And so, after what seemed to be an eternity, we lost them.
At this point we found ourselves around a lit campfire, with our sleeping bags already set up and lying in them.
I can't move anymore, I'm extremely tired and exhausted, I just want to sleep.
Same for Sayuri.
As for Amari...
"WHY DID YOU JUST RUN AWAY YOU COWARD!"
She was caught of guard.
"H-HUHN? YOU WERE CLOSER TO HER! PLUS, i was scared :)"
"Y-YOU..."
I was ready to direct a lot of insults, but I thought better of it and honestly I don't have the patience for it anymore, I'm just very sleepy.
Sayuri, with her back to the two of us, said.
"But hey guys... I know you are just 2 idiots but, it was fun."
I could see in the distance, a cute, red smile on her face.
Amari giggled.
"Really? Like what?"
"The whole day... Just that... Was fun to meet you."
I abruptly said.
"Would be funnier if you used good names on your attacks!"
She got angry with me.
"How can you not understand?! It's the sound that the attacks make when they come out of the staff! Bium, short and fast, Pitchiu, fire and destructive, Katchau is the sound of thunder! Onomatopoeias!"
To my surprise, Amari said.
"To be honest, the Pitchiu one, the fire one, doesn't make much sense..."
"Ha! Even she agrees with me!"
"I DID NOT SAID THAT!"
Sayuri simply sighed in anger, calming down.
"Yeah, whatever... If i had a water attack, it name would be Tun Tun, because its like the waves... Wow, that is really a good idea!"
"NO IS NOT!!! THAT NAME SUCKS LIKE THE OTHER ONES! I WILL DECIDE THE NAME OF YOUR NEXT ATTACK!!!"
"AH?! NO WAY! I WOULD NEVER ALLOW THAT!"
Amari laughed seeing me and Sayuri arguing for a bit, but then she asked Sayuri a question.
"Hey Sayuri, you're a Suicider right?"
This stopped our "battle".
"Hm yeah of course..."
She started to talk again in an epic way.
"I, Sayuri, am a Suicider and a wizard! Not just a random wizard, but the o-"
Amari simply spoke over her.
"So, Kai and I tried to sign up yesterday to become Suiciders, but they wouldn't let us..."
Sayuri stopped complaining about Amari interrupting her, and became interested in the subject.
"Wait for real? I've never heard of anyone being rejected..."
"Yeah but they rejected us... They said that we needed to show, some level of some thing called-"
"Sankalpa."
I interrupted her.
"I-I WAS GOING TO SAY IT!!"
"Yeah but I remembered first so I said it"
"BUT I REMEMBERED IT! YOU BRA-"
Sayuri suddenly said with a scared voice.
"W-Wait you... don't know what it is?..."
"Hm, no..."
Sayuri yelled.
"AHHHHH! HELP!!! SPIES! THEY GOT ME! NOO! AND CAN'T MOVE! N-"
Amari shouted, silencing her.
"HEY! WHAT'S SO WRONG ABOUT IT!? HOW IS EVR-"
"Oh wait, you are very weak, you can't be a spy."
I think that was an insult directed at me.
"UH? I CAN B-"
Amari gave me one more "friendly punch".
"Can you please, explain to what that is? AND WHY NOBODY WANTS TO TELL US ABOUT IT!?"
Sayuri sighed.
"Alright... I assume you've recently arrived in Beatitudo, and you've come to stay right?"
Me and Amari looked at each other.
"Well, actually were from another worl-"
Amari gave me another friendly punch.
I'm going to die of friendship soon...
"Yeah, we can say that..."
Sayuri continued.
"Weird, because Beatitudo is an extremely closed city, which does not allow foreigners to enter under basically any conditions..."
Amari looked nervous at me, but I didn't care, there was nothing she could do lol.
But before we could speak, she said.
"But i don't care, everyone has their secrets right?..."
Amari smirked nervous
"Y-Yeah yeah, sure..."
Thinking about it now, wouldn't it be better to tell her that we're from another world? That way everything would make sense, I don't understand why Amari doesn't want to.
Well, maybe if a new student at my school simply said he was from another world and didn't know anything about this one, I would think he was crazy... That must be what she thinks she'll think of us.
Sayuri kept talking.
"So, Sankalpa is something that is taught in schools exclusively to the children of Beatitudo, so everyone in the city knows about it. Therefore, when someone shows up in the city who doesn't know what Sankalpa is, it is very likely that he is a spy from another country. Since Pseudo has bad relations with other countries, and the only people who enter Beatitudo are authorized people, usually politicians or something like that, and even then they don't learn about Sankalpa, with the exception of the royal family of course. Furthermore, no one leaves the walls of Beatitudo without authorization and it has to be for really important reasons, tourism doesn't count. In short, only the inhabitants of Beatitudo and the royal family know about its existence, if someone doesn't know and its in our city, it is a spy."
"Hold up, im taking notes."
Im literally writing what she said in a notepad.
Just kidding, im drawing dinossaurs. They are cool.
Sayuri with her back turned, only heard the sound of the pen scribbling on the paper.
