Author's Note: Another Delay…., I'm really really Sorry for the delay
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51. The Silent Witch (4)
"Good evening Master!" Lex said and wrote the same text in his personal white board when he entered the Silent Witch's house which is the cylindrical five storied building full of books in the tenth area
In the past one year, Lex found out a lot about the Silent Witch, this building is her house was one of them, he found out about the Voiceless World or the Silent World around the Silent Witch, its range expand and shrink according to her Mood at that time. When she's in good mood the range decrease and vice versa, at the beginning the Silent World range as wide as the Tenth Area which much bigger than the soccer stadium and gradually decrease as time passed, and recently it shrinks about only 5 meters around the Silent witch
"evening" greenish blue text appeared before Lex at this point he had already get used to this kind of sudden text appeared in front of him, then the text replaced by another "and I'm not your Master, so don't call me Masters!"
"Ok Master!" Lex brightly smiled at her, it's like her words flying straight to a thick wall, it didn't have any effect toward Lex
"Master used Complain!"
"It's not very effective!"
[(Author's Note: above two lines is an instant-gag I suddenly thought out of blue, it came from Pokemon Game, "Pikachu used lightning" to Onix , "it's not very effective!" , I'm sorry if many of you can't understand it, I've got a bad taste in this kind of joke)]
Lex draw two stick figure which facing each other, it was similar to the game which is so popular in Lex past life it was a Monster turn based battle Game, he didn't know if it's still popular now, but Lex always like this kind of Meme in his past life
Lex shown his work to the Silent Witch with a big grin on his Face "…" three dot appeared before Lex and the replaced by "ლ(｡-﹏-｡ ლ)" an emoticon
"pfftt!! ahaha" Lex let out a huff of laughter in the Silent World
Tears started to accumulate on his eyes (aaa~~, I've come a long way~), it was only recently the Silent Witch started to use that kind of emoticon as her reply
(The First two months was the hardest one…) Lex thought as he retraced what he did on the past one year
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(at first, she didn't interest me at all, isn't she mysterious?)
(yes, she is)
(isn't she beautiful?)
(yes, she is beautiful… very)
(but it's like the beauty of natural scenery something I love to admire but it wasn't something I like to claim)
(I still haven't find out how to solve the problem about Liselotte and Kate)
(even if I had read many Novel and Manga before, I still didn't know the answer when me myself the one who experienced Harem)
(it's easy if I just ignored their feelings and pushes with my personal interest on the lead but… is that really what I want? Is that the kind of Harem that I wanted so much? I don't know… but most likely not)
(so I tried not to increase the number for the moment, it's different if they themselves brought the food toward me in the end me too is a normal Man, so what I means here is I stopped being proactive in relationship for the time being)
(and if I really wanted to increase it, I'm sure Mio will be the third one, No I'll make sure she is… no matter what)
(anyway! The Silent World piqued my interest a bit but that's all not more not less)
(then it changed, when I saw that… 'Blink' instantaneous Movement)
(I've tried to learn that move since I was eight years old, which mean it's been four years since I started to learn it, but no avail I didn't make much progress on it)
(and then suddenly someone used that move right in front of me! There's no way I wouldn't get excited! This is my Chance! for me to learn the real 'Blink'!)
(I've become interested in her, not as a woman, but as a teacher)
(I investigated and found out something about her, The Witch, The Silent Witch is A Monster, that's what everyone said, it's understandable if you heard the rumors spreading around about her, yet I still can't see where's the Monster part about her, all I can see is a beautiful fairy like girl who loves books)
(it seems The Silent World wasn't the Tenth Area, but everything in her surrounding, it became a Silent Path a Silent World because she was there!)
(following my instinct I tried not to call her The Witch or The Silent Witch or Monster, I think she didn't like to be called like that, maa, it's very obvious for the last one)
(but No one knew her real name, even the other Executive didn't know about it. I've asked Venti before are they even a real comrade from the same organization?) Lex can't help but to doubt their bonds
(I don't know how to call you other than that three that's why I decided to call you Master for now, as I really are trying to become your disciple)
(I've tried many ways to become her disciple yet in the end I failed, luckily she didn't prohibit from entering her place)
(ha! Just you wait, don't underestimate my tenacity! With that I started my plan the one I thought of from the first time I tried to become her disciple)
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(fuu~~ that's really hard!!! I'd already lost count how many times I'd tried to give up becoming her disciple! But still I don't want to give up like this! I'd already lost count how many times I given up on my path in my past life too… that's why, I won't give up I don't want to go back to the same me in my past life anymore!!)
