"What's wrong? So what if I have killing intent? You got a problem with that?!"
The very dissatisfied words exploded under the tree.
In the sunlight, the red irises and black pupils of Eris's eyes were sharply defined, like those of a feline, giving them a very intimidating look.
Full of 'killing intent'!
Rudeus, standing to the side, was completely dumbfounded. He could already picture the scene of Eris leaping up and beating Alan's head in. He wanted to step in and mediate, but the words died in his throat.
It seems… I'm not needed?
Could Alan handle this ferocious little lioness?
With his skills, of course he could.
Could he himself handle her?
Actually, with his proficiency in magic, he probably could too.
So why hadn't he reacted much after being hit on the head several times?
Firstly, the force of Eris's hits was still within his range of tolerance.
Secondly, as a tutor hired by the Boreas family, why would he get into a fight with a child?
Alright.
The main reason…
This was the Boreas estate. He was just an outsider.
But for Alan, none of these concerns applied.
Firstly, with his Flow technique, Eris's punches couldn't even touch him.
Secondly, that guy Alan, if he really got angry, he wouldn't care if you were a child or not. Forget about hitting a child, he could even hold a sword to a 'child's' neck and say with a smile, "What a coincidence, I'm eleven, I'm a child too." He was completely capable of doing something like that. Somar from Buena Village was a prime example.
And most importantly—
This was the Boreas estate.
What was Alan's full name?
Others might not know Alan's identity, but how could his own father, Philip, the employer, not know?
Wasn't that the whole reason for this tutoring arrangement in the first place?
His thought process wasn't as fast as Alan's. By the time he had figured it all out and breathed a sigh of relief, several seconds had already passed.
He looked up.
In his line of sight, Alan was still holding Eris by the cheek.
She was still glaring angrily at Alan.
?
Rudeus blinked, seriously suspecting there was something wrong with his vision.
Wait… why isn't this the chaotic scene I imagined?
"Hmph…"
Eris glared 'intimidatingly' at Alan for a long time. Seeing that he wasn't responding, her lip jutted out.
She smacked his hand away from her face! Her expression was still very unhappy! She even kicked the turf on the ground!
The young lady was very 'angry'!
"Hmph!"
A moment of silence.
"If you say not to punch, then I won't! What's all this about killing intent! It's ridiculous!"
Then she viciously kicked the turf under her feet again.
Rudeus watched with a racing heart, afraid of getting caught in the crossfire.
Ghislaine, however, just shook her head and smiled, a hint of imperceptible fondness in her eyes.
Eris was throwing a tantrum.
Yes, not getting angry, but throwing a tantrum.
It had been a long time since she had seen that…
Heh.
Alan, on the other hand, was just staring into space, a whirlwind of thoughts in his mind.
'Flow Perception' doesn't lie. The information he perceived through the Water God Style had never deceived him. Eris truly had not released a single shred of killing intent towards him. Even now, as the child grumbled and cursed, she was only taking it out on the grass.
And Alan had pinpointed the source of her anger. It was his sentence: 'Very obvious killing intent. It's leaking so much that even an outsider like me can sense it.' In that moment, with her personality, she probably didn't understand or couldn't articulate the root cause of her anger. But her sharp emotional intuition still made her temper flare. It was very annoying!
So she threw a punch at Alan!
Infused with Touki!
Alan won't get hit by me anyway!
So…
I'll punch him!
The result was: when she wasn't intentionally releasing killing intent, it was natural, like a silent leopard during a hunt. When she intentionally released it, because she couldn't generate killing intent towards her target, it was like a house cat hissing fiercely.
This was why Alan was stunned.
He had never imagined that, at this early stage of the tutoring period, he had already gained Eris's almost complete trust.
And this sense of trust was very familiar to him as a fan of the original work.
It was that kind of 'blind trust,' with a sense of foolish, irrational 'unreasonableness,' but it didn't make you dislike her at all. As long as she 'only recognizes' you from the bottom of her heart, even if you do something absurd, she will think it's reasonable and even make excuses for you herself. Then she will follow you around like a loyal dog.
In the original work, this was especially evident in the Old Man Rudeus timeline.
But what was the situation now?
Because he saved her once on that rainy night?
But after the kidnapping incident, Eris's attitude towards Rudeus was still clearly 'arrogant,' right? It was only after her tenth birthday that it gradually changed to 'tsundere.'
Was it because he had used sword skills that were more shocking to her than Rudeus's magic in the original story? Was it because it wasn't an unfamiliar magic technique, and so it had the added trust BUFF of the 'sword in hand'?
Could it be that dramatic?
To the point where she would ignore her own cousin, with whom she clearly had a blood relation, and praise an outsider…
Outsider?
Blood relation?
Alan's mouth opened slightly in astonishment as he looked at Eris's face. She lifted her mud-stained black leather shoe from the small crater she had kicked in the grass and raised her eyebrows, returning a look of intimidating confusion. The spring breeze blew across her face, and beads of sweat were faintly visible on her forehead under her bangs.
Very 'fierce.'
Alan understood.
Why, when he first met Eris in Buena Village, even though she acted so violently, he had the feeling of 'my little sister is so cute.'
It stemmed from a physical level, a sense of closeness due to their blood relationship.
This feeling was different from his interactions with other girls. It made him naturally accept her as his 'little sister' upon their first meeting, and in the rain, it made his body move on its own to protect her. It wasn't just because of his ' fondness' for the character from the original work.
And thinking back now, in front of the Greyrat house in Buena Village, he was the one talking to Philip, yet Eris had subconsciously avoided him to beat up Rudeus.
It was the same principle.
It was a natural connection of bloodline.
It was a "sense of kinship" that transcended distance.
It had made her subconsciously think something along the lines of, 'This guy who looks okay is definitely not that annoying Alan! That sneaky-looking one over there must be Alan!'
Alan blinked.
In his vision, Eris's hair, the color of red paint, danced in the spring breeze.
In that moment, Alan thought of someone with the same hair color as her.
The piece of paper in his bedroom drawer.
That name.
So the fundamental reason for his 'conflict'…
was right here.
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