>>5759314"Yes, of course kiddo." you tell her, reaching out and ruffling her hair through her hat. "And we'll hang out more after supper too, since I made you wait until last."
"Really?" she asks, looking up with eyes sparkling in excitement. "Yaaaay! I've been working really hard on my magic for you, I can't wait to show you the results!"
"Haha, alright, let's go." you tell her, turning to Towa to give her a nod. But she's looking at you with an almost wistful, almost longing smile. Well, you may have been around more ever since she got this new place, but these kids still only get to have you around a week every month. But were it up to either of you, you would all be in the same timeline for the children to be raised up together. If only that damned Time Kai wasn't in the way.
You both share a nod of understanding, not needing words as Milha leads you from the newly-made stage towards your usual training room with her. Leaving the room behind she leads you through the halls, down past a dozen doors until opening the familiar one. She walks into the dimly lit, dungeon-like room and goes over to the podium, summoning and setting her magical tome there on it. You meanwhile step into the center of the room, trying once more to power back down out of your Berserker God form. But it's no use, your body refuses to change back so you simply sigh out, opening your eyes and meeting her gaze.
“Are you ready Father?” she asks you, to which you nod once.
“Let's start it off with that new one you were telling me about.” you tell her, your daughter's face brightening as she breaks out in a wide smile. “Whenever you're ready.”
“Alright!” she says excitedly, flipping through the pages. You brace yourself, your daughter finding the page and stopping. She reads over it once more before raising her gaze, lifting both hands. “Curse Magic: Sen-!”
But whatever the rest of her spell is you don't hear, as suddenly everything goes quiet and dark. You can't hear or see, but your ki sense and balance remain seemingly intact. Which is unusual, as you'd expected to feel a lot more-
Pain. Everything disappears in a sudden bloom of agony all over your body at once. Your flesh feels like it is melting, your blood boiling as every muscle simultaneously contracts at once. Your face hitting something solid is a dull thud, falling over barely registering on your senses as everything is burned away. Until the darkness changes, finding yourself once more in that dark void. However, the first thing you hear are screams of pain, desperate cries of agony from a being experiencing pain unlike anything it's ever felt. And then you see it, the Berserker Soul writing in agony.
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