"Curse? What do you mean?" Alev said while looking at him in surprise.
"You are aware of my thin-looking body because you know about the curse, right?" Tina replied while pouting his lip.
"Wait a minute? Actually, I don't understand the curse you mean, I don't even think your skinny body is the result of a curse! I don't even know." Alev said while rolling his eyes, looking the other way.
"Eh?" Tina even froze and looked surprised by his answer.
Still confused, Tina thought for a moment with her finger touching her lips as she started to frown, repeatedly glancing at Alev who was in front of her.
"Why do you even look surprised?" Alev said in response when she glanced at him in surprise.
"Are you sure you really don't know about that?" Tina said while she tilted her head and looked Alev's innocent-looking eyes.
Alev was silent for a moment and thought in his head when he heard the word curse that something seemed to be bothering him in his mind. Alev looked at her narrowly, and quickly he used his eyesight to see the flow of magic on Tina's body.
Alev's serious gaze seeing her like that made Tina feel awkward about it, and unconsciously she reflexively pushed Alev away.
"What are you doing looking like that?" Tina said as she pushed Alev away.
The thrust made Alev fall to the ground and hit his broken arm on the ground, causing him to respond to the pain he felt and lose his concentration.
"Argh! It hurts." He said, while holding his broken hand with a pursed nose, feeling the pain.
"It's your fault, why are you looking at me like that too?" She said with pouty lips, feeling annoyed with him.
Alev ignored what she said and quickly returned to his concentration in looking at her, but his current sitting position allowed him to clearly see Tina's entire body.
From his perspective, Alev saw Tina's body was transparent like a spirit body and saw a thread of various colors piled up in each strand of thread, he saw the thread was floating around her body.
But Alev saw something that looked odd according to him, from the many-colored threads that did not touch her body, only a few jet black threads were binding his body. From the position of the thread in her body, Alev realized that it was in important internal organs such as the heart, liver, and stomach.
Comparing what he looks, Alev looked at his own hands and feet, he saw that many colored threads were binding his own body and that's not jet black like her.
Actually, he didn't really understand the thread's meaning itself, but that was what he usually saw when he used that vision to see the magic flow from someone and the thread wouldn't be seen when he saw a dead person. That was why he assumed the flow of magic came from life energy and created magic energy for a mage to utilize.
"Hey! I'm talking to you!" Said Tina who was looking at him very closely with puffed cheeks full of worried looks on her face.
Full of questions in his mind made him dumbfounded while thinking about that and still not realize that Tina was now in front of him looking at him with a worried face, until finally, Tina patted Alev's cheek with both hands making him realize she was looking at him.
Alev blinked repeatedly looking at her while his lips and cheeks were sandwiched by Tina's hand. And suddenly he narrowed his eyes and let go of Tina's hand that was still in his cheeks.
"Sorry, it looks like I was daydreaming," He said while looking away to his left side watching the insects which he could even see the colored threads from.
"Seeing you being silent like that scares me, does it make your injured hand hurt even more?" Said Tina, while her wide eyes showed her innocent-looking eyes staring at him.
Alev turned back to her, "can you get out of the way? You'll only hurt my broken hand even more," He replied with a cold gaze looking at her.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to do that," said Tina while waving her hand trying to distance herself even though she was still sitting in front of him.
"I didn't know that your hand, which was wrapped around with a wooden branch, was actually injured, sorry," Tina said as she looked down regretfully while playing her ten fingers against each other.
Alev glanced at her fingers for a moment, watching what she was doing, "Didn't you realize that I was only moving my left hand earlier? What's the point of me wrapping my arm around with a wooden stick if nothing happens." He said with that annoyed face while pursing his nose.
"I don't know, I heard, sometimes guys do silly things just to make him look cool." Said Tina, who pursed her lips with her fingers still playing as she glanced at him.
"That's a stupid thing! You must have heard that from a fool like yourself." He replied with a quick glance looking at her eyes.
With her hands on the ground, Tina leaned her body closer to Alev, "My sister is not stupid! She knows that because she's friends with a lot of people." She said while pursing her lips with puffed cheeks and narrowed eyes looking at him trying to deny what he said.
"Sigh" Alev sighed as he rolled his eyes.
"No wonder, it's your own sister though," Alev said again mocking at her.
Hearing Alev mocking his sister like that made Tina rant about her own sister which made Alev ignore it while he was still thinking about what he saw on Tina's body and for some reason, it always bothered him.
Alev looked back at him seriously until Tina locked her mouth with wide eyes looking back at him.
"About the curse. Can you tell me more about that?" Alev said with his eyes shining with curiosity about it.
"Why should I tell it? What do you care about?" Tina said while putting on a sullen face.
But seeing Alev who now looked at her differently with a curiosity, it attracted her attention and her sullen face now slowly relaxed looking at him as she sighed trying to answer his question.
"I don't really understand that, but he told my parents that I was cursed with a soul eater, which he said ate my body to such an extent, but along with that news someone made another bad rumor come along saying the curse didn't just take me away. But it also happened to the people around me." Tina said, looking gloomy at her face while explaining that.
Tina was silent for a moment and was pensive, and Tina continued, "That's what made me move to the rombel village because my parents didn't want me to be influenced by people around who spread bad rumors like that. Then- I guess that's all." Tina said, holding herself back from continuing her sentence and lowering her head, feeling gloomy.
"He? So who was 'he' that you mentioned before to tell your parents that you were cursed?" Alev said while frowning at her.
"I don't really know, but I think he was an old man who was an acquaintance of my father in town." Said Tina, who shook her head.
For a moment Alev thought again, feeling curious about the old man, if he knew about the curse there was a chance he could see the curse was there, or he was the one who planted the curse on her, again for a moment he thought like that, Tina came closer to him with a look on her face curious.
"I already told you that, right! Now, can you tell me how you got the wound?" Tina said while looking at Alev's broken arm.
"Why are we discussing wounds now? Do I really have to tell you that?" He replied while lifting his chin for a moment, avoiding her.
"That's cheating, is that how you treat a friend who shares stories?" Said Tina while frowning at him.
Alev rolled his eyes as he saw her like that made him realize that if he allowed it, she would whine even more later, which would really annoy him.
"TSK!" Alev clicked his tongue, feeling troublesome.
"I got this wound a few hours ago because the horse wagon I was traveling in was overturned and made me crushed along with the people who were riding it," Alev said while he got up.
Following him, Tina quickly stood up and walked beside him while she didn't take her eyes off him, "People? Then why did you head to the city alone? Did they leave you?" Tina said with a smirk in her smile, trying to mock him.
For a moment Alev looked at him, "Yes you are right, they all died leaving me." Said Alev while back to focus on looking ahead of the road past the oak tree.
Tina stopped in her tracks the moment she heard what he said, feeling confused enough to digest it in her mind.
"Wait Alev! What do you mean?" Tina said as she patted Alev's shoulder.
"As I said just now, they all died on the spot," Alev said while giving a sideways glance at her for a moment.
What Alev said made Tina froze for a moment and feel guilty of the question she asked, as she didn't expect that coming.