One hour after the black-suit man left, Father Lee finally regained consciousness and was perplexed after discovering the familiar place where he lay.
He helped himself to sit down. He just realized the clothes he was wearing were different from when he came home from work. Tilting his head in bewilderment, "What happened to me?"
Father Lee tried to recall every event that happened after work until he arrived in this room. He remembers very well that he was forced to go home late at night because his colleagues invited him to attend a drinking party after their project was successful.
He has a tremendous endurance to alcohol, therefore he has never been drunk at any drinking party. After the party, he immediately went home in an obviously clear-headed, then... his complexion change all of sudden.
That's right! Father Lee hurriedly checked his abdomen, placing his hand on it and rub it, "Ah?" nothing happened with his own belly? he has a great perplexed look all over his face.
When he arrived in front of his own house suddenly came two big-bodied men and some tattooed over their bodies coming towards him, they came with a playful and fierce attitude, that somewhat frightened him. At that time he thought he was about to be robbed by some thugs in front of his own house. What a big disgrace!
But who would have thought they only asked who the owner of this house was. Maybe because he was too panicked and relieved at the same time so he didn't think too far about the question, he answered reflexively that he was the owner of the house they were referring to.
In addition, they also questioned some strange questions which Father Lee don't know how to answer it because he really didn't quite understand all of their questions, such as...
-"Where's the Third Leader?"
Who is the Third Leader?
-"Where do you keep the Third Leader?"
Who is keeps him?!
-"If something happened to the Third Leader, I will kill you!"
By all means, who is the Third Leader exactly?!
Soon after that, he was flooded with disbelief feeling as he caught off guard being stabbed by them on his abdomen. He has a great doubt in his heart as he asked them in incredulity: "...Why?"
They smirked and said casually: "This is a punishment!"
To be honest, he didn't quite understand what he had done to the point of he deserved being stabbed like this.
The pain in his abdomen feels so real and his vision slowly begins to fade, after that... he can't remember the rest anymore.
As he contemplated thoughtfully over this fuzzy matter, suddenly his thought halts at the moment the door his own room opened as showed the figure of a little girl who was carrying a basin of warm water and a small towel.
For a moment Jane opened the door and saw that his father had woken up, she immediately called out with delight, "Daddy, you're awake, it's great!" Without hesitantly dashing toward him with excited and longing looks shine in her face.
Jane intended to hug her father whom she missed so much but she suddenly being stopped mercilessly by her dad, "Stop! put down the basin first, do you intend to water your own daddy with hot water?"
"Ugh," To think she almost forgot the basin in her hand.
She immediately put it on the table and then jump into her dad's bosom without so much thinking as she really missed her dad so much, "Daddy, I miss you!"
Father Lee laughed gleefully as he caressed his little girl's head with affection, "Haha I know" he kissed her head gently, "Dad also missed my little princess and little prince very much"
"Umm,"
Jane nodded as she buried her head deep in his dad's chest.
After a thousand years, she finally returned to her warm dad's arms.
A father who always protects her, who always takes care of her, who always guides her, and who always takes the blame when his children make mistakes.
Jane really wanted to cry badly in his arms, but fearing her father was worried, she just sobbed quietly.
"What's wrong? was there's someone bullied you?" Although Father Lee felt happy to have been missed by his own daughter, he felt something was out of place with his daughter's behavior.
Unforgivable someone dares to bully my precious daughter! He thought in rage.
Jane shook her head in his chest.
Father Lee smiled helplessly as though that his daughter just missed him too much.
He stroked her head again, he told her attentively, "You have to sleep, it's already midnight" he let go of his arms and then saw the face of his daughter whose eyes were slightly red, "Is my precious daughter crying?"
Jane hurriedly replied: "I'm not crying..." though she ended up with little tears as she wipes it off with her sleeve.
Father Lee laughed foolishly over the little girl's reaction: "Alright, alright! my precious daughter was such a strong girl who never shed a cry" he declared it teasely.
Jane felt embarrassed and pinched her dad's belly which makes Father Lee laughed heartily.
"Oh right, how did I ended up in my own room?"
Apparently, Father Lee is still concerned about this matter.
Jane innocently titling her head as she appear like she know nothing about the truth, "You did not know? Daddy, you're drunk and luckily someone found you sleeping in front of the house"
She secretly proud of her own acting skill and currently she had a feeling eagerly wants to ask... give me the award of the most innocent girl ever!
