Bleap

Chapter 52

It dawned on me when we were sitting at a cafe across the road from Central Park that really, we either looked like a couple of nutjobs, or the most indiscrete duo ever to exist, maybe even both at the same time.

Caren in her nun's habit, and me with my dark aviators, jeans and turtleneck. Yeah, we 100% made for a scene pulled straight out some shonen manga, maybe JJK or Sakamoto Days or something. Specifically, those scenes where a new set of major antagonists or allies arrived in the ...

Chapter 51

No bounded fields. No traps. No hidden security.

This 'capo' person we were supposed to meet was either very confident, or very naive. I was inclined towards the former. As an organisation with magi among their ranks, I doubted he or she became a head without any strength to boast.

That said, it really did warrant a certain level of caution that these people were aligned WITH the church instead of against it for that very fact. The Mage's Association and the Holy Church had a very...

Chapter 50

"Give me your phone."

Caren held out her hand.

I stared at her, and then at the mobsters occupying the front seats. Stupefied, I even forgot about making sweet love to their ugly faces with my fists in this cramped cab. By the time the thought came back, a better idea had struck me.

"And why should I do that, Miss Caren?" I leaned back into the mouldy seat, arms crossed behind my head again.

"It's boring to watch idiots hit each other impotently. Ah, I apologise, I los...

Chapter 49

A/N: Honestly, I didn't much like how the last chap turned out, but it was necessary so... yeah.

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"So, where is he?"

Waver put his cigar to his mouth and took a long drag, eying the window. His hope of escaping the situation before him dwindled with each passing second, and right now, he was well and truly considering taking his chances with just jumping out.

A strong wind slammed the window shut. Thunder rolled in dark, moody skies, and strong rain hammered against t...

Chapter 48

Edit: No like this chapter? Should I rewrite?

Travelling to a different nation after spending your whole life in your homeland was certainly an experience, terrible for some, incredible for others, but an experience nonetheless. There came culture shocks, the difference in architecture and local customs, the way people treated each other and the way they looked, and all those different things that served to build a society.

And, even though I'd spent an entire life in the city of ...

Chapter 47

I was going to write another but I feel terrible. I've been sick for the last two days, apologies.

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Caren, or, Caren Hortensia as she introduced herself, was a genuine menace to society, a public enemy, that became apparent within the first hour of getting acquainted with her.

She, more than once, 'accidentally' tripped me over, or bumped into some roadmen and then pointed them my way. The crazy girl even picked up some homeless person's money when he wasn't looking after g...

Chapter 46

Setting a meeting up with a Church representative really was as easy as sending a message to Heine... via mail, because magi refused to even have phones for some awful reason. No, I knew that awful reason now. They were people who fundamentally chased the glory of magecraft in an age long ended, the Age of Gods. 

They resisted the passage of time with all they had, and fought against the weakening of mystery tooth and nail. So, they rejected the technology that heralded the end of ...

Chapter 45

"Oh c'mon, aren't we buddies? And you even skimped on my pay last time. I think you owe me for that if nothing else." I shamelessly harassed the unremarkable fellow sitting at the reception in the Department of Policy, the same one responsible for handing me an 'easy' job that ended with me having to fight a literal daemon.

Of course, I didn't really blame him but he didn't need to know that. I needed another field assignment to test out some theories, and practical experience was the b...

Chapter 44

I quietly stared at the white ceiling of the apartment that had become my new home, hands crossed under my head and one leg folded up over the other. Weak sunlight filtered through the open blinds of the window opposite the bed along with the chill early winter air. The two combined were a rather pleasant sensation.

There was no smell of frying oil, no hustle bustle from early customers looking for a quick breakfast on their way to work and no blaring honks and cursing from the usual ch...

Chapter 43

It'd been a couple of days since my 'promotion'.

I leaned on the seminar table, resting my chin in my palm as Flat screamed into my ear... like usual from one side and Caules rigorously typed away at his laptop, only stopping to fix his thick glasses every once in a while. Svin was just snoring one row down.

The rest of the class had filtered out the second Waver ended his lecture, but then most of them weren't permanent members of the El-Melloi Classroom even though they were enr...

