The Sun Prince Volume 1: The Trial Saga

Chapter 5: Annoyance

Why are bonds so important? People always get told they should have bonds with people, whether those bonds are friendship bonds or romantic bonds, or other kinds of bonds and the reason is because it makes you have a less lonely life. But why is that so important, I mean a lonely life can be for the better, it's safer for yourself and for other people and yet that logic is always seen as stupid or irrelevant. It makes you wonder how much of this whole opinion on bonds is actually legitimate and how much of it was all just from one person's bias.

"What kind of reason is that?!", good god she just won't go away, I thought that if you insult a human girl, they can get angry super easily and leave you, so why is she so persistent. "Look, what I say shouldn't matter, you are in my house so therefore I have the right to tell you to leave, so leave", "I won't follow manners until you tell me why, and don't you dare give me another real talk monologue". Ugh, I don't get why she would have any reason to stay, I mean she saw just what kind of danger I attract so she should be running for the hills to stay away from it all. "Here's the deal, either leave me alone or I'll get my maid to force you out and trust me when I say, she hasn't failed a single task I've given her". Based on the face she maid I could tell she believed me and finally she walked out of my room and then a minute later I looked out of my window and saw her walking away from the house.

Finally, with her gone I could begin with the next phase of this trial. I've regained my powers and defeated someone with them but clearly that isn't enough. I still can't regain my Salarion form and even then, I remember my father saying how he was disappointed my strength wasn't up to the level it apparently should be. So then there is only one thing to do, train, I have to regain my full power and then also learn new skills and raise my level of power. I suppose in that regard I should decide what to do first. Obviously I can do my regular training routine to slowly raise my flame power and keep it stable, but then in terms of a new technique I think I'll try learning to do flame moulding. It can be a powerful technique that could allow for a new finisher move and is something only elite solarions can learn so it would be a great way to show I've improved and convince my father to end this stupid trial. But for now, rest time.

I woke up and made sure my body felt back to normal and then I began my morning exercise to keep my body in shape, had this thing called a waffle for breakfast and then headed off to school for another boring say. I do wish I didn't have to do this part of the day and I could just focus on my training all day but like hell am I going to try and argue with Ms Sputtermill when she is that adamant on something, I don't want to die yet. When I got to class, I could see Salia standing and waiting at my desk and so much of my day just got worse, "What do you want Salia, keep this up and I'll call stalker". When I said that I could see she got a little mad but clearly not enough to want to just leave me alone. "Look I don't know why you're trying to get rid of me but don't think I'll give up that easily, you won't be able to exclude me from this now that I know it's real", "Also I thought you should know to make sure to keep quiet, if they find out you're the reason for all the scorch marks in the school, you'll be in a ton of trouble".

Ugh, as if things couldn't get more annoying, oh well it's not like they could really do much if I showed them my powers, but clearly based on how annoying Salia is being, letting other people know about me will only make this place more hellish. As I'm sitting here though whilst the teacher tells us about something a cold war, which wouldn't be so cold if I was in it, I can feel someone's gaze on me but it's obvious who's it is. Finally, it's lunch time so I grab my bag and dash out of the classroom to my secluded spot as quickly as possible only to arrive and see Salia right there, "How the hell are you here! Am I in a horror film?". "Relax, I already knew about this spot, and I took the quicker route here since I want to see how you train", ok well I wasn't expecting her to want that, I really don't need her being around when I train but I can't be asked to try to get rid of her when I've got a limited hour before class again. "Alright fine but my lunch time training is simple solarion meditation so don't expect anything flashy or exciting", "what's the difference between that and regular meditation?". I couldn't be asked to answer her as I need to focus so I decided to start and let her get the point.

Whilst it was hard to focus at first, I was still able to get a solid 30 minutes of meditation before I got hungry and started to eat my lunch. Sadly though she still wouldn't leave so I may as well strike up some sort of conversation until lunch ends, "So why the hell do you keep bothering me and be so stubborn, I figured I made my feelings on the matter pretty clear". As I looked at her, she seemed a bit indecisive, as if she had multiple reason and couldn't figure out which one is the best, "I guess the main reason is because with you being from another, well world now, you don't know anyone and could use some company". Well, that was not the first thing I thought she'd say, I figured she'd say something like because it's the most exciting thing to happen to her, but I guess she isn't totally shallow. "Look I'll say this once more, stay away and just leave me alone". With that I got up and headed back to class and it seems she wasn't following me so hopefully that means she's agreed to leave me alone.

The rest of the day went fairly peacefully, lessons were easy as usual and there didn't seem to be any gazes on me, in fact she didn't even acknowledge my existence so at least she finally got the hint. With school finally ending I dashed back to the house as quickly as I could to get changed out of this stupid uniform and begin my true training to master flame moulding. Now from what I remember being told about flame moulding by one of my old trainers, before I kicked their ass, the first thing to do was to have a perfectly clear image of what you want your flames to create. So I guess I should decide on what kind of attack I want it to be to help to decide what I should create. But I can think of that as I go along since I should focus on the second step which was making sure I have good control of my flames and their regulation, so they don't get too sporadic and cause the shape to be deformed.

So, I started to focus on simply exerting my flames whilst keeping them within a small space so that I could get used to maintaining them and make sure I have good enough control to make a proper shape. Sadly though it seems to be harder than I thought since flames are very wild things and even though they are a part of my body, it still takes a lot of mental energy just to keep them concentrated without sputtering out. Of course, there is another thing that makes it difficult, and that's when you know someone is watching you even when you thought they would finally leave you alone! "For god's sake Salia, I don't need your company so go home for the day!" I know she knew how serious I was about that as I clearly heard her running quite fast.

After a long irritating day between Salia and not really feeling much closer to mastering flame moulding than when I already was, I have dinner which was this food called pizza which tasted like it belonged on the table of gods, and then I finally climbed into bed and relaxed. I did get slightly annoyed at the thought of tomorrow being just as annoying as today was, but I put that behind me and just got some rest. Although if there is one thing, I wish I didn't put behind me, it would be the feeling of a gaze on me as maybe then I would've realised that there was one more gaze that was on me.