Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 34: Reese and Rabe 1 of 5 (Part 01)
The next morning at the Incara Orphanage. Having stayed up all night, Fiola and Siska sat in the dining room while tidying up the files of the work they had just completed. Lifting the stacked parchment papers, Huli Jing the blackish-brown little girl slightly sighed.
“Haaaah~”
“What's up, Miss Fiola? Kok, you look fretful like that?” ask Siska on the other side of the table.
Not much different from Fiola, the blonde woman who was seen wearing Alba's clothes was also cleaning the file. Slightly looking more sleepy and his eye bags blackened from having different stamina to the girl in front, he stared a little limp.
“Nona Siska look at Mr Odo's behavior, right? Why is it always like that? What is the difficulty of permission if you want to go, anyway?” fiola lamented.
“Ah ..” Siska just smiled slightly hearing that, she understood Fiola's feelings because one of his foster children also often did the same thing.
After completing the paperwork on the line of funds from the sale of the Best Quality Crystals that Odo gave to the Religious, they stacked them in one place on the table. “I will make breakfast first,” Siska said as she walked towards the kitchen.
“Ya ...” Fiola slightly stared at the astonished woman. Unable to resist curiosity, he asked, “Isn't Miss Siska an important person in the Religious Party of this city? Why is Miss having such a hard time babysitting orphans in a place like this?”
The blonde woman's footsteps came to a halt, turned her head and smiled lightly upon such a question. “I like to take care of children,” Siska said. Reading the woman's mind, Fiola understood that there was another reason that the woman did not say.
“Yeah, at first I also did not really understand what I take care of them for. Can I leave this obligation to others,” said the woman slowly. Staring weakly, he said, “But when I saw them, I couldn't do that.”
“Hmm, I don't understand what Miss is feeling.” Fiola stared flatly, not understanding what the woman was trying to say.
“At first I could not cook, the orphanage children also said that my cooking is not good. But when they asked to eat this or that, I somehow started to learn until they wanted to eat my cooking with a smile .... It was very satisfying, my heart felt healed by them.”
Fiola simply fell silent, looked deeply and tried to understand what the woman was feeling. However, that was still incomprehensible to Fiola. Feeling satisfied and dependent on something weaker, protecting something and fighting for it is incomprehensible to him. He thinks it doesn't mean.
At first glance observing Fiola's expression that really looked confused, Siska smiled slightly and felt a little relieved when she knew that Huli Jing also had a gentle nature. “Then I go to the kitchen first,” said the blonde woman as she turned and stepped towards the kitchen.
With a slight limp the blonde woman walked over. But before she reached the kitchen or Fiola sat back in the chair, the screaming sounds of the two children were loud enough to make them flinch.
“UWAAAH!!”
The sound came from the direction of the hallway. Not sitting down, the kimono-clothed girl immediately ran into the hall to check the source of the voice before Siska had time to react. In front of the door of the room where the orphanage boys slept, Daniel and Firkaf were confused and panicked. They trembled, looked into the room and were reluctant to enter.
Immediately approaching them and looking into the room, Huli Jing was surprised to see the figure of the young man sitting half-naked in torn clothes on the bed. The age of the young man looks about 19 years old, has deep black hair with and has a sea blue eye color. Fiola did not recognize the young man. But when the young man looked at him, he immediately understood who the young man was because the only ones sleeping in the room were three people.
“Tuan ... Odo?”
“Ouh, know me right away, huh? Mbak Fiola is indeed great,” said the young man with black hair with a distinctive smile that Fiola knows. Getting up from the bed, his clothes began to tear because they did not fit the perfect body size and muscles of the young man. When standing, it reaches more than 170 centimeters in height and looks larger than when he was sitting.
Fiola could only gape, not believing his master it could body that fast overnight. Leaving his legs towards them, the pants that Odo was wearing were torn and the clothes were torn completely, he was bare-chested. Looking at the slender body shape with the stout muscles that seemed forced to keep the body shape slender, Fiola's eyebrows twitched a little to see something that felt unnatural. The black-haired youth's body actually had a stocky and centered muscle, not swelling as large as most burly people from among the soldiers.
