Love Far Beyond the Ashes

Fish Out of Water

Gura pov: "Watson, how can we help?" I asked

She just shrugged, not knowing what we could do about "maybe we can manipulate time." She told me

"No, you'll be scolded for doing this," I said.

"I suppose..." Watson sighed

I bit my lip while I tried to think about what we could do. I have no idea what the hell we can do; we are pretty much irrelevant compared to everyone else here; all of them are goddesses or relatives. It was honestly infuriating.

"Ina has far surpassed us." I said

"Not really. I mean, she isn't that tough," Watson said.

"I guess, but at the same time, have you thought about how fodderized we were when Omegaα awoke?" I asked

"Well yeah, they are a goddess." Ame said

"I guess, but we got destroyed... I said

"Don't worry about it," Watson said.

I rolled my eyes and sighed. "We need to get stronger to help." I sighed

"Look, we are in a room with Suisei-senpai; we all are fodder compared to her," Watson said.

"Well, I guess so, but we still need to be able to fight just in case Mumei goes crazy again," I said.

Watson just nodded and continued to tweak her pocket watch. I sighed, as she didn't seem to want to keep talking about this.

"Gura, why are you so hung up on this? We don't need to worry if Kiara is around," Watson said.

"Well, don't you want to be able to protect the things you love?" I asked

"I can protect you, though," Watson said.

"Yeah, but what if someone stronger appears?" I asked

"Huh..." She said "Well then, I'd still fight if it was for you!" Watson said

"I would fight for you too, but it'd be better if we could win," I said.

"Oh yeah!" Watson said, "But if we can't, then we can't cry about it."

"You are too relaxed; you need to think about the future!" I commented

"Okay, Gura, how the hell would we get stronger?" She asked

"I don't know..." I said

"Then we need to not talk about it right now," Watson said.

"Alright," I said.

"Okay, I'll hear you out," she suddenly said.

"Watson, that was quick," I said.

"Yeah, of course, since I need to listen to my girlfriend!" Watson said

"You are confusing me," I said.

"Don't be confused, just hear me out!" Watson said

"Don't change your mind so much!" I said

"I'm not!" Ame cried

"Okay, let's not argue," I said.

I stood up and grabbed my trident, thinking about what to do: "We should fight!" Amelia commented

"Eh!?" I said

"When you fight, you get stronger. Let's fight," Watson said.

I nodded, but at the same time I didn't want to hurt her; she seemed to notice this. "Let's use practice weapons," she said.

"Oh, it's so like body armor and kendo sticks!" I said

"Yup!" Watson said asking about that was okay.

"That'll be fine," I told her happily.

We walked around the council room gathering things for our exhibition and getting ready for a practice match when Sana and Ina walked in.

"What are you doing?" Ina asked

"Training," I said.

"Right now?" Sana questioned

"We need to get stronger since we can't help at all," I told them.

"Don't say that you can help us in a specific way," Ina told us.

"Stop being nice," I said.

"Well, time manipulation and water manipulation are useful!" Ina said

"You forget that Watson needs permission, and I need water to manipulate it." I said

"Fair point, but you have weapons," Sana said.

"Yeah and?" I asked, "Doesn't it help when our enemies can shake them off?"

"Well, hey, I'm not that strong." Ina said

"But you are relevant," I said.

"Well, that's because the ancient ones are vaguely related to Omegaα, so I can contact Mumei through mindspace," Ina said.

I looked at her, and it only took her a moment to realize what I meant. She has some use, while Ame and I were kind of left behind.

"Let's find your use together," Ina said as she smiled at us.

"Aww, that's sweet, Ina!" Sana cooed as she hugged her.

"Ina, that would be great, but at the same time, what can we do that hasn't been done yet?" I asked

"Hmmm... you could technically... Ina was thinking but was hung up on her words.

I turned to Ame and sighed as Ina was thinking.

"Maybe we can just train and then decide what we are," I said.

"Yes, that may be the best scenario," Ina said.

We both picked up the kendo swords and went at it for a little bit while trying to think of what we could do when Kiara came in.

"What are they doing?" She asked

"They are trying to find their self-worth," Ina explained.

"Why don't they just do what I did and talk it out?" She asked

"Well, because we don't know what we can do," I explained.

"Well, back in the day, I thought my only purpose was to die, but when I talked to Calli and Mumei, my life view changed something like that," she explained.

"That actually could work," Ame said.

"I want you to tell me all your strengths and weaknesses so we can discuss what you can do moving forward," Kiara stated.

"You've never had this discussion with me!" Someone said

"Oh, put a sock in it." Kiara said

"Who are you talking to?" I asked

"Pomu, don't worry about it." Kiara sighed

We sat down, and Kiara began to talk to us as we both began to lay out our strengths and weaknesses to her; she just nodded and wrote some things down.

"I got it, now let's start our discussion," Kiara said.

I nodded and began to talk about my insecurity. She seemed to understand it well and came up with something really fast.

"Alright, this is what you two can do," she said.