Karla noticed that her big sister was acting strangely this morning.
She quickly had her breakfast before telling them that she wanted to meet up with a friend of hers before heading to her class lessons. She left with brisk pace after announcing that. This morning she especially seemed to avoid making eye contact with her boyfriend for some reason.
Karla also saw that her mother seemed to relax a bit after she left and then after finishing her breakfast she asked him to send her to his Home skill for the day. This was a typical reaction from her mother ever since that risky stairway sex Karla had with him that night.
For some reason, her mother and sister seemed to be walking on eggshells whenever they were near each other. A strange situation whose answer she still hadn't figured out.
On another matter, her mother apparently took great care in looking after that bicorn. It was named Horizon by her boyfriend. She found it amusing that an unawakened human like her looked after it as if it was an average horse with no wisdom in it.
However, she was very surprised after learning for the first time that the holy beast actually let her mother act that way in front of it. Horizon also seemed to have taken a liking to her as it behaved very docile when it was around her. If not for its frightening appearance and telepathic communication she would have been duped into considering it as just some normal horse.
Karla saw her mother vanishing from her spot as he sent her inside that skill.
She then went upstairs while trying to sort out her investigation from this morning. It seemed that her big sister was the most likely suspect. Her behavior today was very different compared to yesterday. She also made sure to check her lover's reactions at that time.
He had avoided eye contact with her with some guilt on his face.
“What happened between those two last night? Did they argue over something? No, then it would be a different reaction than the current one. I need to observe a bit longer. These two really suck at keeping any secret. I feel like it won't take long before I figure this out, at least.”
She concluded inwardly as she got ready for the class lessons today which was the usual continuous combat in that simulation facility that would continue for this month.
Though she still hadn't been able to probe any answer about the night where she almost got caught by one of them but these days her focus was on halting that wench named Luna's evil reaches so she put that matter on the back of her head.
Among the club members gunning for her boyfriend she was the most proactive and dangerous one. Her womanly instinct also felt threatened by Luna's “unrelenting aggressiveness” to keep going after him even when she indirectly warned her numerous times not to cross the line.
She had been a bit stressed about it.
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Blue parted ways with Karla as he headed to his class lessons.
Even though all the first year students were taking their lessons inside that simulation facility, the gathering point and then the entry point differed class to class. That facility was naturally built in such a way that these things became possible and it had enough space to be able to be used by hundreds of thousands of students everyday.
He got inside the simulation facility as he entered first in his class thanks to his ranking. As he fought he speculated simultaneously about Karla's thought process after watching both Clara and his reaction this morning.
He had nudged her in this direction for a reason.
“It will be very rough on her for the next few days.”
He muttered inwardly as he reviewed the events of last night since this battle was very boring to him.
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After he revealed that Karla knew about Laura's action because of the Time Remote skill Clara then posed another question to him since something important was still not explained by him yet,
“How come Karla never realized after that when mother would end up… witnessing you two? She is after all an unawakened human. Once could be called an accident but you said before that this wasn't her first time having seen you two. It must have happened more than twice even after the first one and also that night two weeks ago. So tell me, Blue, why was Karla oblivious at every single time after the first one was discovered by her? You hid mother’s presence from being detected by her, didn't you?”
To her clever analysis and sharp questions that carried her scrutiny of him as she was at the conclusion of this matter, he replied in a calm tone as if he had accepted his fate,
“That's right, I hid it from her. With my primordial element of space it was easy to do such a thing after i properly utilized that Home skill of mine. Even without having been taught about aura yet I could at least do that much.”
Instead of raging at his confession she instead raised an eyebrow indicating her curiosity as she asked,
“Primordial element of space? What do you mean by that? The secret aura attribute affinity you never revealed to any of us was actually this?”
Blue nodded his head as he explained about the primordial element and why the academy didn't teach the students about it as well as the tacit banning of its information being in circulation among the students.
She then nodded her head as she reached further understanding of this man in front of her and the reason why the academy was so secretive about it. However that wasn't the most important thing right now as she wanted all the details out of him at this juncture,
“I understand how you did it but not why you did it. Don't tell me that you enjoyed being watched by her.”
“No, no!! Of course not! How could that be!? I don't have such… tendencies.”
He hurriedly shook his head as he “vehemently” denied her accusations while showing a face as if he had heard something absolutely absurd.
Seeing such a reaction even she seemed to realize that she had been very cold towards him who was trying to be completely honest with her by confessing such secrets he bore alone.
“Sorry, I… it was very rude of me. I didn't… That—”
“It's alright. I also understand now that what I did could indeed be viewed that way. I am truly… pathetic.”
He instead blamed himself while giving her a self-deprecating smile with a calm expression. He now truly had the visage of someone who seemed to have just accepted whatever was thrown at him by others.
Seeing him going down a spiral of self-hate, Clara felt her heart sinking from sadness and her throat seemed to feel heavier from the regret she felt at that instant. She realized that her words from earlier had been driving him into a corner.
She further realized that he also must have a reason for ending up in his current situation. She just kept hurting him without understanding his perspective properly. It was truly very cruel of her to do such a thing to him just to get some answers.
Not wanting to see him in this way she hurriedly replied,
“Blue, stop blaming yourself! There must have been a reason. I understand, okay? I was being too much right now. There's no need for any explanation. Let's talk later when both of us have calmed down, alright?”
She got up and intended to leave as she knew that any more conversation at this moment would only keep hurting him and she definitely didn't want to be such a horrible person to him. After all, no matter what happened, he was still part of her family.
At that moment!
He caught her hand and firmly grabbed it as he looked at her with a gaze dimmed from any hope that was left in his life. It was akin to the hollow gaze of a corpse that was walking around.
Indeed, he just increased the intensity of his acting.
He got up and stood in front of her as he looked down from his height. His hollow gaze however remained transfixed on her purple eyes that flashed her regret and sadness for “hurting” him like this.
“Why are you leaving right now? You wouldn't listen to my reasons? The reasons why I became such a pervert in your eyes?”
“... You are not any pervert. I never thought in such a way.”
“Lies. I enjoyed being watched by her when I made love with Karla, didn't I? That's who I am to you, huh? Maybe that's my true self, I never knew. Hahaha…”
“Stop it! I already told you that—”
He didn't let her finish as he jerked her hand and brought her close to him as he rested his forehead on hers while looking deeply at her purple eyes with his hollow gaze with so much intensity that he might as well be staring at her soul.
This was the moment, the final stretch.