Bianca, was by no means ugly.
Her dirty blonde hair, brown eyes and delicate facial structure was an eye turner that's for sure. But this guy who sported a dark gaze and similar dark hair, didn't seem to care that he was handling a girl. If the guy wasn't handsome, then Nadia might've let him escape her vision.
But much like her attraction to Nyx, this guy didn't interest her one bit.
Bianca's hands suddenly glowed orange and her palms emitted smoke. She touched the guy's arm, and he lets go with a grunt. The place where Bianca's hand touched the guy was then revealed to be burnt. There was an angry frown taking over the guy's face seeing his hoodie being burned needlessly.
"No! Amon you don't understand that girl is holding Nyx captive!" She suddenly exclaimed. Apparently Nyx standing beside Nadia, made her reach such a conclusion. "Hey! Who are you? Let go of Nyx!" Her eyes glared at Nadia with anger.
Her accusations made the whole atmosphere turn awkward. Because all of the people on the site knew that there was no meat to her words at all.
Nadia who was slowly getting amused at the whole situation tilted her head and intertwined her arms around Nyx's. "And who are you?" The smile on her face slowly became mischievous, when she saw Bianca's face morph.
"Girl, you better not push it-" Amon the guy who was holding Bianca back muttered towards Nadia. His gale was prominent even under his hood. He looked like he was both bothered by Bianca and Nadia at the same time.
"And what are you going to do about it pretty boy?" Nadia taunted.
"I'm his girlfriend!" Bianca shouted. At this point the three adults were retreating. One of them whispered to Amon before they looked towards Nadia and Nyx. Both of them saw Amon nod before he faced them again.
"Bianca enough!" Nyx finally spoke up, his initial excitement after finding out more survivors was slowly being poured water by Bianca. "We broke up," Nyx gritted his teeth, as if he didn't want to look at Bianca at all. His ears were tinted red as if he was embarrassed at the whole situation.
Under all the gaze of the people, Nadia broke away from Nyx. "Well that's it? Nyx is your ex?" She rolled her eyes at Bianca. "I'm guessing it wasn't a peaceful break up huh?" Nadia re-attached her sword from her back to her waist. "You're such a drama queen." A disbelief huff left Nadia's lips.
"You—!" Bianca couldn't help but gape at Nadia.
Amon who was staring at them from the side suddenly spoke up as he swept his hood down, revealing his face as a whole. "How did you guys survive, and where did you get those swords." By his tone, it seems like he wasn't asking.
"You curious? 10 cores and we can talk." A smirk spread on Nadia's face.
'Hm, just the person that I was looking for.' The thought crossed Nadia's head.
Just as she was planning on extorting whatever she could get from this group of people, this guy opened up the opportunity for her first.
'And here I thought that they won't bite my cute bait.' Nadia inwardly whistled.
Contrary to what Nadia was expecting, Amon smirked back at her. "Make it five and I can take you back to our base."
Both revealed matching smirks that it was hard not to stare at them, which was why Bianca and Nyx were exactly doing. Inwardly, Nyx briefly wonders if Nadia had finally met her match.
"Five and I only tell you half the truth." Nadia wasn't surprised when Amon knew about the cores.
"Deal." Amon passed the cores under Bianca's surprised look.
Nadia took the opportunity to shake hands with Amon, all the while smirking. In her eyes he just became a little more attractive. "Learn a thing or two from him girly." Nadia shot a look at Bianca who fumed in anger.
"Is it safe?" Nyx suddenly asked, as always, he was behind Nadia, lurking. Nadia could deduce that Nyx had learned the skill stealth when they were sneaking around earlier.
"I thought you knew him." Nadia shot back sarcastically.
"Can't you be for real? I'm asking if we can trust them."
"And here I thought you'd be overjoyed that we found some survivors."
Nyx pursed his lips as he gazed at the two people in front arguing. "Assure me, I feel uneasy that this was done so smoothly." Nadia quirked her sword disapprovingly.
"I don't trust them, but it doesn't mean I can avoid them forever." Nadia found Amon looking at her, and she looked back. "And besides" Nadia finds Amon's gaze eerily familiar. "I once heard, never trust a survivor until they tell you how they survived. Does that assure you?"
Nadia found Amon frowning, and she finally knew why it was familiar. Because he was using the same skill as her. Nadia bared her teeth, Amon turned his head with mixed emotions.
'Appraisal... and it seems like this Bianca girl doesn't know or else I would've been caught'
⟨⟨Amon Zen Atlas Lv: 3 [MAX LV: ?]⟩⟩
This time Nadia could not help but be steadily having interest at Amon. The question mark and his level made her croon inwardly.
"That makes me more uneasy." Nyx finally said after a while.
They walked a few minutes, and Nadia made sure to look around. Of course the two didn't stop her from looking around.
"Isn't this the way to the Green Pond's park?" Nyx suddenly spoke up. "It's near the school isn't it?" He hurriedly changed the topic, as Bianca kept on trying to talk to him. It was evident that Nyx was uncomfortable with Bianca's attention, but there was nothing that he could do.
In Nadia's opinion though, Nyx could've outright told the woman to fuck off, but she guessed that Nyx thought that this would make things more awkward for the group so he refrained in doing so.
"Yes, we built huts in the park as it was big enough for it. Most of the survivors are stationed there." Amon nodded, there was no dense crowd of slimes as they walked through. So it was mostly taken care of by Amon.
"How many people are currently there now?" Nadia turned a blind eye at Bianca who was obviously wasting her Mana on her skill. She found out on the way that the girl was awakened by accident. Like Nadia's story, she found a book and learned her first skill which is 'burning palms' and 'earth spike'. Though the latter was earned after a wandering demonic wolf had dropped it.
"Around nineteen people, but now, it's estimated to be around twenty-two adding that lady and you both." This time Bianca answered. When she burnt out her Mana , Amon took over, when he did so, he did it swiftly.
"Then other places would be occupied right? How about the school? What happened to it?" Unsheathing his sword Nyx helped Amon along the way. He did so because Nadia looked like she would refuse to lift a finger.
"The school... Well at some point it turned into a trading center. The slime's dungeon is set at the field of the school." Amon pursed his lips after he saw Nyx finishing the last slime and picking up a core. "Enough of that, tell me what I paid for."
Nadia smiled, but Nyx found it weird now that he had gotten used to her pessimistic- almost cynical attitude. "I survived by hiding in the basement, I opened up a safe and found food in it and saved it for three months. Hmm, after that I decided to go out after I secured food, water and weapons." The girl listed out.
"Weapons?"
In response, she pulled out the knife harness from inside her backpack and strapped it back on her thighs. She took it off because it was getting in the way she fought with the sword. But this answered Amon's gaze and Bianca's question.
"And then?" The blond probed, privy about the information as to how Nyx and Nadia met.
"And then what?" Nadia rolled her eyes and echoed back, "Pretty boy only paid for half, if you're so curious then pay up." When Bianca only gaped, Nadia then proceeded to ignore her.
"Shameless! Shameless! Shameless!" The girl could only repeat the word in different emotions.
Amon glared at Bianca who didn't shrink back at his glare. "We are here." When the trees on the road side became looming, Amon spoke up. And up ahead Nyx and Nadia saw several huts made out of wood huddled up together. The artificial pond which the park was named out of, had fences covering it as the people built around it.
People were crowded at the center of the park, and Nadia briefly looked over to see the pregnant lady talking to the few people. Along with the two adults that they saw rescuing her.