Third person’s Point of View
After many debates and arguments, the children didn’t have a choice but to obey the soldier’s command- go to school and have a normal life, a life that they would enjoy
“Bullshit!” Corporal Dionelle’s ears rang when he heard the curse of the little girl, Jeniel. He looks at the child’s master and signals her to do something “what? This truly is a shitty situation”
Lina look at her disciple and wave her hand “Instead, curse those men who pushed us to do this. Fuck you Antonio Smith!” raising her middle finger, she imagined that the man is in front of her
“Mister soldier! Mister soldier! Can your leader? Tell him that we should have a match, if I win… he’ll demolish this command!” Jeniel stubbornly states while shaking the hem of the man’s clothes. Dionelle can only look sideways and ask himself why he’s here
“I… I told you, I’m not a soldier or else my cover will blow up!” the little girl stop her act and look at him with a sharp glare “then just… get out of here! We don’t need you here, we can manage ourselves! We are also warriors!”
“And heroes!” Christian seconded and lift his chin up. Ren, who just got out of his room, look at his friend with disgust ‘what a cheesy thing to say’ and shake his head with disapproval
“They decided that I should be here to protect you all! Aren’t you happy? You have an uncle soldier protecting you?”
“Uncle?!”
“Protect?!”
“Happy?”
“We don’t need protection and we don’t need this school! Contact mister Igneel! The houl company needs us!” Lorey’s forehead ceased, she’s having trouble with what size should she fit in to look like a middle schooler
Dionelle smiled awkwardly ‘they really don’t need protection, I am only here to monitor you all!’ he wants to point that out but he knows that the topic will only enrage the children… who know what will happen next?
He just stand up and distribute the scrolls that the HQ provided “is this the *identity protection masks?” (a spell in the scroll to hide their identities and change their whole face and body)
The man nods his head and continues to hand every scroll to the children
Lina looks for her tumbler and notices that the water is almost gone, she brings out her phone and contacts The CEO of houl company “Hey! Bring some water! I need more to…” a beep was heard and the line got cut off
“Did he just drop the phone?” she look at the children who is busy looking at their scrolls, Lorey saw her reddening face and the little fairy smells trouble. She act like she didn’t notice anything and tried to figure out the spell to hide her wings even though she already know how to do it since last month
They can’t help but jump in fear because the girl just throw the tumbler
At the moment, Dionelle can only agonize in his situation… why does of all the soldiers that they have, it’s him! Who is appointed to keep an eye on them
They turn their heads at the sudden music on television “Oh! Don’t mind me and continue your dispute. I’m more amaze at this music box! How did the human fit in there? It’s so small!” waving one of his hands, Astran showed up
The intruder is shamelessly sitting at the sofa with his feet at the table and looking at the demon, the corporal remembers why he’s here ‘this bastard demon keeps on showing up! We can’t even control or touch a tip of his shadow!’
Astran clings to the children, saying that they’re friends and they should not be far from each other. No one can stop him so they are still preparing to capture the demon… the preparation seems to take longer than expected
Christian lean in and grab the hem of Dionelle’s shirt “Uncle soldier, can we do something about him? Mister Nathan can make him disappear with just a glare!” he proudly said and the man can only scratch the back of his head
Another issue is that Nathan is in the embassy, they said that he’s a threat to humanity but in fact, they just want to study the different creature
He still remembers how he fooled the little fairy to force Nathan to drink the canned liquid… It’s all in the plan
They expected that Lina, being there can capture the demon alive but they did not expect the other variables. A huge tsunami came out of nowhere in the middle of the city, Demons who crash the plan, and lastly, the curse that Lina possessed
His head hurt thinking about all those things and what’s more strange is that Lina didn’t press him for information, she didn’t even ask where Nathan is right now!
It feels like… she forgot what happened
Shrugging, the man didn’t think more about the situation
A squeal was heard and he noticed that everyone’s attention is on the TV “It’s master! Master is in TV!” Jeniel laugh and jump around the room while the other children listened and examine what was happening
“Hello, I’m Lina Richardson” their smiles faded when they heard the faint and elegant voice, smiling at the camera, the woman looks so innocent “It’s sister Sherry!” Christian pointed out
The original owner of the body, Lina, can only scoff at her face ‘who the fuck is that girl? That’s not me!’ she wants to immediately turn the TV off
“It’s a controversial subject but is it true that Island exists and also is the monsters?” hearing the question, all of the children’s foreheads formed a crease “What’s this interviewer? Is she stupid? Of course, Islands are true!”
Dionelle sighed at the uncontrollable crowd and just… blend in with them
“The government hid it for centuries, It’s just natural to doubt the facts. Understand them more, children” he almost wants to snap his tongue, this crowd doesn’t want to be called children! Fortunately, they are more focused in the interview
The television got his attention when he heard soft laughter coming from it and not long after, a hairbrush flew through its direction “I can’t fucking witness my fucking self laughing my heart out at the stupidest joke that I’ve heard”
Lina brushes her hair and looks for her tumbler “Sherry better act like me, she will be easily fooled if… fuck! No more water! Ren, where’s the emergency tumbler?” Ren abruptly stand in his seat and obey the demoness’ command
“I should have brought that *fountain of desires here” (the fountain which brings the desires of whoever got soak from it will reveal her greatest desires)
Ren came back panting before gently handing the tumbler to the wicked girl, feeling guilty, Lina can only pay back his efforts by complimenting the child “You’re a pretty fast kid, I commend your feet”
Jeniel heard it and look in Ren’s direction with envy, the latter one only smirk
“I saw some clips” their attention moved again to the talking woman, she showed something on-screen and a video of them, fighting in berlin was played “they are your team, right?”
