Chapter 301
Future Plans... (End of Volu-3.)
Sunday, 9:00 A.M.
Rio and Lia entered a famous café and got to their reserved seats.
Lia glanced at Rio and inquired in a tone of confusion.
"Why would Mr. Jin give you the vouchers, though? This place is so good; with his personality, he would have used it to woo Ms. Anna, right?"
Rio also nodded his head at those words.
"Likely because he must have been pressured by the dia companies or others to make
take the interview… Also, he has two more vouchers with him…"
Lia frowned a bit at those words. She ate a spoonful of the ice cream that was served by the waiter and asked,
"Does that an they will co to the café at the sa ti as us? That will feel so awkward…"
Rio shook his head at those words,
"No, he said he would go so other day; I confird it with him on ssage-"
Just as Rio was about to complete his sentence, Jin and Anna entered the café, dressed in matching outfits.
Anna was taken aback for a mont after seeing Lia and Rio there, and Jin only scratched the back of his neck in embarrassnt.
Their seats were the sa as those of Rio and Lia, so they had no choice but to sit beside them.
Anna sat beside Lia, and Jin sat beside Rio, smiling awkwardly.
Rio glanced at Jin and said,
"You said that you weren't coming today?"
Jin, embarrassed, scratched the back of his neck and spoke.
"Well, I wasn't going to, but Anna discovered those vouchers in my coat's pocket, and it turns out she has always wanted to co here, and she dragged
here right away…"
Hearing those words, Anna said,
"Er… I didn't know you two would be here too… Ugh, I ruined your ti together?"
Seeing that guilty expression on Anna's face, Lia shook her head,
"No worries; now that you are here, we can hang out together…"
Rio looked at Jin and Anna before posing a question.
"By the way… isn't that the 'couple' outfit that's been famous all over the internet these days? You two also got one?"
Jin nodded his head and said, in a proud tone,
"Of course, I got it custom-made for us! See! Even our nas are printed on the shoulders!"
Ignoring Jin's smug expression, Lia glanced at Anna and asked,
"It seems you have recovered a lot; you can now walk by yourself… Last ti we saw you in Oaklum, and you were still in the wheelchair… Congratulations on your recovery!"
Anna nodded her head and replied with a smile,
"A certain soone kept pestering
to recover fast every day, so I had no choice but to recover; now I have recovered to the level of a B-ranker… a month or two, and I will be back to my peak form…"
Lia, taken aback by those words, responded,
"That's quite fast; didn't they say it would take you two to three years to recover?"
Anna nodded her head and replied in a calm tone.
"Well, that's true, but then Jin brought a lot of rare recovery items, so I was able to improve my health much faster…"
Unlike usual wounds, Anna suffered damage to her mana circuit and soul.
Even with the assistance of S-rank healers, healing the damage to one's mana circuit and soul takes ti.
Although SS-rank healers can heal them much faster, Jin couldn't bring Anna to the Elven Empire; otherwise, he would have asked Syvis to heal her.
Currently, there's no way to ask Aria to heal soone, and the world only has Syvis as the sole SS-rank healer, so hiring her is a very difficult task.
Moreover, Riya destroyed her precious herb garden; she will likely be busy rebuilding it and won't co out for years.
Anna glanced at Lia and Rio before she spoke.
"You two, you both have progressed again, it seems; even Lia has beco an A-ranker now. Sigh~ ti really passes fast…"
"Co to think of it, there should be only two or three months left before your final exams of the second year, right?"
Rio nodded his head in response to Anna's question.
"Yes, they are actually going to organize the final exams a bit earlier for us who won in the tournant; the rest of the students will continue as usual…"
Rio and others won the tournant, which shows their amazing capabilities, and they have also all reached rank A, which is basically the academy's graduation criteria.
In other words, they all have already completed the requirents to graduate; all they need to do is pass the written exams and move on to the next year's curriculum.
The Academy doesn't want to act as a shackle for these talented children, so they are trying to graduate them as fast as possible.
A-rankers are already very well-known and strong people in the world, and the academy can't just keep them locked in studies for too long.
