Elementalists
Chapter 26 - Stupid Date

Arya was meditating as usual, her ability in gathering Agnet from nature increased by a great deal. To the extent that the Fairy Forest residents were amazed by it, the only person who saw its development with an ordinary gaze was Eudart. Because of this development, when Arya meditated small animals such as birds and squirrels sometimes seen alighting and playing around. It was as if he was a tree that was already part of that forest.

A little while later Arya began to open her eyes, yet she had time to breathe calmly Eudart directly attacked her with a stick. Arya immediately avoids the swing of the stick by falling back, the impact of the stick makes the ground where Arya meditated before scattered into the air. Not finished there, Eudart again attacked Arya with his staff.

"Aspida" whispered Arya as she pointed her palm towards Eudart.

An invisible protector appears before Arya, holding Eudart's swing. But even if the attack is contained. Arya's protector remained crushed and made her bounce back. Arya gritted her teeth because her Protection magic had not been able to withstand Eudart's attack, Eudart's attack still continued. He took the stone and threw it towards Arya, the stone was fed by Agnet, which made him emit a bluish light and shot as fast as a bullet.

"Aporro" Arya shouted loudly.

Just a second later he recited the mantra of Absoprtion, it was certain that the stone would pierce his shoulders like a needle thrown at a balloon. With a flick of his hand, ripples appeared in the air before him, the stone miraculously absorbed and disappeared from sight. Aryapun breathed a sigh of relief, but without him noticing. Again Eudart was next to him swinging his baton.

Without a second thought Arya immediately lowered her head and quickly said "Elante Edo katana". After reciting the spell, Arya could hear the sound of air splitting as her katana shot straight towards her. Seeing that he smiled, as it seemed like his Comers spell had worked. He immediately reached for the sword and whispered again "Afxisi".

A light emerged from the blade of the katana, he could hear a buzzing sound for a moment as Agnet enveloped the blade of her sword. Without waiting for a long time Aryapun immediately counterattacked towards Eudart, as their swords and sticks clashed with strong winds immediately blew in all directions. From the beginning Eudart's wand had also been enveloped by Reinforcement magic, which made it as hard as steel. And it can even match the sword Arya used.

The two of them attacked each other again, and in the end as expected Arya lost. With Eudart successfully disarming his katana, Eudart then stuck the Aryan katana on the ground and then turned and walked towards the giant tree while saying.

"I've fulfilled my promise to teach you basic magic, there's nothing else I can teach you"

Arya immediately saluted by bowing her fist towards Eudart while saying solemnly "Thank you, Master". Arya had only ever given such respect to two of her martial masters, this showed how much she respected someone. Actually indirectly Eudart also has trained Arya how to use the sword so that Arya's movement is more steady and sharp, Arya must have realized this from the beginning so she was so grateful to have asked Eudart to train her.

Arya then immediately took her katana and put it back behind her waist, when it was in the valley there were only the two of them. The other Fairy Forest residents were taking Rena to go around the forest, this had become their routine. And Rena is also used to it so she can easily find this place again without the need for Arya's help.

Arya was already preparing to return when she suddenly heard Eudart calling her name, it was the first time she had heard Eudart mention her name. He immediately turned his head with a puzzled expression, he saw Eudart who was sitting cross-legged while turning his back. Eudartpun.

"Good luck, you're gonna need it"

Once again Arya saluted Eudart, then deftly leaped up the trees to return to the Eridan residence.

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In addition to going to the valley to practice magic, Arya also has another routine. That is visiting Azalea in her tower, for some reason she felt comfortable talking to the woman. He also had time to teach Azalea how to knit, even though it looks like this. Actually Arya is quite good at sewing and knitting, which is why she rarely spends money to buy clothes. Because he can sew and knit clothes that he likes as he pleases.

As this connection with Azalea grew closer, however, it was inversely related to Alalea. Alalea several times found Arya was with her mother, it made her very upset. He thought Arya was only approaching her mother just to have her agree with their engagement. He several times banishes Arya, which eventually leads to a quarrel between himself and his own mother.

Arya doesn't know how to fix her relationship with Alalea, and she doesn't really care. If Alalea doesn't like it, how else? He claimed to be his future fiancee only because the Queen arranged it. But as it turns out, the way to fix his relationship with Alalea appears unexpectedly when he arrives at Eridan's doorstep.

Eridan out of the house with a face as often followed by Rena, it turns out that Rena has returned first from him. Eridan grew excited after seeing Arya, and she called out "There's good news!" while dragging Arya who looks confused into the house.

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"Ughs....Do I really have to wear this?" aryan lamented.

"Of course, you have to look amazing today" Eridan replied firmly.

At that moment Arya was looking at herself in front of the mirror, she was wearing a dress that Eridan had given her. From what he had heard from Eridan, it seemed that the clothes were the clothes of Eridan's father when he was young. Which turns out to have a size that fits Arya, the clothes honestly look quite expensive. Like the clothes of the nobles that Arya saw when she was first brought to the Queen's throne room.

