Yet that weak dragonair was able to replenish his energy so fast without using any of that. He just sat on the ground, closed his eyes and started breathing in a slow and deep rhythm.
It was something new for her, and for her keen senses she couldn't be wrong. After she failed to gain any results like him, she had only to wait until he opened his eyes and stood up again.
He looked much better than before, vibrant with a good amount of energy that made her jealous.
If she was him, she would need a lot of meat and drink to reach such a state and that would take a much longer time as well.
"How did you do it?" she asked first, "who are you?"
"I told you before," Arthur stood up and examined his body first, "this is my secret."
"I'm willing to pay anything to get my hands over such a secret," Aemie's greedy nature and quinch for power was unparalleled.
She would never let go of such a golden chance. Everyone knew the real reason behind the continuous victories of the dark side over them.
Their speciality in soul matters was something no one could compete with. And like any brilliant enemy, they used their best to fight them.
So having such a way even if it seemed mysterious to her now was like a magical solution to all the light side problems.
"Before you answer I would like to stress on something," she hurriedly said as she anticipated his reply already, "this isn't for me. It's for all of us."
"To stop the dark side?" Arthur asked with fixed gazes upon her.
And she nodded.
"To do so you have to call me master," Arthur crossed his arms while giving her an interesting glance.
"You…" she seemed a bit surprised by his words and her face told him her answer already. "May I know why?"
"These are the rules," Arthur shrugged with a calm smile over his face, "I didn't put them yet I have to follow."
"I see," she went into silence for a moment before asking, "can I reach the same level as you?"
"Well… that depends on your true intentions," Arthur simply said, "if you are really true to your words, then it's easy to reach my level and even surpass it."
"All this is related to taking you as a master… quite narcissistic, isn't it?" Aemie seemed to find it hard to acknowledge someone like him as a master. "What about her?" she suddenly pointed to Nicole, "can you teach her?"
"As long as she calls me master," Arthur shrugged, "but teaching her won't do you any good."
"Why is that?" Aemie seemed to know that Arthur already read through her. She wanted to use Nicole to do that instead of her, as he had such a big ego on her shoulders.
"What I teach can't be passed," Arthur smiled, "it has to be taught one person at a time."
"I won't call you master," Nicole said with conflicted emotions, "I have only one master."
"What if your master asked you to do so?" Aemie's words meant how dedicated she was to this.
"I think we should drop this matter," Arthur said to stop the ongoing clash before it escalated, "for now."
Aemie gave him a deep glance before sighing. "What now?"
"Nicole shall know who the traitors are," Arthur motioned with his head towards the imprisoned Nicole.
"I don't!" yet the latter answered in a stubborn way.
"At least release her," Aemie said, "she isn't a threat to you anymore. I guarantee that."
Arthur gave her a long glance full of doubt. "You saved my life… I owe you this," Aemie slowly said before adding, "I will repay you, not the least betray you."
Arthur didn't trust her words but he trusted his Gege. 'Keep alert and ready to act at my signal,' he said to Gege before the latter released Nicole from her prison.
"I don't know anything about her associates," Nicole repeated her answer in a different set of words, "she never trusted me or put me in her eyes. For her I am… the failure she never wanted to see."
Arthur felt the bitterness in her words and he knew she was telling the truth.
"'But you know who comes to visit your mom repeatedly, right?" Arthur had another way to get what he wanted.
"You don't think she would plan all this in the open?" Aemie raised her eyebrows in surprise and doubt.
"Why not?" Arthur casually shrugged, "she is too confident in her ability to conceal everything. Plus, doing it in front of everyone's eyes won't attract any suspicion to her, right?"
Aemie thought a little of his words before she slowly nodded. Nicole saw her nod and sighed.
"She… used to meet with a lot of people," Nicole slowly said, "especially during the past few months."
"That's a start," Arthur grinned, "tell us their names and the master here will hunt them down."
"What if you are wrong?" Aemie asked while her face returned to its normal coldness.
"Losing a couple of lives in return to killing all traitors isn't a bad thing, right?" Arthur's answer made her face colder.
"They are innocent," Nicole shouted in distress, "at least we need to interrogate them."
"No interrogation," Arthur decisively declined, "this will only serve their interest and not ours."
He was gazing up at Aemie, totally ignoring the panicked Nicole.
"Aemie, please don't listen to him," Nicole tried her best to persuade her master and lover from doing this crime.
"He… is right," yet Aemie said in a slow tone, "we can't let them catch wind of what we are doing or they might escape."
"Or accelerate the coup," Arthur added, "as they are ruthless to you, you need to be more ruthless to them."
"That's bad," Nicole shouted in distress, "you can't do it! Please listen to me. You are better than that."
"Sorry," Aemie turned to her lover and sighed, "they left me no choice."
Nicole seemed conflicted but Aemie started to interrogate her until a long list of names was given to her. "Good," Aemie patted her cheeks, "once this is done, we can return to our normal life again."
Yet Arthur saw how depressed Nicole was. He knew she had such a good heart that couldn't let her do anything bad towards anyone without being forced to.
And anyone would hate doing this. However he wasn't in the position to judge or give advice to her or to her lover.
"Can you bring us out now?" Aemie asked while holding Nicole's trembling hand.
"What will I do after we go out?" Arthur didn't comply fast, instead he asked about her plans for him.
"I will send you away," Aemie casually said, "you are the only one who can find me those lycans. So I'll give you all the teams that I can spare plus Doaf and… Amera."
When she said Amera's name, she paused a little. Arthur didn't miss this and wondered if there was something going on between the two, an old past perhaps.
And he didn't care about it.
This 𝓬ontent is taken from f(r)eeweb(n)ovel.𝒄𝒐𝙢