(Volume 3, Bostnia Continent arc)
(Character Sheet)
(Author's note :
Since the story has quite a few characters now, the character sheet will only be focusing around characters RELEVANT to the plot and story of volume 3.)
(Main characters)
Kyrielle Buffet (Taki Fujiwara)
Role : MC
Gender : Female
Race : Dragonkin (99% human)
Age : 10
Height : 125cm
Status : Alive
Description :
A short girl with red hair tied into a twin tail and blue eyes. She was once a boy from another world called 'earth' and was reincarnated to this world after dying in an unknown incident. While unproven, her combat capability is akin to a Master ranked Attack Mage.
Signature Moves :
Earth Wall
Mana Ball
Forbidden Sun
Combustion
Flame Blade
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Lynn Howard
Role : Second MC, Mentor
Gender : Female
Race : Human, ???
Age : ???
Height : 167cm
Status : Alive, ???
Description :
A mysterious and beautiful woman with long white hair and pink colored eyes that glow with Mana circulation, and she likes to wear white dresses. She is only briefly introduced in the story so far, so not much is known about her.....
Signature Moves :
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Black Spear
Gravity Manipulation
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(Side characters)
Thomas Buffet
Role : Father
Gender : Male
Age : Early 30's
Height : 183 cm
Description :
A handsome man with blonde hair, blue eyes like Kyrie's, and a nice beard. He is slim but muscular. He is a kind, charismatic and funny person who is also a role model for Kyrie. He spent less time with Kyrie now because Kyrie is busy with school.
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Katherine Buffet
Role : Mother
Gender : Female
Age : Early 30's
Height: 168cm
Description :
Long, smooth red hair and hazel eyes, she is a well proportioned woman. She is caring, and a role model for Kyrie as well. She is really busy recently from work though, so she doesn't get much time to spend with Kyrie now.
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Marielle Buffet (Amemiya Fujimoto)
Role : Little Sister, ???
Gender : Female
Age : Kyrie's age - 3
Height : 98cm
Description :
Red haired and hazel eyes. She has a nice round face and features similar to her mother. She is an other worlder from earth, just like Kyrie, and is the classmate of Kyrie's former alter ego. She is also rather knowledgeable about the history of earth, and often discusses it with Kyrie.
Hopeless with magic. While not known to Kyrielle, she has a talent with Martial Arts and has surprisingly strong physical feats for her age.
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Richard Boreal
Role : Good friend, Lover(?)
Gender : Male
Age : Kyrie + 1
Height : 134cm
Description :
A tall boy with spiky black hair and brown eyes. He used to be a bully in class, but have became a better person through understanding his emotions. As someone who is proud and determined, he unknowingly made Kyrie change her mind's gender, and as such made her fall of him.
Though outclassed by Kyrielle in pure Magic Power and Reserve Mana, he has a great tactical mind and have actually outsmarted and even beaten a Kyrielle who was holding back, this is a feat of itself.
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(10 years after Kyrielle's reincarnation...)
Another year had passed, it is now the spring of the 38th year in Armored Titan's calendar. I'm now officially a fifth grader now. My life is going along nicely just as usual, and tons of note worthy things have happened.
First things first, after that incident with Richard, I have developed a crush for him... Well, I have never told him that, but I can't believe that I have actually fallen for a boy.
The sight of him carrying me was disgusting at first, but gradually I got more and more tolerate of that image and even felt that he's really cool.... Not just that, I don't know what is wrong with my mind but I think that everything he does it really cool!
From the way his hair moves in the wind... the cool teenager looks he has now that he is an 11 year old boy.... and even the way he yells at misbehaving students during our patrol in the hallway.... everything he does just makes me like him more and more...
However, I am mature enough to distinguish real life between my fantasies. Right now, Richard is still just a teenager, just like me. Teenagers shouldn't be in love, because they are minors. Their minds physically isn't mature enough to decide on something permanent like that.... I know that very well, and despite me not seeming it because elf my childish antics, I'm mentally at least 25 years old as well so it'd be illegal...
That is why, I have decided to give myself some time. I will wait until we finished our studies before I come fess to him, and only when we are adults I will consider dating him. Maybe this is just a random heat of the moment thing, and that I may not like him after a few years...
Besides, even if I'm mentally at least 20 or 30 years old, I have no experience dating at all, not back on earth, and not in this world either. That's why it is a wise decision to wait first....