Father Lee awkwardly scratches his head, "Did... I?" it seems like he really got drunk and think too much, "By the way, who was the one who found me?"
Jane shrugged as if she didn't know him. "Just a passersby"
"Oh..." he did not pursue it any further and didn't think it too much neither.
Afterward, Jane told Father Lee many things over the past three days like about how the first day she moved to a new school, got new friends, and so on... they talked and laughed like it's been a long time.
The pleasant and joyfull moment lasted for an hour until finally, Jane unknowingly fell asleep in her dad's arms.
...
The next morning...
Jane woke up in her dad's bed. She sleepily went downstairs to the dining room and was greeted by the fragrant breakfast food that her dad usually served, egg fried rice.
Such nostalgia!
She saw her dad serving her little brother for breakfast.
"Morning Dad, Keith"
Keith greeted her back with his childish voice: "Morning Jean"
Father Lee warmly smiled: "Morning my little girl, do you sleep well?" he prepared a chair for his daughter, "Come, let's eat first!"
"Mn,"
She immediately sat down and began to eat her breakfast.
Amid breakfast, Father Lee suddenly spoke: "Jane, you don't need to take Keith to kindergarten today, I'll take him instead"
Jane stopped chewing on her food and swallowed it: "Didn't you work today?"
Father Lee coughed slightly: "Your father has three days off, so I can accompany you two for those three days as compensation"
Jane clapped her hand, she grinned: "That's great!"
Keith followed his sister's words with his crispy voice: "That's great!"
Father Lee laughed at his two children, he was grateful to have asked his boss for a few days off.
Jane goes to school and finds Lucas coming earlier than usual and snorts at her when passing her. That makes her feel of full of wonder... but she didn't ask him. Let him be, it a pain dealing with a brat!
She sat in her own chair and then her head involuntarily faced the window. The clearer she looked out the window the more she frowned as in a second, her face full of black lines all of sudden.
"What the heck is that person doing?"
Jane saw a man climbing to a tree carrying a binoculars in his hand. More importantly, this man is the black-suit man she met last night.
"What is he trying to do? Did he try to monitor me with that binoculars?" Jane sneered.
"Since you want to monitor me that badly, then I will satisfy your wishes!" Of course in another way!
Besides, did his mom never told him that peeping a girl was rude?
Therefore, she will give him a better material to peek at instead.
She drew something forming an invisible small magic circle in the window using her index finger. After she finished drew it, she smirked evilly.
On the other hand, Detector No. 20 finally with great difficulty he managed to climb a tree and sit on its sturdy branch, he held his aching hip due of climbing, "Dammit, I'm already old?"
What a joke! he just entered the age of thirty in two months ago, how could he be old already! But to climb a tree of this magnitude... as expected, even for a guy as fit as him would feel old instantly.
Detector No. 20 clenched his fists, this was all for the sake of recruit that little girl into the Association.
His senior said, if he wanted to succeed in recruiting the target he would have to know the target well. For examples like finding out what the target's hobbies and favorites are.
This is his first target, so he can't fail!
He grabbed the binoculars in his hand and pressed them to his eyes. "Hmm, let me see..."
Detector No. 20 began to adjust the view of his binoculars and tried to find the location of the target. The moment he found it, he immediately focused his focus on the target.
"Found her hehe..."
He mumbling, "Let see... nice, I can see her! eh? I saw... 'he' pushed 'him' down and thrust his back and forth-... what the f*ck!"
He throws his binoculars away furiously, what have I seen?!! he slapped his own face with both hands as he feels horror, it's a sin!
But amid his transgression reaction, "Ahh!" he accidentally slipped backward due to his own sudden agitated move.
Meanwhile, Jane saw that man fall from the tree, she hoots of laughter and amusedly give him a notice like a system: "Mission Failed"
Lucas accidentally saw that girl laughing alone like a madman, he cursed in whispers: "Crazy girl!"
...
It's been a month since the return of Father Lee.
However, he has to return to work as usual after his holiday period was up. Meanwhile, Jane has finally become very much accustomed to her current life. Such as diligently goes to school every day like when she did in her previous life.
The difference is that she is too conspicuous compared to school life she should have wanted. All of this because she socialized too much with Lucas.
