Elysia in Another World

Chapter 16 - Ren Akari

When we returned from the meeting in Athas, we called for an impromptu royal council meeting in Atlantis, where we introduced the council members to Athanasia, Artemios, and Alexandros. The story about rescuing them was quite a tale to them, and even moreso was the part where some of us gained a hundred years of time. Technically as Kye Akari, I would be one hundred twenty-four years old.

Alethea and I withheld Mavel's meddling from the council, electing only to speak of it to our six guardians. Alethea gained the biggest change, in that Maya Alexandria was not human at all, and I decided to leave any further revelations to her. If she decided to tell anyone about her living world heritage, I would support her in it.

After the royal council meeting, Athy, Alethea, Sanae, and I wrote up an article with our guardians that Lanti would announce to the world at the end of the first semester. Athy didn't need much catching up for school, considering we covered everything in the hundred years. We didn't only train our bodies, okay? So, she joined our class.

During the break between the first and second terms, the news spread across the entire empire, as well as to world leaders on Elea. I also forwarded the article to Eliana, Elias, Katriel, and Kadmiel, and gave them permission to spread it however they saw fit amongst their realms.

Elea leaders were discussing bringing the planet into the Atlantis empire. I would have to bring down the boundary around the realm, but that wouldn't be much of an issue now. Archmage Lanrathor and Lord Calithil also expressed interest in discussing the same thing, but their timeline would take longer, as Elea had already been exposed to me for over a year, and they hadn't. Atalante, being officially appointed governor of Atlantis; that being the ten realms as a whole, not the empire specifically; was determined to bring prosperity to all ten realms. And I believed she could.

Anyway, all that aside, the entire world knew about our rescue of Athy and the boys, as well as the hundred years that the lot of us went through. Athy could have simply chosen to go straight to the university, but decided to enter the academy as a sixth year with us. Alethea, Liliana, Aliana, and I were already virtually done with the academy, and only really staying on as students because we wanted to, but now Sanae, Rei, Sora, Kaede, and Joey were suddenly advanced.

Sanae was transferred to my class, but the kids stayed in their own classes. Everyone was exempt from afternoon courses, except the kids. I made Rei, Sora, Kaede, and Joey stay with their siblings, despite their extra hundred years. I told them to help their classmates. None of them argued, since their instructors were myself for mana class, Alethea for combat class, and dear ole Uncle James for magic class.

Luma still had a habit of ditching her duties to sit in on my afternoon classes and even brought Lana and Lane with her sometimes. Alethea was initially uncomfortable around Lana, given what had happened, but that barrier had slowly lowered in the break between the first and second terms. We frequently went to Elea during the break, taking Adele and Adara with us, and of course Liliana and Aliana, too.

Those two went everyone I went, but did start splitting their guard duties between Sanae and I. The more they got to know Sanae, the more attached to her they got. Since we were originally one person, it wasn't all that surprising how similar we were. We had developed our own distinct personalities, but at our core, we were still more alike than any other two people.

During our frequent trips to Elea, Alethea openly walked around with her cat ears and tail out. We visited many world leaders, with Luma and Lana escorting us, sometimes Lane, as well. And I scouted more students for the Slayer Academy.

Probably the most important thing we did before the second term started was a visit to Daemonheim. Alethea, Sanae, and I had been discussing a plan with Atalante and Athanasia and the others to eliminate the threat of the demon beasts entirely. Eliminate the threat, not kill them outright.