Chapter 227 227 - Second Challenge
He hadn’t heard nor seen anything, but that woman had been able to creep up on him without any problem.
‘How did she appear right beside me?’ thought Aiden, as he couldn’t understand how that was even possible in the first place.
He thought that he had good skills of observation spending years as an assassin in his past life, but it seemed that they were incredibly inferior to the woman who had appeared right beside him without the slightest noise.
“Evelynn why are you trying to scare him?” said Dan, clearly annoyed by that action.
He had wanted to leave Aiden before that woman saw him, he hadn’t wanted to see her at all as he knew that she had quite a strange personality.
“Dan, you’re here too? Not hiding from me anymore, huh?” said Evelynn, the white-haired girl who had just appeared right beside Aiden.
Because of how dark it was right now, Aiden could only faintly see the colour of her hair which was white, followed by the colour of her eyes which were truly of a strange colour.
Her eyes were of the colour red.
Honestly, only seeing her hair and her eyes, Aiden’s guess was quite simple, Evelynn was a vampire. There was no doubt in his mind, as he didn’t know of any human with red eyes.
However, before he could say anything, he simply listened to the conversation which was happening right in front of him.
Their conversation seemed to be quite an interesting one as Aiden couldn’t help but wonder what sort of relationship the two people in front of him had.
“Me? Hide from you? Eve, did you lose your mind, ahaha,” uttered Dan, seemingly insulted by what the white-haired girl had just said.
Nonetheless, Eve’s answer was calm as it seemed that she didn’t want to enter that little game that was currently being orchestrated by Dan who was clearly determined on wanting to rile her up.
“Whatever, did the two of them already succeed in your challenge?” asked Eve with a tone that contained a little bit of disdain.
She seemed to be thinking that Dan’s challenge had been extremely easy since both Isolde and the Reaper had already accomplished it.
She couldn’t know that Aiden had figured out the trial in less than a day, after all. How could she know that it was because of Aiden that Isolde had completed the challenge so fast?
In fact, she thought that the Reaper was somewhat lacking since he was supposed to be the best of the best, winning the Inter Family Tournament.
She didn’t understand why he hadn’t been the first to reach her.
Well, those were all thoughts that she simply pushed in the back of her mind, because the Reaper had finally appeared in front of her and she would make sure that this time he would at least spend a week with her here.
Her challenge wasn’t as easy as Dan’s one, that’s for sure.
“Are you stupid? Why would I be bringing him here if that wasn’t the case,” responded Dan with his usual insults when talking to her.
Aiden had to admit that it was quite weird seeing the old man who had been so calm earlier acting in such a weird way.
Why was he behaving so weirdly?
“And be careful of that one, don’t show him too much or he might figure out the whole thing,” warned Dan as he pointed toward Aiden.
Even if he hadn’t shown it in the past, he still remembered that Aiden had ruined his challenge by figuring out everything regarding the aura on the first day.
Dan had regretted showing them how to cut the boulder in two, he would have liked seeing them struggle even more, but that was now clearly impossible.
Eve didn’t seem to take this advice to the heart as she faintly replied, “Sure, now leave I don’t want to see your face, you oldie.”𝑵𝒐𝑣𝑒𝐋𝑵ℯxt.𝗰𝐎𝓶
Right after saying that, she grabbed Aiden by his shoulders and lifted him off the ground, basically dragging him to where Isolde was currently.
While getting transported Aiden noticed that Eve or whatever she was called had no difficulty at all lifting him up from the ground as if he was nothing more than a simple object that she could carry around everywhere without the slightest problem.
He had to admit that it was a weird feeling as it felt as if he was simply a child.
Then, after a few seconds, Aiden fell onto the ground that was right under him, face first.
‘Why the fuck did she do that?’ said Aiden to himself as he was currently eating dirt because of his landing.
Then, as he made a big sound because of his crash, Isolde who wasn’t too far away from him said out loud, “Are you the Reaper?”.
She seemed scared when she said that as if she couldn’t see anything around her.
Aiden slowly lifting his face from the ground was able to get a quick glance at the state of Isolde and he had to admit that she was in worse shape than him.
It seemed that she couldn’t even see in front of her at all, simply looking aimlessly around her at the slightest noise that she could hear.
Aiden could at least see a couple of steps in front of him, but it seemed that it wasn’t the case for Isolde who was truly lost.
“Yeah, it’s me,” muttered Aiden, standing up and going toward the blind Isolde who had reacted to his voice by turning her head toward him.
But then as he was about to reach her, Aiden felt something behind him pulling him away.
“That was a nice reunion and all, but we don’t have time to lose with that stuff,” said Eve, who was currently pulling Aiden away from Isolde.
It seemed that she didn’t want the two of them to have any sort of physical contact.
“Now, that he’s here, I’ll explain the second challenge once again. Isolde you should listen since I don’t think you quite got it the first time.”
It was clear that Evelynn didn’t quite like Isolde from the way she was talking, it seemed that she was happy to have some fresh blood for her challenge because if it continued the way it was currently going then no one would be able to do it.
“Sorry, madam,” muttered Isolde, hearing that.
‘Madam? What’s happening here?’ thought Aiden, as he couldn’t understand why Isolde would be using such weird words when talking.
It didn’t make that much sense in Aiden’s mind.
Did Eve make her some sort of slave or some obedient person in a single day?
As Aiden was thinking of all those things he had no choice but to dismiss them as Evelynn was about to explain the rest of the challenge.
“As you might have noticed, we are in a dark place, an extremely dark one which is under an enchantment which has quite a special effect. It makes us unable to see in front of us, well for those that aren’t used to it or for those who haven’t developed the skill which everyone here will need to reach the next challenge,” explained Eve quickly.
‘The skill? Shouldn’t it be a technique?’ thought Aiden as he kept his mouth shut, simply listening to whatever the two people in front of him were currently saying.
“Since the two of you can’t see anything right now, I’ll explain the task that the two of you will have to face,” continued Eve.
However, the words which she had just pronounced confused Aiden greatly since he could see a little bit in front of him, he wasn’t completely blind at the moment which was why he had been able to see her white hair and red eyes which pierced the dark.
“In front of you, a couple of meters away, there is a giant parkour. I think both of you can already guess where I’m going with this,” said Eve, waiting for Aiden to answer since Isolde already knew about it.
However, all she got in response was complete silence, so she decided that she would be the one providing the answer.
“Indeed, you guessed right, you’ll need to reach the other side of the parkour without seeing anything. Isn’t it great?” she asked at the end sarcastically, knowing that it clearly wasn’t great at all and that the two of them would be suffering which was why she was so excited in the first place.
‘Um, interesting,’ thought Aiden, as he walked a couple of steps forward wanting to see the start of this parkour since Eve had just said that it was a couple of meters in front of them.
But, as he continued to walk forward, he noticed that there was absolutely nothing in front of them. It seemed that either she had lied to the two of them about the parkour or Aiden had walked right passed it.
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