Zeeta and the Wizarding World
Role of Family

[STEP ZEETA.]

Can anyone understand my feelings? About the weight of this responsibility I bear?

Queen Clarissa or sister Velvet was my ancestor from hundreds of years ago. They were also good people and always encouraged me.

But....

What I want isn't there....

I am grateful to be surrounded by nobles who are different from Rowing. However... can I stay like this if I meet the same obstacle?

My father was the King, a Levant noble, which is still a mystery to me. So did my mother. I only know them from their stories and evidence of their lives before I was born.

I want them to know, I'm fine, but I also want to know that I'm NOT okay either.

Actually .... What do I want to do after meeting them?

......................

Ashley's residence, without any reduced guests, became the place where Siren and Klutzie spent the night to be interrogated. There, Zeeta and her two cousins have returned home. Edward and Ella stand against their beloved mother, Claudia, while Zeeta sits down in dismay.

The anxiety comes from many reasons. Would the person he was about to meet potentially bring yet another ruin to his kingdom? With his condition not within a hundred percent, he was worried about more things than usual.

Moments later, Siren is led by Luna in her miniaturized fox form into Ashley's residence, after having laid Klutzie in a room, accompanied by four children earlier.

As soon as Zeeta sees the arrival of his friends, he is unable to sense the difference of mana from them. Even so, the people around him realized the difference by showing their incredulous faces. Then, he looked at both of his hands. "Is it this bad...?" his inner. He caught his breath, then acted as usual.

The four friends immediately knelt down to pay their respects, while Siren refused to do so.

"Wake up, my peers," said Zeeta, "I'll talk to you in person later, but I need an official report from you, although I already know what happened to this Yggdrasil Spirit named Siren from Luna."

The four friends stood up, then Zeeta spoke again. "Sir Azure, is it true that you healed the wounds of our royal honored guest?"

"Yes, that's right," Azure replied.

"I thank you from the mind of my heart, Brother Azure. Then, I'll meet you after I have a brief question with Mellynda von Ophenlis with these guests."

"Okay, Your Majesty!" Azure saluted by bowing half her body, followed by Gerda and Danny. Then, they came out of Ashley's residence.

......................

Zeeta looked inside Siren's eyes, as if he was thinking something complicated.

"Your Highness Zeeta, what's wrong?" ask Ashley.

"Oh?" Zeeta. "No, it's nothing. I just remember which stream around it once bothered Mellynda."

"Eh?" everyone present there was shocked, even Siren.

"What did you say?!" snapped Siren, "I never even—"

"I know, calm down, Great Spirit." Zeeta changed the direction of her eyes to Mellynda. "Mellynda, remember when you acted out and hurt me?"

"Y-yeah, I remember," replied Mellynda.

"Of course you and I, as well as all the nobles here know, that makes you dazed and intend to hurt me caused by Morgan bewitching you.

"But, for some reason, I feel like they have a similar flow to Morgan...."

"It's peculiar.... I can't feel where I'm around, but it's even more evil like this I can feel...?" Zeeta glanced at Luna, but Luna hinted that she would discuss it later, with body language shaking her head.

"Zeeta, so you're saying they're Morgan's allies?!" Aria direct emotion.

"No. I didn't say that. It's just....

"No, Great Spirit, can you tell us what happened to you?"

Later, Siren recounts what she experienced when she met Suzy, and Luna says that Suzy is Phantasmal. Zeeta seemed to think of something while listening to Siren. He recalled the Phantasmal he had faced, Hollow.

"Siren—can I call you Siren?" ask Zeeta.

Siren nodded.

"Why should you run? I was told Ratu—by Luna—how to wear Catastrophe Seal to face Hollow.

"Is that Klutzie incapable of doing that?"

"YES...?!! CATASTROPHE SEAL, YOU SAY?!" peeking Siren. "LUNA, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!"

"E-uh? What was? Is this unnatural?" ask Zeeta, who was confused.

"Of course it's unnatural! Catastrophe Seal cannot be just any creature—even the Yggdrasil Seed can use it!"

"But I've used it twice...."

"Eh...? Seriously...? Did nothing strange happen to you?"

"Well, that's it, I feel pain all over my body and limp, but when both times I wear it, I remember I don't really feel anything...."

"Siren, look carefully at Zeeta. You'll know why!" timpal Luna's.

Siren looked at Zeeta with narrowed eyes. He saw two earrings that he was very familiar with.

"Damn it! Worth it!

"Zeeta, I'm telling you this right now. You're too strong and that's what's bothering us!"

"I-I was wrong?"

"Yes! If you're not around, then Lutz won't—"

"Where do I care, that's the problem." Zeeta lowered her head. "You are the Spirit of Yggdrasil, why blame a Man like me? Aren't you stronger than me?

"That's right!"

Ashley's residence suddenly shook.

"Cheeta!" Claudia immediately hugged Zeeta. "Calm down, kid. Don't think about what he just said." He stroked Zeeta's head.

"Go away" Luna said to Siren.

"E-uh...?" Siren confusion.

"No, I'm fine...." Zeeta is breathing. "I have to get used to it."

"No," Ashley argued. "Luna is right, go the Great Spirit. We also have our own problems. Even though you are the Spirit of Yggdrasil, if you cannot be conscious, we must ask you to leave.

"Just calm down, Klutzie Nebula will take good care of us."

"Tu...wait...?"

"Siren, I'll explain later." Luna used her magic to "throw" Sirens out of the kingdom.

[In the meantime.].

"Kuhaha.... Huhahahah!

"God, who would have thought such a Yggdrasil Spirit existed.... This world is like a Pandora's box!