Acknowledgement for July

In the previous month, I've written and posted a total of approximately 65k+ words. This might not be really impressive compared to some others but I'm rather proud of myself for it. Thank you for supporting me through the journey. I hope I can manage this, or ideally, cross this mark this month too, and I hope you will continue to enjoy the story as you have.

Thank you.

Here's to an even better August.

Chapter 42

"Well, it turned out to be quite the ordeal, didn't it? It must have been a learning experience."

I pondered in silence.

Lord Valualeta, Inorai, sat beside me on the bench. She was leaning back like some kind of delinquent with her arms splayed on the headrest, even behind my head, with her head thrown back. A stranger might even think she was actually interested in watching the moody London sky that always looked to be on the verge of crying this time of the year.

It was se...

Chapter 41

A/N: We reached +50 celsius today and I think I had something of a heat stroke since I straight up passed out while sitting. Still, I wasn't going to just not write so I said fuck you to my body and wrote two chapters instead of one out of spite. I only hope the spite hasn't messed with the quality.

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"How terribly cruel."

The sentiment left Waver's lips as a hushed whisper, his hand clutched his stomach, and it took all he had in him to stop himself from trembling as he wat...

Chapter 40

(Sorry guys, it took a bit longer than I expected to get it fixed.)

Expectedly, there was a fail-safe built into the workshop, designed to blow back in the face of anyone who dared to hijack it in spectacular fashion... Unfortunately, it wasn't designed to account for someone like me. It would be awe-inducing if it was.

Dismantling the fail-safe was elementary work, forcing the workshop heel was even easier.

The moment I snapped my fingers, the 'world' around us shifted, eve...

Chapter 39

Edit: I take it y'all didn't like this chapter? Should I rewrite it?

It was a quiet night. Moonlight faintly shimmered through dark clouds that masked the starry night sky I'd become used to in this castle in the middle of nowhere. A chill wind crept through the garden we were all gathered in, and the trees and flowers bobbed gently along its cool course.

Waver had called all of the magi with the help of the servants, and everyone had no real reason to deny him, not when he declar...

Chapter 38

Waver immediately took to deciphering the contents of Geryon Ashborn's journal as I stepped past him, the bloody mess that was Orlocke. My first thoughts? This wasn't the work of that thing, no matter how similar it was made to look.

It was too deliberate. Too nasty. Too desperate.

My eyes wandered across the scene again.

Anyone with a lick of common sense could tell this sort of damage was most definitely not the work of a wild animal.

Holding my nose, I stepped up th...

Chapter 37

Reinforcement.

The Istari Living Stone.

Gurdoa's Lightning Barrier.

Even though I stacked those spells gathered from exceptional magi atop one another multiple times, the damn thing still managed to push me back. Its claws rasped along stone, lightning singed its sinewy flesh, and reinforcement allowed me to hold on as it dragged me into a wall. Fortunately, I managed to push Luviagelita out of the way quickly enough.

Any reasonable person would expect me to be annoyed...

Chapter 36

Sorry for missing a few updates, there was a flood in my city. It caused no harm whatsoever to me personally but it did knock out the power grid so I've been in the darkness for the past couple days.

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Both of us chose to enter the dark, decrepit corridor without even having to look at each other for confirmation. Obviously, we didn't inform anyone else about our whereabouts either, since that was the smart thing to do... or rather, the thing anyone with a lick of common sense wou...

Chapter 35

The next morning couldn't have come sooner... for everyone else, that was. I slept like a baby, cuddling one of Luvia's thick thighs while everyone went about their own personal investigations into just what had transpired last night.

This became evident when we all gathered for breakfast and Waver walked in with drooping shoulders, stifling a yawn with his hands, with old boy Orlocke Caesermund on his heel, pushed along by that quiet young boy who was yet to utter a single word still. ...

Chapter 34

Sometimes, you just woke up in the middle of the night, feeling so terribly parched it felt like you were about to die. That was what happened to me that night. It was still dark out, and I could tell that we were nowhere NEAR morning just by looking out the window from the bed, and the moon still high in a sky dotted with countless stars, some brighter than others.

I slowly felt around near my pillow for my aviators, taking special care not to disturb the sleeping Luviagelita. This tur...

Chapter 33

"Add..."

