Muku's room...
"Haaaah!" Jade scread to hype herself up as she tried to uproot and convert the last of Ares' Beast Aura.
Which was a lot harder than when she started the procedure. This was because she had to invade Muku's body with her own Beast Aura without hurting him. And the fact that Beast Aura was generally a violent energy unsuitable for such tasks made it even harder. Not to ntion that Ares' Beast Aura was fighting back.
So she had to use maximum effort as one wrong step could lead to a disastrous situation. Fortunately for everyone, she succeeded, and the last of Ares' Beast Aura was removed from Muku's body.
"That was exhausting... Oh no!"
Bang!
Jade was expressing her relief that she was down when she changed her statent in alarm. Signifying that sothing was wrong. But before the others could ask, she had already jumped out of the window.
The others quickly ran to look at what was happening. They saw that she was already out through the gate.
Boom!
Green aura then exploded just outside the gate. Clearly Jade's doing. Luckily, she had done so. Outside it, the mansion might have been broken down. Which was when they understood her actions.
They imdiately ran downstairs and went to see what was going on with her. What they saw surprised them greatly. Jade, who couldn't enter her most mundane cat from before, was now in her berserk form. Or, more appropriately, the Beast Aura form that had zero input from mana.
They could no longer sense the previous mana signature that she released along with her Beast Aura signature. Now it was just pure Beast Aura.
Without asking they imdiately realised that she had definitely finished switching over. She no longer had mana in her body. Just Beast Aura. This ant that the mont she killed enough beasts, she would imdiately be upgraded to Rank Three.
Honestly, they were all envious. They were all still around 50-60% of their mana strengthening and control. While that was already an impressive feat, it wasn't good enough.
To them, if they didn't have around the sa strength as their peers, no matter how strong they were. It just wasn't good enough. Even if the peer ca across a great opportunity as Jade did, they still wouldn't accept it.
Layla, who was the most competitive in the team, was hit the hardest. She imdiately felt like going to ditate to improve herself. But she wanted to see how Muku's situation would turn out before she left. So she was montarily stuck. She hated it, but there was nothing that could be done.
And so, they looked on as Jade tried to get her aura under control. Even the stadium won, whom they had not seen for a while, made their appearance. Of course, they stood far away within the barrier as they looked on.
The relationship between the two groups had gotten quite awkward since the day Muku got injured. While Muku's group could go to the stadium anyti they wanted. The stadium won couldn't go to the mansion in the sa fashion.
Even Freya, who was worried about Muku, refused to go when the others wanted her to. She felt wary of the girls when Muku wasn't around. As she could tell they didn't like her very much. While they didn't hate her, they definitely didn't like her either. So there was no way she would put herself in such a situation.
And none of the other won dared go either. Because of that, not knowing what the girls were planning on doing next. Or whether they would be blad since the whole issue began with assisting them. The stadium won felt tense.
Which was honestly a one-sided issue since no one from Muku's group even thought about them once. They were all too busy to think about such insignificant people.
As for blaming them for what happened. That was also impossible. After all, the real reason they bothered to help the stadium won was because of Elsa. Without Elsa, they might not have even approached the stadium in the first place.
And there was no way they would bla Elsa. So the stadium won were just thinking too much.
Soon after, Jade managed to control her Beast Aura. She then returned to her normal state, before walking back. A little smile on her face. Getting stronger was always a good feeling.
...
"Congratulations," Emily said as soon as Jade joined them. She was truly happy for her friend.
"Thanks, let's go see what his condition is like now" Jade accepted the thanks without gloating or anything. She knew that it wasn't the ti for such things.
And so the girls returned to Muku's room. There they saw Hope busy healing Muku while Audrey stood by. That's when they noticed that the two hadn't gone out with them.
Which was understandable for Hope really. Audrey's case only surprised them a bit before they rembered that she was technically Muku's loyal servant.
