Ana and Liz left for the search. Meanwhile, Luka and Tero climbed up to search the top floors.
After searching three floors, Tero looked at Luka with a curious look on his face. "Can I ask what is your relationship with the captain?"
Luka was already ticked off ever since Tero joined his squad, and this question made his face twitched. "She is my childhood---girlfriend! That's right. She is my girlfriend."
Tero had a surprised look on his face, "I see, and what about Liz?"
'What's with him?'
"She is also my girlfriend." Luka had no intention to hide his relationship.
"You are not making any sense."
"You aren't either." Luka turned and glared at Tero. "Let me say it clearly, if you are aiming for Ana or Liz, then you better stop now."
"Oh, is that a threat?" Tero questioned with a grin on his face.
"Nope, just a piece of advice." Luka's face frowned as he said, "You know, accidents happen during missions. It wouldn't be weird if someone were to die on missions,"
"Whoa, scary. Do those two know this side of yours?"
"I show them what I want them to see."
Tero walked forward, then looked back at Luka with a distant smile on his face. "Don't worry. I have no interest in any of them."
"You better not."
"I already have someone very important to me," Tero said with a lonely smile.
"...."
"Anyway," Tero walked up the stairs as he said, "The monster we are looking for today is a very strange one."
"Yeah, I am aware of that. Strange things are happening in this city."
'Including my dreams which I don't remember' Luka didn't remember his dreams, but he could feel the feelings after waking up.
After walking up the stairs, Luka was looking down from the edge, hoping he would see Ana or Liz.
"Hey!" Tero yelled. Luka looked at Tero to see him drawing his sword. "Don't move,"
Luka was confused. There was no one else on the floor. The only thing Luka could see was Tero coming at him with a sword in his hand.
'What does he want? He looks pretty serious.' Luka glanced around to make sure. "Is there a monster nearby?"
Tero then took out a dagger and threw it in Luka's shadow. Luka had realized what was going on. Tero dashed at Luka with his sword and yelled, "Dodge!"
Luka crouched and rolled over. He then stood up as he heard Tero voice, "There it is"
The monster appeared...no, it was there, but it was invisible. Tero's attack made it visible.
"What the heck?" Luka was surprised.
It was the same monster Luka had encountered before. Big body, multiple eyes, but this time it was invisible
"They keep getting stronger every time we meet them," Luka commented.
"Didn't I say it is a strange one?"
'So that's what you meant.' Usually, the monsters don't evolve like that. They need to consume a large amount of negative energy to evolve.
"Do you know this type of monster?" Luka asked as he drew out his sword.
"Yeah, I have also run into them a couple of times now."
Luka held his sword tightly as he stood beside Tero. "Let's deal with it before Ana and Liz come."
"Why is that?" Tero questioned.
'Because I don't want them to interact with you.'
"Because they must be tired of looking around" Luka made a logical excuse.
Tero walked one step forward and took out another sword.
"Two swords?"
"Yeah, I can use two."
"..." Luka was awed. It was very rare to see a dual sword user.
"Luka, please use some attacks."
"I can't."
"Didn't you tell me to deal with it?"
"I can't do any elemental attack."
Luka clenched his grip on the swords and gritted his teeth as he muttered, "You just don't know how to use your power."
"Did you say something?"
"Since when you can't use elemental power?"
"Uhh… since birth?"
"As expected."
"What?"
Tero dashed at the monster and stabbed one sword in its eye and stabbed the other sword in its body. He used lightning attack in the sword stabbed in the eye and used fire attack in the other sword.
The monster's body was burned to crisps, and its body vanished into thin air.
'He defeated it in one hit.' Luka was more awed than before.
Not only Tero defeated the monster in one hit, but the time he took and the elemental attack he used was incomparable to any other exorcists in the school.
"You never told me you are strong. When did you get your exorcist badge?"
Tero walked to Luka and kicked him, which sent Luka flying. Luka collided with the pillar and fell down. As Luka tried to grasp the situation, Tero jumped on Luka and stabbed Luka with his sword, or he would have if Luka hadn't blocked Tero's attack with his sword.