On my way to the garden, passing by so people who are leisurely waking around under the starry night. Upon arriving at the scene, I looked around to catch the sight of Lily but there are no traces of her anywhere.
While continuing my search, I stumbled upon a bewitching goddess sitting comfortably on a bench, gazing at the starry night sky wearing a snowy gown. The breathtaking scenery that beholds right before my eyes captivated . Her seductive tender red lips, pointy ears, eye-catching golden hair in a waterfall braid with golden circlet, and at the center of it was a dazzling crystal, blooming white skin, and lastly her gorgeous cerulean eyes. It was Lily.
What a marvelous sight to behold.
Despite locating her, I hid behind the bush, still in proximity to where I can jump in case of sothing happened. That way, I can easily lunge for an attack on the drunken bastard—I waited patiently.
Ti has passed, chilling night breeze graze my skin which I shivered. I’ve been watching Lily for quite so ti right now, she’s still gazing at the sky. I’ve been waiting, but nothing has happened, nor any traces of the man I’m waiting for, enduring the coldness of the night. The clothes I’ve worn are thin layers of fabric, and I have no undershirt, which made it harder for .
I’ve been wondering why Lily was watching the sky, so I gaze into the sky and saw countless stars shining brightly—It’s a sight to behold, indeed. I doze off while observing the starry sky laying on the soft grass, but it got cut off short because of a scream near .
“Ahhhh—!”
Lying flat with my back on the ground, I pulled my legs up to my chest, putting my hands pointed toward the top of my shoulders and kicked my leg up directly into the air, creating this montum that made land on my feet. Right away, I looked in Lily’s direction as my hands were clenching, ready to knock the shit out of the guy.
However, an unexpected outco blooms before , sending a shiver down my spine. The strong chilling stench of blood entered my nose, all the hair in my body stood up as the temperature suddenly dropped to an excruciating coldness as if all my hair got frozen. Because in front of , a man was impaled by a pillar of ice, devoided eyes, and a pool of blood dripping down from the pillar.
The horrific, grueso scene in front of almost made vomit. Throughout my life, I’ve never seen anything grueso like this. Furthermore, the pillar of ice seems to co from Lily’s feet, plus I rember that her spirit attribute is ice—A wolf-like mythical being, or in short a Fenrir. The Fenrir is one of the strongest beasts, as its prowess can be comparable to the White Dragon, a Deity Beast. This ans she’s the one responsible for creating this scene.
Lily was standing there, gazing at the man impaled in ice, cold-blooded, although there’s a hint of sympathy showing through her cerulean eyes while looking at the man. Slowly, my feet started backing away, escaping the murder scene. Thoughts after thoughts started appearing in my head.
Why? I don’t rember the scene turning out like this. Does that an the world doesn’t really revolve around the storyline of the ga? If so, there is no protagonist nor a hero in this world? Or probably because of my existence in here, there’s a butterfly effect that happened? But the scene of Lily here still appeared, although with a different outco. What if this isn’t the party of the incident? But, there’s a man, and the setting match well and it's a human...
As I slowly back away, Lily’s eyes laid upon , to which I shuddered. The person in front of right now is a stranger whom I’ve never t. If things go south, I need to prepare and protect myself because I stand no chance for a person with a guardian.
I may have quintessence, which is like the better version of mana from my understanding, but that doesn’t an it can protect from anything. From understanding its principle, it acts like mana, but it’s more condensed because its dium is my soul, which ans I don’t share it with anyone other than myself and the output will be greater. However, I still can’t even control it plus it’s sealed by Pix which ans I'll have a hard ti controlling it.
“I’ve been monitoring your presence, disciple of the Saint.”
I halted and replied. “How co you knew?”
“Sll.” Lily pointed to her nose.
“The... What?”
“My nose beca sensitive to people when I got my guardian.”
Does such a thing exist?!
“Right... So, what can I do for you?”
Not moving an inch, cold sweats started forming on my back. The situation drastically turned for the worst, her face doesn’t show any emotions at all. That’s why I have my guard up around her. I’m having a hard ti figuring out what she’s thinking.
“That’s what should I be saying, you pervert stalker.”