Nanra also came to the front of the room because she heard the scream before, joined to look into the room out of curiosity and saw the figure of a bare-chested young man with the burly muscles. He was wide-eyed, so surprised that the girl's breath was crowded, then looked at the wonder mixed with disgust with the young man. The girl in the mind hated muscular people for a few things.
“Si-Who? Who is that naked maniac pervert!?” nanra said frantically, pointing towards the young man and looking at Fiola as if asking for an explanation from him.
“I'm not a maniac, cruel.”
“Eh?!” Hearing that familiar voice, Nanra turned her head stiffly and did not want to believe what she was thinking. “Seriously? That ... him?” he said stiffly and trembling.
Siska just came, turned her head into the room and immediately screamed, “Kyaa! Why is there a half-naked man?! Miss Fiola?! Who is he?!”
“This is me, Sister Siska. I'm Odo!”
They were all completely petrified hearing that and seemed to be in disbelief at what the burly young man said, even Daniel and Firkaf who were behind the three women stared flatly and did not speak at all. Their gazes were truly looking down, as if judging the young man with a gaze that was like looking at a lump of dirt in a garbage disposal. Odo just put on a resigned face got it, he could not dodge or prove that he was really Odo.
Thinking of something else, the young man said, “Mbak Fiola, it's me .... I'm trying transformation magic.”
Fiola immediately flinched, stopped staring suspiciously and immediately understood what had really happened to his employer. Sighing with relief, he stroked his own chest with a slight limp. Staring in wonder, he asked, “So you can actually copy that magic from me, huh?”
“Hmm, the analysis was done last night and I tried it,” Odo explained casually.
“All right, all right, I get it! Please return to form. You're scaring the others! After all, what the hell is that burly body?! Are you planning on developing muscles until that later as an adult?”
Odo. Although his face looked mature, his typical childish expression clearly appeared to him, and it looked very incompatible with his body. Turning his gaze stiffly, the blue-eyed youth said, “Sorry. Ma'am Fiola .... The key to the structure to return to its original shape I forgot to make .... At the very least, I am stuck in this form in the next few days.”
“Heh? Seriously?”
“Serious.”
“Keep how this, dong? Didn't tomorrow start the plan?”
Smiling wryly with a sense of resignation, the young man looked forward and said, “Well, I had to go with this form .... At the very least, tolon—!” As Odo stepped towards them, the already tight pants finally ripped as he moved and were completely broken. The young man was completely naked, right in front of the three women standing before him.
“!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Compared straight with his male body, the youth's abstinence section was also very male and made them turn their heads. Siska collapsed to see this and collapsed backwards, captured by Daniel and Firkaf. In contrast to her, Nanra instead stared disdainfully like seeing a vermin caterpillar on green leaves in the garden.
In contrast to them, Fiola licked his own lips and for some reason his passion as a Huli Jing slightly rose after a long time. Sensing that gaze, Odo stepped back and immediately picked up the blanket.
“Bi-Can you please get clothes for me?”
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A few minutes passed, Odo also got the appropriate clothes and the size fits him now in the form of a young man aged around 19 years. Sitting in the dining room with the others, the atmosphere felt a little awkward and everyone's gazes were fixated on the young man's black hair that felt like it didn't fit into his place.
Odo now wore a long-sleeved black shirt outfit with an extra red-patterned collar, and on subordinates he wore black trousers. The shirt is a garment that is often used by male priests in churches outside worship activities, looks fit with the size of Odo's body now but does not match his face that instead tends to look soft like children.
Nanra who was sitting next to the young man trembled awkwardly, feeling a different pressure from him and couldn't calmly scoop up the breakfast soup. Odo ate his own bread, looking relaxed regardless of the gazes of everyone in the place. Looking towards Siska, the young man said, “Basih Kak Siska, if there is no clothing this I can-can be naked continue.”
“Iya ..., equally.”
