"Hmm~" Alla humd herself a song while sitting on the railing, her legs dangling over the edge of the ship.
Adam stood behind her, watching the waves crash against the hull.
The other people onboard were doing their own things, but they sotis turned their heads in their direction, wondering what they were talking about.
Lucette was talking with Digby and Valora, not happy about Alla's presence.
After all, the Blind Sea was a large open sea, and she didn't believe Alla found them by re coincidence.
"It's about to rain." Alla said and put umbrella over her head. "You may join , Adam, under the umbrella."
Adam nodded and carefully sat on the railing, his hands clasped tightly around the tal bars.
Their shoulders touched as they huddled underneath the umbrella.
Alla closed her eyes with a smile on her rosy lips.
Rumble~
The sky rumbled, and then dark clouds began to pour rain, just like Alla predicted.
It started with a soft drizzle but soon turned into a heavy downpour.
Everyone on the deck rushed indoors, except the two who were sitting under the umbrella.
"Mm, I like rain." Alla said, and she put her hand out to feel the raindrops on her skin. "I feel like it's cleansing my soul."
"I prefer to stay dry." Adam said and caught so of the raindrops. "I do like water, but I don't like getting wet."
Alla smiled and turned to look at him with her pinkish eyes. Adam also turned his head toward her. Their eyes locked. Neither of them moved an inch.
"Your eyes tell that you know who I am." Alla said. "However, I don't recall eting you."
"Alla Darkstar," Adam said. "Guild master of the Shattered Shields."
"You're knowledgeable." Alla giggled. "You know more about than I know about you, Adam-"
"What do you wish to know?" Adam asked.
"Where your loyalty lies." Alla said with a smile. "You know, my mother is Aria Darkstar, guild master of Darkstar, one of the Seven Ancient Guilds."
"I am aware." Adam nodded.
"You seem to be aware that our eting here was no coincidence." Alla smiled with an intrigued expression.
"A while back, I felt a tickling sensation on my neck." Adam touched the back of his neck. "It was your Kiryoku, I assud."
"Interesting..." Alla kicked her legs back and forth playfully. "Good senses."
"Did your mother send you here?" Adam asked.
"Yup." Alla nodded. "I have to listen to her orders or she'll marry off to the King like she did with my sisters~"
"Yeah, I heard about that." Adam said with a sympathetic smile. "Your mother sent ten of her daughters to marry the King, so that they would have his son one day, with the blood of the world's greatest genius."
"Yep, I was supposed to also get married to him, but I ran away because I didn't want to be a part of that plan~"
"You grew powerful enough to make your own guild to avoid the marriage, but she is still ruling over you."
"Mm, it is what it is~" Alla twirled the umbrella around, which made all the raindrops scatter in every direction. "You know why I am here."
"I'll join whatever faction the Crimson Hounds go to." Adam said.
"They're basically part of the Imperial Order's faction because of Samuel." Alla said and looked at him. "You must make them join the Darkstar faction."
"Your mother was against becoming an S-ranker." Adam said with a smile. "Now she wants my help? Funny."
"You didn't realize it, but there was political reasoning behind even that decision." She said.
"A single S-ranker can shift the balance between factions and the New World. They can sense that war is imminent, and they have been preparing for years.
"They don't like that there is another trump card in play."
"They don't care about my potential, but the title." Adam said. "S-rank ans power and influence. There are guilds that do not wish to go against S-rankers because of their potential, but instead wish to make friends with them."
"That's right..."
"If they chose to bestow with the title of A-ranker..." ..." Adam chuckled. "I wouldn't have nearly as much influence, even if I had the potential of S-ranker level. This title is everything."
"Is that no?" Alla asked. "My mother will not be pleased."
"I am not giving any answer." Adam said. "If I do, she'll just send assassins to finish off."
"I see..."
Alla lowered her head and softly closed her eyes. She stopped kicking her legs back and forth. The umbrella slipped out of her hand and landed on the ground with a soft thud.
The rain fell over them with a heavy downpour.
Adam frowned as the rain continued to soak his clothes.
"My mother gave another order..." Alla's eyes fluttered open.
"And what is that..."
"Kill you."
Alla's nails grew into sharp knives, and she plunged her hand deep into Adam's chest, bursting through his heart.
"Cough!" Adam coughed out blood and fell off the railing into the cold, dark waters below.
Splash!
The large waves took his body elsewhere while the storm grew hectic and the sound of thunder turned deafening.
Alla looked at her bloodied hand, and the nails shrank back into her skin.
Slam!
The doors were flung open by a powerful force.
"You!" Digby's thunderous roar echoed throughout the ship like the clapping of the gods.
With his longsword in hand, he appeared over Alla like a flash of thunder and struck his
sword down upon her.
She, with a low gaze, snatched her umbrella from the deck and deflected the longsword with
its unfurled canopy.
The canopy was shaded with her Kraft-deep purple with slight hints of redness.
"What did you do to him, you monster?!" Digby scread.
While he was dining inside, he felt Adam's aura grow weaker and almost vanish completely.
He knew sothing had happened.
"No..." Lucette walked indoors with rain mixing with her tears. "I knew it. She must've killed
him! I can't sense his aura anywhere!"
"Fucking Monstrym whore!" Valora scread and drew her sword.
Every mber of Crimson Hounds surrounded Alla from every direction, their faces red with rage. This happened on their ho turf, basically.
This was one of the biggest humiliations of their lives, with a crimson cloak on their backs.
They finally acquired a monster with a limitless amount of talent that could bring their guild to the top, and now he died during their watch.
"Why..." Digby asked while staring at the pink-skinned woman. "Do you think this will be left unpunished? The King himself wanted him there, and you slayed him! Do you think your guild will survive this?!"
"I had to make a choice." Alla said and using the umbrella, she started floating up. "I did not want this. If you want to bla soone, bla my mother."
"Lucette, don't let her escape!" Valora scread.
"I won't!"
In Lucette's hand, a wand made out of blackwood appeared. Its tip was already glowing.
"Prison of Martyrs!"
A prison made out of black energy bars started to appear all around Alla. It only took a split second to appear, and they started to close in on her.
However, before it could finish closing in, Alla flew out of the trapnt from the small
opening that hadn't closed in yet.
The prison finished closing in, but there was no one inside.
It took less than a second for the prison to finish materializing, but that was too long, as
Alla imdiately reacted.
'No wonder why I couldn't sense her aura before.' Digby's eyes shrunk. 'Her Kiryoku has
reached level four!'
Alla swung her umbrella in a wide arc and created a wave of water with length of thirty
ters that lood over the ship like a giant shadow.
Digby swung his sword and cut straight through the wave. The wave exploded into thousands
of tiny droplets, drenching everyone on deck.
"..." Alla watched as her attack failed.
She was entirely drenched by the rain, her hair sopping wet and sticking to her face in clumps.
It made it hard to see her facial expression or whether she was sad or not.
"Mother..."
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