Chapter 66

??? POV

Thinking that I could give that princess a little tease, I teleported towards a shade in the trees, staring down at the grumbling and red prince.

"Hmmmm?~ What's up with that?~ Did that girl do something with the princess?" I thought to myself, adjusting my mask before grinning widely.

"Pft, as if I care about that. It's show time." I mumbled, my red eye glowing as I stood up on the branch of the tree and took a deep inhale.

"HHEEEEEEEeeeeeyyyyyyy!!" I yelled out, taking the attention of the princess, her head turning towards me.

"What the fuc-..." Raijin stopped in her tracks, widening her eyes as she saw my mask.

"You…" Raijin growled, her face twisted into pure anger, as I expected.

"Hiii!~ Its me, miss masked person, how's your day going?" I asked her, giggling as I did so. She's probably going to lash out any time soon, so I readied my teleport spell and waved towards her.

"...." Raijin's face darkened, her hands clenching as she continued to stare at me with a gaze that could only be described as furious. The eyes of a person with so much anger that her eyes could be mistaken from the depths of hell.

"Hm? Why did you go so silent all of a sudden-"

And my question was answered when Raijin just suddenly went up in flames.

No, that's a complete understatement.

Raijin exploded, her whole body was lit up in flames, the ground around her was charred instantly, hell, even the damn tree I was on instantly caught on fire despite being a mile away from her.

I looked back and saw that almost everything from a 2 mile radius got burned, and the fire continued to grow, devouring everything and making it into fuel to grow.

As soon as I turned, and saw that scene, I immediately warped back into a safe place and dropped down to the ground as I sweated.

"Hoolly shiit!?? She really out done herself this time... " I whined out, looking down at my body, half of my clothes were burned, I patted some of the fire with my hands. Because of that, my mask fell down.

"Ouchie…" Maybe moving too much while still being injured isn't the best thing to do, but I was just too excited to tease that girl.

"Wha?! Where did you go?! Since when were you burnt?! Did you do that strong mana-"

"Shuddap, none of your business. Can you please help me already?" I turned towards the brown haired girl, picking up my mask and adjusting it on my face.

"Can you, Onee-san?" I smiled under my mask, staring over at the girl wearing a maid outfit.

My deaaaaaarest sister.

Emica.

Nikami POV

Smelling the scent of something burning outside the window, I immediately dashed towards it and stared out.

Seeing a scene of flames and nothing more than that, I widened my eyes when I saw the faint figure of Raijin in the middle of all the chaos. Small amounts of Smoke started to get inside the room because of the severity of the fire, and I stepped away from the window because of it.

"What in the…?"

"Shiromoru-sama! Please get away from the window! It might be an attack!" One of the guards approached me and called out, yet I simply glared at them as I shook my head.

"I have to get towards the fire, Rai did this." I shook my head and tried to go towards the door, but the guards and Yasachu stopped me.

"Yo-you can't! It's dangerous out there! I-I know Gakerumi-sama is in danger but-"

"But what? I'll leave Rai be? No. I will not. No matter how much that prince irritates me, I will not hesitate to jump in a fire for Raijin." I spoke to them, for the first time. Impatient to do something as I tapped on the ground with my food in irritation.

"But still! Yo-you can't get out there! I'm sure the teachers will deal with this… Th-they are more fit to deal with something like this-"

"So you think I can't?"

"N-no! That's, that's not it at all Shiromoru-sama! I just want you to be safe and-"

"If you will stop me, then so be it, I will find another way." And with those words, I took off my glove as I ran towards the window, placing my hand on the window sill as it instantly froze with my touch.

"Wait! Shiromoru-sama!" Yasachu ran after me, reaching out her hand.

"" I mumbled, and a bridge of ice started to form downwards on the ground. I jumped up and slid down the bridge as I nearly lost my balance, but still continued to slide down.

Yasachu couldn't stop me on time, she gritted her teeth as saw me slide down. I could only hear her wails and pleads, and the guards stopping her.

I shook my head, focusing on what to do next, I placed my hand on the ground and sped up the process of the bridge.

Now approaching the smoke, I made a deep inhale and thought of what I could cast.

"Oh, wind spirits, help me breathe despite the toxins around me, ." I casted, feeling the area around my mouth and nose have soft winds near them, and when I entered the smoke… It couldn't get near my nose and I could breathe normally.

The problem now was my sight, I didn't know where to go before I heard a grunt then thud in the distance.

"Raijin?!" I called out to her, jumping off the bridge and made ice all around me so I couldn't burn immediately. Everything around me was hot, the fumes and the temperature was starting to make me feel extremely uncomfortable and uneasy.

I really hoped I would be able to cast a wind spell and make the smoke go the other way, but unfortunately, my affinity with the wind isn't the same with my ice element. The smoke got into my eyes, I started to tear up, I closed it and growled.

"Raijin… Where are you…?" I dropped to the ground, placing my hand on the ground and tried to get myself together, preparing for another spell.

"" I mumbled, trying to feel where Raijin was. Which was hard because of the heat around me, starting to get into my skin, but finally, I felt where Raijin was laying down and started to crawl towards her.

