Magus's Husband

One Risk

The white tiger walked slowly through the cemetery late at night. Staying hidden in the shadows coming from the trees.

Teruko sat outside on a chair, worried of what could happen to Fukuchi with that mad man near him.

"I specifically asked you to fetch that corruption for me, yes?" The white haired man held a knife towards Fukuchi's neck.

"Is it really that troubling for you?" He sounded irritated and had a small frown on his face as one of his bluish grey eyes glared at him.

"Eh, oh well it doesn't matter! I at least was an able to get a glimpse of him!" He quickly put the knife away somewhere in his clothes and smiled brightly.

"But it would be best to not keep messing up, you know? Unless you want your apprentice to get hurt!" He talked like it was too bothersome to even try.

She heard the door close near her making her look up to see Fukuchi. She was relieved to see him un injured but angry at the same time.

"Sir! Why do you keep listening to that mad man!? Why let him take your arm!?" She stood up and followed him.

"You shouldn't concern yourself with this, it's my job to protect you. Have a little faith in me, yea?"

"But-"

"I have a plan no need to worry." He walked away into the other room.

Teruko felt conflicted, as much as she trusted him she couldn't bring herself to not do anything.

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I looked out the window, it was already late but I didn't feel like sleeping. It's been a few days since we've come back home and it was pretty nice.

Once it was morning, Akutagawa brought me regular black jeans with a long white sleeved shirt with another red shirt to layer it over. It was comfortable to wear, especially with the wind getting colder at random times.

I went down stairs to work on a potion I was tasked to make. I poured a light green liquid into the cup and grabbed a mandrake petal from the small creature sitting in a pot. It started shaking once I started reaching for it, it was rather adorable in my opinion, it reminded me of an upside down radish.

I reached for a different creature covered in leaves and hay as a coat surrounding its dark body. It helped me to carefully place the amount of magic needed on the potion, though most of it was on me and if I'm able to control it when saying the words to mix it with the potion.

I watched as the small puffs of magic fell from the creature into the liquid. "Slug!"

That bastard has started calling me that ever since we came back. I have no idea what even made him come up with it but it didn't matter how many times I've argued about it he won't stop calling me that.

"Have you finished the order for that old woman down the hill?" He was wearing his usual clothes with his black suit and turquoise pendant on his chest. I wondered if those were the only type of clothes he had.

"Yea I just finished." I stood up down from my crouched position. "A pint of hops and five leaves of lavender for the insomnia pillow." I heard a squeak coming from the fluffy flying sheep. It got closer to the cup sniffing it, "and I enchanted it to ward off nightmares,"

"Wonderful! It's just as I taught you! I'm surprised you were able to remember that with your small brain!" I heard that you bastard!

I wasn't able to curse him off and was instead distracted by my fluffy friend suddenly fainting from sniffing the potion. I heard the waste of bandages walk closer behind me as he bend down to inspect the cup as I started panicking on what to do with the cloud.