92 3.4 Master-familiar meeting - Part 1

The sun was already up by the time I opened my eyes. The temperature felt perfect— not too hot, not too cold. I got out of the bed and slid the curtain open allowing the bright sunlight to come in.

It somewhat felt weird to have a day free. It felt like there were a lot of things that I could do but I had no idea where to start. There were several things that I needed to do like fulfilling Marina's wish and visiting Amigo inn. But those things were all secondary, and there were some other things that needed my immediate attention.

There were several instances where my lack of understanding of this world had limited my ability to access the situations. I did foolish things and made stupid mistakes, but I guess everybody does that at the start. I am just barely about to be 2 years old in this world.

The adventures I went through were crazy. It might look easy to the eyes of the third person who is just watching from afar. But to me who had to go through all this, it's not as simple as they think it is. Or maybe they could just be too used to illusions that the reality looks too boring to them.

My understanding was limited when I came back to this city, and after I did, it felt like things were already laid down for me. I was just moving with the flow and went wherever it took me.

My eyes opened after Ronald got injured, I realized how dangerous this world can be. But back then my priorities were straight, I had to save Ronald. And now that I finally managed to do that, I have some time to think about myself and this world.

Now was the time to learn and understand the history of this world. To learn who the gods here are, and to understand why the Black dragon king was helping me.

The books here barely had anything useful. Most of the useful books were probably rotting in some noble's library, and the ones left were full of nonsense and barely had anything useful. But there was somewhere where I could get the information I needed.

Even though my familiars may be too ancient to have knowledge of the past one or two millennia, they probably have a good understanding of the world before that.

As I was thinking all those things, Flare came through the window and sat on my shoulder. At first, I thought it was just my imagination, but there really were some blue feathers at the end of her wings.

"Flare, your wings look different. What happened?"

I was curious as to what was causing this change, and as her master, I somewhat felt it was my duty to know what's going on with my familiars.

"Master, it's time for my flames to evolve. It changes every millennium from golden to blue which is the peak of my evolution. After that, I will reborn again with the golden flames."

"Oh, is that so…" I felt relieved that it was not something bad and just her growth. "Does this cause any change in you?"

"Okay, that shouldn't be that big of a problem," I said to give her a little push. It felt like she still had something to say but wasn't sure how.

"...also, I can change into human form with my blue flames."

It came as a surprise but not too big of a surprise since Yoru could also do that. But I was curious as to how she would look in her human form.

"I wonder how you would look in your human form?"

There was a moment of silence after that since she didn't respond, and I didn't feel like pushing this matter more. But this felt like the right time to do the thing that I was thinking about doing: Master-familiar meeting.

[Yoru, can you hear me?]

[Yes Nara. What's up?]

She wanted to sleep in my room claiming that she was my familiar. But I refused to allow that, and for some reason the girls supported me. So, at the end, the discussion concluded with her sharing a room with Arica.

[Can you come into my room? We are going to go somewhere. Also, please don't tell anyone else about it.]

[Okay.]

Right after our telepathic communication ended, she hastily entered the room. But her excitement died down when she saw Flare on my shoulder.

"Nara, what is that bird doing here?"

She still hadn't started getting along with Flare, but it was understandable considering the fact that there was no approach to get along from either side. They were like the polar opposite of each other and the only thing that was linking the two of them at this point was me. So, it somewhat felt like it was my responsibility to make them get along.

"What do you think I am doing here? I am sitting at my rightful place, my master's shoulder."

"Look at the birdbrain talk. Stop making silly claims as if you are his mother."

"Ha! Everyone knows who is being silly here. And unlike your impudent words, I am just stating the fact as they are."

"You only talk big birdbrain."

"And you only talk stupid, insolent fool."

"Why do you two have to be like this?"

The way this was going, I could foresee them fighting with one another. So, before things could get any nastier, I had to find a way to calm the two of them down.

"It's this birdbrain's fault."

"No, it's your fault you buffoon."

"If you guys continue this, we won't be going anywhere. So, please stop all the bickering and hear me out."

"Okay."

"Okay."

The two okays came simultaneously so they looked at each other. Despite the agreement about calming down, both of them had the look of disgust in their face.

"Please don't start that again," I said before they could start quarreling again. Both of them looked back towards me when they heard that. "We will now go to Zagan's space and talk things through. There are a lot of things that we need to discuss, and there is a lot that we need to know about each other."

Both of them nodded. It was hard to notice the nod in case of Flare since her head was tiny and covered with feathers, but that was definitely a nod.

Now it was time for me to ask Zagan to pull me there. Hopefully he doesn't feel too offended since I didn't inform him about this beforehand.

[Hey Zagan, can you pull us up there?]

[Huh?! Kid, you should stop waking me up by speaking into my head. If I was a human, I could have had a heart attack.]

[Oh, sorry about that. It's morning already so I thought you would be awake by now.]

[Yeah, morning is the best time to sleep. Anyways, hop in.]

: Master-familiar meeting - Part 2