Jin sipped the juice from the glass and then glanced at Rio,
"By the way, what are your plans for the future… I guess Lia will take care of her father's guild; what about you?"
Rio shrugged his shoulders and spoke in his usual emotionless tone.
"I am thinking of opening a tea shop or sothing; I will go on occasional dungeon raids from ti to ti…"
Anna was really taken aback by Rio's words; she narrowed her eyes and asked in curiosity,
"For soone with such amazing talent, that's quite an ordinary ambition you have…"
Anna has been a professor for many years, so she has seen many students that rose from humble origins and what all of them wanted was the sa thing, which was money and fa.
Rio has already started to get a lot of fa and money as he has won the tournant of supre talents.
But it seems that all that didn't matter much to him; he just wanted to live a peaceful life where he could do things as he pleased.
He would spend his free ti playing gas and stuff, and he would go on dungeon raids whenever the mood for them arose.
Anna suddenly frowned and looked into Rio's eyes before saying,
"You know what… My intuition has always been very good; I ignored it once and got myself injured in the dungeon… but I can't ignore it right now…"
"I have a feeling that you might not be able to stay so peaceful… So keep getting stronger and working hard…"
Rio smiled a bit at those words and said,
"Well, if the world denies
the peaceful life that I want… I will change the world to my liking…"
Rio's words seem quite arrogant, but he was actually dead serious about it.
At that mont, Jin, Anna, and Lia—all three of them—took Rio's words as a re joke; no one knew what the future had in store for them.
…
An hour later.
Jin and Rio sat on a bench under the shade of a tree.
Rio glanced at a nearby clothing store and said,
"How long do you think they're going to take?"
Jin waved his hand and shrugged his shoulders at those words,
"Who knows… They are likely going to take a few hours at least."
Jin glanced at the horizon and asked,
"We will start the training by tomorrow; are you ready?"
Rio nodded his head at those words,
"I am always ready for a good spar… but I am doubtful if you can really learn 'Sword Intent' or not…"
"Also, don't bla
later if I end up copying all of your fighting skills… I am good at swordsmanship…"
Jin smirked at Rio's words,
"Hah, you underestimate
too much, kiddo! My sword skills are not child's play; you will need a lot of practice to learn them, and I am quite sure I can grasp at least an imperfect form of sword intent…"
Rio shook his head and stopped ntioning that topic.
He didn't want to get Jin's hopes too high; otherwise, it will hurt more when he finds out that he can't learn sword intent.
Jin glanced at Rio, who had gone silent, and decided to change the topic,
"By the way, where are you two going now?"
After finishing their ti at the café, Rio and Lia made the decision to separate from Jin and Anna in order to spend their date alone.
Upon hearing Jin's question, Rio shook his head,
"No idea; maybe just wander around the market and enjoy the ti… After all, we don't get many chances to enjoy free ti. There is always sothing going on…"
Jin nodded his head in response to those words.
"I and Anna will go to visit her parents next… She agreed to the engagent, but we will make our relationship known to the public right before our wedding date…"
Rio was taken aback for a mont after hearing those words. He looked into Jin's eyes and asked,
"So, you succeeded in getting her approval? Congratulations… Don't forget to invite us all to your wedding…"
Jin nodded his head and smiled,
"Of course, you are all welco… I have been trying to get her approval for so long, and she has finally agreed… I just feel so happy and satisfied that I can't describe it in words…"
Rio nodded his head at those words,
"It seems your efforts paid off…"
Jin, embarrassed, scratched the back of his neck and spoke.
"Well, she likely agreed because I took care of her during her injury… Although that was an underhanded thod to impress her, I guess it worked well…"
Rio nodded his head,
"Well, all that matters is that you both are happy; the thods don't matter…"
While Rio and Jin were chatting, Lia and Anna ca back with plenty of bags in their hands, filled with clothes that they had bought.
Rio and Jin smiled at the sight and happily carried the bags.
They waved each other good-bye and then went on their own.
It was a wonderful day, so it won't be a beneficial idea to waste it just yet.
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