Lightchaser’s brow twitched. She lowered her voice. "Which one? Also, if you do not mind, the teachers you mentioned, are these the kind who taught her at school?" Nivalis said, "Oh, of course not. She found them herself out there. She loves doing that." Lightchaser’s voice went even softer. "About how many teachers does she have?" Nivalis did not answer. She had received a warning from the BlueStar Judge. The elf took that silence to mean something else. After a few seconds of quiet, she smiled. She was beautiful to begin with. When she smiled sincerely, the sharpness and killing edge in her aura dulled for a moment, and her beauty came through. At least to Nivalis, who was shamelessly obsessed with good looks, the elf made a great impression. Nivalis floated closer and asked, "What are you smiling at?" Lightchaser slowly drew the longsword from her back. "Oh, I just feel ridiculous." After all that trouble to find her apprentice. Who would have thought. Truly, who would have thought. Nivalis froze. This was bad, she had pushed it too far. Is this teacher really this hot tempered? The previous teachers were never . She darted in front of Rita to shield her and scrambled to explain. "I remember now. You are the one she mentioned, the most important teacher in her life, right." The elf’s smile grew brighter. She nodded with mock solemnity. "Yes. Go on." At that moment, another water curtain opened behind the elf, and someone who looked very gentle stepped out. Her black hair fell to her ankles. Her eyes were lead gray. Her features and bone structure were exquisite. There was a hint of a smile at the corners of her eyes and lips that made people feel good the instant they saw her. She seemed harmless in every way. Look more closely at her eyes though, and you would see she was observing and collecting every bit of useful or useless information around her. How to put it, the instant Nivalis and B8017913 saw this person, they glanced back at Rita in perfect unspoken sync. Lightchaser went quiet. Read complete version only at novel•fire.net GodDraw77 saw it too. Those few seconds were more than enough for her to take in every detail on scene. She also saw Lightchaser drawing her sword. To be fair, that draw was incredibly slow. Who is she trying to scare with that. Nivalis eyed the newcomer warily. "Who are you?" GodDraw77 blinked to Lightchaser’s side. Her gaze slid past the on edge ice dragon and the mech, then settled on the apparently unconscious grown up apprentice. She spoke gently. "I am here for my apprentice." That earned her an exaggerated cold laugh from the elf. Nivalis completely lost control of her expression. After a few seconds of dumbfounded silence, she croaked, "Oh, that is great. Welcome." Her rigid posture loosened. The dragon spine that had not bent once during the war bowed at last under a certain Mystic Force. She flew back to Rita, shrank herself down, plopped onto B8017913’s shoulder, and started gnawing on her claws, trying to dumb her way through this impending disaster. Kneeling in midair with Rita in its arms, B8017913 had beaten her to it. The moment GodDraw77 said those words, it somehow pulled out a tablet and opened a cooking game, churning out dishes to make cash. No saving BS Rita. No saving her at all. Lightchaser asked, "Are you two her pets?" B8017913 answered in a wounded tone. "Seems like it." Nivalis glanced up at the elf. "Yeah, is it that obvious?" GodDraw77 said, "A bit." Especially with this infuriating way of doing things. This teacher had already started dumping heals and dispels on Rita, to little effect. She even turned into a huge glowing butterfly and ran through the same skills again. A few minutes later she returned to her true form and shook her head at Lightchaser. "These are not ordinary curse skills. They are the price she paid to obtain something. They cannot be lifted. They will end when their duration runs out. The curse that sealed her time skills is the worst. The being who placed it paid a huge price. I cannot undo it." Lightchaser had another question. "Did you see a curse that caused her blindness?" GodDraw77 laughed softly. "No." Both of them turned their silent gaze on the apprentice who had been passed out for quite a while. To be honest, she had not intended to fake blindness at first. When Lightchaser arrived, those rabbits had still been here. The curse titled You Will Lose Your Sight Until All The Nemeses You Summoned Return had been in effect the entire time. They had watched the show for a while. They only slipped away when GodDraw77 said she was here for her apprentice. Rita had thought the last rabbit would wait for the timer on his revenge to start and then come for her, but he left early too. She felt like these rabbits had been waiting for this very moment. Rita opened her eyes weakly and reached a trembling hand toward where Lightchaser stood. "Teacher." "Wait. Hold on." Lightchaser raised one hand to stop her. Her tone rose and fell with theatrical sarcasm. "You need to be specific. Which teacher are you calling for?" GodDraw77, who had missed that episode, asked curiously, "What happened?" Lightchaser recapped the conversation from before Ash Cinders arrived. "You are lucky you did not have to hear that cruel exchange with your own ears." Rita defended herself. "It is not that many, really. Including you, I have only three teachers." In her heart, only Heqipa, Deceitful Bloom, and Lightchaser counted as teachers. Not even Drummer counted. Drummer’s lessons were a reward she had earned, like what she got from Mistblade and Rukia, transactional in nature. Maple Syrup in the Tower was even more so. Those lessons all had agendas. Only these three had taught her knowledge and combat out of their own will. She explained, "One alchemy teacher, one cooking teacher, and then you." Hundreds of You Are Being Watched popped up at her ear. Rita’s expression froze. She said in a heavy tone, "Of course, the cooking teacher is very important. He taught me a lot about life. He had a huge impact on me. Without him, there would be no me today." Lightchaser closed her eyes with a headache. She pressed thumb and middle finger and ring finger to her temples. Only after a long moment did she lower her hand and say evenly, "Wonderful. Better than I expected. I will figure out a way to celebrate." Rita said nothing. She suspected Lightchaser was so angry she had gone a little mad. She used to be the type who would fight instead of talk whenever possible. GodDraw77 watched her apprentice in silence for a moment, then turned to Lightchaser. "So I do not need your consent to be her teacher, right." Lightchaser said nothing. Seeing she was about to truly get angry, GodDraw77 decided to stop pushing. She stepped forward and, under the suspicious stares of the two pets and the apprentice, closed her hand around the apprentice’s wrist. "I would love to wait for you to recover, but we are short on time. We will talk on the way." Nivalis and B8017913 clutched Rita’s clothes in a panic. "Where are you taking her?" Lightchaser corrected coldly, "Back. We are taking her back." Even if Arisentna was just a game to her apprentice, just a false world, in her eyes this BlueStar place was the real illusion. Besides, if they could descend here at all, it was not so easy to say which one was truly unreal.