Noow MoreThanOneSees

Young and Adult Fantasy, Urban Paranormal (English)
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-7693-3665-8
Verlag: BoD - Books on Demand
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 306 Seiten

Reihe: Awakening

Japan 2025: After a difficult childhood, high school student Kaito uses his gift of seeing spirits to confront dark forces, help those who seek him out and find his place in the world, all while protecting the people he cares about and pursuing his dreams by engaging in dangerous adventures and actions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Noow, Ravin

Leseproben

Chapter 1 - FAMILY
"Thank God," Kaito thought, the school bell dismissing him for the weekend. The timetable on Friday was hell, and then the whole day with this pedant, "all completely pointless, for today, for tomorrow and for the rest of eternity," he thought, tomorrow he would have forgotten it anyway. "Now finish the lesson, you pain in the ass!" "Don't make any trouble over the weekend, understood, students!" The teacher looked at the class one last time and left. The class shouted the obligatory "Goodbye, teacher". Almost everyone hurriedly packed their things and disappeared home or somewhere else. Kaito packed more slowly, he still had time before his appointment with 'father', he thought. But he had to admit that he was curious what he wanted from him. It was the first time that 'Father' had asked him for help. While he was thinking about it, he looked at his classmates who were leaving the room one by one. "Classmates, should he really call them that?" he asked himself. He could count on one hand how many times he had talked to them until today, in the second year of high school. Half of them in this class even seemed quite nice, but he didn't know them. Their interests were too different. He was one of the outsiders here at this school, and he knew it would stay that way. "The different types in the class are clearly recognizable," he thought. The extroverts were always the first to stand out. They were always the first to shout during recess to show their arrogance coupled with stupidity. Talking a lot and loudly and saying little was their motto. "They'd make good politicians if they made it that far," he thought, laughing to himself. He'd heard that the guy over there, always well dressed, was a successful influencer. "It's not that hard with the good-looking men, they just have to talk shit, while the pretty women have to come up with different arguments, but they get more likes for it," Kaito laughed to himself. If they had any brains, they could have provided for their entire lives in ten years with their current income, but most of them were too stupid. "Well, that's how unfair life is. On the other hand, there were the quieter characters, smart and intelligent at the same time, some still self-confident, "Yuma is close to that," he thought. Some even helped outsiders or victims of bullying, like the gangly boy with glasses over there, who now dared to go back to school. Another 1.5 years to graduate. The boy now had a real chance to make it again. "Well," Kaito thought, "you can divide them all into groups, but no two are alike, everyone has at least one characteristic that makes them unique." He remembered his first day at middle school, when the pecking order was determined by the bullies. Strangely enough, a rumor soon spread that a classmate who had been bullying him for almost two years disappeared from one day to the next and was never seen again. At the time of his disappearance, Kaito was about 13 years old. Now, so much later, it was a strange thing to say, he recalled.Since he started school, he hadn't found out who spread the rumor that he had something to do with it. "What was that person thinking?" Obviously she wanted to hurt him, but it couldn't have worked out any better. No one had hit him since middle school. "Strength is everything, no matter how you get it," he told himself, smiling. He knew that his future was set in stone anyway. That was the reason for everything in his life so far, that he never had any friends, that his parents no longer existed, that he almost died several times, that his 'father' was more of a guardian, and, and, and. If you looked at it logically, it was all very easy to understand. As long as he could remember, he had the ability to see spiritual life forms. Colloquially just 'ghosts'. The problem was, as always, the same in a modern world of the 21st century, or even the third millennium. What the majority cannot or does not want to see simply does not exist. Lucky are the children who grow up in a family where these abilities are part of their community and where they are taught how to deal with them, especially in the company of normal people. Growing up in a 'normal' family with this ability could only go wrong, he knew from experience. Especially if you entrusted it to an adult, hoping for help. And it could be fatal if that person hated you enough to try to kill you. Either you're smart enough not to, or you die. About eleven years ago, he was stupid enough