Chapter 77: Good To See You (1/2)

VIRION ERALITH'S POV:

What in the name just happened? What was that bizarre aura around Tessia? What did the boy do anyway?

I was just barely able to see that orb shoot out and get sucked into hter's body It seemed sort of like an elixir, but I wasn't really able to tell…

Anyway, I was just glad that she was safe now

I almost felt bad for the boy; he had just crawled back up to the surface after falling into an underground dungeon—Gods kno deep—and now he had to deal with all this

Was I doing the right thing revealing all this information to Arthur?

There was a bitter taste left onto the boy; I soer than Tessia

It was odd, though I couldn't quite put er on it, but more and more, my instincts told me that despite his monstrous ability in nitive acuteness, histo a prepubescent child that would make this brat so scary in the future, currently, his level of power had not caught up to his intellect

"Mround?"

My ears perked up ihter's feeble voice

"G-Grandpa? Where am… ART!!!!"

My arms were already stretched out wide, ready to eh, instead of corandfather's arms, her body bolted away frooing the wrong way

"ARTHUR!!!! You're alive!!" Tessia alround from how fast she flew into his arms

Meanwhile,breeze would accept my embrace…

ARTHUR LEYWIN'S POV:

As Tess' faint voice reached my ears and her teary eyes locked ontodown, and I stood there at a loss A wave of different emotions, half of which I didn't even know I could feel, washed over me

"ARTHUR!! You're alive!" Her face was already buried in ently petted her hair—"I'm alive"

I turned to Virion, and I swore I could al to bits, his lonely arms stretched out

His head turned like a badly oiled robot, revealing his gaze, which was anything but autoe he projected

Traitor

Grandpa should still come first

You're dead to ht as well have been tattooed across his forehead by how blatantly his foulGrandpa Virion a sympathetic smile, I looked back down at Tess, as still in my arms Only when htly off her bare shoulder did I remember she was completely naked underneath

"Kyu!"

Sylvie was bouncing up and down, trying to get Tess' attention as the latter clung ontoI re me over to someone I can only recall bits and pieces of what happened after because I was in too much pain then B-But I heard broken pieces of conversations about how you didn'tonto me like an infant koala The way she looked up at me with those tear-filled eyes made me almost lose myself

"I'll fill you in on what happened, but for now"—I peeled her off ofcovering her—"let's get you decent, Princess"

"What are you talking…" was all shein horror

Tess let out a horrified scream that shook the room, and without even the chance to react, Grandpa Virion, Sylvie, and I were knocked back by a surge of mana that seeed to recover in ti on my feet As I looked to my side, I saw that Virion and Sylvie were both uninjured Surprised, but uninjured

Not even caring about the throbbing pain in ht before us

Tess was at the epicenter of a storth, all snapping and whipping around chaotically What was even e was that it lookedTess, as now curled up in the fetal position

"Th-This… nitude… shouldn't be possible for her!" Grandpa Virion's stood there, gaping

"You have got to be kiddingmy hands, I yelled out, "Tess! You need to calm down!"

"Shut up, shut up, shut up! Go away! I can't believe you didn't tell htly in e told me that those semi-transparent tendrils responded to her eht now

"Didn't you learn that telling a screairl to calm down never actually cal his head in norant one I guess

What good was having been a king? Psh… only the strongest in ood does all of that do, Arthur, if you can't even quell the anger of a thirteen-year-old girl?

"Tess! It's your grandfather! Open your eyes!" Virion shouted this time

"Huh?"

As Tess peeked out fro

"What's going on? What is all of this?" The flustered Tess looked to us for help

"Try controlling your eo out of control," I tried to explain in a more reasonable tone