At first, the painting was just like any other ordinary painting. It was not capable of doing anything. But Professor Sonny enchanted a spirit in the portrait using his ability in the practice of soul arts.From then on, the lady in the portrait became his official guard at the passageway leading to his office. And from time to time, whenever he was faced with a dilemma or stumped over something, he would go and asked the other party out of habit."The Mystic Muses?? That won't work..."Since Lilith is the founder of Mystic Muses as well as the ancestor of Delicia, it was indeed a good idea to start searching from there. But Professor Sonny was already aware of the fact that Delicia was the last direct descendant of the fallen deity, Lilith. So it would only be a waste of his time and effort if he would go there to look for another source of deity blood.After all, those remaining members of Mystic Muses now were nothing but mere followers only. Each of them was indeed talented sorcer
After almost half a month of seclusion, Professor Sonny started accepting guests again.He went on his usual duties as the Headmaster of Iridos and attended everything that he had neglected over the past few weeks.Everything resumed to how it normally was and all went on smoothly as if nothing happened in the first place.At the same time, Niccoli's pet, Luna, had also regained her consciousness right after a week.Exactly just like how Professor Sonny estimated."MEOW"[Little lass, when do you think I could meet Monami again??? I've been missing her like crazy, you know??]Nero asked his master for the umpteenth time.Well, he had been like that ever since he heard the news that Monami already woke up.But apparently, Monami was still inside the folded space and Niccoli never allowed the other party to go out since thenDue to what had happened to Monami back in the Land of Echurid, Niccoli became overly protective of his pet."Hmm... Just give them some time, Nero. You'll eventual
Truth be told, it was not just Audrey who was curious about Monami. Even Allan and the rest of their friends were also curious to know how exactly was Monami right now. After all, they had been together through thick and thins and brave different dangers just to help Monami in her recovery. But more than that, it was because Monami was also their savior.If it was not for the other party pitting herself against the army of the undead just to buy them some time to escape, she would not have landed herself to a precarious situation, in the first place. Which in the end resulted to her losing her consciousness for a long time.Niccoli's friends were also worried sick about Monami as much as he did. At the same time, they were also ridden by guilt by what happened to Niccoli's pet. That was why when they found out that the other party was already awake, they also wanted to see her right away.But for some reason, Niccoli did not seem to be fond of this idea. So as much as they wanted to
"Niccoli, is there something we need to know??? What happened to Monami? Aren't she okay now??"Nike asked his brother further when he saw that the other party seemed to have a hard time expressing his thought. Niccoli's facial expression right now looked no different from someone who had just swallowed something nasty. His face contorted in different ways and it was like the words that he was about to say were stuck in the back of his throat"Niccoli, it's okay. If you really don't wish to tell us yet then so be it."Jace said after a while.But from the way he said it, it seemed that he was rather offended to Niccoli. Well, no one could blame Jace for feeling that way either. After all, it was indeed disheartening to know if a friend of yours was deliberately hiding something from you.The rest of his other friends felt the same way too. Of course, they all wanted to understand Niccoli's side. Maybe there was just really something that he could not disclose yet. Perhaps, there was s
The interior of the folded space looked exactly the same just how it looked before when they purchased it.Niccoli did not alter to any of its design and leave it as it is.The place where they were currently at was an artificial room that was put inside a walnut-sized artifact.Yet despite that fact, the room inside the folded space looked no different from a normal room, although the one that they have right now did not have any door or windows at allIts walls were painted with the color of ivory white, making the room looked more spacious than it already was.The room was already spacious, to begin with. In fact, it could fit all six of them inside without them getting cramped.There was barely any furniture inside the room aside from a single wooden chair and bed, and it only made the place looked rather empty.On the corner of the room sat the single bed that Monami used during her recovery period.When their eyes finally landed on the bed, that as the only time that the group r
After that, Monami's large body crawled out underneath the bed.Luna was currently in her beast form, that was why when she finally came out she stood towering over the group.It was also worth noticing that Monami's size right now seemed to be a lot bigger than her previous size before when they first saw her in her beast form.It was like Monami's size on her beast form at least got doubled if not tripled.She was so huge right now, to the point that even if Nero would try to transform in panther form right now and sat beside her, his size would be negligible compared to Monami.Much like a toddler placed next to a full-grown man.That was how huge Monami became."As you all can see, Monami became a lot bigger than she previously was."Niccoli said as soon as Monami came out for everyone to see."Isn't it a good sign for a beast to grow bigger??? For what I know if a beast grows its size, it only means say that it also became stronger, Isn't it???? Besides Monami is a form changing
Nero could not believe it himself so while no one was watching, he decided to test the water and talked to Monami.Audrey and the others were busy listening to Niccoli as he told them what he had observed to his pet cat, Monami over the past couple of days.That was why no one paid attention to their surroundings and they were all oblivious to the big cat and small cat staring at each other at the corner of the room."MEOW"[Monami, are you okay???]Nero started the conversation by asking that question to Monami.But what Monami said afterward gave Nero another round of headache."MEOW"[&%$^#@&&*^$#!]"Huh???!""MEOW"[&%$^#@&&*^$#!]"MEOW"[Monami?! What are you saying you sound so foreign?!!!]Nero was bewildered when he realized that he could not understand a word from what Monami said."Nero??? Why? What happen??"Audrey asked her cat through their mental link when she sensed that Nero got increasingly agitated the more he talked to Monami."MEOW"[I'm not sure either, little las
"Nero? Calm down. You should not be pointing fingers here. How could you be so sure that Professor Sonny had anything to do with this??"Audrey could not understand why her cat, Nero, was so sure about his opinion."MEOW"[Believe me, little lass, it was him! He had everything to do with this!!!]Nero reiterated his words with so much conviction in his voice as if he truly believed that his intuition could never go wrong."How could you be certain about it Nero?? He was the one who helped us, remember???"It was not that Audrey trusted Professor Sonny more than she could trust Nero' words.It was just that she was not the kind of person who would trust and believe blindly in someone's words of accusation over someone else. Even if that someone was her closest peer."MEOW"[Exactly?! He was the only one who touched Monami aside from us. It was not as if someone from us were capable of doing this to Monami, right?]"But it does not necessarily mean that Professor Sonny is capable of do