Like the previous day, Jai and Darrion went over their plan again for getting the fern. Now that they knew the fern was indeed here for usage, they were trying their best to focus on potion making.
Since Jai had never made any potions before yesterday’s class, Darrion had been the one teaching him about potions and alchemy mix that he knew. It was not more than a novice because it wasn’t his expertise at all, but Darrion tried.
“From what I’ve gathered back in the kingdom, Blue-tip Fern has some kind of cold property inside it. Almost like the cold stone used by blacksmith. Somehow I’m guessing from the blue tip of it,” Darrion said with his eyes looking upwards slightly, seemingly thinking.
Jai didn’t know what cold stone is, so he tried remembering the fern in the class instead. It was like the mini version of a coconut tree leaf. It was green in color from the base, but gradually turning blue from the middle of the leaf to the tip. It was around a forearm lo
“Hey Darrion, what does this Cold Drink do again?” Jai asked.Darrion, who was busy cutting up the fern, stopped for a while to tell his friend. But he frowned when he saw what Jai was doing. “You’re reading it.”Jai then read the recipe in his hands. “Cold Drink is used to cool down your high temperature body. It can also be sued to treat first degree burn. If you mix it with honey and red herb, you can treat a second degree burn. The recipes. Blue-tip Fern, Herb, Salt, Fall Four Seasons leaves, Barley Tea leaves, Blue Slime essence, and water. Wait, slime? Is this real? People are drinking this?”Jai was visibly confused. He didn’t know slimes can even be consumed.Darrion got back to cutting the fern. “I think it’s used to strengthen the fern effect.”Jai looked at his friend who seemed normal by what he was bewildered at. “You eat slimes?”Darrion looked at him, stopping his cutting once again. Then the blonde blinked. “Jai, slimes are del
Darrion took a step back and re-read the recipe. "Wait, wait. I thought I read that salt part here, in the beginning. You read it too, didn't you? Right..."The blonde read it once again to make sure that his eyes were playing with him. And then he found the salt part and pointed it to Jai."Here, isn't it? It says salt. And you even read it again to make sure we don't miss a thing like I did just now," the blonde asked, looking at Jai with a deep frown.Jai looked at the recipe again and narrowed his eyes. Then he grimaced. "Well... I thought I see it, but now I think it just slipped my sight. I read that the Four Seasons leaves were put in, and I think I mistook seeing salt because the list was right beside it before it continued downward. I glanced at it again when you put in the leaves, and realized that we're wrong."Jai took the recipe from Darrion and showed it to him. "Here, take a look at this."
Jai frowned as he looked at the recipe and the brewing pot back and forth. Then he shook his head lightly."I don't understand... This should be one hundred degree celcius. Microorganisms shouldn't be able to live. Except water bear, of course. They survived in space, of course they would survive in one hundred degree celcius hot water. So why would we need... Hmm..."Darrion, who was pouring the Four Seasons leaves brew into the filter, turned his face slowly towards him and looked at him like he had just grown three heads. "What the hell are you talking about?"Jai turned to Darrion with that still bewildered expression. "Umm..."Darrion ignored Jai's stammer and put down the pot. "Now clean the pot with the salt."Jai blinked. "Why did you make me do that?""Cause you're the one who asked the teacher about it, so you do it. I've never clean any wares with salt before," Darrion said, putting
“—squeeze! There you go! You’ve leveled up from clothes squeezer into herb squeezer, congratulations,” Mac said without any bright tone despite his words being one.“Your sarcasm knows no bounds,” Jai commented while putting away the herb he had squeezed to the bowl they used for the leaves before. His partner and Mac’s partner were grinning on the sides watching their exchange.“That’s still mild sarcastic. If you want the worse one, I can give you here right now,” Mac offered, taking away the bowl of leaf remains under the table.“No thanks, I think I know,” Jai replied.Mac shrugged. And then a boom could be heard from the table in front of them and a white smoke arose from in front of Bara. It attracted the attention of everyone in the class and all wondered what happened.Bara coughed up smoke from his m
Jai's eyes looked sharply at the thing hanging on Torfo's neck. He couldn't believe what he was seeing, but it's right there in front of his eyes. The shock would've rendered him speechless if not for the fact that the scarf was familiar to him. Also the flat expression on the wearer's face brought some sense back to Jai, and some anger.Their eyes were looking at each other directly, and Jai was appalled by how fiery the challenge in the other's eyes was. Jai knew what the other's want. But Jai still could not get why was the guy like that to him."Darrion," Jai finally voiced out.Darrion was still inside the room, getting ready, but he heard that Jai called him."Hm?" the blonde replied from inside, but he was busy folding up their dried clothes, so he didn’t turn his face to the door."I'll be leaving for a bit," Jai said without turning his head away from his soon to be opponent."Okay, careful. Don't stand on the edge and fall again, you he
‘If only this wasn’t dirt,’ was Jai’s only regret as he ran. If it was concrete like in the tournament, he might be able to give himself a little boost with the impact.Jai glanced sideways, but he saw something bright coming and immediately dodged to the side. However, Torfo managed to catch up to him and sent a kick to his side. Jai was pushed back, and then a fiery flame smacked his wounded side and burst in front of him. It messed with his sight a bit and he was attacked with multiple punches right afterwards.Torfo sent another punch to Jai’s face before giving a spinning kick. His pinwheel kept crashing into Jai to help him stun the thunder elemer from counterattacking, blocking, or even dodging.Jai grunted as he retreated. Having no chance to attack means retreat. Now, the tables have slightly turned, and now that Jai saw his opponent could use the pinwheel efficiently in close range, Jai had to change his strategy. But Jai needed to adapt. So he charged
Torfo had returned to the mausoleum with Jai. The guards were very surprised that they came back so fast looking as if a hurricane of fire had run by them. Nevertheless, they immediately called the emergency. The guards carefully took Jai to the infirmary, and he was treated immediately by the monks. Torfo held onto Jai’s blue scarf as he waited outside.There were quite many people walking back and forth in the main hallway of the Falcon Wing, where the dragon statue was. But here in the infirmary hall, it was quiet. The crowd in the main hall was only faintly heard, and the slight silence somehow led Torfo to retreat to his mind and think.Torfo sighed as he leaned against the wall. ‘This was my fault to begin with. Jai was right. I shouldn’t have judged him being the same as them.’Looking at the blue scarf in his hand, he was reminded of the time when he found it. It was lying around in the garden on the day he helped Jai to
Unfortunately, what happened next was what Torfo had not hoped but already expected. When he didn’t find anyone in the dorm, he went to the dining room. Because it was lunch time, he thought someone should be there to have lunch. Instead, he found everyone. Plus the children. And he didn’t feel like telling what he was about to tell Darrion in front of everyone, who cherished Jai’s presence so much. He was thinking how should he tell the windlet about his friend when he realized he had Jai’s scarf in his hands. An idea suddenly popped into his mind.He stood by the entrance of the dining room and stood up straight. Darrion was sitting facing the entrance’s direction, so the blonde would eventually see him.Everyone looked like they were having a good time eating, talking to each other, and none of them looked at the door for the first minute. So Torfo waved Jai’s scarf around the top of his head, trying to get their attention.Darrion was looking away from Lemi