It was noisy. Can these guys be quiet? I got up and rubbed my eyes. No pain. My head was painless and clear. I activated my Elgards eyes and found out that I had been asleep for 2 weeks. Raishin was chasing Nilah, which was making all the noise. I got up and went downstairs to the living room

  Hey asshole someone is trying to sleep here!

  Ooh you’re awake!

  Raishin ran at me but Nilah made him trip and he faceplanted.

  Still the same I see.

  Ow! Nilah plays dirty like you!

  Not sure what you were expecting from a fox. What are Greg and Elliana up to?

  Something about mending the relationships that might have suffered in their absence. I’m not sure what that means exactly.

  I see. So Raishin, what’s the deal with you. When did you find a Dimsha?

  I didn’t?

  You surely aren’t telling me you found one without knowing. Let’s see wat this is about!

  I linked him up with my vision and went through various filters.

  Owowowow! Can’t you do this before linking me up?

  There! What the fuck is next to your heart? Did you eat something strange again?

  Hey it looks like an egg. Similar to the egg I found in that strange deer!

  You found a strange egg in a deer and decided to eat it?

  There is no mistaken, this is the real Raishin. I didn’t pull in a convincing imitation or something.

  I love eggs! It was a bit hard so I had to swallow it.

  I can’t believe this. So, the reason we have been encountering so many Dimsha is because you possess one. I bet your strange passive effect made it bleed over to us. So, what does it do?

  You tell me.

  Unbelievable but…

  I gave Raishin a hug.

  I’m glad that you’re back and that you haven’t changed. You could have used some change though. We need to do something about that Dimsha though. We need to know what it does.

  Well let’s ask it! Oh.

  That’s never gonna work…

  My Elgards eyes glitched and showed strange boxes.

  It did… it’s the Identity Egg. It had like those tooltips pop up like you see in games.

  You’re trolling right? Wait is that it? Why can I see it too?

  You linked your vision with me, right? Let’s see what is that! It’s a couch!

  I can see that without that Dimsha of yours…

  Nilah what are you!

  An enormous textbox appeared with a wall of text and it gave both Raishin and me a massive headache.

  Aah make it stop! Oh, it went away.

  Ugh, so it’s a situationally more useful Elgards eyes. It reminds me of the demons. They seemed to be interested in who or what their opponents are.

  What’s the deal with Nilah? I thought she was just a normal fox?

  I honestly don’t know. I suppose your stupid egg is more useful than my eyes in this case. She might be my gramps ultimate skill the more I think about it.

  But that makes sense right?

  Why exactly?

  Hehe I will show you how smart I am. This will blow your mind!

  I shook my head.

  Do your worst.

  What if sometime, somehow your grandson came from the future and you could only help him by teaching him 2 skills what would you teach him?

  Oof that’s a good one. I see. I would certainly teach him [Nilah]. For the other one. I don’t know. [Kryokym] is strong and helpful but not sure if I would use that as the second one. What would you teach your grandson in that situation?

  [Raishin Kick] and [Black Lightning Haze].

  [Black lightning haze] I get but why [Raishin kick]?

  It’s my skill a piece of me! my grandson will be able to remember me by it!

  Hmm I see. Leaving something behind, eh? Do you think [Silver Torrent] would fall into that?

  Ooh your grandson will be the most overpowered brat on the block with [Nilah] and [Silver Torrent]!

  I see. I guess I never really thought too much of what gramps might have been thinking when he taught me these skills. He has been dead since before I was born but he probably helped me more than he ever could if he was alive.

  I beckoned Nilah and petted her.

  I wouldn’t be here without Nilah. I have another question. Something that maybe only you might be able to answer.

  Ooh I’m all ears!

  I became a bit uncomfortable because there is a big chance I won’t like the answer.

  So a while ago I met this chick and this and that happened. But that’s not important. The situation required me to replenish her mana so I gave her my pure mana. She and her friend acted very… strange.

  Oh wow! You’re talking about Giana I suppose!

  Ugh, stupid intuition, yes.

  Raishin started to beam and patted my back.

  I see, I see! Good job!

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  He held up his thumb and nodded.

  Can you stop being annoying and tell me what that means?

  Wait you don’t know what that means? Hoo boi. I guess I did a shitty job. Ok listen to the chick expert!

  So expert that he is single and hasn’t been close to getting a girlfriend in 2 years or so?

  Ugh that hurts! Stop it!

  Ok sorry! Just spit it out!

  Raishin’s smile was annoying me.

  Well. Sharing mana is quite intimate you know.

  Huh it is? Don’t we do that all the time?

  Well, you use your frost magic and Greg uses his shadows to convert it and it doesnt get transferred directly so it’s the same yet different!

  I sighed.

  Can you make a bit more sense please?

  We don’t do it directly. So tell me what did you do?

  I briefly explained what I did to Raishin and how I had to fix Giana’s 1 MP issue.

