Chapter 3: Companion

There was a half-naked girl in front of me...she had beautiful silver hair fox ears and tail a deep-set amber eyes she was a semi-human.

She was a beautiful girl but . What the hell was she doing in my room!

Zoe: oh you must be my partner!

Shiro: etto...

Zoe: uh...

Zoe would lower her head to see that she was half naked with her shirt open.

Zoe... per...

Shiro: *approaches* excuse me ?

Zoe: pervert !!!

I would give him a big slap and send him flying into the wall.

Shiro: why me !!!

2 hours later

Headmaster's office

Master: Well, is there a problem?

Shiro: no shit! what's a girl doing in my room or rather on the men's side of the room!

Master: well shiro... we had... how to say we had a little excess of female number this year so we ran out of rooms.

Shiro: ha ?

Master: honestly I didn't mean to but the female number exceeded the male number by 1 percent.

Shiro: just that!

Master: come on don't get mad having a sweetie by your side isn't that bad.

Shiro: I want to hit you in many ways.. you don't know how much I want it right now.

Master: come on calm down... let's not get to violence

Shiro: *sigh* then why me?

Master: .. because you're the one honestly I don't think you're the kind of guy who wants to get into a relationship or go with bad intentions to a girl or are you?

Shiro: of course not

Master: your goal is to become strong, that's what you came here for, so I think that leaving you two together won't be a problem.

Shiro: you... what were you planning on arranging a meeting as soon as I started my life here?

Master: *smiles* shiro many look down on humans because ?

Shiro: for being the most numerous race but with less strength.

Master: right... I know that better than anyone... but those few with strength can make a difference.

Shiro: that was your plan to show the human's abilities so that the others would be encouraged to surpass them.

Master: you're not like normal humans, are you?

Shiro: just because I'm able to use aura doesn't make me special or more than others.

Master: there are few aura users in the world and they are only born among humans or hybrids of humans and other races .. you know very well how special you are

Shiro: well it's not like my master taught me gently it was hell but now it seems that I have mastered the training and when I asked him to be stronger you appeared in his word.

Master: here you can get stronger I guarantee it plus your master is someone amazing he trained the one who now sits on a throne and the other kings of the races watch out.

Shiro: the king of the humans

The kings of the races are synonymous with power.

Each one of them wields the power to take an army by himself, the gravity of his power is not known, only the survivors of the great war know the totality of his power and some of them are still growing stronger.

Master: you haven't spoken to the king

Shiro: he once offered me a job as one of his paladins I turned him down for what he's looking for I must have nothing to tie me to the world.

Master: interesting... well I think you should go talk to your partner her name is zoe protect her well we don't want any conflicts.

Shiro: you... are planning something...

Master: *smiles* who knows ..

2 hours later

Shiro: mm

Shiro and Zoe's room

The atmosphere was very uncomfortable silence reigned.

Shiro: etto... Zoe right

Zoe: yes!

Shiro: my name... is... shiro...

Zoe: yes..

The awkward silence returned as they had nothing to talk about.

Shiro: *sigh* look I know this is awkward better than anyone I can try to convince the director to.. change you to a girl's room.

Zoe: it's not necessary.. i just want to avoid causing trouble.

Shiro: ( is she shy by chance ) tell me... why did you come here?

Zoe: I wanted to be stronger... in my family everyone... has great power, I feel weak compared to them.

Shiro: I see, but if you want to be strong, the first step is to leave behind your shyness and fears, it doesn't make sense to be in a place where you'll become strong without leaving aside what makes you weak.

Zoe: shiro... you are strong.

Shiro: ha.. no.. i still lack.. i want to be stronger.. for my goal i must be it.

Zoe: I understand..

Shiro: *sigh* well since you and I are going to be partners.. the logical thing would be.. to get to know each other better we won't tell things about our private lives okay.

Zoe: yeah that's fine with me *smiles*.

Shiro: i'll start.. me first.. i grew up in the human realm.. unlike the others i was a farm boy milking the cows doing homework that's what i was in charge of.

Zoe: I thought humans nowadays would prefer to live in technology.

Shiro: yes... but my parents loved the outdoors more...

In this world thanks to the collaboration of the dwarves and humans together we have brought technology to a great level.

