[Ovia POV]
“I-I s-shouldn’t be watching this!”
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But… I want-
“No!” I shouted at myself.
On the panel floating just in front of was Kierra, sitting on the floor, hunched over a hair clip, surrounded by various pencils and paints.
She even spoke about the gift in her sleep…
“S-she’s working so hard… I-I shouldn’t ruin the surprise.”
I waved my hand to get rid of the screen in an attempt to get rid of any temptation, but it didn’t do much. Almost all I had done for the last few years was watch Kierra, so it was hard to tear myself away without a good reason.
“M-maybe I can distract myself… I-I could…”
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What can I do?
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Is there even anything to do?
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I made my way out of the side room and into the throne room, hoping that an idea would just co to . Or maybe a Spirit would finally have an issue for to solve. That’s what most Gods do… I think.
But I’ve never had to do that. Nobody really uses Dark Magic even if they can because they’re all scared of it, so the Spirits can just take care of it all themselves. Dreams just work by themselves, which I assu is also thanks to the Spirits.
Why am I even a Goddess?…
The spirits just do everything by themselves…
Even my other…
I froze up. I didn’t want to think about that, it was too embarrassing.
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What else can I do?
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I guess I could go to Ellaria… I do need so help planning… sothing…
But… I can’t keep bothering her like that…
“I-I’ll just… visit… s-soone else…”
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“I… don’t… know anyone else…”
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Maybe I should just go back to watching Kierra…
I can just… pretend I didn’t see it when she gives it to …
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Probably…
I turned around and started walking back to the side room, thinking about different ways to censor the panel so I wouldn’t ruin the surprise. But just before I could open the door, soone ca into my domain.
“Sister!” All of a sudden, Ellaria ca up behind and wrapped her arms around my neck, “Wait, why are you out here and not in the side room like usual?”
“Ell-”
“Not that I’m complaining,” Ellaria cut off, “Now, before anything else, look at this!”
She held up a vial containing grey mana in front of my face. Or at least, it looked to just be grey at a glance. But after looking at it a bit closer, rather than just being grey, it was closer to a swirling ss made from strings of both black and white mana.
“Is that?-”
“It’s sohow holding itself together even though it isn’t stable!” She interrupted again, “It’s almost like this is not the perfected version, like this is only the first step to sothing much greater.”
“Um-”
“I don’t even know what this could eventually turn into,” She interrupted a third ti.
I had almost forgotten how she gets when it cos to anything magic-related. After all, it had been a long ti since I had seen her this excited about sothing.
She continued going on about all these different theories about how the individual strings of mana weren’t repelling each other, or maybe they were repelling each other, just in a specific way. I didn’t really understand it, so I just kept quiet, hoping she would stop talking soon.
It took a while, but she eventually stopped rambling and just rested her head on my shoulder.
“A-are you finished?” I asked.
“No, there’s still-”
“N-NO!” I interrupted her this ti, really not wanting to let her start all over again, “… l-let’s just… g-go sit down.”
She didn’t say anything for a few seconds as she rocked her head back and forth on my shoulder.
“Fine.” She eventually responded.
Despite what she said, she didn’t take her head off my shoulder and just kept it there as we walked over to the two couches that were added for Kierra’s last visit, where she finally separated from and sat down.
“Now then, back to the topic at hand,” She opened up the vial she had brought with her, just letting the mana hang freely in the air in front of us.
“I-Is that?-”
“It’s so of the mana from that little kitsune that you collected before,” She explained, “The thing is, the more I look into it, the stranger it seems to be. Like, look at this.”
She released so of her own mana towards the grey blob. However, as soon as the Light Mana got close, it was repelled.
“I-isn’t that n-normal for Light Mana and D-Dark Mana?”
“No, no, keep watching.”
I looked back at the mana, but it didn’t seem any different. The Light Mana was just being repelled by Kierra’s.
“I-I don’t understand.”
“It’s not just repelling the mana,” Her eyes lit up, “Look closely, the Light Mana is being held at a set distance from the little kitsune’s Mana, it’s almost like the Light Mana is forcefully being pulled into an orbit.”
If you say so…
You were always the expert when it ca to this kind of thing…
“Now, you do it too!” She pointed at , with her eyes wide as they could be.
