“You looked pretty cool flying off. Did anything break?”
Andal was supporting Isilteru. Having noticed Riley walking toward them, Andal asked while laughing.
“That mouth…”
Riley raised the hand he was using to wipe off the blood on his chin. Riley expelled his frustration at Andal. He then looked at Isilteru, the silver blonde elf, and crumpled his face.
‘If she didn’t show up, I would not have lost that son of a bitch.’
Riley soon corrected his thoughts and shook his head.
‘No. Even if this bitch was not here, at the moment I swung my sword… that black hand would have interfered.’
Riley corrected the target of his anger. With deadly eyes, he turned to look at Nainiae. He asked,
“So, where did that bastard run off to?”
Just a moment ago, the voice mentioned Riley’s past life. Riley thought about what the voice said. The look on Riley’s face was mixed with complicated emotions.
“…”
Nainiae kept silence.
“… Nainiae.”
She just vacantly stared at Riley’s face. She looked sad. She lowered her head and was not able to answer Riley’s question.
“Tell me.”
Riley mumbled in violent voice as he walked closer to Nainiae. Andal, who was watching from the back, seemed like he thought this must not continue. He raised his hand and grabbed Riley’s shoulder.
“Riley.”
“…?”
Noticing his friend grabbing his shoulder from the back, Riley, while maintaining his violent look on the face, turned his head toward Andal.
“That’s enough.”
“What?”
“I said that’s enough.”
“…”
“Now that it came to this, looks like I’ll have to say things that I was going to explain later.”
Andal tightened his grip on Riley’s shoulder and pulled back to make Riley turn to face him. Andal had just as violent look on his face and continued,
“Stop working Nainiae. Stop making this lass do grunt works for you. It seems you had been making her do lots of it before you let her be under my care. Instead of getting better at taking care of herself, she developed bad habits. She keeps on trying to overexert herself. Can’t you see?”
Having heard Andal’s backseat driving, Riley’s eyebrow started to twitch.
“She did the same earlier too. Before she went off to Solia, I definitely told her not to strain herself, yet I saw her doing that by herself.”
Having heard Andal, Riley twitched his eyebrows some more. Testing his own patience, Riley asked,
“So what?”
“What do you mean so what? If you are capable of doing some heavy lifting yourself, then don’t just sit around your butt. Move your ass, you get what I’m saying? Stop taking advantage of someone else’s pupil, all right?”
“Excuse me…”
The two were glaring at each other with vicious looks on their faces, and Nainiae was standing between them. She broke cold sweats, not knowing what to do.
“Did you just say, stop taking advantage of someone else’s pupil?”
“That’s right, you rascal! You get what I said, right?”
“Ah, of course! I understood what you just said! So, is that all you wanted to tell me?”
“E… Excuse me… Everyone…”
It seemed they could not hear Nainiae’s voice at all. Andal and Riley glared at each other. With just their eyes, it looked like fire sparks could splash from the collision of their glares. They were exuding violent energies.
“That’s right. I said everything I wanted to say! What are you going to do?”
“Ah! Hey, Andal. Aren’t you mistaking something a little?”
“Teacher… Young Master… Let’s calm down for now…”
“You have no right to order me around.”
“What?”
“It looks like you became full of yourself for acting as a teacher for a few months. This girl is actually…”
Riley was twitching his eyebrows. He suddenly tilted the eyebrows in the other direction and extended his arm out. He grabbed on to the Nainiae's shoulder, who was panicking and not sure about what to do to mitigate the situation, and pulled her toward himself.
“… Ah?”
Nainiae, who had her shoulder pulled, was held by Riley on his waist. Nainiae had a blank look on her face.
“She is mine. Didn’t you know?”
“… Ut?!”
[TL: Two extremely powerful men of super natural proportions fighting over a teenage girl…For this chapter, this show just turned into Twilight.]