Chapter 115 - Recovering while Moving (1/2)

Ch. 115: Recovering while Moving

“Anyways, we’ve got to get to the ruins.”

Loren declared as he walked swiftly through the dark of night.

While there was no response from Dia, Lapis asked him with a questioning look.

“If this exam is indeed rigged, wouldn’t it be pointless to go there?”

“No, what should be there is definitely there.”

Lapis couldn’t understand why Loren could say so with such confidence, so she continued to ask him.

“If the plan is to kill Dia during the exam, wouldn’t it be pointless to ready anything?”

Lapis couldn’t help but think that readying something with no intention of giving it was pointless, but it seemed that Loren had a different opinion.

“Not really. If there wasn’t, it would raise suspicion among the other Elders.”

Loren thought that there would be no way the other Elders wouldn’t be tracking the movements of Sierra, since she was the one who made the test.

What Sierra was to give Dia if she passed it.

It was something to help Dia create her own base of operations as an Elder, but what would happen if the other Elders noticed that it wasn’t prepared?

“Let’s say she did prepare everything. What do you plan on doing?”

“Easy. We take it and go against Sierra.”

Dia looked up at him when he mentioned opposing Sierra, but Loren continued.

“So what if someone who is going to be on her own parts ways with her master? It’s a different story if you aren’t prepared, but since you are, don’t be crying about opposing her.”

“But…”

“If you like her so much, then get strong enough that she can’t hurt you. And then you can try or even force her to be friendly. Or do you think that if she thinks you’re a nuisance, you should let her kill you?”

“No, not at all…”

As Dia mumbled, Loren stuck a finger between her eyebrows.

As Dia widened in surprise, Loren twisted his finger and pushed into her head.

“Then think about what you could do. She won’t be appearing during the test anymore, anyway.”

As Loren flicked her forehead with his finger, Dia glared at him with teary eyes, but seeing her covering where he had pushed into, seemed to him that a bit of her brazenness had returned.

“You think that Sierra won’t intervene anymore?”

Lapis, who had been watching the whole thing, decided to speak up, seeing that Dia seemed to be feeling slightly better.

Although he had tried to encourage her and succeeded in doing so slightly, he knew that she needed time to collect her thoughts, so Loren decided to answer Lapis’ question.

“She won’t. If my prediction is correct.”

“May I ask what it is?”

“It’s because if Sierra really wants to kill Dia, she would take one of the many easier ways to do so.”

Sierra was Dia’s master and with Dia being very fond of her, and on top of that, she knew Dia’s True Name.

Loren thought that there would’ve been plenty of chances and methods to get rid of her without waiting for the exam.

There should’ve been a reason why she didn’t do so until now, and Loren was guessing it was appearance.

“Well, normally thinking, if a student that is more skilled than the master suddenly dies or is killed, the first to be suspected is the master.”

“That was why she hadn’t tried to kill her?”

“Yeah, and she waited for a time like this, and most likely leaked information to people who had no problem killing her.”

Although Lapis understood what Loren was talking about, there were still some things that bothered her.

“Then she could’ve just killed all of us at the beginning of the exam, no? There’s no reason to wait until now, is there?”

Loren shook his head at Lapis’ words.

“If the student is incapable, the reputation of the master drops. If she takes pride in her magical skills, having others say behind her back that she was horrible at teaching would be unbearable.”