Chapter 5
Uarghhh…. *yawning*
“It’s seem the sun is gonna rise soon. Better I go to bathroom because today is Monday.” – Pheo
1 hour later…
“Ojou, good morning. Uhh… Ojou, what is that weird necklace on your neck?” – Mirai
“Ehhh????!!! Since when I wearing this?! Arrghhhh… my head is stinging!” – Pheo
“Ojou!!! Are you OK? You look unwell. Do you want me to help you go to your bedroom? I think you need to rest today. Don’t worry. You don’t have to go to school today. I’ll tell this to chichi-ue and goshujin-sama.” – Mirai
*in Pheo’s bedroom*
“Uhhh… my head still hurts. Mirai, can you go get the panadol for me? Maybe that will ease my headache.” – Pheo
“Alright, ojou. I will go get it now. You can just lying on your bed to rest. If anything you want, just shout my name or call anybody nearby to help you. I promise I’ll not taking long time to get the panadol.” – Mirai
5 minutes later…
“Ojou, I already bring the panadol along with a glass of mineral water. Let me help get up.” – Mirai
“Thanks, Mirai. Oh no! It’s almost 7:30am! Mirai, you must go to school now. Don’t worry about me. Just go to school now. I’ll just rest today. Also, there are many maids around so if anything happens or anything I want, I’ll just call the maids.” – Pheo
“But, ojou…” – Mirai
“No buts! You know already that I’m not weak enough to need anyone to help all day around just because I had a little headache. I’m strong and I’ll recover as soon as possible. If you don’t go to school, how I’m gonna make revisions and homeworks if both of us didn’t go to school?” – Pheo
*at school*
“Harima Hario-kun… are you here or not?” – homeroom teacher
“Yes, I am here” – Harima Hario
“Honou Pheonix-san… are you here or not?” – homeroom teacher
“sensei, Pheo ojou-sama is absent due to headache today.” – Mirai
“Ouh, ok. Thanks for telling me, Mirai-san. Hope she will get well soon. Okay, next the last one last one is Toranosuke Taiga. Are you here Taiga-kun?” – homeroom teacher
…
“Taiga-kun! Are you here? Hurm… it seems like he is absent. Harima-kun, did you know anything about Taiga-kun? Since both of you always come to school together.” – homeroom teacher
“Hurm… I think he’s in cold fever, sensei. Just now, I went to his house to invite him go to school together but his guards said that Taiga is in cold fever and just in bedridden mode to rest.” – Harima Hario
“Hurm.. alright. It seems today only 2 students are absent. Let’s start the homeroom now.” – homeroom teacher
…
*in Pheo’s bedroom*
“Urghhh…. My head is still feels stings more. Maids!!! Please bring more painkillers and some sleep pills! My headache still not gone!” = Pheo
“Alright, ojou-sama. We will bring it now.” – Maids
…
5 minutes later after taking painkillers and sleeping pills, Pheo finally got to sleep.
…
Where am I??? Why am I in this strange hot place? It feels like I’m in an active volcano that about to burst its magmanic larvas. – Pheo
Hello, young girl. – mysterious voice
Whose voice is that? Are you the one who brings me here? – Pheo
Zwooooshhh
*something flying with tremendous speed*
A huge fire bird with its super long flamy wings like a legendary mythical bird, phoenix descending slowly in front of Pheo.
What the…. *shock* – Pheo
Don’t worry and rest assured, young girl. I’m not gonna harm you. Because you’re the descendant of humans who worship me as a mighty being long time ago. Also, this is your own dream. – phoenix
So, you’re truly a phoenix right? I’m not delusional right now. Since this is my own dream, you’re not gonna harm me right? – Pheo
Like I said earlier, young girl. I’m not gonna harm you. I come here just want to talk to you about some warnings. – phoenix
Some warnings? Did something bad will happen to me or my family in future? Please tell me more about it, phoenix-sama. – Pheo
Alright, young girl. First thing first, this warning will not happen if your ancestor or more specifically your great grandfather and your grandfather’s greed scheme, I will not have to warn you anything and you can be rest assured. Something bad is gonna happen soon, but I’ll tell you everything from the beginning of why is this warning come out.