"Hm, ok..."
Amari then said.
"But so, what is the Sankalpa?"
"Sankalpa is basically a type of energy that allows you to do several things. For example, I use it to be able to do these staff attacks."
"OH NICE! SO I CAN USE IT TO DO ANYTHING?!"
"No, calm down... There are many types of Sankalpa, classes better said, and each one allows you to use Sankalpa in different ways... Mine is Wizard obviously. Thats why, I, Sayuri, im gonna be the best W-"
Amari interrupted her.
"Oh thats interesting... And, why its necessary to be a Suicider?"
"OH, LET ME END THAT PHRASE ONE TIME!...Well, the monsters are usually very weakened by Sankalpa, but the main reason is the spies... There are several who want to be Suiciders to steal information, and find out how Beatitudo stands out so much from the other cities in the Suiciders' camp, it turns out that it's because of Sankalpa, the monsters are susceptible to it, but the ones from the other cities don't know about it, so they have more difficulty than ours."
Amari nodded.
"Alright, keep going..."
"Hm, Well, I think that's basically it, the rest has to be demonstrated in practice. But well, you can use it for healing, magic, explosions, tornadoes, medicine etc. Even things outside the Suiciders business, it all depends on what class you are in."
Amari nodded again.
"Hm, i see i see... So like, the support class allows me to use Sankalpa to heal others, the Wizard class allows me to cast magic on others, and so on?"
"Yeah, kinda like that, although the names are wrong, and it is extremely more complex than that... Like, the class is just the way you use Sankalpa, everything else, including how you use it, depends entirely on you... Oh and uh, One thing I remembered now, Sankalpa is charged with the emotion of determination. For example, a punch imbued with Sankalpa does x damage, already considerably better than a normal punch, but a Sankalpa punch in which a person is extremely determined can scale almost infinitely."
Amari nodded again.
"Hm hm, ok, and s-"
I interrupted her, throwing that notepad away. It got annoying.
"And the most important thing! HOW TO GET THAT!?"
"Oh well, you need to receive a direct touch from pure Sankalpa, simply as that. Usually given by someone who has already mastered it."
"Oh, THEN DO THAT WITH ME!"
"You idiot, i can't move!"
I started to approach her.
"That's not a problem! I can touch you, then you send that thing to my body! Super Jump!"
I jumped and landed on top of her.
She quickly blushed and yelled.
"W-WHAT?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?"
"Ah? Whats wrong?! Just give that Sankalpa thing! Oh wait, i need to touch you right? No problem!"
I started to enter the her sleeping bed.
"U-Uh? N-NO GET OUT! I-I can only use Sankalpa conjured by my staff!"
"Ah stop being boring, just give me it!"
"A-Ah, y-you touching me! G-GET OUTTTTTT..."
Next day, we were already at the guild. Luckily, no one recognized us from last night.
"Yo Mana! Its me again hahah!"
She was definitely not happy to see me.
"...You... Get o-"
Sayuri walked in front of me.
"Miss, i think there was a misunderstanding!"
Mana widened her eyes.
"Oh, Suicider Sayuri, nice to see you here..."
These words were like a compliment to her, and she felt extremely flattered.
"Ha, everybody likes to see me right?"
Amari said quietly.
"I think she says that to literally everybody."
Sayuri shook himself, recomposing himself.
"Y-Yeah yeha yeah... B-But she says to me in a different way!... So uhm, these guys are my companions, they have and know about Sankalpa."
Mana looked kinda confused.
"Uh? You sure Sayuri? These guys yesterday they didn't seem to know anything..."
Amari whispered on my ear.
"Hey Kai, you think that she listened to our insults yesterday?..."
"Oh, she didn't? Well then, you bat-"
"NO DON'T SAY IT!"
Sayuri then approached us.
"Well, she asked to show her."
I smiled.
"Hehe, no problem!"
Amari and I approached Mana's counter.
We simply opened our hands and short black rays began to come out of both of them - Sankalpa.
"Oh well, its true! Sorry for yesterday, I'll prepare your cards now, wait a bit. Oh, if you want you can reveal your attributes and class on that machine. I'll be right back."
Amari whispered on my ear.
"Yeah. She definitely didn't hear us yesterday. Good thing... Yeah thats a good thing!"
The machine was that black sphere with a black control panel from yesterday. Now everything makes sense.
I laughed, finally i can start persuing my goal.
"Hehehe... I AM A SUICIDER!!"
"That out context sounds weird..."
But then, suddenly Mana reappeared on the counter.
"Oh, Sayuri, i wanted to tell you something..."
She quickly listened it, and walked proudly to where Mana was.
"Oh really? Go on, im all ears..."
"Im really happy to see you hanging around kids of your age, my congratulations!"
She said that with the most gentle smile ever.
Sayuri got confused.
"Uh? My age? They are older than me... Just a bit tho! JUST A BIT!"
Now Mana was confused.
"Ah? But i thought that little boy was also 1-"
"I AM 16!!!"
Amari simply said.
"Loli."
Sayuri:
-"S-STOP CALLING ME THAT!!!"