Chapter 153 153 Headmaster’s office

[El's POV: ]

-Ooooooooooooooong!

-Swiiiiiiiiiiishh..

-Dhum!

"Safe!"

"Aghhhhhhh!"

One moment we were in that strange place and the other moment we were back to the garden on top of the large familiar summoning circle that was deactivated. And, we fell from the sky but he fell down, and I landed safely on top of him.

"Get off, witch! It hurts!"

"Hehe, yes yes."

"Aw awww!"

"Does it hurt that much? Do you need help?"

"Ughhhh, no. It's fine. You're just too heavy-"

-Smack!

"Do you need help, darling?"

"Ahem! Ahem! Ahem! Y-yes.."

He had some balls to call me heavy. It was all muscle mass and he was still calling me heavy? This bastard can lift boulders with his bare hands but me landing on top of his back was killing him? What kind of shit was that?

"[Drop of health]."

-Oooooooong.

"Good?"

"Yes.."

He looked at me with angry, cute, and upset eyes. My dear brother's in his rebellious phase perhaps, always shouting at me for nothing. I should start deciphering him now.

"Tsk. Anyway, it's night here."

"Yeah, looks like we missed the entire event. That's sad."

It was night, late night from what I can tell.

We were gone for an unknown time and stayed in those strange unique realms without the concept of time for a while, which could have been a longer time in this world, that much we had expected, but from how we had only missed the whole of the familiar summoning event, this outcome was far better than coming back a few months or a few years, decades, or perhaps a century later.

This was better, and since we almost knew most of the beings that our fellow students were going to summon anyway, this wasn't too bad. Their familiars had always stayed the same when we were playing the game so, there shouldn't be any change this time either.

"Haaa. Anyway, look at this."

Two moons, one red as blood, the other blue as the ocean hung in the sky. They were chatting with the glimmering starry sky as always, telling them about their day and asking about their fun lives.

The light these two moons faced this earth with was a serene white, gentle and cool like my skin, and yet, it felt as warm on my skin as his skin on mine.

I extended my hand towards this pretty sky and covered one moon with my palm.

There was a black tattoo of a dragon's outline. A dragon with a six-pointed star, a round planet-like celestial object, and something that resembled a crescent moon. And, there was a unique triangle behind all of this.

The dragon and everything else were different shades of black and looked gorgeous, and there was a red outline to all of this which perhaps represented me. Perhaps, there was no way to tell for sure.

"Yeah. They look prettier than any other we have had until now."

He also covered the blue moon with his hand and the familiar mark on the back of his palm shined under the moonlight.

"Yours is prettier than mine. Not fair!"

There was a beautiful white bird going towards what seemed to be a sun-like star. There was a pattern resembling the different phases of a normal golden moon. The bird itself was leaving a trail of stars behind it, and, though the bird was white entirely, the sun was a little orangish, the moon was gold, the stars the bird left behind were black, the strange 'ring' above this whole picture was blue, while a smaller red ring was also present right under this mark.

It was colorful and more 'smooth' than my familiar mark. This really was not fair!

"Haha, don't be like that. There's a triangle in your familiar mark just the way you had always wanted. Isn't that better than these circles that you don't like that much?"

"..no. I like colorful stuff. Yours is-"

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

"W-what the fuck?"

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

Many notifications bombarded us at once and new one was popping up one after another, we weren't even closing them but there were so many of them that they just burst out all at once, and, even before I could open any other one of them, new ones popped up and overshadowed the one I had just opened up.

"Fuck damn! Someone stop this shit!"

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

[[ How are you my master when you don't even know how to deal with these mere notifications? ]]

"You bastard. I don't have enough authority or the notification management function or else I would have gotten rid of this shit a long time ago!"

[[ Haaaa.. how did you become my master with that kind of half-baked knowledge? Don't you know how to create a blocking system using magic? How are you so dumb? ]]

"You are dumb you mothafuckingsonovvabitch! You're dead if you ever call me dumb! And of course, I know how to create a blocking system, fuck! But how's it gonna help me with this shit?!"

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

[[ Haaaaa. The world is full of dumb people. One knows how to apply a difficult theory to practice but is too dumb to realize the essence of that concept itself is the base of notification generation that this world uses.. you are unbelievable. ]]

"Shut your trap! And.. thanks for the advice. I never thought about this that way."

