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Chapter-13
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After 2 more hours after he left the forest, he finally arrived near his house.
*knock* *knock* *knock*
As he quickly comes to the door and knocks on it.
*step* *step* *step* *step*
Hearing the impatient footsteps, he prepared what was about to happen.
*crack*
*thud*
*crash*
The door burst opened, and the ron face crashed into two soft balloons, as he started loose breath.
"Where have you been whole this time?!?" Helen came through the door, and hugged Ron and crushed him into her breasts as she asked this.
As she continue to ask "You know, how worried i was when you don't showed up this morning"
Helen was worried when he didn't show up early this morning, thinking maybe he met some kind of accident.
Or thinking about the possibility that her prediction came out true, and maybe Ron has done something to himself. Thinking of this possibility, she also couldn't sleep well last night because of this fear.
When she was walking around in the entire house impatiently while thinking what to do, she heard the knock but couldn't sense anything, so she immediately guessed Ron was back, as she ran fast as she could and hugged him while asking various questions.
"Hm..mmhh..mm..mhh.hm…hmm…" Ron couldn't answer the questions as he is n't able to breathe properly due to being suffocated in her chest.
Hearing the sounds, she opened her eyes to see Ron who was almost on the verge of losing consciousness due to suffocation.
"Oh…Sorry" As realised what she was doing, she quickly released his head, and he finally started to gain air again.
"Ha… haa.haa….haa…..ha" Ron started to catch his breath again, as he moved to get free from her embrace.
"Y.yeah, ha.. I am f..fine, I just departed from town a little late" Ron said this as he caught his breath and started to take deep breaths.
Helen looked at Ron for seconds thinking that probably yesterday something bad must have happened to him and then she said "first let's go inside and then tell me whole story"
As she takes his bag in her hand and then pulls him inside the house and closes the door.
Ron was n't even able to relax, as he was pulled inside forcefully.
…..
Helen took him to the living room, as he made him sit on the couch, while she placed the bag on the dining table and then sat beside him.
Helen then looked towards Ron's eyes and said "Now tell me what happened yesterday, full story from the start, ok?"
Ron looks at Helen with some hesitation thinking should tell the truth or not. After looking at her eyes, he could see dark circles under her eyes while he thought 'maybe she didn't sleep last night because of me'.
He then decided to tell her the truth after all he thinks that it will be very unfair to her, if he tells her a lie when she is worried sick because of him, so he finally decided to tell her the truth.
"It's like this, yesterday when I reached town...…." He then started to tell her all the events that occurred to him since he reached town.
As the story progresses, hearing that iris awakens 4 stars mana tool, she feels happy for the girl from her heart, she knew that the girl is very quiet but she also knew that iris is also a very kind girl.
His tone became sad as he reached the story where he failed to awaken in front of the whole town and was mocked by them, as Helen's eyes began to tear up hearing what he went through.
*sob*
"I-its enough I think it's enough, so stop now" She said this as she wiped her tears with her hands, thinking that he was depressed and couldn't come home early because the people of church was worried for him, so they cheered him up because of this he came late.
Even before her, Ron was taken care of by people of the church just after his unknown grandmother, and she knows how nice people are compared to other people.
After she wiped her tears, she looked at Ron with a serious expression as she said "listen Ron, even if you fail, it doesn't mean life is finished, there are many different things you can do in life".
Ron looked at her with a dumbfounded expression recalling the familiar scene from this morning.
He then looked at her and as he said "sis Helen why are you telling the same thing as father from this morning".
Hearing this, she confirmed her guess was correct as she said "I am telling the same thing because it is correct, don't think life is over just because you failed to achieve one thing".
"But sis helen I awakened mana tool" Ron said this with some irritated tone, as he couldn't understand why people don't believe in his ability to achieve his dream.
Helen looks at him with pity and sympathy thinking the same thing as them, that maybe because of that accident he sees illusions made by his brain.
Ron, seeing her graze, stands up and quickly runs towards the dining table as he opens the bag and pulls out the blades wrapped in purple cloth.
And then runs back to Helen and hand over the blades which with cloth wrapped around them while Helen look at him with dumb expression.
"Hmph.…See for yourself" As he said while he sat down on her side while he crossed his arms as he puffed his cheeks.
Helen looked at Ron for a few seconds, not understanding what he meant. She then looked at purple cloth and slowly opened the cloth to see 2 short blades with chains.
"Now do you believe me" Ron commented this from the side as he looked towards her.
Helen looks towards blades for a while, seeing no mana fluctuation in the blades but she senses something, she can't describe by words then again carefully blades again but couldn't find anything then looks towards Ron.
As she said with serious graze "tell me how you get these blades".
Ron looked at her with weird graze as he said "I didn't get them from anywhere, they are my mana tool I awakened them myself".
Helen gives him a Doubtful look hearing what he said as she then speaks "but you tell me that you failed to awaken".
"I indeed failed to awaken but you don't listen to my full story" said by Ron in his defence.
"..Sign…you are right it was my fault to stop you in the middle" She said while rubbing her templates as she continue "..now tell me the full story"
Ron looked at her for a while as he said "fine as I quickly ran from...…." As he continues to tell her the whole story.
He hesitated to tell the part where he got injured by those two people but he decided to tell her the whole truth without a lie.
Hearing that he got seriously injured by those people, she got extremely angry towards those and she also felt angry at herself that she can't be there when he needed her.
As he finished his story he looked towards her with a little fearful expression towards Helen who was thinking something very deeply.
Helen, who was in deep thought, looks towards Ron who has a fearful expression as she asks with confusion "what's with that expression?".
"I mean are you….not angry with me for fighting them" Ron asked this with little hesitation as thinking that he will be scolded by her for fighting and getting injured.
Hearing this, Helen smile helplessly and shook her head while she said "No I am not angry with you"
Ron looked at her with a surprised expression hearing what she said as he asked "Really?"
to confirm what he heard.
Helen smiled gently and said "Yep, after all you did that was to protect your friend from danger, you did the right thing and I will never be angry with you for something you did right in fact I am extremely proud of you for doing that".
What Helen said is completely true, after hearing Ron without mana tries his best to save his friend from the dangerous people like them without worrying about his own safety.
Ron is a sign of relief while he puts his hand on his chest as suddenly he hears her again.
"But" Helen said as she looked towards Ron again with serious graze.
*gulp*
Sensing her serious graze, he swallowed his saliva as he looked up at her face nervously.
As Helen continues to say "you need to understand that there is difference between recklessness and bravery".
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