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Asuka Aon, Kira Korimako, and Aya Myakka met by pure hazard. Kira and Aya were friends since long ago that traveled the Kingdom selling their skills as mercenaries. Asuka had lost her parents and sold everything they left her in order to get the most money possible. It was her parent's wish that she get the more cash she could and put everything on her bank account.

She asked to the banker about how she could withdraw money when in other town and he answered that the magic crystal he just gave her had all her bank information. Since he was linked to the mother crystal in the capital. Cheered up she went into the town and rented a room to the only inn she knew in the town. After a day there, Rosa that knew her from long ago asked why she had such a gloomy face.

- Even through my parents wished that I'd travel, I have absolutely no idea of where to go and how to decide in a direction.
- Why don't you ask to people used to travel?
- I'd feel awkward you know.
- I have an idea, there is two very cute men staying here, I'll try to manage something for you.
- What do you intend to do, Rosa?
- Hey, Asuka, you still know how to heal and how to shield right?
- That's quite inaccurate saying. It's more that I always knew how to and can't forget. To me it is the same as breathing.
- Quite good.

When the two guys came back from the mission they had they were completely in rags and their face obviously showed that they didn't made it. Rosa gave them free food and drinks, then asked them if she could call of the best healer of this town to put them together. She added that the healer wouldn't take any money so they were free to accept or refuse. Considering that the sooner they would finish the mission the better it would be they accepted.

Rosa took the chance and told Asuka to follow her lead and to do as she said. She followed a bit out of it not really knowing what was awaiting her. The two men were handsome, one had silver hair, and eyes meaning he was a twilight mage, the other had black hair with natural silver strands, and pale grey eyes, so he was a Starlight user. Neither of them was the average mage you saw often.

Sawing their state, she guessed the wounds were both physical and magic and since she didn't wished to bother about discerning the nature of the wounds, she put a hand on the ground and two circles appeared below the men. A minute after, she asked if they felt better and they answered they were perfectly fine. She smiled and said she was happy to have been of use.

- Asuka, aren't you going on a travel? It was your parent's last wish, wasn't it?
- As soon as I found how to travel. I have no clue of what to do, how to do, and how to decide on a next stop and such. I don't know anything about traveling so it's not like I can just go like this…
- You should become a mercenary, said Rosa, you'd do great I'm sure. You can heal; shield and you have a few attacks.
- My attacks aren't the type that you can use against a single opponent; you know it's for massive destruction… Well I have a set or two for when I'm fighting against a single opponent but it takes way to long before I finish it. I'm not even sure if I'm cut for it.
- Why don't you try? Asked Myu.
- Try?
- We're currently on a mission, if you want to see if you're able or not to be a mercenary… Why don't you come with us and try it?
- Won't I hinder you?
- At the very least, you can heal us so we can finish the mission, so it's alright.
- However, your partner's face doesn't seem happy about that…
- Kira's face was struck like this at birth.
- Poor boy, it must be hard for him to make a friend.

Kira's frown got even worse and Myu said him that it wasn't much of a big deal. The girl would get a few experiences so she could fulfill her parent's wish. That was all there was to it and so it wasn't like they were taking any risk. Kira relaxed a bit and said that it wasn't what he was about to ask the girl… if he hadn't interfered he would have taken her in the group. Myu asked what would a little girl like her would do with two men… none of them was a virgin and the girl had quite a good body too. Kira said he couldn't care less about details like this since he was able to refrain from stupid things and would make sure he would refrain too.

- Nevertheless, won't she try? Modesty aside, it is common knowledge that Universal mages like Twilight, Moonlight, Sunlight, or Starlight are handsome. The beauty of universal mages is high level…
- All we have to do in that case is to scare her. Moreover, she's a universal mage so we may look average to her…
- What?
- Don't tell me you don't know she's an Aurora Mage. Her pale pink eyes and her natural stranded hairs of multiples pink to violet this is exactly what the aurora looks like. She's specialized on healing and shielding, what I'd like to know is how an aurora mage can attack.
- You know better than me that this is impossible.
- To me, it didn't seem that she was lying.
After a good night of sleep, they asked Rosa to wake her. Rosa was quite reluctant and gave them the number of Asuka's room. "Don't you thinks it's a bit indecent?" asked Myu. Rosa said that she cared more for her live than for decency so either they went up to wake her up or they waited that she'd wake up by herself. Kira didn't give more thought about it and went to wake up the girl but ended up teleported out of the room completely beaten up…
- See, if you a mage ended up like this, how do you want a defenseless lady like me to end up alive?
- What did she do?
- There are spheres all around her room; my guess is they are shield maintained by her manastone around her neck. The spheres are very fast and they beat up anything entering the room. I guess it's what you call self-protection.
- Hum, it's not her manastone and according to what Asuka told me they can discern friends from foe but it's not her own will in the mana stone, each time she sleeps they appears and the manastone maker's will is what chose if someone is a friend or a foe.
- Apparently, to that person I'm a foe… you say it only works when she sleeps?
- Yes, or when she's unconscious.
- A magic that discerns friend from foe, the manastone maker was a genius mage.
- I think this person was the one who taught everything to Asuka.
- Rosa, someone entered my room in my sleep, what are you going to do about this?
- Ah you're awake.
- Well, it isn't uncommon to send someone to wake you up when you're late.
- Late?
- They are waiting for about an hour…
- Sorry, I'm all ready now.
- Then let's go without wasting more time.
- My sleep time is my strength. If I don't get enough sleep, I don't get my powers back and it took me quite a lot to entirely regenerate your bodies.
- Regenerate our bodies?
- Magic wounds, physical wounds, psychic wounds, scars, curses, everything that disturbed your bodies' usual functions are now gone. This is yesterday magic circle's strength but you accumulated so many of each that somehow it took all my strength to make a full recovery for the both of you.
- I didn't know it was possible.
- However, we still hold grudge, feel hatred, and want revenge.
- You know nothing, said Asuka, my magic is elemental, divine, space and time working, when the time comes, what was healed will reveal itself… that is what I can tell. Didn't you say that we shouldn't waste time? You got me in bad mood; I'd like to vent that.
- Sure…
- Is she always like this?
- She hates I-know-all people… especially when they try to understand things they can't.
- I wonder if Kira will get along with such a girl…
- Maybe… maybe not.

She stayed silent the whole time and Kira too, Myu knew his friend wasn't the type to speak much but neither his expression nor his attitude was really the same as always. For this reason, he didn't dared speak a word. The girl was obviously upset and somehow he felt like finishing the job quickly. In fact, the girl was the one who finished most of the job, she encircled the battlefield with some kind of circle, and all the enemies fell lifeless on the ground except a few mages that guarded against the spell.

Among the remaining people, they wished the leader dead for good. At the very moment to give him the final blow, they just held a part of their strength and didn't killed him… they looked at each other then looked at the girl that didn't moved a muscle. She had a grin on her face like "See I told you." Nevertheless, her words were different.

- It's because you never actually healed someone that you don't know this… but healing a psychical wound doesn't mean the wound disappear or that you don't hate someone or such. It only means, you'll deal with the problem in a way that will both fulfill you and don't add any more injuries to your psyche.
- Do you mean that if it was what it takes us to feel better, we could have killed him?
- At the only condition that you wouldn't have felt bad afterwards. If you weren't to be hurt by his death, you would have killed him.
- In which way would his death have hurt us?
- Look at his face and tell me that he is worth you going to the extent of killing him.
- What do you…?
- I guess she's right, Myu. We don't need to kill him because he's not even a threat to us. Should he come back ever again, we'll kick his ass and that the end of it.