Episode 146 – Hope (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 She meets up with Kiel and he tells her about what happened to him earlier

Episode 146 – Hope

“Then you don’t have any Aethernea that I know of” Elaru shrugged helplessly “If you have an Aethernea at all…”

Peeping Tos?

…people driven to do strange things…?

And et it Aethernea wielders are a bunch of weirdos… I certainly don’t belong in that group

Misunderstanding Kiel’s strange look, Elaru reached out to pat his head in an attempt to console hi that she was shorter than him and had to fully extend her arreat They are just as ift”

Kiel looked at the aay the redhead was patting hih or cry He didn’t even have the strength to move away at this point, lest she came up with another less acceptable way to ‘co affection, this was certainly the least touchy

“You know, the majority of Aethernea wielders don’t survive the birth andsoon after And that’s not even the curse I aic is burdensome on both the body and the mind Mortals weren’t meant to wield divine power And there is no way to turn this tiring andpower off Besides those lucky bastards with Aethernea of Life, the rest of us will probably not live past 60”

Kiel didn’t respond He evenup his hair with her pats Painful sourness swelled up within his chest The idea that soht in front of him was too unpleasant to think about What surprised hiht about wasn’t the fact that he would return back to his non-e self if Elaru died

What is this unbearable sense of loss?

…I guess there is some compassion left in er viewed Elaru as a stranger unrelated to him

But then, as she to him? A friend? A partner? A person he could rely on and be himself with?

Did the exact classification even matter? Kiel shook his head “Then I better reach success in life before the age of 60” He attehten the mood

Elaru let out a huic with our life Like a candle flauess it is not far fro Kiel on the head, not realizing in the slightest that his eyebrow had started twitching violently “Not to mention that it is a real mana drain I mean, I don’t have mana issues, but the ift, thedo you intend to continue patting erated h is enough!

“Why would wielders have ic supposed to be able to consuazed at the redhead with narrowed eyes, his slihten out his ruffled hair

“Aha!” Elaru raised her index finger victoriously, co “It is! But it certainly won’t go out of its way to feed on some distant mana when there is a close and convenient alternative nearby”

“So basically, it will continuously suck your mana and only search for alternative sources when you run dry?”

“Pretty much”

Kiel’s eyes flashed with realization followed by his eyebrows furrowing in thought “Could it be the reason why I’m a non…?”

“Not likely” Elaru cut him off “IPOMQ sounds too lackluster to be a divine ability”

Straight through the heart! Kiel felt like puking blood Can you not be so direct?! I get it! I am not as special as you!

“I mean, there are many weird abilities out there, but the nuers” Elaru elaborated “Just look at Tanyers, some of them have hair that is sensitive toon theirIPOMQ to unruly hair?! Are youfun offuriously “Would it kill you to talk less?!”

Elaru stared at Kiel’s livid expression in utter speechless confusion

“It is a pretty kickass ability” She tried to appease the fu boy next to her

“What? IPOMQ?” Indeed, his face brightened up

“No, the gravity-defying hair” Aaaaand Kiel’s face turned even blacker, yet Elaru still continued: “I saw a scion of the Tanyer fa a few ti there doing nothing”

The next thing Elaru knew, as if the lightning struck frorabbed her soft cheek, pinching it viciously

“Ouch, ouch, ouch!” She reflexively swatted Kiel’s arm away but her sas too weak to rescue herself fro hirievance “Theears and aggrieved look that was an ultimate combination of cuteness and seductiveness, Kiel concluded that he had adrettably, let go of her soft cheek

Scion of the Tanyer fae of a handso eyes popped up in Kiel’s uy indeed has a certain “cool” quality about hiru at Elaru as she rubbed her red cheek with a pout that was too soul-stirring to be legal

As Kiel looked towards the large clock above the exit of Muni ticking away the time to the release of exa upwards That’s right He was a man Men didn’t bicker omen They had other ways toof all the ways he could punish the vixen when she provoked hirass and those white puffy clouds looked sodown see could co on the face of the girl next to him

The eerie sea of white still spread as far as the eye could see as if taunting them