”How can you be walking already?” Vita asked the recovered warrior. She had gathered the poison Aren left behind for antidote purposes but it was meaningless now. Shamal would be interested in it though.
”Aren did something and I'm cured now according to Shamal.” Fate stopped in the hall. ”I'm a bit worried about him. He fell after his spell.”
”So he had Jube also.” Signum showed her Selshin knowledge again. ”He's breaking a record in blessing soon.”
”What are you talking about?”
”Selshins train most of their linker cores to drain power of different gods. They can't use barriers, telepathy or fly because of this.” Vita explained at Fate. ”I counted 6 during the fight: Renhys, Yune, Ortos, Tenron, Haljon and Sanyu. Adding Jube, that makes total of 7 blessings. Truly a master class enchanter.”
”How can you remember this after all this time?”
Signum close her eyes to recall the days in Selshin. ”Those were good times so when it was bad we relieved ourselves by memorizing those days. But when we met Hayate, we promised to forget our past and live as humans. Aren brought these memories back up.”
”We had studied everything there was about Selshin but most of it was boring, so I only remember the only interesting part, their magic system.” Vita continued.
”I remember little more but not much. Mostly the magic system as it indeed was the most interesting part.”
”I see... Make sure you mention this in the planning.” Fate ordered leaving for her room.
”Signum, I'm taking this to Shamal. See you later.” Vita left the pink haired warrior in her thoughts.
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”You want to be a knight?” Signum looked at the young girl beaming in admiration. ”Yes it can be taught.”
”Yaaay...!” The girl jumped in excitement. ”You look so cool. I want to be just like you.”
”I never said I would teach you.”
”Eeeh...? Whyyy~?” Miachell complained in her usual full body cape.
”A knight is a honorable warrior. Not a victory hungry gladiator.” Signum swiched her vision forward. ”You are not suited for it.”
”Boo~ You know I don't do it on purpose.” The girl pouted. ”It's the law of nature.”
Signum turned at teared Miachell. ”You are human.”
”Yes, yes I am. But...” She sniveled. ”Please. I will work hard to overcome my magic and become a honorable knight. So please teach me, Signum-senpai!”
Signum thought in silence for a while, teasing the bowing girl. ”I do have some free time.”
”Yaaay~ Thank you.” Miachell shone in excitement and jump-hugged Signum.
”No clinging.” Signum threw Miachell on the ground. ”Being my apprentice will be hard. Are you prepeared?” She warned.
”Yes, master.” She confirmed her determination with a kneel.
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”Fate-chan!” Nanoha yelled from the hiss of the door.
”I'm home.” She managed to say before she got tackled down. ”Na-nanoha?”
”Don't go worrying me like that!” She sobbed.
Both of them worried each other on their own way. Fate fell into a trance like state where she gave everything a blank stare, whereas Nanoha cried and plotted for revenge. If Aren wouldn't have fixed her, he would have propably be beaten in his sleep by Nanoha. She was merciless when it came to Fate. Maybe that's why he risked his life in curing her...
”I'm sorry.” She pet Nanoha's hair. ”He got me.”
”NO!” Nanoha felt a slight shock in Fate's body. ”I got Fate-chan right here.” She snuggled little more against Fate's belly.
”A-ah... S-so it seems.” She blushed because of the wiggling brunette. ”We got two days off. Want to do something?”
Nanoha turned her face towards Fate. ”I did too?”
”Thank Shamal later. So is there anything you want?” She smiled.
”Food, movie, long shower and a new car.”
”I can give you more then half.” Fate rose from the floor and kissed Nanoha in the forehead.
”Where do you think you're going?” Nanoha grabbed Fate's skirt. ”Shower is that way.” She pointed at the pavelled pink room.
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”...too hard to penetrate by a simple blow.” The brunette woman scribled something down and unpaused the video again.
”Shari. Can I see the details what Aren's device recorded?” Shamal walked in the room.
”Ah, good timing.” Shari glanced at the woman and waved the screen away. ”Look at this Shamal-sensei. Just look at this!” She brought up another screen, that showed vitals. ”That linker core is tiny. And I mean tiiinyyy~”
”Let me see.” Shamal placed her hand on the table and leaned closer to the monitor.
”It's barely enough to feed his device. Ahahaha~ I wonder how strong he would be with a bigger one?” Shari plotted something devious.
”Ah.” Shamal pointed at the screen. ”See? There.”
Shari took a good look and after wiping her glasses she finally came to the conclusion that there was nothing to see. ”No, I don't.”
”Exactly. You're measuring the wrong thing.”
Shamal was circulating the outpost telling people bit by bit about Selshin magics using Aren's condition as an excuse. She was the unofficial socialiser of RF6, making interested people yet unfamiliar with eachother to mingle.
”What should I be measuring?” Shari asked the doctor for doubting her.
”Something that can't be measured.” She answered, leaving the room, satisfied with her result. Shari would now investigate again and tell people about this. A perfect plan.
”Huh?” Shari pondered at the challenge. ”Something unmeasureable...? Hmmm...”
Unable to realize what Shamal meant she investigated closely every bit of information Milenija had gathered from Aren.
”A void?!” She found the strange thing hidden under the radiating linker core. ”How can anybody have empty space in his body?” Shari's interest rose to skies and slowly she began laughing maniacly. ”-AHAHAHA... Thank you for this Aren!” Quickly she locked the door and started to investigate the phenomenon.
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”How's the kid?” Yuuno asked walking to the ward.
”Kid? Even biologically he's older then you.” Shamal teased.
The man sighed and glanced at the sleeping man before asking again in a more formal way.
”He'll live.” Shamal nodded.
”Anything else?”
”I found this from his pocket. I think you'll be interested in it.” Shamal lied about her forgery.
”Hmm... This is fake, right?” Yuuno said quickly after reading the note.
”Can't fool you, can I?” She gave a big smile at Yuuno. ”But everything in it is real.”
Yuuno's eyes widened and his mouth curved into curious grin. ”Interesting. Tell the kid I said hi.” Yuuno said quickly and ran out of the room.
”Hehee... Another one down.” Shamal crossed Yuuno's name from her list.
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”Aow...” He moaned after hitting his head in the orange glass. After a while of searching he found a way to open the capsule without breaking it. The room was pitch black and he kicked his leg multiple times at different objects trying to get to the door. Proplem was that he didn't know where it was.
Long time went before he got to the door where he found a pitch black corridor.
”RAAAAH! Screw this.” He concentrated himself and tried to light his hands in fire but was unable to. ”Bleh... Thanks a lot Tenron.” Aren cursed, walking the empty hallway to his room.
”Ok. This is the main hall, so my room is that way.” He spoke by himself and walked towards the stairs, now aware where he was.
Following the walls, he made his way to the forward quaters in the second floor and entered the room he was staying in.
”Aaah... My bed.” Aren undressed and jumped on his bed.
”Eeeek!” Something screamed from the bed.
”Yuuno-san? What are you doing in my bed?” Aren blinked, sitting on the surprised man.
”I thought you'd be in the tube for another day so I chose this.”
”That's not what I meant. What are you doing in my room?” He rephased his question.
”Erio got tired to my laughter, so I moved here for the future nights.” Yuuno said. ”Also, could you get off me?”
”Ah... Yes. Sorry.” Aren got off the man and began climbing up the ladders. ”You scream like a girl.”
”Silence, you!”