Chapter 366: Bow Down! (1/2)

”Hey, hey.” Jerach jogged to keep up with Leonel, his heavy armor causing the paved roads to quake.

Leonel looked back and couldn't help but smile.

”You know, for someone with such a strong wind affinity, shouldn't you wear something lighter than this, baldy? Who knows, your hair might grow back if you stop straining yourself so much.”

”What do you know?!” Jerach snapped like a cat that had its tail stepped on. Clearly, his baldness was a soft spot. ”It's precisely because I have a high wind affinity that I should take full advantage of it. Who else could wear such heavy army and yet still be so fast?”

Leonel shook his head and didn't reply to these words.

They sounded logical, but the truth was that Jerach's speed would never reach its full potential like that. Just from what Leonel could see alone, he would easily be two or three times faster if he took his armor off.

On top of that, he would never be as sturdy as someone with an earth affinity either. So, he was essentially becoming decent at many things in exchange for losing out at being excellent in one lane.

In a world where your life was on the line at every turn, Leonel felt that this was a mistake. But, he didn't press Jerach too much. He still needed a bodyguard, after all.

”… So who are you really?” Jerach asked curiously, leveling out his steps with Leonel.

”I told you already, Leonel Morales.” Leonel replied casually, looking toward the next monument.

”You know that's not what I mean. You use a translator, so you're obviously not from this world. I hear you came out of the same carriage as Syl, but you both deny being betrothed – you should probably hide that from that madman, by the way. If he finds out that something like that happen, he might kill you for defiling his little sister.”

Jerach rambled.

”I'm from Earth.” Leonel finally responded as Jerach had a pause.

”Earth?!”

Jerach's steps stopped.

Leonel frowned, looking back toward Jerach. ”Is there a problem?”

”… No.” Jerach shook his head.

Leonel raised an eyebrow. Was there a need for such an exaggerated reaction? Terrain was just as bad a name as Earth, after all. It could be said that all their ancestors needed some better naming sense.

Leonel wanted to say something about Jerach's weird reaction, but he realized that they had already made it to the first monument. On the way to the Emperor abodes, Leonel had already mentally marked the locations of a few monuments.

Unfortunately, Leonel was so focused on the monuments before him and how they could help him find Aina that he had completely missed the complicated gaze Jerach looked toward his back with.