I teleported to a secluded location at the outskirts of the kingdom of ingrassia. I knew that I was where I wanted to be but this was a really weird area nonetheless.
'I guess if you're a hero teaching another hero, then you have to be in a secluded area to avoid distractions.' I walked up to the nearest house and knocked on the door.
The one who opened was a child who was very exited to see me.
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"Shizu, I'm home!" Chronoa, or more accurately Hinata in Chloe's body, came home with food. When she opened the door, she had found a surprise. There was a rearrangement of furniture.
On a couch sit her new student Shizu and the newly ascended hero, Simon playing on some sort of console and TV. Simon noticed Chronoa enter and immediately gestured for her to come sit down and grab a controller.
"How did you find us?" Chronoa sat down and asked.
Simon showed a surprised face, 'So she didn't notice the spacetime anchor? How though?' I went back to playing and answered simply, "I slipped a tracker into Shizu last time we saw each other."
"You slipped a tracker?"
"Yeah, I'm honestly surprised you didn't notice."
Shizu finally realized that she didn't ask the question she wanted to before, "By the way, Mrs Simon, what haven't you visited me in so long?"
"Oh, I was making a weapon." Both Shizu and Chronoa waited for me to elaborate further, "Oh um, that's it."
"Really, you expect me to believe you spent the last 8 months making a weapon." Shizu puffed up in fury.
"Yay I know it sounds ridiculous, even I was stunned to find that 8 months had passed, but it's true."
" Fine then, let us see this weapon of yours." Chronoa provoked, I felt like I was being tag teamed.
" Why are you so antagonistic?!" I shoved back towards Chronoa.
She came close and whispered in my ear, " Because for the last 8 months, she has been so depressed and blaming herself for you not visiting, so you better make up a good ass excuse or, so help me god, I will rip you apart."
She moved away from me allowing me to finally exhale, "Fine you guys wanna see the weapon?" Both of them nodded in anticipation.
I sighed and opened a portal, pulling the sword out slowly for dramatic effect. The portal closed and Zelus was revealed in all its glory.
" 8 months… ON A SWORD!" Shizu seemed livid at the reveal but Chronoa had higher perceptive acuity. She could sense, not only the perfection of forgery but also the destructive entropy bound within the blade.
Shizu halted her further complaints when she noticed her teacher's reaction, " Master, is something wrong?"
" This sword… is a masterpiece. I thought that you were exaggerating but… 8 months seems too short to create a weapon of this magnitude." Shizu was surprised by her teacher's words. It was incredibly hard to impress her… believe me, she's tried, "Simon, let me have this sword!"
"Absolutely not." Simon replied firmly.
"Um, Teache- teachers. What's so special about this sword?" Shizu asked from the side about the sword.
Chronoa took off her mask, and we looked at each other with a scheming look, a look that sent chills down Shizu's spine.
In the next moment, the scenery around Shizu changed into a classroom and she is the only one there… except for her her two teachers, both dressed up for the occasion.
" What are you both doing?!"
" Hi! That is no way to speak to a teacher." I reprimanded Shizu sternly.
Chronoa followed up on my reprimand with the beginning of the lesson, "Now then, the lesson today is equipment grades."
"The grades from lowest to highest is; normal, special, rare, unique, legend, God and genesis."
"Normal-grade is mass-produced equipment that everyone can get. Special-grade is usually engraved with some sort of magic. Rare-grade is powerful enough to raise someone's entire rank…"
"Unique-grade is usually the best that can be presented in the public eye, the next three are where nothing makes sense. Legend-grade isn't something that can be crafted but evolved from Unique-grade. God-grade is a classification of weapons that have become powerful enough to gain their own semblance of sentience and choose their user, they can also allow their wielder to transform their material body into a spiritual one."
Shizu was already in a daze at this point, not because she didn't understand but because the did understand and was dumbfounded.
" And now finally Genesis-grade, the strongest tier of equipment, the specific abilities of genesis-grades are unknown but they are extremely powerful."
Shizu didn't grasp the magnitude of what genesis-grade could do and Chronoa saw that, " Let me put it this way. There are only 8 genesis-grade weapons in existence and each one was created by the original creator. Simon essentially did something that was only possible for the original creator from whence we all came from."
Now only did Shizu realize and look at me with horror, "Mr Simon, c-can you make… make me a weapon."
Before she could perceive it, the classroom scene around her, disappeared and Simon was back to playing Warframe on the console he made, " If you're asking for a genesis-grade then no. Your body would crumble the moment you even used a bit of it's power."
Chronoa went into the kitchen and began making food for the child in her care.
"You know Shizu, when you get older, I'll make you a weapon perfect for you, Got that." Shizu perked up at my promise.
" Are you sure you can keep that promise?" Shizu asked with narrowed eyes.
"Not a chance, you're gonna have to remind me when the time comes."
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I walked into the kitchen and found Chronoa in an apron… and her mask, "Seriously, even when you're cooking, you have that damn thing on?"
"Is there something that you needed from me?" Chronoa seemed to ignore my previous question.
" You need help?"
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Shizu was currently looking at me and Chronoa cooking together, " You know, you two look like a married couple."
" PFFFFT!" Chronoa had the air in her lungs completely knocked out of her, " Shizu don't say that, that's rude!"
" Really, you're not mature enough to handle such a statement?" I questioned the hero calmly.
" What's wrong with being called a married couple?" Shizu inquired
I immediately grinned at Shizu's dismay, " Well it seems it's time for another lesson with Professor SIMOOOOOOON!"
" NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"