18 City of Ravens 4 (1/2)

A week after I met with Emily. I was still staying at my parent's house, training every day my strength quickly increased. I told Master about the heat that I felt when exercising, he had no idea what that was but since it was helping I was supposed to use it to the fullest.

With the heap of the symbols on my arm, my body grew, not only stronger but also taller. From the already high 180 centimeters, I grew more than ten centimeters, forcing me to spend more money buying new clothes. With this sudden grow surprisingly I stayed thin, but my muscles became harder and more defined.

My soul also almost reached the limit, and soon I will have to condense it again. My control already reached the limit and now that I knew there is a bottleneck on it I didn't waste my time trying to force it.

As for Emily up till now, I received one text day after we met saying that her computer is dead, and it will delay her. With nothing to do here, I packed my things and got ready to leave when I got a phone call from Emily.

”Hello.”

”Dominique, hi. Listen I have something to tell you, how about we meet in person. Remember where we first met? The Belgia Café. We should meet there.”

Belgia Café? We first meet in… Is there a problem? Maybe she is in trouble?

”Sure. How is Nate? Is he still trying to ask you out?”

”YES! But he stopped being so discrete.”

Nate asking her out means trouble. But discrete? If it is Nate then it doesn't make sense, but considering that she is speaking in code, then it can only mean that someone was or is observing her. There is also a possibility of someone listening to this call. This is not fun at all.”

”I will meet you there as soon as I can.”

”Thank you.”

When the call ended, I took out the sim card out of my phone, just in case. I dressed in my armor and covered it with a hoodie, put on my backpack and started running towards the university. I passed by cars, with my current physique I could run much faster than before, and twenty minutes later I was at the reception.

I scanned the surrounding looking for Emily, the crowd of students moving back and forth made it difficult. Or it could be that I was overthinking things and she made a mistake and really wanted to meet at the café.

I had to make sure that I was not mistaken and started to look around for places from where she could see the reception but stay hidden. And when I was about to give up, I found a spot in the corner of the room, hidden behind a plant. Wearing a baseball cap, glasses oversized hoodie and loose pants. In obvious disguise pretending to read a magazine was Emily.

I made my way up to her and sited down beside her. At first, she panicked but seeing that it was me she relaxed and continued pretending that she was reading the magazine she was holding.

”Tell me what's with the talking in a code, and the disguise. Quickly, because I'm kinda scared. And if it really is Nate causing problems then I can help, he already tried to send goons after me. And it didn't end well for him.”

”What?! Nate sent people after you?! That filth of a person. He and his whole Mafia playmaking trouble everywhere. But no, it's not Nate. He wouldn't dare to do something like this. And thank god that you are smart, I wasn't sure if you would understand what I meant.”

”Ok, now you are making it even scarier. What happened?”