Chapter 108 - Prophecy Of The Hiragi Family

Aryan decided to look into the matter and was heading towards the exit of the training room, when a light flashed behind him and engulfed the entire room. Aryan was taken aback by the light, it took him a fraction of seconds to come out of his dizziness and become aware of his surroundings. 

Before he said something someone called out his name and asked, "Ryan, what happened here? Why are you not affected?!"

On a closer look Ryan found out the person behind the voice, it was known other than his classmate Nagisa Hiragi. "The energy wave of the device and the energy wave that stopped the time fell upon me at the same time, canceling each other, and hence I am fine," explained Ryan.

"And what about you? How are you fine now?! You were frozen just some..."

"Yes, I know," replied Nagisa. "It's the talisman paper that grandma gave me today before leaving, it saved my life."

"Talisman paper!!" exclaimed Ryan and went near Nagisa to take a close look, "Which one?!" he asked without hesitation.

Nagisa was considering whether to show it or not, but since it was an emergence she kicked out her hesitation and gave it to him. Ryan observed the pattern and characters on the paper carefully and blurted out, "Time Reversal, huh. Interesting!!"

Nagisa heard his mumbling and asked, "You can read the characters and design on the talisman paper?!!"

"Yea," replied Ryan while staring at the talisman paper.

"Really?!!" Nagisa asked again to confirm.

Ryan remained silent for a while before saying, "It's not a time when I can joke around. Great aunt Linda and the other teachers are trying their best to enter into this time stopped zone, but all in vain."

"Hmm…."

"Here, keep it near you. It still has two more uses," replied Ryan and returned it back to Nagisa. She received the talisman paper and kept it inside her chest pocket as instructed by her grandmother.

"So, what should we do now?!" asked the girl in a calm voice. Deep inside she was sacred, she was freaking out. Even when she got out of her frozen sleep, she saw no one in the dark and was about to cry floods, but then she saw Ryan near the exit, and the flood got delayed for some time.

"Hmm… I think I know the reason for all this happening. And I am heading there to solve it out."

"You know the reason!! What is it?!! tell me," asked the girl impatiently. More than anyone else she wanted Rajesh to come out of this mess. He was the only one who was there for her all this time, after her mother fell ill some years ago, and became bedridden. Be it a happy occasion or a sad he was always behind her as a supportive wall. For her, he was more than a blood-related elder brother. Even though Rajesh was younger than him by six months.

"Miss Lisa is the reason," replied Ryan and went near the exit to open the electronic automated door.

"What?!! Miss Lisa!! That cold beauty painting teacher!!" exclaimed Nagisa.

"Yes, she is the reason. How I know, don't ask me that. There are some things that you shouldn't know about." replied Ryan while applying force on the door to open it up, without breaking.

Nagisa nodded her head and said, "Step aside, let me open it."

Ryan moved aside and was about to say not to break the door. But Nagisa took action before him and cut apart the door into two.

"Ahh.. I was about to say not to destroy the door... Sigh, you have done it now," mumbled Ryan and went followed Nagisa's lead. She had been to the school many times in the past for official work with her father so she knew all the routes and shortcuts. After following her for sometime Ryan couldn't take the silent atmosphere and asked out a question to strike a conversation.

"Nagisa chan, what was that technique with which you cut that door? I have never seen it before."

"Aha, that, isn't it quite an interesting technique?" asked the girl while hiding her giggling face with her hands.

"Yes, it is. What's it's name?" Ryan repeated the question again.

Nagisa stopped walking and turned around and said, "Hehe, that's my version of Hiragi Martial arts."

Ryan "....."

"What?!! Isn't it good? Just now you said it was good. What happened now?" asked the girl while pouting over it.

"Yes, it is good…. But I couldn't understand the thing when you said that it's your version of Hiragi Martial arts."

Listening to his dumb question Nagisa facepalmed hard and said, "Oh the Three Supreme God how clueless can this kid become!!"

"Ahahahah ahahah," laughed Ryan and said that he had little knowledge about the big families around there. Nagisa didn't mind his lack of knowledge and started explaining him about the Hiragi familie's' martial arts system.

If it was someone else she would never tell him/her about it, but here the person was Ryan, and god knows how and why whenever she saw him, she always became open to her and started spilling secrets about her family.

"Long, long ago, our first ancestor, one of the Seven Sages, left some scroll for us, containing his teachings and martial arts. After passing down his legacy to the second generation he went into exile and thereafter vanished from the world. Years passed on and his legacy keeps on passing to the next generation as he wished."

"Okay….. And?!!" asked Ryan. From her story, he wasn't getting anything important so he was getting impatient to hear some more.

Nagisa continued, "And here his legacy was the set of scrolls he passed down to the second generation. All over the decades and millennia every generation tried to read and copy the martial arts step written in those scrolls, but none of them were able to do so."

Ryan "...."

"All of them developed their own set of martial art skills, but none of them was able to copy the exact moves written on the scroll," before Nagis said some more, Ryan blurted out and asked, "Why so?! "

"Reee, u seems very impatient?!!" teased Nagisa.

"Ahem, it's not that I am impatient, it's just that I am curious to know," replied Ryan.

"Yea, yea whatever both of them sounds the same to me," shrugged Nagisa and continued her story, "So, our previous generation members have their own set of martial arts moves. And that move you saw back then was the move that I have developed after practicing the set of moves on that scroll."

"Oh~~~"

"And there is another prophecy on the back of the scroll too," added Nagisa.

"What prophecy?!!" exclaimed Ryan.

"A prophecy that one day someone will come and will learn the exact set of moves written on that scroll. When that person comes, our clan's leader post will be passed over to that person."

"I see,"

"Yes,"

"Then good luck," wished Ryan. Neither did he know nor he had guessed the identity of the person. But the day he will know, that will be a _______ of his life.

After clarifying Ryan's doubt it was time for Nagisa to ask questions. She had a volcano of questions suppressed inside her. And were ready to erupt anytime soon. But before she asks him something thud!!

She stumbled upon something, in the darkness and hit her head on another metallic door before her.

"Damn it, I will cut this one into little pieces," and was raising her head to use that move again when Ryan grabbed her hand and pulled her back. 

"Na-gi-sa chan, don't waste your energy on small things, save it for later. I will deal with this," said Ryan and went near the metallic door, which was double the size and thickness of the previous one.

"What will you do with it?" asked Nagisa with curiosity. According to her, the previous time Ryan didn't use any technique or special moves to open the door of the training room, instead, he was using pure force. So she thought this time too Ryan will do the same.

But all her assumptions were completely crushed when Ryan near the door and flicked it with his finger.

Nagisa "...."

'Is this guy gone mad? Why did he flick the door with his finger?' was the question in her mind. She was about to say something to Ryan but before she did, she saw something that seemed more like an illusion to her.

The thick metallic gate turned into sand and crumbled before her.

"What?! How?!! Why?!!" She wanted to ask out many questions at once and her brain was having a hard time sorting out the questions and letting her ask them one by one. 

Ryan saw her flabbergasted expression and saw her victory sign to show it was a success. But that didn't help much to Nagisa.

Her brain had already started thinking about Ryan's special power and after some quick thoughts, she deduced Ryan had the power to change the property of materials.

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Don't forget to drop the power stones.