Finally, if I were to suddenly confess to him, I think if he rejects me our friendship would turn awkward. And this includes all four of us, because Gerd and Mike would be caught up in our problem as well and things would turn out bad, and at worst our friend group would disband. That's why I decided not to act impulsively.
Aside from this, there's me becoming the president of the Student Council. The former president Farron Jinn was in post for two years, which is really rare in reality. But since he's already a fifth year which is the final grade, he has to give his post to someone else.
There isn't a lot of sixth years in this school, and they are usually only people who wish to retake their exam for adept ranked mage, or people who is studying and researching for new spells and inventions that can help turn them into a certified master ranked mage.
The ceremony held to determine who will get the position of the president was a democratic vote. The members of the student council would vote for 5 individuals as candidates for normal students themselves to vote for the one who will become the president.
I was voted by the student council members among the individuals to be elected, and rejecting isn't an option. Then, nearly half the school has voted for me, and that's because I have been making quite a name for myself. That's is how I became the student council president, while Richard became my secretary.
As for my popularity, it's because I have busted quite a few bullying cases, and unconditionally accepted tons of duels. I have now a 12-1 win loss ratio, and the only one I have loss to is Richard, who's also a big name in this school.
Both of us are nearly always together taking part in both optional events and programs, and just generally taking a huge part in school. If there is any small program that requires security ensurers, you'd find us there. That's why we are really popular amongst students.
Me and Richard even have shippers now constantly wishing for us to get together, it's crazy! Though I admit I actually wished for them to ship me and Richard together....
After I became the president, I ran the Student Council the way I see it. It's not that much different from the former president's idea though, so there's not much that has changed other than the anti bullying policy which I implemented.
And honestly I didn't disliked being a student council president because it's fun, and brings me some benefits such as access to the school's facility even after I graduated.
And this is why I agree with Senator Palpatine who said "I love Democracy". I should stop with the star war references....
( Author's note : It's a joke, don't take it seriously.)
As for Gerd, she has made a name for herself as a disciplinary member. There's a group similar to the student council who works more for the teachers, unlike us student councils who works independently from the teachers, and that group is called the disciplinary group. Gerd is the vice president for that group, she joined those group during the fourth grade.
Mike joined the student council following my recommendation as a president. His role is as the Master of Ceremony for the school, so he is now frequently talking on stage. Unlike the Mike that I knew of, this Mike that joined the Student Council is way more louder and charismatic, and I'm proud of him for that.
All four of us are doing our responsibilities in school, so we only got to hang out together during the weekends or during classes. Yet, our relationship has only grown ever more tighter.
However outside of the school, my life with my family have been dormant for a while now because I'm really busy lately, especially now that I am the president.
I feel that recently I have spent less time with my family in general, and especially with mom who's also really busy herself. Every day we only got to exchange maybe a few conversations, and we didn't do anything noteworthy together.
The only time that I had spent with her is just me helping her with her alchemy, but in the past year I have been so busy that I can't find the time to. But we still love each other, it's just that we have less chance to spend time as mother and daughter.
Outside of that, the only note worthy thing that happened was my sister Marielle turning 7, and she was allowed to be out of the house officially now. She eagerly ran outside to play by herself really frequently nowadays, and it seems that she has made some new friends her age as well. Two girls of her age, to be specific.
"Good morning, Marie! Marie's big sister as well!" (2x)
"Mmm, good morning."
"Sorry everyone, today I'm going to play with my big sister instead!"
Today which is about the mid Spring of the year and a weekend, I took Marie on a trip around the city. In the morning, we went to the well known church, the almost finished clock tower, the Noble's residential area, one of the aqueducts, the water resevoir underground and the beautiful fountain in front of the church. Sadly, mom had an order to fill, and dad has work this weekend, so we can't go together as a family.
We could just wait for another day, but I rarely ever get enough time off each week to even go out for that long. I have many paper work to do as the student council president, and there's my home work to do as well. And that is besides the fact that I didn't practised my fighting skills and magic skills a lot these days...
It was as if today was made for our little tour of the city because I didn't have any of my responsibilities to do, and I also told my friends that I won't be playing with them today.
Right now it's afternoon 1pm and we are at the park, where we are taking a rest from the tour before we head home. We are sitting under the pink tree on the top most hill of the city. We had our winter coats on because today was rather windy.
