Curse The Mainframe - Chapter 403

The couple of lovebirds after the trail of destruction left behind as the two Grand Meisters fought against each other.

There were charred places on the ground from Illyuken’s dragon breath, and it made it much easier for them to follow the trail.

As they were chasing after his shadow, Harou caught up with them from behind.

Glancing at the two humans who were following after his master’s path, his eyes flashed.

He wasn’t quite willing, but in the end, he was about to throw Elysia onto his back.

But before he was able to do that, he got a dark glare from Alec, and Harou’s eyebrows shot up. Alec hugged Elysia and placed her on his back, and he sped up.

Harou’s mind went blank. Did Alec realize what he was about to do? Just how jealous could you get?! It wasn’t like he had any other intentions. He just wanted to help them out a little!

Huffing in annoyance, Harou also sped up accordingly, and he realized that the human was actually outmatching him in terms of speed. It just served to make him more annoyed.

Humiliation burned up within him, and he pushed himself harder, chasing after Alec with the single-minded determination that had led him to become a rank six magical beast.

As a proud magical beast, how could he lose against a human in the area that he was the most proficient in?! He only lost to his master. That much already made him burn to catch up. But now, there was an additional human?!

He couldn’t take this lying down.

Alec ran along, his lips quirking up a little. When he saw how fast the wolf was trying to follow after him, he was reminded a little of Fenrir, who always pushed himself to his hardest to keep up with Alec.

He couldn’t help but want to tease Harou a little…

By the time they caught up with Illyuken’s resting form, Harou collapsed on the ground, panting for its life. Wheeze. It was so tired. All that time down there guarding his master had not done anything good for its stamina.

Harou struggled to his feet as he maintained his pride, causing Illyuken to crack open an eye to stare at his loyal subordinate.

Illyuken changed back to the humanoid form, and while his face was blank, Alec felt a sense of amus.e.m.e.nt from the dragon.

Alec’s attention, however, was attracted to the body that was beside Illyuken.

It was the familiar aura of Inspector Fade, who was now mangled and missing an arm.

It should be her real body. After all, this body was a Grand Meister. It would be more illogical if it wasn’t her real body.

Even if it wasn’t, this should be the strongest body that she’d taken over, so she shouldn’t be much of a threat anymore.

Alec realized that Illyuken seemed a lot more relaxed now that he had killed Inspector Fade. His bloodl.u.s.t wasn’t as intense as before.

Illyuken’s gaze slid over the two humans, noting that they had grown stronger. “Congratulations are in order, it seems.”

Alec smiled politely, and Elysia beamed at his words.

“Thank you.”

Illyuken nodded at them, then looked at his sorry-looking subordinate. “Harou, you haven’t been keeping up with your training.”

Harou, who had turned back to his humanoid form, fought off the flush that wanted to appear on his face. How embarrassing!

He couldn’t even deny it. He had certainly grown a little lax while he’d been stuck down there for days on end, leading to this situation. He’d been beaten by that human…

As Harou quietly despaired, Illyuken gave Elysia a few more glances. He could see that the girl had his friend’s blood in her, making her essentially a half-dragon.

She was much stronger than most of the humans who were at the same stage as her, but that wasn’t good enough. Even her chosen mate was stronger than her, and he knew that Alec was purely human.

As a favour to his friend, he would train Elysia himself.

Telling this to Elysia, her eyes sparkled, but she hesitated when she thought about how she would have to separate from Alec for a long time.

In the end, she gritted her teeth and agreed to it. There weren’t many chances for her to grow stronger in a short period of time, and she was already feeling the burn. She wasn’t feeling good that she’d fallen behind Alec, who had grown increasingly stronger over this period of time.

When they’d been sparring earlier, she could feel the disparity between their strength. Though it wasn’t obvious, she could still feel it. It made her feel a bad that Alec had to scale back his strength when they were getting used to the increase.

She nodded at Illyuken with determination on her face.

She would go with him even if it meant that she couldn’t see Alec for the time being.

Elysia turned to look at Alec, who was looking at her with a soft expression on his face. He obviously wouldn’t stand in the way of someone else going after more power. Especially not the love of his life, Elysia.

Who was he to stop her?

His first reaction when he heard what Illyuken had to say was to frown, but then, he suddenly thought about how if he did that, he was limiting her and getting in her way instead.

If he did that, then they would be in a toxic and dependent relationship instead, which was not something that he wanted.

So, would definitely let her go. Love wasn’t meant to be restricting or restraining. It was meant to bring out the best in your partner and lifting them up higher, not chaining them down.

It was a sudden revelation that shocked and caused him to sober up, but it also made it easier to let go a little.

They’d only gotten into this relationship not too long ago, where he was still feeling insecure, but Alec shoved the feeling away. The feeling of weakness was not something that he liked to indulge in. Not to mention, he trusted Elysia.

Trusting her had been something that had come after the time he spent with her but trusting her with his heart was a whole different matter altogether.

But now… he found that it wasn’t so different after all.

Thus, he could now let her go with a peace of mind.

He had something else that he now wanted to do.

With the company effectively crippled, he was now able to set out and do the few things that he’d been meaning to look into.

First was to find Ye Sha, and the other was to find his mother.

Alec pressed a kiss to Elysia’s cheek. It was a soft, lingering kiss, and Elysia’s eyes softened. She hugged him tightly, then broke away, a deep smile in her eyes. She was a little sad, but not overly so.

She handed him something. “It’s a little early, but… happy birthday,” she said softly. “I’m sorry to miss it.” Elysia frowned.

A smile spread on Alec’s face. He never put much stock into birthdays. To him, it was just another year that had passed, but she… she made him want to celebrate.

“Go,” Alec said instead, the unspoken words of thanks in his eyes. He brushed his thumb across her cheek affectionately before pulling back.

She waved at him, and Illyuken grabbed both Elysia and Harou before disappearing.

Alec looked at them fly off in the distance, feeling a little dazed.

He stared at the setting sunset…