Hikaru POV Terrius pokes the dead body with a stick and it really seems dead. Terrius then glares at Manor as Manor hides his wounded hand behind him as it healed after the rat dies. " One eats life forces and is barely visible. I don't want to imagine what the other one does... You're lucky that my curiosity outweighs my anger at both of your stupidity. I'll start running some tests now and continue on the cure tomorrow. I doubt I'll accomplish much in under 3 hours but it's best to understand the effects of the blood on certain elements to ensure my safety. " Terrius says as he takes out more equipment and starts setting it up. Knowing that Terrius has already forgotten our existence, I head back to the kitchen and start on the dishes. After a while. " What you two idiots still doing here! Get out! And shut the door behind you!" Manor and Kaen left the lab in a hurry, laughing about something. They must have disturbed Terrius's equipment out of curiosity. " Hey! Hika
Manor POV " And I think that's it." I said as I placed the final book on the table before returning back to my body. " Finally! My hand is killing me from all that writing. " My good man, Kaen, or should I say the wicked nickname I gave, Flames. Flames cheered as he rubbed his sore wrist. " *Laughs* Then why don't you just record which book and which page?" I asked as I returned to the table with my body but kept my back facing him while I waited for him to finish using his speed dragon powers. " Just to have him waste his energy looking for the book and the page? He already looks like a ghost, I don't want him becoming one." " Believe me, in many ways he's already one." I said as I reach my hand out behind me asking for a Hi-Five. " * Laugh* Nice one!" Flames laugh as he Hi-Fives me. I then leaned my body against the table. " You think Terry would be out by now? We did miss him at breakfast. " I absent-mindedly asked. " And following the pattern from yes
Manor POV " Manor 3, Terry 0." I chimed as I did a little victory dance. " * Laughs* I don't recall losing that many times to you." Terry laughed. " Well, one just now, one for an added bonus since my blood is the cure and one more was during our convoy trip to the mansion. " " That sounds far from right. " " Just because I'm standing on your left doesn't mean my calculations are invalid." " *Laughs* You know what I meant. " He laughs as he picks up his brandy for another sip. " Yeah, but you walked right into that one." " Fair enough. " Terry says as he presses the glass to his face, enjoying the cold feeling of the glass against his face. Normally he would be blowing up by now but from the looks of it, he's too exhausted to even bother. " Alright, that's enough. " I said as I walked past his desk towards his seat. " What?" I took the glass from his hand and drank his brandy. The smooth strong drink gave out a nice aroma, now that's what you call bra
Manor POV " Argh." I groan after jumping down from the tree. I was lucky this tree was here or I would have broken something. I thought as I sat down in a secure part of the royal garden where the bushes and trees block the view to the rest of the palace gardens. V6 was already waiting for me, I bet he must have smelled me coming. " Wow, breaking an entry! That's a new low for you." V6 compliments me as I recover from the climb. " I wouldn't have to if you got me a palace pass!" " That crap is hard to get! They embroid your name into it when you join and when a palace pass goes missing the guards keep an eye out for it." " Don't tell me I have to climb that again! That's a really high wall!" " I'm actually quite shocked that no one saw you climbing it in broad daylight. " " There's a blind spot between the guard towers. Anyway, that doesn't matter, did you manage to warn V0 of the version slayer?" " Oh! Right! I managed to catch V4 when he was leaving the mansion
Manor POV I was heading back downstairs after a change of clothes and a bath, I then noticed Terry leaving his room. He looked better than before. " I see that you're finally up, didn't you said that you'll run back to the lab as soon as I left the room?" I teased. " For your information I did." In your dreams?" "..... Yes...." He sighs as he looks away and rubs his neck. " Wow.. Your slumberland is a creepy dark lab in the basement. Then your nightmare would be.... Let me guess. ... Sunshine rainbow hills?" " Oh! Haha! Very funny! " Terry says in a sarcastic way as he headed downstairs. I followed after him as laughter echoes throughout the foyer, Hikaru and Kaen walk in all sweaty welding short swords. " Hey! Runner! Where were you? You missed all the fun!" Flames chimed. " Runner? .... And I thought nicknames couldn't get worse than that." Terry gave me a weird look. " I was checking in on the princess, and guess what she gave me, Flames." I inform
Kaen POV " You're still awake?" I asked as I approached Terrius who wearing glasses and looking through my notes with a half-empty bottle of whiskey on the table. " Of course I am, why wouldn't I be? How did you get past the locks?" Terrius looks up at me in surprise before leaning over his seat trying to see what I had done to the door. " I used to be an assassin, no door can stop me unless it's a barricaded one. " I shrugged. " Coming down here at 1 am for an assassination sounds like your normal routine if you were an assassin. " He says in a casual way as he continues looking through the notes. " Well, that's if you count serving a late dinner as an assassination. " I chimed as I held up the tray of food in my hands for him to notice. Terrius chuckled a bit as I placed the tray on top of the notes in front of him. He stared at the food for a while before picking up a spoon. " Something tells me you're not just here for a late dinner. " Terrius says when h
Manor POV " Better than nothing. Come on Terry, show me what you got. " I stood up and waved, for Terry to follow me. " And duty calls." He follows after me with a sandwich and a cup of tea in hand. I walked up to his desk which was filled with Kaen's notes and test tubes containing small amounts of mine and Kaen's blood. " So what am I separating?" " Look through the microscope, see the white little dots mixed with other colour dots in Kaen's blood?" He says as he points toward the microscope on the other table further away from his desk. " You want me to collect all the tiny white dots in the blood into a test tube?" " Yup." He nodded as he took a bite out of his sandwich. " Great! I'm so screwed!" " You might want to tell me what's your plan to do before doing it, it'll save you time and my equipment." Terry says as he sits down on his armchair behind his desk. I sat down in front of him. " Um... Boiling it?" " That would just get rid of the liquid,
Kaen POV I stood waiting for Runner in the gardens with two daggers and a short sword. As long as I remember what V4 taught me, I should be ok. Runner appears with three katana on his belt and zero armor as well. " Ready for payback?" He asks as he draws two of his sword. " Ready as I'll ever be." I drew my short sword, I only have 10 minutes until my arm starts straining from the weight. " Then here I come. " He changes at me, swinging his swords at my neck and my stomach, one from the left and the other from the right. I jumped onto his lower sword, balancing myself on his sword, then bending down to avoid the upper sword before backflipping off his sword and backing away to a safe distance. " Fast little thing, aren't you? But how long can you keep it up?" Runner circles around me as if he was studying my stance. He then does a spin attack that I narrowly dodged, and before I could even recover he launches himself at me as soon as his feet touch the ground. The