William's face changed from getting serious to laugh as if he saw a childish play. And yet his words landed and made Jenny's body tremble again.
"How the heck do you know all this about me? This will work, I will show you..."
"Please don't," William shook his head, "this technique requires a highly purified spirit power, in addition to a rich environment with lightning. You can't see any lightning around, and this world has a low level of spirit power, not enough to even trigger the technique..."
"We'll see..." Jenny interrupted him, feeling more intrigued by his words. She decided to go on, even if what he said made perfect sense.
"Ah!" This time her shout was filled with immense pain. The technique didn't activate, instead it failed and landed a severe backlash on her. On top of that, she unintentionally depleted her spirit power while trying to activate the technique.
"Tsk! You are still as rash as the time I met you," William expected all this. The technique failed, her body got backlash, and her spirit power got depleted.
The end result was pretty much expected. Jenny felt like all the power in her body drained and vanished. When she realised what happened, it was too late for her to do anything.
"I told you, you can't use this technique here," William moved closer to Jenny's weak body. Thin tongues of black smoke rose from different parts of her body, as if she got hit by lightning or something.
"You... Stay... Away..." she struggled to say these words, before her body grew soft and fell to the ground. Before she'd hit the ground, he moved and supported her body from falling.
"You are paying a debt that ain't yours," William knew this point was the toughest nut he had to crack to let her free from all of her misery. And yet as he expected, his words never helped at all.
"No, no, I can't," she turned around, and dashed after a moment of hesitation away from William.
"Remember, they won't forgive you failing again," William shouted, and got no response from her, "remember, my town is always open for you anytime, got it?"
He could see her silhouette vanish through the distance without even turning to look back. It felt like she was running from danger or something, and that was how she looked at William.
Meeting someone who knew more than you even knew about yourself was indeed threatening. Not to mention William could use the chance she lost all her power to kill her, instead he cared for her, carried her and kept telling her stories of her life.
"This young man is indeed crazy," she told herself that, "but he knew stuff about me, about the outer world, that no one in this world should know... I must use this point to get out of this trouble..."
She told herself that, throwing behind William's problem for now and focusing over the next level of danger awaiting her up ahead, Sara's mother.
She was sent out on this mission to kill William, and yet she failed to do it. She started to think of ways to get out of this trouble, using the fact that Sara's mother hid lots of details from her as some sort of excuse for her failure.
She didn't think about fabricating stuff to get out, as she was sure Sara's mother must have sent someone to tail her and watch her actions from far away.
"If someone listened to all this, then..."