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2024-10-29 19:42:56"Phize, Are you feeling okay?" she asks out of concern.
"Yeah, mommy," he answered half-baked.
"Are you bored?" she worriedly asks.
"Oh! No, not at all. I'm just spacing out," replies in an act to remove such worries.
"Really now? Don't be shy to ask mommy to stop if you aren't interested 'kay?"
She pats Phize on the head.
"Now, let's get back to where we left off. You understand how to perform water magic? Or do you want me to chant it again?"
"No need, mom."
He focuses on the garden.
"With the spirits' guidance, spread in and out at such little amounts..."
He inhales deeply.
With a deep exhale he shouts, "WATER!"
Sprinkles of water come out of his hand and a magic circle forms around it, but it seems to be wavering.
He is overjoyed with the results.
"MOMMY! I DID IT!"
"I'M SO PROUD OF YOUUU!"
Not long, the magic circle goes unstable and the sprinkles of water now vary in size.
"Mom? What's happening?" he asks as he panics.
The magic circle collapses and then disappears, the water has also stopped flowing.
"Hmmm. Mommy is thinking..."
She stands up and looks at the sky and then after 5 seconds, she looks at her son.
"I GOT IT! Mommy recalls something about channeling mana throughout your body because if words were all that needed to chant magic, then everyone probably would've done so already."
"Channel? How do I do that?"
"Hmm. I don't know how to explain it, mommy hasn't gone to school for around a decade. But once you go to school, maybe your teacher can tell you all about it."
Three months pass by.
Vhint enters the house in a jolly good mood.
"HONEY I HAVE GOOD NEWS!" he calls out to her.
"What is it darling?"
"The head of the school says they are willing to take Phize at school."
"THAT'S GOOD NEWS THEN! WAAAAH! OUR LITTLE BOY IS ALREADY GOING TO SCHOOL!" she screams from excitement.
" They grow up so fast, don't they? They are gonna interview him after 3 days, he can read, write and count right? Then this should be a piece of cake! Let's celebrate!"
"Um, speaking of which, when was our last honeymoon?"
"It has been a long time, hasn't it? 5 years? You've been holding back all this time, haven't you?" she softly touches his cheek.
"Yeah, let's make up for lost times, shall we?"
"Shall we give Phize a brother or a sister?"
"Why not both?"
"You sure are cheeky, that's why I fell in love with you," she speaks with her cheeks going red.
"And you are just beautiful, your hair is silky, your voice is soothing, everything," he speaks while caressing her hair.
"Let's go to the bed. Make sure to not wake Phize up okay?"
Both of them head into their bedroom and close the door.
"I promise."
Phize sleeps peacefully in his room.
The couple made up for lost time, that afternoon.
...
..
.
A few hours later.
8:00 PM, all three of them are sleeping in the room of the couple.
A man with a black jacket with his two wolves appear near their door.
Vhint notices the change and wakes Lexia up.
"Lexia, I feel a presence outside our home, should I check it out?" he cautiously asks.
"Leave it alone, for now, maybe it's just a rabbit."
The man knocks on the door.
"Hello? Anybody home?" the shady man asks.
The man points his wolves toward the windows and they approach each one.
"I know you're there."
A slash of flesh is heard inside the house and the wolf from the left window cries for help.
Blood spreads from inside and out the door.
He chuckles, "Well, well, well. Who do we have here? Still as skillful as ever, Vhint the Invincible Juggernaut?"
Silence is spread all over the area.
"You don't need to hide."
He looks around the house and sees the crib from his position.
He smiles.
"To whom does that crib belong, Vhint? Your child?" he asks out of curiousity.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?" Vhint angrily shouts at the man.
"Don't be like that. Do you remember me? I'm your best friend. Or at least I was."
Vhint was affrighted by his thoughts, "Callas? IMPOSSIBLE!"
"But that voice, it's unmistakable, it's Callas' voice," he thought.
"That's right," the man answered.
"HOW? I THOUGHT I KILLED YOU! I STABBED YOUR HEART AND BEHEADED YOU!" he shouts.
"Well it seems the Witches of Haydel wanted me back, so here I am. Where's your wife? I wanna see her before I go."
"DON'T CHANGE THE SUBJECT! THE WITCHES OF HAYDEL ARE STILL ALIVE?" he asked furiously.
"Yes, it seems so," Callas answers with a proud tone.
