"I will show you what abilities true villains have."
Tamya then focused on her Conditioned Elesk, Envy.
ttany frowned, "You're crossing the lines. Give your all so that I can smack your face with it. I will show you my true power too!"
She then focused on imagining Avoin doing sothing to her.
"Hehe... haha!" her face reddened and simultaneously, the heat was being exerted from her body.
anwhile, Edora felt out of place, 'I don't have any more power-ups. I guess I'll just not exist.' her eyes rolled in another direction.
While the two were concentrating on their power, Edora sneakily went to Avion.
She sat down beside him where the ground was sared with blood. However, she herself was already covered in blood so she didn't care.
"Hello, Relle." she whispered to his ear but Avion's finger pushed her forehead away.
"What do you want?" Avion didn't even look at her.
"I just want to speak with you. Is that bad?" Edora lightly laughed, knowing that Avion doesn't deny that he's Relle.
"Aren't you supposed to be fighting there?"
"They have their own world now so I let them be."
Avion glanced at her and said, "So?"
Edora lightly smiled, "I'm just wondering. Do you hate ?"
"I do."
"Without any hesitance..." Edora's smile vanished, "Why?"
"You should know that I can control ti, right?"
"Yeah, that you're the son of the Lord Sorcerer and ca from another world. Honestly, I don't care about that."
"You don't?" Avion's brows raised.
"I an, so what?" Edora nonchalantly leaned back to her arms, "What's that got to do with ?"
"I guess, you're right..." Avion nodded and ca back to the previous topic, "Anyway, I can't really die. If I die, ti will co back and I will know what to do. So I escape death a lot of tis."
Hearing that, Edora rembered when Avion suddenly disappeared when the King of Karan arrived back then, "But..." she curiously asked, "Are you sure you should be revealing this? The people watching us are strong enough to hear our conversation you know."
Avion didn't react which ans he already knew this.
Yes, at that point, while ttany and Tamya were having their own worlds, the inner audience and even the outer audience were questioning if they heard right.
"It's fine, they will eventually know anyway. And do you know how and where I learned that I can't die?" Avion asked.
Edora then frowned, not knowing where Avion will go from there, "How and where?"
At that mont, Old Maytan was sensitive enough to erect a sound barrier around Avion and Edora. The others looked at him and seeing the old man's serious face, no one complained nor retaliated.
"It's when you tried to stab my heart, Edora." Avion stared at her shocked eyes, "You're the first one to kill and the one who taught how painful it is to die. Of course, you wouldn't rember but your first attempt succeeded."
"..." Edora was speechless from realization, 'So that's how he evaded ...'
"I was so angry and fearful of you back then. However, I couldn't kill you." Avion sighed and continued, "You're lucky. If you did that now, you would've been dead."
"But why couldn't you kill back then?"
"I don't know... unlike now, I was very naive and stupid back then. I don't know a lot of things. I just can't kill." Avion explained.
"It's understandable if it's your first ti. I may be rciless now but back then, I was traumatized by my first kill. I couldn't sleep for weeks."
Avion frowned and strangely looked at Edora.
"What?"
"Why are you being kind right now?"
Hearing this made Edora want to laugh as she replied, "Avion, I'm very caring if you just ask Princess Alisera. I'm very straightforward and a realist. I kill whoever stands my way and I care for the people I need."
"That's cold, not straightforward."
"Sa thing." Edora replied with a prideful face.
"And... you need ?" Avion raised a brow.
"Yes, you're right... I am very lucky. When you first appeared, I truly hated your guts. I want to kill you. However, as ti passed, you opened up sothing inside ."
"Your masochism?"
"Yes... but no... from birth, I saw my friends, family, and neighbors being oppressed by the nobles. But do you know what I felt?"
"What?"
"I felt disgusted... All they do is complain but can't do anything. anwhile, the nobles are working and are using their power. In the end, we are weak and they are strong. However, I fought back. So I was frequently beaten up as a fragile little girl..." Edora looked below.
"I stupidly charge at the nobles whenever they have wronged my parents so I was beaten up. But the surprising thing is, not only did the nobles beat up, my parents whom I fought for pleaded for them to stop. Yet, when we ca back ho, they were the ones who beat , saying that I was too reckless."
Avion stayed silent while his eyes dazed on ttany and Tamya who were focusing on their own.
"I hated the weak commoners. No... I hated the weak who doesn't fight back in general. So I beca the strong who will fight back. I don't have talent in the first place but maybe, due to my imnse training day and night, I unlocked potential as an Elentalist. At that point on, I climbed up until I reached a wall I cannot overco. Thus, I can only stay low as I serve the princess. After all the effort and ti I gave, in the end, I still didn't fight the king. He's too strong for !"
Edora gritted her teeth, seemingly hating her life back then.
"I lived in an illusion where I think that I have reach my limit and that there is no need to fight any longer. I hated that! That was when... you showed up." Edora then looked at Avion.
"You shouted back at the king, made him restless, and in the end, tried to kill him. You also showed a way to get stronger, not as an Elentalist, but as a martial artist. You showed strength, dominated , and placed under your feet." she leaned towards Avion, "I thought I was at my peak. I thought that not even the king would step on my head. But you showed that there's still oppression in this world, that I still need to fight...'
"I really, really love that."
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