In the beginning, everything looks fine, but gradually it changed because of the jealous little girl who is none other than Luna, she realized that the boy she adores very much was close to another girl. This makes Jane couldn't help rolling her big eyes.
Come on girl! you're just a primary schooler, can you concern more about your grades and stop thinking about non-essential rivalry! Jane inwardly sighed deeply. Girls nowadays!
Even if she wants to hook Lucas up, she will do it when he's bigger; not current him, the boy who hasn't ripe yet.
Nonetheless, Jane didn't seem to mind it too much. Her current focus is on the mysterious robber organization which has recently disrupted the peace of her family. Even though Jane had eliminated them one by one, they kept appearing in front of her house one after another like they are inexhaustible. This made Jane extremely annoyed.
She swore to make them regret having ever targeted her family's house.
They probably still not knowing the house they were targeting was a house belonging to someone who was more dangerous than themselves. Like the Third Leader who was late in regret after knowing the identity of the little girl that he had underestimated so much.
The problem is up until now she hasn't figured it out the robber organization's trail yet, even when she tried digs it from the eliminated robbers-- the result however she still couldn't get any information from them; their mouths are simply too tight!
If only she could use [Mind Tracing Art]. [Mind Tracing Art] is very useful for drawing information from somebody by forcibly tracing the contents of one's mind.
However, with the amount of mana she currently has after accumulating for a whole month, at most she can only use level 4 Magic Art. Meanwhile, [Mind Tracing Art] is level 8 Magic Art.
Fundamentally, a weak or strong of a wizard is assessed based on how far they are in comprehended and mastered the Magic Art. The higher the wizard masters the level of Magic Art, the stronger the wizard be.
Jane sigh in regrettable. She flips the page of the book in her hands and continues to write the words on it. Even a Great Wizard-like herself has a moment when she has to do homework.
Even though her knowledge had far exceeded the knowledge of the common students and even equivalent to college students, she could not ignore the fact that she was currently only an elementary school student.
After all, studying is an obligation for every student, besides, she also needs to put an act when her father is at home.
Tok Tok
The sound of a knock on the door was heard as Father Lee's voice echoed from behind the door.
"Jane, do not sleep too late!"
"Alright, dad!" Jane responded without turning her head.
Shortly afterward, Jane closed the book and put down the pen then tidy these up neatly inside her bag. She must not forget the homework book that must be brought in for tomorrow.
For a moment she was about to go up to her bed, suddenly she halted halfway as she turns her head to the window while furrowed her brows tightly.
"What is that?"
Jane walked towards the window step by step. She opened it immediately when she reached it.
She didn't hear wrong! An echo of howling came from outside, though it was a pretty weak, it still could be heard by Jane's ears.
Yet, all she could see outside was pitch black with a little light from the street lights while the night breeze which feels colder than usual. There's nothing!
But this feeling...
Apparently, the more she found nothing, the more she feels something amiss.
Jane steps up on the window frame and her eyes roamed the vicinity to make sure that no one will saw her following action. And then, she jumped into the air-- rather than 'jumping', it was more like she was actually 'flying'.
Flying is basic magic for wizards. Generally, all wizards can do that as long as they can at least master level 1 Magic Art. Of course, they don't need a broom.
Jane began to fly up steadfastly toward the glimpse of the howl she just heard. Even though she did not know the direction of its source position, better she clarifies it directly rather than later it will happen something big and potentially endanger the area of her house. What's more, surveillance in here is very weak and useless even the thieves can freely enter and leave the residents's houses without problems.
Also, as far as she knows, there's no forest area in about 3 km from her home. So she had a great insecurity; just where the howling came from? according to her assumption, Jane guessed that it was a wolf's howling.
Se doubted there would be someone keeping a wolf in house.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Detector No.20 also felt something wrong after hearing the scream of one of the residents' houses not far from the inn he stayed.
The screaming voice was quite clear and loud so he was also startled because of that.
Suddenly he remembered a few days ago his superiors revealed a bit of information about a mysterious movement in Hazel City. Even though he didn't know the detail, he heard from other detector colleagues; Hazel City was in danger.
His colleagues even persuaded him to withdraw from Hazel City for a while but he was a bit reluctant because the big fish had not yet been caught. It's been a month already but this is his first target after all, he can't just give up easily.
He's powerless but that doesn't mean he is a coward who is only know how to hide. However, that also doesn't mean he is so silly to the point jump directly into danger without being aware of his self-ineffectual.
