Chapter 92 - Mom’s your Master?!

Inside the headmaster's office in the main administrative building of Arks Royal Academy, Lucia was currently sitting down on a couch drinking tea made from the world tree, Urrugdrasil's, leaves.

The leaves had a nourishing effect and with every sip Lucia could feel her mana circulating faster in her mana circuits.

Not only that she felt that with every full circulation, the mana inside her mana point grow ever so slightly.

'Oh! It's like a week's worth of meditation!' Lucia's eyes brightened and she felt it was regrettable since she had already finished the tea she was drinking.

"Haha, here you go!" The headmaster who was sitting in front of her laughed gently seeing her expression. He then started pouring her another cup.

Lucia's face brightened at this, but then she started frowning.

"Uhm... I'm pretty sure you didn't call me here just so that we could drink tea, right?"

The headmaster only chuckled in response to this.

"No rush, no rush. Let me take a good look at you."

The headmaster then gave her a long hard glance. It was only after Lucia began to feel uneasy did the headmaster chuckle and took away his gaze. He stood up and walked to a cabinet and began rummaging through the contents, looking for something.

"How's your mother Lucia?"

Lucia was surprised hearing this, she halted her hands that were about to reach for the cup of tea on the table.

"...she's doing well. Do you know her?"

"Well... knowing her could be said to be an understatement..." The headmaster turned around and walked back to sit down in front of her again.

Hearing his words caused Lucia to become confused. Just what was her mother to this elf?

"Anna Yukihime, I'm actually her disciple! She's my master hahaha~"

"..."

'What the?'

Lucia's eyes widened hearing this revelation. The headmaster's master... was actually her mother?

Lucia put a hand on her forehead, she was desperately trying to digest the bombshell news that the headmaster just dropped on her.

"Ah, I can recognize master's research anywhere. But wow, she actually got to this point already huh! Mana..."

Lucia's head started to ache when she saw the headmaster start acting all familiar with her. Here she was trying to find a good way to react to the fact that her academy's headmaster was actually a student of her mother...

'How is HE, mama's student? I mean mama... well... she's just mama!"

Lucia tried to think back at how her mother was like... she was just so carefree and at home... she was basically just a housewife! Father doted on her, and whenever Lucia came back home from playing with her friends she would sometimes catch her mother acting all spoiled to her father, clinging onto him like a child and whining.

Other than the occasional times when she would head into her research room for a day or two, there weren't any indications of her mother being any sort of ill.u.s.trious character! Especially not Elufied Crescentia's master!

"...you're not playing games with me are you, headmaster?"

"Oh? Haha, what makes you say that?"

"Uhm... well... it's just..."

Lucia took a deep breath before yelling, "There's no way that MY MOM could be YOUR master!"

"Ahahahaha~" The headmaster only laughed in response.

"Oh, little one, do you know what your mother was called back when she was still the head of the academy some years ago?"

Another bomb was dropped once again onto Lucia.

"...my mom was what?"

"Ahaha, I guess your parents never told you~ You see, your mom was the previous headmaster of the academy before me! I only succeeded her because I was the strongest disciple under her and that made me the strongest candidate to be the next academy's head!"

"..."

"Anyway, your mother was a really powerful person... it's just that no one would have expected that only after 4 years of staying in office as the academy's head would she suddenly drop it all and abandon her position. She went ahead and eloped with the Aurielle clan's first young master and disappeared together with him."

Bombshell after bombshell, Lucia was too stupefied at the news regarding her parents' ill.u.s.trious past that she no longer cared whether to be surprised or not.

The headmaster for some reason broke his character and kept on chatting and chatting about her mother's feats and legends. The tirade seemed endless to the point where Lucia was now beginning to be annoyed.

"Just so you know Lucia, your mother–"

"Enough."

"Eh?"

"If all you're going to do is boast about my mother's past then can I go now?"

"Hah? Don't you want to know more about your mother?"

"All I know is that my mother's the carefree, doted upon, family loving housewife and that she's my role-model and the person who I call mama. I don't need anything else other than this."

Lucia said a matter-of-factly.

"...ahahaha~ I guess you're right! Anyway, let's get to the main reason why I called you here."

