Chapter 392: An Unexpected Face
The mont Asty opened her eyes, a wave of chilling air washed over all of us montarily before it faded.
Sothing about her had changed. Physically that is, she doesn’t seem to have changed all that much ntally by the way she was looking at us.
Speaking of her gaze, one of the other imdiately noticeable changes was her pupils had beco an iridescent icy blue that glimred like a gemstone and shined like a full moon with a deep black slit as the iris the middle.
Even her hair seed to sparkle as if it were filled with gemstone dust. Though, her skin remained quite pale which was sowhat worrying.
Still, aside from that minor concern, she seed to be fine in all other regards.
She blinked a couple of tis and shook her head lightly as she adjusted to the changes within her.
"Woah! This is so cool!" She exclaid in a joyful manner, raising her hands up and throwing them up into the air.
Ah, I think the slight delay in her reaction was actually looking at her Soul Scroll and seeing what new abilities she got.
The joy on her face right now was probably the happiest I’d ever seen her, and probably the happiest she’ll ever be. Except maybe when she becos a mother, which I have no doubt will happen.
Either way, now that this was done, it was ti to get so sleep. I got into position and laid down on the bed, getting ready to fall asleep when Shirayaa suddenly spoke up.
"Wait, is that it? Is that the whole reason you brought us here? To do that?"
I raised my head to look at her as I proclaid, "No, I also brought us here to sleep."
"Wha- But- Huh?" She seed utterly confused an unable to wrap her head around the concept.
Ash and Asty snuggled up together as I addressed Shirayaa’s concerns, "Look, no offence, but I didn’t wanna sleep in the slums, and as I said earlier, booking in at a regular inn would’ve been too troubleso, so this was the next best thing. Now do you wanna keep complaining, or go to sleep?"
She muttered wordlessly for a few seconds before resigning herself to just sleep with us for tonight.
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When morning ca, I was the first to wake up, followed by Ash, then Shirayaa and finally Asty.
Once they were all up, I gave them all so money, around a thousand gold which should be more than enough for breakfast, and told them that I had sowhere to be right now.
"Where are you going?" Asty asked. She wanted
to stay and help her get a hold of her new power, but there was sothing I needed to check on first.
"I’m headed to the Institute. There’s sothing I need to do there." As I told them where I was going, I pulled out my black kimono that with the purple gold trim and put it on. Thankfully I did have one spare in my storage space, as I was quite worried I’d left them all in my room back at the orphanage.
"Wh-What is that? I’ve never seen that kind of uniform before." Shirayaa blurted out in suspicion.
"Oh, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. If I rember correctly, this is representative of soone who’s above a prodigy."
"WHAT?!" Her surprise isn’t all that surprising to
considering I rember Ash having a similarly exaggerated reaction.
"I don’t have ti to explain, I’ll be back in a couple of hours or so and hopefully I’ll have found a Chronomancer for you." I waved her concerns away as I turned to leave.
She didn’t interrupt
again as she seemingly didn’t want to upset
on the off chance I change my mind. I then left without anyone else stopping .
I made my way over to the academy, which was thankfully open today, and headed on in.
As I made my way through, I got several stares from everyone I passed by, wondering who I was since they had all forgotten about , but the kimono I was wearing looked official so they just didn’t say anything.
I soon found myself in front of the headmaster’s office, where her assistant was currently talking to Miss Amoranaa herself.
When I approached them, the assistant looked at
sceptically, wondering who I was because she’s probably never seen
before. At least in this tiline.
The headmaster herself on the other hand, simply smiled and ushered
into her office, which confused both
and her assistant.
I was sure that Miss Amoranaa would’ve forgotten . Then again, Cryztia didn’t, so I shouldn’t be too surprised by this.
I entered into Miss Amoranaa’a office, much to the dismay of her assistant, and took a seat on one of the chaise’s.
"You’re probably aware of the changes that’ve occurred by now, correct?" She asked with a knowing smile.
"The orphanage is missing." I stated bluntly.
Her face darkened, when she spoke, her voice was much deeper than what I rembered. "Correct. Which ans that soone has tempered with ti. Massively."
"I have so insight into why, as well as a couple of theories which I ca up with on my way here."
"Let’s hear them then."
"The first thing is actually why the orphanage existed in the first place. Because apparently, it was ant as a trap to hinder, or rather curse soone into not being able to use their full potential."
"That being?"
"Soone by the na of Shirayaa. She passed the entrance exam. Apparently, her soul has a temporal nature or sothing about it. Which is another reason that I ca here, was to hopefully get a Chronomancer to train her in her to use these powers."
"Truly? Such a person existed?" Miss Amoranaa raised both her head and her brows as her tone beca more cheerful.
I nodded and explained a little more about what I knew about Shirayaa and her situation to the headmaster, who listened intently.
When I finished, she got up and told
to follow her, leading
to a bookshelf behind her desk. I think I know what this is for.
She took out a ring from within her robes and put it on, presenting it to the bookshelf.
Nothing happened for a few seconds when suddenly the bookshelf split into two, revealing a magic gate of so kind. She then poured her mana into it and a link was ford between here and the Illuminati ho base.
We both passed though and I found myself in an identical looking office, minus the bookshelf that hid the portal. I’m guessing this is her office in the Illuminati headquarters.
She then led
through the door that led out into the pristine halls of the Illuminati building, through several long and winding tunnels, until we reached a place that felt sowhat familiar to .
We entered the room that was unlit, and I could see Miss Amoranaa squint her eyes, aning she couldn’t see in the dark like I could.
But that didn’t seem to stop her as she suddenly shouted, "Chronos, Avurum, Scepticia."
I had no clue what those words ant, but the mont she finished speaking them, the lights suddenly turned on and I could feel soone behind us.
I turned around, a bit nervous as to who it was and why they would appear behind us of all places. Miss Amoranaa was prompted to do the sa.
But upon realising who it was, we both relaxed.
"Welco, didn’t expect to see the two of you here together." It was Thalor, the head of the Illuminati and if I had to hazard a guess, probably the most adept and powerful Chronomancer in the world.
"I assu that you’re here about the recent temporal mishap that happened recently?" He asked, raising a brow beneath his cloaked robes. Not sure how I could tell that.
"Uh, yes. How did yo- Oh right." I forgot, he’s probably got sothing set up in case this kind of thing happens.
"Unfortunately, I have no clue what happened or what changed other than sothing did, so if you ca here looking for answers, then you’ve co to the wrong place I’m afraid." He said shaking his head.
"That’s actually why we’re here. We believe we know why this happened, as well as to ask for a favour." Miss Amoranaa suddenly spoke up.
"Oh? Then by all ans, explain."
The Institute’s branch headmaster wanted to explain, but because I was the one that was actually dealing with this, and it was
who wanted the favour, I thought it best if I explain everything.
And I decided to start from the failed exam I had in that spatial realm with Eric, all the way to thawing out my friends and finally to Shirayaa’s temporal soul thingy and the God I have to Asty.
Thalor was a little confused at first when I ntioned Eric, but soon rembered him. Apparently the two are good friend, and Eric is so kind of honorary mber of the Illuminati whilst not being one officially.
Which just ans that he doesn’t have to listen to them but gets to rely on them in sticky situations. Either way, the mont Thalor heard about Shirayaa’s situation he was imnsely intrigued.
"I think I’d like to et this ’Shirayaa’ of yours for myself."
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