Chapter 338: All’s Well That Ends Well
Hearing Eleanor’s response, lzarin was left at a loss for words as he did not expect that Argentum’s advice for him did not work. Just as he was about to turn around and look at Argentum for more advice, a familiar voice had resounded in his mind, given that the four of them were still connected.
“Try again!” Argentum said through their connection, allowing Felix and Rosalia to listen in. Although they were a bit confused as to why Argentum would say that to lzarin all of a sudden, it did not take long for his words to click in their minds, prompting them to say the sa thing to him.
“Try harder, lzarin!”
“You can do it, lzarin! Try your best~!”
Letting the encouraging words of his friends resound throughout his mind, lzarin had regained enough confidence to try again, even though Eleanor was radiating an aura of disgust towards lzarin.
“Please, Eleanor! I really love you! Be my girlfriend!” lzarin shouted once more, to which Eleanor instantly responded with a slightly infuriated tone, “Is this so kind of sick joke, lzarin? Get away from !”
“Listen to , Eleanor! Just beco my girlfriend!” he said amidst Eleanor’s harsh words. At this point, Eleanor could not help but be incredibly infuriated at lzarin, given how he did not stop saying nonsense to her like asking her to beco his girlfriend. Even though she had regained her full rationality, her response felt like it was driven by pure anger as she shouted, “You better get away from or else I won’t listen to anything you say anymore!”
“…” Surprisingly, that statent had worked, instantly causing lzarin to shut up as he went ahead and looked at the three slightly far away from him. While he was waiting for the three to tell him on what to do next, Felix and Rosalia had co closer to Argentum as they noticed that the domain that bound Eleanor to the ground was still there. Curious as to why that would be the case, Rosalia went ahead and asked Argentum through their connection, “I’m quite surprised that your domain has Eleanor still bound to the ground. But why?”
“I’m giving lzarin a chance to sort things out,” Argentum replied, only to let out a sigh soon after. Not long after that, he went ahead and removed his control over the domain, allowing Eleanor to be free of the restriction. Since she had regained a bit of energy from being bound, she hastily distanced herself from lzarin, only to notice that Argentum, Felix, and Rosalia were there with him as well.
In an instant, she looked at the direction of the three, recalling the bits and pieces that she could recall from what had happened so ti ago. Fortunately, the bits and pieces she recalled were enough to get a rough idea of what was happening, prompting her to be on guard as she asked them, “Are you three…helping lzarin out?”
“I guess you could say yes,” Argentum decided to respond for the three of them, which elicited Eleanor to get into a combat stance. Unfortunately for her, she did not even have enough energy to conjure a single attack, given how almost all of it was used up in her Samsara form. Nevertheless, she still remained in her combat stance, asking them, “So, I guess you used a binding skill on to let lzarin have his way around ?”
“Not at all,” Argentum responded as he shook his head before continuing, “I only used the skill just in case you were still in your berserk state. Felix and Rosalia told how dangerous you were in your berserk state.”
“Speaking of which…” he then said sothing through the connection he and the other three had, the ssage being focused towards Felix as he asked, “Didn’t you tell back then that you were stronger than Eleanor?”
“Hoh? Felix actually boasting in front of soone else? Now that’s a rare occasion,” Rosalia could not help but say in response to Argentum’s words, while Felix could not help but let out an awkward chuckle as he said, “I’m not really joking when I said I was stronger than Eleanor…”
“Of course, only when she doesn’t get too serious.”
“Right…” Argentum gave off the feeling that he was rolling his eyes before focusing his sense of vision back at Eleanor. Since Eleanor had gradually relaxed after listening to their answer, Argentum thought that this was the best chance for lzarin to make a move once more. Without hesitation, he sent a ssage to lzarin, which the other two heard as he said, “Try making a move again. This ti, stay true to yourself.”
“Wasn’t I already doing that in the first place?” lzarin looked back at the three and asked with a slightly confused expression. In response, Rosalia said to lzarin, “What Argentum is trying to say is that you should approach her from how you normally would.”
“Just be you, lzarin. That’s all,” Felix could not help but add.
Although lzarin still didn’t really get what the three told him, he would try his best to follow their advice, this ti weighing the pros and cons of their statents. Naturally, with their words having no malicious intent, most of their words to him had lots of pros.
And so, mustering up the courage, lzarin went closer to Eleanor once again, who was looking at him with a vigilant aura surrounding her. Just as Eleanor was about to tell him to get away from her once more, lzarin took the initiative to start the conversation with a statent that left her at a loss for words.
“Before you tell to get away from you once more, let say from the start that I’m sorry.”
“…” Eleanor went silent after hearing lzarin’s statent, not knowing what to say for a bit. Though, after so ti, she opened up her mouth and asked with suspicion, “Did those three tell you to say this so you could humiliate again?”
In an instant, lzarin shook his head as he replied, “Not at all. These words of mine co from the bottom of my heart. Thanks to Argentum, I’ve been enlightened that my ways in the past have been the wrongest it could ever be.”
Hearing this, Eleanor went ahead and hastily sent a strand of energy towards Argentum, connecting her to him as she asked, “Is what lzarin saying true?”
“Uh huh,” Argentum said with a nod. “I did tell him that what he has been doing so far to you is wrong, and he’s finally enlightened to know that he’s wrong. Felix and Rosalia can attest to that.”
