Chapter 218: Well, this just got complicated

We found the three guys running on the snowy fields. They were arguing over something: they were in bad shape considering most of their skin had turned purple thanks to the poison. But I was glad they were at least safe. 

We were still going down at high speeds, but Enira was gradually slowing us down.

"Can you cure their poisoning and wounds?"

Enira could heal all my wounds and everything, but could she do it to others?

Enira smiled. "But of course." She lifted her hand up in the air and made a small ball of light. It was weird and I felt like I'd seen something similar before. 

She sent that ball to the three and the light enveloped the whole group. 

When the light faded, they were mostly healed and we'd already come down from the slide. 

The guys still had some purple patches and their wounds had merely just closed. Apparently, Enira could heal them but- it wasn't as effective. Then again, we were kissing so-

The snake corpse was kind of floating and it was totally Enira's job now. 

"You're alive!' Robert was excited. "I'm so glad!" The guy was actually crying.

The other two were laughing saying they expected as much of me and all that. 

I was glad they had high hopes for me, but I literally almost died!

"Anyway, let's move it. It's already afternoon, we might end up getting disqualified or something. And sorry about the lizard- it got destroyed."

Robert chuckled, wiping his tears, "I'll punch the teach, if he does that. And I Jack had secured the core, don't worry about that." He flashed me a blue core.

Was I seriously the only one who didn't actually know about the cores before coming to this academy or something?

I also kind of chuckled. "Please don't do that."

And they had the time to actually take the core with them? Wow.

We all laughed and just walked along. Enira kind of carried the body in her barrier, and with care too. Not only was she strong, but she was also gentle. It was weird, how sad she looked. 

Maybe I could do something to cheer her up or at least make her feel better. 'But is there anything I could do for her?' She never really demanded much. Granted, oftentimes, she acted weird and clingy and all that, but she wasn't that bad. 

"You can give me some love in bed if you're out of options." Enira gave me a flying kiss while making a rather loud- exaggerated smooching sound. 

"IN your dreams you perverted dragon!" I was worried for nothing!

She giggled. "Actually, you come to my dreams all the time. Oh, and you called me a dragon instead of a dragon-snake thingy! That's kind of an improvement, I guess?" She burst out laughing. 

I really wanted to punch her. 

***

We reached last. 

It was four forty-eight and the time limit was an hour and a half meaning four-thirty. SO we were late. 

"My goodness! What happened to you guys!" Well, at least the teacher was concerned about us. 

We were all in tattered clothes and I in particular looked the worst. I was pretty much healthy though: no wounds at least. 

"Well, the Mutor proved to be fairly strong. I might have made the volcanic zone a bit worse and well, it's filled with poisonous fog now too. We did manage to kill one lizard and that snake."

The place also had magma coming out and roaming around but that was another story. 

"Well, at last you guys are safe and I assume the corpse is intact?" Well, the teacher sure was impressed and he was also interested. 

"No, the lizard is destroyed. The snake though- you can see for yourself." As I was talking, Robert handed over the blue core to the teacher. "His head is severed as you can see. And yeah, since she killed him, she took 'that' for herself."

"Him?" The teacher gave me a bit of a funny look but then- "Wait, she can't take it! That's school property!"

Okay, this could get tricky.

Technically Enira was also the school property in that sense. I sure wasn't going to hand her over though. 

"It is?" Enira said, bringing out the core. She was about to give it to the teacher too. I was confused. "Gotcha!" Enira winked and proceeded to down the whole thing. 

She also proceeded to make a spectacular display of choking for three whole minutes and rolling around on the dirt- miserably- but eventually fully absorbed the core. 

I almost felt pity for the poor soul. 

She didn't get taken over, but she did grow two small fangs on her mouth- not enough to come out when her mouth was closed but I could definitely see them when she was smiling like a fool- which she was doing now. And her horns kind of grew a bit longer and pointier too.

And for some other reasons- she actually looked a bit cuter- or more mature to be honest.

"Are you still there? Do I have to kill you or something?" 

It wasn't like I wanted to punch her or anything, okay?

"You're welcome to slay me in bed if you'd like." She winked.

"Yeah, I'll pass."

The teacher really was giving me the looks now. "That was against school rules!" He was almost in tears. Just how badly did he want the core? "And slay her in bed? You can't do that! You're going to be a married man soon!"

Apparently, he was a firm believer in monogamy. 

"I'll talk it out with the headmaster, don't worry about it. And the task was to bring out this Mutor, not its core: mine was to bring them all back in one piece. So, I'd expect you to deliver your promises." I smiled. "And didn't you hear me? I said no to the perverted dragon."

He grimaced slightly. "Fine."

I actually expected some shouting. 

But getting nothing made me disappointed. 

And now that this was done, I had to head to the dorm too. And then back home. 

Sigh, life was a drag. 

***

I gave Merin an early message before actually going and he gave me a reply too. 

Apparently, he had someone over and he didn't want me near that place in three hours. 

Well, I owed him quite a lot, so yeah, I let him have his way. 

"Guess, I'll just go home then?"

And cross the snowy fields again? And it was going to get rather cold now too.

Wait, wasn't I still in tattered clothes?

Sigh. 

"Do you have an extra shirt or pants? I mean you can just form them- right?"

"Mine are just illusionary so, technically-" Enira came close. "I'm not wearing anything.

Huh?

She winked.  "Why don't you call that woman?"

I was still kind of confused. I touched the base of her uniform and yeah, there was nothing there and my finger just went through and touched her skin. It was so real. 

'You gotta be kidding me.' I snatched my finger away in an instance. 

There weren't many students around and the few that were were far away from us. 

"That woman?" I was still confused. 

"You know, that woman you so like."

"And you're not saying her name, because?"

"Hmph!" She did not talk to me, no. 

I sighed. I gave a message to Marg, asking how stuff went on her end and I was on my way.

We never actually talked much through messages. This relationship was still pretty much in the early stages after all. 

Come to think of it, though we both loved each other, we actually didn't know what we were even doing. Neither of us was experienced in this and here we were thinking of getting married. 

"Oh, and what happened to that girl from another world?"

"Her name's Aria." Enira rolled her eyes. "She's with that slave of yours, they'll head over to your place tomorrow."

"Wait- why are they coming to my home!?"

She stared at me- a bit too blankly and then suppressed a giggle. 

'The hell?'

"Alright, then let's go." A wild Marg appeared. 

"HEY, I never asked you to come! I just-"

"I know." She came near me, grabbed my arm, and made a devilish grin, showing off to Enira. 

"We had a very passionate kiss, I'll have you know." Enira puffed up her chest and she almost snapped a button: almost: she wasn't wearing anything though. "Besides, he kissed me on his own accord.

"I'd love to hear more about that." Marg's voice was steady- 

My heart sure wasn't. 

"There's an explanation for that." I grimaced subconsciously. 

"Well, he also kind of almost killed himself in the process of blowing up this island, so we should talk about that too," Enira said. "And two girls will come to our place tomorrow."

Marg smiled. Her smile and Mom's smile really seemed similar. 

"I can… explain?" Honestly, even I wasn't sure anymore. 

We teleported.