"This 'Klada' city is amazing nee-chan!"
"I know right? For a fantasy world that is in the middle ages, the technology here impresses me. "
"Then that just means this isn't the middle ages, fool!" This girl really get on my nerves sometimes, but it's all in good fun.
"Haha, I am not that that well versed with our old world's history... Now I don't have a chance to learn anymore it's kind of sad. "
"Yeah... Well, the age of this world appears to be closer to the Renaissance, which is roughly when the world starts advancing further from the Middle Ages and this era progress straight into the modern era."
"I see... speaking of the modern era, have I ever told you about the first World War equivalent of this world?"
"Nope."
"Long story short, humans have been fighting the demons at the very west of the world since the second descent of the twelve gods, which is basically like the AD period of Earth. And just like how the first World War didn't have a decisive winner, this Great Demonic War didn't either. "
"That is interesting... the first World War you say?..."
"Yep. The demons are winning at first, but the introduction of Golems created by humans have revolutionized warfare, and caused the demons to consider a Truce. That is why we have another calendar now, called the Armored Titan's calendar. This introduction of Golems is like WWI's introduction of new weapons like tanks and planes...."
"That is indeed true.... But we don't know the exact ability of these Golems right? They can't compete with the tanks of our world right?"
"Nope. I haven't seen one personally, but they aren't as destructive and mobile as a normal tank. I do think these Golems are a bit tougher though since this world has really dangerous magic and these Golems are built specifically to counter these magic."
"I see... By the way why is it that the church is the one in power here despite there being a monarch which rules over this countr-"
'Boom...!'
A loud explosion at the distance was heard which interrupted Marie. It occured to the south, which is the direction of the church.
"What was that...?" Marie was surprised by that noise.
"I don't know... It may be a magic accident."
To the very distant, directly at the church, I could see fire, and tons of smoke.... Actually that fire is too big! There's no way any natural thing could cause that big of an explosion, something must be going on.
Then, I saw it. Magical crests. The problem with those crests is that it's size is simply too large to be called normal as it covered pretty much the whole damned area near the church. There is no doubt this is an enemy attack, and I don't know what spells they are going to use.
Immediately as I saw the crests, I heard then.... Alarm bells.
'Ting Ting Ting!' (?x)
There are multiple watch towers in the city with guards standing guard. When the bell is rung, that means there is an attack going on in the city.
The people in the park is just as confused and panicked as us two.... I don't know what to do now.
"...this could be troublesome. We'll run Marie!"
"Huh? To where?"
"Back home, where else? We'll go make sure mom is safe and then we will see what is going on and whether we can take shelter in the school. The training field's defensive dome barrier could be used to repel magic attacks afterall."
"Alright... I'm scared but... I'll follow you!"
"Okay. Grab onto my hand tightly and NEVER let go, okay? We'll start running back home. Tell me if you are tired!"
"Right!"
With my sister tightly gripped, I started running back home to find mom.
The streets is full of chaos, as people are all running, and I could see guards rushing to the direction of the church.
The magic crest in the sky changed, this time it is a different pattern. This is not a good sign because it means that the attacker is now done preparing and is casting another spell.
"The attackers are to the church! Run citizens! Evacuate to the magic school!"
A guard was giving out instructions.
"Wait nee-chan! Dad could be in trouble!"
"Don't worry, dad can take care of himself! He's the captain of the guards, he knows what he is doing! For now we'll just have to find mom!"
"...Okay!"
We continued running down the streets. Finally, we reached home where mom waited in front of the house, and is dressed in a chainmail armor that I have only saw once. This time she's holding a staff and a mace by her waist as well, that is no doubt her gear when she was still an adventurer.
"Mom!"
"Kyrie! Marie! Thank gods you both are fine!" She immediately pulled the two of us into a tight hug.
"Mom, dad is!..." I reported to mom about that.
"Don't worry, dad is a capable man! We need to run to the school now so that we won't get hit by any large scaled spel- "
A really loud sound of windows cracking could be heard. I had only read about this once, only large scaled attack spells of Saint ranked at least would make a giant window shattering sound after it finished casting.
Almost as if she just jinx'ed the attack, on the ground next to us I could saw a red circle of about 2 meters in diameter. The circle mark is formed because of the ground burning, it is a fire spell.
