The Power Enthusiast

MINERVO 02: The Coming of a Girl

So you see, Master, actually, you have been chosen by the Sovereign to be a Mentor to the ten fireflies."

"Me-Being an M-Mentor!? For a firefly!? What do you mean!?" Paul was surprised to hear that.

"Let me be clear again, sir, so in essence, you have been chosen to be a guide or advisor to the ten fireflies, and also, as well, they're not just little animals flying around, sir. They're like humans, they're resourceful and they're feeling, they can even talk."

Paul and his mother were completely stunned to hear the explanation from Roswel. They thought, what the pale man said was very unreasonable. Though the times have been very advanced, but why are such things still there? It was like hearing fantasy stories, which, of course, could not exist in the real world.

"Paul!" The woman called out her son's name, with a restless facial expression. When Paul turned to his mother, the woman immediately said, "Don't listen to that man! Looks like he's one of the patients from the asylum! We need to call his doctor! Comeing! Paul's! But before that! Let him here alone, we should go get help to the neighbors!"

When the mother forcefully pulled Paul's right arm out of Roswel's presence, the boy took his hands off his mother violently. "No Ma'am! I felt, it made sense, because before I opened the door, I heard some voices like people chatting in my room, maybe they were, the fireflies who are-"

"HOOPS!" Not liking her son to believe the pale man's nonsense, the mother yelled at Paul in a very high tone. "STOP SAYING CRAZY THINGS! YOU BETTER COME WITH ME SOON TO GET AWAY FROM THIS STRANGE MAN! WE NEED TO ASK THE NEIGHBORS FOR HELP! TO DRIVE THIS GUY AWAY!"

Trying to ignore the tantrums of his mother who was at the side, Paul immediately looked at Roswel with a fretful look. "Roswell! Help u! Can you keep my mom quiet for a while!?"

Smiling wryly, Roswel nodded his head, "Well, sir." Then, he stomped his feet once to the floor, and surprisingly, Paul's mother's entire body was frozen by a very cold piece of ice cube, which appears to propagate from the soles of the feet to the ends of the head.

Making the figure of the woman so like a statue in a position of upset face, gaping mouth, eyes bulging, two hands that want to grip Paul's back, and both legs that stand firm. Seeing this, Paul was amazed. He was inexhaustible, just by watching Roswel stomp his feet alone, could make someone freeze.

Absolutely stunning.

"Wow! Lu-Excellent! I didn't think you could do this, Roswel!" Paul's eyes were still wide, stunned to see his mother frozen so. He also occasionally stuck his fingers to the ice covering his mother's body, and it turned out to be very cold, like real ice.

"Thank you for the compliment, sir, I'm so happy that it's just a low-level magic from a low-level servant, but seeing that you're amazed, I'm happy, although there is nothing special about it at all," said Roswel with a bow of respect to Paul, then he again said something, "Actually, I want to freeze your Mother from the beginning, because I thought, his presence was quite disturbing, but unfortunately, I did not have the authority to do so. Thank goodness, you finally ordered me to do it, I'm so relieved, sir."

"But my mom can come back as usual, right? Roswel!?" paul asked with a slightly anxious feeling, because however, he still worried about the condition of his biological mother, because he did not want to make his biological mother suffer.

Hearing the question, Roswel nodded his head again, "You don't have to worry about that, Mister."

"alright. Then, we continue to discuss the matter earlier!" Now, Paul is starting to look excited than ever, maybe because finally he can be free to say the things he wants without being disturbed by his mother. "You said earlier, that I was chosen to be a mentor or guide for the fireflies, right? And you also said that they could talk, have human sense and feelings, right? Look, actually, what's the benefit to me being a Mentor?"

"Ah, sorry, sir, I seem to have forgotten to explain something quite important, alright, this will also answer your question," Roswel took a deep breath, then began to explain, "To become a mentor, you are required to guide the ten fireflies so that they can find their human bodies, so, in fact, they are not animals, they are spirits created by the Sovereign, and they do not yet have a container, so you must look for the right ten humans to serve as their resting place.

