BXBX NOVEL Chapter 36: Letting Estranged Family Members Apologise is less Dangerous but Equally Unnerving
Chapter 36: Letting Estranged Family Members Apologise is less Dangerous but Equally Unnerving
After some more crying. A lot more crying. Kat was now standing in front of Minor\'s Grandma who was in dogeza with her face firmly planted on the ground. "I apologise for attacking you after you got my Granddaughter here safely. I still don\'t trust you but I do apologise for freezing you in ice… and choking you… and throwing you across the garden"
"Grandma Kat\'s really nice, apologise properly" said Minor
"She\'s still just a demon, you can\'t trust them" said Grandma Maemari
"Kat\'s different" said Minor
"Prove it" yelled Grandma back with her face still in the floor.
Before Minor could retort again Kat spoke up instead. "I would protect Minor with my life if the situation called for it regardless of the contract that exists between us"
"C-can you repeat that" said Grandma Maemari
"No, you heard me perfectly fine the first time" said Kat
"Dammit, if only I didn\'t know how your truth compulsion works I\'d call you out on being a lying manipulative traitor, but, I do know how it works and that was way to specific and certain for me to complain" said Grandma Maemari "I still don\'t like you though"
"Well, anyway, Kat why did you say that Grandma looks like mum? She isn\'t that old" said Minor. *What is she talking about they look exactly the sa- Illusions, it\'s more illusions isn\'t it. I\'m really getting sick of them to be honest.*
"She probably has an illusion on Minor, to my eyes she looks identical to your mother. In fact if she didn\'t have the extra tails and wasn\'t trying to kill me I\'d believe they were the same person no hesitation. Though I guess your mother has a much better personality"
"I can hear you demon" said Grandma Maemari
"Uh yeah, that makes sense Kat. So many illusions, they really haven\'t helped us much have they" said Minor ignoring her Grandma entirely
Grandma Maemari stood up and said "Well now that that has been dealt with, Granddaughter would you come with me to discuss what\'s going on, I\'ll make some tea for you."
"Sure let\'s go inside Kat, we have quite a few things to go over" said Minor. Grandma Maemari\'s left eye twitched at this but she decided not to contradict Minor, as much as it pained the old woman to admit her Granddaughter problem trusted this demon more than her. Grandma Maemari led them through a number of hallways stopping briefly to pick out a tea set from one of the cupboards and bringing it with her until the entered a small sitting room with a view of the valley below the mountain. Taking a seat on the far side of the table Kat sat across from her and much to Grandma Maemari\'s dismay Minor chose to sit next to Kat, but she made no further comment.
"So, my dear, can you explain what exactly is going on with all this?" asked Grandma
"Well, where do you want to start. Why I\'m here, or why I\'m in control?" asked Minor
"Um" said Grandma Maemari Maemari genuinely stumped "whatever you want to start with I suppose"
"Well, I\'ll go through why we are here quick. Beast King wants to marry Shizuka Major took offence to that and to avoid pressuring us with war mum summoned a demon to guide us to your house because she needed someone trustworthy and strong to keep me safe that didn\'t work for her so she could beat the truth magic" said Minor
"Ha, that daughter of mine never listened tome when I said demons aren\'t to be trusted, of course she summoned one for such an important job the fool" said Grandma Maemari
"Hey, I\'d probably be an incoherent mess without Kat\'s help. Not to mention I\'d never have made it through the tunnels" said Minor
"Oh, and pray tell how this demon saved you from that fate. I suppose her wings were handy for the last section of the tunnels but there are better ways I\'m sure"
"Kat has a calming aura and I needed that many times to stabilise myself to stop me from ending up in Major\'s position or worse" said Minor
"Ok but can you explain this whole Major Minor thing to me" said Grandma Maemari
"Well, that spell you used didn\'t quite work properly back then because Shizuru wanted to keep me around, and while she did succeed, she stole most of my personality. Which admittedly was whining about things but a big thing was that I had a hang up involving my appearance, anyway, Major, that\'s what I call what became of Shizuru, was complaining to Kat that she didn\'t look anything like mum and well, you know" said Minor
"True sight" said Grandma Maemari with a grimace
"Yup and that caused Major to remember everything and it maybe sort of broke her mind more than a little bit" said Minor
"So it is this demon\'s fault" said Grandma Maemari
"Stop blaming Kat" yelled Minor "Something like this was always going to happen. I can feel her repairing herself and I don\'t even want to be here!" said Minor
"What. What do you mean by that" said Grandma Maemari worriedly
"Existing with a body and everything is horribly unnatural to me, that\'s why Kat needed to use her calming aura on my most of the time. I\'m what\'s left of Haruka but that isn\'t much, and I was basically tapped in Majors head for over a decade. That brought a certain amount of peace, and while I am thankful to speak I don\'t enjoy having a body. Ideally I can learn the duplication technique so that I have a body occasionally but I\'m more than happy for Major to take over again" said Minor
"I see, well Granddaughter we have much to talk about, but first we should dismiss this demon" said Grandma Maemari
"No, why do you keep doing this Kat hasn\'t done anything wrong" said Minor
"Yes, and while I want her gone regardless now that she has delivered you here I assume her contract is up? You probably have to dismiss her personally, but you cannot keep a demon around for too long, there are consequences to that, you will be required to pay for their continued presence in some way" said Grandma Maemari
"Kat isn\'t like that, she wouldn\'t hurt me" said Minor
"Perhaps not, but I\'m not sure, Kat, you said, has a choice in the matter" said Grandma Maemari
"Perhaps" was all Kat said. *This system already said I\'m not allowed to talk about it so I\'m pretty sure this is already pushing the limit.*
"I will allow you one thing my Granddaughter, you may ask Kat for a beacon to allow you to summon specifically her, if, and only if you really need her in the future" said Grandma Maemari. *System what is she on about?*
A BEACON IS A METHOD FOR INDIVIDUALS TO BE SPECIFICALLY CALLED FOR WHEN SELECTING A SUMMONING TARGET.
*Right, and how do I make one*
USER KAT CANNOT TRULY MAKE A BEACON BEFORE FINAL AWAKENING. HOWEVER ON ACCOUNT OF THE REWARDS GIVEN BY SUMMONER CHIHARU, USER KAT\'S CLOSENESS TO FULLY AWAKENING, AND USER KAT\'S THOUGHTS ON INDIVIDUAL CLASSIFIED AS MINOR (SHIZUKA) D.E.M.O.N.S WILL ASSIST IN MAKING A ONE-TIME USE BEACON. USER KAT WILL NEED TO REMAKE IT AT A FUTURE TIME IF NECESSARY. PLEASE PICTURE USER KAT\'S SIGIL.
*Um, what, ok um. What do I want for my beacon. What do I want to represent me? Something like a coat of arms? I\'m just not sure what I should do. There are so many things, and you are just putting me on the spot? Do I have to do this right now?*
"Kat, please can you give me a beacon? I promise to take care of it and summon you in the future" said Minor staring at Kat with eyes not dissimilar to Sylvie\'s when she wants something
*Right now then I suppose…*