Two hours later, Resta opened her eyes still sleepy, and looked around. Her body after the sleep was full of energy. But remembering her work, she immediately jumped off the sofa and turned towards the desk to see a boy reading documents with seriousness that does not belong to a boy of his age.
She wasn't angry. After all, although he pushed her to rest, which disturbed her schedule, it was thanks to him that she felt so free now. So she said with a smile,
"You don't have to do anything Adam. It's not something just anyone of your age can understand."
There is a reason for her words actually. Some of them are part of her work. But another portion of them were about her own research. It was something even herself felt hard to do. Not to mention helping her, he wouldn't even be able to understand what is written there. That is why she didn't mind if he read it.
"Hmm..? Ah, did you rest well..? Also, I actually finished everything. The part in left are academic issues like festival tournament and first term exam. It seems Rastus pushed you to do the scheduling of the two programs. I've actually think the date for festival tournament should not be changed. As for the exam, I think you need some unique ideas about how to do it, right..? I already written down some of my recommendations. You can choose from them."
Although she didn't have any problems for trusting him, it was still very hard task to complete even for her. And, how is he explaining everything like it's not his first time doing this...? And he called the king by name..!?
She ignored it for the time being and reached out to the documents on the left and began to read everything. In only few seconds, her eyes widened marginally, before she hurriedly flipped the pages and began reading everything else.
"I understand that the reason for not changing the festival tournament is that the festival is the reason for the foundation of tournament. But how does, dividing the matches to different days work..?"
Smiling, Adam answered, "It's actually pretty simple. In the real schedule, it is decided that, all the fights including preliminary, sub, sub -semi, semi, and final are to be done in only one day. The fight is supposed to be on the day of the festival. Doing this will restrict every plans of shopping and having fun. After all, a festival should be used to have fun and buy things for your girlfriend/boyfriend etc..."
"So, my proposal here is to divide the fights into days. Let's say, we will most likely start the planning and decorations at least a week before. So, use three last days for the tournament. Two days before the festival day, we should plan the preliminary tests and sub matches. The day before the festival should be used for the sub-semi and semi matches. For a special purpose, we should choose the day of the festival for the final."
She too understood this. But, the loss was more than gain after all. But she asked him to elaborate before rejecting his proposal.
"If we used first day for the preliminary test and sub-semi, the people we invite, or guests we would be inviting, will come earlier and use our country's shops and others. Some of the people who are searching for talented peoples will also invite themselves in. Although it may become really tight in the case of traffic, the economy we gain from the loss can be used for the coming ideas."
"It will increase the popularity of the country as well. As for the second day, it's the same. But with increased stalls and shops, the gains are increased than we gain from the first day."
"As for the third day, I want the final fight to be at evening. The gifting ceremony should be when it's night. So the time we choose have to be near to each other."
But, Resta tilted her head in confusion and asked, "Why do you want it to be at night..?"
"I have a secret weapon that can mesmerize people. But it have to be at night. If not, it will not work."
She asked, "If you can't tell me, how can I use it..? I need the perfect evidence to trust you in this case."
Not minding her words, he touched her forehead with his finger and displayed one of his memories of fireworks. Although she was startled by the contact, her face became that of a surprise as she looked dazed at him. Of course she was seeing the fireworks, so it was only her eyes that saw him.
"It's actually possible to understand the beauty of such a setting only if it is night time. So tell me Resta, do you trust me now..? And if you are worried about Rastus, I will talk to him. Just tell me what do you think."
Sighing just as he pulled his hands away, as the beautiful visual of fireworks left her mind, she said, "I trust you even without seeing this. It's...it's just that, I wanted to be sure..." She said with a guilty and embarrassed look. She seems to be feeling guilty as he helped her even though she didn't trusted him enough.
"It's okay. It's natural that you would have hard time trusting me. It's fine as long as you trust me sooner or later."
She now felt even more guilty. But making her shameful expression disappear, Adam threw the document from the right side and said, "I never thought you would be a researching type. It's actually quite intriguing. You want to create a medicine to heal something..?"
She stared at Adam with eyes full of disbelief. She asked, "You mean, you understand what I've written there..?" He nodded.
"Actually, I don't know if you are in desperate need for this medicine... If you are, I can help..? Of course if you can trust me though."
Resta gasped. What did he say..? He said he can make it..? He can make something she tried so hard during her life..? But remembering her earlier guilt, she decided to trust him at least a little. Even if it is a failure, she isn't going to criticize him.
"Okay. Please do it, if you can."
Nodding his head, Adam explained, "The medicine you are trying to create is to heal a mark due to the high usage of spirit power..right..?"
She nodded. He activated his eyes of omniscience and scanned her body. There wasn't any problems outside. But near her chest area, there is a brown mark in the shape of five pointed star. It wasn't affecting her physical body. It was affecting her spirit. Her spiritual soul.
'It seems, she's a half-spirit, half-human. The spirit power inside her body is destroying her physical body in a slow pace. May be she doesn't know how to control spirit power..?'
"Say Resta.."
"Hmm..?"
"Is one of your parents, a spirit..?"
She didn't respond. She looked at Adam with a terrified expression. But sighing, she nodded.
"My mother is a spirit. Although I know she is a spirit, I don't know who it is. What does it have anything to do with my condition..?"
Shaking his head, Adam asked, "Do you not know, that the magic you used to disguise yourself, is spirit magic..?"
Blinking in confusion, Resta shook her head in denial.
"That's exactly why. As you are a half-spirit, half-human, the amount of spirit power in your body is too much for you to handle. You don't have the most brilliant control over it as well. If you stop using the spirit magic, your condition will improve. And if you want to use it again, just try and learn to control it more efficiently."
Although she couldn't believe such a thing, she decided already to trust him. So nodding her head, she was promised him, she will try it.
"Well, if it doesn't work, I can create a medicine to supress your spirit power." Although, there isn't a medicine, with his transformation into a spirit, he can naturally control all spirit powers easily.
After talking for a while, Adam left the office and walked toward his room.