A bad feeling fills Vhint.
"This is bad. THIS IS REALLY BAD," he thought in extreme horror.
"As you can see, the Witches of Haydel had enough with the so-called Gracious Knights of Heaven. And we need you, you stand a chance against them, so either you cooperate or else," he threatens.
"WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO WITH THIS? LEAVE ME AND MY FAMILY ALONE!"
"Playing dumb? I know your real identity, Vhint. And don't even try to flee, I can feel you're planning to let your wife escape with your son. I can shoot from a mile with ease," he says confidently.
"This is bad," he worries in his mind.
He whispers to Lexia.
"I have a plan, I'll go take him on and distract him, and you two run towards the nearest city."
She worriedly stops him, "But Vhint, what if you ge-"
He kisses her.
"I love you and our son, Lexia. I can take him on," he boldly declares.
He gets out from his hiding place and runs toward Callas while Lexia runs with Phize.
"CALLAS!" he shouts in fury.
Callas whistles.
"What was that?" he questioned in his mind.
The wolf from the right earlier who was hiding suddenly snatches Phize.
"PHIZE!" Lexia shouts in shock.
Vhint looks toward the conflict.
"LEXIA?"
"So the name of your wife is Lexia, eh? So you two tied the knot," Callas nonchalantly comments.
Vhint points his sword toward Callas.
"LEXIA! GET PHIZE BACK!"
She runs in the wolf's direction.
A magic circle forms from Callas' right hand.
"Speedy Shot," he chants.
A spiky conic rock shoots toward Lexia.
"Both of you are fighting me," he says.
"DAMMIT."
Meanwhile, the wolf, who was carrying Phize runs away south of the house...
"MOMMY! HELP!" Phize pleads.
He hits the wolf on the snout.
The wolf lets go of him and he rolls to the ground.
"Ow..."
He looks at the wolf and it is growling at him.
He stands up.
"I'M SCARED, I'M SCARED, I'M SCARED," he thought to himself struck with fear.
"MOMMY!"
He cries for help.
"Where are they? I want my mommy...," he thought.
The wolf proceeds to charge him and he blocks it with his right arm.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHH! IT HURTS!" he shouts in pain.
He sees his blood quickly run from his arm.
"AHHHH! THE PRESSURE!," he painfully said to himself in his mind.
He punches the wolf but the wolf bites harder.
"AAAHHHHHH!"
He suddenly remembers the time he got hit by a car.
"I-I REMEMBER!," he thought to himself as if a revelation came to him.
END OF EPISODE 3
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Programmer in Another World EPISODE 7 - School in the Other World
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"Well at least that is what I would like to say. Would you all like to introduce yourselves or no? You don't need to if you're shy. Just come up here if you want to," she proclaims. A guy two seats in front of Phize raises his hand. "Yes? Do you wanna introduce yourself?" "Gladly. My name is Drist P. Aaham, I'm 6 years old and I can do magic!" the guy announces. "Um, is there anything you want to add to your introduction?" she asks. "NOPE!" He sits down. "Now, this guy acts a bit more like a child, that brings me a bit of comfort, I guess," he thought. An awkward presence spreads throughout the classroom with no one brave enough to take the first step. "WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? DO THEY NOT KNOW HOW TO SOCIALIZE?" he protests in his mind. "I guess that's it for now. Now regarding our subjects." She chants, "ILLUSION POINT!" A magic circle appears from her right hand. She starts writ
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Hello fans! Sorry for the wait. I have been especially busy with school and a lot of personal stuff happened too. I'm back in business!... or so I'd like to say but that hiatus made me a bit lax so I need to write more and more to recover my memories of where we left off and the speed of my typing. I apologize for having no updates upon the series for months. Please continue to give me your support, give your comments if you'd like, give your reviews, I'm all up for it. Without further ado, let's finally give an end to Phize's tale. We're about halfway through so please bear with me until then okay? Thank you for your continued support! And thank you for reading this far into the series!
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Guys, I really apologize for not updating for so long. My parents do not allow me to write, and it's a lot harder especially since I'm in high school, so I have to focus a bit more on my studies. However, that doesn't mean I'm abandoning this series or the other, it's just on hold. I'm unsure if I can update at the same time as Mob, but I will try to update in summer as well, so please look forward to it. Please continue to follow my series and follow my twitter if you can. You can simply search my author name and it pops up. Thank you for understanding! And that is all for now!
