"Xueyan, are you going to stay over there? Do you not want to join us?" The woman asked coldly, even though their status was similar there was no sense of respect in her voice.
"Not really! You should care about your own group Yueha. I am accompanying young Miss Ma Li at the moment. " Xueyan replied after a moment of hesitation but after she remembered the words of her junior sister, she responded with the same emotionless voice.
"Looks like the rumors about you not taking our technique seriously were true. You are even sitting with men Now, I wonder where I might find you next, In their bed maybe.." Yueha did not care about Xueyan's rejection and replied calmly.
It was like she wanted her to reply like that.
"Sect master was really optimistic about taking you as her disciples but it looks like a woman like you can only be used by other men and not lead out a sect."
Yueha remained emotionless but a light flashed through her eyes which went unnoticed by everyone except Noah.
'So she is greedy for that position huh.'
Xueyan gritted her teeth hearing her words and even the other girls beside her wanted to say something about it but someone else beat them to it.
"Pftt!"
Noah's sudden chuckle which caused all of the girls to look at him. Wondering why he was acting like he had heard something really funny.
"Ah! Don't Mind me... I just could help but laugh seeing how even after losing their emotions and desires, people can still feel inferior."
His words caused the woman named Yueha to pause and look at him silently. Even though there was not much change in her expression, she had her hands clenched and her lips pursed.
"Ara~ Did I hit a nerve?" Noah twirled the swords in his hand aiming at the woman as he continued his words. "From your look, I can guess you are old... how old.. almost 21... Barely old enough to pass the test and arrive here."
She watched as she saw Noah standing on the same spot from the start swaying like a thin sheet of paper in the air.
Even though she could not see his expression because of the mask, she could guess the boy was mocking her from the tone and words he spoke.
She blinked her eye and readied herself to attack but then something happened that caused her heart to turn more colder than what she felt when she took the Chilling bone pill.
*Drip!*
She felt cold sweat dripping on her neck when she saw that the boy, who was meters away from her before, was now suddenly standing in front of her.
*Thump!*
Startled, she took a step back, her heart was pounding in her chest as she stared at Noah with wide eyes filled with terror.
Her ice heart thumped so hard that she almost had a heart attack.
There was only an inch wide distance between the two of them. Her nose was so close that it was almost touching the mask Noah was wearing.
Even though she could see it, she felt a pair of sharp and cold eyes looking down at her. It was like he could see through her very soul and there was nothing she could hide from him.
She tried her best to calm herself down but that's when she noticed something...
The sword that the boy was playing with... was up against her neck and it even penetrated the layer of her skin drawing blood from it.
'How did I not notice that I was cut?!'
She then realized that it was not the cold sweat she felt before but her own blood that went cold in fear, if he wanted he could have killed her with that single strike and she could have done nothing about it.