Chapter 2: Unexpected Companion

5 minutes have passed since the explosion of enthusiastic questions, the girl or Mira as she called herself was pouting at the table while, Percy was trying(and failing) to make some coffee, "you know i can help you right, while i am rich, i can cook and brew stuff, without any problems" she said with a confident tone, "its strange i swear i knew the recipe..." to be honest, he felt quite lost, the same sensation he had at the incident, "How sad general amnesia huh" said Mira which seemingly materialized near him, altough he maintained a collected approach he was quite shocked and a bit mad " first, didn't i ask you to not read my mind, second don't appear near people this way!" he said in an irritated tone,

"and i haven't responded to that question, for your information it is very hard for me to deactivate it, believe it or not but is not an on/off switch, but i have a proposition, why don't we share abilities, see how they work, after all your blood based ability could be very useful to both of us especially you since, well you don't have a backer, plus with my mental ability i could reach around you amnesia, so what do ya' say? "she said with a grin that did not reach her eyes

'it could be useful i remember little from before the ability test, apart from well the incident... it could help me understand the flashes of memory that i get, although the risk is allying myself with someone for which i don't know the power of, after all from what little i remember abilities that have the capabilities of mine are quite unique or rare plus we have to consider the strange situation in which i found myself in, the bed, a second host that wasn't in the contract and all that stuff', "sorry too dangerous i don't trust you in fact, you seem pretty emotionally detached, and to be honest you s-"

"yeah, yeah, spare me the monologue pretty boy, ugh.. listen when you have my ability its normal to get detached, i need you to turn it off, well at least the passive effects of it , and yes i had to pull some strings to get in this situation with you, honestly you are the perfect candidate because i want something that you have, and you need your memories back, because right now my dear "She said while adjusting his shirt" you are just an empty sack of meat that needs a bit of guidance, plus we are going to the academy, where the most powerful students of this galaxy go to serve the empire and conquer political power, most of those students are nobles with parents that can blow up a solar system like ours, may i remind you that internal strife between the empires kingdoms exists and although less bloody than before the academy is one of the manifestations of it? We are playing a game where neither one of us, especially you can afford to be caught in a moment of weakness, listen you may not like me but you need me, the same way i need you-"

"and why would you need me? you don't seem that phased, neither seem to have any problems with your powers-"

"Listen here fella, you don't know what i had to go through to control this ability of mine, you wanna know a fun fact, i am 19, why you ask?, i got special permission to remain home for one year to control my telepathic and emphatic powers, you know what it means to hear thoughts and emotion ALL THE TIME, all of peoples deepest secrets, guess what that becomes when you have a crowd near you...TORTURE that's what it becomes! I ask you to please reconsider because i am willing to go to great lengths to assure myself i don't DIE when i arrive, or become catatonic, even if i have to force the bond and beat you up, i have a year more of experience than you both in magic and my abilities, are you sure you want to go that route?"

At this moment Perseus stopped trying to murderthe kitchen tools by coffee and distanced himself and sat in the closest chair , "so basically we both have an high risk to not make it, why me? I have no backer and apart from basic knowledge and how to use magic and my ability, i have almost no memory apart from trivial stuff, plus i don't know how strong your fathers backing is, anyway, no i don't wanna go that route i just need information and as you were saying before starting with your ability, can we please calm down and sit, to talk things out, and be sincere, please? and calm down, remember that we will share memories and emotions so i will know when i am lied to, plus how should a psychic bond turn off a passive ability like that? " he said with a bit of tiredness "how much you know about me? Were all the question just... to get me acclimated with you?"

At this Mira sighed and sat in front of him and sighed "yeah sorry for that outburst, it' not been a good year for me, anyway, imagine my passive ability like a river a very big one which is amplified by the users personal mana, the more mana one has the more their mind oriented abilities become stronger, the more these abilities become stronger the more mental effort someone has to give to maintain and construct a dam to contain the river, in my case, unfortunately i have a really big mana pool, which makes me perceive things even from miles away, the psychic bond gives us more mental energy plus while our mana pools are divided, we can share it, which means that not only i have more mental power to close the dam, but i can transfer you the mana i don't need plus we both get acces to minor versions of each others abilities which means we'll be more versatile and have a leg up against most of the other students that come to the accademy." then sfter a brief pause "for the record i don't know a lot about you, my father used some of his political power to obtain information about people that have a psychic bond ability with a weak backer or no backer at all, when your file arrived at our doorstep thanks to one of my fathers contacts dad immediately paid a couple of people,then used some of his conctats in the academy to arrange my departure with this shuttle, and after seven weeks of travel from your own planet the shuttle landed on mine for refurbishing and to pick me up, i only have your clinical record and the fact that your parents died after a demonic incursion that your local forces we not able to stop for a while, in the same incursion you survived but lost your personal memories, and the questions that i posed were geniuine, well kinda, i knew that an incursion appened but did not know where it happened and cosidering that they generally happen in isolated areas i made the educated guess that you were a country bumpkin, plus there was tension in the air since you were thinking about were to sleep, the bed is something that was organized by my father, after all we did know that you had blood related ability so the bond was likely a blood related contract, the problem is that sometimes there are exeptions and the academy is pretty secretive on their students abilities, our contact cuold only tell us that you had a psychic bond derivative and it was based on blood" after this she sighed and said "well that was everything that i had to tell"

After this Perseus sighed and asked "what is the position that your father hold to have so much influence between the walls of the accademy, i may be memoryless but i recognize political power when i see it"

With a face beaming with pride she said"my father was a 1 generation student(A/N: a student from a family that has never gone to the academy, a bit like our protagonist) he constructed his economic empire from between the academy walls and made quite a lot of friends there"