Chapter 135: *Doing a joint class*
Kevin explained everything to them: how he had spotted the black bandage around his right wrist, the tattoo underneath, the fact that Liam was in the same organization as Alan’s family, and that Ashton was probably already a part of it too.
He also told them that Liam had never hidden anything from Ian, and therefore Ian already knew everything. And finally, he told them that he had invited them to dinner with them tonight to discuss this symbol that had appeared on his forehead during his fight against the Elite Warrior Vampire.
He said that he wanted Liam and Ian to be part of their group and that Liam’s knowledge of the organization would be of great help to them; maybe he would know more about this symbol too. And, as he had guessed, this news was well received by Alan and Erik. After all, Liam and Ian were not only their friends; they were very powerful too, and they felt reassured to have them by their side.
After that, they decided to have lunch together in Axel and Kevin’s pavilion, where they finally spent the afternoon training.
Kevin had decided to do a joint class with everyone, and he used the help of a dummy to start teaching them his secret technique. After removing the furniture from the living room and placing their baby phoenix on the kitchen table, they installed a dummy in the center of the room that Axel had gone to borrow from the gymnasium.
Kevin then took out the diagrams he had done about the pressure points and blood circulation, and he began to teach them how to paralyze this or that part of the human body by using the pressure points.
Sometimes you had to use several pressure points in a specific order for the blood flow to change, and each time, he also taught them how to restore it so that the paralysis would go away. Some paralysis was immediate, while others could take up to 1 minute before their opponent could start to feel the effects of it. So they would have to choose the right pressure points depending on their opponent’s strength and the fight they were having.
The afternoon went by at breakneck speed, and just when Kevin was about to offer to stop there for today, there was a knock on their door.
Kevin looked at Axel questioningly, and Axel immediately replied, "Ian has arrived, and he is with Douglas; they have been walking around our pavilion together."
Erik asked him, surprised, "What about Liam?"
Axel shook his head, "He is not here; maybe he has been held up somewhere else. I’m going to greet them... you guys, tidy the living room in the meantime."
Axel then went to open the door to them, and after greeting them, he asked Douglas, still surprised to see him here with Ian, "What brings you here, Douglas? Usually, you rarely leave the warehouse."
Douglas laughed cheerfully and said to him, "I took a break to personally come and install your energy shield around your pavilion, and I ran into Ian on the way, who offered to help me. I just have to give you this crystal, and I’m done with it. It’s thanks to this crystal that you will be able to activate and deactivate the energy shield."
The crystal that Douglas was handing to him was transparent, like glass, and he explained to him how it worked, "You just have to introduce chakra inside it until it turns yellow, and that will mean that the energy shield is in place. When you want to remove it, you just need to absorb your chakra back until it becomes transparent again."
Axel finally took the crystal, which had a rectangular shape, in his hands and thanked him warmly. Kevin arrived at this moment, and after greeting them, he invited them both to enter.
He immediately noticed the black bandage around Douglas’s right wrist; although it was rather well concealed under his clothes, it was these kinds of details that never escaped him. The more someone tried to hide something, the more he would see it.
And by the way, Douglas didn’t seem on his guard against them, so he wasn’t cautious either.
He looked at Ian; he had no doubt that Liam had already told him everything, and when Ian met his gaze and saw him look at Douglas’s right wrist quickly, he immediately understood his silent question and imperceptibly nodded his head to make him understand that Douglas was indeed also part of the organization.
And while Douglas was chatting happily with the others, Ian led him away, and before he said anything, Kevin whispered in a very low voice to him, "I can lip read, so whatever you want to tell me, say it silently."
Ian looked at him with a stunned expression, but he trusted him. According to Liam, Kevin had a potential that no other bearer of the Pentagram Mark had had before him. So he told him, without making the slightest sound, ’Douglas is indeed part of the organization, but I think we shouldn’t tell him about you. He is someone who is used to talking a lot, and he might unintentionally get us into trouble.’
Kevin nodded; he hadn’t intended to share it with him anyway. As he had told Liam earlier, only his close friends would know. He had trusted Liam because he had been, and still was, Axel’s mentor, and Ian was someone he had immediately appreciated and who was also a very good friend to Alan.
Right now he didn’t want to let anyone else know... Ashton looked like someone who could be trusted and who apparently had a strong desire to prove himself, but only time would tell him if he could really tell him the truth about himself.
As for Axel, he had had a frightful moment when he had seen Kevin leading everyone to the kitchen, where their baby phoenix was supposed to be. But he always forgot who Kevin was, and of course, when they arrived in the kitchen, the egg wasn’t there anymore.
He had seen him leave with Ian, and he had also heard what he had said to him. So when they came back to join the conversation with everyone, he wanted to contact him with their telepathic link, but Kevin had been faster than him.
Kevin knew that Axel had heard him when he had said to Ian that he could lip read and that he had to wonder what they had been talking about.
So, as soon as he joined everyone in the kitchen, he contacted him via their telepathic link.
