Hellbents
Chapter 52: An Acquaintance

Ava is actually doubtful about the existence of the phenomenon of "love at first sight", she is always skeptical. Do they really feel "love"? Is it not just passion that comes as a form of natural reaction? Because the girl had a lot of experience on this matter. When he goes to the bar as a routine in his theft, a man often approaches him, claiming that he fell in love right then and there, in the end their ultimate goal is only one night of love.

But Hao was too awkward if he really wanted to do such a thing. Moreover, even though the man's attitude wasn't too impressive, he always kept his hands from touching Ava carelessly.

Hm, another possibility this is the first time for him.

Whatever it is, Ava has a higher position in this relationship.

He will not hesitate to use his feelings or manipulate one's mind to his advantage.

That's how he's been able to live to this day.

It all comes and ends in the heart and mind.

Therefore Ava also studied psychology, which is in term interpreted as a science of the soul. Self-taught, he understood from the books he had borrowed in the public library, or he had once stolen them with a false identity.

It's easier to control someone if you know the ins and outs of their feelings and thoughts.

For the umpteenth time, Ava refuses Hao's invitation to drive him home. Because even though he was exposed to fresh air and Hao's view was no longer foggy, he still staggered as he walked. The many liters of beer he sips will not just disappear. Doesn't this mean Ava was the one who was supposed to drive Hao home? But the girl didn't want to. So he darted away alone, naturally after patting Hao's left chest smooth, which immediately made the man fixated.

But instead of heading for the ship, Ava went further into the forest. He still had to hunt to save up points as collateral.

The girl could not predict the impending danger to him in this fantasy world. He needed various resources to survive, including his basic status, skills, information, connections, artifacts, and potions.

"After being lost for a few months, I didn't think the Princess was here."

The low bus of a foreign man immediately makes Ava pull out a poisonous dagger from the inventory, throwing it at the origin of the sound.

How could that person sneak up behind him? Is this the result when the five senses are constantly flooded with stimulation so Ava has trouble distinguishing anything in between?

"Gee, careful!"

The tree rattled, the next second a slender man with long purple hair matching the moonlight jumped down gracefully, a costume that the stranger was wearing exactly like a traditional Japanese outfit, a kimono.

The sakura-furnished hand fan covered half of the man's pale face, hiding the mischievous smile Ava could see from the wrinkles in her eyes.

... Wh who?

She calls Ava "Mr Princess", does that mean she knows her dopplegger?

From the appearance of Eve who always wore a luxurious black dress, Ava immediately assumed the position of the girl who was actually tall. At least in the status of nobility.

But a princess? Royal princess?

Ava was still not sure of the truth, so all she could do was pry for information without her opponent noticing. Be distant and neutral.

"To startle a girl when nights like this are not polite, sir," Ava had already put distance to her first sentence.

But the man before him laughed, "Cold as always, Princess."

He clearly recognized Ava's face, more precisely Eve who was identical to him.

"If you don't have any important business, I'll go first." But when he turned around, the man was right on his face. Their distance is only limited to the span and fan of the man's hand. "I guess the Princess is again conducting an experiment somewhere, I can't believe you're playing heart to Hao, the newcomer to our guild." Every word that came out of the man's mouth felt sticky, Ava frowned involuntarily, uncomfortably.

First, he knew Hao.

Second, he was in contact with the Canthan guild.

Was he the big brother that Hao was proud of?

Ava used her observation.

Name: Rai Takahashi

Level 87

Coin: 28276382968

Power :12

Speed: 22

Duration :15

Spirit affinity: 34

Nope. They have different family names.

Then ... spirit?

The spirit in the book is described as a manifestation of the power of nature, working in a different way from where. Spirits have small bodies as big as palms, different classes and attributes for each entity. In other words, fairies.

And the person who had spirit affinity would be able to make a contract with one of the fairies that could not be seen with the naked eye. The higher their affinity, the more and higher the class of fairies they could contract.

A rare talent.

"I don't think we know each other," Ava replied flatly.

Both of Rai's eyebrows shot up, "Ouh, I'm heartbroken, Princess. I guess my presence had an impression that imprinted on the previous meeting, it didn't." Despite saying so, Rai still put on her smile, completely comforted. His eyes then narrowed, "Or is this just the way the Princess threatened me to keep my mouth shut?"

Ava had no such intention.

"Alright then, I won't say anything regarding the true identity of the Princess to Hao, but let me look at it from the side. It's time that spoiled brat gets a lesson." Ava can feel a drop of poison in Rai's speech. "I won't tell Duke Frost whereabouts either, as I said before, drama is the genre I like the most."

Duke Frost's?

But Ava's question is only getting bigger.

... Looks like he should just go straight.

"What did you say earlier, sir?"

For a moment Rai's face froze, his brown eyes looking deeply at Ava's black bead which in his interpretation, was puzzled. The man then gasped, though his eyes twinkled with a mischievous light that made Ava suspicious of what she was about to say.

"God, did the Princess lose her memory?"

Now Rai was prancing happily, but his kimono still moved gracefully following the night breeze. "That's why! That's why the Princess is missing for months!"

Eve has disappeared?

"Geez, there are no unpleasant moments if I am close to the Princess!"

Rai increasingly fell into the misunderstandings that he made himself.

"Lord Princess Edodale turned out to be losing her memory, is that why you are now flirting with my friend's sister? Even though your memories were erased, the nature of the Princess is still the same!"

Rai is getting wildly imaginative.

Ava has to stop the guy.

Eve was the royal princess of Edodale. Did ya?

This way, won't things get more complicated?