"Slap if you dare." the King leaned forward as a provocation.
"....."
But, suddenly, there was nothing...?
The King blinked a few tis, not wanting to rub his eyes that will make him look like a fool. However, the others rubbed their eyes.
Only Edora was not stunned by this even though it was still unbelievable. They thought that Avion was just using Body Strengthening like everyone else, however, this was too instant.
Just like how Edora was shocked when she was slapped by Avion with a law-breaking movent, literally, the King and the Queen did too. If Avion was just so fast, he should've left a trace of wind.
"Where... where did he go?" soone asked in the crowd.
Everyone looked around to see where he went. Did Avion just trick them?
"Is he a Light Elentalist who uses Blink?" the King whispered to himself but Edora, was on the opposite side on her post, heard this and imdiately answered after she ran to him;
"No, Your Royal Highness, I have experienced Avion's skills firsthand and I can tell that he is not a Light Elental... he is... strange..." Edora half-kneeled to the floor with her head low.
"Hmm..." the King proceeded to sense the whole area but couldn't catch anyone using elental skills.
While the King was pondering, Edora took this opportunity to strike, "I have fought him and I was instantly defeated" hearing this, Princess Alisera frowned, she didn't know that this happened, "Him, Avion Teller had so skills and may even reach Rank Bih, however, I hypothesize that he was intimidated by the King and fled." Edora smiled, unseen by anyone with her head low.
anwhile, the King praised Edora in his mind.
She knew what she was doing. The King provoked Avion, gambling his image. If Avion didn't do what he said then it concludes that nobody could really fight a King. However, if he did slap the King then it would be a permanent sha.
Edora's words made clear what the result was while sprinkling words to make the King look grander.
She emphasized how strong Avion was and that she, the Royal Knight-Captain was defeated, but even after that, Avion couldn't challenge the King, saying that he fled due to re intimidation.
This made the King a total winner, erasing the sha earlier while giving him a grander image.
The King nodded in pleasantness. It seed that Edora escaped her sad fate. With the King's agreent, everyone had to acknowledge it as well.
Slowly, whispers began to rise;
"As expected of King Karan."
"That's how a king should be!"
"I am proud to have His Royal Highness as my King."
This indirect bootlicking spread and the King and Queen finally cald down.
Only Princess Alisera was at loss.
Ti was reversed and nobody could ever rember how devilish this princess could be. No, it is not as if they forgot but it just never happened.
If only the King and Queen knew about this, they would've been thanking Avion instead. However, they began to underestimate him while forgetting about him... on the surface but they knew that the elesp Blink could only cover a short area.
They encountered a Light Elentalist before, a Rank Bih Light Elentalist and they knew well that Blink could only cover a ter in radius.
But they didn't speak of it not to ruin the mont.
What elesp could Avion possibly have? How strong is he? Is there such an [Elesp Tool] that has the sa effect?
The nobles are too weak to know any of these that was why the royal couple kept silent.
They beca wary and even, a little bit scared. If Avion could just blink away in a distance so far that they can't sense him, then couldn't he blink in front of them without them knowing?
If that is so, Avion could just appear whenever they had their guard down and kill them if he wanted. Doesn't that an that they have to wary day and night for years to co? What about sleep?
While the crowds silently cheer the royal couple, mostly the King, internally, the two were troubled by this matter. No matter what, they have to find this Avion Teller again or they won't have a good rest for the rest of their life!
"Papa,"
The King turned around to Princess Alisera who called him, "Yes, dear?" he responded with a kind smile, oblivious to the fact that in another tiline, he was furious and disgusted with her at the sa ti.
"Where did Avion go?" she asked with a sad face, acting like a twelve-year-old girl. Her cute and spotless face was sweet to the eyes that the King never minded this behavior of her.
Oh, if only he knew, he wouldn't be this kind to her.
"Sorry, but it seed that he left you..." the King didn't lie or exaggerated, although that was his intention.
Because in reality, Avion did leave Princess Alisera for he still rembers that she only looks at his face.
He was currently walking in the dark corners of the street, in the slum neighborhood of the Trading-Hills Capital. No matter where, there will always this kind of neighborhood where people had grumbling stomachs and are always suffering just to get enough food for the day.
The nobles are ignoring them and hiding this part of the city on the very edge where rchants and traders wouldn't see even if they were to take a stroll around the capital.
However, Avion found it as he walked around for an unknown ti in his tiless mont.
Clearly rembering what Princess Alisera said which rang in his ears, it was echoing in his mind.
The King had no intention to lie so that Princess Alisera would co to hate and forgot about Avion, but, Avion did leave the princess. The King didn't know that he was saying the truth.
Never once did Avion saw his face and said that he was handso. If one is alone all their life, who could they compare themselves to?
There are only asurents if there is a comparison and being the only person alive back then, Avion didn't know that he was handso enough for every woman to drool over him.
If you are the only person in the dark space, do you know if you are big or not?
So... he never once thought that the princess only saw him for his looks.
It was so dumb to hear.
It ca out of nowhere.
Avion with zero experience didn't see it coming. As it echoed in his head, he held his chest in the darkness;
"I must be rembering when I was stabbed again."
He was having his first broken heart.
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