160 Niala Vivala

"Hey Oria, what the hell was happening with you, why were you scared of that boy..." As the three awakeners went a little further, the hammer man looked at the woman in front and asked with an odd face.

"Idiot... didn't you see the snake around his shoulder..." Oria looked at him and said with anger, while the fear inside her eyes was so obvious...

"That snake? What's wrong with it?" Thinking of the beautiful snake around Gray's shoulders, the man couldn't help but ask...

Naturally, he saw Nagini, but he didn't think of it as a threat... At most, it's a kind of low order evolved snake Gray managed to tame...

With Gray's age, can he tame a stronger beast?

Their city has a few weird tamers...

"That snake... At least a fifth-order beast..." Oria hesitated for a second and said...

"WHAT! How can this be possible?" This time the second man who was calm also broke out and asked with shock.

"You both know my ability... Do you think I will make a mistake?" She didn't answer but asked them...

Hearing her, both of them calmed down and didn't know what to say right now...

Oria's first awakening ability was [Cat-beast Soul]...

Yup... A weird ability... But saved her life against beasts many times...

Cat soul... This ability give her all that a normal cat has...

How to say it... For example, her body became extremely flexible, while her steps became smoother and more agile, and her senses became like that of the beast!

While some of her actions sometimes resemble that of the cat...

The moment Nagini looked at her, Oria felt her life was locked by a gigantic beast...

A threat of death she never felt before locked her from all directions...

It was only one glance that added a great fear to her heart... And that was the reason she didn't dare to offend Gray at any costs...

"And didn't you find the problem when chasing that little thief? All the three of us are fourth-order awakeners... And couldn't catch her... Do you think she's normal?" After Oria calmed her fear a little bit, she looked again at her two partners and said...

Hearing her, the two also had doubts in their eyes... Apparently also found this problem...

In fact, Oria found this, from the very moment she chased the little blonde...

After all, with her fast and smooth cat-like movements, she should catch Oria even if she was a fourth-order...

But along the way, many random things blocked her way making her movement slower... Yet she didn't think about this...

In her mind, the faster the blonde run away, the more she wanted to take her back to the city...

At such a young age and already have this kind of strength...

If this blonde was taken back to the city, her strength should rise faster, and the city will win another kind of hope...

But she never expected to meet a monster-like presence like Nagini...

The hesitation on her face before leaving because she still wanted to take the blonde back to the city... Not only her but even Gray and Perona who just appeared...

Yet her fear of Nagini stopped her, and finally, run away...

Honestly, when she saw Gray and Perona she felt happy somehow...

Especially Gray... To be able to tame such a strong snake... And from their looks, she can see that Gray and Perona have some differences from normal humans... Apparently, their awakening type was more unique...

But what can she say... Nagini was so scary... Her cat heart couldn't stand the pressure anymore...

Besides, Gray might not listen to her... Who know if he will change his mind and let that scary snake attack them...

So she didn't and abandoned the idea... For now...

"Let's go back... We need to report about this..." Oria finally didn't want to waste more time and ran in the city direction...

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"What is this?" The blonde heard Gray's words and smiled playfully, apparently, she already realized what Gray meant... But seeing Gray taking out a weird potion from nowhere and asked with some interest...

"Ah, this... Veritaserum... A magical truth potion..." Gray looked at the potion in his hand and said with a smile... As he said this, Gray looked at the blonde as if he was trying to see a panicked expression from her...

But this blonde didn't plan to play with the rules...

When Gray just finished his words, she actually came to his side and took the potion, drinking it in one go...

"It doesn't have any taste... Is it really a magic potion?" After drinking all the serum in one go, the blonde said and threw the bottle away...

This time even Perona and Nagini who were silent all the time were taken aback by the blonde actions...

While Gray looked at the bottle on the ground and felt funny... He didn't stop her from taking the potion ready to see what she wanted to do... But didn't expect this...

Magic potion? This girl... So interesting...

"Well... fake boy... Ask me what you want... Like this, You won't run away from me as you did before(Ridicules smile), right" the blonde looked at Gray and said with a ridiculous look on her face as if she was telling him about his shameful actions...

"Pffftt..." Hearing her saying this again, Perona this time couldn't hold herself and laughed...

"...." While Gray's face froze again...

But he didn't answer and looked at her helplessly...

How to say it... He ran away from this little girl before...

After all, this girl was really weird...

In many different ways...

Despite the fact that she gives him a feeling of an empty shell...

The fact that he can't enter her disks was always in Gray's mind... And also the main reason why he didn't want to get closer to her before...

