Each On Their Own 1

"Ahhh!" Was the first sound the deity heard as he arrived at one of the places for the exercises. Came with the scream was a fireball exploding in his face.

"Huh?!... What the hell, Lumine?!" Lu exclaimed, barely defending himself from getting burnt.

"It's your fault for suddenly appearing like that! What was that puppet you switched places anyway?" The blonde questioned with an innocent look.

"Apology first, answers afterwards." He demanded.

"I'm sorry, for not hurting you at all." Lumine smugly complied.

"Haahh... It's a puppet made by me with some help from Ei for this occasion. Splitting myself into five would be more tiring than exchanging places with the puppets from time to time." Lu sighed, yet explained nonetheless.

"So, the others are currently getting trained by four other puppets too?" She deducted.

"Exactly!" He clapped slowly.

"Where's the fifth one then? The one you exchanged with." The traveler narrowed her eyes.

"It's a suprise for later~." Lumine just sighed on his antics.

"Anyway, I assume you already know what this exercise is about?" Raiden-Sensei adjusted his monocle.

"Yes. My friend, Puppet 1, explained it clearly to me. It's a test on elemental control right?" She seeked confirmation.

"Umu! You will test your elemental prowess here and the puppet will judge it. But since Puppet 1 is currently busy, I'm here as a replacement, happy~?" He teased.

"I already succeeded on using the dendro element, and was trying to muster the pyro one until you... appeared." Lumine ignored him completely.

"Since dendro was done, which was the hardest for me due to the fact that I do not have any acquaintances that uses it. The rest should be easy." She smirked.

"Whoa! Calm down a bit, Lumine. Your blinding me with your natural genius." Lu snarkyly complimented.

"This unique vision you gave me was just that incredible. So... Thank you... again." Lumine gave him a bright genuine smile, as she touched her new and stunning golden earrings.

"Anything for my dear Lumi-Lumi~. I wanted to tamper with your dress though, adding the vision on it might be more effective..." The deity's eyes shined as he targeted the unknown artifact in front of him.

"Hell no! Who knows what you might do to it." She backed off, and her cute smile immediately disappeared.

"Let me try this again..." Lumine said, before she succeeded in conjuring the pyro element.

"Hehehe~. Retribution!" The genius showed off cutely.

Lu then watched her attain the hydro and cryo element. Both being first tries...

"At this point, I'll even try to use the abyssal one. If my stupid brother can use it, so can I..." She bragged with a cocky grin.

"Since you're so confident, why don't we up the difficulty, Lumine?" Raiden-Sensei challenged her.

"By the way, I've been wanting to ask you something. The Realm Creation one, it isn't that simple right? Because I clearly saw the Raiden Shogun and you implant your domains unto the world." Lumine asked, as she nodded to accept the challenge.

"Perceptive as always, aren't you? Let's just say skilled people can do that instead of just trapping someone inside their domain. It's mostly used for damage control." Lu explained as he embraced her by the waist from behind.

"So, the Raiden Shogun did held back at that time." She murmured while blushing, but she hasn't lost control of the elements she gathered.

"Of course. Or else the Narukami Island would be the second victim after Yashiori." Lumine shivered as she felt his breath at her neck.

"H-Hey! Stop taking advantage of the situation!" The flustered blonde retorted.

"Focus on the exercise or you'll fail~. But... by the time you finish, I wonder how far I could go." Lu said as he caressed Lumine's pale neck.

"S-Stop, Ziya... Your petty distractions won't stop me." She was brimmed with determination to succeed. The blonde was excited for two reasons though...

"Then... Thank you for the meal~." He whispered seductively to her ears, then neared his mouth to her neck.

"W-Wait!..." Lumine closed her eyes in anticipation, forgetting about the exercise completely.

But even after a few seconds, nothing happened...

"You.Have.Failed.The.Exercise... Please.Try.Again..." Was what she heard as she opened her eyes.

What followed was an angry scream from a frustrated lady. And the sound of metal getting scrapped

RIP Puppet 1...

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The culprit was then welcomed with another explosion as he arrived at the next venue. This time, though, it was much... much louder.

*Boom!* A beautiful tengu stared at her magnum opus.

" *Clap* *Clap* *Clap* Marvellous explosion. Eight out of Ten." Lu applauded as he approached his next victi-student.

"I'm grateful for your praise, Master. But as you scored, it's still lacking something..." Sara said, deep in her thought.

She didn't even ask how he appeared. I guess, she's just used to it by now. To clarify, this exercise is to test Firepower.

"Pyro and Electro is a great combination, Sara. But you shouldn't confine yourself into using only two elements. You're a tengu after all, and we tengus are more adept in elemental arts." Raiden-Sensei adjusted his monocle once more. Get used to it.

"Can you shed more light on this topic... teacher?" The tengu went back to how she used to call him. It seems like calling him that greatly embarrassed her.

"Little Reizenbou trained rigorously on four elements, you know? Namely Pyro, Electro, Hydro, and Anemo. While also being able to use the remaining ones on an expert level." He stated.

"Really?!" Needless to say, Sara was greatly shocked by the news.

"Really." Lu said as he stared directly into her eyes.

(The old me was lucky enough to hide it from those role playing gods. Though mostly, it's just hiding from Makoto... No wonder she felt ignored. Even I would if the person I had a crush on suddenly took in someone and never introduced me...) The staring contest continued.

(Adding to the fact that those guys were mostly busy monitoring the foreigners, which was me, and the two travelers from the stars, constantly.) Sara is about to blink any second now...

(They did succeed in the end, though... The twins were punished and I died. What they didn't predict was a crazy lady's plan... It's always the yanderes man...)

"Another win for me~." Lu chuckled, after Sara averted her eyes while blushing.

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