Chapter 56 Mira

Chapter 56 Mira

"..."

"..."

Neither of the two spoke to each other as they just continued this strange staring contest.

The girl didn't move her eyes from Alex's chest once, while Alex didn't move his gaze from the girl's stern face once.

"..."

The silence continued for another minute before it was broken by the girl.

"You look different."

'???'

"Excuse me?"

Alex responded in confusion.

It had only been a week since she had last seen him. Frankly he was surprised she even remembered him at all.

"More muscle."

The girl spoke again, pointing at his half exposed chest.

'When did this happen?'

Alex looked down and saw that his shirt was half torn, covered in dirt and barely attached to his body at this point.

This was the same shirt he'd been wearing since before he even became an awakened.

"Huh, well you look the same." He responded to her.

'So awkward...'

The weird girl didn't even change her expression once during the whole conversation.

It was like she was a robot.

"You took the tests too, right? What scores did you get?" Alex shifted the direction of the conversation to something more... normal.

At the mention of the tests, the girl finally had a reaction in her expression as a momentary state of excitement showed, but disappeared less than a second later.

'So she does have emotions, that's good to know.'

But despite her reaction she didn't answer him.

"I see, you don't trust me enough to reveal this. My mistake. How about we start from the beginning." Alex apologised in case he offended her by asking intimate details about her strength. He straightened his gait and offered his hand out for a shake.

"The name's Alex."

But contrary to his expectations, Mira didn't have much of a reaction.

"I scored E+ rank results too, on speed as well."

She dropped a bombshell on Alex, and his face fluctuated from red and white.

He was both embarrassed at showing off to someone who was superior to him, as well as shocked that she could score higher than him even when he had strengthened himself with soul orbs!

'She must have a strong talent as well, otherwise how can her results be explained...'

Alex suspected her of having a talent, but he wasn't going to ask her about that.

That would be too far, information like that couldn't just be shared openly like that.

But unexpectedly she dropped another bombshell on him.

"I have an A- rank talent too."

'...'

Alex's mind went blank.

'What the hell??? You were so hesitant to reveal your results earlier, and now you go and do this!?'

He recovered after a few seconds, but hurriedly stretched his hand to cover Mira's mouth.

"What are you doing??? You can't just share your details so openly like that! We've only just met! We're still strangers, why would you tell me such private information!?"

Alex focused and looked around him.

Nobody was looking at them.

Everyone seemed too focused on their own conversations to listen in on the conversation between two slumrats.

"Good, seems nobody noticed."

He sighed a breath of relief.

"But don't speak about your talent or any of your details so openly like that again. If it were anyone else but me they could use this info against you — who knows what could happen to you after that."

Mira frowned and bit her lip when she heard Alex strongly reprimanding her.

When she entered the Primordial Expanse nobody was kind enough to let her know of such common sense.

She wasn't lucky like Alex.

"Thanks."

Alex didn't react.

She spoke so quietly he didn't hear her.

He was too focused on checking if anyone was paying attention to them.