As both aran and Elissa sat down at the table facing each other waiting for the food, Elissa started talking.
" Ahh, yes, here take these! " She said and took out all the spirit stones they got in the mission. Looking at that, aran wondered why she was taking out all of the stones.
" What is this? Aren't you taking your half? " He asked.
" No, It's fine. You can have this. I don't need it and You deserve it anyway!" She said.
It was clear that she knew they got hurt because of her mess up and she was trying to make up for it. Although aran wanted all the money he can get, it felt like a lot.
" Are you sure about that? " He asked.
" Yes. I am. It was my fault that we got hurt. I shouldn't have let my emotions get the better of me. So, please accept this as an apology! "
" Fine, I accept it, " Aran said and took all the stones. He had already gotten more than what he worked for but still, he thought more money wouldn't be any problem.
Soon a servant brought them the food and after finishing the lunch, both of them left for the palace. Although aran was expecting Elissa to discuss their deal about the sword techniques, it was surprising for him that she didn't bring it up in their conversation. But he was sure that she will not let it slide. So he decided to go with the flow for now.
***
In the Cardinal palace, the Pheonix academy team was having their lunch. For some reason Rollo was furious. He had trained for a year to win at least second place in the tournament, but he had lost in his last round. After the nine rounds, the captain was the only one in their team remaining.
"It's okay Rollo, you can train harder and do it next year "
The captain said as he tried to calm Rollo down. Although Alexia had also lost, she was fine with it since she was more positive than Rollo. When Rollo was angry and couldn't do anything about that, he remembered aran and it made him more furious.
" That bastard still hasn't returned. If only we had brought someone else, we could have at least gotten some points for the team! "
" Stop it rollo. What's your problem with him? It's not his fault that you lost" Alexia defended aran but rollo didn't care.
" You are the one to talk. Why do you always support him? If you had trained in the meantime you wasted supporting him, you wouldn't have lost the battle one-sided. Don't act like you are better than me! " Rollo shouted at Alexia. But when Alexia who was calm until then heard that, she instantly got up.
" You did it this time! " she said with a serious tone as she took the bundle of empty plates on the table and started to throw them at Rollo one by one.
" Die You Bastaaaard... " She shouted and continued to throw the plates. Although Rollo dodged most of the plates, when Alexia threw them more seriously, he instantly took out his sword from his ring.
" Come at me with your sword like a real swordfighter, biiiiitchhh "
Rollo swung his sword and defended himself against the plates. When all the plates on the table finished, she also took out her sword. As they were about to start a fight for real in the dining area where all of the remaining participants were watching
" STOP! " the captain shouted and he let out the aura he was suppressing until then. Looking at his terrifying aura both of them immediately stopped.
" Put your sword out and sit down! " he continued to shout.
" But captain " as Alexia tried to blame Rollow,
" I said sit down! " He said and both of them sat down without questions.
" I am done with your childishness. You both lost five hundred points each this time and the next time, it will be a thousand! " The captain said.
As the captain of the swordsmen's club, he had the authority to cancel the points of the members. So, when he said that, both rollo and Alexia remained silent and stared at each other for a while until Captain got up and left from there. As the captain left, they also followed him without any questions.
***
After lunch, captain Reinfred was heading back to his training room to train for the match he had in two days. Both Rollo and Alexia were following him and as they were about to enter the mansion, Rollo saw someone familiar coming towards them from the entrance of the palace area.
As Rollo saw aran riding towards the mansion with Elissa, he froze for a moment. Roll had always seen Elissa as a mad woman who plays dangerous pranks on people. Because she had always acted like that in front of others.
Looking at aran with her, he started to wonder what was happening. He immediately stopped Alexia from following the captain and stopped her and he pointed his finger at aran. Although they had just fought a moment ago and Alexia got startled suddenly, they had been doing that for a long time and it had become common among them. When Alexia also saw aran, she forget about her fight with Rollo and waited there with him.
As aran saw his team from afar, he speed up his horse and moved faster. As they reached the mansion entrance, they got off of their horses and stored them in their rings and walked towards Rollo. Looking at them, Before Alexia could ask something, Elissa started talking.
" Greetings Phoenix. Were you waiting here to welcome me? "
Hearing that, Aran stared at Elissa, because of her sudden character switch. It was as if she was completely a different person.
" What are you doing with him? " Alexia suddenly asked as she came forward.
" Ohh, him. I was just showing him the city. Why? Do you have a problem with that? " Elissa said but Alexia ignored it and asked something else.
" I didn't see you at the tournament. Im sure you are using your family's authority to postpone your match. So, When is your next match? "
" I have decided not to fight this year. So yeah. Now that I'm out of the tournament, you might have to find someone else to get your ass kicked! " She said.
The injuries in Elissa's body still haven't completely healed and she knew it will take at least a month before she fully recovers. So she had to stay away from any further injuries. But she wasn't worried about that. Instead, she was feeling more pleased than usual.
" Tsk, why do you always act like a bitch? " Alexia asked.
Although what Elissa said made her angry, now that she had also lost the tournament, she didn't have any comebacks so that's all she could say.
" Is that it? I was expecting some more. That right. Whatever. I have something to take care of, So, we can talk later aran. So until next time losers! "
Elissa left after saying that And Rollo started to stare at aran wondering why would he ever get close to that crazy woman. As aran started to wonder why Rollo was staring at him like that, Alexia asked
" So, how was the city Aran? And what about her deal? "
" What? Ahh when I was preparing to leave, she came to me and said that she will help me look around the city. Since it's my first time in the city I also accepted. We went to see some places and it was nice! "
" So she helped you. Just like that? She didn't want anything? " Alexia continued wondering why would Elissa ever help aran even abandoning the tournament.
" Yeah. She didn't ask for anything. She is actually nice as a person. I asked her why she is helping me, but she said we can talk about that later! So I don't ask anything else! "
" So you just accepted it? "
" Yeah, why? Is it something bad? "
" Are you serious? Why would you ever do that? "
" I just thought it's fine! " as aran said that Rollo put on an evil smile at aran thinking that he has gotten into bigger trouble and he was happy about that. He thought aran deserved it.
" Tsk, just thought it's fine? Know you owe one to that crazy woman. You will know what's fine soon, you bastard! " Rollo said and went inside the mansion.
" Well, we can talk about it later. Go and take some rest. We are going to the training room. We will meet you at night! " Alexia said and she also left following Rollo.
***
As both of them left, aran went back to the room where he was staying. As he got inside, he started to draw the formation to summon arrax.
While he was heading towards Bellrun, Arrax had left, saying that he will look around the lower realm for a while, now that he had gotten strong enough to defend himself. He had turned into a small bird and flew off.
As aran activated the formation and waited, after five minutes arrax appeared there as a bird. As aran was about to ask him something, he saw that arrax wasn't in a good mood. He turned at aran with a furious bird expression
" Couldn't you have waited for a while? I was just about to see something! " Arrax started to shout.
" How the hell do I know what you were doing? " Aran asked.
" Ahhggghh, I told you we should practice the tele communication! !"
" When did you tell me that? And What the fuck is telecommunication? "
" Talking through the mind with your contractor. Don't you know even that? "
" No! "
" Then why the fuck did you even contract with me without even knowing the basics of contracting "
" It wasn't written in the book I read about the dragons! "
" Yeah. Off course. The books. Do you know anything other than the books you a little piece of shit "
" Well, I'm sorry. We can learn it later. "
" Haa, what's the point? Forget it. So, tell me why did you summon me? "
" Well there are no specific reasons, but I just thought it would be great if you are here, with me! "
" What the fuck? "