to do just that, but luck was on his side. Seven years later, he was lucky again and got a new 'father', Hiroshi Tanaka. He owed him a lot, a great deal, he had made his current and above all self-determined life possible, for which he would always be grateful, if possible even beyond death. Because of his alleged spiritual abilities, his "father" had dragged him to an order one day, who examined him and, to his surprise, wanted to keep him, which his "father" of course laughingly refused. His new father, who was used to oddities due to his profession, began to accept Kaito's view of his world, even if he didn't believe in it himself. Unfortunately, he didn't get along well with the many people of the order he visited regularly for a while, which is why he left the order at some point and instead, thanks to his father, started his own small business with which he earned a meager income, though with initial difficulties that made him almost independent of his father, which in turn annoyed his father. He had not lived with his father, Mr. Tanaka, for a long time. Mrs. Tanaka was a very loving woman, but she was afraid of Kaito and about her daughter, who was 10 years younger than him. That's why she was always against taking him in, but she did it anyway and was always there for him during that time. At the age of 15, even though it was against the law, everyone had agreed that Kaito should move out and live on his own from now on, even though Mr. Tanaka, unlike Mrs. Tanaka, came by from time to time to check on things, which he, Kaito, didn't like, because he liked the situation the way it was. But he had bigger things in mind, as he knew when he arrived at the bottom of the gate and stepped out of the school. Now he had to pick up Dawn and then go to his father, Mr. Tanaka, at the café. He hoped that Dawn was where he had told her to wait, in front of the school building, but she wasn't there and he realized now that he would have to look for her in the park. "You have to train kittens properly," he thought, knowing it would be difficult with this one, and smiled. She wasn't at the beginning of the park, behind the park was the cafe where he had an appointment with Mr. Tanaka. "Damn, you little beast, where the hell are you again, shall I ask Shy?" he thought and continued walking towards the exit of the park. When the exit was already in sight, he wondered why that unpleasant visit from earlier this year kept coming back to him. That arrogant supposed government representative with his arrogance and his ridiculous statements that Kaito should help save the world from evil and that he had therefore agreed with the Order that he should explore the spiritual world with them. "Of course, you scum, as if the Order would get involved with something like you," he thought and was actually glad that it had turned out this way. Now he knew he had to be more careful. "MIAU!" it snapped him out of his thoughts and he said to himself "Found it, you beast" and smiled. He looked to his right at the trees. It was so clear that Dawn was watching the people in the park. "Come here, now!" he called, holding out his arm. As Dawn jumped in his direction, he noticed three girls sitting on a park bench under the tree. "Oh man, they must have misunderstood," he thought as Dawn landed on his arm. The girls' eyes met his and the bickering began. "What was that all about?" "No time to argue with you idiots," he thought, trying to clear things up quickly and amicably. "I meant my cat, not you, so don't panic, I'm already gone." "Sure, what do you think?" said the aggressive animal on the right. "Oh damn? The one in the middle is from my class, Sato..., Mato... Moto... or something like that, whatever. I'll just call her idiot number two." "Do you have a problem?" he asked forcefully in her direction, scowling at the beast on the right. The girl in the middle flinched slightly. Only now did he see that the three beauties from his school were sitting together on a park bench. Just as the girl on the right was about to start her next sentence, the nervous-looking girl in the middle whispered something to her. The girl on the right immediately froze, and there was silence. Probably the old story, "I told you so, perfect," he thought. He walked on and from a distance he heard the third girl say, "Did I get scared, I thought a person was going to jump down from the tree on us. "Well, well, if you only knew," Kaito thought and continued walking towards the end of the park. After 100 meters, Dawn jumped from Kaito's shoulder onto the road and walked to his right as usual. 200 meters later, he was at the exit. "I don't know anyone who despises people who do stupid things as much as you do, Kaito. What's the first sentence of the Order? Look around you when you talk to spirits, or people will think you're crazy! And now it's happening to the nerd Kaito himself," Dawn said, looking at Kaito with the sneering expression of a cat. "You little beast, I'm going to give you 'nerd' and tonight there's something on...", that was all Kaito could say. The loud "meow", which was audible for normal...