Artificial Rain

Along with the rhythmic sounds of rains, a lovely melody was starting to sound out.

In contrast of the fire that was extinguished from before, this one was calm and filled with warmth a little git of chill caused by rain.

The melody and lyrics told how important the person is by your side.

a calm and serene sounds made the melody a little bit sad as the heavy sound of rain was overriding it a bit.

Amidst this tremendously large and lonely world, there existed a small love.

Little Love Song; also called as Little Love Song.

Composed by MONGOL8-... Composed by Kuro. At least in Virturan

Of course that was just a lyrics.

When Kuro ended the singing, the angry Oni was already sleeping in this small tree hole.

The rain still haven't stopped, but the view from this small hole was exceptionally great for some reason. It reminded him of a certain saying: a frog in well.

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In Reign Empire, it was also raining. Because of this rain, Maou didn't have a choice but to take Don, his horse and Reina to somewhere so they wouldn't get wet.

Although he and his horse wouldn't get caught in some fever or something, Reina was an oridnary human. Although stronger than those average humans in earth, she wasn't perfectly immune against colds.

"Don't you think it's weird, Maou-san? Our weather forecast didn't say that it would rain but it still rained! It was also perfectly normal before it started raining..."

"Fumu. Fumu."

Treiner, Maou nodded lightly without spouting a words. His sight was toward the outside where millennium droplets was falling from the heaven to earth.

He lightly extended his fingertips as the droplets fell to it and wetted his fingers.

'This rain... is weird.' He didn't completely capture it with his eyes because there's too many droplets and it would be much easier if he focused on a still water in his finger.

With this, he confirmed that this rain was artificially caused by someone.

The droplets, instead of having a single mana called 'water' had another mana called 'magic' but this 'magic' wasn't something a magic that came from contracting with gods.

This magic instead of coming from 'magic spells,' it was more of an magic from an 'esper' those who could use magic since they've born and didn't need to contract with gods.

'Wait, is the source of this water came from Aquatic Dragon Orbs? but to store this mana enough to cover the entire city in this short time should be impossible...'

Maou kept his serious face.

'And releasing this huge amount of mana just to rain the entire city is pointless... it's not that this city is lacking in water... wait..."

Treiner exited from the building making an excuse to Reina whatever he thought of and levitated in high-up the air as if to confirm something.

Suddenly, his eyes turned into dark-red, different from his blue-eyes transformation from before. With this, he was able to see something as formless as mana.

It is said that with this ability, he can temporarily see as if he was in the 4th Dimension.

His was turning from red to blue and back to red. It was the results of him changing from Mystical Azure Sight to Transcendental Crimson Clairvoyance.

The current occurrence in the entire world surprised him.

The entire world was actually raining. With his eyes, he saw the disgusting vein-like mana patterns in high-up the sky which captured Virturan as if a fish in nets.

Tracing the net, he reached in a single conclusion. This wasn't caused by Aquatic Dragon Orb, but a single human who was crying in a sky who was launched by something to somewhere.

Her being launched to somewhere wasn't caused by her but this rain was caused by her. Treiner couldn't help but shivers in excitement as this child who seemingly possessed the endless amount of mana pool casually flood the entire world.

Flooding was a little bit of overstated. She just rained the entire world which would cause a little bit of problem in the smaller country.

Treiner couldn't help but be excited of the future when they grow up and he went down, entered the house he exited from after drying himself with magic.

"Welcome back, Maou-san. Where did you go?"

"a little bit of looking."

Maou cheerfully smiled to Reina like a children who received a candy. This smile was so innocent that Reina have long since forgotten that this guy was the demon king.

Keeping the same smile, he muttered a single thing anyone there can't possibly hear.

"welcome back"

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By the time Lunar Falling Day has ended, the entire world was still raining. Kuro couldn't sleep because of the sweet fragrances of the Oni that was sleeping in his laps. It seemed that the more he tried to sleep, the more he can't sleep.

According to 17, he said just 'trying' not to sleep will cause him sleep more faster but his brain just unconsciously tries to sleep. Without a meaning to try anymore, he softly laid Ayame's head to the floor and went outside despite the raining.

A little bit more of training should be fine, right?

Kuro lightly lifted his hand and pointed toward the sky.

He controlled all of his mana toward his fingertips and just like that, all mana in his mana pool was released from his finger 'instantly' and formed a beam that didn't pierce the sky.

This was his new mana controlling training. It seemed that his only talent was controlling mana. He have been able to consume all his mana instantly since long time ago. So, he decided to change the places where he release it from.

This time was fingertips. There was a time where he decided to release his mana from his stomach. Although it didn't went well at first time and it took him more time than needed to release his mana, the more he got used to it, the faster his mana circulated and reach to the place where he had to release his mana.

Even the 'beam' he fired toward the sky was also the results of his mana control talen- training. He compressed his mana as he can that it actually formed a small beam that can be seen with eyes. As expected of his tale- efforts of training,

Kuro also didn't faint anymore. It seems like the more he did it, the more resistances he bet from fainting through mana depletion. At best or worst(?) he just felt more tired after a single moves.

It's a pity though that even if his control over mana was matchless, his mana pool was at best, average or less than average. Or else, he could make a sword out of mana, even a sword formation although he will have to control all of the swords in the sword formation.

After his mana was reduced to nothing, he started training—jump ropes, steps ladder—while the entire world was still raining.

'Huh? Why do I feel more tired than I usually gets tired...'

Kuro's eyelids as starting to get heavier as he completed a single sets of step ladder training. At this point, he couldn't handle the exhaustion anymore as he was overridden by his sleepiness.

The feeling he thought that he missed, has came back to him, bringing him to fall unconscious.

At the same time, small darkness appeared from Kuro's body surfaces. Each droplets that fell into darkness has caused a ripple to happen on Kuro's body surfaces as the darkness devoured the droplets.

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