And somewhere under my skin, Wrath purred-loud, yes, but mine.
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Chapter 28: You reek go shower!?
"That... what! I thought you used one of Stacy's hidden weapon techniques, but to think you make them with your magic. Can you do it with bigger weapons as well?" Granny asked, intrigued.
"Yes." Stretching out my hand, I made a whip. After making it, I threw a plate in the air and slashed at it with the whip, making it shatter.
"That was so cool!" Amari said with amazement. Granny, on the other hand, had a calculation expiration on her face. Looking at her, I thought of why she would look at that display like that.
"Don't even think about using me as a weapon," I said, dispelling the whip in my hand.
"What? No, that's not what I was thinking about. I was thinking about how I can explain to you how to use the whip better." She said seriously.
"Huh? Grandmother, do you mean that she didn't use the whip correctly?" Amari asks, confused.
"Yes and no, she didn't make a big mistake, but if you looked closely, she didn't hit the plate with the tip but with the rope itself," Granny explained like a professor.
"Ooh, it moved too fast for me to see," Amari said dejectedly.
"Don't worry, sweetheart," Granny said sweetly. Looking at me, she took on a serious expression and said. "So that you know. Not everyone will think of you as a tool, especially this family. My husband will come out of his grave to beat the crap out of us if we ever think of making someone a weapon for our own gains."
"As I said before, this is the first time meeting you. I won't just trust you on my experience with Mother, but I understand and will remember that."
"Good." Granny nodded. "So your ice magic is flexible?"
"Yes, it is close to being a metal of its own."
"Hmm, can you infuse mana into it?"
"I am still working on that, but I think if I work on my mana control, I can do it."
"Mana control? Isn't your mana control already good enough?"
"You mean about my ice?" Getting a nod, I continued. "No, using my ice is like swinging my tail around. I just chuck the mana out and form what I want with it, but it's a different story when it comes to my fire and lightning magic. It feels like I am so restricted it isn't even funny."
"You also have 3 elements!?"" "Granny and Amari?" they said in surprise.
"Also?" Tilting my head, I looked at them to answer me.
"I also have 3 elements. Lava, storm, and earth." Amaris said proudly.
"That's cool." Two rare elements, nice." I said, smiling at her. "My ice might be solid, but my fire and lightning aren't handy at the moment. I can't use it further than a meter away from me. So in this regard, I am certain you win, Amari."
"If you put it like that. It really sounds like you have a mana control problem," Granny said, rubbing her chin. Looking up at me, she asks. "Didn't Stacy tell you about mana control?"
"She never taught me about magic." I shrugged and continued eating.
"Of course, we are talking about the weapon queen here. She wouldn't talk about magic if she could talk about weapons." Shaking her head while looking down.
"Kitsuna? Your food? Didn't it have bones in it?" Amari asks, out of the blue.
"Yeah?" I said, confused.
"What happened to them?"
"I ate them. That's the best part of the meal." I said with a straight face. Hearing my answer, both of them paled.
"You can eat bone?" Granny asked.
"Yes." Opening my mouth, I showed them my canine teeth. "See, my teeth aren't normal. They are strong enough to rip through bone easily."
"I don't think you-" Granny was about to finish when Lily coughed at the side, taking her attention. Having a mental talk, they nodded and dropped the topic. Amari, on the side, was looking at them confused but decided to drop it as well.
'I don't want another lecture from her on why bones are food for gods.' Lily thought to herself.
"How was it being trained by Stacy?" Granny asks, changing the topic altogether.
"It was the best 3 years of my life," I said, smiling.
Hearing my answer, Amari frowned and asked.
"Did my exercise freak of a mother go easy on you?"
"I don't know." We started at 5 in the morning and ended close to 9 at night."
"You monster." She said, looking at me like I was crazy.
"Haha, I have always loved moving my body around, so it's not that bad."
"Hmm?" Seeing Granny's confused face, I said.
"I am a reincarnation, like Amari here."
"What, really? What was your name?" Amari said, shooting questions.
Looking at her, I wanted to see her reaction when she heard who I was. Am I?
"Hehe, Shiro Adachi at your service," I said, smiling at her. Hearing the name, her jaw dropped. After a while of being in a daze, she started to smile.