Waver's attention was drawn to those hushed words that left his 'shy' apprentice's lips when they were alone in his room. Attempting to explain his theories regarding Miss Hishiri's death only ended with him gaining scrutiny instead, as someone trying to wash away their own sins with a false explanation of matters.

Then, there was no choice left but to retreat to his quarters for the moment. He was weak, there were no two ways about that truth. Every single magus gathered...

Chapter 32

(A/N: I wanted to ask. It's been well over 60k words and I haven't used a single mainstream fate character yet. Well, unless you count Luviagelita or Waver but even there you could argue neither is really a 'main' character for the average reader. So the question is, what keeps you reading?

Post-edit: Nothing?!)

Without a word, I stepped up to the impaled corpse and gently prodded one of her hands. They were stiff and rigid, fixed in place... That certainly was not supposed to be ...

Chapter 31

I woke up really early the next day, at the very break of dawn even, when the first wisps of warm morning sunlight broke through the window, inviting in the cool September air that carried with it the scent of roses and lilies from the castle's garden.

Luviagelita was softly snoring then, still asleep, clutching her cheap teddy bear that I'd painstakingly replaced myself with. So after properly covering her and washing up, I started wandering the castle's eerie halls. They were deathly ...

Chapter 30

(A/N: It's been a long time coming and I REALLY hope I did it well. Around 60k words lol. It isn't grand or with much flair. But I think it's what best matches the way they are and the nature of their relation. It's sudden, simple explosiveness.)

I put my aviators back on.

There were two ways to go about dealing with the unwanted attention.

One option, the smarter option, was to hijack the spell. I'd already reverse-engineered it... but that ran the risk of alarming its curr...

Chapter 29

'Ask for the Angel's names.

Those who are asked and unable to answer shall, in all cases, be torn apart by Angels.

Those who can take hold of the Angels will be granted my inheritance.'

...These were the words Hishiri Adashino left to the people gathered in the lobby. To me, the words were cryptic to the point where they were nonsensical. No doubt, the original master of this castle had left behind some great troublesome puzzle that wouldn't be solved without severe harm. 2025-07-10 16:49:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 28

The main lobby was... muddling, cluttered with statues of unrecognisable angels thrown in with no particular care for placement. From Cherubs, Thrones, to Seraphim, to even Cupid with the little arrows, there were statues of everything that could even remotely be related to the word 'angel'. They were strewn about all around us, watching, waiting.

You couldn't even avoid them by looking down because the marble was so clean it reflected their twisted visages fully. There was a spiral sta...

Chapter 27

After such a grand invitation, and that over-the-top build-up to it, I was expecting something refined, majestic not... not this.

"Why are there so many damn insects?!"

As we treaded up the dirt path, my impotent protest was carried away by the cool September wind, echoing through the hauntingly empty forests of rotting oak and ash trees around us to be lost among the chitter of insects and small animals. The only thing pleasant about this whole trip was the scent of wild flowers,...

Chapter 26

I loved magic. I loved magecraft.

Those were my persistent and earnest feelings from the very moment I learnt of its existence. It was to the point where someone as scatter-brained and easily distracted as myself took two hours from every day simply mixing-and-matching whatever I'd learnt.

Bisecting code, placing it in another place, the practice usually blew up in my face but that was expected. Occasionally though, I'd come across some incredible combinations that I could use to ...

Chapter 25

A few days later, I was having pancakes for breakfast and just generally enjoying the beginning of my day when Ellie climbed onto the chair across from me. The little one was glaring at me for some reason.

"Uh... what happened?"

Admittedly, most of my narciss-... confidence, went up in smoke when it came to dealing with family. My bravado withered away under her gaze and a strange nervousness settled in its place. I didn't know what I did, but I knew I was in the wrong.

"We ...

Chapter 24

"Oh wow, a guy from an organisation that hates magi betrayed me. This has to be the plot twist of the century." I spoke with a deadpan. "My heart seriously can't handle this level of shock."

Mark seemed oddly surprised when his sword barely went half an inch deep before it struck something hard. I honestly wondered why. It'd take a great idiot to think I wouldn't have countermeasures against a shady man from an even shadier group.

Admittedly, this was not my original plan, just a ...