Liu wasn't pleased with the attitude that Adam adopted while talking to Blanca.
'Is he trying to be friendly with her already?' Liu thought, trying to understand Adam's action and the reason why he told Blanca about the spaceship. 'I hope it's not because she is a woman,' she noted, because no matter how she looked at it, Adam appeared to have let his guard down around Blanca even though it was not even confirmed yet that she wasn't an enemy.
Moreover, after Blanca took off the black coat, her woman charms were revealed and Liu thought that seeing this affected Adam's judgment, but after noticing that Adam didn't even take a glance at Blanca's body and didn't hesitate to talk to her with a menacing tone, she quickly dismissed this idea.
From the look of it, Adam was still the same despite his actions, or so she concluded.
Nonetheless, the situation was critical and shouldn't be taken lightly, so the fact that Adam asked Blanca to help him made Liu a little bit worried, after all, if something happened to Adam while he was alone with her, Liu understood that it would be hard for her and Zax to deal with the events that had yet to happen, so she felt a little bit concerned about it.
'Well, he must have thought about it,' She thought, 'he seems to be capable of handling this, isn't he?' She came to this conclusion after thinking back about the fact that Adam managed to nullify both of their power, an action that answered some of the questions that she had on her mind.
Besides, she knew that she needed to trust Adam and his decisions from there because it would make things more difficult if they started doubting each other.
She based her conclusion on the fact that Adam managed to save her and acted in a very rational way despite the situation, so she believed that he wasn't playing around and had a plan to get them out of this situation.
Nevertheless, she was also thinking about how she would deal with Blanca if things took a bad turn.
'That power was different from a gift,' Liu assumed, thinking back about Blanca's power, 'and I never heard about someone who could manipulate their blood to cause such destruction. However, it seems like I could deal with it the way I am now…' She concluded, after recalling everything that she learned about gifts and about the overflowing power that she felt coming out of her body when she used power to protect herself against Blanca's attack.
Liu wasn't thinking about antagonizing Blanca but it was never a bad thing to analyze the information that she had on hand. Never again did she want to feel the emotions that she felt when she faced Rudeus, she told herself, trying to strengthen her determination so that she could face the dilemmas that she had yet to confront.
These thoughts crossed Liu's mind as she looked at the petite woman in front of her who was still sobbing. She also felt the need to reconsider her objectives and how she would achieve them because the recent events made her realize that she was still thinking naively.
Still, it was not the right time to think deeply about such a thing and Liu knew that, so she continued her conversation with Zax.
"Are you feeling better?" Liu asked, looking at Zax with gentle eyes.
"Yes. Sorry, I should be the one asking you that question after what happened, and yet…" Zax said, looking a little dejected after thinking about how powerless she was this whole time. Despite her looks, she was almost the same age as Liu so what happened made her feel a little bit useless, although she was talented in other areas.
"… It's okay. We are friends." Liu said, trying to comfort Zax, but she was not good at it and felt a little bit awkward.
After that, their discussion continued and Liu told Zax about what happened after she passed out.
"Really? He did that?" Zax asked and looked at Adam who sat next to the door with a surprised look. She was slightly embarrassed by the fact that Adam protected her and carried her all the way here, even though she was useless during the whole fight against Rudeus. If she had a brother, then it would be great if he was like Adam, or so she thought. "I should thank him later…" She mumbled as these thoughts crossed her mind.
"Yes, we should do that, but for now…" Liu said, and then continued to tell Zax about what happened until they met Blanca.
As Liu continued to speak, Zax's face became gloomier, and in the end, she had a complex look on her face.
"So we need to find and repair a ship? Okay, I will help… I am good at repairing things," Zax announced, trying to find a way to be of any help to the group.
"We know, and we are counting on you," Liu replied as if to say that Zax was never useless.
"And her?" Zax whispered, and glanced at Blanca.
"I don't trust her yet, but I am sure that Adam knows what he is doing," Liu whispered back.
Blanca just sat there without saying anything, closing her eyes like Adam did, and looked like she was meditating.
"Miss Liu, do you think that someone as pretty as her can be our enemy?" Zax asked, looking at Blanca who seemed to be no more than a gorgeous lady when she didn't move.
"It's always better to be careful," Liu said, "and call me Liu from now," she added.
"O-okay. Is Adam alright though? From what you said, he fought against that monster too… But he was already in a very bad state before we managed to find you," Zax said, thinking back about how Adam's body was covered in blood and he couldn't even stand straight.
Then, she looked at Adam again and saw a man who was in good condition which made her a little bit relieved and worried at the same time. She was the same as Liu and didn't know what happened to Adam after they lost their consciousness.
"Is that so… Well, he probably doesn't want us to worry about it so he decided to not say anything," Liu said, but she was surprised by Zax's words.
'Why did he go through all of that just to save me?' she wondered because Adam never showed that she cared about her all of this time.
'Does he have feelings for me but doesn't want to show them? But why?' She thought, looking back at every conversation that she had with Adam. After all, they just meet a few days ago so she didn't think that they were that close, but if Adam didn't do that because he loved her, then she couldn't think about another motive that would push him to go to such an extent for a stranger that he just meet.
However, Liu knew that it was not also the time to think about that so she quickly dismissed the thought.
*****
:::[Adam's POV]:::
As soon as I closed my eyes, I fell asleep for good and wasn't even aware of my surroundings anymore.
Fortunately, I manage to wake up after two hours, and it seemed like nothing bad had happened while I was asleep.
'That was bad… It seems like my body gave up," I thought, as looked at Liu and Zax who were talking to each other.
This was the first time I saw Liu talk this much and it seemed like the circumstances strengthened her friendship with Zax.
I knew that Liu was very reserved as a person so seeing her like that made me believe that some people weren't always what they seemed to be, and in Liu's case, she was a genuinely good person inside and I could tell just by looking at her trying hard to hide her face from me as she talked with Zax. 'Still, I think that there is a reason why she adopted that cold attitude…'
Anyway, I was glad that nothing happened while I blanked out and it seemed like Blanca was also more docile than I thought. 'I expected her to talk with Liu though, but it seems like she is sleeping instead… Or what is she doing?'
'It should be about 7 PM but I am already hungry, however, the foods that I found will only last us two days if we eat three meals a day, we should be able to eat one more canned food each for today,' I thought, looking at the girls.
Even though the situation was critical, it would be more dangerous if we didn't have the energy to survive and fell sick. 'I should find more nutritional foods to avoid that… It will be a pain if one of us falls sick.'
After thinking about that, I stood up and grabbed the ragged bag then placed the canned foods on the floor and inspected them to make sure that they had not expired yet. The content of these cans was something similar to caviar, but since I had never eaten such food, I didn't know how if what I ate tasted like caviar or not.
As soon as I did that, Zax and Liu looked at me with odd faces and stopped talking.
"Hey Zax, you fine?" I asked, looking at Zax, and then continued to inspect the canned foods.
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