Tbate-The Reincarnates

Pre-Festival: Part-1

"COUGH! COUGH! Aughh..." I was awakened by a wave of searing pain all over my side, causing me to have a coughing fit. My whole body is a mixture of different types of pain. From the sharp pain to the burning pain to the throbbing pain with the occasional searing pain radiating throughout my body.

Not even strong enough to scream, I keep grinding my teeth as I grip the side of the bed I was lying on.

They really needed to hurry up and invent anesthesia. A few minutes later, I got a little more used to the agony my body was in; I turn my head feebly to see Fluger lying unconscious on the floor.

"You finally woke up." A sharp voice came from the other side of the bed.

A man with shaggy black hair falling over his eyes was standing in front of the door, the man was Jesse Bolum the deputy headmaster of the Lanceler academy, but my instincts told me it wasn't exactly Jesse who was talking.

"Agrona." I spoke.

"Insightful as ever Lancelot." He praised.

"What you want?" I questioned him.

"Your answer."

"Excuse me, but I can't accept your proposal."

"That was unexpected, but I won't object." Agrona walked to the window of the room I assumed was the infirmary, "You've done quite a bit of damage."

"I suppose."

"It was a nice move to win the first battle."

"I don't know what you're talking about." I pretended to be an idiot.

"You know I know when people are lying to me, Draneeve's announcement caused fear in the dicathians, the number of cities is much greater than the number of spears, that is, they will not be able to save everyone, everyone will have to worry with your own salvation so the fact that you a 12 year old boy killed a colossal beast with a single blow made hope burn again in people's hearts, but I wonder how long these little flames will last in people's hearts ."

The door to the room opened making us both turn to face the unexpected visitor.

"Kathyln." I was surprised to see my girlfriend with a fruit basket in her hand.

"Princess Kathyln." Agrona said monotonously.

"Mister Bolum." Kathyln replied her left hand still on the door handle, "Am I interrupting?"

"No, I'm on my way out." Agrona silently left the room, as soon as Agrona left the room Fluger opened his eyes indicating that he had done something with my bond.

'What the fuck happened?' Fluger protested stunned.

'Agrona was here.'

'Which!'

I injected mana into my dimensional ring and took out the vial with antidote to heal the mana beasts and threw it to Fluger, who took it with his claws.

To corrupt the mana beasts Agrona used an elixir made from the blood of a demonic leech. According to the records I found in the Opheans castle laboratory, it was a truly rare, intelligent, and filthy specimen, native only to Epheotus.

On its own, it was weak, but since it was a mana beast, it was capable of possessing a body and strengthening its host's core in an absurd way that would be fatal even to an asura.

'Fluger, take this to my mom and explain what it is, as soon as I get better I'll meet you guys.'

'Okay.' Fluger flapped his wings and flew out of the ward through the window.

"I was surprised to see Fluger here since you said he wouldn't." Kathyln commented watching my bond break.

"The fact that Fluger is my bond is only because he started to like me when I passed him, deep in the Glade of Beasts." Omitting some information, Kathyln still didn't need to know from Vitch, "he usually does his own thing and I don't dare treat him like a pet." I spoke with a shrug.

"Well...I can't imagine him as a pet."

"Me neither." I agreed.

"What bracelet is this?" kathyln asked, it seems that the fact that she emanates mana makes her quite flashy.

With a mental command the bracelet turned into Moonlight.

"Yup." Moonlight spoke happiness emanating from her voice, kathyln's eyes lit up when she saw her.

"How lovely!" kathyln started petting Moonlight, who by the way was loving it.

"What's your name?"

"My name is Moonlight."

"Moonlight, I'm kathyln, nice to meet you."

"I say the same, Kathy."

"Kathy?"

"Moonlight has a habit of putting nicknames on people, she calls Fluger White Feather, you should have seen the face Fluger made when he heard that."

I heard footsteps approaching, "Moonlight take kathyln."

"OK." Moonlight transformed into a golden bracelet with ornate runes engraved.

'Looks like she has her favorites.' Fluger said mockingly.

'Yea.'

*knock* *knock*

"In between."

The door opened to reveal the figure of Arthur, who most likely had a lot of questions to ask.

"I'll be back another time, I don't want to disturb you." He said as he turned around.

"Don't stay and ask whatever questions you want." I released realmheart, and as if a bucket of water had been thrown to control a raging fire, all the energy, power and pain that was building inside me abruptly disappeared.

I got up from the bed and went to Arthur, "Activate yours too."

Arthur did as I asked and activated his realmheart.

"Magnificent." Kathyln said in awe of the sight in front of her.

"Were you able to see all five colors that make up the physical realm?" She said making a particle of water, fire, earth, wind and of course an ether mana float on top of my palm.

"I guess so..." looking around her, "How come I never noticed that?" Arthur asked more of himself than of me.

"It's understandable that you would suppose this form to be just a power-up of your bestial will rather than a means of observing and studying what normally cannot be perceived."

"Did you know about Sylvie?" I just smile at him in response.

I sat on the bed and deactivated the realmheart and the pain returned to my body, but at a bearable level.

"What do you think about training together?" suggested Arthur. "I think this is a good thing for both of us."

"I do, but I have some things to do first."