3. Leonard Benitez

The next morning, Aza woke up with big black bags under her eyes. He slept quite late last night.

 After repeatedly thinking about it, he still couldn't believe what he was reading.

 Was that map where the other cube magicians were? And is she a destined cube magician?

 Various kinds of questions began to fill his mind again but of all the questions no one answered!

 It was quite frustrating for Aza, after wrestling with her thoughts. Aza decided to follow the path on the map.

 He wanted to confirm the map, whether it was real or not.

 With a unanimous decision, after school, Aza will search for the nearest place in the area.

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"Eum ... like a turn after a few more houses," muttered Aza as she walked to the turn in front of her.

 Getting closer to the gray cube area, Azareel smells a very strong iron smell.

 Azareel looked at the map again, and kept walking, until he came to a very messy house.

 The man looked at the yard filled with iron, in the middle of the pile, he saw a teenager who was sitting silently looking at the pile of iron in a daze. Aza felt an awkward atmosphere until he made a small coughing sound so the teenager knew where he was.

 "E ... eh? Looking for who? This is not a junkyard," said the boy a little nervously. Aza wasn't sure why he was so nervous.

 "I'm not looking for junk, but I'd like to ask you something," says Azareel.

 "Please just ask, the sooner the better, I'm very busy now,"

"E ... can you take me in first?" Aza said awkwardly.

 "Is it so difficult to speak directly here?" said the man as he patted his ass which is stuck by the ground.

 "It's a little bit of privacy, people have ears," said Aza, staring at the well-built man seriously.

 The man started walking towards Aza and opened the gate, "Ok, please come in," said the man.

 Aza didn't feel offended or anything, because he knew, foreigners who wanted to talk in privacy were very dangerous, especially alone at home, who would have thought that Azareel was considered a bad person by that man.

 Arriving in the living room, the man sat on the sofa and then asked his guest to sit down too.

 "Don't you know or don't know dear?" Aza asked pleasantly.

 "I'm Leonard Benitez, what's wrong? Hurry up and say what you want,"

 "Ok I'll get to the point, have you ever had a strange dream? Met a strange animal," asked Aza to the point.

 "A dream? Three days ago I had a strange dream," Leo replied casually.

 "Is it possible to meet strange animals?" asked Aza.

 "Yes, I met a chimera, at first in that dream I thought I would be eaten by the mythological animal, but who would have thought that the animal spoke and even gave a necklace,"

 "A necklace? Is it a necklace with a cube pendulum?"

 "Yes,"

 "...."

 After Leonardo's statement filled Aza's hearing aid, the man with dark brown hair began to emit disbelieving eyes.

"Y ... are you really a gray cube magician?" Aza asked in disbelief, her eyes as if to say, don't say things that are not.

 "I think ... yes ... Do you see in my yard a lot of iron scattered about?" Aza just nodded his head briefly.

 "Well! That's because I accidentally tried it, I was just for fun, but who said it would be like that," Leo explained.

 "You know who I have this from?" asked Leo, who was starting to be wary, his hands gradually emitting a thin gray light.

 "Calm down! I ... I didn't mean that, I'm also a magician, it's just that all of this is very unlikely, magicians are just myths and also, maybe we will get killed if other people find out that we have power or we will become ingredients. research, "said Aza who still could not accept the reality.

 "Hey! The evidence is in sight! Why don't you believe it?" Leo asked.

 "No ... no way, that witch doesn't exist right? Hidden world doesn't exist either? Is it a vampire, a forest fairy, a werewolf!"

 Leo, who heard it, began to feel embarrassed by this sudden friend.

 "Hey hey hey ... I told you, accept the reality that is right in front of your eyes!" Leo said a little snapping.

 The man with dark brown hair suddenly started grabbing Leonard's shoulder and said, "It can't be right? Am I hallucinating? Am I crazy?"

"Stupid! Of course you are sane! If you are crazy, maybe you came here without wearing your underwear,"

 "It's true," said the man with dark brown hair, sitting quietly looking at the glass with a confused look.

 "That means I'm a blue cube magician?" asked Aza again.

 "You're a blue cube? Looks like yes, oh right! You know I'm here do you have instincts?" Leo asked enthusiastically.

 "I got directions from the map," replied Aza who was still in a daze.

 "So, have you met the others?"

 "You are the first," said Aza.

 "...."

 "So what's your next plan?" Leo asked after a moment of silence for a cup of tea.

 "This is a bit ridiculous, I intend to bring together another cube magician," said Aza, there was a trace of doubt in her voice.

 "That's an interesting idea, I'm curious about that hidden world," Leo said, but his eyes showed doubt, because he really wasn't sure there would be such a world. Aza just listened silently from the side.

 "But ... the magic power here is so thin, it's hard for us to cultivate magic," Leo muttered.

 "So ... we have to discover that world?"

 "There is no other choice,"

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 Azareel decides to exchange phone numbers with Leo, he has a feeling that he will be very entangled with the big man.

 The man feels very funny if he remembers himself who lacks confidence in front of new people, like not only himself, this is the first time he is very open with someone, is that a sign that he will be very close to that man?

The man threw away all his thoughts and started walking to the supermarket, he wanted to buy a glass of banana milk to quench his thirst, Leo seemed too excited to forget to host him as a guest.

 Ah, forget what is important now that Aza's throat has met heaven.

 Very comfortable, actually the man doesn't like banana milk, because there is only banana milk left, what can Azareel do?

 When he arrived home, his parents welcomed him warmly as usual.

 "Have you been walking?" asked Aubrey.

 "Already Mom," just replied, kissing her mother's right cheek.

 "Take a shower, then eat together," said Aubrey, who is now getting busy again with food on the table.

 "Fine, ma'am!"