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"You need supervision, Curiouscat," he said. "I still can't believe that you were the one to answer my riddle," he continued, and Noelle felt her temper rise.
Did he mean… Did that mean she wasn't good enough?
But just as she was about to snap at him, he said something entirely unexpected.
''Come on, let's get your levels back."
Noelle gawked at the screen, unable to believe what she'd heard. Did he just…offer to help her get her levels back?
"I'm not your charity case," she found herself saying instead.
"No, you're my teammate. And that means your levels reflect on all of us. So come," he said more forcefully, his hand reaching out for hers and dragging her forward.
She protested—of course she protested.
Here she was, in front of the person she'd been trying to impress with her nonexistent skills, and what was the worst way of going about it other than havehimsee how bad her skills were?
"You're such an arrogant…" she trailed off as she heard him chuckle.
"An Arrogant what?"
"Pirate," she sputtered, throwing the first word that came to mind. "Knight-pirate or whatever your costume is."
"What I am is the person who's going to help you regain your points back. Now be a good girl and follow me."
"W-what?" Noelle blinked behind her screen, her outrage growing by the second.
But before she could give him another one of her not so great lines, they came to a crowd of people—a trial.
A guardian was holding a captive mystical beast, and anyone could offer to fight it. Whoever won, got one hundred levels split between the team members.
"You want me to play that?"
"Of course. It's the best chance to get back your levels and a little extra," Blue said, directing her to the line and signing her up before she could vocalize another protest.
"I'll help you, of course, like the good teammate that I am."
Noelle could hear the smugness in his voice, and her lip twitched in annoyance. But if he was able to get her the levels back, then she was not going to argue.
After they signed up, the screen changed, showing them inside a room together with the beast.
"Do you know what type of beast this is?" Blue suddenly asked as the creature circled around them.
"Should I?" She frowned.
"It was in the history of the realm book. But I'm guessing you didn't read it, did you?"
Noelle flushed in embarrassment. Yet another thing she'd not done right.
"Skip the history lesson and tell me what I need to know," she answered in a snappy voice, which she barely subdued.
Damn him, and damn the way he made her feel. Why was it that he was such an infuriating person but also someone whose approval she yearned for?
She couldn't understand the dichotomy.
Maybe because he reminded her of her brother? Someone authoritative but who she looked up to? Yet at the same time, it felt wrong to put him anywhere near herbrother.