"Mmm Miss Rena? Can you do something with Mr Arya's hair? As I prepare for everything else" said Eridan as he immediately exited the room.

Rena immediately approached Arya who immediately sat on the chair that had been provided, Rena began to gently comb Arya's messy hair while asking "How do you feel?".

"Sodden" Arya replied briefly.

Rena laughed softly and continued combing Arya while saying "At least if we can't get the Elemental Weapon material, we should both be able to solve the mission given to us to forge an alliance with Elves. So you're gonna have to get serious about this date"

Arya just kept quiet and did not say anything until in the end Rena finished tidying her hair, her hair now looks dry and neat. A very rare thing happened, he immediately turned to Rena and said "I know, thank you for the help".

"Is everything ready?" asked Eridan who just stuck her head out of the room.

"It seems so" Arya replied casually.

"You look amazing, what do you think Miss Rena is?" ask Eridan again.

"You.you look amazing" replied Rena slowly as she ducked with a reddened face.

"Thank you again for the compliment" Arya commented while laughing and stroking Rena's head.

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Arya was already at the place where she met Alalea, many people were staring at Arya with questioning gazes because of her appearance. To be honest this made her uncomfortable, the eyes of both Elves and Humans were just as bothersome as Arya thought. After a long wait for Alalea to finally appear, she was wearing a white dress that had a beautiful blue hue.

He looked very unhappy, it was very clear from his pouting face. But even so, her beauty still radiates and even makes it more attractive for people to see. Honestly Arya was eager to shout out loudly "I feel the same way as you do" to Alalea, but of course she couldn't possibly say that.

Actually this dating plan was made by Azalea, this was the punishment given by her to Alalea for disrespecting Arya. But what makes Arya a little objection is that Azalea did not ask for her opinion first, which is why the current position of Arya and Alalea are both unhappy. The difference is that Arya hides her displeasure while Alalea shows it clearly.

"Have you been waiting a long time?" ask Alalea ketus.

"Not really, I just arrived" Arya replied politely.

"Good then, you still have the courtesy not to make the woman wait" Alalea commented indifferently.

Arya held back her anger hearing that, "You're the one who doesn't have the manners to make me wait. I'm a guest here, remember?" inner Aryan. But he could only smile and answer "Of course the Princess".

"So? What do you want to do today?" ask Alalea again.

"I honestly don't know what to do, because I don't know much about this place either. So I decided to follow what the Princess wants to do"

"Do what I want to do ya.." chirped Alalea slowly and then stretched her steps.

Arya immediately followed him without any comment, Arya walking a little behind Alalea. This doesn't look like a date in Arya's eyes. It is more like an employer walking with a servant to look at the state of the village, the people who saw them together immediately gave way and saluted Alalea.

The Elves were actually intensively decorating their city, to celebrate their Queen's 300th birthday. Arya and Rena were actually quite surprised after knowing this, though, for not expecting that coincidentally their arrival to the Fairy Forest coincides with the birthday of Queen Diana which will be held in a few days.

Alalea continued to walk somewhere without telling Arya their destination, Arya just kept quiet and followed in her footsteps. He tried several times to get Alalea to talk, but she was always ignored. Finally they came out of the settlement of the Elves and entered a very beautiful garden, the garden was filled with colorful flowers that Arya had never seen before.

Arya amazed to see the beauty of the flowers, Alalea brought herself to one part of the flower garden full of blue flowers. Arya recognized the flower as the Blue Azalea Flower, Alalea stopped and sat on a bench there. He looked at the flowers and said, "I want to be here for a while, do whatever you want".

Arya silently stood there staring at Alalea who was looking at the flower, then Arya sat next to Alalea slowly. Afraid that Alalea would be disturbed, but when she did not bother about it, Arya caught a leaf carried by the wind. He put the leaf on his lips and began to blow it.

As Arya stopped playing her flute of leaves, Alalea began to speak without looking at her "Do you know the origin of these flowers?". Arya immediately replied that she did not know the origin of the flowers.

"This part of the garden is mine, I am the one who planted these Azalea flowers. Because this flower is my mother's favorite flower"

"Is not the name of Lady Azalea taken from these flowers?" ask Arya carefully.

"True, this flower is also my grandmother's favorite flower. Triana, that's why she named my mother after this flower"

The two of them were silent for a while, then Alalea continued in a soft voice "You know? These flowers are not from the Fairy Forest, from what I heard. There used to be people from outside who brought this flower and planted some seeds in Fairy Forest, since then this flower thrives in this place"

Hearing that, Arya had a hunch that she knew who had brought the flower to this place, she let out a long sigh while hoping that her premonition of her grandfather who had brought the flower was wrong.

"But you don't look surprised to see it, have you ever seen an Azalea flower before?" alalea asked curiously.

Arya then explained that Azalea flowers grow a lot where she came from, he also explained to Alalea that Azalea flowers have a variety of colors and not just blue colors like those here. Alalea seemed very interested in hearing about it, but she tried to hide it and immediately stood up to leave the park.

