Episode 116 – Seed Of Aegis (2/2)

Seeing that Kiel’s suspicious look didn’t lessen in the slightest, Elaru added “Besides, I doubt there are many Arites who even know about its existence His soulht be the only one who knows about it”

“Rine Arite?” Kiel inquired

“Yes” Elaru confiret his hands on such a precious artifact? Was Zor Arite on close terms with your dad?”

“If you want to hear details about it, you’re going to have to ask papa” Elaru shrugged

“Well he isn’t here for me to ask, is he?” Kiel snorted derisively

“I’m sure you’ll meet him eventually After all, you’re my soulmate” Elaru’s unusually solemn face finally returned to her usual radiant sloo only curiosity behind: “But you do know the story behind it, don’t you?”

Elaru’s eyes twinkled htly curved at the side

Kiel sighed in half-agitation and half-disappoint about it is that he didn’t even have the right to be ation to share her personal life story with hiet furious about it

But it didn’t stop hi curious He wasn’t even sure why he felt so interested in it He never felt so interested in someone else’s private ht involve you A voice whispered in his head It is your right to investigate anything that ht involve you in so cautious

Kiel was quick to conclude that his sudden interest in Elaru’s matters surely didn’t imply that he had an interest in her Because that certainly wasn’t the case

Not at all

“What happened in your exam? Did Zor create trouble for you?” Elaru’s hts She was back to her usually cheery self

“Not really He was quite pleasant… compared to the other Replicas I had to deal with” Kiel’s eyes flashed with displeasure at the memory “Which reminds me… there is one point that bothers me that I wanted to discuss with you”

Kiel suddenly brought his hand to his eye level and cast a Temperature spell on it “At one point, one of the Replicas caused an explosion that should have burnedat him diverted to look at his hand instead

Kiel kept increasing the teht, and indeed, the air around his hands started tovisible heat distortion However, even though the temperature was far above whatany signs of being burnt

“So, I was right” Kiel said her resistance to heat than norly “Does this have anything to do with that pill you gave ht! It has got a feather of a firebird as its hly possible that it has an additional effect of increasing fire resistance”

Without further ado, Elaru followed Kiel’s suit and increased the temperature of her own hand “It indeed increased my fire resistance Good catch”

Elaru seemed sincerely surprised by the revelation which made all other questions Kiel intended to ask die in his throat She didn’t know any hed, turned his head away fro towards the spot in the park where they usually rested between exa by the revelation, his aura turned even sourer The blasted redhead wasn’t even there, and she still helped him win over 3 out of 4 of his opponents!

It was because of the Firebird Flaed to survive and eventually defeat Deora It was the DI report that she gave him with that “Firecracker” tip that helped hi that made him survive that last explosion Andcoupled with her naely

No Don’t think like that He told himself

It was his own body and willpower that helped hied to dispose of all his enemies

It was his own ability that helped hi his life, a feat he still wasn’t sure how he ed to pull off

Besides, he was siotten Deora, ielded fla with because of a childhood traunored that, Deora wasn’t a pushover in the slightest His battle capability was surely close to 23 points, he must have lost points in his exa him closer to 20, which would explain why he was chosen as one of his opponents

And then there was Rhur, whose battle capability was not a point short of 25, but who due to bad luck, got a lower score And of course, the cherry on top was Zor, as as close to invincibility one could get

What kind of shi+tty luck was this? How unlucky could he be to get three opponents whose battle capability was close to 25? Who said the Muni exams were fair??

It isn’t that his battle ability didn’t deserve 25 points, it’s just that his opponents were all close or above 25 points,him appear weaker than he actually was

While Kiel was torn between feeling powerless and unlucky, Elaru walked behind hiazed at her hand that was turning slightly pink and then back at Kiel, her frown deepening

It was true that Firebird Flame pill helped increase fire resistance…but… she had eaten two of them, while Kiel had eaten only one

So, why is it, that right now, her hand was al, while its temperature was nowhere near the temperature Kiel’s hand had just endured?

She dispelled the te up and down Kiel’s body, deep in thought

Co up in the next episode:

“Are you worried I would cohtly twitched before she let out an incredulous, hoarse reply “I aay”

“Welcome back, Elaria”

The female looked at Elaru up and down and then replied blandly “You are still alive I’d say your luck is pretty good”

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