Pendant

After Kaji returned to the mansion, he wanted to meet up with the twins and let them take anything they wanted, from his collected items, from the village. He found them in Rem's room, where they were talking with Frederica. Kaji entered the room and saw the three of them sitting on Rem's bed and chatting.

The girls heard someone opening the door to the room and turned their heads to see Kaji, who was carrying a big bag on his shoulder. "Kaji!" The twins stood up instantly and ran up to him, the three of them hugged while Frederica just sat there not knowing what to do.

After a big warm hug, Kaji looked at them with a warm smile and started speaking. "I visited our village, and this is all I could salvage from there. If you want you can take anything from the bag, I collected everything I could." Kaji said as he placed the bag on the floor and opened it.

The bag was full of all sorts of things, the girls saw some accessories, books while the twins were looking through the items, and Kaji sat down next to Frederica.

"So how were you guys doing while I was away?" Kaij asked the girls.

"I was good, it was like any other day." Fredericka answered while the twins didn't really hear them speak while searching the bag for something.

"Did the clown do anything while I was away?" He asked her while tilting his head a bit.

"No, he was in his office, it seemed like there was a ton of paperwork to be done, after all, he hired new workers. Not to mention as the most powerful mage in the kingdom of Lugnica, he must report back to the castle from time to time." Frederica said while looking at him.

"I see, but how do you know all of this?" He asked with interest.

"Oh, he was rambling about it to the servants while eating breakfast. But why do you call him a clown? You're working for him are you not?" She asked him.

"Simply put he's a clown, he looks like one so he should be called one. Even if he's the strongest mage in Lugnica, he can't do whatever he wants." Kaji said with a bit of disgust in his voice.

"You really don't like him, do you?" She asked while showing off her sharp teeth.

"Who in their right mind would like a clown, like that?" He asked back.

While the two of them were talking, the twins were finding all sorts of things in the bag, but one caught their attention. It was a pendant that their mother got on her birthday, from her mother. The pendant's chain was made from silver, the pendant was a bright blue stone that changed its color a bit. If one looked closely one could see the blue color change from light blue to dark blue, it was as if the blue color changed in random patterns, like the water of the sea.

The twins wanted to cry when they remembered their mother, but they didn't, they promised themself that they wouldn't cry. They still had someone with them, they still had Kaji with them. They saw him train every morning, they could tell that Kaji wanted to become strong, but now they realized that they need to support each other.

After all, they didn't know what happened to the other oni villages, but they could only assume that they were the only ones left of their race. Ram looked at her sister and decided that Rem should keep the pendant, she didn't know why she felt like that but she did.

"Rem, you should keep it." Ram said to her sister.

"Are you sure, but I'm not…" She wanted to protest in a way but was interrupted by her sister.

"It doesn't matter, keep it, and we should start training with Kaji from tomorrow morning, we need to catch up to him.!" Ram said to her twin.

"Umu." Rem nodded with determination when she heard her sister.

After some time, Kaji left the room to go have a bath and go to sleep, it was almost nighttime, after all. When he left the girls talked about training, which made Frederica want to join their morning training too. She thought that maybe she could have fun with them while training.

While Kaji was having a bath, he looked at his tattoos to see how much mana he has in them, after a couple of minutes he calculated that after two years he should be able to travel to another world. But there was one question on his mind, should he take the girls with him. He wanted them to become stronger, but at the same time, he wanted them to be safe. Should he go to another world by himself first? He didn't know what to do, but there was no rush, he still had time, what he had to focus on was training right now.

But suddenly he got a great idea if he could train, or spar with Wilhelm or Reinhard, he could become stronger. These two are the strongest swordsmen that he knew of, now how does reach them? Will they train him or will they spar with him, he didn't know but he will try to find a way to get in contact with them.

(Image of the pendant)