Chapter 259 Do You Love Her?

"You remember me, right?" Nix said with a chuckle.

Ayanami gulped and stared towards a masked Obsidian for his help, she felt more comfortable in his presence than the person who had grabbed hold of her cheeks roughly.

Obsidian deactivated his ability but her body didn't drop to the floor with Nix replacing his hold on her with his passive gift.

"I have to thank you for bringing Arion on a silver platter to me." Nix smiled with a devilish grin.

Ayanami began to heat up under his hold, her pale skin turning slightly pink.

Her eyes bulged as she guessed what he might do to her.

"Don't fret, you're not worth killing 'yet'!" He spat.

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She caught sight of his glowing blue eyes and her mind did a double take. No one had such fiery glare nor those bright blue eyes that had her smitten in the academy.

"Nix?!" She coughed out and shook with the horrific revelation.

"Busted!" Solis mumbled in amusement and couldn't help but laugh at how easy it was after careful observation.

Nix's mood darkened and his grin only turned more sinister while he let go of her cheeks. "At least you got some tiny brains inside that bird's nest."

Cough!

Cough!

Ayanami adjusted her jaw after the nerve-wracking pain inflicted, she could almost swear any more force inflicted would break her jaw.

Pulling off his hood, Nix shook his head and pushed it back.

"This is why I dread wearing a hood, it messes up my hair!" Nix mumbled out his disdain for the clothing, glaring at Obsidian.

A shrill traveled through Obsidian's body and he raised his hands in surrender and took several steps back guilty. "Easy there mentor, I'm nothing but your loyal friend."

The words only managed to put him in a good mood and he managed to let out a laugh and pointed fondly at Obsidian with an amusing smirk. "I would be more concerned about what Lank had to say about that."

Ayanami's eyes darted to and fro between the masked individual and Nix, trying to place the puzzle.

Nix's words had just negated that the masked individual wasn't Lank as she had thought after knowing his identity.

Looking to his side and glaring at Ayanami he forced her head down and made her bow before him. "I never told you to stare, did I?"

[Congratulations you have unlocked a new trait: Aggression. A hostile behavior; readiness to confront is achieved]

Nix stared at the user interface and a slight grin made its way to his lips. He couldn't care less what this would mean if it was gained while confronting Ayanami.

Ayanami gritted her teeth at the treatment. "How?! Why?!"

Nix raised a brow at her question and rightly understood what she was asking.

Feeling he could answer her questions, he began with the 'how?'.

Rubbing his palms together, he squatted so she could see his knees in front of her while she couldn't still raise her head.

Pulling her by the chin forcefully and stared into her eyes for what seemed like forever to her.

Sptt!

Nix closed his eyes just in time but was still unlucky to have her spit all over his face.

[Shit list: 1]

[Ayanami has been successfully added]

Obsidian had wanted to rush towards them but was stopped by Nix who held out his hand.

Feeling uneasy, Obsidian felt reluctant to stand down and do nothing, "but..."

Dipping his hand into his pocket, Nix wiped his face with a black handkerchief.

Opening his eyes slowly, his mood darkened in an instant. "Do you know the one thing that I had not expected to do?"

Ayanami narrowed her eyes, yet said nothing, scoffing instead.

"That vile little snake!" Obsidian barked at Ayanami. Even though the attitude wasn't directed at him, he felt as though her disrespect for the one person that truly wished to kill her was a stupid move.

'You don't know what you have just done!' Obsidian eyes spoke on a different level, suddenly feeling pitiful for what was in store for her.

"Would you quiet down?" Nix interjected in a cool and collected voice and got to his feet.

His fingers steepled on his nose as he paced about for 10 seconds before he stopped right back at Ayanami.

Solis leaned forward and could feel the barrier that concealed him shake and crack from the silent anger resonating from Nix.

'This isn't good.' Solis thought with uncertainty, looking around him and making a wince in preparation for what lay for Ayanami.

"You're such an act that you try to pull off being bad but you suck at it!" Ayanami screamed and burst into a peal of crazed laughter.

'She's lost it!' Solis and Obsidian facepalmed simultaneously.

[Trait usage: Aggression in effect]

Bam!

Ayanami's face was forced to the side by Nix's kick which sent blood flying from her mouth.

Obsidian and Solis' mouths gaped open in shock at what they had witnessed, they knew he held hate for her, but they didn't expect him to be so livid about it.

"I had never expected to hit defenseless animals," Nix said with a scowl.

"Then I realized you are not just a defenseless animal, but you have gone rabid!" Nix spat.

Grabbing her by the neck, he raised her effortlessly. "You weigh less than he did."

Ayanami protested and managed to shapeshift her leg into a long fishtail.

Nix caught on to what she planned on doing and grabbed the fishtail before she could slap him with it, proceeding to mock her for it. "Your counterattacks are strangely weak for a higher rank magic user."

Solis could only watch with worry because of the barrier that surrounded him, something wasn't right with Nix as he could see it slowly turn dark.

Hitting on the barrier, he tried to alert Obsidian to be careful of Nix and he might be the one to ruin the plan.

Obsidian seemed oblivious to the call by Solis, dampening his zeal to continue hitting on the barrier.

Instead, he drops to his feet and hugs his legs, and hopes that Nix would get his sanity back. The fact that this female brought out a beast in him was frightening and worrying, commending such a foolish attitude displayed by Ayanami.

'Beg, you mad animal!' He pleaded in his thoughts, throwing his hands over his head and refusing to watch anymore.

Ccrk!

Nix bent her caudal fin without flinching to her blood-curdling scream of pain.

Forced to revert to her human legs, she cried in pain.

"Ah! That's right." Nix spoke up abruptly. "How am I this powerful, huh?"

Rubbing his chin, he thought about how he could keep it as vague as possible while toning it down.

"I inherited this somehow, specially handed to me to treat rabid animals such as yourself." He said with a grin as he stared at her scrunched-up face in pain, "what's your success story on your failure?"

"..."

Ayanami was gradually losing her consciousness with his tight grip on her neck and the dislocation on her ankle from the snap he had done when she had shapeshifted.

'You can't die on me without my permission." Nix shook his head and let go of her throat.

Thud!

Obsidian stood frozen in his spot, finally sensing something was wrong, he called out to Nix. "You still remember the plan, Nix?"

Nix looked over his shoulder, his chest hyperventilating and his aggression slowly settling when he heard the calmness that seethed from him.

"I'm the one who made the plan, how could I forget?" Nix switched immediately and let out a laugh.

[Trait usage: Aggression deactivated]

Looking back at Ayanami trying to catch her breath and her hair cascading down her face, he had a devilish smile.

"It wouldn't hurt to tame a wild animal."

Sniffles could be heard below as she pushed back her hair and her eyes bloodshot from secretly crying.

She had expected transcending to the organization would give her an unrivaled edge and away from the people who had targeted her.

"Do you love her?" She mumbled and sniffled once more, her eyes on the floor the whole time.

She couldn't bring herself to hold the death glare she had witnessed while she was at his mercy. A sad reality that she was merely living in her fantasy world and needed to wake up.

Nix was taken aback by her question and was left speechless for a while.

"You know who I'm talking about." She continued, suddenly bold enough not to care about what was going to happen to her.

She had lost the dragon scale that was her only chance to prove herself to the one person who had seen potential in her ability. With its scales, she had understood that Nix also possessed and could control the dragons.

'That was why it glowed instead of burning and had led me here.' She repeatedly told herself and let out a sigh.

"Is that such a difficult question you can't answer?" Ayanami questioned and raised her head slowly.