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When Cold Flame and the rest returned to the Archduchy in the evening, Michelle wasn't in her room. They went to look at her and found her lying on the ground on the training grounds, her eyes closed and her face ghastly pale. She felt their presence and opened her eyes, staring at them.

"What happened to you, Michelle?" Marengo asked in shock.

But Michelle didn't even feel like answering, so Nyxaroth turned into a speck of black mist and entered her body to check her condition. After a while, he came back out and looked at her with a disapproving, nearly accusing frown. "Why did you overuse your soul energy? Do you want to sleep for days again?"

Michelle finally sat up and yawned a bit. "Father was supervising me, so I wouldn't overuse it too much..." she said lazily as she rubbed her purple eyes.