His Magic - Magic Kaito

63. Debt

1027 Words excluding (A/N)~ I no own MK/DC~

Written July 31 2021
Posted August 23 2021

NEXT UPDATE is on September 6 2021

Two more weeks passed, and in that time, quite a few things ended up happening. Shinichi had left for his own house, having regained enough strength for him to be able to live by himself again. Fluffy had also grown slightly more friendly towards Yozora, only slightly though, the kitten was still mean most of the time. Saguru had encouraged this by having Yozora be the only one to give Fluffy any sort of treats, he had gotten the kitten for Yozora after all. It wouldn't do for said kitten to grow attached to someone else instead. Both things were nice, but the most important thing that'd happened was Saguru contacting Akako about Kaito.

Surprisingly, the red witch did know of a way to get Kaito to wake up faster. Thankfully said solution wouldn't require anything heinous as payment. They just needed to offer up an equal amount of vitality- the kind that didn't shorten anyone's lifespan. Saguru, Shinichi, Akako, Aoko, and Yozora had decided to offer up as much as was safe to give. That had allowed a good base, allowing the rest of the vitality to be sourced from plants.

Unfortunately, unlike with humans, plants couldn't survive the process so their lawn was dead, and the neighbouring properties weren't looking too good either. Less life was taken from each individual neighbour's property, but that just meant that more properties had ended up being affected. Though they did ward off the vitality draining effects from the property of the lady who sold flowers for a living. Destroying her livelihood wouldn't have been right.

The preparation of such magic had awed Yozora, magic was just so cool! Sure she'd seen Kaito heal himself and show her his wings, but the preparation of spells made it look even more special. The girl had also decided that she kinda liked the witch, Akako was calm and collected.

"I've completed the ritual outline" Akako stated, eyeing the magic circles that covered almost the entirety of the back yard. They would be invisible to the human eye until they were activated, as they were, they were just storing the collected vitality.

"So now all Saguru needs to do is bring Kaito out here?" Yozora inquired softly, amazed that nobody outside the property would realize that magic was afoot. She really wanted to know magic! Sadly Akako had informed her that she had zero affinity for it, just like how it was with most people.

"Yup! Then Akako can help Kaito wake up!"

Yozora glanced at the one who'd spoken. Her name was Nakamori Aoko, the woman who was present in a lot of the photos on the walls. She was okay with Aoko, but preferred the woman's cool partner. Yozora had warmed up to her a bit after being shown tons of pictures of Kaito from when he was her own age. Kaito had been a cute child, and one that'd apparently gotten into countless crazy situations. The fact that both Aoko and Akako were female had made getting somewhat used to them a little easier.

"I'll go grab him then" Saguru hurried off into the house, eager to have Kaito awake again.

Shinichi, who'd just been hanging around after offering up his energy, eyed the yard curiously "Is transferring energy really that complicated?" He inquired.

Akako smiled, scarlet eyes glinting "Somewhat, but I have two rituals actually set up. Lucifer told me that ow was a good time to cash in his debt"

Azure narrowed "Debt?..." Shinichi suddenly frowned "Won't that exhaust him?"

"Well first he'll be practically buzzing with energy, then he'll be weak but lucid after the second ritual"

Aoko blinked "But you said..."