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Chapter 52 - Forgiven

Classes were finally over. Before the twins left homeroom, Karina ran to Yukio.

"Kio..!" Karina called.

Yukio turned after hearing a familiar voice call him which he assumed was his name.

'Kio..?' Yukio was slightly confused.

"Um... About earlier..! I'm sorry for asking you about something uncomfortable!" Karina faced Yukio and bowed to him at a 90-degree angle.

"It's fine," Yukio replied, surprised by Karina's actions.

"I'll explain why I wear these gloves in the future. Thanks for worrying about me." Yukio has a small smile on his face.

Rem was watching Karina apologize at the side, standing beside Yukino. Karina, Rem, and Yukino were all shocked to see Yukio suddenly smile.

'Did he just... Smile..? He should smile more! It's dazzling...' Karina thought, smiling.

'So he could smile after all.' Rem thought at the same time, beginning to smile as well.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..! The two indifferent and calmest people in the whole world just smiled!!! Glad to see everyone smiling!" Yukino made an exaggerated face, smiling brightly.

After what Yukino said, the three didn't have smiles on their face anymore.

"Nooo!!! What happened..? Why aren't you guys smiling???" Yukino felt wronged.

"I'll treat you to lunch tomorrow as an apology! You can't say no, okay?" Karina told Yukio with a pleading face.

"Alright..." Yukio nodded shyly.

"Oh~?" Yukino looked at Yukio and Karina.

"I-It's not what you think!" Karina argued, blushing.

Yukio slightly blushed for a second but he went back to his regular expression.

'This is new..! How entertaining...' Rem giggled.

"Anyway, I want to show you my healing skill! The problem is, I don't know how to..." Yukino said, feeling troubled.

"Do you only know how to heal?" Rem asked bluntly.

'I'm sure I'm the most useless one in this team...' Yukino thought, feeling down.

"Yeah..." Yukino said sadly.

"Alright then." Rem took her dagger out from her inventory.

Cutting herself with her dagger, Rem's arm was now injured with blood dripping on the ground and some bleed, unfortunately, got on Rem's shirt.

"W-what are you doing???" Yukino asked, panicked.

Karina and Yukio were at the side, shocked.

"You're going to show me your healing skill, weren't you? Use your skill on me." Rem answered casually.

Yukino nodded and used her healing skill on Rem. Water surrounded Rem's injury and her wound slowly began to close. After around 10 minutes, Rem's arm stopped bleeding.

"This will definitely leave a scar... I can heal the wound but I can't recover the blood you've lost..." Yukino said nervously and guilty.

"REMIE!!! Why are you so reckless???" Karina scolded Rem, feeling outraged.

"It's fine. I have a regeneration skill and I'm confident this small wound will heal by itself anyway." Rem was calm the whole time.

"Still..! Please don't do that again... You're going to give me a heart attack one day!!!" Karina began to calm down.

"Okay, okay... Thanks for worrying about me I guess? See..? My wound's completely healed now." Rem showed Karina her arm which was truly healed without any scratches.

"Geez..." Karina sighed in relief.

"Oh, right. Yukino, your healing skills are great!" Rem complimented Yukino.

{There aren't many talented healers like her.}

'Yes, I know. I'll train her to become the best healer!' Rem thought, feeling motivated.

In Rem's past life, she has taught many of her close comrades. Rem could remember certain events in her past life, such as teaching others but she couldn't remember how they looked like.

'Come to think of it... I can't remember anyone from my past life. I can only remember what I went through and certain details about the monsters I've defeated and some knowledge about my past life's world. Of course, I could remember clearly what has happened when I defeated the Demon King and everything after that. Everything else in my memories is fuzzy and whenever I try to think of my past and the people I've met, I would receive a horrible headache.' Rem was frustrated.

"Do you want to have a spar with me, Rina? It's been quite a long time since the last time I've seen you fight." Rem was curious to see if Karina has improved.

"Of course. Go easy on me, alright..?" Karina smiled awkwardly and walked towards the sparring area.

After arriving at the school's sparring area, Rem and Karina got to their positions while Yukino offered to be the judge. Yukio stood at the side, watching. Nobody expects the four were at the sparring area since classes were over for the day.

"3..! 2..! 1..! Begin!" Yukino said, backing up.

Karina decided to attack first. She created a huge tornado out of her wind magic. The tornado wasn't a problem for Rem since it wasn't that strong but it was still very windy. Karina was using a magic bow. She took out an arrow and aimed at Rem, applying wind magic to the arrow. The charging took around a minute. After charging, Karina released the charged arrow filled with wind magic. Rem could sense how the arrow was quite strong.

'Strong... However, the charging was too slow... Creating a tornado was smart since Karina uses the wind element but the tornado ate a lot of her mana.' Rem thought, blocking the arrow with her shadow magic.

The arrow that was flying towards Rem ended up crumbling into nothing before it reached Rem. Karina created a large shuriken shaped weapon made out of the wind and threw it at Rem. Rem dodged the shuriken, stepping to the right. Using more mana, Karina covered her hands with wind magic. Then, she ran towards Rem, jumping high enough that she was above Rem. Rem sensed the shuriken from before attack Rem at the back. While destroying the wind shuriken and tornado with her shadow magic, Karina tried to punch Rem with wind magic that was applied to her fists.

'Impressive... She's improved a lot.' Rem thought, blocking Karina's fists with her wind magic.

Karina used so much force in her punch that she ended up falling.

"Ouch..." Karina said, rubbing her injured leg.

"Let me heal you!" Yukino rushed to Karina, healing her injury.

"You've improved a lot since last time." Rem felt proud of Karina.

"Although you all have a lot to work on, after some training, you will become incredibly strong." Rem said, nodding slightly.

"Thanks," Karina replied happily.

"Good job. See you guys at school tomorrow. I have to go somewhere..." Rem waved at Karina and the twins.

Karina and the twins waved back and left as well.

'It's already 3 in the noon. I should be able to battle everyone else in the Arena. I need to be ranked 1st after all. I can't forget about Roy! Is this how taking care of a pet feels like..?' Rem wondered, walking towards her dorm room.