"Pfft Haha, you got gender-bent. Haha, that's what you get for stealing Yua-sensei from me," she shouted while rolling around on the floor.
After being in this body for so long, I have already accepted that fact, but my habits and speech still need some work.
Getting amused at her reaction, I thought she would get mad with all the things she had told other people about me. Thinking about her words, something clicked in my head. "You were in love with Yua-sensei!?" That's why you hated me because you thought I stole her from you." I stood up and pointed at her.
"Shut up!" Standing up, she shouted at me with a flushed face.
"Wow, to think you hated me for something that I didn't even do."
"What do you mean you didn't do it?" Everyone knew that you and Sensei were a couple. They even saw you coming from the same apartment."
"Umm, I can't really defend myself about coming out of the same apartment. We were neighbors, though. But I do know that she isn't into men anymore, and I saw her as my best friend."
"What do you mean 'anymore'? Did you do something to her!?"
"Well, we got pretty drunk one weekend once, and yeah. After that, she found out she was really into women. Before you think I raped her or anything. She was the one to dominate me. I tried to stop her." I explained and hid my face at the end. I can still remember that night. She was an animal.
'Didn't you just say you didn't take her away from Amari, but you slept with her!?' Granny thought to herself, watching from the sideline.
"You got dominated!?" You! The scary Shiro Adachi! And by the smallest and cutest teacher, we had none the less!" She again started laughing and rolling on the ground. Calming herself down, she asked again. "When did you guys do it?"
"In July. First-year." Giving her a short answer.
"That early. That was also the time when the rumors about you two being a couple started."
"You are up-to-date about our lives, it seems."
"Of course I did, Stal-Cough, never mind." Hearing her answer, I thought back to the time, and it seemed I never noticed her stalking us.
'She is a good stalker.' Nodding at my thoughts.
"Cough. I think you two have talked enough. Can you explain to me what is going on, and Amari, what is this about you being in love with another girl?" Hearing a voice, I will always recognize it instantly. I looked at the door. I saw Mom standing there. Frowning at her, I was about to talk, but Amari talked first.
"Yes, I was in love with Yua-sensei, but that was the person I was in love with, not the gender. I was bisexual, but I liked men more than women. You also don't need to worry about me going for anyone other than my fiance because he was Yua-sensei." Amari explains, defending herself.
This time it was my turn to laugh and roll around on the ground.
"I am not alone. Yes!? To think, the best friend of my past life is in the same predicament as me. Haha." Laughing and fist-pumping the air, I shouted in joy. "The best part is she is in the same kingdom."
"It seems someone is happy." Hearing a new male voice coming from the door, I looked back to the door, but I smelled something rotten before seeing the person.
"YOU REEK. GO TAKE A SHOWER, DUMBASS!?" I shouted at my loudest, making the room shake.
"That's not how, Kyaa." Not making him finish, I made some daggers and threw them at him.
"You reek. Go shower now." Holding up more daggers with my free hand while another one was over my nose. Seeing me with more knives, he ran out of the room.
"I told him to go shower," Mom said, looking at Dean running away.
"I wouldn't talk if I were you," I said, narrowing my eyes at her. Sighing, I took my scarf out of my storage and put it around my neck. Looking back at my food, I said. "Fucking ruined my meal, tsk."
"You seem to have more composure after your evolution and have changed a lot in appearance," Mom said, sitting next to me.
"Yeah, I feel like now that I have accepted my bloodline, my mind wants to make everything amusing," I said with a frown. "With your memories and my old ones being refreshed, I am not really surprised at me changing. The change in my body is a welcome one, though. I hated to be that short, and my looks at this point just remind me of my old self, so I welcome it." I looked up at her with a smile on my face.
"WAIT, WAIT! She got more composure, my ass!" Granny and Amari, all of a sudden, screamed.
"Huh? You should have seen the last time I forgot to shower before dinner, and I also ruined her meal at that time. Ask Lily if it comes to food; you don't mess with her, and you follow her rules, or you get your ass handed to you no matter how strong you are. Don't let me get started on her bones. Just leave her alone; let her eat them." Mom said seriously while looking at Granny.
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Chapter 29: The drama never ends
"That does sound bad," Amari said softly, her brows furrowed as she leaned an elbow on the table. "Were you like this back on Earth as well?"
Shaking my head, I answered honestly. "No. This state of mind is something new to me. Back then, I didn't feel... this way."
