This name suddenly escaped her mouth as she opened her eyes, the name Lucius wasn't strange to me at all and I would be stupid if I counted her mentioning it like this all of a sudden out of pure coincidence, I also don't believe she was told by Shizuno, so how could it be possible for her to know of that name .
No matter how hard I tried to recall any kind of memories relating to me meeting her, it was to no avail, I wasn't able to do it at all, unlike every time where I would have a flashback regarding the person I had met before in my past life, this time I seemed to be having a blockage in my memories .
One that wasn't allowing me to recall anything no matter how hard I checked, once again I noted that it seemed to be something very wrong with me today, a lot of weird things kept on happening to me before and now this, something or someone might be responsible for what was going on with me, as I was engrossed in my own thoughts, I heard the voice of the girl who had just woken up, saying :
Huh, who's Lucius, what is going on, all I remembered was having a nauseous, how come you are here, but my Nii-sama wasn't, Ryuu-san .
The girl saw me holding her hand like this and she didn't panic nor she tried to pull her hand away, all that she did was cupping her chin with her hands and began to rub her chin as if she was contemplating about something, I couldn't help but find how she looked currently to be quite funny, as I laughed the girl finally had began to blush, feeling a bit embarrassed .
But seeing that she was confused as well about why she called me Lucius just now sour my mood a little, I thought that I might be able to get some answers out of her, but from the looks of it, I won't be able to get much info from her, replying to her questions, I said :
" Well, you should be alright now, you have lost conscious earlier in the training grounds, your brother brought you here and..... .
I told her of what had happened and asked if she remembered anything or if she was attacked by someone or something like that, but she shook her head decisively, she then said :
I don't believe so, no, but what I remembered was me trying to talk to you about something important earlier .
Her saying this, caught my full attention, I couldn't help but tighten my grip on her hand a little, not enough to make her feel pain, but enough to make her comprehend that her hand was currently held in someone else's hand, she looked at her hand and saw that we were holding each other's hand, I thought that she will ask me to remove my hand or something, but I was surprised when I sensed that her grip tightened on Mine too .
She then looked at me and I looked at her, waiting for her to say what she wanted to talk to me about earlier, but after a minute in silence, she still didn't seem to be going to say anything, seeing her like this, I thought that she was hesitant, so I said :
" What did you want to tell me earlier ? .
She squinted her eyes and then widened them at me as if she was suddenly enlightened or something, before she said :
I don't remember what I wanted to talk to you about, how weird .
Again, someone else was suffering of a short memory loss, how can that be possible, was she too suffering from what I was suffering or was that another coincidence, I really can't tell, but I will have enough time to dwell on it a bit later, I hope .
I nodded at her words and said :
" Don't worry much about it, if it was something important, you will be able to recall it after some time, I believe that you wanted to see your brother, I can call him to come in, he is waiting outside and whatever that made you release that much Time Mana seemed to have finally stopped .
She looked at me intently after I said this and seem to still try her best to recall what she wanted to tell me, but just like myself, she was meaninglessly struggling for nothing, all she got from trying to force herself to remember was a strong headache, I saw her grimacing in pain while caressing her head, I used Healing Reverse on her and eased her headaches and once again told her that it was better not to force herself to remember, she nodded at me and said :
Can you call my brother for me, Ryuu-san ? .
It was my turn to be the one nodding my head, I said this and was beginning to make my way to the door, but I was held strongly in place by two hands that was fixing me in place, I couldn't help but wonder what she was doing, but seeing me looking at here, she just let go of me while apologizing and then hid herself in the bed quilt, I sighed at how weird was this day seemed to be going, then headed to the door .
I opened the door slightly and saw that there were two lovebirds acting weird in front if the door, they were engrossed in their own world that they weren't able to notice that the door was opening, after I fully opened the door and before I cough or anything, a loud screeched sounded from inside the room, yelling at Moroha and Shizuno for being inconsiderate and shameless .
Once they were both awakened from the harmonious scene between them, the one who was first to react was Haimura Moroha, he directly activated his Prana and appeared instantly in front of Satsuki and held her in his embrace, I seeing this brother sister interaction couldn't help but look at my own sister, but found that she was glaring with daggers in her eyes .
She wasn't glaring at the guy who broke the hug with her and went to hug another girl, but she was actually glaring at me for spoiling the mood, seeing that she was giving me deathly stares, as if she wanted to choke me or something, I hurriedly worked out my mind and changed the subject .
I forgot to ask her about that before, but now was as good time as any, I closed the door behind me and stepped out of the room and said while trying my best to ignore his dissatisfied face :
" When will that meeting be held ? .
She took a few seconds to calm down after I asked about this and she said with a serious tone :
It will be two weeks from now, as for the exact day, it was still unconfirmed .
Two weeks from now, wasn't that the same date that the Captain mentioned earlier, about someone of high position in the White Knight Order visiting to assess all of us and maybe promote us, thinking that it could be just a coincidence, I was about to let go of that matter, but then I remembered that Man involvement in this and how he called to congratulate me before and could no longer count it as such, thinking that Shizuno might know something about this, I couldn't help but ask her, saying :
" The meeting won't have anything to do with the visit of the higher-ups, right ? .
