IN THE SYSTEM SPACE
Estelle was swinging her sword in the different directions as instructed by Elmo, her practice was on point, but her thoughts were everywhere, thanks to the system buff she got some time to get herself start a strong beginning, these two months her body and have health changed at a rapid speed, also with Queen Jane Ryker aiding her body, her body started resonating at first and then slowly adapted to the changes,
Elmo was leaning at the side of the only tree in the system space, observing her refined movements, her movements were although rough and needed a lot of time to get a stance she refined those movements quite well, Elmo at first when he heard her request of tough training, he thought she was just overestimating herself but later he was proved wrong.
the tough training routine he gave her was something he did in the past when he lost all his powers, but compared to her he was in the best condition, her determination and her passion made him wonder whether it is right to treat her as a weak just based on her past life,
at the start when Rex was treating her with a passion seeing her determination, he thought maybe Rex was pushing her hard to become a strong one but after these two months of spending time with her, he saw her in a different light.
Estelle was the one who pushed herself to an extent, constantly charging forward until she uses her last bit of energy to show her survival and fear of repeating the same mistake in her past life. Elmo's expression gradually turned serious with thoughts, subconsciously he summoned his sword and charged toward Estelle
Estelle who was lost in thoughts got surprised by Elmo's sudden track she defended herself in a hair breath when she wants to ask Elmo but was continuously got attacked by him, she went on defending herself instead of attacking, there surprise spar lasted longer than they thought as Elmo was Attacking and Estelle went on defending in the last she lost her balance she falls on the ground Elmo's sword and her wooden sword ended comforting a little before her wooden sword fell flat at her side while Elmo's sword fell on its tip as directly dug on the ground with just an inch away from her head.
Elmo smirked at her while offering her hand he said "you are making me change my impression of you at every other moment I hope you can do this until the end"
Estelle froze when she heard Elmo voicing his intention behind the surprise Spar, her eyes became lifeless her fears slowly started crawling upon her, the expectations and imposing of people close to her from her past life, her past incidents slowly played in front of her eyes, her thoughts became a mess.
the one thing she feared not to happen happened again, her body started shivering, tears poured out from her eyes she did not blink, her eyes filled with tears were looking straight at Elmo, she started seeing the shadows of people she did not want to, she let a loud gasp out of breath when as pulled Elmo's sword and charged towards him,
the only thought that is running in her head is 'I should kill them only then can I live without this fear, yes killing this fear is the only chance, kill! kill!!'
Elmo was caught in surprise when she charged forward with his sword he subconsciously took her wooden sword, and they both ended up in another sparring but this time Elmo used his sword Aura on the wooden sword while fighting with Estelle, he felt like he was fighting with someone on his level as he subconsciously used his Sword Aura while defending himself, just as he was about to end the spar with knocking Estelle on back of her nape, he was caught off guard with her attack and the wooden sword he was holding broke in half.
Estelle stopped fighting when she saw his broken sword, she looked him in the eye with her soulless eyes she said "please don't change, don't become someone I had to kill"
she then gave him his sword and went back to her room; she lay on the bed and closed her eyes as she sighed deeply.
after a long time, a familiar interface popped before her eyes,
[Host has a message from- 'friendly handsome grandpa' read/ ignore]
a small smile etched on her face she said 'read' in her mind
[you brat well done! you are doing a wonderful job! I enjoyed that showdown of yours with that blackhead!! good! You do not know how satisfied I was looking at his expression! HAHA]
Estelle ended up chuckling as she read the message
AT RYKER Duchy
as soon as he returned to the kingdom, he went straight to the barracks for leaving Lucas at the medic center, then he headed to his tent to remove the armor, Darren was undressing after removing the armor Nolan entered the tent suddenly, Darren who standing shirtless squinted his eyes in disdain at him
"You could have waited until I changed"
Nolan then brought forth Darren's injured Fox in front of him, startled by his heavily injured Familiar Darren snapped loudly "who did this? someone got a lot of guts huh?!!!" he fumed as he took his familiar into his arms and gently brushed its uninjured part,
Nolan "The former Queens guards, we have captured them sir they are at the mansion"
Darren chuckled in condemnation as he demanded "you know what gift you have to return right Nolan?"
Nolan still with his blank face "yes sir"
Darren "good my sister?" then he inquired since even though his sister is in the Royal palace it is difficult to find his sister since she moves a lot to treat illnesses and to research
Nolan "sir she is at the Ryker Mansion"
Darren raised an eyebrow at him and was about to enquire about her stay when the fox in his arms whimpered, he decided to hurry, anyway, he can just ask her
At THE RYKER MANSION
Darren burst opened his sister's room with force only to look at the person in great annoyance.
Hilbert was startled by his sudden entry but soon changed his expression to that of a friendly smile as he questioned Darren
"My dear brother-in-law, you look like you are in a hurry? why don't you say that to me maybe, I will solve your problem"
Hilbert was standing near the window in his sleeping robes which barely covered his upper body with a wine glass in his right hand and left hand on the windowsill, he looked like he came out from a painting as the whole aura around him was bubbly.
Darren gave him a disgusted look before turning back and was about to leave but his fox howled in pain, he stopped in his tracks to soothe her gently then he heard a gentle voice behind his ear