Chapter 13 Vol.1

Chapter 13:What am I looking at?

Its morning, I ate my breakfast with everyone at a small table before we began Mio's ability tests. Today it was Fubuki sensei's turn to cook and everyone is looking forward to it. Today's breakfast was omurice, it's one of my favorites but I wouldn't tell her that to avoid her death glare. She used to be very hard on me and refused to share the table during meals when Mio-sha proposed it. But now she seems to have mellowed down except during lessons.

We finished dinner and after cleaning up, I and Mio went into her working room. I had pretty much finished all the tests that I could think of even after Calli gave me her advice. Hence these days I just help Mio-sha with her paperwork.

"Edge, could you help me carry last year's documents and arrange it in the order of age?"

"Sure thing Mio-sha" [Edge]

At first, everything seemed normal but after a while, I found something strange.

"Mio-sha, why is there a triangular pattern on every paper with slightly different positions? " [Edge]

"Oh, it's because I picked the paper using my ability. "[Mio

That explains her ability to have a beak but considering her ability's previous parameters i can guess that it was originally a bird.

"Mio-sha then why are you not using it now?"[Edge]

"It became weird"[Mio]

"Weird? How? " [Edge]

"It screws up my command"[Mio]

"Could you show it to me?"[Edge]

Mio prepared a paper and sat in front of it.

"Now I will command it to move the paper"[Mio]

The paper moved away from Mio-sha.Mio took out another piece of paper

"I will now command it to move the paper once I finish writing the paper." [Mio]

Mio wrote on the paper halfway and then ordered it again.

"I commanded it to move the paper"[Mio]

The paper doesn't move.....

"You see, It just wouldn't work as it's intended to"[Mio]

It's from this I realized that Mio-sha's Hatotatarus has intelligence.

"Mio finish scribbling the whole paper then try it again!"[Edge]

Mio did as I told and then Hatotaurus lifted the paper afterward. I explained to Mio the problem is with the arrangement of her command. The first command was set as a priority for Hatotaurus which is the reason why the second command was nullified until the first command is fulfilled.

From that day onwards we did all types of intelligence tests to gauge Hatotaurus's birdbrain. turns out He is quite smart and has the intelligence of a 9-year-old. It could count and write which came to be a shock to us. We hoped that we could somehow communicate with Hatotaurus but no matter how many times we tried he wouldn't respond.

Weeks passed by just from all the fun we had when experimenting with Hatotaurus. The final test has begun and it is now time to say goodbye after this. Today we are testing whether Hatotaurus will violate the command given by her master Mio-sha.To prevent unforeseeable accidents, Calli is present to observe the last test and to separate the ability if she is satisfied by my results. The details of the experiment would consist of me trying to harm Mio and observe if Hatotaurus would step in and stop it.

"Are you ready Edge" [Mio]

"Im not" [Edge]

"Why" [Mio]

"Because I might hurt you." [Edge]

"Hahaha, you're so kind Edge"[Mio]

"OK here I go!"[Edge]

I Dashed towards Mio holding a knife at full speed. Hatotaurus that is holding 3 brushes, 2 in his hands and 1 in his beak turned his head towards me. Out of fear I circulated my Ki and formed an earth Ki barrier and also body strenghtening. As the blade slowly neared Mio-sha, Hatotaurus remains unmoved. The blade touched Mio's neck and gently a bead of blood prickled out.

*BOOM*

I couldn't hear anything in my ears except that it's ringing and I could only whiff 'Calli's scent. I felt like I was hit by something fast and heavy. I opened my eyes and see Calli's Face, I had never felt so relieved staring death right in the face. All my senses start to come back to me and the muddled voices start to make sense.

"He's fine, he was just caught by the impact, there are no internal damages."[Calli]

"Fuuu, Thank god."[Mio]

"Did we pass?"[Edge]

Calli smiled and stroked my hair gently.

"Of course you passed splendidly."[Calliope]

"And now I just need to do my part. Do you need some more rest or would you like to watch?" [Calliope]

"I want to see it." [Edge]

"Alright, tough boy." [Calliope]

Calli took out a long black scythe with a white blade that carries a pale blue gleam. She walks in front of Mio-sha.

"Beast God, if I may?"[Calliope]

"Please help that child."[Mio]

The scythe was placed on Mio's left neck and Calli slides her scythe effortlessly all the way to Mio's bottom right waist. Along with the scythe, Hatotaurus was being severed from Mio-sha's body. He looked just as we expected to be, head of a pigeon, body of a minotaurs, lower body of a wolf, and horns of a buffalo.

"PO PO PO PO PO PO"[Hatotaurus]

Calli seemed to sense something's wrong and readied a battle stance.

Hatotaurus checked its surroundings and found Mio. It ignored Calli and walked towards Mio-sha gently in a not imposing manner. Hatotaurus kneeled down on one foot and extended a hand to Mio. Mio seemingly shocked but she placed her hand on top of Hatotaurus and then Hatotaurous disappeared into thin air.

I passed out afterward and I woke up late for dinner. I went to the dining room to look for leftovers and that is where we met again.

"POPOPOPOPO" [Hatotaurus]