I waited for the slap to co, but to my absolute surprise, what I felt was her arms wrapping around , and her face gently resting on my chest.
My shirt under the leather jacket felt a bit hot, and I noticed she was crying.
"What the fuck happened to you? Where did you go? What did they do to you?"
She was really crying, but wasn’t she an oracle? I thought she could know or see mostly anything.
"I, huh..." I didn’t know what to say, I an, didn’t she know what happened?
"Kurt..." She looked at with her eyes gleaming in tears. "I can’t see anymore."
I raised my brow and held her shoulders gently, so I could back her slightly away.
"Wait, what do you an?"
She looked at and breathed in deeply, and while she prepared to answer, I took the ti to use [PRYING EYES] on her.
If I could see my sealed skills with the system, perhaps I could see if there was sothing wrong with her.
[NA: EVELLYN SMITH
RANK: A
AGE: ???
CLASS: Traveler
STAMINA: 200/200
HP: 300/300
MP: ???/???]
[BASIC STATS
Strength: 40
Dexterity: 25
Agility: 35
Perception: ???
Intelligence: ???
Vigor: 80]
[SKILLS
Infinite consciousness LVL ???
*** ** *** ****** LVL ???
Smoke screen LVL ???
????? ???? LVL ???]
"Sothing happened after Rodrick died. Everything seed as okay as possible for a few days, but then we voted for a new leader, because the guild wouldn’t resist for long without a leader, and the next thing I know, my visions are gone. I can’t see the future, even in my dreams. Kurt? Kurt, are you listening? Oh... You’re using one of your abilities on , aren’t you?" She grimaced.
But I ignored her frown completely.
"Did anything happen that made you feel inexplicable pain?"
She looked at , shocked.
"How did you know?"
"Soone sealed one of your abilities. And you can already guess which one, right?"
Evellyn looked at like I was the oracle instead of her, the surprise was almost palpable in her eyes. She fell silent, thinking, probably trying to rember when or what.
"You probably won’t rember, because if soone did it to you, they waited for you to sleep, so that you wouldn’t notice, but the real question is..."
"Who could be able to get past a precognition ability without triggering it?"
"And why are you talking to like we just t on the weekend?"
"Huh?"
Evellyn punched in the chest and turned away from , crossing her arms.
"You really don’t get it, do you?" And she started walking.
We were going the sa direction, to the sa place, so I started waling too, gathering so courage to speak my mind.
"You... You don’t hate ?" I finally asked.
She stopped, and I felt sothing coming from her. But it wasn’t mana or anything threatening.
She didn’t turn to face , so I just heard her voice.
"When I told you about the crystal, I knew Rodrick was going to volunteer to go with you, and after you two went there, I went to sleep. I dread of Rodrick’s death, so I knew it was going to happen. I woke up and told my friend, Zalla, to take to the mansion, but when we arrived, it was already too late, and Leblanc was taking you down. Rodrick and Octavius were already..."
"Dead."
She nodded and we started to walk again, but I didn’t dare look at her face.
"The guild is in shambles because of Rodrick’s death, but it’s not your fault. I know that if I was in your place... Or rather, if ’anyone’ of the guild’s mbers were in your place, they would’ve done worse. So don’t beat yourself up, okay? We all loved Rodrick, but he was a human above anything else. He wasn’t going to live forever, and neither are we."
I felt surprised by the strange coldness in her voice, despite her words, but what she said didn’t regard only Rodrick.
She was a human being too, and she was allowed to feel however she wanted or needed to, because she was a human.
She totally had the right to hate , because whether I liked it or not, I was the one who killed him.
And there wasn’t a single thing I could say or do that would bring him back.
It didn’t matter if Arias told that the old man didn’t bla , I did, and I don’t know how long it will last, but I did.
I still do.
"It’ll just take a little ti, to understand that he’s gone. It’s been one month and I still wait for him to knock on my door to tell that he’s going to eat all the breakfast if I don’t hurry. Can I ask you one thing, Kurt?"
"Sure." I felt the mood becoming heavy, but not aggressive.
Just heavy.
"Do you know why I kissed you that night?"
I felt my eyes widening, that question definitely caught off guard.
"Hum... Because you needed to get inside my mind to help see so things that I wasn’t seeing by myself?"
"Co on!" Then she turned towards , we were almost at the school’s entrance, and a few students were already glancing at us. "I know you have so more malice than the usual, and yet you can be so naive sotis..." She sighed.
I sighed too.
Why? Wasn’t that the goal of the whole kiss thing?
I an, it had to be, right?
"After the little show you put on, there are so monitoring division agents patrolling the school grounds, so we can’t be seen together for a while. Use your cover and co find at the rooftop, after class."
She kissed in the cheek, and sped up towards a little group of girls.
Would there be a day when I would be able to understand her?
And what kind of class was a [TRAVELER]?
I knew that no one could answer these questions but her, so I just moved forward and got ready for my day.
The presence of the monitoring division at school might as well be a signal of their next big move.
And I had to stop them, sohow. The only thing was that I needed Evellyn for that.
"So the two lovebirds finally t again, huh?"
"Don’t tell that I didn’t..."
"End the call before getting all personal? Nope." Nadia laughed. "But you two look cute together. And I won’t ask about wielder stuff, so don’t worry."
"Shut up." I ended the call and entered the building.
And as soon as I set my feet on the school grounds, the system beeped in my head.
[ERGENCY QUEST]
[BUBBLE BURST]
[HIDDEN NEST LOCATED AT BLAKE’S LIBRARY IS GOING TO BURST, LIBERATING ALL ITS BEASTS TO ROAM FREE.
THE PLAYER MUST STOP THE BURST FROM HAPPENING.]
[ESTIMATED TI UNTIL BURST: 5 DAYS, 15 HOURS: 13 MINUTES: 36 SECONDS]
[REWARDS FOR COMPLETING THE QUEST:
MORY FRAGNT FROM OCTAVIUS BLAKE X1
STAT POINTS X10
HIDDEN KEY – ROOM OF FIRMANT X1]
[PENALTY FOR FAILURE:
BURST IS GOING TO OCCUR, COUNTLESS PEOPLE WILL DIE]
[ADDITIONAL CONDITION:
PLAYER WILL ONLY HAVE ACCESS TO THE HIDDEN NEST 01 HOUR FROM THE BURST]
You gotta be fucking kidding !
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