinations?"
"Yes. I'd see or hear things that doesn't exist, and occasionally I may even get extremely dizzy and faint."
"Faint? Can you describe in detail how does this happen?"
"Yes... First I'll start to feel dizzy all of a sudden and starts to feel light headed. Although I don't always faint, sometimes the nausea will get progressively worse until I just lose consciousness for a few seconds. This has happened about three times now...."
There was once during the house's renovation time where I fainted and collapsed down the stairs. Luckily, I didn't get injured even though mom was dead worried.
"I see, this sounds extremely serious.... As for those hallucinations, what do you see?"
"Many times I'd hear the sound of a woman talking to me. She'd call my name or say 'let me out'. Other times I'd see demons in the mirror when I wake up and then it just disappears when I look at it again, or I'd see random ghost-like figures around me."
"Are there any reasons that might have caused this?"
"No idea..."
"The attack on the city two years ago.... the Klada Disaster. Are you here when it happened?"
"...Yes."
"I see. Let me check your eyes." He said as he leaned in closer to me and stared at me.
".....Is something the matter?"
"Have you recently hit your head or something? Or were you born with two different eye colors?"
"It just suddenly changed like this...." Should I tell him about my dragonkin body?
"I see.... Probably nothing to worry about. You said you were having hallucinations, and it is hindering with your daily life right?"
"Yes."
"In that case, you can take small dosages of Pacifying Agents every morning in order to stop the hallucinations."
"Pacifying agents?... The ones that people use to stop terror and hallucinations when fighting apparitions and ghosts?"
"Yes. In smaller dosages, pacifying agents will not affect your ability to feel terror or think logically, but it will calm your mind down. These hallucinations you are having is because of your mind going restless, and creating images or sounds that doesn't exist as a result."
"My mind is going restless?...."
"Indeed. Trauma is one of the major causes of hallucinations, and also nausea.... I have a lot of patients like you who went through the Klada Disaster and has started to hallucinate because of it."
"In that case, can I be cured?"
"Yes. Since the cause of your hallucinations is trauma, once you've confronted your past about the trauma and deal it, the hallucinations should be gone along with it."
"Is that so.... If that's the case then I feel a bit more relieved since I was worried that it might be something more serious."
"There's no need to worry about it for now. I'll issue some medicines for you, and if you take a bit of the powder every day then you wouldn't have any hallucinations again. Just come see me when there are any other symptoms."
It was a breath of fresh air.... I was worried that it may be something serious about my body but I am relieved to learn that it is actually something common that happen with everyone.
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Following the doctor's advice, I started to take small amounts of Pacifying Agents every morning. The hallucinations never happened again.
The to do list that I created is now completed. There's no more things to do now, and with my new found peace I spent the rest of my time resting and doing things I like.
Well, there aren't a lot of things I like but one of it is creating new powers or techniques....
Specifically, I recalled the memories of fights that I've been in.... The reason I am doing this is simple, I want to try to learn something from each fight that I've took part in.
From each situations, I developed a technique using Blaze Edge in order to counter it.... Before I knew it, I and already developed over four techniques already.
But all of these techniques didn't use the Blaze Edge like a normal sword... but more like normal magic techniques instead. However, it is also through this logic that I realized something.
Blaze Edge is not a sword. It's extremely light, and can be molded into many different shapes. This is when it came to me, I can actually make the Blaze Edge larger whenever I wield it and it'll become a greatsword that's as fast as a dagger.
This is also why I went to a bookstore in order to buy manuals on how to use a greatsword, but those didn't came up well.... Without someone to show me how to perform these techniques, it was very difficult to learn.
Like this, almost an entire week has passed by. Soon, it was time for school already, but I haven't got to fully develop this new combat style of mine that wields the Blaze Edge.
I'll just continue developing it during the free time from school I guess?
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(14 years and 2 months after Reincarnation)
(Zoward's Academy, Teacher's Office.)
(8:25 a.m.)
The morning assembly had just ended, and I went over to the teacher's office immediately afterwards.
"Sir Elton, I'm here." I said as I stood next to the desk of my homeroom's teacher inside the teacher's office.
"Oh, you must be Kyrielle Buffet, the transfer student. I've heard that you were a victim of the Klada Disaster, so it was nice to see that you haven't given up on your studies."
"Yes.... I used a lot of my time here, so I should at least finish what I started."
"Ahaha, is that so? Well then, the homeroom is about to start so come with me."
Following teacher Elton, I walked behind him as we head for my class.... Class 6-A.
'Goo...' Elton opened the sliding door into the classroom, and walked into it. I waited patiently in front of the door....
Muffled voices could be heard through the classroom's door. "Good morning sir." (?x)
"Good morning everyone. Today you will have a new friend join you in your class. She's a transfer student and she's also your senior, remember to treat her well. Welcome to Class 6-A, Kyrielle Buffet."
