Although it was impossible for my mana reserves to be depleted by the 'training' I was doing, it didn't an that my body could handle it. So I had to stop practicing inevitably after a while, and now I was lying on my bed to get so rest.
Practicing Ambiguous Flow was hard... much harder than I thought it would be.
~beep!
Well... it seems Lunerra doesn't want to rest.
When I looked at the notification from my watch, what I saw on the screen was a ssage sent to by lany.
'We are one, Aiden. I am what you are; you are what I am. You should be as afraid of yourself as you are of . So... there is no reason to be afraid of . On the contrary, together we can have a lot of fun in this world.'
He turned back to , the madness in his eyes even wilder. His smile grew wider, almost reaching his ears.
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He sighed, realizing that I couldn't answer him, that I was frozen in place.
He let go of my collar, turned around, and approached the curtain covering my window. He grabbed it hard, pulling it aside with a swift tug as if his intention was to tear it.
Sunlight filled the room, and the fantastic world beyond the window unfolded before us.
'This is a different place, we can do anything we want here. And you can't stay like this forever, you're smart enough to know what I an.'
My mouth finally opened. aningless words spilled out of my lips before I could think, before I could understand what was happening.
"I... I-"
There is no you, Aiden.'
His smile faded, a serious expression settled on his face and he approached my face. With every detail of his violet eyes in my field of vision, he spoke calmly, slowly, and in a whisper, in contrast to the expression on his face.
'There is us, us.'
~knock! ~knock! ~knock!
We both turned to the side at the sound that suddenly interrupted his speech. For a mont my eyes widened, they quickly turned back in front of , but I remained frozen.
There was an empty space in front of .
He was gone.
Not only that, my curtain was closed as if nothing had happened. Everything was in its place. Except for one thing, .
~knock! ~knock! ~knock!
I swallowed, forced my body to stand up, and quickly threw myself into the bathroom sink to wash my face.
My body was still shaking, what had just happened was still in my mind. I could never forget that fear, that feeling, but I was already starting to calm down, my mind was clearing again. Absolute Mind, which had not been working until now, was activated again.
Still...
After another splash of cold water on my face, I took a deep breath in and out. Then I went to the door and looked out through the peephole. When I saw the person standing in front of my door, I couldn't help sighing.
Was her timing good or bad...?
I let out a deep, silent sigh.
I don't want to talk to anyone, I don't want to see anyone. I just... I just want to be alone for a while, to rest.
I'm... really scared.
I put a smile on my face anyway, maybe the best smile I could do in this situation, and so I opened the door.
"What did you want, Sue?"
Sue waited for a few seconds when she first saw , a slightly puzzled look on her face, but then it disappeared as her eyebrows furrowed slightly.
"Are you okay?"
"Excuse ?"
"Your skin is pale, almost looks like you're dead... Are you okay?"
Ah...
"Uh, well, I was practicing a mana-related technique, and then things went a bit wrong. I guess my appearance is a side effect of that, it will get better soon."
She looked up and down, sighing deeply when I slamd my left fist into my chest twice while she did so.
"Okay..."
"Anyway, what are you here for?"
"I've given my testimony and I don't think they're suspicious, it's just... your advice on traps they might ask about was very useful. I ran into a few and if you hadn't told beforehand I might have gotten caught. I just wanted to say thank you."
"Got it, no more problems then."
So there was silence between us.
"I... I also ca for..."
"For what?"
Sue raised the hand she had been holding down until now and showed her tablet.
"You said before that if there was anything you didn't know, we could do it one-to-one..."
"Ah... true, I said that... but why did you co to ? It would have been better if you had gone to Lucia, to improve the relationship between you two and so on. "
I don't want her to be dependent on . She is too grateful to , she is too exalting in her own eyes and that's not good. If she continues like this, she won't be able to do much on her own, she won't develop her social skills enough.
"I've already spoken to her. She apologized a lot and told she was busy. She won't be available for the next month or so, and she might not even be able to co to group etings."
What?
My eyebrows furrowed involuntarily, I was lost in thought.
Was there anything that happened around this ti that would have kept Lucia busy? Hmm... I don't rember. Did sothing change in the story again without my knowledge, or...
"After her, you're the one who knows the theorems of mana the best..."
Sue's voice pulled out of my thoughts, refocusing on what was in front of for now.
"Sure, no problem. I have the whole day off anyway and I don't want to train today after that... mana technique."
I stepped aside and welcod Sue inside.
Sue walked in slowly, then suddenly paused. This, of course, took by surprise.
"Is sothing wrong?"
I closed the door behind her, slowly approaching her as she stood in the doorway of the room.
"No, it's just... I didn't expect it to be so dark and I think sothing must have happened to your curtain?"
Curtain?
The curtain...?
My eyes widened, ti stopped flowing for a mont and I stiffened where I was. The walls seed to be closing in on ... but even then, I slowly turned my eyes toward the curtain.
There were marks on the curtain as if soone had squeezed it so hard that it almost shattered, and the marks were even red as if they had been bloodied.
Even though Sue couldn't see very well because of the darkness, I could.
Ah... I didn't realize it just now, but my right hand hurts too...
I raised my hand and slowly looked down at my palm, fearful thoughts flashing through my mind.
My right palm was red and bleeding as if I had gripped sothing tightly with it, as if I had driven my fingernails hard into it.
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