"You!" Seo Yeong-Ha said through her gritted teeth. I could see her fist clenched tightly until it turned white.
"Hello!" I exclaid mischievously.
Upon hearing Seo Yeong-Ha's voice, Lux also turned around and imdiately frowned.
"Zio…" he muttered.
"Lux," I responded spontaneously.
The intense and silent staring contest between the three of us was broken by the raucous sound echoing in the air.
"Hey! You! Run and take the flag away! We'll hold him here! If you do that, I'll welco you to our circle even if you're a low-born!"
Seo Yeong-Ha's frown deepened, I could even hear the sound of her teeth grinding into each other. anwhile, Lux let out a long sigh, slightly lowering his shoulder as he looked at .
"Don't do that, Zio. We're friends, aren't we?" he said.
Seo Yeong-Ha shot him a glare. Her deanor, apparently, was beastlike.
"Are you dumb?! Just because you guys are friends, it doesn't an he will do what you said! Especially him!" Seo Yeong-Ha exclaid, pointing at angrily. "Look at his grin! I don't think he will comply with your request!"
Then, she looked at with a fiercer gaze than earlier toward Lux.
"Isn't that so, Rat?!"
My grin disappeared as fast as the money that was imdiately used to buy an action figure on the first day after payday.
Though I hated the way Seo Yeong-Ha speak to , I understood where her skepticism and paranoia ca from.
How do I say this…
She is uhh…actually a victim of betrayal.
Though I must say that the history was quite amusing?
No. The history was quite funny.
So, when she was seven years old. Baek Jin and Seo Yeong-Ha were BFFs but then sothing happened, which turned them into rivals.
Their ntor, Seo Yeong-Ha's uncle, favored Baek Jin more than her niece.
At first, everything was going well between them. But as ti passed, Seo Yeong-Ha grew jealous of Baek Jin because he always got attention and extra lessons from her uncle.
Instead of blaming her uncle because of the unfairness, Seo Yeong-Ha blad Baek Jin, thinking that because of him, her uncle neglected her training for him.
That was the long-short story of her trust issue with a thing called 'friend'.
I ant she was a kid back then so she couldn't differentiate between right and wrong. And she didn't even think that the one who was at fault was her uncle.
Well, her logic was on the lower side. She was stubborn and hot-headed. So expect the constant feeling of annoyance once you get on her nerves like I did.
Just because of one event and she would haunt you until death.
But, it was not like she couldn't be stopped. The only way to stop her hostility was to beco her 'rival'---her term to replace the word 'friend'.
Just as in the novel, Seo Yeong-Ha imdiately claid Lux as her rival. But eventually realized that it was just her coping chanism. In the end, they beca a best friend.
Yes. Best friend. You heard right. Because Lux's one and only lover was Ayano.
"Yes, that's right," I finally responded.
"See?!" Seo Yeong-Ha exclaid crossing her arms across her chest and holding her chin high in triumph. "There's no way an existence like a friend can ex–"
"Catch this."
Before Seo Yeong-Ha could finish her last word, I cut her off by throwing the flag toward Lux.
Lux caught the flag and smiled at , nodding approvingly.
I chuckled upon seeing Seo Yeong-Ha's expression. She once displayed a triumphant face but had now fallen to disbelief. Her jaw dropped dramatically.
"W-what…" She stuttered, slowly shifting back her attention to . "What are you doing?! W-why did you give the flag back?!"
Lux and I cocked our heads to the side at the sa ti, coincidentally.
"Because we're friends?" Again, we said that together purely coincidental.
Seo Yeong-Ha gritted her teeth harder, even clenching her fist tighter. She looked like she was about to burst out of rage.
"WHAT?! HEY! Why did you give the flag to him?! Are you an idiot?!" soone from Kaiser Circle shouted loudly.
Thankfully, Seo Yeong-Ha's rage wouldn't be directed at .
As she made a full turn, now facing toward the Kaiser Circle.
I clasped my hand in a prayer gesture.
May God forgive you because this little devil won't. Latom.
Truly, thank you for saving from her wrath.
"That idiot is his accomplice! Surround him! And search for the one responsible for blowing our accessories away! And these three intruders—"
As the speaker turned his attention toward Ember, he finally realized who had he been fighting all this ti.