At that time he was in his weakest period... At least the weakest since he got stronger...

But now...

He was really interested in the secret of this girl...

"What's your name?" Gray started asking... Since she volunteered and took the potion, then he won't waste her offer...

"Niala Vivala... Ah? So that's how the potion works!" The blonde said with some surprise on her face... But then a cunning look appeared in her eyes but disappeared fast...

'Niala....' Gray heard her name and started thinking if he heard such a name before...

"Well... How long since we met last time?" Gray on started with the second question...

"One day... But how long was it for you?" Niala looked at Gray and didn't show much emotion other than the smile on her face... But asked Gray while looking at him from top to bottom...

She felt like discovering something right now...

Gray also saw this girl's sharp gaze but didn't care about this...

In fact, he already knew the answer from the three awakeners he meets just now... but simply wanted to confirm again from someone he knows...

So the situation in the forest probably made by another reason...

Gray thought of many reasons why the explosion place turned into a green land...

For example, it might be an awakened grass that could spread itself faster... Or maybe something else... There were many explanations...

Unfortunately for Gray none of them were right...

"There should have been a big explosion where we meet... How did you survive..." Gray looked at her again and asked.

"It's my ability" Niala looked at Gray and answer...

"Ability? what is your ability?" Hearing this, Gray became so interested... Maybe her next answer will reveal most of his doubts...

"I'm not sure... But it should something keeping my life..." Niala touched her chin and said thoughtfully...

"Hmm? How is this?" Gray heard her words and thought of something... But not sure about it yet...

But if his guess was right this Niala's weirdness can be explained...

"Every time I face any disaster, something will happen to take me away... For example, yesterday, When I realize it... I was already around this area... And the explosion happened there..." Niala said...

After hearing this, Gray eyes brightened, and started asking many up and down questions...

While Niala answered nonsense answers all the time, which made Perona beside Gray looking at all this with doubt...

After a few minutes, Gray stopped asking...

"I thought you were dead... How did you survive?" Niala thought very hard and finally explained as much as she could... But in exchange, she looked at Gray and asked...

'Well... I really worked so hard to create many lies... I demand some answers!' Niala thoughts...

'Rules awakening ability....' And Gray didn't care about this but looked at Niala with some problem...

He already came into guesses about this little girl... After all, it's completely not normal for him not to enter her disks since she was a living thing...

And even though she gives him a dead feeling... The life inside her body wasn't a lie... She was a flesh and blood in front of him... A complete human... So this feeling should be made because of something else...

Did Gray doubt her answers? No... After all, she drank the potion he made by himself... A whole bottle...

So he didn't even think about the lying issue...

But thought of what he guessed... the weirdest type of awakeners...

Rules awakening...

This type called *Rule* for a reason...

In this awakening, the awakener gains some rules for himself... Rules upon the rules of the world argumentation or logic...

But what the rules themselves weren't clear for anyone...

Niala's rules should be something related to her survival...

From what she said, as long as there was a threat to her life, something will happen and save her... But she herself not sure about it... Yet can feel it...

But this rule won't help her at all as long as she didn't really face a life-threatening situation... Of course maybe not... The rule abilities are so weird...

This kind of awakening was the strongest, yet the weakest... Because it wasn't something you could control or feel...

Honestly, these rules awakening were so scary somehow, because there was no telling about the limit of this type itself...

For example, someone might awaken a rule to drink water and get stronger... Funny? Nah... Rule awakening was such an awkward awakening...

Even though Gray never heard of such ridiculous rules... But since this type exists... There was no reason not to think of this...

In fact, Mary's ability has something to do with rules...

Her skills carrying weird rules with them... For example [Reverse]... This skill can reverse any attack no matter what it is... Such skill can't be taught to others, nor imitated... Only Mary could do it...

If it wasn't for his ability to recognize her ability as a skill... Gray will never dream of having such irresponsible skill...

Gray didn't plan to ask further...

Realizing all this, Gray looked at the girl with calm eyes...

'Come to think about it... Since her ability can save her like this and block my ability... Can't it block the potion effect?' Even though Gray felt funny, but he wasn't an idiot...

Does he believe her?... Nope... He believes in his own potion...

But sometimes, you shouldn't believe what you think you believe...

For Gray, this little girl was a very odd one...

He doesn't know her... This was the second time he meets her... So he couldn't think of her as someone who was actually watching him...

Nor connecting anything around him with her... After all, even though he has his own guess.. he can't guess what he didn't even come in touch with...

So knowing the problem and the fact that all that she said might be mixed with lies was enough to make him... interested...

'This girl... Why is she acting like this?' This was the real question...

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