"Oh Delphy, thank goodness you are here!" Lavinia wheezed while grabbing her shoulders. "I am on a very serious mission to find Professor Jax and my sources promised he would be sowhere in this exact mall. I desperately need your help locating him before my feet just completely give up on ."
But then she caught sight of the familiar pair of eyes peering through a knight’s visor right behind Delphine’s fra. She abandoned Delphine imdiately, dashed to Jax and latched onto his arm while wheezing loudly. "Huuuff... huuuff... finally found you, Professor."
Jax tried his hardest to shake her off but her grip was fused to his arm like she had been welded there. "If you stalked all the way here just to cry about rethinking your test or beg for grace marks then my answer is a rock solid no."
Lavinia managed between gasps. "No, Professor, I swear I did not co here for—"
But before she could finish her sentence a voice cut through the entire mall from a distance with enough volu to make every head in the building turn.
"What in the hell is going on here?!"
Not only did the group freeze but the entire surrounding audience did too because Astrid had just announced her presence to the whole mall and she was not happy about what her eyes were showing her.
She walked toward them with her gaze locked onto Jax. "I leave you completely alone for a few asly minutes and you are already up to so nonsense."
Jax said imdiately. "You are getting the situation entirely wrong. These girls only ambushed here to cry about their final test scores."
Astrid crossed her arms and a vein visibly bulged on her forehead. "And who exactly argues about grades while clinging onto soone like a leech?"
Her eyes dropped to the sight of Lavinia’s incredibly generous chest currently crushing itself against Jax’s trapped arm and a wave of fiery jealousy hit her so hard it nearly knocked her composure off a cliff.
A truly devastating realization echoed through her mind. ’I really should have listened to my father when he kept telling to drink more milk to grow properly.’
But she shoved that thought aside and scread with enough fury to rattle the store windows. "ALBERT!"
A man appeared from the crowd. It was Albert, out of his armor and dressed like a civilian, but the terror on his face was fully militarized. He was already dreading whatever order was about to land on his head especially with this many witnesses around.
Astrid commanded. "Get this girl out of my sight this very second."
Albert moved instantly, grabbing Lavinia and pulling her away from Jax with trained efficiency before his lady’s mood could escalate into sothing that involved actual bloodshed in a public mall.
But Lavinia protested loudly. She fought against Albert’s grip with everything she had and in her desperate resistance she shoved Jax’s trapped arm deep between the gap of her massive assets and squeezed. "I absolutely cannot leave like this because I am on a highly classified mission to deliver a love letter directly to Professor Jax!"
Hearing those dangerously cursed words Albert paused dead in his tracks without receiving any order to stop. A wave of pure existential dread hit his soul and in that mont he deeply cursed his father for swearing eternal loyalty to the Aleris bloodline.
Astrid’s voice dropped to sothing lethally quiet. "What exactly did you just say?"
Lavinia pulled a letter from her pocket while still being held by Albert and waved it proudly. "So incredibly beautiful girl entrusted with this very important job of acting as a bridge to deliver her true feelings because she was probably just too shy to confess directly! She is definitely head over heels for the Professor considering she knew his exact location and even knew he would be wandering around in knight armor!"
Jax snatched the letter from her hand and crushed it in his fist. "It’s bullshit. I don’t even—"
Astrid’s voice ca cold and surgical. "If you truly do not care about this girl then you should have absolutely no problem letting read this letter to learn her na and your entire story together. Finding all that out will simply make it incredibly easy for to select the perfect magnitude of her death and your punishnt."
Jax didn’t say a single word. Not because he was guilty but because he had absolutely no clue what was happening and any response he gave right now had a hundred percent chance of making things worse.
Astrid took the crumpled letter from his frozen hand and unfolded it with the patience of soone preparing to read a death warrant.
She began reading out loud. "Dear Jax. I am truly sorry I was unable to et you and convey my deep feelings toward you in person due to so unavoidable factors. I am also incredibly sorry for secretly studying every little detail about you from the shadows. But there is absolutely no denying the fact that the more I learn about you, the harder I fall. Each and every single act of yours simply makes crave you more."
Astrid paused. She looked up at Jax who was visibly sweating inside his helt. Then she looked back down at the crumpled paper and continued.
"I recently discovered how you went completely solo to save the Queen of Veldora. I was honestly quite stunned by your heroics and admired it to the point where I desperately wanted to witness that exact scene with my own two eyes rather than just hearing the rumors."
Her reading voice was getting slower now. Colder.
"And surprise. The gods actually heard my wish and told to simply recreate the entire scenario myself. But this ti I get to choose exactly how much difficulty to add, just to see how far the person I admire will truly go."
Astrid’s grip on the letter tightened.
"Let us see how you manage to save her from my grip this ti, Jax. I am patiently waiting for your grand arrival. And so is the lovely little hostage trapped here beside ."
The air in the mall had gone completely dead.
"You might want to hurry up though, because I just discovered a truly fascinating little secret. I can clearly sense a tiny secondary mana core forming deep inside her belly."
Astrid’s hands were shaking now. Not from jealousy. Not from anger. From sothing far worse.
"Let us see if you can save both of them today."
She read the final line in a voice that had lost every trace of emotion.
"From your dearest admirer, Loki."
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