"!!!... Take cover! "
Mom immediately grabbed the two of us and pulled us further away from that circle, dropping onto the ground. She covered us with her body.
'Boom!' (??x)
At least thirty sounds of explosions was heard immediately, almost back to back with the explosion of this fire spell near us. Extremely hot flame was spewed forth from the circle like it's a small volcano...
this isn't the only circle on the ground, multiple of them was actually appeared at the same time and set ablaze the entire city.
Even after the initial explosion the flame didn't stop and continue to spew out fire, setting everything nearby on a bright burn and turning into a pillar of hot flare. The crater near us spewed out fire like that and set part of our house on fire....
"No..." Was my reaction seeing that.
There is no doubt a spell of this rank is actually Saint ranked! But who could cast a spell of this magnitude?!
"....this is a disaster! We need to run away from the city!" Mom immediately made a fair judgement in just seconds while I was stuck in my thoughts.
"Marie, I'll carry you! Kyrie, you can run right?!"
"Yes!"
"We'll run for the gate, away from the city! Now let's go! Do not run farther or behind me, run to my sides so that I can see you!"
"Yes!"
Mom ditched her staff and picked up Marie, then we started running out of the city.
As we ran, flaming buildings collapsed, people being turned into a black pile of charred remains, the guards were in disarray, childrens cried, screams was heard and cries of pain, grief and despair is everywhere in the city.
Just the heat from the surrounding burning buildings is enough to make your skin feel as if it's baking, so much so that it even hurts to breathe. I could feel my lungs being scorched.
There was no other description for this scene other than 'Hell on Earth'. The entire city itself is burning, just like the nightmare I had when I was a child. It can't be that much of a coincidence right?!... This sight was just a bit too much for me to handle...
Before I know it tears had started flowing out of my eyes, but I did not stop running with mom because I knew that if I stopped I'd risk getting all of us killed. Sister hid her face into mom's chest so that she wouldn't have to witness this cruel cruel sight.
My biggest worry now however lies with the giant metal figure I saw in the nightmare.... If that thing is real.... I shuddered at the thought of it.
As we got closer to the city's gate, we entered a street. And there we saw them, the attackers. A team of assassins stood guard on the street and killed everyone in sight.
I recognized the symbol on their coat. That was when I was almost kidnapped by assassins, and I saw this crest on their coat.
"Arrrghh!" It was the first time I had hear a scream of terror. A man was grabbed by one of the assassins and stabbed in the body repeatedly with a sword.
"Shit! The opposite direction!"
We turned tails and ran. I looked back and saw the 6 assassins chasing after us, and we are slower than them. Sooner or later we'll be caught!
....I don't want to kill anyone. But even more so, I don't want to die! And I don't want my family to die either! If I must cross that line so that I can give justice to the people they killed... and secure the safety of Marie and Mom... then so be it.
My adrenaline suddenly skyrocketed, but my fear and anxiousness cleared up. I am once again having an adrenaline rush, or rather is this what they call bloodlust?
Upon this Armored Titan's command to kneel...
I stopped running and turned backwards facing the assassins.
"What the hell are you doing- no, Kyrielle!"
"Run! You both will only get in the way!"
Mud Puddle.
I immediately conjured up a Mud Puddle large enough to cover part of the entire street.
All six of the assassins were caught into the mud.
I cast and charged up a fireball instantaneously after the Mud Puddle. As I did that I conjured up a Mana Ball with the same hand, charging both magic to about 70% power.
The five assassins struggled to pull their knees out of the mud puddle, but I saw one of the assassin stretching his arm out and chanting for a spell. If I don't counter his move, he'd block my spell as I fire it. I had only done this maybe two times before, but I'll have to do triple casting now!
"Kyrielle!" "Nee-chan!"
"You'll get caught up in the spell!"
"Wha?! Alright!...."
Within these very lands lies an impenetrable wall, Earth Wall!
I successfullly pulled off triple chanting and casted a small earth wall directly below the assassin that was chanting his spell. I summoned up an Earth Wall directly underneath him and it slammed into his hand interrupting his spell. Unlike Richard, this guy chants really slow, so he's wide open now.
The other 5 assassins had already pull their leg out of the mud and is ready to dodge, but it is too late for them. There is no dodging a spell that can destroy the entire street.
"Forbidden Sun!"
(Chapter 34 end)