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(last Month I learned I can beg her to be my Master once every day and once I asked I can't get near her again that day, and at the same time I knew I won't learn anything from her If the situation continued like this)
(after some thoughts I decided)
(I changed the time when I met her every day after lunch and ended it with just enough time for me to do a little low leveled Mission before dinner, at least enough for me to live through the day)
(hehehe, I will show you my undying will and tenacity! It's ok I only need Merit to pass the day without being starved)
(with this kind of strategy on the last Month, at least I've stayed with her more than three hours a day)
(well, it makes me like a stalker haha… but that's not true! What is stalker?)
('a person who harasses or persecutes someone with unwanted and obsessive attention' that's what I got when I looked for its definition from 'joogle')
(…. DAMN IT!!)
(hey! That's different from what I know! I'm not following her to her home! Or stalking from behind! I've met with her everyday face to face so I'm not stalker… I told you! I'm NOT!)
(I'm not harassing her right? I hope she didn't get bothered by me…)
(a-anyway it's time to get to the next step of my plan)
(I started to serve her a cup of tea every day like a servant)
(I learned this move from Novel which had a similar situation with me now)
Lex brought a tea to the table near her
"Master for you" he wrote a text on the small paper and placed it beside the tea, but there's no reaction The Silent Witch, it's like Lex was only an Air inside the room, she didn't care about him at all!
(damn! she never touched the tea at all! That damn novel lied to me again!!)
"Kugh! I won't give up" Lex said in the voiceless building, recently the Silent started to become smaller, at first it covered the whole Tenth Area but now it only covered the whole building along with the front and backyard
(phew… it takes me more than one weeks before she started to touch the tea I made....it can be said Mission success right?)
***
After withstanding the rewardless efforts, at last there's some kind of change in her, Lex felt like for the first time he bypassed her thick high wall around her heart, he didn't know anything about her personal history yet anyone can understand just by looking at her, she isn't someone who can be befriended easily
It happened on the Third Months since Lex started his plan to conquer the Silent Witch
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(she let me touch her books!!)
"she let me touch her books!!!" Lex cried out loud on the Silent World even knowing there will be no voice coming out from him, he just can't content his happiness anymore
"Whoa!!! it seems to be her way to repay the tea I made each day"
"When she told me that I felt like I can start to jumps and dances for a whole day in a happiness" for the first time he got a reward from his efforts!
"I succeeded in increasing her affection with me!"
(On the other hard in the Scout Path still learning about Trap after the Programming, hahaha a new way to become stronger opened for me, with her books collection which came from both Hidden World and Normal World, I found a book about strengthening Magic a Magic which is something I've been searching for since I knew about Mana and I can't move the Mana outside of my body)
(I saw her wore many clothes in these three months. yet the base always the same, White buttoned shirt and black skirt, many kind of motif but the color didn't change)
(maybe there's a reason for it…)
"Hmm...?" One day Lex realized something, with She, The Silent Witch who sat on the chair wearing a black skirt above her knees, and Lex who's sat on the floor right in front of her
"!!?? M-maybe I can see!!" Lex blurted that out he no longer afraid to voice out his thought as no one able to hear anything in this place
"wait! I'm an old man inside, why do I still interested in what's inside a late teenager skirt!!? Uh! Maybe it's because I'm an old man inside that I got interested?"
""aa!" Lex whined in disappointment when he saw the Silent Witch fixed her seating posture along with her skirt to block others from peeking inside
*brrr
"!!?" Lex got a chill like when Neptunia glared at her before, he quickly looked at where she The Silent Witch is, but she still read her books like usual
(did I catch a cold!? Impossible! I surely felt it at that time! It's better not get a funny idea and lay low for now)
Who knows that small action of peeking what's inside her skirt become a small seed which will trigger Lex to bypassed another Thick High Wall around her heart