  Whoa! I’m so proud of you! So, this is the order of intimacy! So lewd gazes are bottom then…

  Can you give a simplified version please… I want to know how badly I screwed up…

  Uhh direct mana transfer like you did is between kissing and sex in the intimacy scale. Te purer the mana the more intimate it is. Congratulations!

  I buried my head in my hands.

  No wonder they reacted like that…

  Hehe it seems my plan is working, even though I didn’t do anything!

  I have to apologize to her. Is this why she wants to ‘talk’? Oh no I’m so screwed! I’m sure Noelle is waiting to [Crystal Punch] me!

  Hey has something happened…

  Healerguy, Greg and Elliana arrived at that moment. I used [Blood and Thunder] to zap myself and focus. I’m using this skill too often for unintended effects. It should keep me going when I’m exhausted but it also causes me to focus and these zaps are useful in other situations.

  “We’re back! Oh, Agnis you’re awake!” Elliana came in for a hug and Greg seemed quite content.

  We sat down together and caught up. Raishin had been to a dimension that was a wilderness where civilisation was in its infancy, like the caveman eera and he was teh smartest. Greg had been to a dimension filled with light which didnt cut down on his edginess, unfortunately. it just enhanced his darkness powers. Elliana had been to some techno pirate dimension where piracy goes rampant and bodily enhancements were the norm.

  they had a lot to talk about but something unrelated was bothering me.

  Did you really have to tell Healerguy everything? Why do you always do this?

  It’s not like he wouldn’t have found out by himself!

  Ok fine you have a point it’s just that you always do this.

  Well, I haven’t changed and neither did you which is good.

  An awkward silence fell.

  “Ahum, Agnis there is something you need to know. It’s about the quest we had together a month ago. All investigations had lead up to a dead end but there is enough evidence to suggest that someone had planned for us to meet misfortune on our quest.”

  Honestly, I’m not surprised, too many strange things happened on our trip. At least the most important people survived.

  How many people died in that quest?

  “26 of which 3 were unfortunate enough to have 2 [Meteors] dropped on their heads…” Healerguy said and looked at me.

  I have no idea what you’re talking about.

  “Either way, I have kept that a secret and my Golden Angels have their lips sealed. Kyle wouldn’t go on and blabber about it because he is complicit in this act.”

  Yeah, Toxic Donkey made me do it.

  “Anyway, I wanted to warn you that people might be after you but judging from what Gregory has told me, this is nothing new. Also…you now have Giana’s fans to worry about. Which brings me to my next point. You sir! You need a healer in your party. The state you have been in is the worst nightmare of any Golden Angel. It looked like you were rushing to die. Giana would be glad to team up with you. She also wants to talk, like seriously, I think you’re screwed.”

  Ugh, I know.

  “Also… are you zapping yourself?” Healerguy got up.

  Wait! I will cancel it! I needed it to focus!

  I canceled [Blood and thunder] and Healerguy relaxed. For now.

  “Giana will almost be done with her duties. She will probably be free in a month. I have given her your address.”

  Uhm Greg did you forgot to tell him that it’s a bad idea to send a vixen the location of a male fox?

  I don’t know all the dynamics of your messed up race. What’s the problem?

  So, you know they all can use charm magic, eh?

  Yes.

  Did you know that charm magic likes to stick to possessions of the ones they’re interested in? I had to have Nilah spit out all the charm magic that clung on to her whenever I met Giana.

  So, you’re telling me that the moment she comes here your whole place will get laced with charm magic?

  Yup!

  You are screwed but at least Raishin will have succeeded in having you bond with someone.

  Yes! Let her come here! She sings soo good!

  Raishin looked at me and gave me one of his many annoying smiles while he moved his eyebrows up and down.

  You guys are useless…

  “An interesting trait. I never knew that.”

  Me neither. I found out the hard way. I still get shivers through my spine whenever I think back to when I found out.

  When did you find out?

  It was long long ago, back in Hourai. My rabbit plushie turned pink one day. Hisui… she can’t control her charm magic. I had to bin the plushie. I loved that plushie…

  “Sounds rough. Anyway, I have to go. My schedule is quite busy. Greg, Elliana, look after these 2 make sure they don’t get themselves killed.” Healerguy got up and gave Raishin and me a suspicious stare and gestured that he will be watching us.

  Elliana got up and made a polite bow. “We will do our best!”

  It is a hard task but I will make sure they stay alive.

  Healerguy left and I told Greg and Elliana about Raishin’s Dimsha.

  Unbelievable… but this is good to know. We might be able to use it to our advantage.

  Like when?

  To ask chicks bust size!

  Greg smacked Raishin.

  In situations where you can’t use your Elgards eyes or where it doesn’t work. Besides that, we will just have to keep a closer eye on this guy.

  Yeah, giving Raishin an Elgards eye like power is a bad idea.

  It’s a great idea!

  The fact that ‘bust size’ was the first thing you could come up with disproves that.

  We spent the rest of the day telling each other what else we had gone through over the past weeks and months.