Ah, I'm kind of nervous... Will they treat me well? Can I fit in? I'm not sure but I have no choice other than to enter the class now.
I opened the sliding door, and headed into the class. Standing right in front of the class, I greeted everyone.
"Hello everyone, I'm Kyrielle Buffet, a transfer student. It is nice to meet you all."
I could hear the entire class gossiping around.... "Isn't she the former president?...."
"Yeah. She's that insanely strong girl who can fight 2 vs 1 in a duel...."
"Ahem, no gossips please. Kyrielle, your seat is right over there, you may head over and take a sit."
"Thank you sir."
"If there's anything you need help with, don't be afraid to ask your friends for help. Now I'm going to start the classes. Take out your Elemental Magic Textbook, and Kenway, share your book with Kyrielle."
"Okay~"
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(2 hours later...)
"-from the fact that people loses all signs of mana immediately upon dying, we can conclude that mana is tied to the soul itself, not the physical body."
When a person dies, their Mana Aura will immediately dissipates.... and once they do, it is impossible to bring them back again because it is a sign that their soul have left their body.
No matter how strong of a healing miracle you use, or what potions to feed to a corpse... it is impossible to bring them back to life once their soul have left the body. I learned this from mom, who has had experience with healing people that died right before her eyes.
"Each and every soul has different capacity for storing mana, and it is also by this very reason that twins will share different amount of Reserve Mana.... their very soul itself is different, and so their affinity for magic is also different. This concludes this chapter of magic theory, are there any other questions?"
Mana gravitate towards the soul.... This is something I knew of ever since I started learning magic as a child.
But what always boggles me about magic is how mysterious it is even after centuries of research and development.... A question still remains unanswered to this day, not even Lynn herself was able to answer this;
"I have a question, teacher. Where does mana come from then?" Said a student to the teacher.
"That wasn't funny, Miguel."
"I wasn't joking...."
"Sigh.... It's been asked countless times and many people have tried to find the answer to it, but in the end it is all pointless. No one knows where Mana comes from, it's one of the greatest mysteries of our world."
'Pim pom pam pom....' The familiar tune of the school's bell announced the start of the morning break.
"Class stand, thank you sir!" (?x)
"Mmm. If none of you have anymore questions, you may all go for your recess now." Said the teacher as he heads out of the classroom....
I packed up my things and was just about to leave to the cafeteria when someone tapped me on the shoulder.... It was a girl two years younger than me, my classmate. "Hey, Kyrielle!"
"Hmm?"
"How's it going for you, President? I'm a fourth year when you ran for the student council presidency, and I voted for you!"
"Oh, hahaha... It was a long time ago now."
Another girl walked up on me and talked to me as well. "Hehe, the entire class know you because we are all in the school already before the disaster happened!"
"Yeah, we knew how you were also an incredible fighter! You were the best Security Ensurer in the school for the longest time!"
"Really? I wouldn't say I was the best but I did tried my best to do my job..."
"Hey it's no fair that you girls got her all for yourself! We were just going to invite her to go eat with us!"
"Boys can stay out of this, you all just wanted to ask her out don't you?"
"How about this, Kyrielle? We are interested in catching up with you.... You must have a lot of stories to share right? How about we have lunch together?"
"Oh? It'd be lonely to eat by myself so I'll take you up on that offer then."
"Yay!" (?x)
Before I knew it, I was swarmed by 4 girls already and here I was worried that I wouldn't be able to fit in....
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(Cafeteria)
We were waiting in line to buy food.
"Hmm.... What should I buy for breakfast..."
"Why don't you try out the school's egg sandwiches? It tastes surprisingly good."
"Is that so? Then I'll grab one-"
"Kyrielle Buffet, former Student Council President." From besides me, a girl talked to me in a stern tone. She is dressed in a black blazer, with a red strap over her sleeve... A Student Council member.
"Yes?...."
"I have something important to discuss with you. Meet me at the training ground 15 minutes from now."
The girl talked to me in a commanding tone, and the people around the entire cafeteria is now drawn to me.... She's making trouble.
"....Who are you? Why are you talking to me so rudely?"
"I am the Head Security Ensurer of the Student Council, Diana Esbon. I apologize if I am a bit rude but this isn't a request, it's a mandatory order from the student council, you have no choice but to obey. Come to the training ground later."
"....Fine, Diana. I'll find you at the training grounds, but I'll have to eat first."
"Just don't be late, I'll be waiting." Said the girl as she confidently walked out of the cafeteria.
The entire cafeteria could be heard gossiping about me. "Diana is talking to the transfer student!" "Is she a delinquent?" "She's gonna have a bad time then..."
"Sigh.... What a great start to my school....."
"Don't be anxious Kyrielle, I'm sure she only wants to talk with you."
"I certainly hope so, because I can only smell trouble from this...."
It better not be troublesome, it's just my first day at school afterall and I don't want any problems to deal with on the very first day!
(Chapter end)