Entering school (time skip)

Five years~

Smoothly I became five. It marked the day for me to leave my comfortable courtyard to attend school.

It felt as though it was a funeral; the servants were weeping tragically. I could not understand how air breathers could release so much water so easily. I can't remember doing it, and have no desire to as well. My hunger was extremely large, I really have no clue what is the matter with this body. It felt as though I am a true Shark-kin again and I have to constantly search for food to sate my hunger.

I released a sigh.

First day of school, now that my grandma had ranked up by three ranks and is close to the fourth I felt relieved.

Grandma is natural to think and say without thinking of her as an old meat bag. There is a downside now though.

Old madam Kai is a strange air breather. The things she allowed me to do are quite startling. Now I have thought about it a little longer.

Since the Kai family has stepped back into the eyes of society, things have become quite complicated. For example, the small business outside has risen higher than expected and the staff seem to have many welcomed guests. There will always be those who would slip in or those who would seek more benefits. Well, they died. At that time, I ate three of them and killed two.

Should I say it was not my fault?

It was my fault, I could have handled it better but being awakened and having such vicious hunger pang and being startled awake when someone was stabbing you…right, I ate them both and sat there in a daze.

One, I was bleeding, and the other is that they actually tasted almost as good as a siren.

Sirens are rare and we're both delicious and nutritious. I had been a glutton eating them before they became a rare I could eat one or two every fifty world tides or so.

The next day I had been found with my wounds partially healed with ash grey skin. It felt as though I was dying and the body was about to shut down. How funny it had seemed before to find that a meat bag had injured me, a Shark-kin to this extent.

The cries from the distance almost made my ears bleed.

"Young miss! "

"Oh, great creator! The… the young miss!"

"Call the old madam, the young miss have been injured! "

"Heal her! Heal her! Do it quickly!"

While the voices became a white noise, I felt weak and weightless. Floating I saw suddenly a blue grey outline. The scales were tiny and smooth, with jagged edges. Looking at it, I finally realised what I am looking at.

Myself.

I am looking at my true form I had thought I had lost which had the teeth marks dotting my massive scaled form from the Orcas who had attacked me during my bonding ceremony.

Why is it here?

I thought I had lost it when I entered this body. I could not even remember having a-

I became startled. That is right, I have many abilities. I am a true born Shark-kin, my power is vast, just like my sisters, it is just I have refused to walk the land like them and therefore discarded that ability.

Then this place?

I moved forward wanted to embrace my true form but felt the pain. It still hurts to much, just not like before.

Then I should chose a power to help me with that, and I can not allow my meat bag to die. Frowning deep I thought for a few seconds before deciding to select a power that would allow me to heal both my forms.

{healing: subcategories}

Looking at these I felt that I am a failure. The body's healing I had never paid much attention to, it healed rather well, but remembering those days I had to lie in the forest unmoving… there is no need to think further.

I scanned them, thinking about what needs to be done to rank up those and had finally just before this day I had reached rank six in the first, rank five in the second and third and the last rank four close to five. It is better, but not good enough.

That day, with the help of old madam and my servants, I had been saved. After explaining myself, I promised myself that I would never endanger myself like that again.

That time I was saved, but what about the next time?

Also, grandma had cried so much during that time, the entire Kai home had been gloomy. Many servants were questions and a total of twenty-two had been slaughtered.

"Ra, be good in school. Some things you can eat and others not. We have money so we can afford to feed you. Just comm grandma and I will send whatever you wish."

I nodded. For a six-year-old, my body was small, but that only made me look extremely adorable. I usually obey the old madam Kai after all she has been good to me. I need to show my gratitude and she is also my secondary thigh.

The secondary thigh deserves at least half as much respect as the main.

Thinking about her words I remember the taste of air breathers even til this day.

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Note:

*Cell proliferation: tissue growth

*Hemostasis: blood clotting

*Epidermis/ Dermis: surface/deep layer.

*these only pertain to the skin healing.