“Huh?”
“You’re just like any other guys that my family always told . Boys are wolves under their skin who wanted to prey on beautiful girls just because it gives them a sense of pleasure. I noticed you kept looking at upon entering the banquet, that’s why I’ve been observing you. Neither did I expect for you to follow all the way here.”
At that mont, I’m extrely dumbfounded by the things she said. First, I suddenly got called a pervert stalker for so apparent reason. I do admit that I acted like a stalker, but a pervert, too? Also, instead of misgendering , she figured out that I’m a guy. Yes, it made happy, but at the sa ti, sothing inside died.
“Haah... I apologize for my rude behavior. I’m truly captivated by your highness’s beauty, but I have no intention of bringing harm to your highness. I sincerely apologize for my actions if I made you uncomfortable. “ I bowed gracefully to her.
“So, you do admit that you’ve been stalking ?”
“Not stalking, just following you in curiosity.” I nonchalantly replied.
Lily knitted her eyebrows. “What’s the difference?”
“No idea.” I shrugged my shoulders.
“Are you ssing with right now?”
“No.”
It only made her annoyed, pinching the bridge of her nose while closing her eyes then she said. “So, what’s your reason for following ? Are you really just following because of curiosity or sothing else? Plus, how can you move that fast if you don’t have any mana? What are you?” Lily looked at with dagger eyes.
When she did that, I felt an ominous aura shrouded my body which made my chest tightened. I jumped a few feet back, as my senses scread danger. I furrowed my eyebrows. The entire atmosphere temperature drastically dropped by a large margin—Probably because of Lily. I could feel my skin freezing.
“I’m Claude, the disciple of Master Irene.”
“I said, ‘what are you.’ not who you are.”
“Huh? What are you saying? I’m human.”
“You’re not answering .”
After saying that, a chilling aura exploded that ca within her body, creating this suffocating atmosphere around . Lily extended her hands, masses of ice needles manifested around her directed aiming at —She then fired all those needles at . Upon seeing the trendous amount of projectile aiming at , I evaded all of them by jumping a few feet high in a split second.
Upon landing, I imdiately dashed sideways to avoid the incoming attacks, but while running I got blocked by a ginormous ice wall that made halt on my track. When I was about to punch the wall, I felt goosebumps on my back which made instinctively jump then saw a bridge of icicles below . I used that as leverage to jump into the air once again, and then the unexpected happened.
It caught my attention that the entire platform of where I’m standing beca covered in ice, which baffled . That made almost slip and lost my sense of balance.
“Whoa—! What the...”
Before I could even mull over it, a fast-moving bridge of icicles erged from Lily, approaching . Because of the slippery platform, I focused my mind on defending it instead of running away as there's a chance of slipping, then I concentrated the quintessence around my entire front body to create a protective layer against the icicle spikes, and blocked it with my arms crossed, destroying the ice wall behind and sending a few feet away.
“Arggh—! Ack—!”
A hard-surfaced collided with my back, to which I groaned in pain. I’m currently sandwich between a hard surface on my back with the enormous icicle in front of . I thought it’s finally done, however, the icicle continuously started growing, completely entrapping . Entrapped by these icicles, a voice entered my ears.
“Now, are you ready to tell ? I’m totally curious about what you are, a manaless person who could do ridiculous movents and be even able to withstand the attacks of a spirit. What’s more, the ice spike sharp enough to penetrate a tal with ease, yet isn’t even able to graze your skin.”
Instead of escaping or breaking the ice, I didn’t move as I pondered on my next course of action. The slippery platform could hinder from running away since I’m wearing black shoes, a shoe that’s not ant for icy ground. Then I thought of sothing incredible which can save my ass.
“Just what are you?”
“You ntioned being human, but I find that not plausible.”
“If one of the saints made you a disciple, that ans you’re sothing spectacular.”
I didn’t answer her questions, as I waited patiently until Lily got closer so I can break free and attack her, before running away. That’s the only best course of action I could think up with. It may have been a bad idea because I’ll attack her despite my disadvantageous circumstance, but it’s better than dying in here. The mory of the man in the pillar earlier is still fresh in my mind.
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