After nearly a quarter of an hour of the endless 'your mother' stories, the headmaster was finally going to bring up the main topic.

"This research, the principles of mana... this was obviously something done by your mother. The principles of mana that the school teaches in the classes are based off of all her past research materials."

"Yeah, I could see that. They were practically the same things that my mother taught to me, but the new materials she sent to Cecil made these far outdated."

"Cecil? Oh! Your little boyfriend, huh," the headmaster teased.

"W-w-w-what?!" Lucia immediately blushed while raising her voice at the headmaster.

"Oh, was I wrong?"

Lucia wanted to deny it, but she didn't want to. She felt happy, but embarrassed at the same time. She began fidgeting shyly and she lowered her head, not daring to eye the headmaster.

"Ohohoho~"

The laugh was pretty annoying that Lucia forgot about her embarrassment for a moment. She raised her head and began glaring at the headmaster.

"Haha, I'll stop teasing you~ anyway what does this have to do with Cecil?"

"Well..."

Lucia frowned when the headmaster began talking seriously again. If she told him that all the new research material results were with Cecil, wouldn't that drag him in here with her.

Although Lucia did want to bring Cecil here, she didn't want to cause him any trouble. Cecil wanted to stay inconspicuous and his recent actions had already earned him too much attention which he of course, did not like. If people found out that the two were called in by the headmaster, then the spot light will once again shine on him.

'I... I shouldn't trouble him anymore...'

"I-it's nothing... if you want the materials then maybe you should just go ask mom to give them to you?"

The headmaster narrowed his eyes a little after seeing Lucia's odd reaction. He had a little suspicion about what it was so he just let it be.

"Okay, I'll go ask your mother than. Don't worry I won't bother you or your boyfriend any more~"

"H-headmaster!!!"

"Ahaha, you should hurry and make it clear to him you know~ you never know when someone else might just come and steal him away from you~"

"Ah?"

"Okay, I'll go ask master about this. Since master was able to actually prove all this, then it would send the magic world into an uproar. Just imagining the possibilities and innovations we can create!"

Lucia just stared back at him deadpanned.

Feeling the gaze the enthusiastic headmaster smiled apologetically at Lucia.

"Sorry, sorry. I get excited just thinking about this~ Let me send you back to class now Lucia. Hrrmmm... If I'm not mistaken your class should be having practical combat class at the fighters ground right now."

The headmaster stood up and waved his hand, summoning a black spatial gate in front of him.

"Off you go, little one."

Lucia took another look at the unfinished tea that she left on top of the table. She quickly took a gulp and finished the entire cup. She bowed down towards the Headmaster who was laughing at her antics, before she ran into the spatial gateway.

"Ahaha, what an interesting lass... just like master!"

The headmaster walked back to his office desk and sat down into his chair, leaning in while closing his eyes.

"...I shouldn't bother the kids anymore."

The headmaster sighed, "Looks like I should pay a small visit to Master... I hope she doesn't kick me out this time..."

The headmaster looked a little worried. Thinking back at his last time's visit that ended with him being blown away from the village made him shudder a little.

He had only stepped a foot into Fauxe village's gate before a large force abruptly sent him flying up into the air, shooting faraway from the village. It was clear that his master didn't welcome him the last time.

The headmaster gritted his teeth and resolved himself.

"The materials are too important... even if I have to grovel on the ground I'll definitely ask master to share her research with me!"

"There's no need for that." A cold voice rang inside the room.

"?!" The headmaster quickly stood up from his seat, he looked around the room and quickly found the source of the cold, but familiar voice.

Standing by the large window on the side was a beautiful woman with silver colored hair, fox ears, and eyes. She was wearing a long black mage robe that perfectly accentuated her beautiful and s.e.xy figure. She had 3 beautiful tails swaying behind her and she was currently staring down at the academy's grounds.

"Master!!!" the headmaster immediately scrambled forward and did a 90 degree bow, but he was only met with a cold reprimand.

"Shut it, El. I'm no longer your master. Remember that you're now the Headmaster of Arks Royal Academy. Act like it you idiot."

"B-but–"

"I'm just an ordinary housewife now!" The woman replied cutely.

"..."

This woman was Anna Yukihime. Lucia's mother and Cecil's foster mother.