CHAPTER 44: EMOTION

Meanwhile, near a broken wall, where Elandor and Claire were having a negotiation-like conversation, the air slowly started distorting and soon a figure appeared like it were a piece of art.

She was none other than Rainaziel.

She too was rushing towards the school’s exit, but seeing Elandor and Claire confronting ahead of her, she readily became invisible and decided to spy on them.

With her secret talent of invisibility, sneakily hearing their conversations was no big deal.

"His answers to Claire’s questions....."

"....Darn it, he is definitely a stupid."

Her long black hair swaying from either side like a waterfall only made her hissing more alluring.

This was the first time she felt this was happening to her.

Her breathing was ragged, her cheeks pink, her earlobes red with embarrassment.

Her continuously flickering red eyes clearly told how emotionally stimulated she was.

Ughhhh~

Clutching her chest, she could vividly hear it.

Bump~

Bump Bump~

Clutching her chest, her heart was beating so fast that she felt it would jump out.

This scared her.

With a confused and haggard face, she asked the empty air around her,

"WHY?"

"Why do I feel like this whenever that bastard talks so smoothly when it comes to our fake relationship?"

Annoyed, she bit the tip of her tongue so hard that blood started to ooze out, but Rainaziel’s mind was too occupied to feel any significant pain.

"Rainaziel."

"Oh, poor Rainaziel, you are losing control!"

"This is not like you."

She slowly tried to soothe her agitated mind.

The hot-humid air only made the sweat on her face along with that tangled dress more fascinating.

Trying to keep calm, she took deep breaths.

To the silent air, she again whispered,

"Stupid Elandor!"

Then she quietly examined her right hand’s index finger which had previously nudged past Elandor’s rough hand as he passed her the pen she had dropped during the Geography class.

Her eyes yet again became sharp, "Dare touch me again, and I promise I will tear that hand of yours!"

Like thunder, her heart had made a decision.

She realised a new thing......

It was soft yet dangerous.

It wasn’t about domination, it wasn’t about hatred.

A black fog seemed to have completely engulfed Rainaziel that even she was not aware of it.

This was something far more terrifying for a cold-blooded killer like her, that even Beatrix, Parul and Claire feared alike-

Emotion.

"No, I can’t become weak like those dumb human girls who feel happy and sad with the slightest fluctuations in mood."

Rainaziel decisively took out her phone and opened Elandor’s contact on her Wize social app.

She immediately composed a brief message.

[Rainaziel- Elandor, I think things are spiralling out of control more than we predicted. It is better to put an end to things here.]

[Rainaziel- Let’s end our fake act and cut contact. Consider our transaction as over. As for Claire, Parul and Beatrix- I will simply tell them that we had a couple’s fight and that’s why we are giving cold shoulders to each other.]

[Rainaziel- Then we will just drag time and grow more alienated, eventually, everyone will just consider us a short-lived couple who broke up.]

After quickly typing a big message Rainaziel instantly clicked on the send button.

The next second when the message showed its status as sent, Rainaziel breathed a sigh of relief.

"Good, now I have ended this fake couple act."

"There is no reason to feel flustered anymore."

-The thought of her awakening her emotions like a normal human scared her out of her wits.

"Now, there is only one thing left to do."

Without wasting any time, she selected Elandor’s contact and clicked on the block button.

She didn’t even want to give Elandor the slightest chance to influence her mind.

Like Elandor, according to her, the deal between them was a pure business transaction, so there was nothing wrong with her action once the deal was terminated.

"Good, with this I should be back to my previous persona."

"It’s a pity that Elandor is a member of our Fallen Angel Faction, if I kill him suddenly, our leader- Mina might get angry and my promotion may be jumbled."

-Rainaziel wanted to kill Elandor to completely end things for once, but since he was personally invited by their leader, she was worried that doing so might cause dissatisfaction with Mina.

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Just like everyone else, even Beatrix was emotionally stimulated.

At the far end of campus, inside an old abandoned church in a forest.

A girl with short hair was standing in a daze.

Her beauty was in fact no way inferior to Rainaziel’s.

She was naturally Beatrix, the girl whom Elandor defeated fair and square.

Kneeling in despair, her mind was in a mess of her own.

"Why?"

"Why is Rainaziel so bothered with a boy that popped up out of nowhere?"

Her growl echoed through the broken walls.

"Is it so good to have a man to accompany you?"

"Why can’t you understand that only a woman can understand a woman better, there is no need to have a boyfriend by your side!"

Beatrix pulled her hair in frustration.

"Wait!"

Suddenly a bizarre idea popped into her head.

"I and Asuna have been acquaintances for such a long time, maybe....."

"Maybe she is just checking things with that boy Elandor."

"Checking whether as a woman she feels anything regarding the opposite sex!"

Beatrix crazily tried to rationalise her defeat to take a moral high ground.

"Yes, it should be like this."

"Once she spends some time with Elandor and finds out she can’t feel anything for him as a man, she will give up and return to me."

"There is no way that a cold-blooded killer with mechanical habits like Rainaziel can feel something for anyone."

"If she feels something for someone, even if it’s a flicker of emotion."

"Then that someone must be me!"

-With an ugly face, Beatrix fell on the ground with utter exhaustion, today’s direct confrontation with Elandor and the subsequent aftermath had almost made her collapse with insanity.