Walking inside the tent, Zara could not be awed by his outstanding look in white clothes. He's look is out of the world when he adorned the white robe.
Standing in front of him but not too close, she bowed a little. " The sun is already up in the sky. Since, I did not see you, I came to check on you. "
"I had been cultivating for a while." waving his hand on his left hand. The earthcow corpse comes out of the storage ring.
Seeing the body of the earthcow that had been separated into a sizable size. Zara opened her mouth wide.
" When did you do all this?" Marvel by the way he separated the body of the earthcow. " Where did he learn to do something like this.." she murmured.
Ignoring her question " some of the parts of the earthcow can be sold to the restaurant while we are going to sell some to the alchemist" pointing to the parts that would be sold.
Zara furrowed her eyebrows " what about the remaining body?" She had thought about it but she could not think of any possible use of it apart from the one he had said.
" You don't know?" His lips twitched a bit, raising up slightly, he looked at her.
"Know your head. How can I know what you want to use it for." she thought
Shaking her head " I don't know." She wouldn't have answered him if not for him not liking not being anwer through talking.
"Your head is filled with garbage. I guess I will have to flush it away" he said with a straight face.
Opening her eyes wide, she could not believe what she just heard.
" Your whole family is full of garbage," she thought.
She was annoyed. Her eyes blinked a couple of times, she did not know what to say. She just stared at him.
"Don't you agree?" He asked, looking straight into her eyes with his eyebrows raised.
"Bang!"
Her head almost exploded from the question. Her heart began to beat rapidly,she wanted to pounce on him and give him the beating of his life. Sweat begins to come out of her skin. She was boiling inside. Her heart goes up and down, she tries to calm herself down.
She looked away ignoring his question.
Realizing she did not reply, he asked the question again " don't you agree that your head is full of garbage?"
"*Bang"
She almost fainted. She could not withstand it anymore. Stomping her foot on the ground, she abruptly walked out of the tent.
Seeing this, Thomas remains calmed. He sat back down on the bed and cultivated.
After a couple of minutes, Zara walked inside, and she smiled at him.
Thomas opened his eyes and stared at her. He stood up from the bed gracefully while his eyes were still set on her.
"Why did you go outside?" He asked calmly.
She did not know what to say, she only avoided his gaze and stared at the floor.
"You know why I want outside and yet you are questioning me." She thought.
"Is it because I said your head is full of garbage?" He paused for a while, putting his two hands at his back.
She rolled her eyes staring at him, saying with her eyes is that not enough reason.
" If your head is not full of garbage, why would you go outside. If you are faced with a difficult decision in the future. You rather abandon the problem than to face it squarely and bare all the consequences."
"This is not about encountering difficult decisions. It is about you belittling me" she said with a little courage not daring to look at him.
"You are what?" He asked, taking a step forward moving closer to her.
Unintentionally,she took a step backward.
She could not but asked herself,
" am what?" She looked at him as the realization dawned on to her.
"Am nothing without him, my father and mother had abandoned me for my younger sister's talent. My family wanted to use me as a bargain chip for the family growth.
The academy withdraws their resources from nurturing people like me. Am nothing in the society. But with him, I am his maid. A Rank 1 middle alchemist with a promising future."
"*Putong!"
She kneeled down, her eyes filled to brim with tears. She inhales rapidly, trying not to let the tears come down.
"I...…...am...…"
"*Phss, phss"
She does not hold it together anymore, she begins to cry. She sobs greatly. She uses the back of her hand to rob her eyes in hoping to stop the tears but yet the tears continue to drop.
Thomas stares at her with an expressionless face.
"*Whiz"
He brought out a white handkerchief from his storage ring and gave it to her.
She opened her eyes wide with her mouth open forming "0". She received the white handkerchief with a tremble hand.
"Why did I deserve this kind of treatment from you?" She sobbed.
She knows he did not tolerate being told what to do, he would not allow any uncultured act to be done to him by anybody.
Having letting her emotions get the better side of her when she stomped out earlier. She had thought of appeasing him, she knows he did things with a reason.
"Why?" He looked straight into her eyes.
"You don't know why you deserve this kind of treatment?"
She shakes her head " I really don't know what is special about me"
He moved closer to her, separated by a step. He lifted her up and said
" Because I chose you. Since the moment I chose you, your life is never the same again. You are my maid. Anyone I chose to be by side is special. You being the first I chose, is exceptionally special."
Taking the handkerchief up from her, he helped her in cleaning up her tears.
"Do you know what you did that must never occur again?"
"No" she said, panicked a little bit " what did I do that I shouldn't have done" she asked herself in her thoughts.
"My people are not allowed to cry," he said.
"Hmm!"
She giggled with a smile on her face.
"It won't ever happen again, I promise."
Nodding his head, he said " I know you can't think the way I do. But all I want is to change the way you see things and think about it. If we are to stay ahead of others, we must do some certain things in a different manner."
Nodding her head in acceptance,
"thank you."
Walking back, he sat down on the bed.
He looked at the body parts of the earthcow, " since we are going to sell some parts to the alchemist. What are we going to use the remaining body parts for when we are also an alchemist." He said, staring at her.
Having the realization dawn to her, she giggled.
" My head is really full of garbage. Hmm. I surely need some beating."
Nodding her head while placing her palm by the left side of her face. She looked up as she was in thought.
"*BOOM"
She was sent flying, smashed to the tent. Quickly, she stood up. She sustained no injury,the attack only pushed her back. With her cultivation, that attack was a child's play. She chucked, staring at Thomas, she smiled.
" Thanks for going easy on me."
Ignoring her, he said
" It is time to visit the merchant arena market zone."