Elemental Zodiack

Chapter 8: Reminiscence

--- The wide-open window allows the wind to come into the principal's office. It's been only two months since Yoso went to Melyndor for his training. Laure is doing his daily paperwork as the principal of Dinsfurd's Academy. The wind starts blowing stronger making one of the papers in the huge pile fall on the floor.

"Huh...? I think I should close the window," says Laure picking the paper from the floor

"This is...? Shimada Kein's files? Now that I think of it, I don't know anything about this guy. His past isn't even written there, neither the names of his parents."

 While quietly reading Kein's files, Laure hears a knock at the door.

 "Enter!" says Laure while putting Kein's files on the desk.

 Kein and his team enter the office. They came to announce to the principal that their patrolling tour is over.

"Good... I have a new job for you Shimada. The final exams will begin in a week. I want you to inform all the students that will take it to write a new file with information and bring it there. It should contain everything about the person, even his past and family. You do it and bring it to me!"

"Isn't this kinda like... stalking?" says Kein with a doubtful expression

"Just do it! And leave before I throw this desk at you!"

"Yes sir..."

The day was already over so Kein's team couldn't do that mission today/ All of them went to their houses and started thinking about what they should write on the paper.

"My past huh...? This gorilla really annoys me," says Kein while thinking while pointing his pencil at the empty paper.

  Kein starts remembering about the old days... When he wasn't living such a peaceful life.

"I was living with my mother and my older brother in the countryside of Dinsfurd. We were a poor family that didn't even know what we would get to eat at the end of the day. Our mother was working on the fields for the rich people and being paid by the day. My older brother was really intelligent and could use the life force from a very young age. He was always by my side and protected me by the children of the rich people that were bullying me every once in a while.

 He would even use his power to hurt them if they were mean to me. But that only made our mother get punished by their parents that were giving her work to do.

 That meant we wouldn't get to eat every day but our mother wasn't mad at my brother since she knew that he was doing this for protecting me. She was always teaching us to protect each other because we are brothers, and no one could ever take this bond away from us. Or this is what we thought...

 The place we were living in was just at the edge of the country. One day, Authorania attacked through that zone and took everyone in those parts as slaves. Also, our mother tried to protect us because a weird person from that country tried to take me and my brother as his slaves as well. Our mother died while protecting us at that moment. After seeing her death, my brother awoke his true potential and started wreaking havoc in the place where we were being captive. This is what happens when someone uses his powers without a catalyst after all... We made an escape plan and tried to run, but Authorania's army came to stop my brother. He told me to leave and do everything according to that plan. He started to oppose them using force while the only thing I could do at that moment was to run and never look back.

 I don't even know if he escaped alive or if he was killed back then. I did everything according to my brother's plan and at the age of seven, I escaped Authorania, sneaking into a ship that was going to a raid in Dinsfurd. After the ship reached its destination, I waited until' Authorania's soldiers went down and then I sneaked out of the ship and ran away into the nearest city.

 I knew I should earn money so I could live, so I ate from the trash bins of the restaurants and started begging on the streets. After I turned 10, I got a job at the restaurant whose trash cans I ate from until now. My powers already started to manifest and it looked like that I had an affinity for the same element such as my brother, so it was easy for me to understand how to use it. My dexterity was also really good so the people from the restaurant liked me and hired me on the spot.

 Even though I started earning some real money, I didn't have enough for a roof on the top of my head. After a few days, I met Shouko on the streets. She wasn't in very good condition. She had wounds all over her body and didn't know what happened to her family. She was like me so I searched everywhere and found a family that wanted to adopt her. Shouko started following me everywhere and even brought me food for where I finished the work at the restaurant. After not much time, I realized that I could take revenge if I became stronger, so along with Shouko, I signed up at the Dinsfurd's Military Academy where I met someone almost as sarcastic as me, and a really good friend of mine, Shizuo.

 The three of us were pretty talented, so we reigned over the school as some of its best students, with me being the actual "Student Representative", and got at the final exam at the age of 12, wishing to become strong enough, for protecting this kingdom that is our home, and personally, to take revenge on Authorania for my brother and my mother..."

--- After writing all of his past on the paper, Kein realized that a few good hours have passed and that he should go to sleep since tomorrow he will have a lot of work to do.

 Looking on the window just before going to sleep, he murmurs to himself:

"I wonder what that kid is doing right now... Become stronger, and be someone I could use for my revenge... Yoso."