Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

[Eon's POV: ]

"Huuuu…"

"A little deeper."

"Huuuuuuuu…"

"A little more…you'll feel your stomach filling up."

"Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…"

"Alright."

Rein was teaching Tia something useful right now.

"Now hold on for a second."

"…"

"Good, good. And now… take three more shallow breaths through your nose."

"…"

"Don't open your mouth, just take Three shallow breaths through your nose and hold it."

"Smmm. Smmm. Smmm."

"Good. Now…"

Tia was in her bigger form so Rein placed her hand on her back, and guided her Mana with her own.

"Follow the Mana path slowly."

She stayed like that for a few moments, and then, Rein asked her to slowly release the air through her mouth.

"Haaaaaa… ahem!"

She was doing it calmly, but then she suddenly coughed, and right after that, her eyes widened in surprise.

"What the hack?"

Tia blinked a few times, looked at her hands, looked back at Rein who had a smile as she sat back down on her chair, and then looked at her hands again while moving her fingers.

"What did you do just now, Uriel?!"

She was surprised by the sudden freshness she might have felt, the unique feeling of sudden rejuvenation and feeling of all the stress and pain leaving her body… It was a unique sensation.

"Hehe, just one of my many special tricks~."

"Heyyyy! Don't be like that! Tell me, please!"

It was a unique breathing method where you use your Mana to activate some Muscles and open up a few blockages that might be causing the pain and stress, and it was a pretty basic breathing method.

"Ohh! Ohh! I wanna try as well! Me too!"

"Me as well, please Miss Uriel!"

"Captain, me as well please…"

Anyone could tell just how effective that little trick might have been by looking at that excited expression of our friend who was grumbling about being in pain just a moment ago.

Handling a single stall wasn't going well with her, it was too much work. Much more than she had expected.

'She didn't want to continue it after this little break until just a moment ago, but now it seemed like she was a new person completely, full of life and vitality.'

And since along with her, the other store owners like Liz, Med, and Eula also wanted to experience that rejuvenated feeling, they all gathered behind her chair.

And they weren't the only ones who had gathered behind her. Even the individuals that were helping them crowded around her.

And she obviously found it funny.

"Why are you all being like this, hehe. It's nothing special, you can do it without me as well~."

It was one of the many breathing techniques that she had learned from her mentor, Lady Sapphire.

After being in constant pain for so long, she had taught her how to relive at least some of it through various means, and this breathing method was one of them.

"Oh, you know what? You should drink His special rejuvenation tea as well. You'll be as good as new~."

"Hmm?"

"Is that true, Lucifer?"

"I knew it! I knew you had some special stuff for tiredness and stress! Give it to me~!"

Rein didn't like how everyone was gathered only around her, so she sent most of them looking for an easy solution to my side…

And soon, there was a crowd gathered behind my chair as well.

"Alright alright, jeez. No need to shout or anything. Go to your places, haha."

It was simple tea anyway, there was no need to gather behind me and block the path for the rest of them walking around the garden.

This place is empty when we usually have lunch here, but not right now. Today, there were many more families and groups having their lunches here so we all didn't even have a place for extra people.

'We had to set up a big spiral-shaped dining table just for us so that we can fit as many people as possible, and yet not everyone that had gathered around us today fit in this place.

Not everyone from our group was here yet, and still, we were having trouble fitting in people… and then there's those reporters. I don't even understand why they are so dead set on us, haaaa.

[{ "Darling…" }]

President and Cradle had joined us for lunch today as well and since this was a special occasion, we were having special things that everyone liked— things that would have attracted attention from the surrounding groups as well if this barrier wasn't set here.

[{ "Stop thinking about it for now. At least eat without worrying about that stuff." }]

The atmosphere right now was amazingly positive.

With all these people, the garden that we know and this place where we usually have lunch seemed more cheerful and pleasant.

There were children chasing after one another, parents who were watching their children, and people who enjoyed various things that were available for them in this festival.

It was fun looking at all this and with all our friends around, this should have been much more enjoyable than it usually is.

And perhaps it was fun as well, but…

[{ "I can't help it, Uriel." }]

The battle had ended just a few minutes ago and now we were all here for lunch…

A few others were still on their way but we had started since everyone was hungry. Thankfully, the food was already ready so there weren't any big problems there.

We were waiting for the others while eating, and we were chatting.

I was having fun but I couldn't take those damned cultists out of my head anymore.

[{ "It's absurd, you know. It's absurd." }]

They used a strange artifact to turn themselves into energy then not them but the demonic energy overflow corrupted the creature which was later killed and turned into an embryo carrier which would have reborn into at least twelve more parts with almost the same kind of strength or, who knows, the new ones might have been even more dangerous.

'What we… the headmaster was seeing when he started planning to take these bastards down, was how they would react or what they could possibly do.'

Neither he nor we had any idea how bad this one dimensional thought process would actually be, or how much we were still underestimating these bastards.

[{ "They aren't an enemy that's beneath us, Uriel. If anything, they might just actually be one step ahead of us." }]

The demonic cultists.

Those bastards were much smarter than we had known until now. Their unique and unconventional ways, though I don't want to admit it, are something I should actually take note of.

The way they planned this whole thing was no coincidence.

They had anticipated each of the moves that we might have anticipated from them and then they anticipated what we could be anticipating sometime later once again.

They were one step ahead of us this time, and it was a complete coincidence that Lucy had the answer to the question that I just happened to ask her.

[{ "Eon, darling… you know it's not your fault that they are so good at what they are doing, right?" }]

[{ "I'm not saying it's anyone's fault, Uriel. The thing is… we just don't know what their next move might be." }]

They could very well be after something I was trying to protect or what I cherish might just be their main targets, but I didn't-.

[{ "Just shut up, darling." }]

She looked at me with a calm gaze that was speaking a lot more than what others seeing her could infer.

[{ "Just eat lunch for now. You're being paranoid right now." }]

Nox was sitting beside me so she asked him to pass a glass of the tea I had just brewed for them to me.

And then, she asked me to drink it with her eyes so that I can calm down a little more.

"Haaaaaa…"

And I did as she wanted, but all four of us knew it wasn't that effective.

[{ "You worry a little too much, Lucifer. I know this is fucked up, but what can you even do besides thinking right now?

It's not like any of us can do anything about someone we don't even know properly, right?

And, if we don't even know what extent they could actually go to, then… what's the point of worrying about all this?" }]

Cradle…

[{ "She's right, Lucifer. There's nothing we can do." }]

Even President Zodiac was right.

But even he knew how frustrating this was!

"Awwww~. This tea is sooooooo good!"

But they were right.

"Want some more, Zoe?"Nôv(el)B\\jnn

With our friends present here, with all these people who were enjoying the festival, enjoying how this event was going without any knowledge of what was going on not too far from here, it was much better to smile with them instead of being so worried about these unknown things.

"Yes please~."

Tia was being funny again with all the fight over Rein, and just like her, the stressed out duo of Liz and Med were also requesting her to take care of them personally.

Quin was happily watching all this like Carla and Ezra, while the boys were chatting about the things all the classes have made for the competition.

The familiars were either playing around the garden or with the children present, or were resting beside their masters since they were too big for this now crowded place like Carla's Beth.

And, overall, this was fun…

"Should we go and greet the older generation? We might get to hear some fun stories from them."

Bell and Alf wanted to do that, and they were not the only ones.

However…

"I don't think there will be any need for that."

Since we could see a big group of people walking in our direction, a few of us knew we would not have to go to Them.

"Let's make some place for them, everyone."

They were the famous seniors of the last few batches so, they were undoubtedly going to have some fun stories for us younger ones.