Chapter 127: Home (2)

In but an hour since he left, Rainer returned with Sarah and Luna by his side.

Seeing the happy and relaxed expression on Rainer’s face, Kara opted to go through with her idea.

Eliciting Elru’s help, Kara immediately enacted her plan to get back at Rainer for the worry he just caused her.

Both Kara and Elru kneeled as Rainer returned and dared not look at his face.

“Your loyal slaves greet Master,” they both repeated, counting on Elru’s skill so that Rainer’s sister could understand them.

Before any sort of embarrassment could even happen, Sarah rushed forward.

“Ah, Rainer you got me a present?” Sarah walked over to the kneeling Wolfkin and used her hand to get a look at her face, “I’m more partial to men, but she’s quite beautiful. Can I have her?” She said looking back at Rainer, doing her best to convey with body language what she was saying.

Rainer nodded, “She’s all yours.”

“Thanks. Who’s such a good girl,” Sarah said while rubbing Kara’s head, who after hearing what Rainer said had managed to piece together what happened. Blushing to her neck, Kara wasn’t even sure what to do next.

“I think we can let her off now,” Rainer said, laughing.

“Aww, but her hair is so soft,” Sarah moved away and went over to the leather armored skeleton. She stored away the thought of his strangely magical but unenchanted clothes for later.

Gunthar was briefly surprised when the young girl looked at his skeletal face with interest instead of fear or disgust.

“Thank you for taking such good care of my brother. I’m Sarah Nvos, a pleasure to meet you,” She added, holding out a hand. Given that there was only some strange looking white-haired tentacle addled monstrosity, two stupidly good-looking Fairies plus the even moreso Luna and an equally stunning wolf-eared girl in the room, she guessed this was Gunthar.

Familiar with the concept of a handshake, Gunthar made to shake her hand, quite happy Rainer’s sister turned out so polite. And such a good sister too, not assuming the worst of Rainer when Kara tried to tease him. Gunthar, of course, ignored the part where she was more turning the joke back on Kara, rather than being a good sister.

He was quite happy to travel with such a normal person in the future.

“Ah!” Sarah screamed as she pulled herself into Gunthar, “Rainer, he just grabbed me and…” She said with a slightly shaky voice, covering herself with her arms.

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“Gunthar, what the hell?” Rainer stomped over.

“What? Ah, S-sorcerer I didn’t…” Gunthar’s stumbled reply caused both Sarah and Rainer to start laughing.

Immediately understanding he had been played, Gunthar’s face would have paled were it able to.

“There’s two of him…” He quietly mumbled looking at the floor. A month-long ship ride with both of them sounded almost as dangerous as any dungeon.

“We can talk about what happened later; this is my sister Sarah. She’s been through quite a lot, so I’m going to get her to a bed to sleep in ,” He said before turning to the younger Nvos, “I’ll take you to your temporary room,” He left soon after, handing back the Fairy Dust to Laneth on the way.

“I owe you one, even if I didn’t use any of it,” Rainer added.

They left the room, Kara still kneeling in embarrassment, before she finally got up to follow Luna and Rainer’s sister.

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“You are right, Gunthar was very fun,” Sarah noted, “Maybe I should have flipped my skirt at him. I wonder what he would have done then…” She was still wearing her blue and white private school uniform with long black boots. At the time, she had wanted to appear as ordinary as possible.

“Please spare me from such a sight,” Rainer said, now seeing Kara coming up behind him. Thanks for reading on ManaNovel!

“I’m glad you made it back safe Rainer,” Kara added, coming up on Rainer’s right. Luna had already shrunk and landed on his hair, “And you Luna, what were you thinking?”

“Rainer promised,” Luna said with a huff. The fairy made no move to explain.

Kara looked confused, but Rainer’s face told her it wasn’t the time to ask.

“So, how’s the whole two girlfriend thing work?” Sarah asked, a touch jealous at Rainer going to another world and ending up with two girls on his arms. The fact that they seemed to be great people only made her happy for her brother. He was never the same after having his memories sealed. As if he had been a bit lost in life. He seemed purposeful now.

“I’m not even surprised that’s the first thing you ask me. No, ‘what is this weird status screen,' No ‘Why are those skeletons walking and talking,' No ‘How did my brother get so handsome and perfect that even I’ve fallen head over heels for him.”

“You’re really never letting that one go, are you? And what do you mean ‘Status Screen,’?” The blue-eyed Sarah asked.

“Never. And I’ll tell you about it in a second.”

“Well then, since you won’t be letting that go, I’ll just have to tell your girlfriends every embarrassing story I can think of.”