Lina’s face, which was possessed by Sherry, showed a slight discomfort in the screen before answering “Uhmm… kind of-”
“Wow! Looking at your postures, your team is still young?” the woman laugh and look at the audience, the camera moved and showed the nodding crowd, agreeing to whatever she said “I have a question, I have a question”
“Whenever you do that” she points at the large screen which got paused at the moment where Lina completely froze her opponent to death “Do you need to shout something like… Expecto Patronum!” she then pulls her mic upward and acts like it’s some kind of wand
The crowd Laugh hard because of the silly movement but Sherry look sideward, asking for help from whoever she’s with “What a scary experience” Lina can blurt out
The girl realized why is her uncle was so hell-bent to Sherry being a hero figure, Those useless people who are just laughing at them- thinking that they are some kind of clowns, bringing out the truth about Islands
Sherry fits the role of a hero. Cool-minded, soft-spoken person with a kind and golden heart… Lina shivered imagining she’s in Sherry’s situation ‘I’ll blow that station up if that happened’
A minute passed and the interviewer calmed herself from the happiness she felt earlier, Sherry smiled slowly and gently ask “Are you alright?”
Nodding, the woman answered “I’m more than fine! So, I have a request… Can you show me your lethal and most cool move?” she moved her hands, reenacting a kung fu position “We want to see it and I know that the audience will love it. Don’t you?”
“Of course! I would love to know what that gorgeous lady can do” Astran said and that’s the only moment they noticed his presence ‘what the hell? He’s still here?!’
“WHAT?! No! Sister Sherry doesn’t have any ability” Christian stand up and tried to ask for help “Uncle soldier! This isn’t live right?” he looked up to Dionelle who is also confused
“What are they doing?” his worried face was seen by the children and they can’t help but panic
“Calm down! The HQ won’t do something stupid and bring her there without expecting this kind of situation” Lina blurted out and command them to stay still
“Besides, It’s impossible if that woman doesn’t have a gift… she’s overflowing of blessings” they look at Astran like he’s the craziest demon that they’ve seen, Lina smack his head with a remote and sneered at him
“Don’t curse my sister you fucking demon. Blessings my ass, you’re fucking cursing her aren’t you?!” Astran shielded himself from Lina’s attack while laughing “It tickles! Stop!”
“Anchira Taishō, I request thee. One of the Twelve heavenly generals, please hear my plea” Lina’s hand got suspended in the air when she heard her soft voice from the moving box
A ray of light appeared in the studio and after that, a white and human-sized bunny appeared “Wa… what?” Ren’s jaw dropped when he saw what happened
You can clearly feel the silence in the studio from watching the television. Sherry’s heartbeat can’t be controlled, receiving all the people’s stares “A… Anchira, can you. Uhm…” she can’t even talk straight
But the rabbit know what to do and with just a blink of an eye, petals slowly fall from the studios’ closed ceiling
A moment has passed but the people are still silent, Feeling scared, Sherry hides from the rabbit's fur and the creature protected her. The rabbit’s eyes turned red and its ears shot up, alerting his senses
Smith, who is in the corner with some staff, stepped closer and cleared his throat “I believed that this interview is done? I will take my comrade back. I appreciate your time and efforts, thankyou”
“WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?” with boiling blood, Lina hit the TV in irritation “WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS AD?”
Fortunately, the Interview got cut off. They only showed the moment where petals appeared, making it more emotional and dramatic “MARTIN! YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS?”
Dionelle, who is still shocked from what happened can’t even process Lina’s question “Nevermind, you fucking useless man. I’ll ask the HQ later”
A loud knock was heard from the door, their service is already here
Lina looks around, panicking. She forgot that they still need to go to school
Seeing the other kids, all dressed up… her blood boiled more ‘this fucking children are so fucking vocal about their hate in school but they got ready 2 hours earlier!’
She rushed through her room and fit herself into the school uniform
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A/n: I’m glad that I really add some notes at the end. So I’ll just explain what Sherry did, She called a heavenly creature. Below is the list of 12 heavenly generals of Yakushi Buddha and their significant animals.
rat (Kubira, Kumbhira)
ox (Basara, Bazara, Bajira, Vajra)
tiger (Mekira, Mihira)
rabbit (Anchira, Andira)
dragon (Anira, Anila)
snake (Sanchira, Sandilya)
horse (Indara, Indra)
sheep (Haira, Pajra)
monkey (Makora, Mahoraga)
rooster (Shindara, Sindura)
dog (Shotora, Catura)
boar (Bikara, Vikarala)
Ps. Can you leave a comment directly on the novel’s cover? I want to know your thoughts about this book… please? Even the silliest or the mistakes that I’ve done at the first half of this book (there are so many grammatical errors and vague narration)