And I finally saw her, she was down on the ground with no clothes on, presumably because of the fire. She looked fine though, her hair and fair skin still remained the same…

Wait.

She's naked?!

"...?!" As quickly as I could, I touched her soft stomach and made thick ice all around her, in the shape of clothing, so I couldn't see… That. Thankfully, because of the smoke, I couldn't see her naked body.

She started coughing, presumably because of the smoke.

"Oh, wind spirits, help me breathe despite the toxins around me, ." I casted air tank on Raijin, which made Raijin breathe normally again.

I closed my eyes so the smoke couldn't get into them, I need to get her out of here…

I heard muttering in the distance, maybe because I was so distracted with Raijin's health that I couldn't understand what they were saying.

Some sort of light pierced through the smoke, lighting up some of the area of the place. Before I could even react to it, I felt water droplets from the sky.

"Rain…?" I mumbled to myself, before the water started to increase, the drops from the sky became more heavy.

Not wanting myself to be wet, I made Raijin float by controlling the ice on her body.

I heard a cast in the distance.

And before I knew it, air magic cut through the smoke and revealed me and Raijin.

What I saw in the distance was Kikyou, Ajisa, and Shoubu.

Kikyou was the one in the middle, which I assume to be the one who casted the wind spell.

Shoubu was raising her hands up in the sky, she probably used her magic to make an artificial rain.

Ajisa saw us and shined light towards me, talking towards the two.

"Ah… It's the Library gang…" I thought in my head, slowly walking towards them as Raijin's fainted and iced body remained on top of me.

When I got closer, I could finally hear their voices.

"Sh-shiromoru-san... Ar-are you okay…?"

"I assume this accident is Prince Raijins fault?"

"Tch. How did you get here before us?! We were supposed to be here first!"

"Get out of the way… Rai might have inhaled a lot of smoke before I came... " I grumbled, seeing them blocking my way. And with that, I stopped Raijin's and my

"I-I could take the smoke out of his lungs, but please melt the ice on his chest first…" Kikyou volunteered, showing concern for us.

"If I do that… They'll see that Raijin is a girl… Tch…" I thought, then shaking my head.

"Do I really need to melt it?" I asked Kikyou, staring over at her with an intense gaze as I made Raijin back into the ground.

"N-no… Bu-but it would be easier to operate without…-"

"Then do it. Quickly. Please. If I don't need to do it, then I won't." I urged her to be quick, she gulped and nodded silently then knelt down next to Raijin, closing her eyes as she placed her hand on her face.

"I can't believe five Ingenious people are in this place… The fact that they are even on the same continent is amazing enough... But in the same school? Almost impossible." Shoubu gave a sigh, folding her hands as she narrowed her eyes down at Raijin.

"Haah… haah… I wonder… How wonderful it would be to fight him… To damage a magic school to such an extent… And even only for a few seconds…" Shoubu grinned widely at Raijin with an odd look on her eyes, breathing heavily.

I glared over at her, almost forgetting that she was a princess for a second, then I quickly soften my gaze and calmed down.

"With all due respect, Prince Raijin is still injured, and Rai isn't going to fight anyone anytime soon." I spoke as I stared towards her with a blank look.

"Masochistic weirdo." I thought in my head as I looked down at the other royal.

"You seem relaxed to know that he's an Ingenious, you really are emotionless as they say you are! Ohohoho, just like a husk. I hope this husk wouldn't go ahead and tell anyone that Prince Raijin is an Ingenious. Oops, I'm sorry, I remembered you don't have any friends!~ I understand though, someone like you has to try so hard to be proper… As expected from someone from the Adventurine Kingdom, you people really are so wild! Ohohohohohoho!" Ajisa scoffed and mocked me, with a grin on her face.

"How did you three know Rai was an Ingenious?" I asked them, mostly ignoring the small girl.

"Because he awakened, other Ingenious would feel even from far away if an Ingenious awaked… His Personal Ability must have been really powerful to cause this much chaos…" Shoubu explained to me, then I quickly understood the situation.

"Ah… So other Ingenious can only feel other Ingenious after awakening… That's why they probably don't know me or Shu are one too…" I thought to myself, nodding towards her words.

"So you better shut your mouth about this okay?" Ajisa raised an eyebrow at me.

"You don't have to worry, I'm an Ingenious as well. I don't know the certain conditions on how to awaken but I am one for sure. Me and Rai got blessed at the same time, and with another girl too." I explained to them, and Ajisa's jaw dropped.

"A-are you serious?! Not five, but seven?! In the same place?!"

"Actually, nine from what I know from what I know from the game… But I wouldn't spoil it for them." I thought, smirking from seeing that smug smile off that brats face.

"I… Ah… I… I probably shouldn't be surprised at this point… You're being oddly calm about this, Kiyu-chan." Shoubu took a step back and chuckled nervously as she looked over at Kikyou tending to Raijin.

"I-I already knew fr-from seeing their aura's and mana's… S-so it isn't sh-shocking to me…" Kikyou mumbled as she adjusted her glasses, finishing up with Raijin.

"Who's the other girl that was with you?! Tell me! That's an order!"