He only needs to check the situation from afar and report to the superiors of the organization-- who knows the information will be useful and unexpectedly he will get a bonus. Nice idea! Detektor No.20 gave a big thumb to himself.
Surprisingly, the moment he arrived at the scene; Detektor No.20 saw two figures fighting against a big wolf and... a little girl who unknowingly appeared next to him.
"Uncle, who is him?" The little girl pointed towards the guy who was fighting against a wolf.
"..."
Detector No.20 jump in fright, "How did you here?!"
Jane: "I'm here before you"
Detector No.20 looked at her with dead fish eyes as palpably he doesn't believe her statement,
"Don't lie, girl! I didn't see u when I came here. It must be you following me here without my consent" He gave her intense gaze as he was about giving her a lesson, "Girl that was called stalking people, being a stalker is not a good thing because it violates someone's privacy, do you understand now?"
Understand your sister! she was clearly the one who arrived here first. Just because he see didn't her it didn't mean she wasn't here. She just uses stealth magic to hide her presence from that guy and the wolf.
Besides, aren't you who the one who always follows me for a whole month without a break! She gave an urge herself to kick this perverted uncle's crotch. If not because he had saved her dad, she had already taken action directly to give him a lesson for persistently stalking her.
Detector No.20 gave the little girl a worried look, "Girl, you have to leave here! It's very dangerous here"
Jane snorted: "I'm not going!"
Detector No.20 sighed, he looked at her like he was looking at a naughty little girl. Then he opened his arms warmly, "Come, I'll take you home! and how did you even manage to come here..."
Jane: "..." Scram you!
Finally, I managed to write one chapter in a day.
I just finished the exam on Wednesday and I just need to cool my brain for a couple of days.
Anyway, thank you for waiting until now...
Fifteen years ago, the world was stirred by the appearance of terrible monsters. Fortunately, these monsters only appear in dangerous and isolated places such as in the sea, desert, forest, and only a few weak monsters rarely appear in places where people live.
Even so, there are still monsters which are extremely strong; Its sharp fangs were even able to tear even the strongest steel in this world, its hard skin even the missiles were unable to penetrate it and the claws were sharper than any sword, in addition, its magical power which one attack could destroy a thousand soldiers at once.
At that time, the world is almost on the verge of chaos because no one has been able to defeat these monsters before finally, several special peoples appeared one by one. They were equipped with extraordinary abilities and with that ability they were able to easily slay these monsters.
These people call themselves 'Asterisk'. They claim that their strength comes from stars. Even some people assume that they come from the star who descends to earth to save humanity.
"... And so that guy who still fighting is Asterisk?" Jane cast him a sideways glance as she seemingly unimpressed by that kind of mind-blowing event. Instead, she had a feeling the story was a being too exaggerated. If that really happened, then why are there are many people who still completely ignorance of the existence of Asterisk and monsters?
However, since Magical Beast in Isla clearly appeared in front of her own both eyes and also a guy who had enough ability to match it, then some parts of the story might be real. Thinking to that point, later she could only shake her head slightly-- there may be several reasons why people are not aware of their existence.
If so, in spite of she has lived twice in this world, yet she knows nothing about the world she lived, or another possibility is this was the effect of her Forbidden Magic back then.
What was it called again?... oh right, it's butterfly effect!
Either way, for little awhile, Jane still can't draw conclusions about what really happened to the current world's circumstances with only the present minim information she has.
"That's right! he's Asterisk. If I remember correctly his name is..." Detector No. 20 paused for a while before he remembered that guy's name, "Oh I remember, his name is Nao, Young Master Nao"
'Young Master Nao'? it seems like the viewpoint of peoples toward Asterisk is nobler than what she expected.
Well, if you think about it indeed, even on the Isla 'only' the Apprentice Magician were already received a bit of respect from the mortal. As for wizards, they are treated like gods by them. Maybe that norm also applies in this world, the strong are respected.
She turned her head toward Detector No. 20 and asks, "Don't you think that he took too much time to take down that wolf?"
"It's alright, he's gonna take it down soon!" Detector No. 20 enthusiastically responded but still tried to reassuring the little girl beside him, "Don't worry girl, we're safe"
Jane: "..." I feel safer if you're not around!
