(21) Making a song

Entering the villa, Lucas was greeted by Grace, who seems to be preparing to head out. 

The moment their eyes met, Grace's face froze like she had seen a ghost. 

"....So, Father's telling the truth. You experienced a second awakening..." Grace felt a headache arriving, she didn't know what kind of a mess Lucas would create in the future. 

Grace was a rank C awakener herself, so she could tell Lucas's current rank at a glance. She felt her head going blank because of it. 

D- rank, not E or E+ rank, but a D- rank awakener!

Grace knew that this meant that Lucas was one of the most talented people, who will be attending the anti-clock academy. She didn't want to believe this in her heart, but the reality was still what it was. 

The brother, whom she thought to be the most useless, might stand along with the awakener at the top. Thinking like this, she was grateful that she had not done something crossing the line with him. 

"Yeah." Answering her, Lucas just walked past her. 

[Ding! The host has changed Grace's impression of you, affecting the plot. Female lead aura -100, protagonist aura -100, Host's villain aura +200. Obtained 2,000 villain points.]

'Now she would hesitate when trying to do anything with me. It's for the best, I will truly start conquering her once the protagonist appears.' Lucas walked with no rush.

"Hey, did you awaken a talent for music?" Grace asked her last question when remembering what her friend said. 

She had received a call from a business friend out of nowhere, forwarding a video along with it too. When she looked at the content of the video, she truly was surprised. 

Lucas appeared like a totally different person in it. Her friend was stuck up in letting her meet Grace's brother, Lucas, too. 

"kinda," Lucas answered vaguely. 

Grace was dissatisfied with that answer, but thinking about how she had to introduce Lucas to her friend, she swallowed her sharp words. 

Their relationship was never that of a normal family, sharp words, sarcasm, or sneering was all they had done when talking with each other. 

Lucas might have been shameless and uncaring while asking favors, but Grace was not the same. More like, there had never been a case where she had to ask Lucas for something. 

This friend, who asked her for the introduction, was a very famous CEO in Survile. Making a connection with them was a must if Grace wanted to spread her influence in a certain industry. 

The music industry. 

Looking at Lucas, who was climbing the stairs calmly, Grace decided to talk with him at night. 

Click~

Opening the door, Lucas found Syuzia waving around a knife with sweat all over her face. There were two flat metal bracelets both on her wrist, putting additional pressure on her body. 

These two bracelets were ordered by Lucas online, costing around a million Ciel. They could be used for training even by a D rank awakener. 

Seeing Lucas, Syuzia immediately smiled, breaking her blank face. 

"How long have you been training for?" Lucas asked, watching Syuzia's ragged breathing. 

Taking a glance at the electric watch, Syuzia answered instantly: "More than two hours."

"Oh? Alright, you should stop for now. Take a bath and rest up." Lucas was surprised by Syuzia's hard-working attitude, but it appeared natural when thought deeply. 

Living in the underground arena, Syuzia's endurance must have been higher than others. 

Syuzia inexplicably stared at Lucas, waiting for him. 

'Ah, right. I promised to take a bath with her.' Lucas truthfully didn't have any motivation to play with Syuzia in the bath. 

'....I guess, I will play with her for a while. After a month, I won't have the time to do such a thing. She can just treat this as a precious memory.' Lucas decided to complete this task as a simple chore. 

"Haha~, hehehe, Papa, the water's too cold." For a while, Syuzia's happy voice was all that could be heard. 

'...She became a lot brighter than I expected.' Lucas smiled wryly, he just wanted Syuzia to live with a few more facial expressions. In the end, she turned out like this. 

'Oh well.' Lucas just poured the water on Syuzia's head through the hand faucet. 

Having taken a bath, Lucas just changed his clothes to a new one.

Sitting on the table, he took out a beautiful pen from the holder and opened up a blank page in the book. 

After considering it for a while, Lucas decided to make a piece on his past life's death. Putting emotions in notes makes them resonate with others, he could do it even without any emotions, thanks to supreme mastery, but Lucas still wanted to make something attached to his past life. 

'Let's take this new piece as a start for my new life.' Lucas smiled to himself. 

With no further ado, Lucas's hand began moving rapidly, sketching piano notes on the pages. He could do it faster on the mobile, but he wanted to pass his time somehow. 

'Plus, drawing it on the page will have no risk of it being stolen by hacking my phone.'

Time went by quietly, Lucas would only talk to Syuzia whenever he felt his mind tired. 

The scene of his sudden death played through his mind. It reverbed as the painful sensation took over his head, Cold sweat formed around his body subconsciously. 

'Sigh...I should buy a willpower trait in the future, I might just freeze after experiencing pain comparable to before my death.' Lucas planned, he was aware of his own limits more than anyone.

Within an hour, Lucas finished the new song with little to no difficulty. Music composing supreme mastery made it easier to create songs in many dimensions.

'I am going to reveal my singing ability in it too, I wonder what kind of reaction all the viewers will show.' Lucas stretched and got up. 

"Over?" Syuzia asked, looking at his movements. 

"Right, I told you that I will train you." Lucas remembered something and walked toward Syuzia, who sat on one of the corners of the bed. 

Pat~

Lucas patted Syuzia's head with no hesitation and began buying some of the effects in the system. 

[Assassin mastery: 500 villain points.]

[Minor realm breakthrough (F): 200 villain points]

The warm feeling rose up within Syuzia's body, similar to Lucas. The foreign knowledge flooded into her mind, assassination was distant to her, there was no use of such a thing in the underground arena. 

Dagger mastery was all Syuzia raised. 

"Train harder and breakthrough to E rank within a month, I am sure it is possible with your potential." Lucas gave some words of encouragement and looked at Syuzia's villain aura. 

[Villain aura: 4,200]

'Her villain aura should rise tremendously once she turns into an E rank awakener.' Satisfied, Lucas slept on the bed immediately.

Composing a piece and song for more than an hour had worn out his mind. 

"Wake me up at lunch time." Lucas ordered Syuzia in a fleeing voice and closed his eyes. 

"....Okay." Syuzia clutched her dress slightly, 'There must have been a price for bestowing power Like this....'