Chapter 64 - 064: Pepper

The sun is nearly set when Arthur come back to his sense, there is no one in the cemetery.

Arthur tale his time to test his new ability, and after several tests, he gets a slight understanding of this power.

He can shape it to another form like tail but he can't make it change color or remove the armor, he also needs to concentrate if he wants to absorb the knowledge inside something.

Like the knife he had, this is a divine weapon that own by other people before Arthur, and when he tried to absorb the knowledge inside of the knife, there is a high influx of information rushing to his mind about how to handle the knife, how to throw it properly and many other things.

The downside is, Arthur thinks he can't use this ability if he is in the midst of battle, because if the amount of information is large he will feel the pain to receive it and leave an opening for his enemies to exploit.

^Knife Mastery is acquired, deducting system point from host^

"What? Do I need to pay for it? But this is from my ability how you can deduct a point for it?"

^transferring a large amount of information to host brain without damage it, make host body can move according to the mastery of the skill, the system needs deducting system point from the host for achieving it^

Arthur closes his open mouth and thinks about it, what the system said is right, it was not something that can be trained to master level just in one month let alone one minute, so if there is no safety measure his brain will be overloaded and maybe shut down.

^the amount of System point the host needs to pay for his dėsɨrė for knowledge when using the unseen hand of the truth seekers is reduced by half^

"Well at least there is a discount"

After confirmation to the system, Arthur now can make the hand turn into tail shape and make it can be seen by other people.

"Well, it's like the combination of rinkaku and bikaku if I shape it like tail... and my white hair... at least I didn't say something like 'what thousand minus seven' because it will make my character jumble up"

But this is just for show, because if he makes it can be seen by other then the purpose of this skill as an unseen hand that can be used for surprise attack is gone.

Arthur takes his time when he comes back to the place where Roswaal is currently recovering, on the way Arthur thinking about what he needs to do about the trial and the aftermath.

Arthur arrives at the hut and there is just Roswaal and Rem.

"Oooh... it's Arthur, doooo you need something from me?"

"I want to have a serious talk with you, Roswaal. So I hope you make Ram didn't disturb us"

Roswaal sees the serious face of Arthur didn't ask why and just order Ram to leave the hut and didn't try to eavesdrop.

"Sooooo, why do you need from me?"

"First, I want you to stop talking like Hector, Roswaal. Or you are doing it as a way to humiliate yourself because you can't protect Echidna? You lose to Hector is a fact you can't be denied after all"

"Who you're?"

That's something happened in the past, four hundred years ago. And there is no one who knows it except for some people in the sanctuary at that time. There is a possibility if what Arthur knew is just a story from another person who knows about the battle or he is a person who can live for four hundred years.

Roswaal became alert, because if Arthur knows about Hector then...

"You know me, Roswaal A Mathers. I was Arthur Spencer, Emilia's Guardian. This is my last warning, don't try to scheme something again to Emilia. This is your last chance, I didn't stop you this time because I think it was something she needs to do for her to overcome her past. But if there is another scheme after this, I will not hesitate to vanquish your soul"

"You know me to live for four hundred years and you still dare to challenge me?" Roswaal look at Arthur and his yellow eyes are seems like shining

"Because I can do what I said, just a mere old ghost is not that hard"

The tension reaches a boiling hand and Arthur's hand is placed in the hilt of Kusanagi sword and Ezera sword, there are also many unseen hands manifested behind him.

If, by any chance Roswaal decided to fight it out, Arthur ready to stake it all for vanquishing this old Ghost who ruins his own family for reviving Echidna.

"Just answer me, Roswaal. Do you really have a way to unfreeze the entire people in the Elior forest?"

"There is no proof about this, but there is a high possibility for dragon blood can be used to unfrozen them"

"Are you insane? The dragon, Volcanica. Just Sekhmet and Satella that have a capability to confront it, so there is no use even if the blood of dragon can unfreeze them because I'm sure the dragon blood you said is not common blood from Volcanica, but something more precious to the dragon"

"The heart of-"

"Shut up morons, just say it you didn't know and everything will be over. I will tolerate you one more time, but take it as a punishment from me"

Arthur uses his unseen hand to take Roswaal's bible and destroy it with lightning magic before Roswaal can react.

"There is another way to release Echidna, well no matter what happens there, I owed her one"

"Wait... are you sure? You can release her?"

"What you can't achieve is not something that will be impossible for me"

Arthur leaving the stunned Roswaal and Ram rushed to the hut and give him an angry look, maybe she can feel they have a slight of Confrontation inside the hut.

"Ah damn, I forget she has a something like a clairvoyant and can see what happened inside the hut from others eyes, Ram is hopeless. No matter what happens she will not hate Roswaal, well love really can make someone become blind"

Arthur walking toward where Emilia waiting for him with Baal, when he arrives there is Emilia surround by small specks of light with different colors.

"Lesser spirits..."

Emilia spend her time waiting for Arthur with training and communicating with her lesser spirits, she is just like what she said at the throne room.

Even if she is inexperienced in many fields she will work hard become a person who befitting the throne, even if sometimes work hard alone is not enough to achieve the dėsɨrėd result, as long as the throne is what Emilia want Arthur will support her with all of his power.

"Arthur, you're finally comeback"

"Yeah, I meet with some interesting situation. You're done with your training?"

"Well, it's not something that can be said as training but maybe you can call it as chatting?"

"Hmmm, they can improve their intelligence if you talk to them every day?"

"I didn't know... Puck just said I must training and communicating with my lesser spirits every morning but he didn't say the reason behind it"

"Well if Puck said you must doing it then there is must be a good reason for that"

"Yes, you must be right. But Puck didn't come out no matter how much I call him"

Emilia look at the pyroxene crystal on her neck, there is where Puck resides.

"Don't worry, maybe he has something to do for now. More importantly, are you ready for trial tomorrow night?"

Even if he is the one who also participates make her take the trial, Arthur still worried about her and hope there is another way.

"Don't worry, Arthur. I will be fine, can you believe in me a little"

"It's not a problem of belief in you or not, but the trial itself is not something you can take lightly"

"You know what will happen?"

"No, but I think this is not a physical test but something to do with your mind? I can't phrase it good enough but maybe, you will see a something you didn't want to see or your nightmares"

"Hmmm, I think I know what I will see in there..."

"What?"

"Its nightmares right? Something I didn't like will appear, right? Then there is must be pepper in there!"

"Eh?"

This time Arthur can't understand what Emilia means...

"Pepper? You... didn't like it?"

"But those are pepper you know?! They're green devils!"

"Green devils... you say"

"I can eat anything. Really, I swear. Anything but pepper. I would rather pass when it comes to those"

"I know it was didn't have anything to do with the trial, and it was very off topic but Emi, you can't be a picky eater you know"

"You're supposed to be on my side, Arthur. You're so nice when we first meet but now is like you make a point of opposing me all the time"

"What are you talking about with me opposing you... we are really going far away from the main topic"

"See! You experience it yourself! As I said it was the green devils' fault! If not for it we will not be going off-topic here"

Emilia folds her hand in front of her ċhėst and smiles proudly as if it was she is on the right side and this is Arthur who is wrong for not listening to her.

"Your dislike of pepper is really big... How can trial in the witch tomb have anything to do with pepper"