Another day in the Free City of Freida in Do-Melta—actually, today I was in my hometown in Japan. It wasn’t as if I was in the other world all the time, so I obviously had a life in this one too. I usually spent time with my family, went to school, hung out with friends, and studied—doing the typical student stuff. Though, I was able to use magic, and my abilities were boosted because of my increased level. In that sense, I was anything but a typical high schooler.
To be honest, not much had been happening in this world that was worth writing home about. I wasn’t in any clubs, so I’d been going home after school. I’d hung out with friends here and there, bought some food at a place that had opened recently, and participated in school events. There were also some reports about terrorist incidents on the morning news, but that was about it. It was the same thing, day after day.
“I’ve been sensing faint evil energies from you lately, Aki.”
The person who’d spoken that chuuni line on our way to school was my childhood friend, Masaki Hiro. We’d been calling each other Aki and Hiro respectively since we’d been kids, and we usually walked to school together unless there was some sort of incident in the morning. Growing up, we’d practiced our hero kicks together, and the Lightning Kick move I used with Ameithys Orbit was a fruit of our labor. It went without saying that Hiro’s version of the kick was far more powerful than mine, though. What about my level, you ask? It didn’t even matter. It made me consider how incredible humans could be. Hiro was an incarnation of potential.
“Evil energies? That sounds kind of dramatic, don’t you think?” I asked.
“I’m not being dramatic. I’m just telling it how it is,” said Hiro.
Hiro had a tendency to go on long speeches about justice or zip away to beat up a bad guy somewhere no matter what we were doing at the time; it was as if she couldn’t help it—not that I wanted to discourage her from beating up bad guys though. Speaking of bad guys, I’d heard there’d been a lot of cases of people stealing crystal stakes in the other world. But I digress.
Anyway, Hiro did a bunch of quick movements and struck a hero pose. She’d always done this since we were kids.