It wasn't that they didn't care about him enough to go after Jade when they did. It was just a logical choice. Muku wasn't going anywhere while Jade seed to be having so issues. So their decision to leave didn't an that they cared too little.
"Finally..." Chloe whispered as she noticed Muku's injuries start to heal under Hope's healing glow. It was clearly visible as Hope or Audrey had removed the bandages.
Soon all the wounds were gone. And they could see Muku's fingers as well as his eyelids move slightly. Which was a sign that he was about to wake. Which made them all overjoyed. They could finally start putting the whole ordeal behind them.
Under their eager gazes, Muku slowly opened his eyes. The grey eyes they hadn't seen for a few days were again in their full view.
Bang!
"Ouch!" "Ahh!" "Why?!"
Three cries of pain sounded as Emily, Jade, and Chloe hit face-first on solid blood barriers. Which had suddenly appeared in front of them when they tried to jump on Muku all at once.
Layla was only spared from the experience because she had happened to notice when Audrey cast the spell. Otherwise, she would have also been crying about her nose. Hope got a free pass since she was already on the bed with Muku. Elsa was just standing by.
Fortunately for Muku, Audrey had seen it coming. Otherwise, he would have found himself beneath a mountain of girls. As for whether he would have liked it or not, that was none of Audrey's concern. As long as she protects his life, her duty is done.
"Big brother, you're finally awake", Hope spoke softly, tears streaming down her pale cheeks as she hugged Muku.
"I'm sorry; I didn't an to worry you again", Muku replied emotionally. The situation gave him a sense of deja vu so he promptly agreed.
He already knew that whenever sothing like this happened to him. The one who suffers the most is Hope. Which made him unwilling to get badly injured again. Sadly, fortune wasn't on his side. As it happened again.
So he could only apologise. As he hugged her closely. He looked around the room. Seeing the girls, I gave them all a little smile. Which they were all happy to see again.
After the initial heightened emotion from seeing him wake up. The girls definitely couldn't jump on him again. So they could just happily stand at the sides. Envious of Hope's position, of how she could just hug him whenever she wanted, without a care in the world.
Unfortunately, they couldn't do the sa unless they chose to be his sister. Which obviously none of them wanted. They wanted sothing else, which, sadly, they could tell that Muku wasn't willing to have with them yet.
So they could only look on for the ti being.
...
Later on in the lounge...
Muku had already had so food and the whole group had a chance to talk to him personally. It was ti to get back to business. At least the planning part of it.
"So, did anything noteworthy happen while I was unconscious?" Muku began the discussion.
"We, there's this" Jad was the first to speak, and she transford as she did so.
"Is this worthy of note?" She asked smugly. Now that Muku was up, she was quickly getting back to her usual personality.
"Well... congratulations. When did this happen?" Muku was truly impressed.
From his estimate from before Jade was supposed to be one of the last to reach Rank Three. Due to her troubleso Beast Aura conversion. But sohow, it seed like she was going to be the first.
"Thanks, and it happened just a little while before you woke up. I think I have to thank you for it too" Jade responded clearly and was even humble for a change. It was likely caused by Muku's non-provocative answer, which was also a rarity when talking to her.
"Is that so? We'll have to circle back to this and you'll tell more" Muku continued speaking properly, confusing her and the others a bit.
It almost seed like he no longer saw her as just a troubleso brat. But as a girl, he still thought she was troubleso, but there was a significant improvent. Jade was so confused she didn't know what to say so she remained quiet.
"Okay, anything else?" Seeing that Jade seed to be done. He asked if there was another thing that happened.
"No, it has been a rather peaceful few days" Audrey replied.
"Okay. So what's the situation with the stadium? Any relevant improvents on their side?" Muku asked a question that made everyone go quiet. After all, they had basically ignored the stadium since they returned.
"Umm, about that..." Audrey tried to reply but didn't know how to continue. So she just stalled mid-sentence.
{Sigh, I knew it} Muku thought to himself thinking of how he should continue...
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