At my inquiry, she continued to stay silent, then she shook her head and said :
Well, the higher-ups from the Order won't essentially appear at this time paying a visit to one another, especially if it was a Savior of the S Rank and someone from another branch as well, but due to you being suspected to be an Ancient Dragon, this was what helped in making something like this happening, as for the relationship between him coming here and the launch meeting, well, he will probably be invited to attend as well .
So that what was going on, to think that a slight misunderstanding caused all this, should I then act like I'm an Ancient Dragon, or just confess that it was nothing but a misunderstanding, seeing me fell into thought, she continued to say :
You don't have to worry much, he was just here to probably check on both you and Moroha and that's all, at least I hope so .
I know that she was trying to help, but her words made me who wasn't actually worried, beginning to be worried .
" You kept mentioning him like you know who will be the person coming here, care to share his identity with me .
The person who will be arriving two weeks from now was as I said before an S Rank Savior and is the Head of the English Branch and one of the Six Heads of the Order, Sir Edward Lampard, that will be the guy to arrive in the next two weeks .
Him being an S Rank Savior was enough indication of his high status, but to think that the guy who would be arriving to check the truth about my and Haimura situation, was a head of a Branch, that was a bit startling, but her words also made me wonder about something, I said :
" What are the Six Heads you mentioned him being one of them, was that some kind of an affiliation or something ? .
She shook her head at my guess and said :
The Six Heads are six S-Ranked Saviors in-charge of the six individual territories and branches among the White Knight Order, which consists of the Japanese, Russian,British, France, Chinese, and the American Branche, those guys hold the title of the strongest in their own branch and are the one holding all of the authority in the said Branche .
After understanding who were these guys, I lost interest, after all, I had nothing to do with them and they should be the same as well, I only currently focused on understanding the motives behind that Edward Lampard coming here, whether will it be a friendly visit and check or will it be a vicious one that will force me to retort to violence, why exactly was he attending that launch meeting and why was that Man even there as well .
Those were all questions that I currently had no answers of and I don't believe the girl in front of me, know anything about either, so I didn't ask and instead decided to let go of the subject for the time being, two weeks from now, everything will become clear, so I don't need to bother myself too much .
What will you do ? .
She asked suddenly and seemed a bit nervous and curious as well, seeing her like this I answered her question with one of my own, I said :
" Have you told him about any of this ? .
She knowing who was I talking about shook her head and said :
I believe that there is no need, after all, telling him might complicated the situation between us further and I don't want that to happen .
" You still don't want to tell him about that either, am I right ? .
She fell into thought, trying to understand the ' that ' I was talking about, she was soon able to understand what I was talking about and glared at me, yet she still shook her head and had an expression of lost on her face, I wanted to understand what exactly was stopping her, but in the end, I decided that even though I might be able to help her out, after all I can be considered an expert in dealing with Life affairs from past lives .
I still decided against interfering this time, thinking that it was better for her to find a suitable answer on her own, but I gave her a little advice, I said while patting her on the shoulder :
" You know, the odds might not be as bad as we always thought about in our minds, sometimes hesitation make us believe that trying might hurt us, when it might be in fact our key to heal, so don't worry about might happen and just tell him what you want to and don't fret, even if he refused you, I will just erase him from existence .
I wanted to cheer her up, but I become a bit excited and went overboard, sensing the atmosphere in the room began to become chilly, without even asking about what might made her angry, I stopped patting here and used Paradox and Godspeed to move out of here directly, cursing my big mouth as I walked some far away in the distance and left the school building, heading to the Training Arena after I got called in by the captain .
As I reached the training grounds, I saw that the other Saviors hadn't gathered yet, the Captain once he saw me, he motioned for me to go and meet him and that was what I did, he asked me about if Haimura would be joining us, I informed him about what happened and he nodded his head indication that he understood that the new member might not attend his first training session with the Strikers .
The Captain then asked me for my opinion on Moroha and whether should he participate in the next mission this weekend, I wondered about the reason he was asking me, he seeing my confusion told me that he witnessed the mock battle we had earlier in class and that he valued the opinion of someone who exchanged blows with the guy .
I thought about it for a few seconds and thought that it was indeed a good logic then I gave him my answer, telling him that I do believe that he was quite the good fighter and might be able to fight Metaphysicals, but his mentality and whether he actually wanted to figh or not t was what might block him from being able to do so .
He listened to my opinions and kept nodding his head, he then released a sigh and dropped this subject and instead said jokingly :
And here I thought, I might be able to win against him and regain some of my self-esteem .
As he said this, he laughed dryly, I couldn't discern whether was he serious or joking around, since we were talking about Haimura and exchanging blows, I couldn't help but ask the Captain about why his brother was absent, nothing went wrong with the Dream Field or something like that .
He shook his head and his expression darkened and he even snorted in annoyance as if he was reminded of a sour situation, he then told me that his brother seemed to be suffering from psychological burdens after his fight was Moroha, the Captain believed that his brother might choose to drop the school soon enough .
I was about to confront him, but others had already arrived and the Strikers were assemble, so he asked us to get ready for another training session, our last training session .