My second go at life // Orsted x oc (Mushoku Tensei)

Chapter 46

I was waiting for Rudeus to finish his usual run he does every morning. "So what did you think of my running today, Tindalos, Baskerville?" Rudeus looked down at his knees. "Oh, is that so?"

"You have no friends, so you made friends with your knees?" I asked and Rudeus looked up at me.

"No, my legs." He smirked, and he saw my expression fall. "I mean-"

"Horrible names." I let out.

"Wait, that's the thing you don't like? It's better than what you named that bird." Rudeus pointed out.

"Azizi is a good name!" I exclaimed with my hands on my hips. Azizi coughed up fire again from my shoulder.

"What does it even mean? My legs are named after hounds, so I will become agile." Rudeus smirked as he patted them. "They are good boys."

"Azizi means precious treasure," I explained then patted Rudeus's head. "Weird boy."

"Even weirder sister." He patted my head back, and I giggled.

"Azizi has strong sillyballs," I explained some more.

"Oh, syllables." Rudeus laughed knowing I just like saying it that way. "So it's easy for you to say."

Rudeus was working a lot more while I was taking care of Azizi and trying to learn about him some more. He was definitely not a normal bird, and I don't think he's a dragon either since I just fed him some water I created with my magic and now I'm crying.

"What's wrong?!" Rudeus asked.

"He drowned!" I freaked out.

"Woah, that's a lot of water!" He yelled seeing so much come from Azizi's mouth as he lay on his back. Azizi just hopped up fine confusing us, but I was hugging him so glad he's okay.

Water just kept flowing out of his mouth and we filled up so many cups. "Does it taste like water?" I mumbled.

"It came out of him." Rudeus groaned.

"Liquids come out of us too!" I defended and he laughed. "Didn't you want to try so-"

"AHH!" Rudeus yelled.

I got Azizi to eat some fire again, but he didn't like normal fire only fire that is made with mana. "Mana is circling around inside you," I mumbled as I looked at him with my demon eye activated. "What are you? You are so cool!"

He finally allowed me to move his feathers, and I was confused to see what looked like his skin was see-through and there was a fire inside of him. "You dying?" I asked him.

Azizi shook his head at me making me sigh in relief and I tested out with water mana to see it looked like water was inside him, but no more fire. "It's all mana," I mumbled. "But I didn't feed you that much."

Rudeus was instantly suspicious of Azizi, but I loved how cool he was.

He is so different! Like I am!

I actually tried teaching him sign language making Rudeus stare at me, but I thought he only needed to understand the motions and it does work. I can give him signals to do things like puke water onto Rudeus...I don't really wanna hurt people so there ain't much else we can do.

Rudeus and I worked very hard to make our names more well-known by doing more jobs.

And I know you are gonna call me crazy, but I keep seeing glimpses of Orsted! Am I going crazy?!

"I just want his coat again!" I whined.

"Ceres, you sound weird." Rudeus reminded me.

"Says the one who is praying to panties, I will never forget you made me do that." I glared at him and he shivered. "Anyway, just leave them in the shrine you made."