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
Darrion’s laughter signaled the kids to come in unannounced. Even though Torfo told them that Jai was just waking up and needed all the rest he could get, the kids could not, not get excited. They ended up being too loud and the monk who came over to check on his patient had to kick them out. Jai was grateful that they visited him, though he was actually still semi-conscious and it’s questionable whether he know it was them and not just a simple daydream.Needless to say, it was quite a day.Everyone knew about the incident in the main hallway, that the participants had a fight with each other because of the injured one in the infirmary. But the information the people received was that they got into a fight with a fire elemental monster, and Jai was once again being reckless by baiting himself for the others to run away. But the other didn’t run away, and Jai ended up getting hurt instead. It was what the Minister had requested to the Abbott and the Abbess. It was do
A knock came to the door, but it didn’t manage to drag Torfo’s attention away from the book he was reading. The door then opened, revealing Naoki.“Ooh, hello, friend,” Naoki greeted.“Hm, come in,” Torfo answered, not even glancing away from the book.Naoki retreated a bit before he opened the door. “You got a visitor.”That finally got his attention to the door, where Jai was already waiting with a tray of food in his hands. The presence surprised Torfo and he got up immediately from his lying down position. “Jai?” the young soldier called.Jai smiled and waved his hand. “Can I come in?”Torfo looked at Naoki and then at him, before nodding. As Jai entered the room, Naoki retreated out and closed the door behind him. Jai put the tray on Torfo’s nightstand and sat on the bed across from him.A smile perched itself on Jai’s face as he greeted with a &l
Jai left not long after, bringing the empty tray of food with him. Naoki was smiling so wide when he exited the room, with his own friend standing beside Naoki with indifferent expression. It might be just Jai, but to him, his friend was looking deep in thought. Jai somehow thought his friend was considering about Torfo, which was good. Making friends are always better.Naoki held Jai by his upper arm, a big smile perched on his face as he looked at Jai with those big chocolate orbs of his.Jai wondered why the guy would act like that, but he just smiled back. Naoki patted his shoulders and then entered the room, leaving Jai smiling like an idiot in the middle of the hallway.Jai turned to his friend. “What was that?”“Naoki’s just happy that someone got to be his friend’s friend,” Darrion answered.Jai raised one of his brows, feeling the intentional word play. “Okay?”Darrion narrowed his eye