...
"So you figured me out huh."
Seeing Puck appear on my shoulder, I felt slight surprise as he should have been saving up all of his remaining od and mana for his survival.
"Why are you wasting mana for this conversation?" I voiced out in annoyance while looking at the mana inside his body slowly leak out.
Letting out a smirk, he looked towards me with knowing eyes and jumped inside of my shirt before letting out an exclaim of fake shock. "Oh?! What's this thing here!"
And while still smirking, he popped his head out of my shirt with the stone of my necklace inside of his mouth. "I wonder why Suburu?"
With a blank expression, I pulled him out by the nape of his neck. Placing him on my leg, I looked down at him and sighed.
"How much are you robbing me of Puck?"
Laughing, he hugged the stone to his chest before making an innocent expression. "That makes it sound like I'm doing a crime.... I would never do something like that right Suburu?!"
Seeing him make jokes and waste his expression ticked me off, he was still burning mana. So because I didn't want him to take much, I just decided to get to the point.
"You need to leave Emilia."
"....."
"You're contract that was supposed to 'protect' her is instead putting her in pain."
"Quiet."
Now frowning, he floated off my lap before looking at Emilia's sleeping face. Emilia was currently still pale from her trails and even had a cold sweat to go with it.
"Suburu.... do you like my daughter?" Puck said while staring at her face. "You can't lie this time though, I will know if you try and fake your answer."
Looking at the small figure float in front of me, my eyes turned cold once they switched and landed upon Emilia.
"I don't like her at all. Her personality is without a doubt displeasing to experience. All I want from her is to be a good ruler for this kingdom so I can take advantage of being her knight and live my life in leisure."
Hearing my words, the temperature in the air immediately began to drop noticeably causing the unconscious Emilia to cough from breathing in the sudden cold air.
"You remind me too much of her....." he said with extreme venom. "The way you two view others as objects... is disgusting to me."
Sighing, I looked toward Emilia before looking towards Puck. "She's useful to me, so I won't kill her anytime soon. Is that a good enough reason for you to trust me? Hell, I'll even use a contract to back it up if you want."
Looking over his shoulder, he examined me with cold eyes before a sad smile formed on his face and made the room heat up to room temperature.
"You're telling the truth."
Smiling, I looked towards the necklace in his small hands and became interested. With my eyes, I can see the mana inside of the stone getting sucked out of Puck's hands before being remade into mana he can use for himself.
And once Puck was nearly back to full, he looked towards me silently before turning back to Emilia. "Leave Suburu, I want to see Emilia's face one last time before I go."
...
Yawning, I closed the door to Emilia's room and ran into Garfiel and Ram who where sitting on the couch in silence. Sniffing the air, Garfiel made a disgusted expression and gave me a nasty glare.
"Is t'half-witch alive?"
Nodding silently towards him, I noticed that his facial features softened a tiny bit and laughed inside my head for a bit. I then looked towards Ram who was silently looking towards me.
"Ram, I need to talk with you for a second outside."
Garfiel frowned and looked between the two of us before locking eyes with me. "Why d'you need t'talk with Ram?"
In response, I looked at him as if he was idiot. "Why do you need to know? It's clearly personal idiot."
Hearing me, he just sat there in silence before an aura from his blessing began to surround his body.
"Outside....."
"Garfiel!" Ram said with a glare only to get ignored by him.
Is he really throwing a tantrum right now? If so, I'm going to teach him some manners....
"You'll regret it you know." I said calmly before proceeding to walk outside of the house. But I did make sure to face towards Ram who was looking at us calmly. She's probably considering how stupid this situation is. "Don't stop us Ram. He needs to learn."
Hearing me, Ram seemed to get my message and went ahead and sat back down. "Don't kill each other please. We still have to free the Sanctuary."
Garfiel let out a audible tsk before being the first to leave the house. "Come on y'bastard, I'm sick of yer yapping."
"One second please." I said with a yawn before going towards Emilia's room.
...
Walking behind Garfiel, he just led me on in silence through the woods of the Sanctuary before coming up on a large clearing. Inside of this clearing is a few acres of flat land giving us plenty of room to settle the score.
I'm guessing he made this clearing his training spot and it slowly turned from a bountiful forest into what it is now. Walking across the flat land for a minute or two, we reach the center and Garfiel stops before facing me.
"Are you ready bastard? Because 'the moon will run red with blood' tonight." He said while pointing towards the moon which was shunting directly over us.
But all it did was earn a laugh from me. "Did you know that 'Every champion was once a contender who refused to give up?' Oh sorry.... you don't because you have already given up."
"Y'just spouting nonsense!" Garfiel yelled while pushing his leg into the ground. The ground around him then flew up into the air.
And once it finally dropped down, it caused a dust storm to form and obstruct my vision of him. I then felt him come my right immediately and dodged as he flew by.
He then came again from the left and I just leaned back from a wild hook only to stick my leg in front of me. His leg then clipped mine causing him to fall forward but he managed to catch him balance in time.
It seems he's taking advantage of his nose in this situation. Pretty smart against the average human, but he unfortunately met me.
*swish*
Ducking the punch, I felt a stronger one come but I just leaned to side to easily avoid it. And because of his punching power, the dust around us cleared away revealing himself to me.
He had a frustrated expression on his face before turning towards me and throwing another wild hook. Ducking to his left side , I threw a quick reinforced hook to his liver.
Feeling the impact, I saw his legs start to buckle from his bodies natural response and smiled towards him.
"El Shamac."
Freezing him in place, I reinforced my eyes and body before throwing a strong right hook towards his chin. But luckily for him his instincts took over and he moved his head to the side and smirked.
But as I could see this, I just moved the mana around my body in a different direction and threw a left hook towards the other side of his chin.
*crunch*
Feeling and hearing the crunch of his chin, I let out a frown as his legs froze up and he toppled onto his back. Examining him with any mana I had left in me, I could see that the mana inside his body was starting to mix with what I assume to be od.
However, I just let out a smile before placing my hand upon his chest and thought back to what Puck had done. "If I'm correct, it should have been something like this."
*jolt*
Seeing his body jolt and his eye shoot open in pain, I let out a large smile as I felt the mana inside of his gate get forcefully pulled out and reform to fit my own gate. And examining the process in his body, I could see that it was starting to panic subconsciously as the balance between his od and mana began to break apart.
However, my mana capacity began to near its limit so I decided to back off and examine exactly how the two different energies combine. Watching his energies, they finally perfectly combined within his heart.
*thump*
Watching him look at me with eyes of rage at the pain he just felt and a face full of teeth. His pupils became more cat like and his body began to enlarge.
His skin then began to produce fur as his muscular and Skeletal structure also began to change entirely. Watching it, I can't help but think about how spectacular it is. The od inside his body burns to produce this transformative effect to make up the impossibility that is this sudden muscular and skeletal change.
And with his transformation finally done, he looks down towards me with animalistic eyes before reaching a paw up to his jaw.
*crack*
Now with a straightened jaw, the combination of healing and his blessing healed it. He then moved it a bit before opening and closing it.
Once confirming it's functionality, he looked at me and started to sniff the air causing him to freeze. His eyes then viewed me with rage before a loud roar rang through the forest causing a shockwave to shoot through the area.
And with a growl, he circled around me and started to visibly drool.
Seeing this, I met his eyes directly and let out a taunting smile. "What's wrong little kitty? Do you want some catnip?"
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