Chapter 107: Stingham’s collapse (2/2)

For Stingham, the next several days were like one nightmare following another.

Apart from when Ayrin ate and slept, Ayrin was always in his face.

And the most terrifying thing was, Ayrin was increasingly fast and nimble, increasingly unpredictable, coming and going like a shadow.

…

Early morning, six days later.

Rui and Ayrin stood side by side on a roof inside the Ivy district.

“You’re progressing even faster than I thought.” Rui watched the mist curling around the forest of giant trees, saying, “You should be good to go today, right?”

“I should be able to catch him as long as I want to,” Ayrin said proudly. He clasped his hands behind his head and laughed out loud.

“Go then.” Rui nodded, saying in an extremely simple manner, just like his usual style.

“Teacher.” Ayrin suddenly thought of something, his rushing silhouette halting all of a sudden. “I thought of someone even more suitable who could do this training with me.”

Rui looked his way. “Who?”

“Rinloran of course,” Ayrin said excited. “His body coordination and his changes of direction, the speed of his entire body, very few people should be able to match those. Teacher Carter said that this is the innate advantage of high-level elves. If I could be as nimble as him, then very few people in the national tournament should be able to surpass me.”

Rui frowned faintly. “But I heard he has no desire at all to join the school team and participate in the tournament.”

“He doesn’t want to participate in the tournament, but I’m his friend. There should be no problem if I ask him to help me with the training,” Ayrin said with aplomb.

“Alright.” Teacher Rui nodded. “Accomplish your task today, then you can go find him.”

“Back again! When are you ever going to stop!”

Stingham’s miserable shrieks echoed once again inside the forest of giant trees.

Chasing behind him, Ayrin stretched himself and warmed up his body, saying with a laugh, “Just bear with it, it’ll be over today.”

“Bastard, what does that mean, it’ll be over today.”

“Because I’m going to catch you today.”

“What!”

“I’m about ready, we can begin!” After exercising for several minutes, Ayrin felt his body become completely light and lithe.

“Where’s he?”

Ayrin had always stuck behind him like ghost, but now Stingham suddenly noticed he couldn’t see him anymore behind his back.

Still darting swiftly, he looked left and right.

On the left, nothing.

On the right…

When he turned his head around and looked right, he noticed Ayrin standing on a tree branch on his left, all smiles. He even stuck his face forward, not even one meter away from him.

“Ah!”

Stingham’s face almost went green. He shrieked and ran for his life. Ayrin vanished from his vision, but by the time he turned around, he once again saw Ayrin standing in front of himself, smiling at him.

“Ah!” “Ah!” “Ah!”

Stingham fled as if his life were in imminent danger, but no matter in which direction he escaped in, Ayrin’s smiling face would always appear in front of him.

“I’m here.”

The most excessive time, he didn’t see Ayrin’s figure at first, but Ayrin actually stretched out his hand and tapped his shoulder.

“Don’t be like that! Let me go.”

After almost crashing into Ayrin many dozen times, Stingham finally collapsed. He drilled himself into the hollow of a tree and wouldn’t show his face no matter what.

“Ah? You gave up so quickly. I’m going to find someone else then. Bye!” Ayrin’s voice gradually came from further and further away.

“He’s really gone?”

Stingham slowly poked his head out. When he discovered Ayrin was finally gone from the surroundings, when things finally quieted down, tears ran wild on his face.

“I actually can’t even run away. This can’t go on, otherwise, doesn’t that mean that he can catch me anytime he wants to find me?”

Several minutes later, he bolted toward the place Rui were often at. “Teacher Rui, teach me! Make me become faster!”