“O-okay Ellaria…”
I released so of my own Mana, letting it float towards the grey blob. Almost imdiately, it got sucked inside, although it hadn’t disappeared or been absorbed, at least not in the usual sense. It almost felt like it had beco entangled in the weave, being forcefully manipulated just like my sister’s Mana.
As I unsuccessfully tried to take my Mana back out of it, Ellaria took out a notebook and started frantically writing notes in it.
“If it’s able to… that must… move shadows… but… constant… in theory… almost unfair… limits….” She started mumbling.
There wasn’t any room for to say anything, so I just sat there in silence as she continued taking notes.
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I still need to plan…
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How many days are left?…
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“Sister?”
At that mont, I snapped back to reality with Ellaria only centitres away from my face.
“Are you back now?” She asked as she leaned forward just a little.
“Y-yes…”
She then just suddenly burst out laughing before going and sitting back down opposite .
“W-what’s so funny?” I asked as I felt my face start to heat up.
“It’s nothing. It’s just been a while since I’ve seen you zone out during one of my ‘lectures’, as you liked to call them,” She leaned back, “The last ti… must have been just after I ascended. When we were playing around with divinity for the first ti.”
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Has it… really been that long…
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Ellaria was always the smarter one out of the two of us, always trying to understand all the different types of magic even if she couldn’t use most of them herself. I don’t know where all that motivation cos from, though, because I just never had to study like her. For so reason, whenever I tried to use magic, it just worked as if my body already knew exactly how it all worked.
“H-how co you didn’t beco a G-Goddess of Magic?” I asked impulsively.
I had never given it much thought before, but given how much she knows and how much she has continued to research even after ascending, it would only make sense.
“I would have loved to be the Goddess of Magic…” She looked a little annoyed, “Unfortunately, so old elf beat to it by a few thousand years.”
“I-I’m sorry,” I responded reflexively.
“Co on now, don’t be sorry for sothing like that,” She started laughing, “It’s not like it was your fault.”
That’s… not why I said sorry…
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“Why don’t we do this more often?” Ellaria asked, “We used to do it all the ti back in the village.”
I was suddenly hit by a wave of mories. I hadn’t thought about the village in many years yet, I could still recall everything like it was only a week ago.
“… I-I don’t know,” I mumbled under my breath, “Y-you always c-ca to .”
“Don’t be like that. I know you enjoyed my company,” She chuckled.
“…”
I couldn’t co up with anything to say in response.
“It might be a good idea to send the little kitsune to that village eventually. It would be nice for her to et so other kitsune after all… it might even be a little easier for her to talk to them… She spoke to us pretty quickly after all,” She paused for a mont, “By the way, how is she doing? I haven’t had the chance to check on her since she left.”
“S-she told them her n-na.”
“Really?!” She sounded genuinely surprised, “I thought it would at least take her a month to work up enough courage.”
Even though I didn’t really do anything to help Kierra, I still felt proud that she was able to do it.
“So, does that an she’s talking now?”
“A-a little,” I responded.
“That’s great. But you need to make sure you congratulate her properly when she cos back, we don’t want her to go back to being silent now.”
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That’s what I want to do…
But…
“I-I need help,” I blurted out.
She ca over and sat down next to , “I already told you that you can always ask for help. You don’t need to be so nervous,” She pulled into a hug, “Now tell , what have you decided on so far?”
“…”
“Um… sister?”
“…”
“…Nothing yet?”
“Mmm…”
“…”
Is it really that bad?
I’ve never done this before.
How am I supposed to know what to do?
“Well… What do you want to do for her?” She brushed my hair out of my face, “She liked the gift you gave her last ti, so I’m sure she’d like anything that you co up with.”
“B-But… I want to do it… p-properly”
“And what does properly an?”
“… Doing it r-right?” I answered.
What else could it an?
“I don’t think so.”
“T-then what?”
“I think doing it properly just ans that you’re doing the best you can.”
“B-but-”
“No buts,” Ellaria interrupted, “You asked for help, so now you are going to let help you. That’s how this works. ”
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How does she do it?
Where does all her confidence co from?
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“O-okay,” I responded.
“Good. Now let’s get to work, we’ve got a celebration to plan out.”
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