Chapter 199: So Major Questions
Kat was surprised when Shizuka sunk into the water without so much as a splash. Even straining her eyes, Kat could hardly see a ripple in the water. "That can't be normal" said Kat
Minor nodded, "Yeah, that ans she's a water mage"
"Wait, so you can just throw people into a body of water and if they don't splash they're a water mage" Kat said incredulously
Minor shook her head "Of course not. That water is supercharged with mana. If mana was a more physical thing, you could say that pool is almost half mana. That mixing with a water mage is what makes it stay calm"
Kat nodded, but started to frown as the seconds past and Shizuka didn't resurface. Kat's worries were quickly assuaged when Master Resho grabbed a huge log from underneath the final step and threw it into the water. He followed this up be breathing out another smoke hand and reaching into the water to put Shizuka up on it.
"What sort of a water mage are you" barked Master Resho
Shizuka just pouted.
"Now don't look at like that. You've proven yourself to be a water mage, you should be celebrating. Sure it's rare to have ice alone than ice and water, but being a duel elent mage is sothing to be celebrated" said Master Resho
Shizuka stuck her tongue out at the old man.
"I see, well, I guess I'm just going to have to test you for fire affinity then" said Master Resho with a smile. Manipulating the smoke hand to grab her by the midsection.
Master Resho walked downstairs with Shizuka in tow. As they descended to the final level Kat was surprised to find it looked more like an oven than anything else. There was a big glass door with steel edges. The inside contained a bunch of runes etched into what looked to be steel, but seed to suck in the light instead. Shizuka started to pale as Master Resho opened the door.
"Now, don't worry this is perfectly safe" said Master Resho throwing Shizuka in and shutting the door.
Kat looked worried over to Minor "Is this safe?"
Minor nodded "Oh yeah, it's actually much safer than it looks"
Kat was willing to believe her until Master Resho activated the runes and giant gouts of fire leapt to life covering the whole area. Shizuka was covered in flas and Kat sucked in a panicked breath of air, sure that sothing was about to go horribly wrong.
That was when the flas all seed to pause. Frozen in ti before pushing themselves away for Shizuka. They looked as if they wanted nothing more than to escape her presence. Master Resho started frowning.
Master Resho quickly summoned three sigils blowing into them to summon three small smoke hands. Throwing the oven door open he had them scratch out the runes on the floor ending the test prematurely.
"You must never speak of this" said Master Resho
"It… it wasn't " said Shizuka
Master Resho frowned "Child, I may be old but I'm not senile quite yet but I know what I saw. Not quite the standard rection but clearly fire affinity" said Master Resho with slight shaking in his voice.
Shizuka shook her head violently to each side "No… no I can tell, this isn't the sa. I think soone is interfering in the tests"
"That soone being you Minor?" asked Kat
"Eh…" said Minor
Master Resho carefully put Shizuka down on the ground. "Look, I… I understand this is scary. Heck, I wish I didn't even know. Hopefully you can beco a magician with only two elents. You cannot. And I an, cannot let anyone know you have a third elent"
"Things for the first few years were a little fuzzy. I was mostly just putting myself back together. Pretty sure it was though, I just sort of pushed it away. I didn't want to let fire of all things hurt my sister" said Minor
Shizuka turned her gaze slowly to Master Resho "What about momma"
Minor let out a small squee "Ooh, I forgot about this, whenever she gets nervous, she reverts. It's so rare because even when she was four, like in this mory, she already had 'mother' down pat"
Master Resho stopped and thought for a mont, as if realising it wasn't the usual teenagers he was teaching or even the young eight-year-old noble brats, but an innocent four-year-old trying to learn magic years ahead of the others. "Hmmm"
Master Resho looked away from Shizuka and let out a long puff of smoke that even started to fill the room. Smoke covered the ceiling, and sunk until it was just barely touching the hair on Master Resho's head, covering most of his horns.
"I don't know child" said Master Resho finally
"What… what do you an" asked Shizuka
Master Resho sighed "I suppose I deserve that. What I an child, is that I'm not sure anyone should have this knowledge. If it would be less suspicious, I'd try and find soone to destroy this mory with prejudice.
"It is simply that valuable. You cannot allow this sort of news to leak. The issue with removing it, is that lets people know you HAD sothing to hide in the first place, and in this instance. It isn't as though you can just remove an affinity from soone without taking the rest of their magic"
Master Resho let out another long puff "So that ans even if we removed it, you'd find out again, and people would be on the hunt for the secret. So it is better we never so much as hint at it.
"But" Master Resho raised a hand "Your situation is hard. Not only are you a young child, much too young to bear this burden, you are also a princess. I do not fear your mother, I trust her to take care of her child…
"But truth spells are commonly used on royalty, and sotis they like to throw curveballs at each other such as asking for rumours of seemingly legendary but almost possible things like say… soone with 3 elental affinities"
Shizuka paled, or Kat assud that is what happened. The light inside of the ice sculpture Shizuka seed to dim, mostly around the face, and it was the only thing Kat could think of besides nightmares.
"But… but" said Shizuka
"Master Resho carefully rested his hand on her shoulder "Perhaps, your grandmother can help you? She may know what to say. That allows soone to know your secret without risking yourself or your mother. I won't push you into anything, just… understand you can't say anything"
Shizuka nodded and the scene started to dim.
"Well… that was… sothing" said Kat "Did anyone figure out it was you"
"Well…" said Minor "Grandma certainly knows now it was . And at the ti… eh maybe? I'd guess she would have thought it was due to the spell that rged us, but based on how she reacted when we showed up, I'm going to go out on a limb and say she didn't know I was still around"
Kat frowned at the mory "A sha. And did anyone figure it out?"
This got Minor to mirror Kat's frown "Well… I would love to say no, nobody could have, because we didn't end up telling anyone… but… with everything going on with the Beast King I cannot be certain"
"Wait, why does that matter? Does he want her for his kingdom or sothing?" asked Kat
Minor looked at Kat like she was an idiot "Really?"
"What? What am I missing here?" asked Kat genuinely confused.
Minor groaned "You really don't know?"
"I swear with my demon magic that makes it so I can't lie ever. I have no idea why you seem to think I'm an idiot" said Kat
Minor sighed and bit her lip "Fine… magic affinity is inherited"
"Right? That only makes sense with most of your family being ice magicians" said Kat
Minor slamd a palm into her face. "They would want her to pass it down onto the Beast King's lineage"
"Ooh" said Kat, realisation hitting her. "That's pretty bad"
"Yes it is. Doubly so because it would never work. They wouldn't have an extra soul to pick up the affinity. Besides, Shizuka doesn't even have fire affinity" said Minor
Kat caught the strange wording. *Interesting phrasing Minor. I may be a little na?ve but fear my intellect is better than that.* "You said in the past that Shizuka is in many ways both of you
"Does that an that neither of you have fire affinity" asked Kat
Minor winced "Oh… um… well… ah… I an… I guess… Ok, so you can't spread this around… but I have true foxfire affinity. I think"
*Minor you sweet dear. I have no idea what that ans… and I'm not sure I should ask either. Seems it would be better to just not know* "I suppose that's rare then?" asked Kat
"Yes, very" said Minor.
*Well, this just gets better and better.*
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