+46 Pause : Talk ¹

My eyes started flickering as the heat of the bonfire burning besides me woke me up , I opened my eyes and saw the starry sky under which two men sat besides each other. Luckily I had my mask on which meant there were chances that my identity was still hidden. One of them was the person who was following me and the other older man sitting beside him was the one that hit me.

I closed my eyes before they noticed me and tried to act like I was sleeping.

'The older man was definitely someone to not mess with his presence was well hidden and thi-.'

'Yeah I was not going to do that anyw- Wait! why the hell are you in my mind!? and how the hell can you know what I'm thinking?'

At first it felt very familiar and nothing to be surprised by but then I came back to my senses. I could hear someone's voice in my head , luckily I could talk with him in my mind which meant that I wouldn't look like a idiot who was talking to himself whenever I replied to this voice.

I almost flinched seeing how comfortable I felt with the voice.

'Maybe this has something to do with the bloodline.'

The violent , aggressive man who was telling me to kill monsters and humans now felt more pleasant and comfortable for some reason. My doubts were cleared as he further explained me why he acted the he did before.

'Please don't say that you are one with me that sounds weird.'

After few moments of awkward silence he finally replied to my request.

'So then why don't you tell me your aim for being here?'

I tried to be on alert as much as possible but the voice just felt too familiar to me , the bloodline filled with my brain with a lot of information which I couldn't get in words. It was like locked information that I couldn't access , one more thing that I found weird was that my upper right canine tooth was grown like a vampire.

I was able to notice it as it once touched my lips , at first I didn't think much of it but then it kept touching. I moved my tongue around and tried to identify what it was and found my vampire like tooth. I thought of asking the voice but then didn't ask him as he couldn't even remember much about himself.

"Hey , you can stop with your acting."

'How did he know!?'

I got up from the grass I was lying on and turned my face towards the old man who knew I was acting.

"How did you know?"

"It was your breathing , when you woke up your breathing rhythm was disturbed."

"That could've been a nightmare , how were you so sure I was acting and not having a bad dreaming."

'I tried to keep my breathing as stable as possible so that he wouldn't notice the disturbance which was made when I woke up.'

"Okay I give up , the real reason I knew you were not asleep was because of my instincts.

'Ins-'

'Yeah how did he got to know that I was acting just from instincts , I didn't let out even a bit of killing intent or anything.'

I didn't ask him any questions further and looked around my surroundings , my daggers and sword was lying bedsides me covered with Garfon's blood.

"So first of all where did you get those weapons? There's only one place in the whole Kingdom where you can find those weapons."

He didn't ask me about my Half-Demon form or anything related to the fight , I also wasn't interested in going there so I replied to his questions.

"Those were given by the person who is training me , and if you know where the weapons are made then you should probably kneeling before me right now."

'Just as I thought these weapons are different from the normal weapons.'

When I went to search for my mask I came across many types weapons some were with high attack stats , some with high durability while some with special skills attached to it. But finding a dagger with 500 durability was impossible even if the weapon was A-Ranked. One more thing which made it special was the daggers didn't have any kind of special damage or skill to it.

"Hah , why should I be kneeling before? That brat took someone under him to train huh."

'That brat? Is he talking about Garius? Just who is he.'

Seeing that I didn't say anything he continued ,

"So how did you end up being his disciple? Did you get some kind of dirt on him to be his disciple?"

'What? Is it really that hard to get trained by Garius? He looked like a simple person but I knew he was a complicated person who always hid his true intentions.'

"I just told him that I can become a swordmage in 3 months and so here I am."

'Just shut up.'

"Oh becoming a swordmage in 3 months is quite a challenge , but don't you know that Garius became a swordmage in just a month and half. What makes you so special?"

Hearing his words surprised me as the whole point of my training was so that I could surpass the person who had the Title of Lord. Something he couldn't achieve was my aim.

'Was all I did till now meaningless?'

Of course it wasn't , even if he was a swordmage it wouldn't change the fact that I could become one too and become stronger by obtaining those powers. But for some reason I couldn't help but feel that way.

"Ah if he took you in cause of that demon form of your I saw before then I haven't taught him enough."

'Taught him enough? well it doesn't matter anyways.'

"No , he doesn't know of my these powers. This was something I awakened when I was training , also while we are at it I'm sorry for attacking that child. I couldn't control my power that time which is why attacked the kid."

"Oh , interesting. So what is your reason to fight?"

'He knows Garius for sure , that's the same question he asked me when I met him first time.'

"You and Teacher have a lot in common , that's the same question he asked me the first time I met him. At that time I was fighting to become stronger , why did I wanted to become stronger? It was so that I couldn't lose someone closer to me."

"But now I've someone to protect that's my reason to fight. When I met her all the doubts in my mind were cleared , the old confused me who wasn't interested in anything was able to see the world more clearly. I was able to understand the true meaning of family , my life completely changed because of her. That's why I wish to be powerful enough to protect her."

The old man didn't looked like a bad person plus he was acquainted with Garius so I didn't doubt him much. He listened to what I had to say and talked about the days he spent with Garius.

Apparently he was the one who trained Garius , I was quite surprised hearing that. He was from one of then retainer family which served the Serven Family. The old man's family specialized in the military and combat ability , which is why he was Garius's teacher.

After talking with him for about half and hour I was able to see the resemblance between the old man and Garius. From his personality to his thinking all of them were quite similar to Garius. The young boy was already asleep hearing all the stories.

While we were at the topic of Serven Family , I told him about Lecilia and my interaction. But after hearing my feelings towards her the pleasant looking old man's attitude completely changed.

"Hey brat , do you really believe you love her?"