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"To make me say that would have to take a bit of convincing, I'm afraid," Phize stated."Not convinced after seeing my face?""Mmmm, nope. Anyway, have your parents visited you?""Just normal talk," he thought."Nope.""Why?""Busy on taking land domain. Both of them.""I seem to think I'm the only one with decent parents this time around," he thought."I see. Do you miss them?""Why are you here?" she asked."Yikes, she ignored my question. She must really hate me," he surmised, "I've got a long way ahead of me.""If you came here to interrogate me, I insist you get your eyes checked and get out of here. I might get infected by your miasma.""Can't back down. I have to set my status to be someone at least equal to her," he thought."Woah, calm down. Just wanted to get to know you better.""Well, I'm not willing.""We're going to be seeing each other for a few days or weeks to pass. You can't find yourself chatting with Qi or Trod only.""Ahem, I can choose who to speak with. It is so
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EPISODE 149 - Interactions (Part 1)
"C-Cursed Child?" Taya asked as she got up."Please address me by my real name," Phize suggested."Hearing her say the name from her own mouth makes me feel like it's an insult. I rather her call me Phize," he thought."Wh-Where am I?""The doctors can answer that for you."They ambushed Taya.She asked all kinds of questions and so did the doctors."Don't let me regret my decision," Phize mumbled to himself.He left the room and peacefully walked in the hallways.He got lost in his own mind that he did not notice how much time passed by and how many medical personnel got past him."Hm… never imagined my thought process was capable of forming such inhumane thoughts."There was a slight halt to his speculation."Well, that might be the case when I do not refer to humans. She did not treat me like a human and as implied just now, she still does not. So, if she doesn't treat me like one… why do I have to treat her as such? I have no obligation to.""This is the path I chose. If I have to
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EPISODE 148 - Façade of a Clean Face
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Welson was inside the room he entered.He stared blankly at the book that was on top of the desk."Phize… Gratham… Drestil… that kid… how could I ever forget his face?"He remembered the time he kept punching his face 7 years ago."My daughter… I already accepted that it wasn't your fault. I already knew the truth by then. But why… why did you have to get involved with my son… OF ALL PEOPLE?!"He banged the desk.His breathing began to increase in frequency. This, later on, calmed down."How am I supposed to think you're innocent when you downright kill him?"He felt conflicted.He put his head on the book and placed his hands on top of his head.He whispered, "… Stop haunting me… Leave me alone… Why did you have to interfere… Get out of my head… Get out of my head… Get out of my head… Get out of my head… Get out of my head… Get out of my head…"He kept on muttering the same phrase over and over again, steadily increasing in tone and volume."Get out of my head… Get out of my head… GE
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The children at the beach were playing with a ball. It was very reminiscent of the last happy memory he ever formed back in the past world. … .. . 25 years ago, in Germany. It was a very snowy day. There was a young boy who held the hands of his parents. He was stepping playfully on the snow that formed at their feet. All of them had red beanies and brown boots. His parents wore brown trenches and blue-green gloves, while the little kid had a thick blue sweater and green mittens just right for his size. The kid counted his steps. "One, two, three, four…" The family arrived at a park. There, they met up with another family who also had their son. They had similar attire. They nudged their son. "Come on, Ansgar." The parents of the first and second families met up, leaving the two children be. "U-Uh, 'sup," Ansgar answered nervously. "Hm? Why so nervous?" the other child asked. "I mean, seeing each other after school still really strikes me as odd… so…" "Ah, is that so…
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On top of a tall and flat building, there was a man who had blonde hair, and brown eyes and wore a clear white robe that extended from his shoulders to his legs. He wore a necklace shaped like a diamond with a star in the middle, and in the middle of that star was an eye, made of metal. He kept watch over the city below."Such beautiful scenery…" he uttered.A man in a thick cream and brown robe approached him, who also wore the same necklace whispered into his ear."Mhm… Mhm… What? Wait, what? Could you repeat that again? You can speak up, we are the only ones here," he permitted.The man took a few steps back and cleared his throat."Ehem… I have received leaks from the mouths of the Alganists. According to what I have heard, they declared that Spellmaster was dead and that they were cheering because they were on their way to conquering the minds of the people.""Wh-What is the meaning of this?! Spellmaster… is dead? Is that information accurate?""It has been confirmed by two such
