A couple of days after Nyx had gone on her caravan guard job, Rain took a deep sigh as she was walking back home after reading in Mable’s library.

When Nyx had left, Rain had gotten really lonely not having her around. Although she had Mable to talk to, Rain could tell she was the type of person who likes things to be quiet and was not the talkative type, so Rain didn’t want to trouble her.

Emma was still at work in the guild, so Rain decided to walk back home on her own.

Rain remembers why she is staying with Emma. It was family troubles like Nyx, but more specifically her being in a power struggle in her family.

She is from the Lungslur family, a count family that borders next to Nyx’s family. Though the Lungslur are not from the old nobility faction, they are still a powerful as some of the upper nobility because they are a military family with a history of winning crucial battles in past wars.

The reason is that the head of the household and the successor died under mysterious circumstances. Due to that, the head of the household was left unknown. This caused the additional deaths of one more person who was a candidate to become the head.

Despite Rain being a girl, she is also a candidate because the Lungslur family doesn’t care about things like gender, but whoever brings results.

Rain took another deep sigh, thinking about her family circumstances because Emma isn’t actually her aunt but her teacher, who has decided to protect Rain from the power struggles of her family by having her go missing.

Feeling even more dejected, Rain thought about what to do next. She can’t go back to her family because she would put her life in danger and put Emma in a lot of trouble. She has to be in this town because it is one of the few safe places that Rain can be due to Cade having a lot of influence over the town and being a trusted friend to Emma.

I wonder how Nyx is doing.

Rain thought to herself then got a bit of inspiration from thinking of her, which is to get as strong as Nyx.

Internally, she said it to herself, thinking of Nyx and getting stronger. Unintentionally remembering a certain traumatic memory she had been repressing.

Shivering to herself and close to crying from thinking of the sight of Nyx smiling and laughing for the first time, Rain wasn’t paying attention to where she was going and bumped into somebody, causing both of them to fall.

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“Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention.”

“It’s fine; I also wasn’t paying attention. Are you okay?”

Hearing the voice, Rain recognized it.

“You're Alex, right?”

“Ya”

Alex got up first and helped Rain get up. Rain noticed that there were two other people next to him.

“And you two must be Wendy and Lucia.”

Rain asks what they are doing and where Maria and Chelsie are.

They told Rain that Chelsie was training Maria and that they were on a date right now.

Wendy and Lucia were oddly proud of it and then spoke at the same time.

“About time, he finally did it.”

Rain gave Alex cold eyes upon hearing it like he was trash incarnate like most of the people who were looking at him.

Alex, seeing the cold stare, was unfazed since he was practically used to it. He asked if Rain was alright because she was looking like she was about to cry at any moment before they bumped into each other.

“I’m just trying to forget some bad memories.”

Rain then unintentionally mutters.

“That smile and laugh”

With that, Rain was back to barely holding in tears and she wasn’t the only one who began to remember some traumatic memories from hearing Rain’s mutter.

Wendy curls up into a ball, her tail between her legs, has her hand covering her ears and shuts her eyes.

While for Alex, his teeth were audibly chattering and he was looking sporadically around him, thinking that Nyx was behind him.

All of them were shaking in fear but Alex was shaking even more than Wendy and Rain. Out of all of Nyx’s vict-, sparring partners, Alex has probably suffered the most because he has always had to live in constant fear of Nyx wanting to spar with him which nearly gives him a heart attack every time.

It led to him asking everyone in his entire party out on a date as an excuse to escape. Due to him being the main protagonist, he loves all of them but never has the confidence to requite their feelings because he fears that if he accepts one, then the others will be sad.

However, Nyx practically forced Alex to confess to them, not out of love but out of complete and utter fear. However, to Alex's surprise, never in his life did he expect Maria and Chelsie to tell him that all of them were waiting for Alex to finally confess to them and were willing to share.

Seeing the odd sight, Lucia asked what was going on.

“Just… remembering some bad memories.”

Lucia still looked confused, so Alex said.

“Just don’t ever fight Nyx.”

However, those words fell on deaf ears because Lucia had already decided that Nyx was on her shit list.