Crackle!
The red fire burns and burns his skin, he does not regret it, he only exclaims some words that he could not understand...
Evans wakes up, he is sweating, he still can't remember the nightmares he suffers while he sleeps, but he understands how his body reacts to those nightmares.
"Something is about to happen, every time those nightmares come back constantly, something happens. Is someone trying to communicate with me? The voice I heard in the last tournament triggered my nightmares back then"
Evans looked at the window, the chiaroscuro sky of early morning was about to give way to the day. He got up, took a bath and then carefully put on an ivory suit and a black western tie and left his room. As he walked through the hallways the female students sighed at the sight of him.
Evans arrived at the entrance where Lizet was waiting for him, who was wearing a black dress with white trim.
-Beautiful dress, it looks very good on you. -Evans said politely.
Lizet's eyes shone, she smiled and followed Evans who did not stop, as he wanted to take advantage of every second of the two days of rest.
••••
Knock! Knock! Knock!
The door to the residence opened and the beautiful girl wearing a beautiful purple dress with black details jumped into Evans' arms.
-Brother! Brother! I missed you a lot.
Evans holds Aria in his arms, then hugs her tenderly and said:
-I also missed you a lot my little one; But tell me, did you do your homework?
Aria smiled confidently making her look adorable and answered:
-Of course.
-That's ok. Let's go to the stores and buy ice cream for my little girl.
-Yes, let's go. -Aria exclaimed with joy.
Evans walked holding Aria by the hand, behind them walked Ana, Stan and Lizet.
"There are many shops, it seems to be an active commercial area"
As they walked, Evans observed the stores that were in the commercial area of the port, until he saw a three-story store with white walls, with stained glass windows whose frames were gold, giving it an elegant touch.
"Frenan Company"
Evans looked around, saw an attractive cafeteria, and then asked Aria:
-Do you want to accompany me, am I going to do something boring? If you want you can go eat ice cream with Ana and Lizet.
Aria clung tightly to Evans' forearm and said:
-I'm going with you.
••••
Dark wooden floors, white walls, display cases with different shapes and locations, hanging lights, colorful paintings on the ceiling, pleasant temperature thanks to the magic stones of ice and fire, inside the place it seemed that even breathing could cost money. In each stained glass window there were mid-level and above-mid-level elixirs, not a single low-level item. and the vials that contained the elixirs were beautiful and resistant.
"I understand why the owner has ties to the Imperial family; he must be very rich"
A beautiful young woman, dressed in an elegant black dress, approached and attended to Evans politely. Evans, upon seeing her, took an envelope out of his ring and handed it to the young saleswoman.
-Give this message to the company manager. Tell him that the message is sent by Evans Qualty, son of Duke Alfred Qualty.
-As you wish, young sir. -The saleswoman said, trying to maintain her composure because she had been surprised to hear the rank of the nobility to which Evans belonged.
••••
Shortly after, the saleswoman guided Evans, who was walking next to Aria, holding one of her hands carefully, to the third floor.The higher they went, the more luxurious everything seemed. The saleswoman knocked on a door with beautiful carvings and reported:
-Mister. Mirtens. They are here.
-Send them in, immediately. -A voice said urgently.
Evans walked with Aria into Mr. Mirtens' office, the place had amber walls, brown patterned tiles, and hanging lights on the wooden ceiling. In front of a Limgic wooden desk, stood a man with long blonde hair, white skin, wearing a white shirt, a black vest, and black pants.
"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, young Mr. Evans." My name is Ander Mirtens, I am the manager of this branch.
-It is an honor, I am Evans Qualty and this is my sister Aria Qualty.
-A pleasure. -Aria said with her sweet voice.
-The honor is mine, take a seat, please. -Mirtens expressed, pointing to the sofa near a wall.
When everyone was seated, Mr. Mirtens breathed in, exhaled and said bluntly:
-I had been informed that you wanted to auction a Higher level healing elixir. Did you bring it with you?
-No, I will send a person in two days to deliver it to you personally -Evans said, taking out an envelope from his ring and handed it to Mirtens.
Mirtens opened the envelope, read it and after a few seconds asked:
-This address?
-Regardless of the amount won in the auction, I want you to send half to that address without delay.
-Okay, if that's what you want, we'll do it that way. The auction will be in two months, whether it is two days or more, I will be waiting for the elixir.
Evans nodded, after talking about other trivial topics, Evans looked at Aria who was lying asleep next to him holding her left arm, he woke her up and they left the elixir shop.
••••
Evans left the premises and headed to the cafeteria where Ana, Lizet and Stan were waiting for him.
"A mid-level healing elixir, 20,000 to 30,000 gold coins; I think that will be able to pay the rent for the residence, I should prepare half a dozen; if I'm already going to auction a High-level one, selling 6 mid-level ones shouldn't be a problem."
Evans entered the cafeteria with Aria and said:
-Choose what flavor of ice cream you want.
-mmm, strawberry. -Aria pointed to a pink ice cream, whose sign said "Mercidiriaz strawberries", 2 gold coins.
"This place reminds me of the main cafeteria, only there is no one friendly here to pay for us"
Evans ordered three ice creams, when he got to the table, he gave one to Lizet, then he looked at Ana and said:
-If you want to buy something, go, I don't want to seem inconsiderate.
-Don't worry, young master. -Ana answered, but when she saw how Aria looked at her, she sighed, got up and went to buy something.
••••
That afternoon, Evans showed the puppet show to Aria, and she took it upon herself to move the harlequin puppet herself.
When Aria fell asleep Ana took her to her room; shortly after Evans went to his own room, as he had to prepare the healing elixir...