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Alaela sat back on a bench in the middle of the city holding her legs, when it was noon so that the sun was quite hot and made thirst arise. Arya immediately offers to Alalea to find her a drink, Alalea just keeps quiet and does not respond, without waiting for anything else Arya immediately goes to find a drink.

While Alalea was busy watching the people decorating the city, suddenly a boy who was decorating the house with his mother chased a gold ribbon in the wind. The boy continued to pursue the decoration without paying attention around, then Alalea realized at the end of the road there was a cart filled with fruits that were sliding rapidly towards the child.

"Gram!"

Shouting hysterically at the child's mother, the incident happened so unexpectedly that everyone who was there was late to respond and tried to save the boy. Just as Alalea was trying to make a move to save the boy. The distance of the child with the wagon was only one 1 meter left, when they all thought it was too late. Arya quickly darted and held the child in her arms.

So fast Arya darted, he got bounced to the wall of the house near there. But he desperately tried to protect the child's body from getting hurt, everyone immediately surrounded them. The boy looked extremely shocked and guilty as he saw Arya grimacing in pain while holding her shoulder.

"Hey little fella, you can't cry. You're a man, aren't you?" arya said as she rubbed the child's head.

"Warrel! What are you doing, son?" his mother shouted while hugging the boy.

His mother immediately lectured the child to be careful, she also thanked Arya for saving her son. Arya just smiled and said next time you have to be more careful, when everyone has calmed down and returned to doing their own activities. Alalea asked Arya.

"How can you respond that fast?"

"Mmm...? Hahaha probably because my instinct to save people is quite high"

"Even if it's someone you don't know?"

"Are we only able to help people we know? Oh yes and by the way forgive me Princess, it seems I have dropped the drink for you" Arya replied as she pointed at the two broken drinks by the side of the road.

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Arya and Alalea continue their date without a problem until they see an adult male Elf kicking a dwarf creature that is seen carrying a lot of stuff, Arya immediately goes there and stops the man. At first the man was annoyed and wanted to find trouble with Arya, but after seeing Alalea standing behind Arya he chose to speak carefully.

"I'm sorry for this unpleasant sight, Princess, it's just that this midget creature has hit me and is unable to compensate" the man's Elf said, bowing.

Arya looked at the midget creature with wide eyes, the creature had a pretty thick beard. But his body was very short, even just up to Arya's waist. The dwarf grimaced in pain from the kick from the Elf earlier. Arya did not understand why she was able to meet the Dwarves in this place.

Arya immediately protested to the Elf for her behavior, but she defended herself and did not show any guilt. Then when things look worse, comes the mother and child who have been helped by Arya before. It turns out that the Elf is the father of the boy who was previously helped by Arya, he immediately apologized and promised not to prolong the matter. Not to forget he also thanked Arya for her help to his son.

After the family left, Arya immediately helped the Dwarf stand up. Arya also helped collect her fallen belongings.

"Thank you, sir, there are still many good people like you" said the Dwarf as he lifted his hat.

"What's wrong, we're supposed to help each other like that, right?" arya replied with a smile.

The dwarf gawked for a moment, then laughed out loud. He says he never met an Elf who was stranger than Arya, then he gave Arya a business card. He said if you need anything please come and look for it at the address listed there.

After the Dwarf left Arya immediately turned to Alaela and said "What is the Dwarf doing in this place?"

"Mmm...? Why are you asking? Do you Elves outside the forest have no Dwarves"

"Jawab only the question" Arya replied briefly.

"The Dwarves have a very high weapon forging ability, you should already know about it. Because of this, Dwarves are mostly made forging weapons by other races, we are no exception Elves" explained Alalea.

Hearing that Arya's eyes widened, she gritted her teeth in annoyance. He did not expect any other race to be treated like that, he could not imagine if the current position of the Dwarves were replaced by the Humans. Seeing people being treated arbitrarily like that really made her unhappy.

"I didn't expect you to be that fast" whispered Arya softly as she looked at Alalea with a cold gaze.

It was the first time Arya had looked at Alalea with such a gaze, that gaze made Alalea shudder softly. But he calmly said, "You finally showed your true nature".

"Yes, you're right. I'm sorry but, I'm sick of acting like this"

"Had I thought you were just a con man, I wondered why my mother could trust you"

"Okay, I don't know either. Just so you know, I don't want to get engaged to you either" Arya said, scratching her head.

"What exactly is your purpose?"

"I have no obligation to answer"

"I will report this to grandma" Alalea exclaimed while showing a triumphant smile.

Arya who was about to leave heard that immediately turned her head back towards Alalea, she looked at Alalea while smiling coldly "Eh...you want to report me? Go ahead, but if I were you, I wouldn't do it. You think what the Queen would think when she found out that her favorite granddaughter was playing around on the border of the territory"

After Arya said that, Alalea's expression was like being struck by lightning. He seemed to realize something, something that he should have realized a long time ago.

"You're the one who was on the border that night" he said in disbelief.

"I've never said anything like that"

"You dare threaten me?!" alalea asked furiously.

"Of course not, I just reminded you. Your dance on the trees at that time was very beautiful, Mr. Princess" said Arya then quickly darted up the tree and disappeared from view.