With that said, Eleanor then looked at Felix and Rosalia, who were inford by Argentum that they were going to be asked by Eleanor. Taking in a deep breath, Felix went ahead and responded first, saying, “Although it may not seem like it, lzarin has really changed, Eleanor. Have you noticed how the arrogant air around him has disappeared?”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah! Plus like how he’s not forcing anything onto you, Eleanor. Didn’t you notice that as well?” Rosalia continued where Felix left off, prompting Eleanor to look at lzarin with slight surprise. Naturally, lzarin had an idea of what was going on in Eleanor’s mind.
“I seriously apologize for what I’ve done back then, Eleanor. I know I’ve been treating you like garbage for over ten thousand years now, but I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive ,” lzarin said, unsure as to whether she would actually forgive him. Thinking that his statent was still a bit lacking, he then added, “If you’re still unsure that I’m a changed skeleton, I wouldn’t mind giving you a gift to make up for the over ten thousand years I’ve mistreated you.”
“Really?” At this point, Eleanor’s interest was piqued as the word ‘gift’ had aroused her attention. The combat stance she was in before was now nowhere to be seen. Instead, the pose of an eager girl could be seen as she asked with a hint of curiosity, “What kind of gift are you planning to give to make up for everything you did to ?”
“Hmm…” lzarin pondered over the matter for a bit, eventually coming up with what he thought was a decent answer as he answered, “Would a vial of Draconic Ignivaris Essence suffice as an apology?”
Just as lzarin had ntioned that, both Felix and Rosalia could not help but radiate auras of shock and wonder as they simultaneously said, “He has that?!”
As for Argentum, he maintained silence as he was a weak Pseudo-Animate in their eyes. Nevertheless, the re ntion of the thing had aroused his attention and surprise after rummaging through Aurus’ mories. “A Pseudo-Animate actually has access to a Pseudo-Transcendent grade material? Now that’s surprising.”
Hearing that lzarin was willing to give her such a precious piece of material, Eleanor instantly accepted the offer as she said, “Alright, I accept your apology. Although it’s still hard to forget everything you did to for the past ten thousand years or so, I’ll take this as the first step to our relationship turning over a new leaf.”
lzarin was delighted to hear those words co out of Eleanor as he felt that his chances of her becoming his girlfriend had increased. With that in mind, he mustered up his courage once more as he asked, “So…about you becoming my girlfriend…”
“You were actually serious about that?” Eleanor responded with a question of her own, to which lzarin replied with a slightly flustered tone, “Well, if I didn’t have serious feelings for you, then I wouldn’t have done all of that stuff to you for the past ten thousand years.”
“How in the world…” Eleanor muttered in confusion, wondering why lzarin would do such a thing. After looking around for a bit, she then noticed that Felix and Rosalia were actively avoiding her gaze, prompting her to ask them with a sigh, “Was it you two?”
“Haha…I guess you could say that…” Felix spoke up for the two of them, with Rosalia twiddling with her thumbs from embarrassnt. Scratching her head as to whether the two were her true friends or not, she still knew that she had to respond to lzarin. Although she knew that lzarin was a kind guy even before what she had done to her, she still could not forget the harsh things he had said and done to her.
In the end, Eleanor could not help but look at lzarin with a slightly long sigh as she said in a slightly sad tone, “Well…I don’t know how to say this, but…I’m sorry, lzarin. I still can’t forget the things you did to back then. How about you try asking again in a couple thousand years from now?”
“I see,” lzarin said in response, an aura of slight disappointnt surrounding him. Though, amidst the disappointnt, one could find a hint of relief in it, letting others know that he was relieved to find out that there was still a chance for him to make his dream co true. “Sure, I can wait until the wounds heal.”
“But for now, can we go back to becoming friends again?” he asked soon after, prompting Eleanor to form a tongue made out of flas as she said, “Bleh. You think anyone would beco friends with a slly dark skeleton like you? Never in a million years, stupid.”
In response, lzarin let out a peal of laughter as he knew that Eleanor was fine with them being friends again. As for the three, although they were a bit disappointed that the two did not get together, which was understandable, they were still happy for lzarin since it seed that their relationship was heading in the right direction.
While lzarin went closer to Eleanor as they talked out about the gift that he was going to give her, Felix, Rosalia, and Argentum decided to have their own conversation, with the latter saying, “All’s well that ends well, I guess.”
“So, what are you guys going to do next?” Argentum followed up with another question, to which Felix replied, “I’m heading back to my inheritance to sort so things out. How about you two?”
“I’m going to head back to my inheritance as well. I still need to take care of my disciple,” Rosalia said, only for a thought to surface in her mind as she looked at Argentum and asked, “Speaking of which, would you like to tour around my inheritance for a bit. Although I feel like lzarin has already given you everything from his inheritance, I can still give you a thing or two that’s beneficial.”
Hearing that, Argentum pondered over the suggestion for a bit, eventually nodding soon after as he looked at Felix and said, “I guess I’m coming along with Rosalia, then.”
Just as Argentum was about to cut off the connection the four of them had, lzarin’s voice soon resounded in his mind, prompting him to look at the two beside him. Noticing that the two were oblivious to what he was hearing, it seed that it was a private ssage.
“Argentum, I can’t thank you enough for what you’ve done to help out,” lzarin said to Argentum through their connection. “Although it would be hard to pay your goodwill back with the things I have in my inheritance, if there’s anything you want from , I’ll try my best to procure it and give it to you.”
“Anything?” Argentum repeated one of the words in lzarin’s statent, wanting to clarify lzarin’s limits on his offer.
“Yes, anything,” lzarin responded, lightly nodding as he looked at Argentum.
“Well…” Argentum pondered over the offer for a bit, an aura of slight maliciousness radiating from him as he soon ca up with a fitting answer.
“How about…”
“…you give your ownership over the Desecrated Inheritance?”
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