Chapter Closed? (2/2)

Those were Max's current thought...

Aria was a nice girl, but Max had his difficulties. If they had met in an ordinary world, things might have turned differently…but thinking about pointless things wasn't Max's way of doing things…..

”Oh…” Aria had a weird feeling welling up her chest which she was unable to describe. She had expected it. But hearing it directly from his mouth was indeed different.

”Who is it?” She knew but still asked.

”I can't tell you her name…” Max refused. He had never been willing to involve himself with Lisa or Elly in the public.

Even though things somehow ended up like that, he had asked people to keep quiet about it so it probably wouldn't spread, at least he didn't want them to...

”Then do I know her?” Aria further asked.

Max looked at her with a complicated face. He nodded for some reason unable to understand why he did so himself. But looking at her dejected face, he couldn't lie again.

Anyway, Aria was quite popular and had a huge circle of friends and was involved in various activities. If she wanted to deduce the girl among her acquaintances the she could try as much as she wished...

”I see...you have been hiding it well.” Aria suddenly seemed to have cheered up and sprang back up to her feet with a smile.

”You better take care of her and be good to her. If you make her cry, then I will fight you to death for girl's right!!'' Aria turned around and started to walk, ”Let's move, I hear something in the distance...''

Max looked at her. His ears were better than anyone else and he didn't hear a thing…

Max didn't think much about her words and to him it seemed that she was just mumbling random words to hide her feelings….

Well, he was partially right...

He slowly walked behind Aria and starting at her back. He didn't know what kind of face she had, but it was better to not see it...

'She will provably get over it soon...' Max once again sighed.

Love wasn't easy....

Well, with this the Aria's chapter was closed. At least, Max thought so…..

….

On the other side...

The new morning brought new teams in the competition and a particular person could be seen to be very energetic….

”It's definitely him…” Lear said with a wry smile as he looked at the purple lightning flashing in the distance and smoke rising from several places around in the same direction.

Someone was definitely bringing on a trail of destruction along their every step.

”We should catch him before he thrashes another student and gets us a penalty…” Mark said as he looked at Lear. He had a proper grasp of his team situation after interacting with Axel and with his personality, he had already become familiar with them.

And after the competition, he would definitely be at the level where calling each other friends wouldn't be uncomfortable…

That was how Mark was...

…

In another place, Axel had bumped into another figure who was currently being besieged by a group of beasts.

The person wasn't easy to deal with. He spinned his axe around sending waves of water and pushing the beast away and breaking through the blockade.

It was Eren.

He looked exhausted. He had been desperately running around and had finally managed to find the way out of the place.

It seems he had appeared in the same area where they were about to conduct a raid today.

”Nice! It seems we already had a scout in there…” Axel laughed joyfully and loaded his rifle before shooting out to cover for Eren's escape route.