?As I looked at the six people standing not far away from , I felt sothing strange inside , as if... the people in front of were not simply 'humans'. I couldn't make sense of it, but for so reason, it felt like these people were out of my reach, even though they were standing right in front of .
The children standing behind the adults, with the exception of the eldest, who looked like a high schooler, ran backward.
In the awkward silence of the hallway, I tried to focus on their appearance, but my eyes suddenly locked with those of the man with the stern look. I don't know why, but... I couldn't take my eyes off him. He had really beautiful ocean-blue eyes, but it wasn't simply because they looked 'beautiful' that I couldn't take my eyes off him.
It was like... he had truly 'magical' eyes.
I frowned for a mont. As I looked into the eyes of the man in front of ... I felt like my thoughts were slipping away, and I didn't like it.
I took a short step toward them, but they didn't do anything, they just continued to watch . With my second step, I saw the man's eyebrows raise slightly, as if... surprised. He had a look as if he didn't expect to be able to take a step again. But again, there was no other reaction. Even on my third and fourth steps, nothing happened.
When there were only about two ters between us... the man's magical eyes seed to sparkle for a mont. It was only then that my eyes were forcibly separated from his. With my vision montarily blurred and a wave of pain spreading throughout my body, I lost my balance and fell to my knees.
A tallic taste reappeared in my mouth. But this ti, I didn't even have ti to swallow it back. As blood oozed from between my lips, I deactivated Mana Ascension as fast as I could. The golden glow surrounding my body slowly faded, and the patterns on my skin began to fade as my shoulder-length hair receded.
I could feel the trendous flow of mana coming from behind again, and they began to move slightly as if my command to them was losing its effect. After only a second or two... a massive amount of mana that could have killed on the spot would pile on again.
However, this did not happen. Instead, the man, whose feet I could only see, slowly approached . As I forced my head up, I saw with my blurred eyes that he raised his hand and held it behind . His ocean-blue eyes flashed even more fiercely, and then... as if soone had built a wall behind , the flow of mana that was about to pin to the ground suddenly stopped.
But that didn't stop my consciousness from slipping through my hands. One last voice I could hear and the whole world went dark.
"Claire, put him on the couch."
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So... should I try or not?
I took a deep breath, staring blankly at the wall, trying to decide which made more sense in the midst of my thoughts.
My house was silent. I didn't have the TV on, I didn't have anything to do and Paul was... simply sleeping. He was sick, as he often was. He was always sick because his body was too weak. But... that wasn't the important thing right now.
Last night, after I was sure that he was hiding sothing from , I thought of sothing I could do, but how right it was to do it... that's what I wasn't sure about.
Paul is hiding things from , yes. But I'm hiding sothing from him too. Can I do what I think I can do if I'm so suspicious of him just because I realize there's sothing he doesn't want to know?
I did what I'd been doing for hours, I opened my status window, then lowered my eyes and focused on the only skill I had besides Clairvoyance.
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