The Ruler Of Night

Chap 7's. Strange girl and mysterious girl

"Stop!" Said Master Hisobu, giving a signal that the match training between me and Shira was finished.

Instantly the cheers of the disciples who were watching also stopped, they fell silent and confused.

Then Shira and I approached and opened each other's bodies as a sign of paying respect to the opponent.

Although not so long, but the fight was very memorable for me. Because it was my first fight with Shira.

The other students could not accept it. They felt that the match was too short to enjoy, and asked Hisobu Master to continue.

"aaa.. The teacher! Is the game over ?" asked one of the male students with a slight annoyance.

"Teacher Hisubo! We want to see it again!" continued the other male disciple who was so excited.

Then the atmosphere began to bustle again with a noise from the students who wanted to see the match once again.

While Kirei and his two friends were feeling uneasy with their noisy voices.

"Are you guys so noisy !" kirei was upset.

"Hey you! Calm down a little basic suck!" higatsu continued to the other students.

"Geez, it feels like I just want to go home." muttered Yoe who began to feel lazy to attend the academy that day.

Me and Shira were quite surprised and astonished by the students who did not want Master Hisobu to stop the match.

Because we felt that the match just now was nothing, but only a short fight just for example.

While Master Hisobu started to get a little confused with the noisy disciples.

"Everybody please calm down!" teacher Hisobu told all the students to be quiet.

"But Master Hisobu." said one of the male students.

Hearing that there was a student who denounced his orders, suddenly made Master Hisobu upset and just looked at the student with a creepy eye.

Seeing that horrible look, the male disciple was immediately frightened.

"E-eh.hehehe, yes well Guru." said the male student slightly stammered with a facial expression that instantly turned pale.

All the students who saw that also immediately fell silent and the atmosphere became calm, because they were afraid of being scolded by Master Hisobu.

"Thank you for behaving calmly" said Master Hisobu with a smile that still looked creepy.

"Well.." replied the disciples simultaneously with their stiff expressions.

"Enough until here we used to learn about sword techniques, and will be continued later after the break" said Master Hisobu told all students that they had entered the break.

Then we all rushed to go for a break. Me and Shira first put down the wooden sword we used.

"Wah Yuuta, your sword technique just now was great" Shira said praising me.

"Ahaha..no really, you are much better than me Shira. You can avoid all my attacks." I replied feeling that I was still far below Shira.

"That's not true Yuuta, you're the one who's so great at being able to make a royal prince desperate that you have to jump far behind to dodge your attacks." suddenly Oda was near us.

Hearing Oda who suddenly joined the conversation made me a little surprised and immediately looked at him who turned out to be with Rin.

"I was so amazed by the greatness of the two of you, especially you Yuuta" said Rin praising the two of us, with a face so close to me and a very beautiful smile.

Seeing the expression on Rin's face that was so happy and so close, it obviously made me very embarrassed and looked away to hide my face that was starting to redden.

With my attitude like that, it made Shira and Oda laugh. While Rin also chuckled along, she was a little confused with Shira and Oda laughing.

After that, the four of us left the room to rest. We went to the school cafeteria for lunch.

Meanwhile, at the royal palace, there was a lot of news from the royal servant about the disappearance of the King's Princess.

The king ordered all the servants and some soldiers to search for the Princess.

While we were eating together, a beautiful, blonde little girl came over to us.

"I finally found you, brother" said the girl excitedly.

Hearing those words suddenly made us look at him, and made the four of us surprised.

Especially I, Rin and also Oda because of the words of the girl who called brother.

"Sister ?" ask Oda.

"A-aah, all of these introductions are Aiko, she's my sister." Shira was surprised by the arrival of the girl and introduced her to us.

After finding out who the girl was, it obviously made the three of us even more surprised. Because a princess of the king came directly before us.

At once we stood up and bowed our bodies to the Princess.

"Sorry for our sassness Princess !" I said, Oda and Rin together.

He laughed with his smile and said. "Fw..Fhu..Fhu.. It's okay, you don't have to do that, brave knight." replied the girl, named Aiko, with her hands around her waist.

"That's right, you three sit back" said Shira who then told us to sit down.

"All right." answered us at the same time and sat back down.

"Aiko, how did you get here ? Shouldn't you stay in the palace ?" shira asked who was a little worried about her sister.

Again the girl let out a strange little laugh.

"Fw..Fhu..Fhu.. Brother, of course I came here to look for you and invite you to play with me." he explained.

"Aiko, this is not the time to play. After all this is an academy, a place for people to learn and practice." Shira replied trying to explain to her sister.

"Now you're not learning, right?, so you can play with me." said Aiko who was stubborn.

"It just can't be basic stubborn, it's a place of learning.so, go back to the palace right now" Shira told her sister to come back.

"No way!!! In that case, from today on I will attend the academy and study with big brother!" said Aiko who was a little upset.

