Chapter 54 – Some Fun at the Akagi Household.

Chapter 54 – Some Fun at the Akagi Household.

A few days later.

"Hiyahhhhh!" Yumi yelled as she threw a blast of energy toward Mizumi.

"Weak!" Mizumi stomped her foot and a blast of water extinguished the attack. "I told you, you need to properly envision your attack and channel your energy with as little waste as possible." She flung a blast of water back at her, which Yumi only barely stopped. "You see the difference? Your attacks lack punch because you're not putting in the proper effort!" She flung another attack. It looked like Mizumi was enjoying their practice as a way to get some payback on Yumi for her maid training.

The two were sparring as they'd been doing most days. Part of Mizumi's deal was that she would teach Akagi and her followers more about magic and help them improve. Yumi was quite a powerful girl. But compared to the water spirit, she may as well have been little more than a child. Hishya and Akagi were watching the two, and Kana was hanging out with Chloe while Mika was spending time with Suzu and Yuzu. The two took an interest in the blue-haired girl and even took trips to her house from time to time. Human's who tolerated, let alone liked, Yuki-Onna were quite rare in their world, so Mika's keen interest in them was amusing. Akagi joked with Mimi that she might just get grandchildren yet, which made her laugh.

"Myaster!" Chloe jumped on Akagi from behind, hugging her.

"What's up, kitty?" She moved her hand to pet Chloe on the head. "Where's Kana?"

"Right here" She appeared alongside her. "We wanted to check out the sparring, and Chloe wanted to see you." Kana gave a smile.

"Did you need something?" Akagi asked as she scratched Chloe's chin.

"Fight me!" Chloe said as she purred.

"You want to spar?" Akagi didn't expect this.

"Yeah, it's been so long since I've had a good fight. And it's been even longer since the two of us fought!" Chloe moved in front of her. The cat's eyes glistened in the sun; she was ready to hunt.

"You're right. It has. But are you sure?" Akagi asked. "I'm not the best sparring partner for you." She had beaten Chloe many times, and her overall power level could one-shot the cat easily.

"Un." She nodded. " I want to test myself and you're the only person I can go all out on!"

Seeing the determination in her eyes and not wanting to disappoint her, Akagi obliged, and the two headed towards the sparring grounds once Mizumi and Yumi were finished.

"Should be interesting." Hishya stretched as she stood up. "I've fought Chloe once before. She's quite the nimble cat-kin." Naturally, Hishya won, but it was a much more annoying fight than it should have been.

"Have you fought all of Onee-chan's friends?" Kana asked as she watched the battle between Chloe and her sister.

Hishya took a moment to think. "I've fought most of the combat ones, I think?" Hishya liked to spar with Akagi's followers to test her strategies and abilities. "The only one I've never fought is Kira, but that will change soon." She was going to begin training with her soon to control her power.

"The dragon lady? She looks pretty tough." Kira was Akagi's strongest follower and was only deployed on critical missions, so she was rarely off-site.

"Oh, she is, without a doubt." Hishya continued. "If I'm not mistaken, she was actually a quest boss. I have no clue how Akagi turned her into a follower, but I've heard she's good enough to give even high-level players some trouble." Minazawa faced her once before, and while she did win; the battle was closer than one would have expected.

"Can she turn into a dragon, like you?" Kana was curious about Kira's power.

"No." Hishya shook her head. "She's a half-dragon, so only one of her parents was one. She's got a lot of power and can bring out wings and breathe fire, but a full transformation isn't possible."

*BOOM* BANG*

The fight between Akagi and Chloe intensified. The two were only using their bare hands and exchanging blows directly. Apparently, Chloe had been improving her martial arts skills as her entire body shone with a red outline.

"Aw, they're embarrassed." Suzu.

"It's cute!" Yuzu.

"Please don't say anything! We still haven't exactly figured things out between us yet," Hishya begged them to keep quiet.

"Don't worry my lips are sealed." Mika smiled, and the two Yuki-Onna nodded in agreement.

"Let's go have some tea!" Yuzu gave Mika a big smile.

"Yes, let's!" Suzu agreed and the two girls pleading eyes caused Mika to relent and head back into the house.

"Do you think she realizes that....." Kana calmed down enough to speak.

"If she doesn't, she's the densest idiot in the world." Hishya's face was still red.

"I thought Mika liked men! She even dated a few guys in High School!" Kana had no idea what brought on Mika's sudden change in preferences.

"Didn't you say she really liked Yuki-Onna?" Hishya looked at her. "Perhaps she's attracted to that more than anything else?" Hishya wasn't really good at this type of conversation.

"But still! Is she really gonna date BOTH!" Kana's head was spinning imagining such a situation, and her naturally dirty mind only made things worse.

"If she does, that's not really a big deal is it?" Suddenly Akagi's voice came from behind the two of them.

"Ahh... how much did you just......" Kana was about to die of embarrassment.

"We just finished, so I heard you talking about Mika and the two girls." Akagi chuckled.

{THANK GOD!} (Hishya x Kana)

"Yuki-Onna take romance seriously, so I doubt those two are just playing around." Akagi stretched. "It wouldn't be shocking if they took an interest in Mika. She's a cheery girl with a strange obsession with their kind, and she's quite aloof. When I talked to Mimi, she said that's exactly the kind of man her husband was."

"But both of them???" Kana was hung up on this point. Relationships were monogamous things.

"Yuki-Onna don't really care about human morals, Kana. Each of those girls is over three hundred years old and has never had a whiff of romantic attraction in their lives. Do you really think they care about such things?" Akagi didn't see the issue. Though, her own broken mind may not make her the best person for such a conversation. "And as long as Mika is ok with it, who cares?"

"Are you sure they aren't just playing with her or taking advantage of her since she's so young?" Hishya thought the age difference meant that the two would cause a power imbalance in the relationship, and she was worried about Mika.

"Nah, you don't need to worry about that. I trust those girls not to do something like take advantage of Mika. Plus, I already pulled them aside and warned them that if they did anything Mika was uncomfortable with or if they were just messing with her, they would get a visit from me." Akagi was far more threatening than any parent could ever be, and the two girls agreed to take things slowly and not to get overzealous with their actions. Akagi was mostly concerned that if the two did act up, that would upset Kana since her friend would be harmed. So, she took extra care to instill discipline into the two Yuki-Onna.

"Besides, Mimi sees this as the best chance for her to have grandkids, so I'm pretty sure she'll be on top of things," Akagi recalled that conversation and laughed.

"GRANDKIDS!!!!!! That's not possible!" The Kana and Hishya exclaimed. Such, a thing shouldn't be possible for obvious reasons.

"Yuki-Onna have just the magic to make it happen, though." Akagi winked, and the two girls looked at each other dumbfounded. "Though it only works on Yuki-Onna."