“Luna can’t wait!”

The fairy remarked, enjoying the earlier stories even if she didn’t understand large parts of them. She had forgiven Rainer the moment she knew it wasn’t on purpose. And not to ruin his reunion with his family, she opted to tell him that tonight. But not before having a bit of fun at his expense.

“That should be fun,” Kara said, “Also I’m Kara,” The wolfkin said before seeing the confused look on Sarah’s face.

“She said her name’s Kara,” Rainer translated, remembering that he needed to fix this language situation as quickly as he could. It wouldn’t do for Sarah to be both homesick and disoriented in a strange world seeing as they couldn’t go home. And on top of that…

His sister dealt with her recent kidnapping and disappearance of their mom a bit too well.

“Sarah,” His sister returned the favor, wondering how Rainer learned all these languages he was constantly switching between.

“I’ll get around to having you magically learn the language soon,” Rainer said, as if reading her thoughts.

“Good. Then I can tell her stories as well.”

“I can do the same you know?”

“Sure… but no one knows me, and it’ll just look like a mean older brother when you do it, instead of a cute, mischievous little sister.”

Making a tactical retreat, Rainer decided to speak about where exactly they were and where they were going.

She hummed noncommittally in response. An adventure in a magical land sounded like a nice vacation. And the strange energy in Kara got her very curious. Not that she’d try anything with her. Easy targets to hate were never hard to find where such imbalances of power between people existed.

“So, this system thing is how you got so strong?” Sarah then asked, having mentally questioned ‘Status Screen’ and suddenly saw her own. Rainer’s absurd increase in strength made that easier to believe.

“Basically. Though, it’s a bit more complicated…”

Reaching the room, Sarah and Rainer got settled as he began the retelling of his time here. He opted for almost telling her the entire truth. Wanting to impart both the danger of this world while also making her feel safe at his newfound strength, he figured it was the best course of action.

Her Mana pool felt quite small, but when he saw her with [Arcane Revelation] that first time he had received a far different picture. There seemed to be more than meets the eye. But Rainer would let her tell him about it in time.

Luna and Kara listened off to the side, hearing everything that happened from beginning to end wasn’t something they heard before.

An hour passed as Rainer finished his story. Over the course of it, Sarah didn’t say anything more, the originally bubbly girl became a bit subdued as the adrenaline in her body slowed. But the prospect of having so many Mana-filled mages available as enemy targets made her fill with thoughts of revenge on the Council and everyone else after her.

She recalled Rainer’s casual way of killing and knew he’d be okay with it as well. It was just a question how to tell her older brother his younger sister may have killed more people than even him.

After an accepted offer of having Luna cast a sleeping spell on her, Sarah was left on her own to fall asleep, the excitement of the day all but worn away.

With the revelation of the new situation she was in as well as the knowledge that her mom was farther away than even this new world was from earth hitting her, she resisted the foreign magic no longer.

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The next morning, before Rainer was going to heal Quera’s mother, he stopped by Maya’s house again. Sarah accompanied him.

“Maya, instead of working for me as a spy, I have a different favor to ask,” Rainer, of course, didn’t mention that after spending time with both of the Fae in front of him he had no intention of cashing in that part of their deal. Separating them after what basically amounted to a reunion between them, proved too much.

Maya nodded as she waited for him to speak.

“Could you become my sister’s familiar so she can gain the language skill? You won’t have to follow her or anything, just share the skill. We can replace this with the favor of scouting for me.”

“So long as it is a bond of equals, I do not mind at all,” Maya added, more than happy to accept the opportunity to stay with Sasha as much as she could.

“A bond of equals?” Rainer asked, confused.

Maya suddenly grew serious. Even though it would have been an accident, him having a slave bond with the Fairy next to him would be quite terrible. She felt for a moment, sensing the connection traveling between them for a few minutes before sighing in relief. They were equal partners.

“How exactly did you make Luna your familiar?”

“It happened by accident after I healed her with Mana. It was when we first met,”

“You…didn’t use a spell or anything?”

“No…?”

Maya merely sighed, a small part of her enjoying that if the former Queen had known how clueless the person who got the better of her was, she’d be rolling in her grave.

“Then let’s get started. It’s a simple exchange of Mana on top of a spirit magic chant.”

Sarah moved forward with excitement and placed her hand on Maya’s. With a chant of the Fae and a system message later, Sarah gained a new skill.

“Woah, I don’t think I’ll get used to this screen stuff…Can you hear me now?” Sarah then turned to Rainer.

“I could hear you from the start…”