Riveria: Ais.
Riveria voice made Ais snapped out of her thoughts. By now Riveria had also calmed herself and stood up. The same stoic look had appeared on her face, but inwardly was agitated. As an elf her hearing was very good. Hence, she also heard what Primis told Ais.
Riveria: *sigh* Let's return for now. We must tell everyone about it.
Ais nodded agreeing with her. Giving a last look towards the direction Primis disappeared to, she turned and followed Riveria back to their home. Neither said anything to each other during the entire way. Both had their mind occupied with their own thoughts.
'Riveria: If what he said is true then it makes sense why Zeus and Hera Familia's lost even when they had many Level 8 and 9 Adventurers in their ranks.'
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Primis returned to Guild by now. The place where he and Ais were sparring was near Eina's apartment. Hence, when he saw Eina leaving her apartment and was going towards Guild for the start of her today's job, he also decided to end the fight and leave.
[Why did you do that?]
'Primis: That was important for my future plans.'
[Plans?]
'Primis: You will know. Another reason is that I want to give a good wake up call to Ais.'
[Wakeup Call?]
'Primis: Yes. Current Ais is a lot weaker than the one who joined Loki Familia when she was a kid.'
[Why? That time she was just Level 1. Now she is Level 5. Instead of weaker, isn't she a lot stronger.]
'Primis: When Ais joined Loki Familia, Riveria hid the information of Leveling up from her. Her point of view was that Ais was still a kid. As a kid, it was impossible to survive in dungeon. Then how did she survive?'
[You mean her swordsmanship.]
'Primis: Yes. Monsters in dungeon are a lot stronger than those outside. Even Adult human can't guarantee that they will survive fighting them.'
[I get your point. The very reason Ais joined the Loki Familia was to become stronger. However, since Riveria hid the information of leveling up from her, she could only use the old traditional way of practicing her swordsmanship. Like swinging your sword hundred or thousand times per day. Trying to attack at different angles, parrying and so on.]
'Primis: Yes, that time only her skills in swordsmanship could help her.'
[What about her "Ariel"?]
'Primis: According to the plot, Ais herself didn't know that she possesses such skill till later date.'
[I see.]
'Primis: Anyway, it changed when she learnt about leveling later.'
[So, that's how it is. I agree with that. Leveling up gives you an overall increase in strength and is a lot less time consumption than improving your skills in swordsmanship. She gave up on that and put her attention on increasing her level instead, correct.]
'Primis: Correct. Well, she was not the only one, all adventurers took this path.'
[Well, it's not that bad though if you can brute force everything.]
'Primis: Yeah. Yet, it came with a major drawback. And you know it.'
[...…Yes. Brute force might help you in many cases, but if you met someone you have more strength than you, then you won't be able to win. On the contrary, if you have better grasp on your swordsmanship and other techniques, you can not only be able to hold your stance, but you can even reverse the tides.]
'Primis: Exactly. Anyway, let's talk later.'
Said Primis as he walked towards Eina.
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Eina looking at everything in front of her with awe. She had never seen such crowd in Guild before. She suddenly thought about something as her lips started to twitch.
'Eina: Why am I having the feeling that I need to work overtime for the next upcoming days?'
Then she shook her head and put those thoughts at the back of her mind for now.
'Eina: Anyway, Let's see the cause of this.'
She tried to listen the conversation Adventurers were having with each other. Since they were talking loudly, she understood the gist of it.
'Eina: "The Black Swordsman"? Are they all talking about Primis?'
Finally, understanding who's the root cause of this, her expressions became weird. As she was wondering what to say, someone garbed her hand and started to drag her with him. Eina got shocked because of this so she tried to resist but when she saw it was Primis she calms down and just followed quietly. As she was following him, her gaze fell on her hand which was being held by him.
'Eina: His hand is so strong and perfect. On top of that, it's warm. I didn't realize it when we shake hands yesterday. I have to say...…...Awa… Wawa...…... w-what am I t-thinking?'
Eina face turned as red as tomato. Primis glanced back at her when he sensed that she was holding his hand more tightly. Witnessing her face which had turned red to her ear, the corner of lips rose slightly.
'Primis: Oh, man, she is cute.'
[Indeed.]
Not to embarrass her more, he looked straight again and continued walking. Since he was using his Aura to cover Eina too, no one could see them.
After some time, they reached one of the boxes and entered. Now, there are only two of them. Primis turned back at this time and looked at Eina. Eina was currently lost in her thoughts and didn't realize that they have stopped.
He then raised his hand and flicked her forehead.
Eina: Ouch!!!
Letting out a cute yelp, she returned and started to rub her forehead. All while glaring at Primis with slight moist eyes.
Eina: What was that for?
Primis: Let's talk.
Eina: First tell me what that was for.
Primis sighed hearing this and a serious expression appeared on his face.
Primis: Eina, look, I am very busy. And I know you are going to be the same. So, let's keep it short. What do you say?
Noticing that Primis was serious, she decided to let it go. For now, that is.
Eina: What is it?