Episode 73 – Unexpected Air Traffic (2/2)

As he inspected Elaru, he noticed fine beads of sweat gathering on her forehead And although it was hard to see because of her tanned skin, her cheeks were slightly red

The signs of poisoning are appearing just in tio of Kiel’s body and stretched his ‘sore’ shoulder She’d be out cold in less than aboth of theuard at all She pulled Kiel by his ar her back on him as if she wasn’t at all worried about any potential attack

It was a strange behavior for a Shadow Shadoere usually very vigilant people Turning their backs towards their ene to be killed

Could it be that she isn’t a Shadow after all? Or is it that I did too good of a job in acting like an idiot, so she doesn’t seeht, bringing Kiel along with her

Soon it started looking as if she wasn’t leading hi on hiht up to her to stand side by side That way, he could inspect her facial expression

Elaru’s eyes were slowly gettingious?” She ed “I think it is I hope I don’t catch it”

Elaru sighed softly and rubbed her te her tee and sniffed her right hand

Did she figure it out? Dusk’s heart skipped a beat The only drawback of One-Touch Knock-Out was that it had a specific flowery scent

No Not likely

To mask the scent, Dusk Rosehis own hand cream that had a different scent Even people ere fanize it by scent They would just think that his hands smelled of soap

No matter It is already too late

Elaru Wayvin looked at Dusk with glazed eyes and mur?”

Dusk al both her actions and her aura, which didn’t show any discrepancy, Dusk would have thought her to be teasing hiullible or a better actor thanthat Dusk Rose was a great actor The only downside to his acting was that he was a rather emotional person Since mana was in direct contact with his mind, his emotions passed onto it and showed in his aura He had been trained in aura control, but he wasn’t very good at it The basis of aura control lied in controlling one’s emotions For one couldn’t directly control the emotions carried by es in his aura before he got his emotions under control, but there were plenty very perceptive people ere quite sensitive to auras That’s why he was an assassin and not a spy assassins didn’t need to engage in social interactions They went in, killed their target and went out

There was little need for flawless aura control

Dusk Rose chuckled aardly and replied “Uh… it is a fahtly and started saying “What family…” but before she could finish she stuht on time Dusk Rose reacted instantly and reached out to catch her He pulled her into his chest and held her body in place by her waist

Her head dropped down lifelessly onto his shoulder

If an outsider were looking at this scene, he would think that the two of the

If it had been any other reatly enjoyed the sensation of soft flesh pressing against his chest Especially because the redhead in his embrace was a peerless beauty

Yet Dusk Rose didn’t enjoy it at all

If he had to embrace someone, he’d rather embrace Kiel Rroda

Alas, he couldn’t do that If so Kiel Rroda as gay And the low-key part of his h the redhead had fainted, her grip on Kiel’s arm didn’t lessen at all Dusk Rose looked towards Kiel Rroda’s body which was unstably floating

Spells wouldn’t break when the e fainted, and thus Elaru’s sustained Acceleration was still active However, since she was unconscious, she was no longer exercising control over it

Dusk reached out to grab Kiel, intending to bring the two out of Muni asap Being forced to eirl left a bitter taste in his mouth

Before Dusk’s hand reached Kiel, he felt a hot breath tickling his ear and his hand suddenly frozedown his spine Not the good kind

What caused the chills wasn’t the hot breath

No

It was the husky whisper that followed

“Etezza faht?”

Dusk’s head snapped back to look at his shoulder, where the head of Elaru Wayvin was supposed to be lying

Simultaneously, his hand attempted to push her away fro his shoulder as a pillow like she was supposed to be doing

She stared at him with a coy smirk, without any trace of a blush, sweat or any form of sickness