The blond woman turned her gaze away, remembering something that could be said to be perhaps not perah seen again by puritans like her. Staring at the young man in black hair, he said, “You fit the outfit, exactly like my late father.”
“Ah ..., this belongs to Father Sister? Sorry to bother ..., so it's not good. Surely this is a lot of memories with Siska's father, ‘kan?”
“Not a problem, it's his uniform. There are still many and all of it has never been used, kok.”
Hearing such a conversation, Fiola who was sitting on the other side of the child stared narrowly and truly felt astonished. What he sees now should be the form of Odo Luke in the next few years. But when he looked at his face, it was clear that the young man looked a little feminine and similar to his mother.
“Hmm, what's up, Ms Fiola?” ask Odo while eating bread. Glancing at the small, the young man was slightly annoyed by the gaze.
“Wait a minute, Mr. Odo ..” Fiola held Odo's right hand holding the bread. “A ..” His face widened, beginning to fumble and squeeze the young man's right hand with two hands. Despite being blocked by the sleeves of the shirt, Fiola clearly could feel the shape of the young man's body which could be said to be unnatural.
“Otot what is this? So loud! Though his face like a woman but why have a body like this?” Staring in surprise, Fiola narrowed his eyes and asked, “You ... actually used transformation magic?”
“Ya ..., this is indeed transformation magic.”
“You understand the concept, right?”
“Hmm, sure. Although it is named transformation, but that does not mean it really changes in charge.” Spending the bread held and putting on a slightly disturbed face as Fiola continued to hold his arm, the young man again said, “Massa does not decrease or increase when using that magic. So even if the shape changes, the content and weight in no way increases or decreases ...”
Fiola again fumbled the young man's hand, astonished and asked, “Lantas why can his muscles be this hard?!”
“Ototku is indeed as hard as that even though it has not used the form of children,” obviously relaxed the young man. Staring lightly as he tried to let go of Fiola's hand, he said, “Well, just an arm and some body parts. The most fragile in the back and around the back waist, I did not train the muscles of that part ...”
“Eh?” Fiola's hand stopped touching the young man's arm, but held it still and the woman's face was completely wide-eyed. He already knew that Odo did have well-formed muscles, but he never touched them or knew that the muscles were that hard.
“I often hunt monsters, naturally must have a strong body. Well, that does not mean the muscles can withstand the attack of sharp objects, anyway.” His words came to a halt for a moment, completely troubled by Fiola's unceasing behavior rubbing his arm. As the woman drew her face closer and was about to lick her arm, Odo said, “By the way, can you stop holding my hand like that? And also, why was it rolled up? What would you want to bring such a face closer”
“Ah, sorry ...”
Fiola put away his face, released the young man's hand and returned to sit facing the table. Not lasting three seconds, he sat back down to face Odo and stared with interest. His eyes were radiant, his thick eyebrows slightly raised and his breathing was slightly puffed up.
“Eit!” Fiola tried to pierce Odo's waist with his index finger. Feeling a tender sensation unlike the young man's hand, he was startled and shouted, “Ouh! Really mushy! What the fuck?!”
“Oi, can stop ?” The young man stared flatly. Totally bothered by Fiola's strange nature.
“Sorry, sorry .... After all, why did you suddenly use transformation magic? For what?” huli Jing asked with a faint smile and glanced at Odo's still-rolled arm. Realizing this, the young man understood that Fiola liked some sort of muscle or something.
“Try,” says the young man a little upset. “Yeah, a lot of people are saying like, ‘are you really a kid?’ me, right? Just eat it all, I thought that this way no one would protest.”
“Wow, what kind of logic is that?” Fiola was a little astonished by that thought. However, he was more interested in the muscles of the young man. As Odo lowered his shirt, a slightly disappointed expression was seen on Fiola's face.
“Master magician so big!” Erial.
“So big ...,” says Mila.
The two of them pointed at Odo, looking happy and unlike the others even awkward with the form of the child of the Luke Family now. Having said that, Odo looked at their friendly and said, “Hmm, it's because I eat a lot. You also have to eat a lot to get big fast, yes.”
