Monogatari No Ato's

Ch.8

Ch.8

In the backyard of the house, tara started the exercise with a warm-up run of five rounds. Erik and Leonhard compete for the fastest time to complete those five rounds. Tara, father, and Luci who watched them were astonished, were they not tired of continuing to compete like that?

“ let's start “, said leonhard preparing to compete with erik

“ yes..”, answer erik and tara simultaneously

The warming has begun. The first round is a relaxing run. Tara ran along with erik and leonhard in front of her, initially they ran relaxed, but over time leonhard and erik accelerated their footwork.

Tara who was behind was confused to see them. Tara tried to equalize her running speed with them so as not to fall behind. The first round has been completed now in the second round, leonhard and erik increasingly accelerate the run, the competition between them increasingly becomes so. Tara who tried to follow was overwhelmed and began to feel tired.

Leonhard and Erik are serious about their rivalry and forget about the tara that is behind them. They were getting faster and faster and finally tara left behind them because they were too fast.

( uh? Why are they getting faster?! ) inner tara while running

Leonhard and Eric kept running. The longer they were the more ambitious they were to win, the more they ended up using their magic to increase the speed of movement until unknowingly they had gone through the third round towards the fourth. Tara who saw them realized that, so did father and luci who watched under the tree where the beginning of warming.

(buset!, that's a leg or a rocket, they're fast! ), the inner tara astonished at their running speed

Leonhard and Erik seem to enjoy it all and forget the purpose of this warm-up is a form of exercise for tara. The longer tara the slower it is. He looked exhausted in the third round. He stopped at the place where my father and Luci were and sat there limp. Father and Luci who saw the exhausted tara immediately approached the tara. Tara's face was pale from exhaustion

 “ tara are you okay, son? “, said father worried

“ yes....aku.baik..”, replied tara trying to catch her breath

Dad looked towards leonhard and erik who were still continuing their rivalry, father stood up and..

“ LEONHARD, ERIK, STOP RIGHT NOW! “, dad screams loudly

Leonhard and Eric heard the father's screams and immediately stopped running.

“ DADDY WHAT TOLD US TO STOP? “, yell erik 

“ DON'T YOU GUYS SEE TARA'S CONDITION NOW?!, SHE'S TIRED! “, shouted dad

“WE FORGOT TARA! “, they just realized that they had been running with them. Leonhard and Erik ran to the tara with anxiety and regret.

“ tara, are you okay?, we are sorry “, said leonhard

“ tara forgive us, this is all because kak leon started it “

“ why me?! “

“ it is indeed “

“ you guys still fight at a time like this! “

Dad was upset and the atmosphere arrived silent. Tara who was at that time was adjusting her breathing back to normal slowly.

“ I'm fine, I am indeed weak in this “, said tara moody

“ ah, no, it's a great start to “

“ erik right “, says leonhard agrees

“ you have done your best tara, you are very great “, said the father by stroking the head of tara

Hearing all of that, tara came back cheerful. It didn't matter if his body was weak, but his soul was extremely strong as steel.

 “ are you sure?, are you okay? “, said father worried

“ yes. “, reply tara quickly

“ em.., maybe we will start from the light first “, said leonhard

“ brother is right, we start from element“ magic, said erik

“ no no, we start from weapons first “, between fathers

“ durability, it's the most important “

(again they argue ), inner tara

“ hey tara, how about starting from which control first?, it will be good if you can already control it “, said Luci

“ are you right too, father, brother, we start from-eh? “

Tara saw they were still busy arguing because of their differences of opinion. Tara doesn't know what to do with them, getting them hurt will be very difficult, interrupting them won't be heard. 

“ luci, how to sniff where? “

“ them? “

“ Nature. You must unite with nature first, collect energy around the sound, movement, wind, air temperature, and light. You should set your mind to things around “

“ I understand “

Not wanting to get involved with the debate between leonhard, erik, and father, tara walked closer to the tree and sat cross-legged underneath.

“ yosh we start “, tara take a deep breath, close her eyes slowly, and calm her mind. He tries to focus and blend in with nature. Increasingly, tara managed to manipulate the energy of the environment. He gathered all sorts of energies into one and created an aura. The aura was gathered around tara.

“ anyway magic element is more important-eh? This aura.Where did it come from? “, said erik aware of the presence of a strong aura around him.

“ very clean and soft aura, erik you know what aura this is? “, ask leonhard

“ I don't know, only the first time I felt an aura as clean as this “

“ said you're the greatest witch, in fact you don't know what “ is, taunted leonhard

“ DON'T BLAME ME! “

“ wait where tara? “, said dad turned right and left looking for tara. Leonhard and Eric also just realized tara is not there beside them. 

“ TARA! YOU'RE IN-..WHERE...? “, said erik who was initially loud then shrinked, it was because he saw tara was sitting cross-legged under a tree and erik realized that the aura he, leonhard, and father felt came from tara.

“ ...father..sister.”

“ hm? “

“ huh?, you found tara? “, says dad

“ ...iya..and it was there.”, erik pointed to tara with a gaze still transfixed by the aura gathered around the tara. Hearing that, Leonhard and father turned to the direction appointed by erik, they were immediately shocked and stunned to see tara just like erik.

“ Tara, you can feel the aura around you right? “, said luci to tara

“ Yes “

“ good, now feel which flow is in your body and point towards your heart “, said Luci again.

Tara followed what Luci said. Unexpectedly, tara managed to control it quickly.

(hoo.i don't think he managed to do it with one try, good good good ), inner luci happy to see tara succeed. Luci finally turned his head towards the three people who were silent rigidly looking at tara.

(hee, you must be surprised. How not, a five-year-old girl whose body was weak could control mana this fast?, I who was a saint beast alone was surprised to see it. This is the emores, not only has great power, but he is also able to control magic just by hearing, seeing, and feeling it. Right beyond my expectations), inner luci

Father, leonhard, and erik are still glued to look at tara. They couldn't take their eyes off him. Tara who had managed to control mana quickly ended it. He took a deep breath and began to open his eyes slowly. 

At first his vision was faint, over time began to be clearly seen. He saw father, leonhard, and erik looking at him very closely, he was surprised and reflexively turned his body around and moved back from them. However, because tara forgot she was under a tree, she hit the tree behind her.

DUK!

“ ouch!, sick.”, tara holds her banged forehead.

Dad, Leonhard, and Eric were shocked when the tara hit the tree

“ tara!, are you okay?, sorry we surprised you “, said father approaching tara

“ tara..you're fine-just-“

“ TARA!, ARE YOU OKAY?! “, erik interrupts leonhard and Leonhard is upset with it, but this time he let erik [for a while]

“...i-iya, I'm fine, hehe “, said tara with a forced smile.

Luci who saw that could only laugh.

(ugh, just look out for you luci ), the inner tara looked at the sharp luci sontak luci who realized it was silent stiff.

Hearing him all let out a long breath with a feeling of relief. Father and Leonhard seemed to want to ask something about what tara had done before, yet they hesitated to say it.

“ Tara, how can you control mana that fast? “, erik asked honestly

Dad and Leonhard were directly staring erik with the inner ‘why are you asking tara?’. Erik also seemed to be able to know their heart words immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

Tara who got a question from erik was silent for a moment before answering a question from him.

“.....think? “, said tara answered questions from erik innocently, at that time also the atmosphere immediately silent noiseless.

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