The Prodigy and the Genius

Chapter 50

Suddenly a boy with raven hair barge in the fight and neutralize all magic. This dispels the stopping of time and unsummoned the dragon back to its place.

"My, my. Miki, you're still inexperience in fighting" the raven boy smiles as he lectures Miki who is having a hard time calming her anger.

"Aryan(Ian)-sama, next time please don't try to disturb the fight" The priestess gave Ian a glare. Ian is having trouble to calm down the two ladies beside him. This priestess just tried to get rid of Miki as Miki only attacks when someone attacks her.

But this time, Miki deliberately leave her mental state, normal. Ian clearly knew she wanted to gain experience from her.

"Priestess, let us stop here. I'm sure someone is dying right now. Remember your role" Ian reminded the priestess. The priestess' eyes grew wider and wider. She completely forgot why she is here. She turned around and headed towards to where Theresa and Julius is. But before that Miki called out to her.

"But can we go with you? I might be able to help a tinsy bit of help" Miki showed a smiled on her face.

"You stalled time" the priestess hurriedly runs towards to her destination, leaving Miki and Ian alone.

"The magic that you used... No, let's talk about it next time. Are you alright?" Ian looks at Miki. Miki just calmly look at where the Theresa and Julius is. One of them is gonna die. She cannot change the fate but she can prolong it.

Miki just nodded to Ian's question. It's fine. None of them are very close to her. She is just worried for her siblings. Can they take of what will happen? She doesn't know. She's not very good toward to this.

"Let's go" Miki and Ian followed the priestess to her destination

Miki and the other two arrives at where Theresa and Julius is. The moment she arrives, Theresa was hit on her neck and fell while Julius was stab on his stomach. The assassin that just killed them is a professional. He must have killed for years already to be able to perfectly hide his presence. 

But the thing is, the moment they arrived they're too late to save one of them. Julius have been bleeding too much. He's at his death door. Luckily, they are able to arrive in time to save Theresa from being killed.

Miki used her magic. She slowly froze the assassin, letting him experiencing the pain and coldness of it. While still mentally conscious, she breaks every parts of body with ice, allowing him to scream very loud. No matter how much he scream, no one will heard him. Ian had already cast a barrier that blocks every sound from the inside. In short, no one will hear them.

Miki slowly head towards to Julius. She just stares at his pitiful state. She said, "Shock that I'm alive? Never mind that. You are dying. No one can heal you now.... What will you do?"

Julius can just barely conscious right now. He is very shock that Miki is still alive. But what matters now is what he will do? All the things he wanted to done, he will never be able to do it. He even hasn't told his feelings towards to her. 

"Why I am alive doesn't matter. You will die within 4 minutes and 37.98 seconds. I can prolong your death but I cannot stop it. You will able to live in an hour and a half. But the condition is to make sure you never told anyone I am still alive. Accept?" Miki is now casting a magic to prolong his life. This shows that she doesn't allow any objections. But to Julius, it might not bad. He should at least confess to her and pass his will to his younger brother. It will not make him regret. But the only thing regret now is--

"I-I c-can... a-accept y-your... d-demand.. B-but... c-can y-you m-make... s-s-sure that J-Jos-seph will d-die?" His words are turning messier and messier. He just stares at Miki in hoping to make sure he will die.

"It's okay. He's destined to die this day. Your efforts will not be in vain. Please use this remaining time wisely" this words made Julius feel lighter. He's glad that his efforts were not in vain. 

Miki just cannot help but be clueless on what he just asked. He doesn't know any of her abilities yet why did he believe in her? Did he just believe in her willingly?

"I-it's just... like L-Luke s-said.... y-you act l-like a m-merchant.... but... p-please... d-don't hurt... y-your family, Miki?" As time passes by, Julius words are getting better and better. It must be that he doesn't feel any pain left as Miki had cast her magic on him. 

When he said that, he meant to not hurt Luke any longer. It pained his heart so much when he knew she died. Not only him, but her other siblings too. They all have change after they die. They wanted to treasure her but will never be able again.

Miki did not answered him but instead said, "This is a goodbye, Julius nii-sama"

Miki gave Julius a sincere farewell smile from her heart.