“Ya!”
“Hmm!”
Hearing that, everyone at the dining table felt that eating as much as anything would definitely not be as big as the young man. They looked trembling, slightly depressed by the presence of the young man whose way of talking and expression instead looked more childish than his body.
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In the orphanage yard, Odo stood up and slightly stretched to fit his body. Because he did not have time to make a key structure to return to the form of children, he was forced to adjust to the shape of the adult body. Taking out the sword that was the result of the forging from Osel's Workshop, he mounted the horses and swung it to warm up.
One to two swings vertically and diagonally are no problem. But during the third swing, he lost his balance and tripped his own leg. The sword slipped out of his hand and was stuck on the ground, while he fell down. Seeing that from a place a little far away from the young man swinging the sword, Fiola was astonished to see that extremely lousy sword ability.
“Uh ..., Mr. Witch falls!”
“What hurts?”
Erial and Mila said. Unlike the two twins, the other children of the orphanage stared confusedly at Odo's rigid motion while swinging the sword with the cracking pattern. Nanra stared at the most puzzled, her self who had seen the sword ability Odo felt a little astonished by the lame sword movement that the young man had shown.
“Why are you, Mr Odo? Payah ... once your ability ...”
Immediately waking up, Odo looks offended because of that. Sighing lightly and looking away, he said, “Highs are different ...”
“Height?” tanya confused Fiola who was standing among the children of the orphanage.
Odo looked down. He only realized that growing too fast made his balance disturbed and his visuals slightly changed, which made it a little difficult to estimate the appropriate footsteps in the horses.
“Hmm, it feels like walking wear egrang ...”
“Egrang?” fiola asked confusedly hearing that.
“Tak what! Than discuss it ...” Odo pointed at the children of the orphanage, then firmly said, “Not that now you have to practice meditation again!”
They flinched, looked at each other and looked a little disdainful of Odo in his adult form. Feeling less respected than when in child form, Odo stared flatly and observed the orphanage's children. Of all the children, they were all in the courtyard except Nesta, as the girl was going to the Main Church to continue her training as a nun with Siska.
Pointing towards Daniel who looked the most dismissive, Odo said, “Alright, I will show you the difference in strength. Dani! Try to fight me!”
“Eh ..., but instead of Mr Odo not yet be able to move freely with that body?” daniel said with a slight disdain.
“Hmm, like the scarecrow of his movement,” Firkaf continued.
Slightly putting on a flat expression as the two children said so, Nanra took Mila and Erial in for a bit of a retreat as she felt that something bad was going to happen to the two of them. The wooden sword was taken from the orphanage's warehouse, it was a used training tool that Daniel got from the training ground of the city's soldiers. Even though it was used, but the wooden sword still looked strong and quite sick if it was struck into the body.
Odo re-inserted the forging swords into the storage dimension before preparing to face them to forge back the children's nature. The first one to face Odo was Daniel, the flap-haired boy staring intently with his red eyes. The other children kept their distance from them, while Fiola stood between Odo and Daniel as the match watchdog and was a little restless with what his employer was about to do.
“Do not sue if you are injured, yes! Mr Odo!”
“Quietly, it won't happen.”
Nanra who saw them grew anxious, not at Odo but Daniel. Tidying up the dress and crouching, the girl said, “Mila, Erial, do not sample Brother Daniel, yes ..” The twins were confused to hear this, turned their heads and tilted their heads slightly as they looked at Nanra.
“What's really why? You saw Mr Odo's move, didn't you? He's very stiff. Maybe he is talented in magic, but in sword techniques he is limited to that.” said Firkaf. Closing the book on metal materials, the boy with a slightly narrowed gaze sighed as if he already knew the end of the match that had not even started yet.
An annoyed expression sekias seen on the look on Nanra's face when he heard the words of the boy who began to be arrogant. Not caring about it, the twin girls looked back at Odo and Daniel who were about to start the match.
