“Hmm! Hmm!”

  A soft humming from a girl we know far too well. Her humming is for the happy side and the look on her face does match the lively humming quite well. This young lady has just arrived at home after a long day of work. She gently takes off her boots right at the entrance, storing them right after; however, said boots are from her usual attire and not from her Magical Girl form. It more than seems that, once she was done defeating the evil and protecting those that needed, she went back home and the moment she was out of sight, she changed back to her usual form. However, the happy look on her face is not only from what she did, her amazing deed, it’s also from being able to “pretend” being the Magical Girl in front of others. Although, maybe it was the fact that she could use her powers with less restrictions even though she went way overboard with her last spell.

  “Ahhh, I wasn’t sure I could compress that much magic into a single point, but thank god Dragon spells are extremely robust by nature as otherwise... It would’ve gone kaboom!”

  You sure seem quite carefree as you say something quite drastic and dangerous… Imagine a spell whose strength might equal S rank going “kaboom” just as she said? A complete and utterly disaster. However, what she means by that is that, if a spell can’t handle being compressed just like she did with the Mini Dragon Bomb, said spell would end up exploding as they surpass their rupture point thanks to the pressure. Imagine filling up a balloon, if the material can stretch infinitely, even if you fill it up with infinite air, the pressure would never increase as the balloon itself is stretching and stretching, nullifying any added pressure because of this simple fact. For you to create pressure inside of an object, you have to find a way to compress whatever is inside while adding more at the same time. The balloon is a good example as the objective is to add more air to it without adding too much as otherwise it will “explode”.

  Let’s go with a normal balloon, you fill it up with air until there is 1 bar of pressure however, the balloon itself has stretched by quite a bit. You can keep adding more air into it, compressing the one that is inside of it and consequently, increasing the pressure inside of it. Let’s say that, once it reaches 2 bars of pressure, the balloon cannot handle it anymore, exploding because of it. If the balloon is made of a material that can withstand 5 bars of pressure, you can compress significantly more air into said balloon because of that factor. The spells are the same way, a normal Firebolt can only withstand so much pressure until it goes kaboom, while the Fireball can withstand much more than a Firebolt, getting much stronger in the process. However, the Dragon spells family are spells that are “robust” as she said, they can probably withstand 50 bar of pressure quite easily. Seriously, these spells can get crazy strong so much so that a Dragon itself can blow up a whole mountain into nothing with a “simple” Pyro but still Dragon spell, Dragon Fireball.

  “Yep, I was experimenting mid battle when I decided to use that Dragon spell although, for some reason I had the feeling I could do it easily… Huh, I wonder why? But, moving on! Time for a hot shower ?>w
  You were experimenting around with such spell? Ah, silly Kiana! That really could’ve gone really wrong! Sigh… No point in going with my rant about how Kiana was irresponsible, it’s not like she’s going to hear me or anything like that. Oh well, she went to take said shower and of course, with the same easy going look on her face and lively mood to back it up. Once done, she went to the kitchen to make dinner as it is already past 20 pm, nothing too special or anything like that, however, she did notice that she will have to go shopping in the next few days. After enjoying her meal, she takes care of her hygiene, relaxes for an hour and once it hits 22:30 pm, she went to bed. From this perfect description of her night, it’s quite easy to say that nothing special has happened and her princess sleep should’ve been the same if someone didn’t decide to force her into a familiar place. Although, this familiar place is a little different this time around…

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  “I’m here again… But why? Wait, when did she do some remodelling? I mean, nothing that drastic but, why a kitchen floor? Or is it?”

  Rather than being surrounded by a darkness that seemed to consume eternity itself, now, while the same happens, at least she has a floor where her tender barefoot can gently step on. Although, she’s somewhat wrong when she said that, it’s a kitchen floor but I can understand why she would relate to it. The floor is actually quite visible and just like the darkness, it seems to stretch for eternity, until her golden eyes are physically unable to see past a certain point as thanks to perspective, the further that something is, the smaller and smaller it gets. The floor is not covered in stone tiles or anything like that but, with a rather polished and shiny marble like material, coloured in a checkers pattern, black and white to be precise. As I said some time ago, the marble tiles are extremely smooth, they are not rough at all and yet, Kiana barefoot does not seem to slide or even slip in fact, they seem to have infinite grip. Huh, either her balance is that good or, the tiles are the one with infinite grip even though they seem to defy physics in that sense...

  Wait a second, why am I even going on a tangent like this one?

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  “Everything else seems to be the same, the only change really is this floor… Something happened, didn’t it?”

  An astute observation and a correct one at the same time. However, what do you think was the cause for this?

  Ah, there she is, I was actually starting to wonder if the orb would appear. Just like always, this calm, stoic and cold voice is heard right behind her however, the moment our Kiana turned around she noticed something rather quickly about the light orb. In this case, it seems to be different, it still is the same size, the same voice, the only thing that is different is the colour, one that has a soft gold shade to it, one that resembles a little bit of Kiana golden eyes.

