Chapter 152 - Ellen (1) (1/2)
”Alright,” I groaned before dimming the mana present in the room.
”Out of all the spells, you used heal?” Luke grabbed onto my other hand to prevent me from using more mana.
”Oh please, I was in control,” I defended myself.
Even though everyone looked worried for me, I was glad I fixed the immediate problem in front of me. It was the perfect time to go for a good night sleep before Luke decided to lecture me again.
”Well, I'll be going to sleep now,” I abruptly waved my classmates farewell to quickly escape.
”Wait,” Charles yelled to stop me.
”What?” I groaned as I turned behind me.
”Make sure you keep this incident to ourselves,” Charles warned me.
What did he even mean by that? Of course I wasn't going to leak this incident to anyone else! Who knew who would get in trouble for this mess? It was probably going to be me, as a repeat offender that visited the dean's office too often.
That day, I had failed to notice Ellen's expression where she appeared different from the rest of us. Instead of displaying her normal smile, relieved from solving the incident, she stayed near the back, silent after playing her usual caring role. But I waved the thought away since she smiled goodbye before I escaped from the scene.
Today, we were inside the usual cafe and I finally got my courage to ask her what was wrong. Since Ellen always helped me cheer up, this time I would do the same.
”What's wrong?” I asked Ellen.
Ellen stayed silent while Shelly and I mostly carried the conversation. Only three of us were in the empty cafe since Ellen wanted to meet privately. I guessed it meant Ellen didn't trust Delia and Sienna as much as I did.
Her face was downcast while she mindlessly nodded to agree to everything we said. It was unlike her to not talk a single word to console us like usual. She was the motherly one in the group since she was used to taking care of us.
”My family,” she sadly whispered.
”We lost some territory after taking too much risk.”
”It's fine, you can always recover it,” I rubbed her back.
”I heard about it,” Shelly seemed to pity Ellen.
”If only it was that easy,” Ellen's words started to get softer.
”You can always escape to the third district with me later on,” I tried to cheer her up.
Ellen wordlessly got up from her chair as she smiled to thank me before walking towards her room. Was it a big deal to lose some land? From what I knew, her family was powerful enough to be a part of the top ten families in the district.
”Her family lost the land to Charles' family,” Shelly explained to me.
”But they can always recover it, right?” I blurted out my thoughts.
There was tons of land if you combined all the districts. From studying the map, the size of this fantasy world was six times bigger than earth. It made sense since each district represented a different period on the timeline.