To Contradict Existence

[Gaserlake]

Gaserlake smiled. "Oh, he already has. It's just not apparent, yet. You're already his pawn. If you see him, it's too late."

[Queen Bright]

"Maybe for you," Hikaru appeared behind Gaserlake, undetected till she had spoken. Her magic signature seemed to strangely be gone, as if it wasn't there at all. Yet, she didn't appear to be using a spell to mask it. "But I don't intend to be a pawn, especially by something or someone I never would have came across in the first place if not for the fact of being forced to be near YOU!" Hikaru accused as she walked back towards Asura who looked a bit surprised.

"You read all the books that fast?"

"Time is unlocked now, which means sages can cast time spells as well. I sped up the time it took to read a book, to a split second."

"Oh right. Good thinking," Asura mused.

"All of the magic of history..." Hikaru held her hand out, staring at her palm, then quickly clenched her fist. As she did, her magic signature sky rocketed to a million-fold. Slackening her grip, and letting her hand then drop to her side, her magi signature then dropped as well, back to nothing. As if she was mortal, but really wasn't.

[Gaserlake]

Of course, this did surprise Gaserlake, but he didn't show it. He was too used to surprises. He shrugged. "Maybe he wanted you to meet me in the fist place." He shook his head and smiled as her magic signature skyrocketed. "You would still be your pawn, Hikaru. Believe it or not. You don't believe it, you'll just be damn ignorant. You don't intend to be, but doesn't mean you won't. He chose you, and it's going to stay that way for a long time, if not forever."

[Queen Bright]

"That's where you're wrong." Hikaru glowered at him. "Had you just released me right away, none of this would have ever happened. So once again, it's YOUR fault! Release me now?!"

[Gaserlake]

"This wouldn't have happened, no," Gaserlake said. He gave her a skeptical look. "Why should I release you?"

[Queen Bright]

"Because you said you didn't plan on there being conditions. Then if you didn't plan on them, why enforce them??!" Hikaru lowered her eyes to the ground, staring intently at the black velvet carpet, not allowing her gaze to waiver, in a toneless voice, she continued, "I'm missing everything... Everything I was involved in. The events that are coming together... All of it..." Hikaru shook her head, but continued to stare at the ground. "I don't even know who's won or lost in the tournament. Or who's still alive out of the original participants. And as Asura said, the embodiments are having a war, my brothers already choosing sides... " Hikaru fell back against the nearest book shelf, leaning on it. "In a hundred years? Everything will have changed and become unrecognizable. And I'll still be stuck...  In two hundred? I'll be lost in what's happened...." She held her head up with her hand.

"If Existence lives that long." Asura added, seeming awfully cheery, despite the fact she was proclaiming predicted doom from Plex.

[Gaserlake]

"Because I wanted to train you. I really wanted to. Potential is another reason. The same damn reason this guy came for you. Plus, as I told you, I go with the damn flow. If you're missing events, then tell me, and I'll probably let you see them."

[Queen Bright]

"I'm not going to!" Hikaru shouted back. "I will NEVER learn technology. I despise it. I'd destroy it in a heartbeat the first chance I get! When will you understand that?! It's pointless to keep enforcing it, because it's NEVER going to happen!"

"You should listen to her," Asura added in, looking at her nails as she was quite bored by that time. "Most magic users would rather die then learn what they think disgraces magic. Look at history for example."

Hikaru continued glaring, "And ask you? What? So you can throw the added on price of having to take you with every time? Hell no! I'm eldest of the Sage Three. I don't ask for anything!"

[Gaserlake]

"As far as I know, the only damn reason why technology is a disgrace is magic is because of the anti-magic fields! Other than that, I see it as a bloody misconception!" He calmed down. "Alright, fine. You don't have to take me everywhere you go. I understand that."

[Queen Bright]

"If you'll go that far, then just release me!" Hikaru demanded, practically losing it by now."Why won't you release me? Why?!"  The only support which kept Hikaru up was the bookcase behind her. If not for that, she'd have been on her knees by now. But even despite the support, Hikaru slowly slid down the bookcase till she was sitting on the floor, her head still in her hands. "I can't take this anymore!" She screamed.  I'm not just missing events, I'm missing my life, two hundred years of it! And I just- ... I don't know what to do about it anymore..."

[Gaserlake]

Gaserlake showed no sympathy. "Remember the deal we had, Hikaru? If you beat me in a tech-versus-magic match, the contract will be destroyed and you'll be free. If I or Leserlake fail to destroy the contract, then you can kill me. Let my brother alone, though. He's rather inexperienced compared to me. He still has to see reality a bit more, despite his age and all."

[Queen Bright]

Hikaru looked off to the side, her voice toneless as she muttered, "The deal's off... I don't trust you... ...At all."

Asura said nothing as she stood by. Holding out one hand, she seemed to be looking at her nails in a rather bored looking stance and expression.

[Gaserlake]

"What? Why don't you trust me?"

[Queen Bright]

"You're the enemy... ...Never trust the enemy." Hikaru continued to glower at the floor as she stood herself up slowly, recovering from the shortened mental breakdown from just a few minutes before. "For a moment I forgot that. I actually fooled myself into believing different... that maybe things this time were different..." She scoffed, then looked to Asura. "Asura, the tournament?"

"Oh right!" Asura jumped slightly, and planted her staff to the ground. "Whenever, you're ready."

[Gaserlake]

"I don't see you as the enemy, Hikaru," Gaserlake replied. "But sure, let's go."

[Queen Bright]

"Right," Hikaru said, her every word, dripping with sarcasm, "Excuse me if I find that hard to believe. Seeing as if it was true, I should have been released by now. That along with this damn reminder on my left wrist, yeah, nice try. Not believing a damn word you say."

Asura stood by, continuing to wait. Hikaru said to go, but then she continued talking? Asura was starting to grow impatient.

[Gaserlake]

"Let's just go," Gaserlake said impatiently.

[Queen Bright]

"No argument?" Hikaru looked skeptic. "That just means I'm right. You are tricking me. Trying to lull me into a false sense of security or something? But for what...?" Hikaru stood silent for a moment, thinking the situation over. Finally she shook her head. "I'll figure it out later. Asura?"

Asura nodded and tapped her staff to the ground, teleporting the trio back to Hell.