  “Do you have to say it like that? However, I have no clue, I have been pretty stable recently… Ah, maybe it was because of when I got sick? I had a rather weird dream… Or was it a nightmare? I can’t remember…”

  You were quite sick as I also seemed to be for some unimaginable reason. But that’s not the cause for this, it’s quite simple in fact although, it does worry me that you have already forgotten what happened today.

  “Oh, yeah, you’re talking about that… I mean, I don’t think I went overboard in fact, I did a pretty darn good job on keeping the damage to the very minimum! It was not easy at all to stack a barrier on top of a Dragon spell, I will tell you that!”

  Ah yes, a feat that only those whose strength are either equal to the Hero, the Dragons themselves or the Demon Lord could achieve it with such perfection. Are you out of your mind? You were experimenting with said spell, what if everything went wrong?

  Her voice is sharper than before, still cold, actually, much colder now almost as if she's angry at Kiana? Or is it disappointment from her irresponsible behaviour? It seems I was not the only one that noticed this as Kiana lets out a “Argh” as she understands what the orb is trying to say. And let’s be honest, what Kiana did could’ve gone bad, really bad and I mean it, if that Mini Dragon Bomb didn’t withstand the compression it would’ve gone “kaboom” as she said, easily destroying, annihilating anything on its path, one that has a radius of 1 kilometre or even more. Seriously, the amount of magic energy that thing had was not something you can nilly willy experiment in the middle of a battle, let alone near a city.

  “Erm, how can I explain this… I-I had a feeling it would work! Something was telling me that I could do it! I would never do such a dangerous thing like that…”

  You already did something that dangerous, what are those excuses for? Did she ever tell you anything about Dragon spells? That was your first time using one, however, my memory is not the best one in that regard… Almost as if it was erased…

  “I-I’m sorry…”

  What is done is done, next time, don’t let that excitement get over your head.

  Don’t listen to her

  Show me the extent of your powers

  “I will keep that in mind.”

  I see... Onto the next subject then. Something has changed inside of you as otherwise, we wouldn’t have this spectacular view in front of us, in fact, I feel slightly stronger than before.

  “Eh? What do you mean by slightly stronger? I really don’t feel anything different about myself… I think?”

  With a rather excited look on her beautiful golden eyes, she checks around her slender body hoping to find something that has changed about her; however, her petite hands are still petite, her pale skin is still pale, her soft and feminine features are well, still soft and feminine. After reaching the uncomfortable truth about her nonexistence change, the excited look on her face quickly changes to one filled with disappointment as if her hopes and dreams were crushed by the harsh and cruel reality. However, why would she be disappointed? She’s perfect already!

  There have not been any changes physically it seems however, what about spiritually? Do you feel anything different? Maybe not in this moment but, how about recently?

  “Hmm… Not really, I really have no clue at all. But I did notice something, not about me though. You seem a little yellow? Or is it a gold colour? Yeah, you seem to have a slight shade of gold to you.”

  Is that so? Maybe it’s a consequence of my new found strength? Ah, who knows?

  “Erm, maybe you should know it?”

  I should know it? You are the owner of this realm; you should know everything about it. Is that how you treat the one that has been by your side for a long period of time? Ah, how can you be so cruel?

  Alright, is she trying to make a joke or what? I mean, from what she’s saying it seems to be the case but her tone of voice, one that is calm and stoic, does not match what she’s trying to portray at all. However, as if she understands this, she changes the timber of her voice and even the speed of her speech, making it slower and “louder” while in some places, she does the complete opposite. To make it even more noticeable, she bounces upwards and downwards (slightly though) as she’s trying to tell the joke. While I’m beyond speechless, Kiana is also in the same way, unable to comprehend this somewhat golden light orb is trying to do.

  “What th- How the heck am I supposed to know what’s happening to you!? You’re the one changing-”

  “Not me-And I’m awake…”

  Huh, she sure likes to wake up while screaming, now does she? It seems she was a little too “excited” when she was shouting at the orb, forcing her to wake up. Well, as anyone with a single brain cell working can expect, her morning starts quite erratically to say the least however, this is not the end of it as, the moment she calms down, she looks towards the digital clock and the moment she sees what time it is, everything collapses with it.

  It’s close to 8 am or in other words, she’s late.

  “Oh nooooo! I’m late! I have the alarm set, how did this happen? That damn golden light orb! You will pay for this! Awawa! I have to get up!”

  And so, after cursing the innocent orb with everything she has, she quickly gets up and goes on her normal morning, just 3 times faster than usual of course, as otherwise she will actually be late for classes. However, once she arrives at the Academy, she’s instantly greeted by Anya as it seems that she was waiting for Kiana. I think anyone can guess what they will talk about, especially since Kiana forgot to say something to Anya about her adventure. Yeah, and because of this, I can only imagine Anya worrying throughout the rest of the afternoon and even until now as you can easily notice her face relaxing by quite a bit the moment her sharp green eyes are able to see Kiana.

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