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"N-no!, you pig!" Zeph’s eyes helplessly observed Chrono’s satisfied expression due to the delicacy he ate just now.
"Bad manners, Black Pearl." Diana took Chrono back while Zeph’s hand was still in the sa position, blankly looking forward. The only thing inside his mind was curses, one for his luck.
"Hey Diana, you know, luck is the most evil thing in this world." Zeph thought deeply. His emotions wanted to burst, but he wanted to tell the harsh reality of this world to that girl.
"Woah, Zeph, I found a leaf in his mouth!" Diana took a small leaf stuck in Chrono’s teeth, pointing it towards Zeph.
SWISH
Zeph’s figure blurred before materializing in front of Diana, startling her since she couldn’t catch up to his speed. He swiftly snatched it back.
"It can do the thing." Zeph, in the middle of the night, left the dormitory room, heading towards sowhere, preparing for tomorrow’s test.
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In the morning, the sun rays fell on the gates of Valeria Academy, revealing a bunch of students standing while preparing to head towards the practical grounds.
"Everyone, rember to form a team in the provided order," Professor Liamian ordered every student to form a team, and each student went towards their team mbers.
’As expected,’ Zeph saw Laila, Estelle, and Jia approaching him. He could clearly understand what was happening here.
Estelle, the girl known for her haughty personality, coupled with her race belonging to the Cratens, who are typically stronger in water. On the other side, Jia, a demi-human, whose identity is only known by Professor Adriannel. And finally, Laila, the real target of today’s hunt.
According to the novel, Laila’s ability to talk to animals was sothing that threatened the Christian valley. The reason being her active ability being convincing.
aning, unlike humans whom one can talk to and convince about doing sothing, animals may communicate, but they can’t overco their natural instinct of hunting, indirectly making it hard to control them in the long run.
And Laila’s ability just helped in that. She was able to convince the animals to follow her orders, making her a threat if she beca stronger.
"Hello, my na is Zeph. And you?" Zeph offered his hand, ignoring Estelle standing beside him. His focus was on Laila instead of both third-year students giving him death glares.
After yesterday’s events, Estelle was not in a good mood. The intervention of Valeriana and subsequently Thalia, too, both of whom she found troubleso due to her past life mories.
She sowhat expected Thalia to intervene, since she had seen her since the mont they returned from Thallasar. But Valeriana was out of her expectations.
The most detached figure in all her lives seed to take an interest in this boy, who was her only key to change everything.
Her eyes observed both Zeph and Laila introducing themselves, seeing such friendliness from both when they just t today, confused her even more.
When they first t in the ocean, of course, their eting was not good which led to a fight. But still, it was not hidden that Zeph seed to avoid her for so reason.
"Zeph, why not introduce us too?" Jia intervened, noticing Estelle’s eyes. Her gaze was slightly upward due to her height but was enough to make Zeph frown.
’She seems fine for now,’ Zeph put his hand inside his pocket before taking out a pill which seed green in color. Placing it forward, he stated, "Eat it, Jia."
"Is it an aphrodisiac?" Interrupting in the middle was another voice, causing them to turn and see Clara, the girl who had a crush on Alexios, entering the group.
"Y-you!?" Jia glared at Zeph while clenching her jaws. Not that he cared, he took the pill back.
"Calm down, I was kidding." Zeph turned and left the place due to noticing soone observing them from afar.
It was Professor Liamian.
"Zeph! Co over here." Thalia signaled Zeph to co towards her while feeling relieved due to the marking she placed yesterday on him to keep him safe.
’Hey, will he be teleported instantly?’ Thalia inquired with her artifact, her anxiety visible.
[ Yes, Master, I can feel the connection. ]
"What happened? Do you want to feed that pill to Jia?" Thalia was observing everything, her intuition letting her feel Zeph’s intentions to feed that thing to Clara.
"Yes, if you may." Zeph’s eyes beca soft. Naturally, he had decided to spend so more ti with her, but seeing her take the pill without even asking anything, he hugged her in front of everyone.
GASP
"Z-Zeph?!" Suddenly, such an approach from Zeph caused her face to turn crimson, feeling a surge of emotions shrouding her which was not there before. But his touch seed to do so magic.
"Fine, I have decided. Let’s do it after coming back from the practical," hearing Zeph’s words, Thalia’s mind fell into turmoil, understanding the aning behind his words, while weakly nodding.
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All the students entered the area inside the Black Forest, the sa place that was filled with bad mories for Thalia.
"Hey, Jia."
Being called like this, Jia turned towards the voice only to witness a girl approaching her. Looking towards the familiar figure, Jia stated, "What do you want, Thalia?"
Of course, after knowing about Estelle’s and Zeph’s chemistry, being her secretary, Jia had dug into information related to Zeph, where she found out about Duchess Kassidy’s son having a fiancée too. Coincidentally, Jia found out everything about Viscount Crimwell too.
"Can you co over here for a mont?" Thalia calmly stated, making Estelle, who stood beside Jia, narrow her gaze. Looking towards Thalia, she couldn’t help but ponder, ’Now, what is she thinking?’
Still, she couldn’t do much and just gave confirmation to Jia who asked for permission. Looking towards both Thalia’s and Jia’s disappearing backs behind a tree, her eyes montarily turned towards Zeph, who was engaged in conversation with Valeriana.
"Now, tell , what do you want from , Thalia Crimwe—BANG!" Before Jia could complete her sentence, a fast punch hit her gut, causing her eyes to widen from the strength of the mana-infused fist.
"Agghh!" Jia cried out, and without any hesitation, Thalia took out the pill, placing it on her palm, and covered Jia’s face, causing the pill to slide down her mouth.
"Ackk!" Jia tried to speak but was silenced by Thalia, whose eyes were fixed on her while clenching her mouth tightly before pushing Jia back.
Tack
Her body collided with the tree bark, while her eyes reflected the figure of the erald-eyed woman, pushing her while slowly bringing her face closer as she stayed.
"How dare you think that Zeph was interested in you, heh?"
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