[[ Haaaaa.. just endure it for now. You can't create something like that overnight with your current powers anyway. ]]

"I can create something simple like that overnight! Of course, I can! What do you know-"

"Haaaaah. You two are finally back. The two of your companions threatened me four times after you vanished. That young half-blood reincarnation even went as far as saying she would leave the academy if I don't bring you two back."

-Snap!

I was arguing with my dear new familiar about the solution to this whole notification shit when we heard the headmaster's voice and turned around.

"You two sure are a buffet full of surprises."

Thanks to him, the river of notifications that were mostly related to the higher beings and their concerns and things direct messages of those who had revealed their true names, as well as the messages from those same higher beings who were surprised to finally see us again.

I knew most of those messages were of no use and the ones I was getting were still lesser than what he must be getting by now.

But, he wasn't complaining or saying anything about this.

He knew something similar would undoubtedly happen after we stayed in that separate space for such a long time, away from the eyes of all these higher beings and, even some of the offsprings.

He knew even the headmaster wouldn't have any idea where exactly we must have been at first but, we both knew that he knew by now just where we were and what we were doing there.

'Therefore my bastard was calm and.. wait. Lucy is my bastard, but now I also have a bastard lizard. Will I have to call Lucy bastard No.1 and Cary bastard No.2?'

Nah. That would erase the whole meaning of calling them bastards! Fuck!

[[ One is astonished to see the headmaster after such a long time. One is also amazed by the place and the nature of this place. One could tell this must be one of the 'academies' that the headmaster runs. ]]

"Hmmm? What the? Why can I hear her voice in my head as well?"

"Because we are connected through your link dummy. I could hear when he was calling you dumb as well, kekeke."

"Shut up or do you want another punch in the stomach?"

"..no."

These two bastards of mine were unbelievable. Anna was smart though. She was better than these two dumb fuckers.

"Anyway, the familiar summoning has ended and the welcome banquet will begin on the ground floor hall after three hours. Would you mind coming with me to my office to discuss the things that you went through and some other things that happened when you were gone?"

This guy.. he wasn't asking us. He was genuinely ordering us to come with him to his office to discuss the things that happened when with us in that realm and perhaps also things regarding our familiars.

His smile clearly said we had no choice, but I'm not wasting time chatting with this guy when the two of us could just go back to our temporary dorm room and have some quick fun.

"Of course, we don't mind headmaster. Oh, but could you please make it so that we do not waste any time while we talk?"

"Hmmm.. well, no problem."

-Snap!

He smiled at us again and right after his reply, he snapped his finger as vanished from the garden and reappeared in a fairly modest-looking office room.

"Take a seat and get comfortable."

There was a desk right before us, two chairs for us, and one chair of his own.

There were some normal-looking cupboards and shelves in the room, one side of the room contained a display area with some attractive-looking awards and, that's it.

There was a window with clouds floating outside of it and the atmosphere of this room was divine, but visibly, this was a very normal place.

Not that it was anything normal. But those who didn't know about the headmaster and his real identity wouldn't know about most of the things here.

"<<First light of the beginning>> and <<Eternal chaos of the present>> were very dear friends to many of us. Even great mothers cherished them and had high expectations of them. However, none of us foresaw the outcome 'they' achieved.

Their imprisonment was a great tragedy that we could never forget. However, today's actions were something we had never imagined could ever be a possibility.

Her will is the most supreme..

Haaaaa, anyway. Could I meet the two of them?"

The headmaster was one of the Offspring so he obviously knew the two of them. And, it seemed like there was no actual problem with us having them from his actions. On the other hand, it seemed like he was happy that we had them now.

"Of course~."

We wanted to see the two of their new forms as well. Especially the big dragon of mine.

He became my familiar and crossed over to some other plain of existence so, he should now be under a new set of restrictions. The initial posting of this chapter occurred via N0v3l.B1jn.

Both of them should have gained a new form.. so, I nodded at my Lucy beside me and looked at the back of my palm.

"Oy, Cary. Come on out."

[[ I.. I don't want to. ]]

"Hmm? What? Why? Are you shy or something? Come on out or do you want me to pull you out of there?"

[[ "I won't come out." ]]

"Why is he like this?"

[[ One can answer that perhaps. ]]

Lucy's familiar mark glowed with a pretty white light and, a creature came out of it.

"Wowwwwwww.."

And, as soon as I saw her, I knew why this new bastard of mine didn't want to come out of there.