Do me a favor.

In the office.

Blaze looked up and made eye contact with the person standing behind him.

{No aura.}

"An illusion? No, a body double?"

Rin retracted his hand from Blaze's pocket and shrugged his shoulders with a smile on his face.

"A body double is a closer explanation. However, it is not a skill. It is my elemental."

Blaze blinked.

"I see."

He didn't ask for any details.

It was an unspoken rule of the hunter society to not ask about other people's skills or the mechanism behind it unless absolutely necessary or for official purposes.

A guild's entrance test was one such exception that came under the 'official purposes' category.

But, Rin was more of a contractual member than an actual guild member so Blaze wouldn't ask him about it.

He would just come to naturally know about Rin's abilities as time passes.

Seeing as Blaze didn't have anything else to say Rin commented in a casual manner unlike his professional behaviour from earlier.

"It looks like we will get along, Blaze."

Blaze frowned a bit at that comment.

Rin hadn't addressed him formally, nor did he call him guild master.

He had just casually called him by his first name.

Blaze wasn't really happy about it.

Rin chuckled and asked in an amused voice.

"You didn't even flinch earlier, and now you are frowning?"

He then pointed at Blaze's pocket.

"That's my business card, contact me when you are done finalizing the initial members."

He then took a step back and his 'body' blew away with a gust of wind.

It looked like he was breaking up into tiny particles similar to sand grains.

Rin waved a bye at Blaze as his eyes curled up.

His mouth had already disappeared, but Blaze could clearly tell that he was smiling.

Only when the full of Rin's body had disappeared from the room, did Blaze close his eyes and organised his thoughts.

{What's with that guy? One minute he is a calm and professional businessman who won't even greet you if it is not beneficial to him, the next he acts like we are best buddies who have known each other for decades.}

{Does he have D.I.D. or something?}

Blaze then took a deep breath.

"Forget it. It has nothing to do with me. It's not like we are going to see each other frequently, anyways."

Blaze took out his phone from the pocket and checked the time.

"Only a few minutes are remaining. I wanted to go together with them but, it cannot be helped now. I will go on ahead."

Blaze stuffed the applications in a bag and came out of the office carrying it.

Evan, who was just about to go get Blaze smiled when Blaze came out and made eye contact with him.

He brought Blaze to the audition hall.

Before going inside, Blaze stopped and turned his head towards him.

"Mr. Evan can you arrange someone to show the way to the kids when they arrive?"

Evan nodded lightly.

"Of course, sir."

"Thank you."

Blaze pushed open one of the half-doors and walked inside the brightly lit hall.

-----

In the clothing showroom.

Marita was so shocked and then, immediately felt so scared of the consequences of her actions that she immediately withdrew all her aura.

Her face was very pale.

Sensing her backing off, Frore withdrew his aura as well.

He removed his hands from Anashvar's and Aakriti's shoulder.

"Let's go. He must be waiting."

As the three walked past Marita and her butler and towards the door, they heard a voice from behind their backs.

"...Wait!"

It was Marita.

Frore didn't turn around he just slightly turned his turned to look over his shoulder.

Marita made eye contact with him and bit on her lower lips.

She looked like she was having a hard time swallowing her pride as she muttered.

"...I..am sorry, for what happened just now."

Frore snorted and his eyes narrowed down.

He didn't want to spend any time chatting with her, but he had to finish this incident up properly so, Blaze wouldn't have more work to do when he already had his hands full with the guild.

Marita continued in a low voice.

" So... can you not tell your brother about this?"

Frore asked back in an emotionless voice.

"And, why would I do as you say?"

She answered, a bit flustered.

"It w-was a slip of the tongue. If I knew they were your siblings, I wouldn't have said such things... It's the truth."

Then she looked like she had thought of something.

"Right. I will consider it as you doing me a favor. I am sure there would be something, that I could help you with in the future. "

Frore knew that it was an important time for Blaze and that it wasn't the right time to make a bad relationship with the Sakura guild over a spoiled child's behaviour.

So he decided to agree to do this 'favor'.

But he just couldn't take an oral agreement, she wasn't the kind of person he could trust.

"Why would I trust you to keep your word?"

When she heard that question, Marita sighed internally with relief.

She could cover up this incident without getting the S rankers involved.

If she could end it with doing Frost Ignis a favor, then it was for the best.

She didn't reply but, took out a golden sheet of paper from her inventory with a fountain pen.

"I will write you an oath of mana. You don't have to trust me, but you can surely trust it."

Frore didn't know what an 'oath of mana' was, but it looked like an important document so he asked Blaze about it.

Blaze answered back to him and explained everything about it to him.

He also told him to be extra careful while reading and signing it.

Thinking that Blaze was always so dependable and reliable, improved Frore's mood a lot.

He did as Blaze had said and signed the 'oath of mana'.

Frore kept a copy of it on his inventory and left the store together with his younger siblings.