A Tale After Four Lives - Volume 1: Receiving The Reward Chapter 33 33: Tosca

Placing his right palm on the Barrier, Alex concentrated as he sends small strands of light energy into the barrier, making use of special magic to breach it. Using both he could effortlessly breach the Barrier without a problem.

Alex frowned, the light energy stopped moving when it entered the Barrier, looking closely he saw that it wasn’t stopped but just moving at a disastrously slow pace. “Of course there is a field within the Barrier that slows time, I can only use time magic as a counter”, he thought as he wrapped the light energy in a time field he generated.

After being surrounded in the time field the light energies were no longer affected by the time field within the Barrier which allowed it to move forward, though adding the time into the mix quadrupled the difficulty of the task Alex could still easily handle it.

The light energies arrived next to the girl and enveloped her with the time field around it effectively making time move forward normally wherever it traveled. Normally this would cause an imbalance within the body of the girl since some of her cells would be older than the other but thanks to the light energies that covered her body were unaffected by this. The light energy engulfed the girl purifying the poison from her system as well as restoring her body from any damage she had because of the poison or gained before, even hidden ailments, and injuries were quickly healed as her body was brought to top shape.

Alex breathed out a sigh of relief after he had finished healing the girl. With the light energy still surrounding her, Alex brought his finger up to the Barrier and gave it a “Light” flick.

Crack*

Were his finger landed cracks appeared and spread along the Barrier, causing it to shatter after some time, luckily the girl was snugly protected by the light energies causing any harm that might befall her to be negated.

After the light barrier shattered the girl was left hovering in the air covered by the Light energies, she slowly descended until she softly landed on Aura’s bed. Aura had previously placed the girl on her bed and Alex decided it would be a hassle to move it, so he decided to just do the entire procedure in Aura’s room.

Having gently placed the girl on the bed Alex leaned over her and gently wiped the tears from her face with his finger before standing straight and heading towards the door. “Your turn”, he said as he left Aura’s room.

Aura nodded in his direction before kneeling before the bed waiting for the girl to wake up. Alex paid them no more attention as he exited the house, deciding to go for a walk.

…

“It should be around the time Cleria and her boyfriend “what’s his face” will be attacked by the church, well they and other devils will be waiting in the shadows to end them if they escape.”, Alex thought as he could feel a lot of unfamiliar devils within the city and not just any devils but powerful high devils and even a devil he could only guess was ultimate class giving that its mana, that it so desperately tried to hide was many times more than the others.

“When Cleria calls in the favor I will have to carry it out in the form of Mournomon, that might be a problem since that form is known pretty well by both the Sitri and Gremory houses, they might send people to search for me especially Sereixia, she will probably send out hoards of devils to look for me, well I did leave without saying anything, kinda a d.i.c.k move but oh well, thou I dread the day I have to meet them face to face again”, He shuddered at the thought of Lady Sitri and Sona’s cold glares.

“Hopefully Serafall would be able to help me, or will she also give me the same treatment, I hope not she is a cheerful one but it doesn’t mean she can’t become mad, actually I believe she would be even carrier when she’s mad, mhhh… well whats done is done, if shits coming my way I take it like a man… Running away while screaming how sorry I am”, he thought with a dignified face.

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After walking for some time Alex found himself in Kuoh’s park, near the swings, looking at the children playing around and their mothers who were watching over them while gossiping.

Sitting on a patch of grass Alex lied back against a nearby tree, making sure no one was looking he took a book out of his storage space, the cover read OF Angels And Devils, he had found the book within the Sitri library and decided to stea… permanently borrow it for some casual reading.

Reading a few pages, Alex heard someone approaching him and looked up from the book, he saw a young woman in her early twenties staring at him nervously, she had black hair and eyes with a pretty face and fit body, she glanced behind her before focussing her attention beckon him.

Looking past her to were she glanced Alex could see two other young women of around the same age as her, probably her friends, “Uhm…” she started causing Alex to focus back on her making her even more nervous, after some time she took a deep breath and then continue, “H-hello, my name is… my name is Murabe Hateru, nice to meet you!!!” she yelled out the last part before turning around and running away, her friends quickly following her while throwing apologetic glances at Alex who was staring wide-eyed the entire time.

“OK?” he said, he then slowly stood up his book under his arm and decided that he was going home, having had enough of the park for the day.

“What a weird girl,” he thought while thinking of what happened before, it was clear that she had something to ask him, Alex could guess what but he just found the whole thing funny especially her running away out of embarrassment after introducing herself not even waiting for him to give his name in return.

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Arriving home, Alex opened the door and closed it behind him, “Good evening, Master did you have a nice walk?”, Aura voice called out from behind Alex as he closed the door, turning around he saw Aura standing at the base of the stairs with a young girl peeking her head from behind Aura and looking at him curiously.

walking towards them Alex spoke, “It was nice, barring a strange encounter very peaceful”, he said stopping in front of Aura, he looked down towards the little girl peeking out behind her, “Hello, my name is Alex”, Alex said as he kneeled on one knee and stared at the girl expectantly with a gentle smile on his face.

The girl looked hesitant at first before answering him in a very low voice,” Tosca…I’m Tosca”.