Chapter 73: I dont know! (1/2)
”Descendants? But I have yet to have kids on my… Oh.” Still riled up by the conflict with Uffer from before, Al surprisingly required a moment to digest the meaning behind Ation's words. ”What are your names?” Turning his face towards the silent duo, Al squinted his eyes a bit.
'Now that I look at them… They really don't resemble celestials… but they do not look like one of our own either.' This observation was pretty simple. The celestials were surrounded with the stench of the energy that they robbed from the enslaved spirits. To a degree, it made up for the easiest way of detecting them at close range. On the other hand, though, while it didn't seem to be the case for the female, the man that Ation brought was different than anyone Al saw so far.
'Could it be that they are lying?' Even though the explanation that Ation offered was pretty interesting, there was a chance that it was a false one. 'I guess I can only wait for the situation to develop furt… eh?' Al's thoughts went into disarray when one thing happened to both of the strange visitors at once.
As soon Al just twitched, his massive body no longer concealed the girl still hanging by her hair from Lessen's hand. And once those two caught a glimpse of that person, their eyes widened in excitement. 'Are they enjoying this kind of thing or what?' In a moment, all the positive emotions he felt towards those strangers instantly disappear. But it didn't stop there.
”Incredible…” Uttering under his breath without even realizing that his voice leaked out, Markus took a step forward. Then another. Then, after lowering his head to a clearly important figure of the clan of his ancestors, he passed by the burly man before taking a closer look at the whispering girl. ”Yelna, is she who I think she is?”
”It seems like it.” Following her husband, Yelna also ignored the burly man. Once she appeared in front of the girl, her hands twitched. Even though she wasn't a sword-user, her long knife was more than enough to cut through the hair that another one of her ancestors held.
”Ah!” As the girl fell to the ground, she uttered a short shout of surprise. Even though the languages they were using were most likely completely different, simple sounds like that were easily understandable to anyone. ”Go and make sure.” Summing the situation up in her usual, short manner, Yelna sheathed her knife.
”What the hell are you doing?!” Only now overcoming his shock caused by the duo's audacity, Al shouted while fixing his grasp over his short sword. 'Even if they really are our descendants, that doesn't mean they are worthy of our attention…' Al stepped forward… Only to stop in his tracks right away.
”Al?” Noticing the unusual behavior of his leader, Ation asked before looking to where Al's eyes were directed at. And then, he froze in place as well. With her eyes only gently squinted, this strange girl didn't even pull her weapon out. Just her intense stare alone was enough to make him feel as if he was an insignificant worm, standing up against the beings from legends.
”Yelna! Stop.” Before the tense situation could turn hostile, Markus' words shook the girl's intense stare, making her revert to her usual, barely noticeable self.
'What was that…?' Even though this peculiar moment has passed, Al was still unable to move even a muscle. Even though this strange petrification was quickly fading away, just the sheer power that was necessary to stop someone like him with just a gaze finally forced Al to reevaluate the worth of this strange duo.