Chapter 42 - 41: Couple?

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It's been a week since I was done with the commission to escort Agata with her hunting.

I still couldn't understand why they hired us to escort her for hunting.

I mean she is the daughter of the duke, if her father wanted, he could have just made her bodyguard escort her.

They are strong, they could have done a good job of escorting her themselves.

They had a strong aura when I saw them with my eyes. You could say. they were elite warriors.

Due to my eyes of Minerva seal, I can see every type of energy including aura and I can also see someone's mana core without any problem.

So, I can pretty much guess how strong someone is, by just looking at them.

The strongest person I have seen in recent times is Brother Eddie. By just looking at him I could tell that he was strong.

He was on a level of his own.

I have not seen any other S rank hunter other than him. so I wonder, are all S rank hunters are as strong as him?

Well, I have seen stronger...

With that thought, images of certain people flashed through my mind. It was the image of mom and Demoness Ami.

*Did you just remember me?* a certain voice rang inside my mind.

*You thought about me, didn't you?* the voice continued, it was the voice of Demoness Ami.

"So, you can read my mind?" I asked lying down on my bed, my eyes were set on the ceiling pointlessly.

"I pretty much live inside you, so I can easily hear your thoughts." She replied.

"Yay!!, there goes my privacy…." I said with a fake cheering excitement.

I continued "If you can read my mind then you are already aware of my hate for you." I said in a tone that was devoid of any emotions.

"That's what I find strange. Ever since my soul is trapped inside your body, I haven't found any type of hate towards me." She said curiously. She continued " I did sense your hate for the church and Santor nation. But, me... for me I could never sense any kind of hate."

"Oh….." I said as if I was pondering over something.

She is not wrong…

For some reason, I couldn't bring myself to hate her.

I found it strange in the beginning. But later I realized my reason for not hating her.

The reason is pretty simple.

Why would you hate someone who is already dead?

She already paid her price, the price of her life. There was no reason for me to hate her.

But, the church and the Santor nation is a different case, I will hunt them down one by one when the time is right.

"I can still hear you thought." Said Demoness Ami, "But now I understand your reasoning to not hate me. Aren't you one noble kid?" She said praising me.

Well, I am not sure if she praising me or mocking me.

She heard my thought "I am not mocking you; it was genuine praise." She replied to my thought.

"So, what do you want from me?" I asked.

"I don't need anything from you."

"Then why are you inside my body??" I asked passive-aggressively.

"I have no choice, I am trapped inside you." She replied. "I never imagined that I would be trapped inside a human body." She added.

"is that an unusual thing to happen?" I asked wondering about what she just said.

"A soul getting trapped in the body of another is rare in itself. It doesn't happen if soul and body aren't related." She answered.

We are related somehow?

As I was thinking that, I heard a couple of footsteps approaching my room.

"Grey, are you ready?" asked Aetna who just entered the room was the source of the footstep.

{Author note: I am changing the spelling from Aethna to Aetna since I recently found out that I was spelling the name wrong.}

I had a work at adventure guild and I wanted to get more information about the competition.

So I decided to step out of the house with Aetna.

"Yes, I am ready," I replied as I got up from my bed.

We stepped outside and our first stop was adventure guild, so we headed towards the adventure guild.

My reason for visiting the adventure guild was that I wanted to check if there is any suitable commission that I could take part in.

"How is your health now?" I asked Aetna.

"Yes it's good now, nothing to worry about." She said with a wide smile.

Her body condition weakened as I was away from her for three days.

Because of the contract, we are supposed to be in close proximity to each other all the time.

The world counts my own and Aetna's existence as a single entity. So, if I stay away from Aetna for a longer period of time, the world will start correcting itself. weakening the existence of Aetna.

"Sorry about that," I said scratching my cheeks.

"You don't need to apologize." She wore an adorable smile on her face.

"We will go eat fried chicken after we are done with the work at the adventure guild. we will also take Annie with us," I said walking in front of Aetna.

"yay!!" she cheered up as she grabbed on my arm.

"You know only a couple would walk like this," I said teasing her.

"Huh? We are not?" she asked.

Huh? What is she talking about? does she have a misunderstanding of some sort?

"What are you talking about?" I exclaimed in embarrassment.

I quickly regained my composure *Ahem* I cleared my throat as I asked:

"Do you know what being a couple means?"

"Yes couple is who eat, sleep and live together," she said with a face that radiated with innocence.

After hearing her reply, the only thing I could do was sigh.

It took me quite a while and efforts to make her understand what being couple means and at the end of the explanation, she was left with a rose pink blush on her face.

She hid her face with both of her hands, "That's not what I mean." She said peaking between her fingers.

"I know, I know." I patted her head.

"Couple..... we are already couple due to contract." She said in a barely audible tone hiding her face with her hands.

She is cute...… she is super cute..... gotta protect her... gotta protect her.

{ Author note: During the first arc, The contract was formed as Aetna was in a near-death state due to burning most of her life force. This contract is a soul-binding contract, through which Aetna's existence will be recognized as the same as Grey's existence by the universe.

This contract gave Aetna a chance of survival and the reason why this contract was formed will be explored further in the story.}