Chapter 1111: Again on the 1st floor
[Eon's POV: ]
"Hey! Anna! Don't run around like that!"
"Hehehe~. Tell Taika to stop first~."
"Taika!"
{ "Ghahahaha! I will catch that girl! Don't stop me, Eon!" }
Taika was in her tiger form and she was running after Anna now.
'We were back to the 1st floor after looking around the other floors, and while things had become a little better now, Anna still needed to rest.'
She did not want to rest though, and even after I showed her around the tower's various floors and brought her here instead of the bedroom, she was still not listening to us.
'Instead of agreeing to rest, she simply wanted to learn more about her powers.'
Now that she had become stronger and obtained this new power, she wanted to learn how to use this power.
Also, since her Taming and summoning abilities have bloomed, she was attracting the creatures around her unknowingly.
She was, in fact, affecting Taika as well. But saying that out loud will cause trouble for us and I don't want to explain to grandma and elder Aunt just how that was possible.
'There are things that even I don't understand. Giving explanations of things that I don't understand in the first place would mean nothing.'
At least though, she was just playing around with Taika without knowing the Tiger was being affected by the unconscious use of her powers.
"That's enough, Anna. Stop now." Anna was running around with Taika slowly chasing after her, but since Taika did not seem to have any intention of actually catching her, Zoe just grabbed the girl by collar and lifted her off the ground with one hand.
"There are delicate things here. Don't run around like that."
Anna was not surprised that her big sister had lifted her with one hand. She knew Zoe was strong already.
Instead, what surprised her was how Zoe also stopped Taika who was in her smaller tiger form and lifted her with both her hands.
"Taika, get back into the other form and go somewhere else.
She's not going to listen to me with you around."
Zoe knew better than anyone else just how Anna still needed some rest so she somehow brought Taika back to her senses and then sent her to the other side.
"And you, little one."
Then, she looked at Anna with a stern upset look, directly into her eyes.
"I understand you want to learn new things, that you want to test out the new powers you now have.
I understand there are many questions you want the answers of, but remember that you are not going to get any of those answers if you continue being stubborn."
As Zoe said, there were times when we did not mind her cute stubbornness, but right now, in her current condition, in this particular situation, we did not want her to get into any more trouble than this.
'It wasn't her fault that she was transported here. She did not even know about her own awakening.'
But she was in a bad state right now even though everything inside of her was healed.
'The medical artifacts here aren't omnipotent.'
They certainly helped her more than anything outside possibly could have, but the core that was created inside of her was still fragile.
She needed to rest so that it stabilises further and becomes solid enough to not go haywire when she channels energy from it.
She will then have to learn about how to channel her energy from her core, learn breathing techniques, learn about energy circulation, learn about all the things we have not taught her until now, and only after she learns to a certain degree is when we will take her back.
"So, don't be stubborn and listen to what we say, alright?"
Having Zoe was the best thing if we wanted to deal with Anna.
If it were me or Rein alone, we would have ended up showing her our soft side anyway. She was also the one that was going through something bad, so we wouldn't have been as strict with her.
But Zoe could do it. And thanks to her, Anna was under control for now.
[{ Master… Anna seems taller now, doesn't she? }]
When we got here and found her, she already looked a little taller than she was before disappearing from the house. But now that we have healed her, she seemed a little taler than that.
[{ "She might grow a little taller by the time we get home, Celes. But don't mind that. She's simply growing quickly after being suppressed all this time." }]
Due to her unique constitution that restricted her awakening as well as her growth, she had been a little shorter than us when we were her age.
She was eleven already and yet, she had neither awakened her powers nor had grown as much as she should have considering all her training and reading.
She had talent and potential. Much more than any of us. But due to her stronger innate characteristics, she grew differently from the others.
'She will grow rapidly for the time being, and after reaching a certain point, she will start growing normally.'
We don't know how much she will grow physically, mentally, and magically, but we know she will be a fine Lady by the time we graduate, and by the time she comes to the academy, she will be much ahead of her peers.
'I have to prepare for that day.'
We have already reached the starting point, so from now on, everything I do in the academy will matter.
But I don't have to think about that for now.
"Everyone! Since it's been late already, I will go and prepare lunch for everyone and we can do the element testing after that.
Zoe, look after them and if they are going anywhere, send someone with them just in case.
Please don't wander around by yourself, everyone. You might get into trouble if you're not careful."
"Alright~."
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'I have already shown them a few floors that they will be seeing often.'
The 1st floor where we were right now filled with elements of magic, the second floor which was a pool area, the magic island on the 4th, the floating plains on the 5th, the field on the 7th, the vegetable garden on the 8th, the fruit forest on the 9th, and the infirmary on the 11th.
They have seen the music floor on the 15th briefly, the alchemy lab on 33rd.
There were fifty floors and if I really want to show them around each and every section that I have been to, I would need around a year for that.
'A year in outer world time that is…'
Since time flows three times slower here, something I have never known, we would need three years to see all the sections of all the places and properly tour them.
'Considering they would spend one day in each of the sections of the timeless library on the 48th floor, we would need over a month just to explore the library.'
And I haven't even added the Treasury on the highest floor yet or the places in the 51 floors that I haven't been to.
'The tower was just that big.'
If one did not know better, they would get lost in any of the floors. Even the smallest place in the tower, the floor with the training circles on the 45th floor, was big enough to contain more than a dozen different rooms all interconnected with one another.
The tower was a complicated place so if they did not have at least an artificial helper with the, it would be impossible for them to get out of various places around the tower.
In places like the gardens or the Maze, or even the 'outdoor' training area on one of the higher floors, they would have no choice but to simply wander around the place until they find someone else.
"Who's coming to help me though? I'll need a few hands since we are here-."
"Oh! Oh! Me!" As soon as I turned around and said that, Quin's hand was raised and she was running towards me.
"I'm coming as well. I had wanted to see how you use all those weird things in that fancy kitchen." Even Del was ready to come with me this time.
Rein was going to do something else for me and since Miss Moon was away already, I needed a few more hands.
"Chry?"
"Hmm?"
"Do you wanna come along?"
"Oh… alright, master." Quin is coming so, it wasn't a bad idea.
President and grandpa were still upstairs, looking through the old texts in the infirmary.
Those old things had somehow caught their attention and they were not getting away from them anymore.
It was fun seeing them like that but then again, they were going to have to leave those things aside.
'There is a grand library here much bigger than the Great library of time that we have on the island of magic's wealth.'
Even I have to go and see some of the sections that were previously blocked for me. And, similarly, Zoe also had to go and see the place that her mom had left only for her.
"I'm going with big brother~!"
There was no stopping Anna so I will have more than enough helping hands with me. Plus, with Mave and Sir Zuroro here, it should be fine.
[{ "Look after them, Celes." }]
[{ Yes master. }]
I didn't really have to worry about the others since Celes is here, but it's better to be safe.
'The days and nights here were pretty consistent as well, so after we did the element testing… I guess we will all go to sleep.'
That would be for the best for all of us.