Amari tilted her head, thoughtful, but before she could continue, Mom suddenly straightened. Her eyes sharpened, her mouth pressing into a thin line.
"Ooh, wait. Before we go on, I still have to ask this one thing," she said, her tone far more serious than before. She turned her gaze fully on me, the weight of it enough to make my back tense. "When I got here, you all said that you were dominant in bed. Is that true?"
I froze, blinking. Of all things to bring up now...
"Umm, can we not?" I muttered, turning my head aside. I wasn't going to answer that. But Amari-traitor that she was-nodded eagerly.
Mom's lips twitched. "I can't believe it. You-Shiro. A mass murderer. And yet you're the bottom in bed." She didn't laugh, didn't tease with her usual sharp grin. She simply shook her head slowly, as if she were disappointed in the entire universe.
I glared at her. "Mass murderer?"
The words slipped out of both Granny and Amari at the same time: "Mass murderer?" Granny's tone was confused-she didn't quite understand the phrase-but Amari's was sharp, alarm bells ringing in her voice.
"Mother, what do you mean that Shiro is a mass murderer?" Amari asked, her eyes darting between us, demanding an explanation.
Mom winced. "Oh no, please disregard what I just said." She rubbed her forehead, looking genuinely regretful-or at least pretending to be.
"That's not happening." Amari crossed her arms and turned to me, her voice steel. "Shiro, what did she mean by that?"
I sighed heavily, pressing my fingers to my temple. "It's too late now. And knowing how persistent you were back on Earth, Amari, I don't think you'll let this go."
Mom bit her lip. "I'm sorry."
I shot her a flat look. "No, you're not. You did that on purpose." Reaching out, I smacked her over the head, earning a sharp yelp.
"Ow! Can you blame me?" she said defensively, rubbing the sore spot. You can trust the people at this table with your life, I know for a fact. I was just... pushing you to say it out loud."
I exhaled, long and frustrated. "Sigh... not really. I was planning to tell Dean first and then Amari once our relationship had improved. With her now knowing the truth about Yua and me, it makes more sense. Granny, though-" I pointed across the table at the older woman. "You surprised me."
"That's true," Amari admitted grudgingly, folding her arms. "I don't hate you anymore. But I'm still mad that you took her first." Her lips jutted into a pout.
"Huh? I didn't take her first." I shot back instantly. "When we did it, she wasn't a virgin."
Amari blinked, utterly lost. "What?"
"Yeah," I said casually. "Her first time was with one of her friends in high school."
Amari leaned in. "Girl or boy?"
"Girl," I answered without hesitation.
She huffed. "Then I'm mad that you were her first male." She turned her face away again, cheeks puffed like an angry squirrel.
I shook my head. "I don't think that's important. What is important is what you're going to do about her. Because Amari-if you marry Yua... she might break you." My tone turned dead serious. "Especially now that she's in a man's body."
At that moment, I believed it was merely a clever tactic to deflect attention away from myself. Oh, if only I had known how much I'd come to regret that later.
"Aah, shit," Amari muttered.
"Aah, shit," Mom echoed at the same time.
The room went silent. Everyone seemed to sink into their own thoughts. The quiet was heavy, suffocating, until the door creaked open again and Dean stepped in.
He stopped in his tracks, staring at the gloomy table. "Why is it so quiet in here?" he asked suspiciously, striding in and sitting down beside Amari. His eyes swept across the room, landing on me last. His gaze narrowed. "Dean, we have a major problem!" Mom suddenly blurted out the news, her voice tinged with panic.
Dean stiffened. "What happened? Did Kitsuna destroy something again?" His eyes flicked to me. Then, as if finally noticing my slightly altered appearance, he added, "Hmm. You're one scary child. Ooh, wait. Is this about how she looks?"
"What? I am not that-" I started but then hesitated. My mind flicked back to the broken plate, the countless times I'd wrecked things in the mansion these last three years. My shoulders slumped. "...You might be right. I am reckless."
Dean raised an eyebrow, but Mom cut him off. "That's not relevant right now. It's about Amari's fiance."
Dean opened his mouth, but I interjected. "Wait. Before we continue, we need Rebecca and Lily here. We're having a family meeting." My palm smacked against the table. The sound echoed.
