Chapter 144 - Alice Appears Again (1/2)

"Did you understand?" Aleen asked Aya after he explained to her the circulation technique.

"… Mm." Aya thought for a moment and nodded. She then sat cross-legged and began to practice it.

Aleen stood near her and paid attention to her situation. Fortunately, Aya was pretty good at this and got the hang of the circulation technique quickly.

In a few minutes, Aya's mana was circulating following the technique's method.

D'vina's circulation technique was pretty high-class, so much that Aleen's improvement was already visible just one week after he started to practice it. It mainly focused on increasing mana input and output, and also helped a bit to increase the size of the mana pool.

Someone with enough knowledge about mana would be astonished after seeing the effects of this technique, but unfortunately, Aleen's knowledge about mana was very basic. He had no way to know that mana was not supposed to be so easy to improve.

Furthermore, due to Aleen's special circumstances, his improvement was incomparably fast. After the failure to create a new skill during the last game, Aleen's mana showed incredible growth, moreover, other aspects such as mana input, mana output, body strength, and mana-body synchronization also were improved drastically, causing Aleen's misunderstanding about D'vina's technique to continue. After all, the improvement caused by the technique was nothing compared to a single moment of enlightenment.

Actually, though, D'vina did not care very much about the technique. After all, she was the princess of a powerful empire encompassing an entire world. Even if her situation was a bit bad due to certain circumstances, the number of powerful circulation techniques she had seen was incredible. Although the technique she taught Aleen was very good, she knew of another two or three techniques as good as that.

She truly did not mind if Aleen taught that technique to others or not.

After half an hour, Aya finally completed the circulation technique successfully. She opened her eyes and stared at Aleen excitedly. Her face remained expressionless, though.

"… Thank you." She whispered softly. Aleen smiled and stroked her head gently. "Don't mind it. We are partners after all."

But at that moment, he realized that Aya was completely frozen.

She was looking at his hand stroking her head with a startled expression and her eyes opened wide.

"Sorry, sorry." Aleen quickly retracted his hand and apologized with an awkward expression. "I got carried away."

Aya's check turned slightly red. She then looked at Aleen with a wronged expression and escaped towards inside the house.

Aleen smiled wryly and shook his head. He was used to stroking Claire's head normally, so his body moved instinctively.

Well, he would apologize to Aya later.

Now that they finished training, Aleen decided to prepare breakfast. Claire was still ill, and he was not sure if Aya could cook, so the responsibility of cooking for three people and a cat rested in him.

After living alone with Claire for two years, Aleen was pretty good at cooking. He did not take long to prepare something suitable and went to wake Claire up.

A few minutes later, three people and a cat were enjoying breakfast at the table.

"… It's nice." Aya complimented softly. Aleen's lips curved up in a smile. "Thank you."

Claire pouted slightly and looked at Aya warily, but she just tilted her head in doubt.