"Geez this child." said Shira listlessly.

Suddenly the soldiers came with one of the royal servants into the canteen, and invited the Princess to return to the palace.

"Pardon us princes, we came here to pick up the Princess who had suddenly disappeared from the palace" the maid said.

With the arrival of the royal soldiers, made the other disciples distracted.

"What ? So you're here without permission from mom or dad ?" shira asked in surprise.

The girl, Aiko, just kept quiet with a laugh.

"U-uwehe."

Then comes a Woman with her teleportation magic, she is a Royal Witch.

Although the mana inside me is inactive, but I can feel the great and mysterious power of the Witch.

"I'm sorry prince, it's my fault for letting the Princess know the secret way out of the palace some time ago.

"I didn't know that the Princess' memory was very good even though it was still that small, and used that route to go out of the palace alone." explained the Witch with great respect.

"Ah, marlin. In that case, please take Aiko back to the palace along with the soldiers and servants." replied Shira who then asked her to bring her sister back to the palace.

"Eh, no! I don't want to go back! I want to be with my sister!" aiko said loudly.

"Alright Prince, sorry for the mess that's going on here" replied the Witch.

The Witch looked at the three of us and smiled, as if greeting us before she finally left with the Soldiers and servants and disappeared with her teleportation magic.

Everyone who was in the cafeteria back then was very surprised by the arrival of the Princess whom they were unaware of. And soldiers, servants, even a royal Witch came to pick him up.

Then we all continued our rest. Shortly after that the bell rang, and all the students resumed their studies.

We returned to the training arena earlier and continued the sword technique training. All of them practiced moving some sword techniques using wooden swords.

Time passed, and the day began to afternoon. The time has come for us to go home.

On the academy grounds, before I, Oda and Rin return to the village. We say goodbye first to Shira, and let some things go.

"Shira, I want to ask you one thing" I said.

"Well, what is it ?" shira smiled.

"The woman you called Marlin, who is she?" my many.

"Oh that. Her name is Marlin, she is a royal magi. He is the one who leads the entire magician in the kingdom" Shira replied casually.

"It looks like you're very serious about asking that, what's up Yuuta ?" ask Oda curiously.

"A-ah, it's okay I just want to know, haha" I replied a little surprised because Oda was aware of that.

The three of them looked at me with confused expressions and curiosity with my attitude like that.

"Oh yes, Rin, Oda, let's go home before the sky gets dark" I said, inviting the two of them to hurry home.

"Well right too, if I don't go home soon I won't be able to eat dinner later" said Oda who was a little rushed.

Hearing Oda's silly words made us laugh and diluted the atmosphere that had been a little serious.

"Well Shira, we go home first. Thank you for today" I said.

"Yes, thank you also for being my match trainer friend earlier" Shira replied happily.

"A-ahaha, it's nothing. After all we are friends, friends that should help each other" I said with pleasure too.

Then we separated, I, Rin and Oda returned to the village on foot.

After walking far enough we finally arrived at the village gate. I, Rin and Oda split up there because the direction of our house was different.

When I got home, I cleaned up and changed my clothes and got ready for dinner.

And at nightfall, as usual I was practicing swordplay with my father in the back room of the house, where we used to practice.

But before we started practicing, I asked my father about the magi named Marlin again.

"Dad, before I start training I want to ask you something first" I asked seriously.

"What is it, my son ?"

"So Princess Aiko came to the academy alone to meet prince Shira, then came the soldiers and a servant to pick him up, After that appeared a royal Witch with teleportation magic, and then came the, the name of the witch is Marlin.

"When he saw me, I somehow felt something strange, like a mysterious great power" I explained what happened at the academy.

"What do I want to ask, who exactly is the Witch ? Why can I feel its power when where in me is inactive ?" continue me.

I unconsciously let go of telling Dad about the situation I was in.

"What did you say ? Where is it in you that is inactive ?" I was shocked by what happened to me.

I just realized that was very surprised. Why am I so careless like this ?

"Pardon me father" I said guiltily.

With a feeling of tension, fear, and sadness mixed in, I felt that Dad would be very angry and disappointed in me.

I who was sitting together then bowed my head with a firm body and both hands were straight holding the knees.

While my father who was still a little shocked by my situation, tried to calm himself by sighing and momentarily closed his eyes while folding both hands.

"Frankly, I was very surprised by the bad news about you. But you don't have to apologize like it's my son, it's not your fault" Dad told me.

"All right, I'll answer your question. First, the Witch named Marlin is the leader of all the witches in this kingdom, or Magi. He was one of the great heroes at the time of the battle against the Devil Race and destroyed the Vampire kingdom several tens of years ago.

"His strength is indeed very large, until it can penetrate the dimensions of space and time. A great magician usually hides their aura of power. If you can feel it without any mana in you, there's only one possibility" Dad explained.

"What is that, father ?"