Chapter 75 - #74 Part of the Secret discovered (2/2)
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'Why am I the one being yelled at?!! What the hell?!' Green thought with a dumbfounded expression.
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”*sigh* I would welcome it if you didn't put any weird images of me in girls' minds. Just because the marking is placed in a ”difficult” place doesn't mean that it's because of ŀust. Plus being born as noble in one of the most prominent families, I have been trained against seduction so my ŀust is on extremely low levels.” I sighed and said to Green with a stoic face.
”I am sorry, that wasn't my intention...” Green just replied with a forced smile when he noticed Poney's hateful glare.
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'*sigh* Two Najasho in one team.' Everyone thought when they saw Akashi's stoic face.
Instantly when everyone thought of the same thing, Najasho suddenly stopped walking and turned around, glaring at them as if he felt them slandering him.
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There are too few cities on the way to Putolu so we would have to camp outside a few times.
I was currently having night duty with Poney. And I instantly understood why her of all people here...They didn't want to ȧssign Kurome to me since she was my companion and they still don't know us very well and another point is...I am a man. They probably make all the time teams of girls and boys together.
I thought with a slightly annoyed expression while throwing a small branch to the campfire since I felt like they were treating me as some kind of pervert.
I really wonder how other boys behave around them since they need to do this...
Anyway, this is a good chance for me to try something I wanted to try for a long time. The only possible problem here is Poney...
I thought while glancing at her sitting opposite to me.
”Hm? Is there something wrong?” She asked me with a puzzled expression.
”No...I will practice for a bit so don't get surprised.” I said and drew my sword from the scabbard.
”?! Practice? Right now?” She asked me with a completely dumbfounded expression while tilting her head to the side.
”It's a different kind of practice. I will be practicing my connection with my sword.” I replied and cut my right palm with my own sword and then tightly gripped the blade with my bleeding hand.
[Health: 720/750]
”?! Connection?” She was surprised when she saw how I easily cut myself without any change in my expression or without any hesitation.
”Spiritual connection to be more precise.” I said and looked at my sword slowly absorbing my blood while the blade started slightly glow in red color.
When I felt that it no longer wants my blood in this way, I gripped the hilt of my sword with my injured hand.
I tightened my grip as much as I could making bleeding even more severe.
[Health: 700/750]
”Hey, are you alright?” Poney asked with a slightly concerned expression when she noticed blood slowly pouring out of my palm.
Suddenly...I felt like my connection with my sword to break thought some kind of barrier and I could finally feel a clear connection to it instead of just a faint connection.
When I felt this...I immediately knew what I should do as if the sword itself was hinting me.
”Sword” I muttered with a half-open eyes while tightening my grip on the hilt.
*Splash* The blood suddenly splashed out of my hand gripping the hilt of the sword and Poney widened her eyes in shock.
From the hilt, spikes came out of nowhere and pierced my palm and stopped only when they pierced through my entire hand.
[Health: 650/750]
I felt as if my sword was slowly drinking my blood through those spikes and the slightly dull red blade started glowing and by looking at it, one could almost see the blood flowing inside it. The blade became redder and redder each second and I could feel that it was becoming much stronger.
”Wait here, I will be back in a few seconds.” I suddenly said
”Huh? Wait a m-” Poney wanted to say something but I already jumped a safe distance away from the camp but Poney was still able to see me. I mainly let her see me because I didn't want her to grow suspicious of me or something.
I also didn't want to wake up everyone.
When I was far enough from the camp, I looked up at the dark sky filled with stars. I gripped my sword even more tightly.
”ha!” I released a low shout and performed diagonal slash towards the dark sky.
*screech* A crimson-colored energy fired from my sword in the same arc as my slash towards the sky while being accompanied by piercing sound. The energy traveled for a few seconds until it finally dispersed in the sky.
Looks like I found part of this sword's secret. Thankfully, I moved far enough so that piercing sound shouldn't have woken up anyone.
I thought with a small smile while looking at the glowing red blade of my sword.
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While on the other side, Poney who watched all of this had wide-open eyes since she was sure that crimson-colored energy wasn't created by sending a wave of wind with his strike.
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