Demon Glyph Hero

Part 6: Reassuring King's Secret Sadness and Shopping

The next morning I stopped by UA to pick up the letter for Eda and met with Amity at the abandoned house that we actually secretly own.

I press my finger on the centre and push magic into it to see the edges light up.

I push it open and we step through.

I feel bad for the Collector and having to kill him but he was basically an Omnipotent Child with no understanding of social skills. He'd likely have destroyed the Boiling Isles of embarrassment at some point without realising it.

I may be casual about my use of Magic but I still know how to hold back and walk about with my own feet unlike he who flew around on that floating star of his.

"We're back! Hey Eda! There was a Villain attack at school!" I call.

"Luz!" I catch King and set him around my shoulders.

"Hey lil' bro, how's the Glyph language coming along?"

In the last few years we discovered that as King grew older, his blood got more potent.

So soon people will be using his Glyph language to cast instead of his father's... But thats a few decades away.

It's actually his pet project to do solo. I discovered his father's Language, but I felt it to be a Right of Passage for him to discover his own by himself.

"It's going great! I already have Light and Plant. But Fire's proving fleeting to discover"

"Hey, I learnt that from another's Fire Magic, you'll have to figure it out patiently. Take your time, you got centuries, millenia in fact" I scratch his chin.

"True, my range is up to ten meters now! Before it grows so unstable it barely activates"

"Good to hear bro, wanna hear about how I killed a monster so fast it could catch the Collector by surprise?"

His eager face had me telling the story, Eda walks in not long afterward I started and I let her read the letter as I finish.

"So you finally told the cover story for the Boiling Isles?"

"Along with how we beat Belos yes"

"He keeps going on about how it was a group effort" Amity rolls her eyes with a soft smirk next to me.

King whacks me on the head.

"Ow!"

"Luz, it's thanks to you that we won, it was a group effort true, but you were the main reason we made it to the heart to help you tear him off Father's Heart" King says, looking at me upsidedown.

"Whatever, you can try that but I still believe it was a group effort" I roll my eyes.

It's one of our oldest arguments, who did or didn't do in the final battle against Belos.

Everyone argues that it was thanks to me we won, and they didn't do much.

I argue that everyone had their parts to play.

Even the Collector who killed me and made me a pseudo son of the Titan.

In five minutes the guy was a better Dad to me than my birth father was.

We headed out and Eda spread her wings, Amity and I lift off on Stringbean while King sat between Eda's wings and we lifted off.

We took a nice flight around the Isles, just enjoying the fresh toxic air, an oxymoron true but...

It's a natural toxic smell compared to the pollution toxic smell of the city.

And that makes all the difference.