Jane asks again: "Then, what is that wolf?" that wolf has a tiny amount of mana in its body.
Detector No. 20: "We just call it a monster"
Jane looks like she's been given enlightenment: "Oh, I see"
"That so-called 'monster'... are there still many creatures like that?"
Hearing such a question from her, Detector No. 20 only gave a smile as if he had no intention of giving her any further explanation.
Jane replied with another "Oh", as she understood what he meant. Of course, even without getting information from Detector No. 20's mouth she still could vaguely guess of it.
She just greatly surprised by the unexpected appearance of the Magical Beast. However, the wolf that appeared and fought with that guy was actually not really Magical Beast.
In Isla, Magical Beast is ranked from Rank 1 to Rank 10. Rank 1 is the lowest while Rank 10 is the highest.
Even though Rank 1 Magical Beast is the lowest, frankly, there is still a lower rank than it, they are called Tyro Beast.
The Tyro Beast is an ordinary animal that is halfway to becoming a Magical Beast. In terms of strength, they were weaker than the Magical Beast Rank 1 but were far more powerful than ordinary animals.
On the contrary, that guy despite having an extraordinary ability, he seemed to have begun to be overwhelmed against Tyro Beast.
This makes her reconsider it, 'are all Asterisk that weak?'
"Look, he's sweating!"
"It's okay, everyone will sweat when they move too much"
"Look, he's gasping for breath!"
"It's okay, everyone will be gasping when they move too much"
"Look, he's coughing up blood!"
"It's okay, everyone will coughing up blood when-..." (⊙.⊙) by then, Detector No. 20 just realized that the situation was getting out of handle.
Jane: "Wait, what are you doing?"
Detector No. 20 who is holding his cellphone: "I gonna ask reinforcement!"
Jane: "..." see, this guy looks so unreliable!
She sighed. In the end, she couldn't help lending her hand. She flicked her finger quietly behind her lower back.
On the other side, the guy who coughed up blood as a result of the wolf's attack, he clutches his chest while the other hand wiped the blood on the tip of his mouth.
"Tch, what tough monster!"
He thought rank 1 monster would be easy to cope and there will be no challenge at all, but no one expected the reality would be this arduous. Despite its weak defense, it has extremely fast speed. It was as if every time he launched an attack with his sword, the attack actually only touched the gust of wind while the target had already shifted to another spot.
Besides that, its attack was not weak. In each attack, its power is doubled in the next attack. If this is left continue, he might lose himself. He had to think of an idea to lock in the movement of that wolf. But how?
Strictly speaking, his ability is an attack-type, not a crowd control-type. This is simply beyond his capabilities. Suddenly he regretted that he had brazenly come to face this monster alone. If only he teamed up with other available Asterisk beforehand...
Really, because of his own arrogance.
Nevertheless, regret alone won't help him overcome this crisis anyway. He grips his sword tightly as he was ready to confront the wolf's next attack. Since he could not predict which direction the wolf's attack would come from, he closed his eyes to concentrate-- felt the sound of the wind fluttering, the movement of the grass and then tried to calculate it from where it would appear.
"Behind!"
He slammed his body around while waving his sword rotate horizontally in swiftly which produced the light of a slash of the sword.
Sadly again, it turns out he guessed wrong. The gusts of wind which he slashed made his hair stand up on the back of his neck as he makes another guess and turns it correctly...
"Crap, above!"
He immediately looked up with a grave face. The wolf savegely launces attack at him with its sharp claws from above. Meantime the guy completely caught off guard as he had no time to block its abrupt attack, then he closed his eyes as he lamented his own final fate.
However...
SLASH!
Behind his closed eyes, he heard the sound of the swift cut and the wailing of the wolf that only lasted for a second, "Eh?..." he's not dead yet?
Since he wasn't dead, he decided to open his eyes slowly. After he completely opened it, he saw the wolf's body lying on the ground with its head separated away from its body parts as blood splattered throughout the ground.
"Wha-, what happened?"
"..."
"Am I subconsciously killing this monster?" Do I actually have another hidden power? thinking about that made him laugh with full of satisfaction at his own greatness, "Hahaha, I am the strongest!"
Jane and Detector No. 20 who are hiding behind bushes: "..." that dude is hopeless!
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Isla = The magic world she transmigrated in her previous life
Have I done well enough to describe a slight background of this story?
I hope you can catch it...
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