Chapter 172 - 164

"Aren't you curious who will it be?" Lemon asked again, smiling with mischief. 

The silver haired young man had no energy to play with his mind games as Chun ignored him.

"No biggie! I will now reveal it to you. 'Lo and behold my favorite fruit, not too sweet not too sour. Strawberry I mean Berry!" The grand introduction of the curly haired young man was too over the top with the sleeping strawberry haired youth under the tree. 

The separate space that Chun saw was different from today's scenery. It wasn't a clearing with no greenery in sight due to the trees surrounding the sleeping young man. There was even a buŧŧerfly resting on his nose.

"What a good way for welcoming your student," Lemon mumbled but his smile widened when he turned to the bored silver haired young man. "As you have known, each one of us will train you with our own areas of expertise so be prepared. I am excited to have a go with you later!" He clapped his hands in excitement and disappeared.

Chun was surprised to witness it because she wasn't aware that teleportation could be this easy…was it teleportation?

"Well, it isn't teleportation. If you haven't noticed, this is a simulation room constructed for the training sessions of the Alliance." The sleeping strawberry haired youth stated with close eyes as if reading the thoughts of the latter. 

Berry pushed himself up and the buŧŧerfly flew away. He didn't want to waste his precious sleeping time and wanted to get over this training. He had already said to Feng Zi that he wouldn't participate in training the newbie after the disaster that happened last time but the vice captain dismissed his words while enthusiastically put his name as first on the list and this happened.

"Why did you use this space if it was for only the Alliance member-use only?" Chun curiously said while observing the stretching youth. Unexpectedly, the seemed to be lazy young man moved his feet and dashed forward, making the silver haired young man off-guard as she was struck by the sudden attack. She hit her back at a tree and pain travelled through her body.

"Put in mind that the enemy will not let any opportunity slip away." 

The strawberry haired young man said with languidness in his tone while his movement a total opposite. "Here." Berry offered his hand to Chun and the silver haired youth unhesitatingly put her hand which resulted her to feel another episode of pain.

It was bolts of electricity was coming from the hand of the strawberry haired lad. 

'An electric type charm user?'

"Are you sure about that I thought this was the Domain Space?" 

Berry was surprised at the silver haired young man's statement and it gave Chun a chance to strike back. The former distanced himself away from the gathering charm energy as he knew that Chun would attack but unfortunately, he miscalculated.

The silver haired young man smirked, "Got you."

He didn't notice that the other had been setting up a trap since then as this kind of spell could only be activated once it was casted three times and determined the opponent's movement. Chun had put up an air restriction spell that congested the space of movement of the opponent using the air around the space. 

It was the third principle of the Air Charm, 'Air is everywhere.'

"That was good, newbie," Berry praised with his unbothered smile while he easily broke the restriction. 

'Truly powerful.' Chun thought. Another round of surprise for a seemed to be harmless person. She didn't expect that the strawberry haired young man who she witnessed to be always napping was aggressive when it came to fighting and he was this powerful. Well, you can't judge a book by its cover.

The strawberry haired young man waved his hand and the damaged trees and ground were back to its optimal state as if nothing had occurred here. 

He sat down on the ground and gestured for the silver haired young man to sit down as well. Chun followed while she was still vigilant. One shouldn't put down his/her guard when it came to this person.

Chun then recalled what one of her classmates from a minor subject said the last time she went to that class to retrieve her notebook. They warned her after knowing that she was recruited by the Alliance.

"Chun, be careful. I heard from my older sister from the junior year that one of her classmates is an Alliance member which seemed to be unconvincing due to his harmless face."

And the other one buŧŧed in, "Duh! Alliance are monsters despite their faces, let's just exclude my goddess Eliza."

In conclusion, the silver haired young man must be on-guard with all of them. Chun just realized it now when she experienced it first hand.

Berry silently observed the deep in thought youth while he yawned. He was too sleepy now. 'Can't waste time anymore.'

"I'll just send you a task which can improve your weak points." The strawberry haired youth grabbed his communicator and sent his prepared task for the other.

Ting!

Chun looked at the sent objectives and she frowned on its senselessness. 

'Draw something you dėsɨrė.'

The silver haired young man looked at the disappearing back of Berry as he went out from the separate space. 'What did he think of her? An art student? Or is he a genie?'

"Hmm. That sure is a nonsense ȧssignment."

"What are you doing?" Chun asked while patting her heart. She was scared to death by the sudden appearance of the curly haired young man.

Lemon smiled after peeking at the communicator of the silver haired young man. "But I can answer your question with Berry earlier!"

"What question?" Chun nonchalantly asked while she dusted away the dirt on her pants. 

"The Domain Space!" 

"Oh."

The curly haired young man frowned and moved away, "Because I'm the very helpful member of the Alliance. I will satisfy your curiosity---"

'Lemon.' The warning voice of Notalie resounded in his mind that made him stopped his play. 

"Tsk. Let's just get over with this. I'm not good at physical type of teachings so I will be giving you materials to read which is a need for a member of Alliance to know," he didn't delay anymore while he waved his hands. Two boxes of reading materials appeared in front of the silver haired young man. "And I will remind you that you must go back at the same time for tomorrow's session. Bye!"

"Wait---" Chun wasn't able to ask as Lemon immediately left and shruggingly put the boxes on her storage space.

"So was this two sessions in one day?" 

No one answered.

The silver haired young man pursed her lips while she walked at the same way the other had left. Due to the Domain Space was still active with its simulation that could make Chun confuse if she hadn't known the exit and luckily she was perceptive.

"So here was it." She gestured her hand in a grasping motion and an invisible door opened which was the exit. Chun sighed and went out.

She inquiringly looked at the long black haired lady. 

"Pack your things. You will transfer at the headquarters." after saying that, she left.

"What an odd fellow. But what did she say?!"

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The silver haired young man sighed while looking at the mint green ceiling. It had been three months now in Charm Excellence and she had no idea what was happening in her original world at this time.

Xuan couldn't be asked because he was so secretive and sometimes not present which Chun guessed that the other might be reporting to his superior. 

But she determined that she could go out in this mission world after another five months. She already came out first on every tests that the school had come up and next month was the 25th Annual Charm Competition which be held in the Concave Forest. And then after that, the Alliance would be travelling to the Xangfei Empire which where the Charm Intercompetition would occur.

Chun couldn't imagine that her lazy life could be this occupied after getting involved with Zero and the Circus and while on that. What did happen with that guy?

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"System, can I go out now? I think one year already passed," the black haired youth with white fringes said to the floating white ball of light.

The said system bounced up and down while its monotone mechanical voice replied to his host, 

"Host, it's undetermined. Time is suspended here."

Hearing that, Zero frowned as he wanted to hit his unentertaining system although his hand passed through the unmoving ball of light.

"Should I kill you?"

"Host, it is undetermined if you can kill the system while you're in this black space." The irritating monotone voice replied.

It didn't sit well with Zero when this supposed to be defected product was talking back to him and somewhat questioning his abilities.

"You want to have a go?!"