OK, I’ll listen to it. Please continue on, phoenix-sama. – Pheo
Around 50 years ago, during Honou clan and Tora clan were about to strengthen their bonds with the marriage between these two clans, something bad happened. The sacred amulet from Tora’s clan was stolen. And the one who stole it was your grandfather’s sister, who also the bride that planned to strengthen Tora and Honou clans. After the side from Tora’s clan were enraged when they knew that someone from Honou’s clan that stole the sacred amulet, both of the clans decided to break their bonds and declared to be enemies for eternity until now. As for your information, your great grandfather and grandfather who planned all of that scheme. And recently, the heir of Tora’s clan had discovered the truth. Yes, you know already who’s the heir is. Right now, he is trained by the spirit of sacred tiger to take revenge on what happened 50 years ago and claimed back their sacred amulet. Actually, that amulet is on your neck young girl. If you want a peace happening between these two clans, you can make a negotiation treat peace and give back their sacred amulet with Tora’s clan heir. But, if you want to fight them back, I’ll personally train you. So, what is your reply? Do you want to fight back or you want to make peace? Let me tell you something, if you want peace with them, you can absolutely get it since the heir is in love with you secretly. But if you want to fight back, I’ll give a special training for you with little mythical power that you’ll gained since the sacred tiger has already doing it with current Tora’s clan heir.
Wa…what?!!! Taiga-kun is in love with me!? How can he fall in love with me? We’re always arguing and bickering everytime we met. – Pheo
…
So, everything happens between our clans are because of my ancestors’ fault. Well, actually all of this is too much for my brain to process it. But, last night I heard some whispering voice to give back something. Is that your voices, phoenix-sama? – Pheo
No, it’s not mine. Maybe it’s coming from that amulet on your neck, young girl.
Ouh, is that so? For now, let me think more thoroughly first, since I’m not ready anything at all. Ah, phoenix-sama, is there any way for me to contact you anytime? Or is it only on dreams? – Pheo
Sorry, young girl. I can only contact with you in dreams. It’s okay if you want to make your decisions later but please hurry up since the danger of your clan now lies with you.
Alright, I’ll make decisions later as soon as possible. – Pheo
…
“Uarghhh… it seems like my contact with phoenix-sama is off now. Looks like times really fly away since now it’s already late evening.” – Pheo
Squeeekkk *door opens*
“Oh, ojou-sama. You are awake now. It seems like you’re fine now after rest almost half day. Dinner is about to finish soon, do you want to have some dinner, ojou-sama?” – Mirai
“Umm.. Okay, please reheat the dinner for me, Mirai. I want to take bath first then I’ll have the dinner.” – Pheo
“Okay, ojou-sama!” – Mirai
*in bathroom*
“Fuahhh… my body now feels refresh. Hurm… about what phoenix-sama said before, Taiga-kun is in love with me? Why??? How can phoenix-sama know about that? Also, Taiga-kun now is trained by his clan proud sacred tiger. Does he also has same experience with me today where both of us have made contact with our sacred animal’s clan?” – Pheo
“Ojou-sama, your dinner have been prepared.” – Mirai
Grrr… *growl* It seems like my stomach has start growling.
“Okay, I’ll finish my bath soon. Can you bring the dinner meals to my room? Also bring your notes from today, Mirai. I want to copy it.” – Pheo
“Alright, I got it, Ojou-sama!” – Mirai
Intermission Chapter 5.5
[Situation on Taiga, Miura and Touran’s side]
“Arghhh!!! I’m too tired doing this training. Touran-san, how much long for me to settle this training?” – Taiga
“If you maintain with this pace, I think you will finish it in 2 weeks.” – Touran
“Seriously?!!!! Nee… Touran-sama, can I dismiss from this? I think that I have skip 3 days from my work. My boss will fire me if I didn’t go to work tomorrow.” – Miura
“Huhhh… *sigh* Alright, alright. You can dismiss but with conditions. Can you promise me that you will not tell anybody about everything that you saw, heard or experienced in this realm, Miura-san?” – Touran
“Okay, I got it.” – Miura
“Hey, it’s not fair that Miura-obasan get free from here! I want to go free also. I have school to attend.” – Taiga
“Taiga-kun, how many times that I said to you to not call me oba-san…. Please call my name Miura-nee or Miura-nee san or more honorably called me Miura-nee sama.” – Miura
Miura pinching and pulling Taiga’s earlobe.