And you ask, what are the benefits of being a mentor, huh? The benefits are quite numerous, sir. In addition to You will be rewarded by the Sovereign if able to carry out the task well, You will also get other privileges, which can change Your life. But, even so, you must also accept all the risks, Sir. Because the task you are doing is quite heavy, considering the myriad of spirit killers that roam this city."

"Pe-Spirit Killer!?" Paul was surprised to hear that.

"Yes, they are also the chosen ones assigned from their Ruler, to kill the spirits that our Sovereign created, which is why, you must be careful of their existence, you must be careful of their existence, because they are so many, and most of them come from ordinary humans, like you."

"It's terrible, too, yeah. I must be on standby to protect these fireflies from the spirit killers. But, may I ask you again?" It seems Paul still has something that is not yet understood.

"I was assigned to look for the human body, right? To be the place where the fireflies live, right? Well, what I'm asking you, that human body you're referring to, is it dead or alive?"

"The body of man is fresh, sir."

"Se-fresh!? You mean the human body that is still alive!? But, how is it going!? Isn't it in the living body, inside it there is still the spirit, right!? Do I have to take out the human spirit first, before putting the firefly spirit into his body? But the effect is, I became like a spirit killer as well, right!?

"No, Mister. You do not need to bring out the original spirit from the human body you choose. All you have to do, make one of the firefly spirits to enter the person's body. Let the original spirit and the artificial spirit fuse within his body. When they are united, a new personality will emerge from the person. And from there, you have to guide him to become a hero."

"That sounds pretty heavy." Paul smiled wryly at the explanation from Roswel, he felt his duty was too heavy to be shouldered by a seventeen-year-old boy.

"Ah, what a pity, it seems that I was called by the Sovereign to return, then, before I leave, I would like to leave a message, you do not need to rush in carrying out the task, you do not need to hurry, because there is no time limit. And you can put those fireflies in a jar, so they don't attack your Mom or anyone else, and so, too, I'll make your Mom forget everything that's ever happened here, so don't worry. Oh, if you want to ask me something more, you can call my name three times, Mister."

Then, Roswel's form surprisingly exploded and disappeared; the sound of the explosion was quite loud, like the eruption of a plastic balloon, and left a puff of black smoke around the place he had just stepped on.

The frozen ice that had previously locked his mother's body, slowly began to melt, making the floor so muddy, until finally, the woman was free as before.

Paul smiled a dry smile at his mother who had returned. "Hello, Mom."

"Eh!? Why is the floor here so muddy, Paul!? And what is it? Don't you usually smile at Mom!? What's really wrong with you!?"

Lazy to explain everything from the beginning, Paul ran away, ignored his mother who was still babbling and brought ten fireflies, to come into his room. And don't forget, he locked the door to his room from the inside. So that his mother does not just enter his room.

"Basin' bad boy! Not to answer, but to run! What do you think your mother is!?"

Paul was still hearing his mother's nagging voice outside the room, but slowly, his voice began to drift away and disappear, replaced by silence.

Paul was sitting on a wooden chair, looking at the firefly that was flying on the ceiling of his room.

He also took a deep breath. "First, I was involved in a trivial matter. Second, I was expelled from school. Third, I was scolded by my mother. Fourth, I was miraculously chosen by the ruler - who I did not even know who the ruler was - to be a mentor, "Later, Paul laughed to himself remembering that. "What dream did I have last night, to experience strange events like this."

Geck! Geck! Geck!

Suddenly a knock came from the front door of his house, making Paul who was daydreaming, immediately aghast to hear it.

"Excuse meiiii! Is there anyone? Anu, I'm Paul's classmate, Olivia, come here with Paul's cradle bag left behind in class!"

"Damn! Why did that girl come!" Paul looks unhappy when he finds out that a girl named Olivia is coming to his house.