"No way!" He said in disbelief. "Are you Ember? The Headmaster's granddaughter?"
A mont later, he and the other Kaiser Circle mbers found their cheeks reddened as they stared at Ember.
I know that she's beautiful, pretty, and cute, I guess? A mini version of Nuria Crimson. But, aren't they giving her too much credit?
One of them cleared his throat and walked forward, kneeling in front of Ember with his hand extended.
I almost chuckled when I saw him do that, albeit found myself frowning.
'What's he doing?' I thought.
"Oh, Ember," he began, his tone sounding as if he was playing a theater drama. "I, Ramoz, have co to you to con— ughh!!"
A full blow of an invisible fist had sent him flying several ters away.
Slowly turning toward where might the blow co from, the Kaiser Circle found Seo Yeong-Ha with clenched fists emitting hot steam.
"Wh- what the fuck was that?!"
Peeking over her shoulder, Seo Yeong-Ha shot a glare full of rage, but there was an uncertainty mixed in her eyes.
As she turned her attention back toward the Kaiser Circle, she said, "Don't run away, Rat. Stay there. I'll deal with you later after I beat up these bastards!"
With that, the ground beneath her feet glittered a light. As she made her way toward the Kaiser Circle mber, the trails of her movent materialized, looking like an illusion.
"S, stop her!"
They couldn't.
Seo Yeong-Ha launched a simultaneous Formless Fist technique at each opponent she passed. Also thanks to her movent trail that produced a lody of note, it weakened the defense and overall stats of whover heard the sound in 5 ters range.
I was far enough from her, surely it was more than 5 ters between my position and her. So, I didn't get affected.
Taking notice of sothing strange happening to the Kaiser Circle mber in a five-ter area around the trail, Ember backed away a dozen paces with Niah and Hulio.
Seeing her dominating almost twenty students by herself, I made a ntal note of her movent art: lody Trail.
If my mory served right, the way to prevent the weakening debuff from her technique was to cover the ears with mana.
I might be able to avoid the debuff because of her currently low mastery, but as the technique mastery reached its peak, it would be hard to prevent it.
But of course, by the ti she finally reached the final mastery. I, too, would already improve and get stronger than I am now.
The thing about lody Trail was that it would only be effective against those with lower magic stats or those who couldn't properly control their mana to even make a simple barrier. As for those with stronger magic control and stats, it would be a bit useless against them.
"Uagh!"
The scream of those getting hit by the invisible force, combined with the note sound of the lody Trail, really sounded grandiose. Like music. No, it was music.
Subconsciously, I humd along, trying to match it with the music.
"Zio?" Lux turned around and found humming, his face painted with confusion.
I ignored him as I walked toward my teammates while still humming. I didn't even need to see how Seo Yeong-Ha beat them up, just hearing the lody was enough for to imagine it.
I saw Enzo walk toward , his brow arched but didn't say anything. He walked along with , side by side. His eye montarily locked on before shaking his head.
I still humming.
"W, what…?" Niah's surprised voice sounded as I approached. "What's wrong with him? Why is he humming?"
Stopping the hums, I also stopped my feet, standing in front of the trio.
Smiling, I said, "Don't you hear the lody?"
They raised an eyebrow in response.
"Isn't it sound nice?" I continued.
Niah blinked several tis before throwing a comnt.
"You're crazy…"
"Am I?"
She shook her head in disbelief.
My eyes shifted toward Ember…
I might be crazy to say this after what I said earlier, but, I think she really does deserve the credit for having the unmatched beauty.
As I gazed at Ember, my heart skipped a beat.
'What the hell is wrong with ?!'
There was sothing about her that resonated deep within , and the worst was I couldn't tell what was that!
I couldn't tell what happened to !
'Huh! Don't tell that this original body's owner started to assimilate himself with ?!'
No way! I don't want that. I am already comfortable with this body. No one taking anything from .
But, no matter how much I tried to distract myself from not staring at Ember. It rendered to be useless.
Lost in the depths of her red eyes, I finally spoke, my voice barely above a whisper.
"You're… Incredibly beautiful."
"?!!"
"Huh?!"
"Wow!"
"..."
What the fvck did I just said…?
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