Chapter 175 - #174 Final Preparations (1/2)
*RUMBLE* The ground began to shake violently and Kiyomi quickly arrived near Taeko and Mear who still had dumbfounded expression while looking at the volcano.
Kiyomi started pulling Taeko's sleeve with her beak which finally woke her up.
”Hm? Do you want us to leave? But what about Akashi?!” Taeko exclaimed when she felt Kiyomi's intentions.
”If she wants us to leave that means that Akashi's life isn't in danger plus there isn't anything we can do. He is the one who can control flames, we are just humans in front of active volcano!” Mera also recovered and explained while jumping on Kiyomi's back and extending her hand towards Taeko.
Taeko gritted her teeth and grabbed Mera's hand and got up on Kiyomi's back before they took off, leaving all unimportant things in the camp.
When they were safe distance above the island, the volcano finally erupted as surges of lava started spewing everywhere and all Danger Beasts started to run towards the edge of the island.
”!!! Where is he?” Taeko kept attentively observing everything happening not to miss a single detail.
”?! There!” Mera pointed over Taeko's shoulder towards the figure that just burst out from the volcano along the lava.
Kiyomi quickly flew down to catch Akashi and the girls helped by catching him.
They put him down on their thɨġhs, Mera wasn't really thinking about those things in such dangerous situations and just let Akashi rest on her thɨġhs. Taeko actually glared at her for a split second but she quickly turned to Akashi to check on him.
*cough* *Huff* *huff* ”haha” Akashi was out of the breath but he still found the strength to laugh a bit.
”? Where did those clothes came from?” Only now Mera noticed that Akashi was actually wearing strange clothes that completely didn't suit his style of clothing he always wore. He was currently wearing a big, open, long-sleeved black shirt, exposing his bȧrė ċhėst. Then he was wearing dark blue pants, both of the clothes were tried together by a pure crimson belt.
”Akashi, are you alright?” Taeko asked gently as she put her hand behind his head to support it and with the other hand, she kept ċȧrėssing his cheek.
”Never been better, sorry for worrying you, you too Mera” Akashi said while looking at Taeko before he also glanced at Mera with a teasing smile.
”Hmph, if you are fine then everything is alright.” Mera said and threw her head to the side, avoiding eye contact with him.
However, Akashi completely ignored her words as he looked in front of him, at the sky.
Special Class: Kagutsuchi (+60 Cha, +30 Int, +20 Const, +10 Str, +10 Agi) [INACTIVE]
<Stats>
[Strength: 47 (95)]
[Agility: 50 (96)]
[Intelligence: 50 (89)]
[Charisma: 40 (106)]
Free Stat points: 18
[Health: 159/1000]
[Energy: 0/2500]
'If I already had confidence in winning without training and by expecting a big improvement from Esdeath, right now I can say that I will truly let her feel how it feels to be dominated!' Akashi thought with a wide smile while looking at the INACTIVE status of his new Special Class.
'He looks completely the same as before if I don't count his clothes...so why does he feel so different?! Why does it feel like I want to respect him even more? What the hell is this?!' Mera thought while frowning, she was completely confused by this huge change in Akashi's presence.
”Kiyomi, let's fly back” Akashi muttered in low voice before closing his eyes out of the exhaustion. The only thing that was keeping him awake was adrenaline but that already disappeared under Taeko's gently ċȧrėssing of his cheek.
”*sigh* Looks like he is fine” Taeko sighed in relief before pulling Akashi's head to her ample ċhėst with closed eyes.
After seeing this, even Mera who was playing to be indifferent couldn't help but smile a bit.
”Be careful not to suffocate him in his sleep” Mera said with a teasing smile and Taeko quickly put him back down on her thɨġhs with a faint blush on her face while folding her arms right under her brėȧsts.
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When Akashi woke up, he noticed that he was already lying on the bed in his room in the Capital.
He could hear low voices behind the door talking, he immediately recognized them as Taeko and his parents to which he began holding his head with an already tired expression just from what was about to happen when they get to know he is awake.
Coincidentally after enjoying 5 minutes of lazily lying in the bed, his parents and Taeko walked in, noticing that he is finally awake.
”Akashi!” All of them exclaimed as Taeko run to his bed.
”Yo” Akashi said while holding up his hand in greeting. His father chuckled but his mother actually got a bit mad.
”Don't ”yo” me!” This was the first sentence he heard before Akashi turned off his mind to ignore the rest of her ranting.