Episode 4 – of Sight (1/2)
He are that he should run If he stayed in her net any longer, he would not be able to escape Kiel are that she had a power that he could not coainst And for the second ti hopelessness He was not the predator, but the prey
Elaru continued, paying him no attention
”What you lack is not skill, it is ability In the exaory other than Mana Flow Speed, Mana Pool Size and Regeneration, Multicast and Special - that makes 125 points”
”Since you are very skilled inis not difficult for you, and you could have easily gotten an exceptional score in it as well, just like the rest But you don't have the mana to cast that many simultaneous spells So you can't even demonstrate the skill that you do possess”
”I'll give you 10/25 for the Simultaneous cast”
”As far as I know, Rroda faic branch they specialize in, therefore I'll guess you don't have any skills for which you would have gotten special points”
”Your ot no points there If there were negative points, you certainly would have got theet any points for mana flow speed either You have a pint-sized amount of mana, even if you transferred it instantly, that would still constitute as a slow et 5 points at most”
”With 140 points in total, you are 5 points short of the minimal entrance requirement”
By the tiic had completely removed any physical pain that Kiel felt It was like he had never run at all
The only re hi heart
Kiel had never heard of healing ue, but even without knowing details of it, he could understand the scale of the spell It needed to fix dae to the en, and more And all of that needed to be done perh precision and no doubt be a real mana drain Just that one spell would require two or even three orders of nitude more mana than he had in his entire mana pool
Kiel could have pushed her away at this point He could have yelled at her Yet he didn't even open his eyes
He didn't want to see her, or talk to her Kiel wanted to pretend that he neverthat o away on her own
She re herself
”Ah! Wait! The Minimum number of points required to take the practical part of the exaotten from practical, it leaves you with 115”
”Arin
Kiel refused to respond As if he would adht As if he would tell her that her evaluation was cole point was amiss
He didn't want to ad to that last tiny strand of pride he had left He hoped that now that Elaru had finished her appraisal, she would just leave on her own
She let hi froh they weren't physically touching It was like a warht, but instead of providing co his skin Kiel didn't want her close to him He didn't want anyone close to him, let alone her
”The truth is, we h this very forest You were here, in the clearing, practicing ic You were so focused you didn't see me And I am always careful not to disclose my presence Hence, you couldn't sense me either”
Kiel reh ht He could accelerate a few tilide a bit, but he would soon co back to earth
She turned her head towards hiaze on his face
”Great martial arts by the way! With such skills, you could even take down a low-class e!”
Kiel's eyes snapped open in confusion, just in ti him a thumbs up
”Martial arts?”
Realization hit him hard Wait… wasn't that the ti out his anger on a tall tree, throwing a bunch of punches and kicks at it until it was broken beyond recognition
Soft pink found its way towards his cheeks He looked at Elaru fro that he did not hear her co him
She saw his rare uts to tease him about it?
And then, she dropped a bo that Kiel could never have predicted that she would say
Gently, softly, musically, her lips parted and formed words that struck Kiel to the core
”I couldn't getSo… beautiful… ”
The shock of her words hed out loud
How peculiar!
To fall for the e
Kiel had been praised for irls had fallen for hiht he was Girls often told hiet my eyes off you”
However, no one ever fell for his ht hi that could be seen with eyes The results of ic itself Therefore, it is no wonder that no one ever saw his ic or noticed its beauty
And yet this elibu claiic?
”What does it look like? My ly Even he hiic looked like He could feel it, and he could iine what it would look like Nonetheless, he couldn't truly see it
”It's not so to describe how the color looks like to a blindto coht words
”Your ht shades of blue, fro it, it lookslike tiny, fluid, fluctuating, shi+ny droplets are dancing They flicker in many shades until they for to cast”
Kiel's eyes widened He looked at her face Elaru looked sincere, she see it Her eyes were closed in reminiscence
It can't be… can it?
”Can you actually… see… ic?”
She opened her eyes and looked straight into his Her eyes didn't just look like they were glowing They were glowing And not just that, they were fluid and ani in an endless repeating cycle
It was crystal clear from up close - those eyes were not normal
She possessed the Aethernea of Sight – the fabled eyes that could see ic
”What do you want fronation
”I thought it was obvious” She tilted her head to the side and exclaimed bluntly ”I want you”
If Kiel were so his emotions, his eyes would have popped out of their sockets and his ht a tiwi bird in it
Instead, Kiel's face froze A longin silence at each other
”Are you bloody kidding et me to date you?!” Kiel blurted out in shock
Elaru stared at him confused ”What? No! Why would you think that?”
”What do you ic is beautiful'?! 'I want you'?!” He quoted her oords
She blinked a few tih
”No, no That's not what I hter
”No offense You are lovely and all that, but I am not interested in a romantic relationshi+p”
He was 'lovely'? There must have been a thousand better words to describe him Kiel felt offended
”What is it then? You must be aware that I am a Rroda only in naain from me”
”Your worth doesn't lie in your family name Whether you are a Rroda or not is irrelevant”
That was a first To call his family irrelevant Did she truly have no interest in his family? She understood that the person everyone liked was not truly him So what could he possibly offer her?
”I can't offer you anything else I can't do e”
Elaru pouted It was a silly gesture
”Don't call yourself a non-es, because if you aren't a e, then no one deserves to be called one”
”Enough with the flattery! Get to the point!” While he did want her to stop with the flattery, deep down, Kiel enjoyed it The way she spoke was as if she was stating the truth It held no trace of flattery as the motive To be seen for what he truly was… it was a bittersweet feeling