Episode 145 – Reunion (1/2)

Previously:

Friday, the last day of Muni entrance exaive Kiel a final artifact, whose enchantment he doesn’t need to replicate but to just draw out However, Kiel finds that the enchantment is too small and he can’t sense it clearly with hisout, Elaru can feel his panic and wants to help hined prevents the So she comes up with an idea to break it as a part of her special exam and shocks the trio of oldher contract she realizes that Kiel no longer needs her help and a backlash of Kiel’s actions hits her After the appearance of the heades to break away fro the classroom

Without further ado, she erased her presence, wrapping herself in her mind cocoon and layers of invisibility She had just flown several meters down the corridor when her entire vision turned dark

Episode 145 – Reunion

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She stopped to lean on the wall

The corridors were strangely eely quiet

In the deathly silence, her labored breathing was especially audible

Even the dripping of her blood could be heard clearly, as it rolled down her chin onto the floor

With her back pressed against the wall, she slid down onto her behind

This ti blood

Instead, she reached into her pouch, fuers ed to take out a bottle of pills

She flicked the cork out and stuffed a handful of pills down her throat as if eating candy

Then she just sat, with her eyes closed, taking in deep breaths

Herthe bloody red flower of flaround Without an eye or a pupil, even for Elaru it was difficult to tell the focus of its attention

But right now, she could feel its gaze clearly It was al her skin

“Those pills can only lessen the symptoms, not treat the cause” A disembodied emotionless voice whispered inside her head “Forceful activation of Aethernea has destabilized your vessel”

Elaru let out a long sigh before speaking out into thin air “Can you fix it?”

Elaru blinked her long black eyelashes furiously As if trying to blink away sleep, to blink away theher vision She didn’t think of whether her blinking would be effective It was just a natural instinct of a person whose bright world had suddenly turned dark An instinct to blink the darkness away

As her own reflection beca eyelashes finally calmed down

She stared at the black shi+ny surface that was so clear it could have just as well been awent haywire, for the face looking back at her wasn’t quite the sa even paler due to the faded s on her face Their usually deep black color ashed out, fading out, al with her skin

And then she realized that her current state was to be expected Thus, she only sighed tiredly and wiped her hand over her face

When she looked back at her reflection, her face had been restored back to its usual radiance, herthe sa under this tree for an indeterminate amount of time, yet only after he felt Elaru’s familiar warm aura wash over him did he wake up from his daze

Only then did it occur to him that he had no recollection of hohen he arrived here

He had been walking slowly, scarcely paying attention where he was going, his hts Out of habit he made his way to this fa what to do with hi about it now, he did have a vague recollection of walking here but theat the ti closer he let out a sigh of contentment Her presence felt like a ater bath on a cold winter night, instantly relaxing hi him up

He raised his eyes to ask her “What took you so long?” but before he could do so Elaru lunged at hi his entire body involuntarily stiffen

His head rigidlyhis waist and the red head burrowing into his chest, and suddenly blood rushed into his head

A second later he ju lunar with its hair standing up “Get! Off! What in the na?!”

“It’s called a hug” He could hear aa tickling yet electrifying current to spread from his navel to his li his utine what ly, this tied to push her away And evensatisfied that he had e, he felt… alave no sense of achieveht that youAnd I wanted to reotten yourself into”

And that’s when Kiel realized that his earlier episode didn’t go unnoticed by his little soullare melted and he looked away to hide his eet us into trouble… that’s your job…” Kiel mumbled under his breath

Elaru’schased by the entire Rroda faht, but decided not to bring that up Instead, she scanned hiood she was at controlling her facial expression Kiel could feel worry oozing out of her aura loud and clear

“Is your body feeling alright?” She didn’t wait for Kiel to respond before stuffing a bottle of healing pills into his ar pills”