In this world magic and technology go hand in hand helping us more in our struggle.

Humans create the ideas dwarves build them... they are the race that gets along best with humans and least looks down on them because of our creativity and ingenuity.

Even if we don't have a perfect building talent they admire us for not giving them boring jobs.

Today you can see a helicopter or airplane built by dwarves and unlike one made by humans ... well it is more resistant and powerful.

They describe us as ... a cure for boredom.

Zoe: well I guess it's my turn my name is Zoe .. I was born in the royal capital of the kingdom of the half humans.

The half-humans are a race of half man and half beast.

They are not hybrids between humans or anything like that they are the race that is at one with nature even more so than the elves since they concentrate on mastering nature itself.

Shiro: wait real capital that's where the storm crystal is!

Zoe: yes... although for me I didn't see much sense in it, I almost never visited that place.

Shiro: well I guess it's like that it's not like you can visit whenever you want to.

The storm crystal is an artifact belonging to the royal family, my master told me about it, it is said that the crystal chooses the future kings or queens, only those that the crystal chooses can ascend to the throne, even within the royal family, the throne is not safe, only the one that the storm crystal chooses will ascend to the throne.

But that's not all the chosen ones are given the power to control the phenomena of nature the king and queen of the semi-humans are feared because they are able to invoke tornadoes or larger natural disasters.

Many coveted that power and whoever tried to steal the crystal died.

The most guarded object of all

Shiro: my master told me about the crystal... it is one of the most valuable objects in the world as well as the world tree in the elven realm.

Zoe: Yes, each race has an object that represents power in their faction.

Shiro: the fact that these objects are unique and irreplaceable makes them very valuable.

Zoe: but the human realm doesn't have one...

Shiro: yes we do

Zoe: uh?

Shiro: the noble families may ignore it but the kings know it...

Shiro: if I tell you here and now, you promise to keep it a secret.

Zoe: it's that important

Shiro: it would draw too much attention and I'm not interested in popularity.

Zoe: okay I promise

Shiro: Well... as you know in this world there are a total of four means of power.

The objects like the storm crystal, the world tree etc.

Shiro: of course the power obtainable is overwhelming everyone knows about it.. the second one

The technology able to evolve and develop stronger weapons.

Shiro: the second means and currently the fastest growing of all.

Zoe: yes .. then the third and fourth one

Shiro: the third is magic

Magic... a mystical and invisible power where you use your mana or energy to summon what you have.

Magic in this world is defined as the blessing of God.

Magic also means many it is a harmonious power that we can all use to communicate magic is unity if we use the power together we will be stronger.

Zoe: then the fourth one

Shiro: I told you that we have an object that only kings know .. well that object is a person and it uses the fourth means of power.

Zoe: wait by chance ?

Shiro: the king

Zoe: the king? that's the object for humans.

Shiro: the fourth method is the aura, a power that only hybrids and humans possess.

Zoe: I've heard of the aura but they say it's rare.

Shiro: it is, I won't expand on it by telling you how it works, I'll just tell you what it is.

The aura means one the power of a person.

Interpreted that phrase means be strong enough to eliminate the world on your own.

The aura trains you and you alone means a solitary and individual power.

A person can get more than 1 aura

The king is someone who has around 7 auras and is training the 8th one

Zoe: but having more auras is a good thing.

Shiro: they told you about the big war.

Zoe: yeah... there's no one who wouldn't have been told.

Shiro: then I'll ask you this how long ago the king of the humans is alive if his average lifespan is 100 years.

Zoe:.. he... is it?

Shiro: the more auras you have the more your life is extended as you think that old man is alive an individual benefit that is aura .. yes having aura is great but do not misinterpret it having more than one aura is a miracle challenge you have 2 and with that is already a lot and that is precisely why many people despair or stagnate.

Zoe: you use aura...

Shiro: yes .. I only have 2 at the moment.

Zoe: shiro I'll keep this a secret...

Shiro: thank you

Zoe: so.. i guess we're friends then.

Shiro: hey..

Zoe: if we already know each other, we are partners and we like each other what's stopping us from being friends right?

Shiro: yes

Zoe: then it's nice to meet you *smiles*.

Shiro: nice to meet you *smiles*.

Maybe and just maybe... life here can be fun for me.

To be continued...