“You two, get ready. Remember ..., just one punch and no more .... It is also forbidden to use magic,” said Fiola while raising his right hand and preparing to give a cue.
“Ya, sure!” daniel said confidently. Starting to put up the swords, the red-eyed boy held the wooden sword forward with both hands and the position of the right foot slightly ahead of the right foot.
Odo knew the horses were one of the positions often taught to knights in Luke County. Although Daniel only imitated the attitude of the body from them, Odo felt that the boy really had enough potential to develop.
“Both parties, get ready!”
Hearing these words, Odo put up his horses. He widened both legs by bending his knees, reducing his gains in height and holding the sword to the side with his right hand. Seeing the horses that look strange done by people with a height of more than 170 centimeters, Daniel increasingly underestimated. The boy did not know Odo's ability, therefore he really did not understand how strong his opponent even in conditions not maximal.
Amidst the sky that had again lowered the snow after yesterday's light, they stared at each other and strategized before starting the match. Odo just stared flat, while Daniel watched Odo's joints and predicted what movement his opponent would make.
“Start!”
As Fiola lowered his hand quickly, Daniel darted straight towards Odo using his left foot as the first pedestal. As his right foot retraced on the surface of the snowy ground and his opponent entered within striking distance, he instantly slashed his sword vertically to take the first hit.
As the sword came towards him, Odo immediately stopped bending his knees and stood upright. Daniel was surprised when he realized the difference in height, his sword was a little shaky but he did not stop and speed up his slash. In a matter of less than a second, Odo pulled his left leg back and dodged the vertical slash with ease.
Daniel's right foot immediately steadied, changing the position of his sword and slashing back towards Odo horizontally. But while staring at Odo who did look very high in Daniel's eyes, he called off the attack and jumped away from feeling strong intimidation.
“Hmm, your instincts are pretty good too..” Odo smiled lightly, the young man had not even swung his sword at all. Unknowingly Daniel's body began to tremble, his legs could not maintain the position of the horses steadily and both his hands held the sword tremblingly.
Odo put similar horses back on, spread both his legs to the side by bending his knees and holding the sword with one hand. Smiling lightly, the blue-eyed youth said, “Come, try attacking again.”
“Hah!” Daniel was quickly provoked. The flabby-haired boy charged straight towards Odo. Moving the right foot forward maturely as the center of the pedestal, the boy slashed the sword from the bottom up diagonally.
Before actually seeing what was happening, the wooden sword he was swinging by broke and the pain from the tremors was felt on both palms. He was speechless, looking confusedly in the other direction of the slash. Right on the ground was struck by Odo's sword which was still held by the young man. Daniel dropped his broken sword, then looked at his own bruised palm.
In contrast to Daniel, Nanra and Firkaf clearly saw what was happening. Just as Daniel was about to slash Odo, the young man very quickly swung his sword from the opposite direction and smashed his sword. It was not just sheer speed, but indeed the technique and angle of the young man's slash that broke Daniel's sword.
Odo came out of the horses' position, pulled out the sword that had stuck in the ground and began to stand up. Pointing the sword at Daniel's neck that was still wide, Odo said, “When the opponent's sword was destroyed was also my victory, right?” Looking up at Odo, the red-eyed child was completely aware of the difference in abilities.
“Winner, Odo!” said Fiola. Immediately walking up to his master, Huli Jing was reprimanding, “You are overreacting! If that slash hit that kid, it's got to have his bones crushed!”
“Hahah, true also ...”
Daniel was shocked afraid to hear that, a little relieved that only his sword was broken. Turning his gaze to Firkaf, the fellow he stared at instead shook his head and lost the intention to become the next opponent of the young man. Nanra patted Firkaf on the back, then gave a small grin as if she was winning at something.
In the end, they obediently followed Odo's words to practice meditation in the courtyard even though the air was cold because of the snow. Actually without asking Odo they will practice, the children just want to know how much power is owned by the person who trains them. Seeing the results, in the minds of Firkaf and Daniel vowed never to dare challenge Odo again.