Sora Kurusu, The First Artificier

Above me was a wooden ceilling with heavy wooden beams supporting it, golden chandeliers hung beneath it. I blink multiple times just to be sure I wasn't hallucinating. I pushed myself upwards, to see the concerning sight that I should've foreseen...

My slave was standing silently to my right, nervously sweating in fear and worry, despite, holding a patient and calm composure. I began to wonder why, and I soon found out so...

I'm tied down to a chair and standing infront of me were several guards with pikes and swords drawn. My slave, as I turned to see, was cuffed by a strange looking cuff, rather than the metallic ones I was familiar to seeing at Magnus' slaver camp once. Infront of me lined what I assumed to be the most important people who'd like to ask me multiple questions concerning my capture, and Feru's. Several strange haired noblemen and women, a few veteran soldiers and adventurers, a strange lady in a weird black coat, the Princess of Delacour, who I remembered from my arival to Delacour, in a sort of combatant's uniform,as well as the highlight of the season...

The Heroes of Castille...

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Silence ensued as I breathe in heavily, Cynthia also seemed to be eyeing everyone constantly, even tough she's been restrained, she acts like she must protect her Master, which is me, at all costs. Then someone breaks the silence with, "Phew! this is truly some exhausting silence we've got here!" An old man in a strange robe said aloud, which made everyone around him extremely uncomfortable. Shiro growls at his disruption, but remains silent. Which was weird for me because that boy is anything but patient.

Patience was all we needed to do here, hoping that the best outcome can comes to brace us. I silently waited for more, and indeed, another began speaking, "Ahem!" A woman on a throne on the farther end of the hall cleared. She wore a white dress, gown-thing that nobilities wore, but she caught me off-guard with a diadem resting upon here head, out of simple observation it was made out of low-quality gold, and I could tell because that was one of the mandatory lessons of being a jeweler. But the thing that made it stand out more was the mana sapphires embedded into it, mana sapphires were commonly used in many staves, spell orbs and crystals alike. But to put them on a crown, a decorative headpiece, would be stupid, even for master smiths like Arthur. Although, gold did have a high mana-conductivity, so it could be possible that the diadem itself could be similar to that of a wand. Even if that is a theory, it made much more sense.

"-Are you the missing hero of Castille, Sora Kuroko?" My mind came back from the depths of my thoughts, as she asked me whether or not I was who I am. Which I clearly am, and so to my honesty I answer; "Yes, I am Sora Kuroko..."

Everyone began whispering around me, their irritating noises annoyed me. Cynthia was still eyeing everyone with suspicion. And I clearly wasn't leaving a very good impression from what I could sense, and see, from their expressions. There was a few theories on why they restrained me, one of the most obvious one's I said aloud; "Let me guess, someone died holding my left hand?" they all shivered at the sound of my words, and it seems like I hit the right mark. There was no way that I was carried all the way up here, without warning of my ability. The queen then remarked; "Yes, about 4 of my servants died carrying you up here, before your 'companion' told us she would handle you in our steed..." She flashes a look of anger towards me, and I smiled smuggly, "Heh, shouldn't have tried imprisoning me improperly in the first place..."

"And you're happy about this?" Yuuki butts in, all my classmates then began anxiously waiting for my response, I imagine they must be thinking that I've become something different, something much worse than before we've arrived to this new and mysterious world. If I could recall correctly, this bastard was, no-wait a minute, he still is the baneful gary sue to my plans. Even back in our world, he'd try to stop me from doing a majority of my school work because he claims that; "Fiendish students like you must play fair!"right before he commanded Leon and Shiro to take or destroy the work I accomplished alone, that f.u.c.kin' line was a concept stupid enough for me to label him as the dense jack-ass of my life, or anyone's intellegent mind for that matter. Because of his naive disposition and train of thought, he is easily manipulated by my fellow classmates into sweet talking the teachers that are grading them. Which is why I tried to do my best to stop them, only for him to turn the entire student body against me.