......................

Zeeta was given a two-hour break, after the meeting at Ashley's residence was dissolved. Mental Zeeta who is still a child, indeed can not be blamed if the end must be like this.

Currently, Zeeta is in the Levant residence, she is in her father's former room and looking at a picture of a frame featuring her father and mother while still in the academy.

He clenched the frame tightly then dropped his cries profusely.

Lowen, Karim, Claudia, and Agatha can only be moody and leave Zeeta alone for now. No one can replace his mother's father, even if they are family.

However, as soon as they heard Zeeta's cries stop, Zeeta came out of the room with her eyes open.

"I want to meet dad—I mean Arthur. I miss them" he asked.

"Then let me drive you," Lowen stood up, but Zeeta stopped.

"No need. Sorry, Uncle...." Zeeta immediately headed to where Arthur was. Her family could only fall silent while Zeeta was putting her feet up.

"Shame it," said Lowen then slammed the table. "As his biological family, do we really have to trust him to strangers?"

"No, Lowen," said Karim, "Arthur is already part of the family. If you think about it well, Zeeta grew up like this because she was raised by that man."

"It's hard to accept, but the village environment is friendlier than the kingdom" Agatha said.

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Zeeta uses his teleportation to return to the completed Lazuli village. It comes right in front of the A n' Z store. He looked at the store long enough, until Arthur opened the store to remove a box of unused items.

"Zeez... Zeeta?" Arthur put the box down and knelt down. "What's up?"

Zeeta lowered her head, then dropped her body into Arthur's arms and cried sobbing for a bit.

"Dad... Dad...!" screech when he cries. He also gripped the apron that Arthur was wearing.

"Cup cup cuupp...." Arthur stroked Zeeta's back. "Let's talk inside while drinking your favorite hot chocolate, okay?"

"Hiks .. uhm..hiks...."

Arthur then carries Zeeta into the store, then flips the "open" sign to "close" on the door. It also warms the room with a raised lantern fire.

As long as Arthur made the hot chocolate, Zeeta just sat quietly unaccompanied twinkle in his eyes, which he used to do whenever he saw Arthur in the kitchen.

"I don't want him to come back in this mood, but he needs me. As a father, I have to go with him!" inner Arthur.

"Please, Princess." Arthur served hot chocolate and a plate of cookies.

"Don't call me that first" he said. He did not change his mood.

"alright. So, do you want to stay here for a while?"

"Eh?"

"I will be responsible even if I go to jail again. If it's for my daughter's sake, it's a trivial thing!"

"I'll think...."

"Know? I'm so lonely running this store without you. For the past eight years, we've been cooking together in this kitchen. As soon as I run this shop again, I feel. I'm not excited anymore, ehehe." Arthur scratched his cheek.

"Yes! I did too!" Zeeta slams the table. "Although I became the Princess and was surrounded by good nobles, I felt what Dad felt! I want to go back to the kitchen, I want to cook again.

"But lately the issue of the kingdom has never stopped. Though I thought yesterday's construction would be the last thing and I could focus on saving mom, but...." The face of Zeeta who had the spirit back sad.

"Hey, Dad.... Isn't Dad one of the academy with my mom and dad?"

"Oh, Alicia and Hazell? Yeah, sure."

"Do you think they'd be disappointed to see me like this?"

Arthur smiled. "They are not such people. They were freaks with their natures that were beyond the normal person's fairness."

"Eh...? What's that supposed?"

"Your mother has great power like you. But he was notorious for being so mischievous as to often ditch the academy to conduct experiments with his magic. He always said, 'Your lessons are more boring than the life out there!'

"Although she always truant, she is a genius for always ranking second after Miss Hellenia. We also have no idea what exactly he did with his experiment, with his mother's nature being quite the opposite of his.

"Try imagining. Your grandmother Scarlet was a lion who ruled the forest, but your mother was a rabbit who moved nimble to and fro. Very contradictory, isn't it?"

Zeeta is starting to get her spirit again. "Then, what about my father's l—ehh, um.. my real father?"

"Hazell is a man who has always been an example in the academy. He was filled with a knightly spirit with upholding justice. But, the type like him that dad doesn't really like."

"Jeez? Why?"

"He's too tight! A little wrong was already being rumored. I hate to admit it, but he's a little bit like Lowen."

"Wooohhh...."

"You don't have to worry about what they think of you. But, if you're really curious, they must think you're very proud of them.

"They are also parents who will apologize to you for carrying such a burden on you.

"Prepare for who you are! Whatever others say, you are you! You are Zeeta Aurora XXI, the daughter with powerful mana, having many magical creature friends, from the village of Lazuli, also loved by your foster father, Arthur!"

Zeeta smiled broadly. "I love Dad too!"

Zeeta then took a sip of her hot chocolate. "Add again!"

"Ready, go!" Arthur went back to the kitchen.

At the same time, someone broke down the door of the shop.

"Here you look, Zeeta!"

That person was his friend, Azure, Gerda, and Danny.

"Eh, Brother Azure? What's wrong with your mana?! You guys too, Gerda, Danny! Why is it so big?! Oh, no.. lest you're not—"

"Uncle, we borrow Zeeta!" tukas Azure's.

"E-eeeh...? But my hot chocolate....!"

"It can be awaited!"

Arthur could only smile at the sight of his son being taken away.

But after that....

"Anu...?"

Arthur turned his eyes to the source of the sound.

"Ah, sorry, we've—"

Arthur was so wide that he almost fell when he saw the figure of the voice. "No-Miss Hellenia?!"