As William got such a disappointing result, he started to train over his different techniques. He spent an entire day training before Angelica finally woke up.
"What? You want to see my body?!!!" As she woke up, William first checked her up and made sure nothing was wrong with her. Then he spoke with her about his desire.
"Don't take me wrong," he rolled his eyes. A weird thought flashed in his mind when he saw her retreat away from him as if he was a monster or something.
He imagined his girls, Berry, Sara, Ro, and others, watching him at this moment. The look he imagined seeing on their faces made him laugh against his will.
"Look, I got this thing after we got out," he started to strip off and remove his cloak and then armour around his chest.
"Stop it you monster!" she blushed, couldn't help but turn her face away, covering it with both hands.
"Just look, I got this thing, and it prevents me from using my spirit body," he felt a bit helpless here. And yet he needed to check if she and others also had such a thing on their bodies.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt"For real?" she slightly turned around, pushed a finger slightly away, letting a thin slit of a hole for her eyes to see through.
"Just watch…" William knew that tattoo was faint and hard to see without stirring up his spirit. He didn't change into one tail form but tried to turn into three tails form.
When he tried this, the tattoo shone brighter, and he felt pain. "This…" and yet that was enough to make her understand what he was trying to tell her.
She finally got the courage to turn around, and even came closer and inspected that tattoo.
"See? I just tried to transform into my fox spirit body, and this is the result I got, nothing but pain and this tattoo shining… What the hell are you doing?!! That tinkle…"
While he was speaking, trying to explain the situation over, she stretched out one hand, and started to touch his chest with her fingers.
Under her soft touch, he couldn't help but feel the urge to laugh. "These muscles… I never thought you have such a sturdy body underneath such an innocent look of yours…" and as if she was under a spell or something, she softly muttered while her fingers never stopped touching his chest.
"Stop it! We aren't fooling arou…"
"Oh, I might have come at the wrong time…"
Just while he was midway in his words, a new face appeared from the direction of the door. She was a young lady, very beautiful, especially with such redness that appeared on her face the moment she saw the scene in front of her.
William and Angelica froze in their place, exchanged silent glances for a few seconds, before Angelica hurriedly moved away, turned around, and buried her face in her hands again.
"Who are you?" William didn't feel the same embarrassment as Angelica, turned to face the new lady and asked, while crossing his arms.
"Ahem… Can you at least… You know…" the lady seemed to struggle to say the proper sentence, and she got the right for that.
As William crossed his arms, his masculine chest and arms got enhanced by an entire level. He looked at her, then at himself, before dressing up again.
"You didn't say who you are," he said after wearing his armour and cloak, "and what are you doing here? How did you come here in the first place?"
The lady had a long purple ponytail, with amazing pure faint blue eyes and nice features. She looked young, and yet she exuded an aura of being someone who used to lead others.
William got the impression that she was a real fighter, one who didn't distance herself away from the bloody battlefields even with her nice looks.
"I'm Tara, the leading general of the scout forces of the city," she introduced herself, and she came from the same background as William expected.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm"I see why you are here," William knew he took long enough for the higher ups of this city to make up their minds about him, "but…"
"I have access to any place inside the city," she waved her long ponytail using her left hand, "so don't take it personal, it's something common here."
·ƈθm "I don't like my place to be accessed by others without my permission," William knew she came at the wrong moment, but it would be much worse if she came while he was training or devouring cores.
"As I said, it's common here," she didn't feel any guilt or anything, simply looked back in a calm way towards William, "anyway, you won't stay here for long. So don't get used to this."
"Why?"
"You will come with me," she turned around, as if she used to spread orders and not wait for any answer but compliance.
"Who said I'll follow you?" William crossed his arms, knowing what she wanted him to do. And yet he feigned ignorance as he added, "and what do you need me to do?"
"You provided valuable intel about monsters gathering up near here," she paused, and before she'd continued, Angelica finally got over her embarrassment.
"Where is here?"
Angelica was unconscious when they arrived here. And so she didn't know that they arrived in the same city they wanted to reach out of pure coincidence.
William just gave her a warning glance, before he'd explained the story he provided before. He said everything while keeping a focused eye over her, so she wouldn't expose his lie in front of Tara.
The latter took his actions and attitude as care towards his cousin. And so she remained silent, didn't care about how he kept speaking and repeating the same story she already heard from the guards who accompanied him here.
Angelica on the other side was feeling puzzled. She knew most of what William said was false, and for a reason he warned her against saying anything to expose this.