For the next few days, s.h.i.+ro spent her days in relative peace as Keiko was dealing with everything.

Currently, they sat in her room with s.h.i.+ro once again drinking juice while Keiko slammed her head against the table.

"Careful, if you knock yourself out, the paperwork might stack up higher." s.h.i.+ro smiled.

"And who's fault is it that I have to do this paperwork? Damage reports, finance checks and the such all because of one spell. You know, if anything, you should be helping me out right now." Keiko complained.

"Well, if you do it you can guarantee it's correct no? There would be more trouble if I helped out and made a mistake." s.h.i.+ro chuckled.

"Whatever." Keiko rolled her eyes.

"So what are your plans for now? I have a world leader's meeting soon and I don't think I should take you. Mainly because they are bound to have disguise removal skills so your ident.i.ty will be revealed. That's the last thing that me and Yuki want." Keiko asked.

"Hmm… not sure. I have around another month and a half before the faction event in Vericia start so I think I'll probably use this time to train with Lisandra. In terms of technique, experience and overall control of her body, she is still lacking so this two months should do plenty. Plus, I need to stop levelling up if I can since I've already reached level 100. Any more would be bad." s.h.i.+ro shrugged.

"Well Lisandra is already using the training rooms we have here and she occasionally spars with some of our members. Maybe you should do the same?" Keiko suggested.

"So maybe like a trainer up until I need to go back to Vericia then?" s.h.i.+ro raised her eyebrows.

"Yup. You can also think of it as payment for having to deal with this aftermath." Keiko shrugged.

"True. In that case then can you try to find me these ingredients along with some higher quality pills?" s.h.i.+ro nodded before pa.s.sing her a list that contained the ingredients required for the Borealis' Rebirth. Not only that, she then decided to add some of her cla.s.s up items too.

It would be quite helpful if Keiko could find them out on the front lines.

"Hmm… the celestial stuff might be a bit hard since everyone's out to get them. As for the other's, I'll try to get them if I can." Keiko nodded.

As they continued to talk for a little, s.h.i.+ro suddenly sat up straight and looked towards the door. Narrowing her eyes, she couldn't help but feel a slight foreboding feeling.

*BANG!

"BIG SIS!!!" Keomi charged through the door with a huge grin on her face.

Immediately flipping her body over the sofa, s.h.i.+ro dodged the Keomi rocket and managed to avoid the most powerful hug of the century.

Unfortunately, Keiko's paperwork wasn't as lucky since it was scattered throughout the room.

*PUCHI!

Looking down at her broken table with scattered paperwork, Keiko's face became dark and looked towards Keomi.

Feeling the sudden glare of Keiko, Keomi sat down immediately with a pale face.

"I'm sorry~?" Keomi apologised as sweat poured out of her skin.

"Keiko, before you kill her, make sure she doesn't scream or else it would attract too much attention." s.h.i.+ro reminded as she drank her juice while floating in the air.

"BIG SIS!!! How could you do this to me!" Keomi widened her eyes.

"Haha, I'm only joking. But seriously though, let's help tidy up a little shall we?" s.h.i.+ro smiled softly.

"Just so you know, I'm not helping." Keiko ma.s.saged her eyes and sat back down.

"Sure. Though, now that I think about it, why is there so much paperwork? Can't you do things digitally?" s.h.i.+ro asked curiously.

"That's because of hackers. These are made with a special kind of paper that can only be signed by an ink sent out by the council. If paperwork is lost or destroyed, I'll have to request another copy from the council." Keiko replied.

"Heh~ that's pretty annoying isn't it?" s.h.i.+ro raised an eyebrow.

"Well it's less annoying than having hackers claim the doc.u.ments." Keiko shrugged.

"True." s.h.i.+ro nodded.

Anything sent over the net was insecure no matter how 'private' it was. With hackers hiding everywhere, even the most important government doc.u.ment could be peeked at and read without anyone's permission.

However, it wasn't as if physical doc.u.ments were any better.

Helping out with tidying up the doc.u.ments, s.h.i.+ro and Keomi left Keiko to fill them all in while the two of them walked around for a bit.

s.h.i.+ro had already reapplied her disguise since they were out and about.

"It's taken you quite a while to get here huh?" s.h.i.+ro asked.

"Well, I was a bit busy on the way here. I had been ambushed by some black monarchy members and took a while to fight them all off. Though I kind of wished I arrived sooner so that I could see your spell with my own eyes. Had you used that during the fight against Blythe, you would have blasted his a.s.s back a few generations haha." Keomi laughed.

"True. I've improved quite a bit during this time." s.h.i.+ro replied before pulling out the Tri Element Crystal Lotus.

"By the way, are you able to help me find out anything about this lotus? I had charged this f*cker with 39 billion MP already but it still hasn't been filled." She asked.

Ever since she received this item, she had charged it whenever she had the chance but even now, there were no signs of it activating.

"Eh!? 39 billion!?" Keomi widened her eyes.

"Yeah. With my mana regen and some skills, I can charge it up quite quickly."

"Hmm… I'll ask some of the mages I know if they have any knowledge about this item. But for now, I want to go see my niece." Keomi smiled as her eyes glistened with excitement.

"Haha, fine, follow me. Lisa had been spending quite a bit of time in the training hall."

"Fufufu, in that case then I'll join in with her. Since she's your daughter, I shall teach her the family martial arts." Keomi grinned.

"Hm, I might join in as well then. I don't remember anything about it so it might be fun for me to do since I'm going to be here for one and a half months." s.h.i.+ro smiled.

Arriving at the training hall, they could see Lisandra sparing with three members at once. Following her advice on using blindfolds, Lisandra practised enhancing her senses in combat.

"Hou hou, working hard are we?" Keomi called out with a smile.

"Ah branch master, you've returned." The members all bowed since Keomi was quite a regular in the training hall.

"Yup. It took a while but man, you guys must have had quite a crazy few days especially with the huge spell that night huh? Shame I wasn't here." Keomi grinned.

"Definitely. The pressure was ridiculous you know? Even though it was fired off at the top of the tower, we were still pushed back." One of the members nodded.

"I see, but anyways, you seemed to be having some fun time sparring with Lisa here." Keomi said while gesturing to Lisandra who took off her blindfold.

As much as she wanted to just run over and hug her niece, she knew that she couldn't in order to preserve their ident.i.ties.

"Oh? You know of her?" The member asked curiously.

"Yeah, she helped me out a little back in the elven country. Lisa! It's been a while, why don't you spar with me for the next few days? I might be able to teach you some martial arts." Keomi called out.

Hearing that she could learn more martial arts, Lisandra's eyes brightened in excitement.

"It would be a pleasure." Lisandra nodded.

"Hehe~ I like the look in your eyes, let's start right now!" Keomi grinned and went to get one of the better sparring rooms ready.

Looking at the two of them being so excited for training, s.h.i.+ro couldn't help but chuckle.

'Muscle heads the lot of them.'

{You speak as though you're not one yourself.} Nimue raised an eyebrow.

'True.'

In the following days, s.h.i.+ro spent her time training with Keomi and Lisandra. She would practice the Asakura family martial arts along with her own ones. This included the Takemikazuchi sword technique and the Mystic Sensory Arts.

As for Keiko, she had finished her doc.u.ments and had to attend a meeting so she temporarily left the headquarters for a few days.

During this, s.h.i.+ro did not forget to keep charging the lotus since it was bound to be something good as it had absorbed an astounding 50 billion MP so far.

Before she knew it, half a month had pa.s.sed and there were only two weeks left until the event.