137 Idris Kingdom Team Part 1 (1/2)

Greyson slowly made his way to the meeting place at the front gate of Academy City. Apparently, the people from the Aurora Academy will meet first and then they will fly over to the Idris Kingdom capital city to pick up the rest. From what he remembered, the only other people would be his teacher, Ezra, and Ignis. Speaking of his teacher, Greyson had wanted to go together since they were starting from the same place. Sweetbow had quickly rejected him, though, saying he needed to make a more impactful entrance to the rest of the group. While Greyson should be there first due to his young age, Sweetbow arriving early as the elder would be ”embarrassing.” Although the reasoning just made him roll his eyes, Greyson had always known his teacher was egotistical to the point that no words would work on him. Plus, he knew the real reason was that his teacher was bad at waking up early in the morning. Always claiming he needs his beauty sleep, while the truth was that he was lazy. Turning his head back towards his teacher's place with these thoughts in mind, Greyson just let out a helpless sigh while visibly shaking his head.

”I'm okay with leaving the group idiot back home. Just breathing air near him makes me think I'll catch his ridiculous narcissism.” Lucius quipped in a mental message as he knew exactly what was going through Greyson's mind.

Greyson turned his head over with a disdainful look. As if you are one to talk?

”Hm? What?” Lucius asked.

”Nothing. I just suddenly pity myself.” Really. Getting stuck with people like this all the time, it was a wonder he did not go insane.

Puzzled, Lucius no longer paid his friend any attention and continued napping.

The walk was not far at all, so Greyson arrived in just a couple minutes with his speed. Seeing the empty space, he knew that he was the first to arrive. The only people in sight were the guards on shift. Since he did not recognize them, Greyson decided to walk to the side and laze in the snow waiting. His body was almost completely insensitive to the cold, actually he found the cold more comfortable than warmth. While he was comfortable, the same could not be said for Theo and Gold. From the moment he sat down in the snow, Gold woke up from his nap and frowned. Theo could not stop shivering as the Snow Country temperatures were far colder than the temperate grasslands that he was from. He tried to cuddle into Greyson only to see that the body heat he was hoping for was not present.

”Why is your body so cold?”

”Me? I never really noticed.”

”Ever since we started getting closer to your home, I have been shivering. Why must you live in such a frozen hell?” Theo complained.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

”Well, here.” Greyson decided to meditate and focus on absorbing the fire element. Naturally, his body started to heat up like an oven. Happier, all the animals cuddled closer to him. Looking at their behavior, he did find them rather cute while stroking their silky fur.

”Hahaha, aw, Grey Grey, big sister did not realize you had such an adorable habit of keeping small animals. But it's okay, only real men can confidently be in touch with their feminine side. This sister here really looks up to you.” With that same flirty tone, Ezra came up from behind and pet his head. Feeling the urge to cry from his grievances, Greyson did not correct her as he knew that he should just accept that everyone has good reason to misunderstand. It was not like he could correct everyone.

”Lady Seirina, nice to see you again.” Dusting off the snow, Greyson turned around and politely greeted.

”Oh, now you are making me feel awkward. I talked to you like a friend, but you are clearly drawing a line.” She pouted. ”Do you hate me?” Exaggeratingly biting her lip with tears forming, she looked the picture of a girl holding back after being bullied. Badly wanting to scold her for being fake, Greyson still decided to hold back and force a smile.

”No, I just do not know how to interact well with woman so much older than me.” His voice came out sweet like honey, but his words cut like a knife. Erza finally choked on her words and her expression cracked. Old? OLD?! Did he just call me old? Unable to keep calm under such shocking words, she quickly turned her attention to the companion who walked over with her. Scanning the man, Greyson knew that this was Ignis Arcadian. He had the same blonde hair and hazel eyes from before. Objectively speaking, he was decent looking seemed to carry himself honest and upright air. Noticing Greyson eyeing him, Ignis nodded in greeting. Greyson responded in kind.

”Ignis dear, am I old looking? I am still a flower just starting to bloom. A ripe fruit! If people did not know better, they could mistake me for being the same age as Greyson, right?”

Blushing fiercely, Ignis could only dumbly nod.

”Young-looking. Same age.” He agreed quickly. Watching this scene from the side, Greyson suddenly thought back to the tournament before he left. Ignis was so afraid to fight Natalia because he had fought her once before and lost horribly. If Greyson remembered correctly, it was because Ignis had taken Ezra's side in one of their many arguments. Before, he did not pay attention much to this because it was true that Natalia could be very unreasonable and her personality was not very likeable. But now he started to think that there was definitely more to the story. Ignis definitely seemed to have a crush on Ezra. With her emotional intelligence, Ezra was anything but dense. She definitely knew, but it seemed she had no desire to start anything. Greyson wondered if she was taking advantage of Ignis' undisguised affection; there were a lot of bad rumors surrounding the Seirina women and their relations with men. Many said they were poisonous foxes that acted like prey when, in reality, they were merciless predators. But, well, Greyson was not the nosy type and he did not really care if Ignis was blind enough to be used.

Her vanity seemingly satisfied, Ezra grinned widely.

”Geez, Grey, you should learn to speak to a lady with compliments. Age is a very sensitive topic. Just look how great Ignis is.”

Greyson just grimaced and nodded obediently. Am I supposed to just lose all my brain cells because you're pretty? Honestly, he never had a bad impression of Ignis, but it seems his intelligence was rather subpar.