'They didn't even do a single test.'
Leon walked along with the group, moving at the same pace as everyone else, blending in without effort.
The five element school was recruiting and naturally all the youngsters in the town had switched their brains off entirely. The emblem. The robes. The title. That was enough for them. No one stopped to ask why a world giant would come to a backwater village and hand out apprenticeships on the spot without checking a single thing first.
Leon wasn't a naive kid.
Something was up.
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"Boss, I know I was wrong for leaving and not trying to find you. But you have to understand, the people there were…."
Lucan had been talking since they started walking.
A hundred and one excuses laid out one after another, each one flowing into the next without pause, the whole chain of them building toward some conclusion that absolved him of having vanished for three months without raising any kind of alarm.
