The Touch's family temporary villa.
Gracier could be seen playing with a bird; she would feed this bird and observe her reaction as she played with its wings when the bird was busy eating.
Suddenly, as if the bird sensed soone approaching, she flapped its wings and ran away.
Gracier's face darkened, she was displeased that soone disturbed her fun ti, but her expression turned lively when she saw who it was.
''Saeko, welco back.'' She said and ran toward Saeko, hugging her.
''Ugh!"
''Did you just grunt?" Gracier asked.
''Yes'' Saeko responded before trying to separate herself from Gracier, the latter reluctantly let go.
''You are no fun,'' Gracier mumbled.
'Not you too.' Saeko thought this was the second ti she had heard that sentence.
''Let's fight,'' Gracier said, trying to grab Saeko, who easily dodged her.
''See? It's why I was grunting as I knew you'd say that. Give a break; I'm tired.''
The mont Saeko saw Gracier, she knew the latter would say sothing like this.
''Hum! Okay. I'll let you rest.'' Gracier said and didn't pursue Saeko. She was surprised by this because usually, Gracier wouldn't easily let her go like this; she wondered if the little princess had matured.
However, right when she took her third step, she heard Gracier mumbling sothing, and she froze.
''I will go see big brother and have a chat with him.''
'I'm a fool to have expected sothing. She is the devil. So shaless.' Saeko thought; putting on a smile, she spun and said.
''Thinking about it, I've just leveled up, and I need to see how strong I've beco.''
''What a good spirit. Follow . I have what you need.'' Gracier said before heading toward the training ground located behind the garden.
Saeko felt like crying but had no tears. She could only follow Gracier even if she didn't want to. It was not because she already knew the result of this fight beforehand, nor was it because she threatened her with Alex but simply because, from every defeat, she would gain sothing.
Looking at the two departing girls from the balcony, Alex chuckled, and Maria sitting beside him, couldn't help but ask.
''Won't you stop them?"
''And why would I? It's just friendly spar. Even though the thod used for this to happen is a little questionable. It's just a friendly spar, and you know better than that Gracier is not doing this only for fun but because she genuinely wished to help Saeko improve with her second elent.'' Alex pointed out the real purpose of those sparring matches.
Today would be their tenth match, and in the previous fight, Saeko had never won. It was to be expected; while Saeko was talented, in front of a monster like Gracier, she stood no chance. Without hesitation, Gracier's battle instinct was even more exceptional than that of Alex; when it cos to fighting, her brain worked faster than anybody.
And about what Alex had just said, Maria could only sigh. She understood what Gracier was trying to do, just that she wished she wouldn't overdo it. Like most of them, Saeko could use two elents: Lightning and Fire. However, she was only proficient in one of them, the lightning elent.
Gracier saw that she could beco exceptional with the Fire elent, and since then, she had been training her using sparring as an excuse. She would first crush her when she used her lightning elent before forcing her to rely on her Fire elent; slowly but surely, Saeko was becoming good at handling the Fire elent.
It was said that Gracier's goal was to make Saeko capable of combining these two elents. The result would be sothing interesting worth looking forward to.
''Okay, let's move towards the main topic,'' Maria said after shaking her head. Gracier's job should be left to Gracier.
''Yes, how many gold coins did we have?'' Alex asked.
''Currently around a million.'' Maria calmly responded. It was an astronomical amount of money, yet their faces remained passive.
''I see; how many new n do we have?" Alex asked another question.
''Around eighty and with this number, the number of n we have rose to hundred.'' Maria gave a detailed report about their current force.
One hundred special elites forces, it was not a lot but considering it was the quality over the quantity, Alex was happy, but he would increase the number of this special force; however, there was sothing that needed to be done first.
''Have you contacted Sera's father, Smith?"
''Yes, but he was not happy about you. He said what kind of son-in-law won't visit his father-in-law and will always use the excuse of being busy. He said you must co soon because it was Sera's mother's death anniversary.'' Maria answered, and as she expected, Alex's face beca serious when he heard the last words.
''When is it?"
''In five days.''
''Okay, it's doable. I will go. I was afraid it would be tomorrow because if it was, I could only apologize to Saeko's father, who invited us to tomorrow's festival. This festival will last three days. I'll leave right after the festival end.'' Alex made a plan after hearing Sera's mother's death anniversary would be in five days. He couldn't miss out on this opportunity.
At the sa ti, he would talk to Smith about his n's gears and weapons. Knowing he was the best blacksmith in the capital, he would create his n's weapons and gears; money was not an issue.
''Take so money to go on shopping with the others. Buy everything you want.'' Alex said as he stood up.
''And you?" Maria asked.
''I will look after Incursio. Who knows, maybe she might wake up.'' Alex replied.
''I see. I'll go see the others then. Don't overdo it, just rest.''
''Ok, I'll rest after visiting her,'' Alex promised before disappearing.
''Sigh! I wish the world would always be peaceful and we have no burden. How good would it have been? Better stop thinking about sothing unrealistic. Ti for so shopping between girls.'' Maria mumbled before disappearing.
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