"Answer us Sora! Is that what you really wanted? for innocents to die just to save your ungrateful butt!" Yuuki said aloud, trying to make me feel guilty, but really that didn't even scratch the surface of my hubris. Since my back's been sore trying to carry the dense kid through high school. But now I've been given the chance to try and change my life before I became the crutch of this stupid kid, so I just slapped him with; "So? you talk about the lives of servants when the lives of soldiers and guards die from the constant threat of demons?" Yuuki didn't say a thing, and neither could the rest of my classmates "And what about the farmers? loggers? miners? literally everyone who has a job that involves going away from the safety of their individual homes and lines of defense to provide for not only their families..." The queen looked at me with with eyes of disdain, but deep down I could see the truth. And she knows that what I speak off is certainly not a lie...

"You are the lost hero everyone here speaks off, we have heard of reports and rumors surrounding a demon with the ability to drain the life of another, It was no coincidence when my daughter compared the two..." Her daughter, the same girl I met on my arrival to Delacour, however, instead of wearing the blue uniform, She wore a red fencer's armor set, with the shoulder guard and everything. A sheathed rapier is strapped to the side of her waist, her left hand touching the small guard at the tip on the scabbard. Possibly thinking that I might suddenly get out of my restraints and try to murder everyone here.

"Mother. I suggest we destroy him before it gets any more worse..." Yuuki, Stella and Micah suddenly turns to her, and then Micah said; "Wait! This isn't right!" She looks at the princess with a serious expression, but the princess didn't budge. "And what is your reasoning for keeping such a dangerous creature alive?" She said "I'm sure that Sora wouldn't want to harm anyone, even if it was on purpose, I'm sure that-"

"Ugh, stop it Micah..." A voice echoed from the back of the crowd. And out come pushing through his fellow classmates, came a red-haired idiot. Shiro.

"He's already killed over a hundred, and yet you still think he's human?" He bantered

"Yes! Yes, I still believe that he can redeem himself!" Micah said

"Tch. Then you are bigger idiot than he is..." He said with a distasteful expression. As he looked over to me and gave me the stink eye, two other individuals came in and to inspect me, and they were other threats to my genius. Richard Maxwell, the European transfer and Gabriel Rodrigues. The former nuisance is a blonde haired man who was supposedly the 7th son of a famed corporate dynasty, ended up studying abroad in the worse case scenario of a school, despite this he is one of the school's I.T. lords, and never failing once in the subject. Gabriel Rodrigues is one of the oldest students of our school, the black-haired 1.79 meter telephone pole is an attraction of the school itself, having great specialization in mathematics and great spiky, black hair to go well with his lovely semi-brazilian accent.

They both looked at me carefully, sizing me and my capabilties up. Until Stella steped forward to the queen and and then spoke, "Your highness, if I might add, perhaps maybe he could be of use as an aid in our quest to rid the demon-kind..." The queen's audience began whispering to one another...

"And why must I consider this, young hero? You might have the King's favor, but I still don't trust anything that isn't of our own world..."

"Yes, I can understand your distrust. Much as how we are towards a former ally. But perhaps maybe there can be some way to prove that he might be more than just simply a mindless brute who swings his arms around like sticks..." Stella looks towards me and I got a more proper inspection of her appearance.

She wore a fencer's outfit similar to the Princess', the only exception however seems to be that it was significantly much more tighter, and lightly revealing. I smirked at her, and immediately she blushed as she knew what I was most likely gonna say "Damn pervert! Is this really the appropriate time to think about that kind of thing!"

Indeed, I heard that line. But it did not clear out from her own mouth, but from someone else', and then I immediately pin-pointed it towards Angela...

Angela is what you'd typically result in when you think about a cute, yet beautiful young child look at the age of 15. In manga terms, she's the typical white-hair loli, but I confirmed the hard way that it's dyed to that kind of white. She wore a very stuffy cloak, her glossy and chubby childish face barely showed her neck because of the cloak's coverage.

Everyone looked at me with disgust, followed by something my classmates have always hated. My manic, otherworldly, laugh...

Everyone there, could not realize at the time, what they were to face...