Absolute Soul
85. Curiosity

After fighting against several Blackout members at once, Salvia decided to take a break considering that she had run out of soul energy after the last fight. If Salvia forced her way forward and met more enemies, she might have fallen down earlier.

"Fortunately I have no enemy who realizes we are hiding here" said Salvia sighing in relief not to meet another opponent while hiding and recuperating.

It had been about fifteen minutes since Salvia decided to hide and rest in this empty room. Salvia's soul energy had indeed partially recovered, but seeing the strength of the Blackout members who might be wandering around the current amount of his soul energy was insufficient.

In addition, even though he was able to defeat several Blackout members in an instant using high-level moves and techniques such as Snow Tidal or Blizzard Bullet Dominion that encompassed a wide scope, he said, with the amount of his soul energy now Salvia could only use both of them a maximum of two times.

It was true that Salvia could enter Awakening mode to strengthen the attacks of other moves, but the required soul energy was also not small. Using soul energy concentration techniques is also impossible to do in a fight because it is very wasteful of stamina.

"Other story is if I have as much soul energy capacity as this person," Salvia murmured turning her eyes to Haikal's still-sleeping face. His expression became flat when he saw Haikal who was not awake even in the middle of a big commotion like now.

He looked at Haikal's sleeping face carefully as he measured and compared his soul energy capacity with Haikal's, "This is the entire soul energy capacity that Haikal can accommodate?"

Dahi Salvia suddenly shriveled violently to find the capacity of soul energy that can be accommodated by Haikal's body, but the last time he measured the capacity of Haikal's soul energy was only a little more than it was, but now it may be half as much.

Salvia repeatedly looked at Haikal with a look of disbelief, but inevitably she had to admit that Haikal did indeed deserve everything she had gained given her hard struggle.

Salvia did not know in detail, but seeing Haikal who continued to train with the inhumane exercises he had been told, he could not deny the reality.

Although half-believed not in the absurd portion of Haikal's training, Salvia could only admit that Haikal was one of the hard-working geniuses her father had once said.

"You really have no equal, Haikal Aldra." Muttering that Salvia subconsciously raised her hand and grabbed Haikal's cheek, rubbing her slowly with a warm smile.

A few seconds later, after venting his heart for his admiration for Haikal, Salvia realized his shameful actions. In an instant his face turned bright red like a ripe tomato. He spontaneously pulled his hand from Haikal's cheek.

Salvia instantly covered her 'cooked tomato' face that felt so hot with both hands could not help the turbulent embarrassment in her chest.

"What exactly did I do to Haikal?!" Salvia screamed with all her might in her heart so conscious of her actions, she glared wide at her two palms in disbelief not only did she say something quite embarrassing, she said, but it also touched Haikal's cheek without permission.

He was indeed aware of his admiration for Haikal who reached this point despite not being able to awaken his Soul Arc yet, but it never crossed his mind that the feeling of awe was slowly growing another feeling completely foreign to him.

After a while, after feeling a little calmer, Salvia opened her hand which covered her face slowly. He then glanced at Haikal to make sure the young man was awake or not, unfortunately Haikal was still asleep.

Salvia's heart sped back up faster as she looked at the sleeping face of Haikal that she had never seen before, but it soon faded away as Haikal's expression suddenly deteriorated and a streak of cold sweat began to drip from his forehead.

"No.... Arian.... Don't go there...." While delirious so, Haikal shook his head several times with a panicked and frightened expression.

Salvia raised her eyebrows and thought that Haikal was dreaming, but it did not seem to be a good dream. It could be seen from Haikal's expression that seemed so miserable, Salvia had never seen Haikal's face bent to such an extent.

"No.... Aria! Aria!" The excitement that came out of Haikal's mouth grew harder and harder as his expression also worsened, it then made Salvia surprised and a little panicked not knowing what he should do at times like this.

Salvia thought for a moment trying to find a way to calm Haikal down, but Haikal's voice grew louder with time. Being pressured by the current situation that required her to hide, Salvia had no choice but to hug Haikal while enduring her embarrassment.

Salvia didn't want to do anything like this because her heart was beating too fast when she looked at Haikal, but when she saw Haikal's agonizing expression, she couldn't bear to embrace Haikal as she is now.

"It's okay, Haikal," whispered Salvia softly near Haikal's ear trying to calm the man down, "It's okay, I'm here."

It took some time until Haikal was completely calm, but Salvia's efforts were not in vain. Haikal's expression had returned as usual, looking innocent and calm as if nothing had happened before.

On the other hand, Salvia was still pounding after hugging Haikal. Although based on sympathy to calm Haikal, Salvia's face was still red. It took time for Salvia to calm down completely.

After calming down, Salvia then let out a long sigh and looked back at Haikal. Unlike before, this time he looks pity and curious about Haikal's past.

Although it has been approximately two months to know and be in a group with Haikal, Salvia only realized that she did not know much about Haikal other than the condition of the family and the lack of talent Haikal as Blazer.

He then recalled something about the reason behind Jack being so ruthless in his match against Haikal of Verna earlier. Although he had fought against Verna to hear the reason, in the end Salvia's curiosity was not satisfied.

In addition to finding out the truth about the death of her father who was allegedly killed on a mission, Salvia has yet to figure out why the other Haikal fought until this point. He suspected that the reason for Jack's cruel attitude towards Haikal previously had something to do with Haikal.

A little while later Salvia chose to ignore it for a moment, she then sat down cross-legged and meditated concentrating on the recovery of her soul energy for the process to go faster.