Chapter 149 - At arms' length

The pair of youngsters, Aziel's only friends from school, the pair of Jake and Jay somehow found themselves as the target of this local gang's cruel assault.

Still, it wasn't this peculiar mystery that brought Aziel and his aide, Sarah's interest, and earned their assistance. No, if Aziel wouldn't have felt the familiar resonance in the air, the disturbance in the [Aether], he wouldn't have bothered to stop, even if he were to have felt his so-called 'friends' to be in trouble.

In reality, Aziel never thought of them as true friends, not in the truest sense of the word. Perhaps acquaintances, but nothing more for the time being… Ever since the betrayal of his so called 'family' and their cruel backstabbing that ended up with his expulsion and his old self being utterly destroyed by their vicious schemes, Aziel didn't like the feeling of allowing anyone close to his true self.