[Taiga’s monologue in his mind]
Ouch, why I always get unlucky?! After suddenly got sucked into this unknown realm with my aunt 3 days ago, this mythical tiger appeared in front both of us and packed our minds with our ancestors’ history. Not enough with that, me and my aunt suddenly instructed to have ‘inner strength’ training to face a danger from our rival clan, Honou clan. What kind of sudden drastic changed from ROMCOM Slice of Life turns into Superpower-Fantasy-Shonen of storyline. Dear author, I know that you want to bullsh*t shonen anime and manga because there are many overrated ‘unko’ shonen anime like B*ruto, Hunt*r x Hunt*r, Ble*ch, Tokyo Reveng*rs, Jujutsu Kais*n and My H*ro Academia from your POV. But this story originally is kind of mix between Nisek*i and Orega*ru. Arghhh… what kind of nonsense I’m thinking about. Damn you author, I as a main character will overthrow this kind of shonen setting soon.
END OF INTERMISSION CHAPTER 5.5
***Master Bedroom in Honou Mansion***
“Anata, did you realize something wrong with our daughter today? Pheo-chan rarily didn’t have any headache before since she was quite tough with her tomboyish characteristic.”
“Well, she’s a girl. No matter how tomboyish and tough our daughter, she also can get sick sometimes. No human in the world can escape from any sickness including the Great Pharaoh who claimed to never get sick since born. Don’t worry too much. Just now, Mirai already told us that Pheo is getting well after taking Panadol and sleep almost all day today.”
Both of Pheo’s parent have a little conversation on their bed then the situation turns into silence after they get into sleep.
***Back into Pheo’s POV***
“Phoenix-sama, can I ask something more?”
“What is it, musume-yoi?” [Author notes : I think I’m gonna use this as Phoenix bird speech dialect/slang with using ‘-yoi’ at the end. I decide to use this after watching anime One Piece recently where Marco using this dialect / slang that ends with ‘-yoi’]
“I want to ask if there are any other ways where our clan and Tora have a peaceful way to settle our long rivalry feud? Because I don’t want to use any power to overpower the others.”
“Well, there are some ways to prevent our feud from turning into destruction which one of it I already explain to you-yoi. You have to seduce the main heir of Tora since he already fell in love to you-yoi. If you don’t want to do that, you can return back their sacred treasure and seek forgiveness from them although your father and grandfather obviously didn’t allow you to do that-yoi. Which brings also the last way that literally combine the 2 ways before is you and that Taiga the Tora’s heir brat to marry and discuss with him to persuade both side to have a peace-yoi.”
Pheo still in long thinking mode after hearing what Phoenix said. Since it’s been like almost an hour that Pheo still in her long thinking mode in silence, Pheonix finally put a sleep spell on Pheo and return her to her room since he sensed that Touran’s magic which means that he thinks that Touran has return the Tora’s heir to the real world from his realm. Since Pheo also seem that she didn’t to have a special training under Phoenix in this realm, he decide to return Pheo this time.
“Well, musume-yoi… you can just rest for now. If there’s something, I’ll call you again in this realm later. I don’t blame you if you think all of this is hard to process in one day. I’ll give you more time to think it thoroughly. Good night.”
Later, that night Pheo sleeping expression turn into more kawaii since she’s drooling after Phoenix put her on bed and send goodnight service with easing Pheo’s mind and made her have a sweet dream. Finally, this chapter ends with Pheo drooling in bed and Phoenix turns back into the amulet on Pheo’s neck.
Side Story : Mirai POV in school during Pheo’s sleeping after having a headache that morning.
***At school***
“Mirai-chan, is it true that Pheo-san is feeling unwell today?” – Kosaka Namie
“Yes. Pheo-sama have a little bit headache today but don’t worry since she is getting rest asleep just now.” – Mirai
“Hehhh… that ojou-sama finally can get sick. I thought for sure that she will never get sick since she looks to have tough body.” – Harima Hario
“What’s your problem, stupid delinquent?! Just mind your own business with sleeping or skip class like you always do!” – Mirai
Mirai got unnerved due to her conversation got interrupted by Harima Hario, the infamous school delinquent and his fame rose more with him being a good friend of Taiga.
“Yeah, yeah… I want to do that sleeping or skipping class but I feel bored since my buddy Taiga has been absent for 3 days.” – Harima
Hmph! Like I care about that. But, I also curious of why Taiga-kun still absent today. I know that he wasn’t a delinquent like Harima-kun who always make chaos although Taiga-kun is well-known as Tora’s clan heir. And surprisingly, nobody knows why he absent from school for 3 days in a row. Well, I’ll just ignore about that and better thinking more of ojou-sama’s health.
